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- June 25, 2019
SLA-Based Backup Design for VMware Environments
Most VMware backup configurations I inherit were built by someone who configured jobs, set a retention period, and moved on. There’s no formal connection between what the backup policy does and …
- May 14, 2019
VMFS Datastore Corruption: How It Happens and How to Recover
VMFS (VMware File System) is a clustered filesystem that lets multiple ESXi hosts access the same LUN simultaneously. It’s reliable, well-tested, and handles concurrent access through …
- April 2, 2019
Migrating VMs Between Datastores Without Downtime
Storage vMotion is the capability that makes VMware environments operationally flexible — you can move a VM’s virtual disks from one datastore to another while the VM continues running, without …
- March 7, 2019
NSX-V Edge Services Gateways: The Part That Trips Up First-Timers
If the Distributed Firewall is NSX-V’s most-used feature, the Edge Services Gateway (ESG) is its most confusing. ESGs are software-defined appliances that provide routing, NAT, load balancing, …
- February 14, 2019
NSX-V and Physical Firewalls: Finding the Right Boundary
Organizations deploying NSX-V often already have physical perimeter firewalls — Palo Alto, Fortinet, Cisco ASA, or Check Point. A common design question: what does NSX do, and what does the physical …
- January 22, 2019
Troubleshooting NSX-V: Controller Issues and What They Actually Mean
NSX-V’s control plane runs on a cluster of controller VMs that manage logical network state — VXLAN mappings, logical router tables, and distributed firewall rule distribution. When controllers …
- December 10, 2018
NSX-V Micro-Segmentation: Applying Distributed Firewall in Practice
The distributed firewall is the feature that justifies NSX-V for most mid-size organizations. Traditional network firewalls sit at the perimeter or at layer boundaries — north-south traffic is …
- November 20, 2018
Veeam vs Rubrik: An Honest Comparison After Running Both
I’ve deployed Veeam Backup & Replication and Rubrik for different clients over the past several years, sometimes migrating from one to the other for the same organization. The comparison …
- September 20, 2018
NSX-V First Deployment: What to Actually Prepare For
NSX-V (for vSphere) is VMware’s software-defined networking platform for vSphere environments. It decouples network functions — switching, routing, firewalling, load balancing — from physical …
- July 31, 2018
vSAN for Small Business: Is the Complexity Worth It?
VMware vSAN entered the mainstream around 2016 as a hyperconverged storage option — using local drives in ESXi hosts as a shared storage pool, eliminating the need for a dedicated SAN or NAS. For …