When you start to utilise VMware Skyline, one of the first areas that you will be drawn to is the 'Findings & Recommendations' page and rightly so.The idea behind VMware Skyline is to proactively provide fixes to findings in your environment to allow you to remediate them before they become [...]
Read MoreThis is part 3 of this little blog series on my adventure with getting data out of the VMware Skyline API and into PowerBI. In the first part of this series, we went through the process of gaining access to the VMware Skyline API and testing access. The second part [...]
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On a daily basis, throughout my previous roles, I would perform tasks and use tools that others may not use or may not think to do. This gives me the opportunity to share some of the knowledge I have or items that I have found to be useful, and hopefully help others to learn and enhance their knowledge.
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Put quite simply, I’ve been in IT for a long time, working initially for small businesses, moving onto datacenter and server support for a company with 50,000 users worldwide before moving across to VMware in 2019 as a Technical Account Manager.
Read MoreAs I have just come back from VMworld in San Francisco, I thought that I would put together some tips for first time visitors and some for people who have visited before… hopefully this will allow people to get the most out of the conference. These tips count for both San Francisco and Barcelona. Tips: Purchasing your ticket – make […]
Ice bucket Virtual ice bucket Pat Gelsinger was called out earlier in the week at VMWorld and stood on the outside stage at the party to do the Ice Bucket Challenge. In true VMware style they first did a virtual version where paper planes from the charity fundraising activity were poured over him… to a huge number of boos, he […]
So, we are only a couple of days away from VMworld in San Francisco and my feelings towards it are mixed at the moment… not because of the content of the sessions or the event itself but more of the unknown. Let me explain some more about this… I’ve gone and visited VMworld in Europe for the past 4 or […]
I’ve come across this issue on a couple of occasions and thought that I would share with people one of the easiest ways to resolve it. A summary of the issue is as follows: You have presented up a LUN that may have been previously presented to another host and when you go through the vCenter GUI or Web Client […]
Okay, so I would admit that I’m not the best with PowerCli but recently we had a request to produce a list of all of the ESXi hosts we have on a vCenter along with their Version and build number. Now this can be done easily on an individual basis by logging onto each host and running the command: vmware […]
A press release yesterday announced that version 3.0 of Riverbed Granite would be launched soon and will be rebranded as Riverbed Steelfusion. See the official press release here: http://www.riverbed.com/about/news-articles/press-releases/riverbed-announces-steelfusion-the-first-branch-converged-infrastructure.html Also read more information about the solution from here: http://www.riverbed.com/products-solutions/products/branch-office/converged-infrastructure.html?pid=Home_Hero%3A+Countdown+Banners+-+SteelFusion+Event#Overview
Many of you may already be aware of the Riverbed Granite solution and some of you may already be using the solution, but some of you out there will not have even heard of Riverbed Granite and therefore the following information may prove to be useful to you. Riverbed Steelhead appliances allow for data to be optimised between two sites […]
It’s always concerning to see information provided on 1st April, but VMware have decided to make their official announcement of vExperts for 2014 on 1st April. The official announcement is here: http://blogs.vmware.com/vmtn/2014/04/vexpert-2014-announcement.html The best part of the announcement is that I am pleased to announce that I have been included on the list. Thank you to anyone who visits my […]
I know that many people out there will already be using vSphere Operations Manager in their environment but I thought that I would just share a dashboard that I created in our environment, as I believe that this captures most of the information that people want to see on one screen (plus we put ours up on a large plasma […]
The first step in our configuration of the VDP environment is to download and deploy the VDP appliance. The VDP appliance is downloaded as a single appliance but is configured during deployment as either 0.5TiB, 1TiB or 2TiB. This is the amount of backed up, compressed and deduplicated data that is going to be stored. With a 1TB drive containing […]