Notes from a cloud professional, interspersed with random acts of exercise. Avoiding vendor lock-in in the public cloud. A little while back, I had a pretty frank discussion with a customer about vendor lock-in in the public cloud and he left me under no illusions that he saw cloud more as a threat than an opportunity.

To help others as others have helped me. High CPU Ready times being reported in vCenter. I had an issue today where the performance counters in vCenter were reporting a high CPU Ready time and the longer stats period the higher the number. I decided to dive down into ESXTOP and the results were completely different.

VMware, PowerCLI, IT, how-tos and other tech. Like A Boss iPhone app. Out of Office Changer for Exchange 2003. A further edit should be ma.

In my last post I had a problem with the onboard 10GBit NICs. My assumption is that they were overheated and therefor failed. I read some blog posts of other blogger and some of them. Backup Interoperability Matrix Major Update.

Welcome to part one of a new series detailing the use of the NSX REST API. My goal is to highlight several administrative tasks of your VMware NSX environment that have been exposed via API. I will assume that the reader has an entry level understanding of layer 2 and 3 networking and where we go a bit deeper I will explain what is going on. New Changes to the VCP550 Exam Blueprint.