Eric Sloof

The first book in the IT Architect series helps aspiring & experienced IT infrastructure architects/administrators, and those pursuing infrastructure design certifications, establish a solid foundation in the art of infrastructure design.

The three authors hold multiple certifications, including VCDX, and they call upon their combined decades of experience in administration, design, and education in technology to help you plan, design, deploy, and test a full infrastructure design solution.

Starting with the methodology behind infrastructure design, they explore the design process through a case study that highlights a company that wants to support datacenter and desktop solutions using virtualization technologies.

They provide examples of architecture design, installation, validation, & operations using VMware vSphere and VMware Horizon View and an analysis of the design choices along with alternative options.
The book teaches how to develop the design documents and the presentation.

This book is a “must read” for IT professionals, as it provides best practice advice from the industry’s top experts on how best to architect a virtualized data center (in Tweet or blog format).

Edited by Frank Denneman, PernixData Chief Technologist, version 3 of the vSphere Design PocketBook covers the following strategic topics:

• Host configuration
• Cluster and vCenter design
• Storage configuration
• Network and security design
• VM configuration
• Management
• Words of wisdom

Over 10,000 copies of version 1 and version 2 of the vSphere Design PocketBooks have been distributed to date! Version 3 will be equally hot, so download your copy by filling out the form to the right.

This white paper examines the performance of Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) applications with Virtual SAN 6.2. The OLTP applications, which model an online retail store and a brokerage house workload, involve a large number of client transactions.

The performance of such workloads are crucial to businesses such as banks, airlines, and retailers. Overall, Virtual SAN 6.2 performs well and provides stable and consistent I/O capability to the two OLTP workloads. Furthermore, tests show that Virtual SAN 6.2’s space efficiency features provide substantial disk space savings and can significantly reduce customers’ storage costs per gigabyte (GB). Lastly, Virtual SAN 6.2 performs well during source failure with only a small drop during recovery.

In this video Ryan Kelly will introduce the vRealize Automation 7 REST API and demo a provision request using Postman.

Links mentioned in video here: Developercenter, Cloudmaniac and Vmtocloud.

vSphere allows you to transform your IT infrastructure into a private cloud, then bridge it to public clouds on-demand, delivering an IT infrastructure as an easily accessible service. vSphere delivers uncompromised control over all IT resources with the highest efficiency and choice in the industry.


The free e-book begins with a definition of the core technologies in a virtual datacenter, vCenter, and ESXi. It then covers the architecture of specific virtual datacenter components. Readers will learn design principles related to storage and storage protocols.

Moving on to networking, readers will learn to design flexible and reliable networks for their virtual datacenters. After this, Virtual Machine design considerations are reviewed in depth and readers are guided through inspecting existing VMs and design principles for correctly resourced and configured virtual machines.

This Fling allows VMware App Volumes AppStacks and Writable Volumes to be backed up and recovered.

The following is how this utility works:

• it connects to both the App Volumes Manager and Virtual Center using API calls 
• a backup virtual machine is created
• the underlying VMDK files of selected AppStacks and Writable Volumes are attached to the backup virtual machine
• backup solution which is able to back up VMDK files should be configured to save the VMDK files attached to the backup virtual machine
  
  

There is also a utility that can be called from the backup software which will automatically detach, and re-attach any writable volumes which are in use while the backup is running.