Virtual Infrastructure best practices
[Updated: 8-11-2009 10:00] Lately I keep receiving questions from colleagues regarding virtual infrastructure design using VMware products. So I decided to sum up the best practices I use when designing a new virtual infrastructure. Some of the best practices are based on numbers and calculations…
Virtual Machine configuration maximums
I’m in IT for more then 12 years and during that period I learned, never to trust something another professional tells you. So as I am studying for my VCP410 exam, coming Friday, I came across the Virtual Machine configuration maximums. I saw the info…
Virtualization increases risk of data loss?
‘Virtualization increases risk of data loss?‘ Let it be very clear that this is not my opinion but a quote from an article published today by the ‘Automatiserings Gids’ (NL) in which it quotes James Lyne, security specialist at Sophos. Lyne made his statements during…
Great new VMware whitepapers
Usually everybody is on holiday during this period and because of that we lack new projects and great news. ‘Komkommertijd‘, as we call it in the Netherlands. Fortunately (for us) Duncan Epping, known from Yellow-Bricks, isn’t on holiday (yet) and he pointed me to some…
Calculating Power consumption and rack space
While I was doing some research for different customers I needed to calculate the power consumption and how many racks I need. So I collected the links to different calculation models from various vendors. The tools I found were the following: Dell Data Center Capacity…
Virtualisation: it isn’t an app, it’s an infrastructure
Now most of our loyal followers know, I usually do not post any content on this blog other than things related to the hosting of website. It’s my “job” to keep this part of the infrastructure running (well, that’s not quite how it is, but…
VMware data security best practices
Securing your IT infrastructure is always an ongoing process. One of the best practices that VMware encourages is to renew the SSL keys used for communication between VMware products. The renewal of SSL keys periodically, helps to improve data security of your systems. While reading…
Upgrading VMware vCenter server
While building the virtual enviroment for a client we are getting a lot of questions about how they should handle certain aspects in their new enviroment. One of those questions is how they should handle upgrades, best practices etc.
