Samesh Dhankhar I was fortunate enough to attend VMworld 2019 Europe @ Barcelona. Week was full of learning and some nerve racking moments. You will ask nerve racking why? As I participated in an amazing competition called VMware Odyssey.In total, there were 24 teams participating, consisting of 3 participants each team. Covering 4 different technologies in 4 rounds … Read more
In the Starting of 2019 my yearly target was not clear but i wanted to do some VMware Advanced Professional Certifications. After much deliberation and numerous times telling myself that “i will start from Next Week”, i started in March and my track was DataCenter Virtualization (DCV). I worked through small & big milestones, today … Read more
vRealize Operations Manager (vRops) as the name suggests is a monitoring tool from VMware, started as a virtualization specific but now it expands to all the dimensions of Datacenter and public Cloud. Personally its one of my favorite tools from VMware. i know you guys will talk about cost but here i am only referring … Read more
While planning upgrade of Production vSphere Environment, i had multiple doubts regarding ESXi hosts support:1) What about HBA cards?2) Support metric of NIC card and CPU models ? So by the power invested in me by google, i came across this amazing tool which gives complete insight of vSphere environment called vSphere Assessment Tool (vSAT). … Read more
Out of the VMware Eco system, I think vROps has the most efficient upgrade process with the help of Assessment tool. Assessment tool helps vROps administrators to analyze which are the affected Metrics/MP/Reports/View before even the upgrade is performed. Here is my attempt: To share some useful tips I used while upgrading vROps 7.0 to … Read more
With time, some newer architectures are being practised which is an attempt to deliver workload mobility, availability and disaster recovery-all within one solution like Stretched Clusters that span sites as well as disaster recovery automation tools such as VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager. The reason to opt for VMware based virtualization for any organization is … Read more