Hyper-V is better tech than ESXi – What are Microsoft Smoking??

“We are 4x cheaper with better technology versus VMware.” I’ve been fairly open in my opinion against the latest round of Microsoft FUD coming out of their Worldwide Partner Conference this week but I felt strongly enough by the utter crap coming out of their mouths to respond in a post. Turner says MSFT Hyper-V now 4x […] Read More

NSX Bytes: Deploying vShield Endpoint with NSX Manager

I recently had to deploy a solution into our Labs that required the installation of vShield Endpoint VMs to facilitate a 3rd Party service. No worries there…but when I logged into the Lab I was faced with an updated vShield Manager instance which was now NSX Manager…Where the heck do you deploy Endpoints? Where is the […] Read More

ESXi 5.x NFS IOPS Limit Bug – Latency and Performance Hit

There is another NFS bug hidden in the latest ESXi 5.x releases…while not as severe as the 5.5 Update 1 NFS Bug it’s been the cause of increased Virtual Disk Latency and Overall Poor VM performance across a couple of the environments I manage. The VMwareKB Article referencing the bug can be found here: Symptoms […] Read More

NSX Bytes: Upgrading vShield Manager with NSX Bundle Fails

This is a really quick NSX Byte..but one that could save you some head scratching when looking to upgrade your vShield Manager to the NSX Manager. If you get the following error while trying to upload the VSM to NSX Manager Upgrade Bundle: The Following error occurred: Invalid file ‘VMware-vShield-Manager-upgrade-bundle-to-NSX-6.0.4-1752381.gz’   Open up a Command Prompt […] Read More

vCloud Director 5.5 Upgrade: Database Upgrade Issues

Generally speaking upgrading the vCloud Director binaries is a pretty straight forward task. It’s a two step process where the Cell’s are upgraded first followed by some update scripts run against the vCloud database. Finally database Indexes and Statistics are updated. In the last 6-8 months I’ve worked through 1.5 -> 5.1 and recently 5.1 […] Read More

How-To: vCloud Director and Log Insight

Recently v2.0 of VMware Log Insight became GA, and I’ve been playing around with it since it’s release. Having been on the BETA of the 1.5 Version the 2.0 Version is streets ahead in terms of usability and completeness. Living day in and day out within vCloud Director I decided to look at hooking up […] Read More

Veeam Cloud Connect

I’ve written a couple of posts around the pain of backup products and I’ve talked about a world where we backup independent of the Application. Storage platforms like AWS S3 offer a place where objects can be stored for safe keeping and accessed upon request. There is a catch to that kind of storage in […] Read More

NSX Bytes – Unicast Transport Zone Creation Error

One of VMware NSX’s best features is the ability to have the VXLAN Control Plane working in Unicast Mode…removing the requirement for Multicast traffic on the underlying Physical network. This is a significant step forward in that Multicast often created issues for traditional network teams and getting it retrofitted to an existing platform was often […] Read More

NSX Bytes – Controller Deployment Gotchyas

There are a lot of great posts already out there in regards to install and configuration of NSX. Rather than reinvent the wheel I’ve decided to do a series of NSX Bytes relating to a couple of gotchyas I’ve come across during the config stage. This post will focus on the NSX Controller deployment which provides […] Read More

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