Introduction: VMware Admission Control is crucial as it directly influences a cluster’s virtual machine provisioning and resource allocation. The decision to enable or disable Admission Control necessitates a thoughtful approach, considering your enterprise’s specific requirements, workloads, and resilience targets. This…
Scenario: You have a VM running on a different hardware platform, and you need to vMotion it to the main platform. But the hardware, Intel or AMD CPU family, is different. How can you solve this? Note this doesn’t solve…
Scenario: Suppose a company called XYZ Corporation heavily relies on virtualization technology for its IT infrastructure. They have many virtual machines running critical applications, and a vCenter Server manages these virtual machines. XYZ Corporation has decided to implement vCenter HA…
The principle of least privilege (PoLP) is a security concept and best practice in systems administration. It is based on the idea that a user or process should be given only the minimum privileges necessary to perform their specific tasks…
Virtualization technology is now an established standard for most enterprises. When I started in the field of IT in the late 90s, there was no such thing. When someone mentioned virtualized servers to me, I was skeptical of how great…
VMware SRM is integral to an organization’s overall enterprise architecture, specifically within the Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery domain. It enables the implementation of a comprehensive disaster recovery strategy for virtualized environments, ensuring the availability and recoverability of critical business…
VMware folder refers to a logical container used to organize and manage virtual machine (VM) files and resources within the VMware environment. It is a way to group related virtual machines and other objects together for easier administration and resource…
Previously, we looked at VMware vSphere performance metrics. NUMA Scheduling and CPU Ready For the article about CPU Ready I got a comment and a reference to a VMware White Paper on CPU Scheduler. Page 10 in that document addresses…
