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Red Hat OpenShift on VMware vSphere – How to Scale and Edit your cluster deployments

Working with Red Hat OpenShift on vSphere, I’m really starting to understand the main infrastructure components and how everything fits together. Next up was understanding how to control the cluster size after initial deployment. So, with Red Hat OpenShift, there are some basic concepts we need to understand first, before we jump into the technical … Continue reading Red Hat OpenShift on VMware vSphere – How to Scale and Edit your cluster deployments

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A guide to vSphere with Tanzu Kubernetes – Day 2 Operations for the VI Admin

Intro This blog post is an accompaniment to the session “vSphere with Tanzu Kubernetes – Day 2 Operations for the VI Admin” created by myself and Simon Conyard, with special thanks to the VMware LiveFire Team for allowing us access to their lab environments to create the technical demo recordings. You can see the full … Continue reading A guide to vSphere with Tanzu Kubernetes – Day 2 Operations for the VI Admin

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vRealize Operations – What is the Guest|Page In/Out Rate Metric?

In vRealize Operations 6.3, we added the following Guest Metrics, some of which we require VMware Tools 10.3.X or higher to be present for us to pull the data. Guest|Active File Cache Memory (KB) Guest|Context Swap Rate per second Guest|Free Memory (KB) Guest|Huge Page Size (KB) Guest|Needed Memory (KB) Guest|Page In Rate per second Guest|Page … Continue reading vRealize Operations – What is the Guest|Page In/Out Rate Metric?

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How to build vROPs dashboard for tracking VM Growth over X days

I came across an interesting query on Reddit regarding vRealize Operations Manager (vROPs), summarised the query; “Can I have a vROPs report/dashboard which shows me the storage usage by VMs over the past 3 days” The short answer is yes, and I produced the following dashboard, views and report and uploaded to code.vmware.com for the … Continue reading How to build vROPs dashboard for tracking VM Growth over X days

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How to use FAHControl to manage multiple Folding@Home Client instances

This blog post will cover managing a number of Folding@Home Clients using FAHControl. If you are using the VMware F@H Fling, then this appliance will be configured for remote control on deployment. This blog is based on Folding@home deployed on Linux, but the same applied for Windows. Installing FAHControl to monitor multiple installations  For Windows … Continue reading How to use FAHControl to manage multiple Folding@Home Client instances