Graham

Graham is a seasoned expert in VMware and Microsoft solutions, bringing deep expertise from his work at Tesla and Dell Technologies. As a Senior Principal Engineer he focuses on cutting-edge virtualization and storage projects. A VMware Certified Implementation Expert, 9x VMware vExpert, and Moderator on the official Broadcom forums, Graham is a trusted community resource. Connect with him on X.com for insights! https://x.com/VirtualG_UK
Dell Technologies

Configure FX2 Chassis

Graham
Once you have racked your FX2 chassis: Provide power to both PSUs (Note that if your chassis has an 8 node specification then you may require IEC 19/20 ports rather than the traditional C13/14 (Kettle leads) on your PDUs: Connect a laptop to the on-board CMC port with a cross-over...
Dell Technologies

Configuring Dell EMC FX2 FC430 Blades

Graham
Due to the number of blades in the environment I am configuring in this example, I will be making use of server profiles. Server profiles allow us to set the configuration on one blade , export this configuration and apply it to multiple blades. This saves significant provisioning time and...
VMwareVMware Cloud

VMworld US 2017 – Main Announcements

Graham
So  VMworld 2017 in Las Vegas has started, but what has been revealed on day 1? The general session focused mainly on new Cloud services wrapped together under the VMware Cloud umbrella: VMware Cloud on AWS "VMware Cloud on AWS is an on-demand service that enables you to run applications...
Dell Technologies

Dell FX2 Overview & Setup for vSphere Environments

Graham
In this series of blog posts, I'll go through the base configuration required for the following scenario (Scroll down for links to the configurations) Configure FX2 chassis with dual FN2210S IO Modules to LAN & FC switches for Dell EMC VNX. *Note that these guides are not suitable for Dell EMC Unity and possibly other...
VMware vSAN

vSAN vs Traditional Storage Array

Graham
I've been putting notes together for a while with regards to vSAN and how it differs from Traditional Storage Arrays. Naturally, the choice between the two depends on your requirements but it's becoming obvious that the use cases for vSAN are growing on every release. Here are my quick overview...
Certification

VCAP6-DCV Deploy Exam Simulator Update

Graham
As I'm preparing for VCDX I have not been as active on the blog as I would like, the good news is that when I have some free time I am working on improving the VCAP6-DCV Deploy Exam Simulator! Since it's launch late last year, there have been over 100 sessions,...
CertificationVMware vSAN

vExpert and vSAN Stickers

Graham
From time to time we all make mistakes. My latest one was to order way too many vExpert and vSAN stickers so I'm going to give them away! Update 06.03.2017 All vSAN stickers are gone. There are a few vExpert stickers left but they have a 1mm white line on...
VMware CloudVMware vRealize (Aria)

vROps – Installation

Graham
There are three install options for VROps 6.4. Windows, Linux and the OVA. In this post we'll look at the preferred OVA installation. The OVA can be considered as more secure (Effectively a black box that admins will be less tempted to modify) and performs better since it's isolated from other...
vSphere

How do you kill a VM that will not power off?

Graham
Sometimes a virtual machine will not power off via the web client. To resolve this, the process is very simple: Enable SSH on the host that the VM is running on: 2. Login to the host via SSH 3. Run the following command: esxcli vm process list 4. Find the...
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