How to Monitor Bandwidth to and from VMC on AWS with vRops

Ok, before everyone pings me, I know it is now called VMware Aria Operations but the name change is so new that I know most people will still refer to it as vRops. Heck, I still call it Alive. Skittles Continue reading How to Monitor Bandwidth to and from VMC on AWS with vRops

Securing NSX Manager in VMware Cloud on AWS

You may have noticed VMware recently added a Tab “Open NSX Manager” for your SDDC. On initial SDDC deployment this is only accessible over the internet but is secured behind your VMware Cloud Portal login credentials. Once you connect your Continue reading Securing NSX Manager in VMware Cloud on AWS

How to create MS SQL Cluster Shared Disk on VMware Cloud on AWS

So you have been struggling to setup shared disk between two windows servers for a while now? Cant power on the second VM? I hear ya and been there. You have come to the right place as I detailed the Continue reading How to create MS SQL Cluster Shared Disk on VMware Cloud on AWS

Cloud Proxy gotcha with VMware Cloud on AWS Endpoint

So you setup your cloud proxy for Cloud Assembly and it has been working for weeks and suddenly it stopped working and you check the cloud account and it is constantly spinning in data collection. Eventually it pops up with Continue reading Cloud Proxy gotcha with VMware Cloud on AWS Endpoint

How to serve NFS, iSCSI and Windows File shares on VMware Cloud on AWS

In a previous post I showed you how to create Windows and NFS shares on VMware Cloud on AWS that land on Amazon S3 storage. What about if you wanted to use your local vSAN storage to present these services Continue reading How to serve NFS, iSCSI and Windows File shares on VMware Cloud on AWS

The Easy Button for Cloud Migrations

So you just finished patch Tuesday again, upgraded to vSphere 6.5 and you thought you could take a breath but now your boss is asking you to migrate 20% of your workloads to the cloud. You can already anticipate all Continue reading The Easy Button for Cloud Migrations

What Project Pacific Really means for VMware

This week at VMworld, VMware announced Project Pacific, Kubernetes built into vSphere. As a VMware employee I have been following and supporting this project for some time. In my opinion this innovation is right there next to vMotion and HA, Continue reading What Project Pacific Really means for VMware