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- March 5, 2026
NSX-v to NSX-T Migration: The Playbook Nobody Gives You
Having led this migration at enterprise scale, here's the real playbook — including the gotchas that aren't in VMware's documentation.
- February 26, 2026
The Case for Keeping Hyper-V in a Multi-Hypervisor Strategy
Everyone's talking about VMware alternatives after the Broadcom acquisition. But Hyper-V has quietly become a very solid option for certain workloads.
- February 18, 2026
Why I Stopped Using vCenter Alarms and Built My Own Monitoring
vCenter's built-in alerting is fine until it isn't. Here's how I replaced it with a lightweight stack that actually tells me what matters.
- 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 …
- October 22, 2019
PowerCLI Basics for VMware Administrators
If you manage VMware infrastructure and you’re not using PowerCLI, you’re doing the same tasks manually that a few lines of PowerShell would automate. PowerCLI is VMware’s PowerShell …
- September 11, 2019
Disaster Recovery Without a DR Site: Using Veeam and Cloud Storage
Traditional disaster recovery required a physical secondary site — a co-location facility or branch office with matching hardware that could run your workloads if your primary site failed. For small …
- August 6, 2019
Failed ESXi Upgrade: Recovering When Update Manager Goes Wrong
ESXi host upgrades via vSphere Update Manager (VUM, now Lifecycle Manager in newer versions) are routine operations that usually go smoothly. When they don’t, the failure modes can range from …