Why am I so quiet?
Thought I would write a quick blog post now that I am feeling a bit better explaining where I have been and why I have been so quiet on Twitter. On Wednesday 1st August I was admitted to hospital for an urgent operation on my inner ear. It turns out I had a severe infection that was attacking my balance organ and potentially my brain. They had to operate fast. After an operation of this kind, and with such disruption to my balance organ I have been quite ill. I am recovering but it is a slow process. I am hoping to be back fully fit in a few more weeks. Unfortunately I will not be able to make VMworld US, but will be fully fit for VMworld Barcelona. Thanks for all your support. The pictures below are taken from when I came out of theatre. Hope to see you all […]
vCloud Ecosystem Monitoring Architecture
This is a re-post of the VMware blog article I wrote over at http://blogs.vmware.com/vcloud/2012/07/vcloud-ecosystem-monitoring-with-vcenter-operations-and-vfabric-hyperic.html At the beginning of this year, a team within VMware looked at how we could utilise vCenter Operations and vFabric Hyperic to create a vCloud Monitoring solution. The following blog post shows how this architecture fits together and is integrated. I wrote a previous article giving an overview of the integration points, which can be read by clicking here. Architecture The integration of these products relies on a vCloud environment following the vCAT reference architecture. There are numerous articles written on how to design your vCloud environments, which this article will not go in too, however the following diagram depicts the logical representation of a vCloud Environment as taken from the vCAT documentation. The Management Cluster contains all the vCloud Infrastructure Virtual Machines that are required to provide the vCloud ecosystem. The following list depicts the […]
Suggested vCloud VMworld sessions
I have been looking through the VMworld content catalogue today. There are over 250 sessions this year, covering a variety of topics. Something for everyone as they say. For me working in the vCloud space, I thought it would be good to create a list of sessions that I think will be beneficial to people wanting to learn more about the vCloud products, and how they can further enhance there current vCloud environments. Lets start with the most important session, mine 🙂 INF-VSP1168 – Architecting a Cloud Infrastructure This session will discuss the various design considerations when architecting the foundation for every solid cloud environment: vSphere 5.0. We will start with sizing and scaling and end with some operational guidance. Different examples will be used to show the impact design considerations can have on the availability of your services. Presenters: David Hill, Chris Colotti and Aidan Dalgleish INF-VSP2448 – Automating Bare […]
vCloud Director 1.5 Performance and Best practices guide
I regularly get questions from people asking where the link to this document is. I thought I would include it on my blog so that people can find it easily. Click here to open the Performance and Best Practice guide. For those of you who are unsure what this guide is about, here is an excerpt from the webpage. VMware vCloud Director gives enterprise organizations the ability to build secure private clouds that dramatically increase datacenter efficiency and business agility. Lots of new features have been added to vCloud Director 1.5 to accelerate application delivery in the cloud. In this paper, we discuss some of the features of the vCloud Director 1.5 release, performance characterizations including latency trends, resource consumptions, sizing guidelines and hardware requirements, and performance tuning tips. Some highlights of vCloud Director performance and best practices include: When using fast provisioning (linked clones) and a VMFS datastore, do […]