I recently posted about how my company is now a MSP reseller of VMware Cloud on AWS (VMC). I showed how easy it is to quickly spin up a VMware SDDC in the public cloud. Since I finally had a SDDC at my disposal, I went through and configured hybrid linked mode with our vSphere …
Category: VMWARE
VMware Cloud on AWS – Managed Service Provider
It has been about a year since VMware Cloud (VMC) on AWS was released to the masses during VMworld 2017, and the buzz is still growing around this service. The initial release seemed to be high in cost and low in feature flexibility at the time, but much has changed in the last year. VMC …
Continue reading VMware Cloud on AWS – Managed Service Provider
Why VMworld 2018?
VMworld 2018 is just around the corner, which got me thinking about my history with the conference, some tips I've learned along the way and what I'm looking forward to this year. The very first major IT conference I ever attended was VMworld 2012. I was just over a year into the job with my …
EMC Unity Datastore “not available in the VMware Hypervisor”
Recently, when creating the first VMFS datastore on an EMC storage array, I received and error stating that “the specified disk is not available in the VMware hypervisor”. Though the VMFS datastore was successfully created on the array, the error occurred when trying to assign permissions to the vSphere hosts themselves. In this particular circumstance, …
Continue reading EMC Unity Datastore “not available in the VMware Hypervisor”
Baselining Performance using Liquidware Stratusphere UX
This afternoon I was on an interesting and informative webinar hosted by Liquidware in which they discussed using SpotCheck Inspection of an environment as a means to provide visibility into the user experience. NOTE: Let me make this clear, in this post I'm focus on VDI in regards to a SpotCheck inspection, but Stratusphere's scope is …
Continue reading Baselining Performance using Liquidware Stratusphere UX
