My last article focused on the high-level definition of Disaster Avoidance and Disaster Recovery. Both are essential terms for Data Center and Compute Infrastructure Architecture. Working in the manufacturing sector, I often hear we need an infrastructure to support our…
What is Disaster Avoidance Disaster avoidance is about the efforts to prevent a disaster from happening in the first place. The focus lands on resilience instead of recovery. For applications and Infrastructure, it is the ability to keep the services…
VM DRS balances VMs on ESXi hosts and gives the VMs the best possible startup point. Storage DRS is a similar technology that balances the vmdks over data stores. It is a technology that simplifies the datastore management. How to…
There are many automation tools out there that businesses can use to automate and utilize Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Application deployments, container setup, etc. They bring different abilities and flavor. Choosing the right tool for your organization is worth taking…
Terminal on Mac uses by default xTerm-256color – this is not supported by ESXi and will result in garbled display when you run commands like ESXtop. To get an output that is readable we need to change the terminal display…
VMware HA and FT are often misunderstood. Here I will take a deep dive look at what FT provides, read this article for HA deep dive. What is vSphere FT vSphere Fault Tolerance (FT) is for most mission critical virtual…
Within vSphere 6.7 and later we can define the start order of VMs in a vSphere cluster in case of an HA event. This can be very useful for certain applications, like if the database server needs to be up…
