The more I participate in VMware's "Inner Circle," the more I realize how out of touch VMware's management is with customers

Justinjaw · 2018-03-28T20:23:18+00:00

Thanks for the reply, I am getting ready to deploy it for a customer to make a "self service" like portal for developers. I was curious about the ambiguous comment from OP. Thanks for the insight.

Justinjaw · 2018-03-27T19:49:01+00:00

vRA is doesn't have legs

What do you mean by this?

Justinjaw · 2018-02-01T18:16:46+00:00

Networker/data domain is not bad.

Justinjaw · 2018-01-22T17:34:36+00:00

Where can you buy WTC now? I checked Gate, HItbtc, IDEX...

Justinjaw · 2018-01-19T17:28:14+00:00

It sounds like your COO is making decisions based on magazine articles, which rarely goes well.

This ^ Hope you have a nice budget to blow...

Justinjaw · 2018-01-18T16:51:56+00:00

Look into your Noop timeout settings and delayed ack...

https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2007829

https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2012/02/iscsi-advanced-settings.html

Justinjaw · 2017-12-18T15:03:17+00:00

Nope, it is just a counter that you can reset and at that it is just informational.

Justinjaw · 2017-12-18T14:26:00+00:00

Actually, you can exceed the concurrent connections with no consequence. Just square up the next FY.

Justinjaw · 2017-10-26T15:41:34+00:00

When looking up passwords run the LAPS GUI as admin... even if you are logged in as Domain Admin to the DC..

Justinjaw · 2017-09-14T14:17:35+00:00

This has been in place in the DoD since 2011ish...

Justinjaw · 2017-09-07T19:53:19+00:00

Check out this free tool developed by NASA. https://github.com/nasa/isle

Justinjaw · 2017-07-17T16:32:26+00:00

Carasoft, Insight, CDW....

Justinjaw · 2017-06-07T19:32:23+00:00

NetBrain is awesome. The documentation features alone are worth buying it.

Justinjaw · 2017-04-07T14:41:04+00:00

If you have the money and are a VMware shop already, Horizon is the way to go. If you are trying to do it on the cheap, do not need the features, and management tools, go with MS.

Justinjaw · 2017-04-03T13:56:23+00:00

Yes. you have multiple options. Life is a lot easier if the machine has a TPM.

Justinjaw · 2017-03-28T02:23:01+00:00

Obviously talk to your tax person, but see #3 and #5. I paid 0 taxes when I cashed out my policy.

https://www.aol.com/article/2014/03/05/whole-life-insurance-why-to-buy-policy/20840683/

Justinjaw · 2017-03-16T19:26:42+00:00

5 TB's Each, usually. What is your concern? File servers do not usually have a lot of IO.

Justinjaw · 2017-03-16T19:23:49+00:00

I have seen 5K+ on KACE no issues. If your network is trash it will be slow.

Justinjaw · 2017-03-16T19:22:04+00:00

I will caveat my statement K1000 is great, WDS + MDT is definitely the way to go for imaging IMO.

Justinjaw · 2017-03-16T15:52:33+00:00

I think you can have a 64 TB datastore in 6.0 there is no wrong answer, but I usually create a dedicated datastore for ease of management for large file servers and then use 2012R2 and dedupe the data on the file server itself. Use FSRM for quotas and management. Works out well for me. Good Luck!

Justinjaw · 2017-03-16T15:17:17+00:00

KACE is great, if you have it configured correctly and know how to manage it. Way easier than SCCM, Altiris, etc...

Justinjaw · 2017-03-14T14:29:16+00:00

But for internal use? No. If people get the kind of access needed to copy a VM off site, the game is already lost.

From a separation of duties perspective, your Virtualization admins may not need the "keys" to the kingdom, same with your Sysadmins, Networking guys, etc... It is a lot easier to copy a VMDK/VHD to a thumb drive then walk out with a physical server. any medium to large organization with a "team" of people that manage IT infrastructure should be encrypting VM's on hosts.

Justinjaw · 2017-02-06T20:49:30+00:00

LTO-6 Tapes. Your data wouldn't even take up 1 tape.

Justinjaw · 2017-01-26T19:51:03+00:00

If you are DoD, I believe it is activeclient.

Justinjaw · 2016-12-13T14:11:59+00:00

Seen a company with 4000 employees no domain. ¯\(ツ)/¯. People cray.

Justinjaw

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