Recently we've migrated a lot of edge sites running VMware vSAN clusters to Proxmox VE. This post discusses things to consider and some of our lessons learned
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This post uses the Telegraf agent for pulling vSAN metrics and Grafana for visualizing the metrics in dashboards
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Recently I passed the VMware Certified Master Specialist - HCI exam (5V0-21.21). This is a short write-up of my experience with this exam.
Read MoreLast week I had an attempt at the vSAN Specialist exam (5V0-21.19) and I'm happy to say I passed. This was also my first exam done with the Pearson VUE remote proctoring option so I've written a few points on that as well
Read MoreIn a previous post I described how we are setting up remote offices for a customer with two-node vSAN clusters. I meant to get this post out right after that previous one, but things happened... Anyways, here's how we automated those two-node vSAN clusters. Currently we have 7 of these racks ready with more to come. As …
Read MoreRecently we received lots of new hardware destined for a customer that has multiple locations world-wide. They need a robust server solution for their production environments locally. The environment is small in terms of number of VMs, but there is high demands on the environment and we need local hardware at the sites …
Read MoreIn my blog series on building a solution for monitoring vSphere Performance we have scripts for pulling VM and Host performance. I did some changes to those recently, mainly by adding some more metrics for instance for VDI hosts. This post will be about how we included our VSAN environments to the performance …
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