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…
In vSphere 6.7 VMware introduced CPU Scheduler options that allows the Administrators to secure against CPU exploits by defining how the VM access the CPU. These CPU Schedulers have different impact on performance. This article shows why and how they work.
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…
A deep dive into CPU Ready time and the effects of it on VM running on VMware vSphere. The article explains the symptoms, what CPU ready is and what it is not and how to resolve it.
DRS addresses where it is optimal for a VM to run. This is done to place the VM on the best ESXi host when the VM starts up based upon resources availability. The load balancing between Cluster nodes (ESXi hosts) is also based on moving VMs to another host that has less resource constraints.
