Tag Resilience

Unplanned Downtime

I work in a manufacturing organization. I design and build systems to support the production of Biologicals that will be injected into patients. Unplanned downtime impacts our ability to deliver products to the market. The biologicals go through maturing phases…

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…

vSAN ESA

In VMware vSAN 8, we are introduced to the option of two different storage architectures. OSA – Original Storage Architecture ESA – Express Storage Architecture What is ESA vSAN Express Storage Architecture (ESA) uses a file system called Log-Structured File…

Architectural Standards

Working in an environment where we expand our Infrastructure platforms and change priorities there is a constant flow of requests from users and businesses to provide specialized Virtualization Environments. Having a standard for how an environment is designed is a…

VMware Admission Control

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…

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