It has been far too long since my last blog post. I started a new role at World Wide Technology (WWT) back in February and hit the ground running working with my new colleagues and supporting my customers. As most of you know with a new job comes enablement and onboarding and many other things. … Continue reading Enabling Tanzu in vSphere 7.0 U3
Upgrading to vCenter Server 7.0
There are some organizations out there that didn't make the jump to vSphere 6.7 and are running vSphere 6.5. This blog article is intended for that specific audience. There are going to be a lot of great articles out there for upgrading 6.7 to 7.0 so keep an eye out for those. I felt the … Continue reading Upgrade vCenter 6.5 to vCenter 7.0 with GUI
Before I get into Part 2 of my Installing NSX-T mini blog series, let's review some NSX-T components. There are some differences between NSX-T and NSX-V that everyone should be aware of. This blog article is not intended to do a full side-by-side comparison between the two but I will point out some differences or … Continue reading Understanding NSX-T Components
Resource Pools have been part of VMware vSphere and Virtual Infrastructure for as long as I can imagine. The same can be said regarding the mishandling of Resource Pools and that is most likely because they are frequently misunderstood. More often than not I see Resource Pools being used to categorize or organize VM workloads … Continue reading Mishandling of Resource Pools
I finally have a new home lab server! Getting a new lab server was so long overdue. I'm so happy it is here so I can start BLOGGING again. I've missed it over the past few months since joining VMware last May. I've been super busy with onboarding and getting acclimated with my customers that … Continue reading My New Homelab!
I have been holding this news in for 2 weeks now and it is finally time to let everyone know that I am headed to the mothership and joining VMware! My first day will be May 21st, 2018 and I cannot wait to get started. I will not lie, it is a bittersweet feeling. Walking … Continue reading I am Joining VMware
Here I am going to show you how to enable the "basic" vCenter HA option across multiple clusters. Why do this across multiple clusters? Easy...increase the availability of my vCenter HA instance. Could I enable this in a single cluster if I had to? Sure. If you are limited to a single cluster and want … Continue reading Basic vCenter HA with Multiple Clusters
The topic of NUMA and vNUMA has come up quite a bit recently for me. I've had in-depth discussions with many of my customers, co-workers and people that I have interviewed for positions where I work. I like to engage people during discussions and I always try to gauge their understanding of the topic first … Continue reading Understanding vNUMA in vSphere
I have been looking forward to doing this for some time now. I could not perform this upgrade because my INITECH lab environment was running NSX 6.2.4 which is not compatible with vSphere 6.5...but I upgraded to NSX 6.3 in my previous blog article. I am very happy how that upgrade turned out. So the … Continue reading Upgrade to vCenter 6.5
The Wifi-Cable 