Tenant Self-Service Dashboards
This post continues from the Operationalize Your World post. Do read it first so you get the context. A common request among VMware Admin is to give their customers a self service access to their own...
View ArticleNOC Dashboards for SDDC – Part 2
This post continues from the Operationalize Your World post. Do read it first so you get the context. Dashboard: Performance Is my IaaS performing? That’s the key question that you need to answer. You...
View ArticleMonitoring NSX Edge, SSL VPN, Firewall and Logical Switch
This blog is contributed by my friend Luciano Gomes, a VMware PSO Senior Consultant in Rio de Janeiro Area, Brazil. Thank you, Lucky! In this post, I would like to show you how you can monitor NSX...
View ArticleWhich VMs need more resources?
You can reduce the following resources from a VM: CPU RAM Storage Network isn’t something you can reduce, but you know that already 🙂 You can check which VMs need more resources by building a dashboard...
View ArticleFrom Local to Global
I made a career move from local role to a global role mid last year. It’s been almost a year, so I’d like to share the pro and con of both roles. Hopefully it helps you in your career, and keeping the...
View ArticleKeeping VMware Tools current
Keeping VMware Tools current is one of the best practices of vSphere operations. VMware Tools interfaces with both ESXi and VM (the virtual motherboard or virtual machine). Hence, there are 2...
View ArticleA test of your IaaS Operations maturity
What you architect is SDDC. What you handover as business result to CIO is IaaS. We can assess if the architecture is good or not, based on the actual result in production. Does it result in...
View ArticlePurpose-driven Architecture
When you architect IaaS or DaaS, what end goals do you have in mind? I don’t mean the design considerations, such as best practices. I mean the business result that your architecture has to deliver. A...
View ArticleVCDX, meet VCOX
Thanks for the positive feedback on the articles The Rise and Fall of Infrastructure Architect and Purpose-driven Architecture. Do read them first as this post builds from there. I see Architecture and...
View ArticleLarge Scale vSAN Monitoring
Large scale VMware vSAN operations raises the need for easier and faster monitoring. With many and large vSAN clusters, monitoring and troubleshooting become more challenging. To illustrate, let’s take...
View ArticleA new Adventure!
I’ve joined the Product Management team as a PM. Being a member of a small team (Sunny and a few others), we are given the privilege to plan and drive vR Ops to the next level. Why did I change job? As...
View ArticleCPU Ready vs CPU Contention
Folks like Daniel in Hong Kong, Sajag in Thailand, and Ramandeep in US have noticed that I shifted my recommendation from CPU Contention to CPU Ready as Performance SLA. The reason is essentially...
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