I started thinking about how I could use this blog to make a sizer based on my previous AVS storage sizing post. Of course, as a reminder this is not an official sizer, but I understand that many in the partner and customer community don’t have any access to this basic need. So here we […]
Sizing Azure VMware Solution Cluster Storage Capacity
Most people who know me are aware that my primary background in the tech field is storage. When I joined the vSAN team at VMware in 2017, it was during a period of rapid “hockey stick” growth, making it an incredibly exciting time. Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI) was expanding fast, and there was never a dull […]
Meet One of the Dragons in Your Datacenter: MTU
I thought it was important to make a quick post about MTU settings as it pertains to HCX. MTU has been a dragon that I have been fighting my entire career. Previously, it had been in Storage Area Networks. But even more recently it is been spitting fire in my current role. While I’m not […]
HCX Service Mesh Deep Dive
This topic has been rattling around in my brain for a LONG time. A HCX Service Mesh one of the toughest subjects that I struggled with when I started as a Cloud Solutions Architect for the Azure VMware Solution. An HCX Service Mesh is a critical component in HCX setup process. It facilitates the creation […]
Campfire Stories Series: HCX Internal FW Troubleshooting
As a Cloud Solutions Architect covering the Azure VMware Solution (AVS), I help many customers get their pilot kick-started. Typically this includes helping customers get their prerequisites done for the AVS service, deploying and connecting AVS, deploying and connecting Hybrid Cloud Extension (HCX), and doing a test migration using HCX. Having done a number of […]
Using the Identity Distributed Firewall in Azure VMware Solution
Recently, I received a request from a customer to use a feature I had not used previously. The client was currently using the Identity Firewall within NSX-t on-prem to protect users from accessing specific sites within their network. Since Azure VMware Solution (AVS) is a managed service, a few features that work with NSX are […]
First YouTube Video Launched!
My peers on the Azure VMware Solution team have been hard at work recording content for a new YouTube channel we just launched. The idea is to help people with simple and short how-to videos for the AVS solution. There is a lot of fantastic content out there, however, oftentimes its for on-prem only or […]
Managing vSAN Policies in Azure VMware Solution
**Update Notes: A number of items have changed where some of this info is now out of date. I would recommend reading through Microsoft docs here and here for simple integrated ways to update your storage policies. The following post still has some relevancy. It will cover the basics and how you can use the […]
A Quick Post for A Big Change
This week I left Dell|EMC, a company I have collectively worked for over a decade. I couldn’t say enough about Dell as a company. I owe a huge part of my career success to that company as I grew over the years. If you ever have an opportunity to work there, I highly recommend it. […]
What’s This PowerStore All About?!
If you are a Dell|EMC customer or follow the enterprise storage market closely, you have probably at least heard of PowerStore by now. Some of our competition has even given it more of a platform by actively talking about it on social media or blogging about it on their sites which is exciting! You know […]