David Owen aka @vMackem and myself are trying to organise 5 or 6 a side football game each week in the North East of England. We will be looking to play somewhere between Middlesbrough and South Shields. If anyone is interested in playing either ping us on twitter or leave a comment on this post. Once we have enough numbers we will vote on the location (based on the majorities location). We will also hold a North East vBeers afterwards as well, to finish off the game in traditional style 🙂
Proud to be a VMware vExpert
Today the VMware vExpert 2012 list was updated, and I am proud to say I have been awarded the vExpert title. This is a great honour for me, and something I am very pleased with. To see the full vExpert list click here You can read the full blog article “Announcing vExpert 2012 title holders: Updated Again”
VMworld 2012 Call for Papers
Today VMworld 2012 call for papers has been opened up. You can submit sessions for VMworld US and Europe by clicking here Tell Your Story Have you integrated VMware solutions and technologies in an innovative or unconventional way? Share your story at VMworld 2012 by submitting your session today. Describe your experiences and best practices. Include practical advice, key success factors, data points, an in-depth explanation of the challenges you’ve solved, and lessons learned on topics related to IT infrastructure, cloud operations, applications and end-user computing.
How to disable vSphere Host Cache Configuration
Today playing in my lab I had an issue running some VMs on a SSD. It turns out the Host Cache Configuration was causing some issues running the VMs on the same SSD. You enable host cache when creating a datastore on a SSD, but how do you disable it? Its not an option on the datastore properties. To disable Host Cache Configuration follow the steps below: Select Configuration Tab Select Host Cache Configuration under software Right Click on the SSD Datastore and Select Properties Disable Checkbox for Allocate space for host cache Click OK DONE!! Thats it, host cache has been disabled.
The ever expanding vCloud Ecosystem – Monitoring
I have written previously about the vCloud Ecosystem (part1) (part2), which combines multiple products to make up a vCloud environment. What I want to cover in this article is VMware vC Ops and VMware vFrabic Hyperic integration into this ecosystem product stack. Where do these products fit in? When we look at vC Ops and Hyperic, we need to look at two different aspects of monitoring. Availability and Performance. vC Ops gives us the ability to gather performance data, while Hyperic is used to provide application availability. So how do they integrate? The above diagram demonstrates the different integration points between the vCloud stack. This can be further expanded upon to also include availability monitoring of the other vCloud components, however this can also be achieved simply by having all these vCloud Management VMs running in a Management Cluster vCenter as per the vCloud Architecture Toolkit and using a vCenter […]