VMware PowerShell Find VMs with Memory Reservations

VMware PowerShell Find VMs with Memory Reservations I had a friend message me today asking a if there was a simple way to to use VMware PowerShell to find VMs with memory reservations. The answer is yes and it’s not that tricky to do, in fact we can do it with a single line of PowerShell. Memory Reservations get-VM | Where-Object {$_.ExtensionData.ResourceConfig.MemoryAllocation.Reservation -ne “0”} Get all virtual machines, where the virtual machine object has a… Read More »VMware PowerShell Find VMs with Memory Reservations

VMware Perpetual vs SnS vs Subscription vs SaaS

VMware Perpetual vs SnS vs Subscription vs SaaS As VMware move more and more licensing to a subscription model one question I’m getting asked more frequently is “what is the difference between VMware Perpetual vs Subscription vs SaaS vs SnS?” and “what is the best way for my organisation to purchase licensing from VMware now?” Below is a quick overview of the different licensing definitions along with an overview of when an organisation might use… Read More »VMware Perpetual vs SnS vs Subscription vs SaaS

Cloud Migration Value Creation

Cloud Migration Value Creation I recently read an excellent post by Bill Hunt titled Cloudbusting.  In this article Bill outlines and challenges some of the myths of cloud computing as he sees it from his federal role.  Bill is a contributor to the 2019 Federal Cloud Computing Strategy, “Cloud Smart”, which introduced a subtle change to strategy in this sector by advocating not for a ‘cloud first’ (which is often translated as cloud only) but… Read More »Cloud Migration Value Creation

VMware vSphere Essentials Kits vs ROBO Kits

  • simon 

I had a great question earlier in the week from someone wanting to understand where and how to use the vSphere Essentials kits and the ROBO kits So here we go VMware vSphere Essentials Kits vs ROBO Kits! VMware vSphere Essentials Kits vs ROBO Kits The vSphere Essentials and ROBO products fill two different needs. vSphere Essentials Pack is a license that entitles the purchaser to run up to three dual CPU ESXi hosts managed… Read More »VMware vSphere Essentials Kits vs ROBO Kits

What is the limit on how many virtual machines that can be deployed at once?

  • simon 

What is the limit on how many virtual machines that can be deployed at once? This came up in conversation, where we were considering where to place template storage and what the implications might be behind various choices. which leads to… Limits on Simultaneous Migrations The answer for how many virtual machines can be deployed at once, is closely coupled with the limits on simultaneous migrations.  This is because simply put the operations are very… Read More »What is the limit on how many virtual machines that can be deployed at once?

VMware HCX Licensing

Following on the migration theme just recently, I’ve had a lot of queries over the past month related to VMware HCX licensing, so thought I’d pull this post together for reference. Remind me what is HCX again? VMware Hybrid Cloud Extension (HCX), in its own words is: “an application mobility platform, simplifies application migration, rebalances workloads and optimizes disaster recovery across data centers and clouds. HCX enables high-performance, large-scale app mobility across VMware vSphere and… Read More »VMware HCX Licensing

How should I migrate VMware virtual machines between VMware data centres?

  • simon 

How should I migrate VMware virtual machines between VMware data centres? This is a question I got asked just before I broke for the festive period. In previous posts I’ve covered how to work around some of the most common issues that I see, providing mechanisms to help with Application Discovery and Network Mapping.  There are always nuances with any large scale migrations so with any migration the true consultative answer to this question is… Read More »How should I migrate VMware virtual machines between VMware data centres?

Deploying Tanzu SQL to Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Clusters

  • simon 

Deploying Tanzu SQL to Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Clusters I’ve been reading up on the Tanzu SQL announcements I found a bit of time to have a look and some space on a Tanzu Kubernetes Grid (TKG) cluster deployed via the excellent TKG demo appliance fling. What Tanzu SQL does is enables us to operate a relational database-as-a-service function, running on any cloud.  A relation database-as-a-service function enables a developer the flexibility to install and self-manage… Read More »Deploying Tanzu SQL to Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Clusters

AVI Load Balancers-The Beginning

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AVI Load Balancers-The Beginning Load Balancers  Load balancers have come a long way since they started from only Layer 4 load balancer services to Layer 7 load balancers we have made leaps and bounds in this area. Starting out what even is load balancing.  This is when a task or process is distributed through resources in order to make the overall process work more efficiently, this might include reducing response time by reducing the load… Read More »AVI Load Balancers-The Beginning

VMware Virtual Machines MAC addresses

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VMware Virtual Machines MAC addresses Occasionally I feel old, today was one of those days.  The feeling snuck up on me during a conversation about MAC addresses. Someone mentioned a MAC address starting 00:50:56 and I said with confidence that it was a VMware virtual machine, which prompted the response “how do you know that?”.  Which leads us to the topic of this blog post, how did I know that? MAC addresses are not random. … Read More »VMware Virtual Machines MAC addresses