Operations.
- May 27, 2020
When Virtualization Goes Wrong: Lessons from Real Production Incidents
Production incidents in virtualized environments have a different character than physical infrastructure failures. The failure radius can be much larger (one host failure impacts many VMs), the …
- March 9, 2020
Capacity Planning for Small VMware Environments Without Enterprise Tools
Enterprise VMware environments have tools like vRealize Operations for capacity management. SMB environments running five to twenty ESXi hosts typically don’t — and they don’t need to. …
- February 18, 2020
VMware vSphere Health Checks: Building a Weekly Operational Routine
The best VMware environments I’ve managed didn’t stay healthy by accident — they had a consistent operational review process that caught problems before they became incidents. A weekly …
- January 15, 2020
Performance Baselining in vSphere: What to Measure and When to Act
“The VMs are slow” is the most common call I get about VMware environments, and it’s almost never useful information on its own. What I need to know — and rarely have if …