2025
As the holiday season approaches, I want to extend my heartfelt wishes to you and your loved ones. May your Holiday be filled with joy, laughter, and cherished moments with family and friends. This time of year is perfect for…
Marketing strategy – your most important brand: Yourself
You can be the best at your job. You may be the top performer in your company. But you may still not be visible and not get the recognition you deserve. You can be the best-kept secret – In general,…
NUMA
In my continued search to understand how CPU allocation really works in VMware I came across this PodCast – It is really educational and I really recommend you to listen to it. “Unexplored Territory” talking to Richard Lu about NUMA.…
Autoscaling of VM
Amazon AWS state: You should use AWS Auto Scaling if you have an application that uses one or more scalable resources and experiences variable load. A good example would be an e-commerce web application that receives variable traffic through the day.…
Configuring a VDS
Typically, setting up a Distributed switch is something you do the first time you install, and then you create a host profile to duplicate it to other hosts. So it is one of the things that is good to know…
When is vSAN ESA the right choice
vSAN Express Storage Architecture (ESA) is designed to leverage modern hardware, such as NVMe storage and RDMA networking, to deliver exceptional performance and scalability. This makes it particularly well-suited for workloads that require high throughput, low latency, and rapid scalability.…
When vSAN OSA is a Better Choice than vSAN ESA
VMware vSAN is a powerful and versatile software-defined storage solution that integrates seamlessly with VMware’s hypervisor, vSphere. With the introduction of the Express Storage Architecture (ESA), VMware has pushed the boundaries of performance and scalability by leveraging modern hardware. However,…
vSAN OSA
Last blogpost was on vSAN ESA, so it makes good sense to now look at OSA. OSA stands for Original Storage Architecture. This design provides a two-tier architecture with caching and capacity tiers. It is the original architecture, and it…