It is 2022 and I am still quite surprised at the number of people with an incorrect appreciation on why portfast is good for hypervisor hosts. So, a week ago (26-Feb-2022), I posted a poll on LinkedIn, to cast a wider net to see if my observation scales to a greater population. Indeed the common… Read More »
Any sort of deployment should not only consider the immediate needs, but also an potential future requirements. How many times have we been in the “I wished I knew this before” or “I didn’t realise it back then” situations. We can plan as much as we can, but sometimes the most minute details can escape… Read More »
This post focuses on the different aspects to be aware of to deploy a Nutanix Cluster. There are other considerations when we zoom out to look at large scale deployments, such as for Cloud Infrastructure transformation from traditional 3 tier storage deployments to Hyper-converged Infrastructure, but that will be another post for another day. Nutanix… Read More »
I’ve just updated my lab to View 6.1 and came across a nice little gem. This is related to the recent out-of-the-box hardening of vSphere where Transparent Page Sharing is disabled between virtual machines. In case you missed it, I’ve written about it here. If you see the screenshot below, you will see a new… Read More »
Another reminder today that ESXi TPS default setting is being changed to be disabled. This was first acknowledged in Oct 2014 that under certain highly controlled situation, it is possible to gain unauthorized access to in memory data. Although this is unlikely to be achievable in a production environment VMware is keeping to secure-out-of-the-box principle and… Read More »