Greenfield Vblock and VxRail deployment: a build checklist
What to have ready before converged or hyperconverged kit arrives, what to check during the build, and what to prove before handover.
Topic: VMware
Moving physical servers to VMware: lessons from a large P2V programme
Inventory, waves, rollback and clean-up: what decided whether a programme of over 800 physical-to-virtual conversions went well.
VMware: "Virtual machine disks consolidation is needed"
How to find affected VMs with PowerCLI, check for locks and backup proxy disks, and consolidate safely.
VMware vMotion fails at 14 or 21 percent: check the MTU first
A vMotion that starts and then times out is usually an MTU or network path problem. The vmkping tests that prove it.