No more shooting from the hip This week, I’ll take you through troubleshooting, a skill that allows admins to drill down into an incident to gain understanding about its underlying cause and any related effects. Last week, I went over remediation, describing it as the skill that allows virtualization admins to keep their jobs. If […]
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Fix It Now: It’s how you keep your job Last week, I covered alerting as a skill that allows virtualization admins to quickly surface information about potential or likely incidents. In theory, what is surfaced is the single point of truth. But an ugly fact of reality is that no matter how good your alerting […]
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You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know Last week, I provided an explanation of virtualization that even your grandmother could relate to and understand. I also listed a set of skills that were imperative to any virtualization admin’s long-term career success: discovery, alerting, remediation, and troubleshooting. This week I’ll cover what we mean when we […]
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How can you master virtualization skills if you don’t know how to explain it to your grandmother? One can justifiably say that virtualization is a mature technology. It has formed the basis for Cloud computing, and it epitomizes the continuous service delivery and consumption model that beckons in the era of IT-as-a-Service (ITaaS). For the […]
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Virtualization management requires mastering a specific set of skills. But once mastered, these essential skills can lead to a long and meaningful career in IT. IT pros need a foundation in technologies. To extend utility to their organizations, they should further develop three essential skills – monitoring, troubleshooting, and reporting. Think back to your first responsibilities as an […]
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The benefits of virtualization, especially high availability and consolidation, are well known. Virtualization is a primary reason why Cloud computing and distributed systems have gained traction beyond academia and very large enterprises. What do virtualization admins have to say about the top issues that they troubleshoot and remediate on a daily basis? Plus, how fast are […]
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IT industry insiders John Troyer, Christopher Kusek, and Dennis Smith. Check. Defining hybrid Cloud, converged infrastructure, software-defined anything (SDx), and containers. Check. Helping you find your next career. Priceless. Technologies are fast and furious in their development, and they often displace each other. Knowing which technologies to learn and build experience with can be the difference between having a […]
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Virtualization is supposed to provide consolidation and high availability benefits for applications. So what is a hypervisor? Why are there two types of hypervisors? What’s the difference between VMware® vSphere™ and Microsoft® Hyper-V®? What exactly are Type 1 and Type 2 hypervisors? What if I just want to learn about vSphere and Hyper-V so that I can compare […]
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The speed and scale enabled by virtualization and Cloud require advances in the underlying infrastructure. Enter hyper-convergence. What is hyper-convergence? The convergence half refers to the combination of server, storage, network, and software in a single physical appliance. The hyper half refers to the fact that the solution is easy to implement and deploy. Join me and […]
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Performance bottlenecks are the bane of admins. They negatively impact an application’s quality of service, and can lead to nights and weekends filled with troubleshooting and remediation. Add in a layer of virtualization and the bottlenecks usually bleed over into misconfigurations, such as co-stop issues in vSMP VMs when one vCPU is sufficient, or over-allocation of memory […]
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