Wednesday, April 11. 2012
VMware vSphere 5 Memory Management and Monitoring diagram
The VMware vSphere 5 Memory Management and Monitoring diagram provides a comprehensive look into the ESXi memory management mechanisms and reclamation methods. This diagram also provides the relevant monitoring components in vCenter Server and the troubleshooting tools like ESXTOP. Source KB: 2017642 kudos to Hany Michael
Saturday, April 7. 2012
Technical Whitepaper - Creating a foundation for Oracle as a Service
Migrating from a physical Data Center to a virtual Data Center creates challenges in terms of determining the best practices for deploying virtualized Oracle databases. This white paper illustrates EMC IT's framework for deploying virtualized Oracle databases. EMC IT's Oracle virtual deployment models are the foundation for the "as-a-Service" cloud deployment model.
Friday, April 6. 2012
New Book - VMware Cookbook: A Real-World Guide to Effective VMware Use
If you want to gain insight into the real-world uses of VMware ESXi, this cookbook provides scores of step-by-step solutions for working with this product in a wide range of network environments. You'll not only learn the basics—how to pool resources from hardware servers, computer clusters, networks, and storage, and then distribute them among virtual machines—but also the stumbling blocks you'll encounter when you monitor systems, troubleshoot problems, and deal with security.
Written by experts with experience using VMware in a production environment, VMware Cookbook shares tips and tricks earned through trial and error, and supplies the background information you need to apply them.
- Follow best practices for installing VMware and vSphere in your environment
- Discover how to secure and monitor your network
- Understand disk, SSD, and SAN storage implementation and configuration
- Get solutions for using vCloud Director and vShield
- Configure logical and physical networks
- Learn how to clone and migrate servers
- Gain valuable tips for configuration and fine-tuning
- Use the distributed resource scheduler, shares, and resource pools to learn resource management
Wednesday, April 4. 2012
Webinar - vCloud Director, Nexus 1000V and VXLAN Technical Deep Dive
Today’s virtualized data center demands that multivendor solutions integrate and work together. VMware vCloud Director facilitates easier deployment of virtual machines to suit the scaling needs of a cloud-enabled data center. One of the key functions of vCloud Director is to provide networking as a managed, allocated resource. vCloud Director uses the advanced features of the Cisco Nexus 1000V Series Switch to provide a scalable, highly secure, and agile cloud solution for private enterprises as well as service providers.
Kendrick Coleman has also created a nice write-up: Implementing vCloud Director 1.5.1 and Cisco Nexus 1000v 1.5
Monday, April 2. 2012
Video Awesomeness - VMware has released 3 hours of free online training
You definitely have to check out this YouTube video channel I’ve compiled from recent video uploads of VMwareTV. VMware has released 3 hours of online VMware vSphere training material featuring Chris Skinner and Brian Watrous.