Introduction:Datastore space monitoring is usually neglected!!Admins usually tend to keep an eye on Storage IOPs as it’s more dynamic and it has direct performance implications to VMs.Another reason for neglecting Datastore space utilization is the operational Silos, I’ve seen it in many places where System Admins usually depend on storage admins to monitor space utilization …
Author: Mohamed Basha
Solutions Architect, Cloud and Datacenter.
Add new partition Ubuntu linux VM – Part (2), How to?
This article is part 2 for the series of add new disk to Linux Ubuntu machine. you can access the first port from hereIn the previous post we add a new disk from VCD and I explained how to use fdisk to create a new disk and mount it to the new partition. I called …
Add new partition Ubuntu linux VM – Part (1), How to?
In this post I will try to create a step by step guide to show you how to add new disk partition to a linux Ubuntu virtual machine running on a vSphere host and managed by VMware vCloud Director. The process shouldn’t be different than a adding a disk to a virtual machine managed by …
vSAN Cluster: Remove Host properly
What is the right way to do it to ensure a vSAN cluster is not holding any meta data about the removed host? How to make sure that all objects held by the floating node is migrated to another node or disk group in the old cluster before removing the ESXi host? Would that have …
VMC on AWS: TCO Use Case
Couple of years ago I worked with VMware Sales team and my awesome ex-colleagues in Citrus Consulting on a potential opportunity that time for VMware Cloud on AWS. I’m saying potential that time because we were successfully able to convert that opportunity into VMC on AWS client. VMC was pretty much new thing that time …
VMware WS1 Access: Where did iframe settings Go ?!!
If you are using WS1 Access heavily like I do, you would have possibly got a requirement to integrate WS1 Access in an iframe.That’s a pretty standard request that most likely will be required by application developers to use VMware WS1 Access for authentication as an iframe either in a vendor solution like in my …
Manually Remove \ Install NSX-V VIB
This article is to help you install NSX-V VIB manually if Auto deployment using EAM is failing in a few straight forward steps. 1- Use your preferred API Client to get the path of the installer: https://NSX-MANAGER-IP/bin/vdn/nwfabric.properties we see the VIBs available from NSX Manager Manually download VIB from NSX manager https://NSX-MANAGER-IP/bin/vdn/vibs-6.4.11/6.7-18516827/vxlan.zip (Use IE browser). …
NSX V to T Migration: NSX-V Upgrade to 6.4.8 or Higher
This post will be one of a series that I will try to blog all the way migrating my NSX V to T to share the issues and the best practices that could be helpful. First, I think it would be a good idea to brief here about my platform and versions to give you …
Mohamed Basha
I’m working for VMware as a Technical Account Manager for MENA Enterprise customers, However My opinions on this blog are my own!!A brief about myself, I’ve been in the IT Field since some time now where I worked in multiple positions that gave me solid experience for providing Consultation, Sales Engineering and Project management for …