Three hundred and fourteen posts on virtualization, storage, automation and infrastructure, written from production work rather than product documentation. This page is the map. Every subject below links to its full archive.
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If you have not read anything here before, these five are the ones worth your time.
- Wiring Grafana into vCenter
A full telemetry pipeline from vSphere performance counter to rendered pixel, and the ten design decisions that determine whether it survives a production estate. - Building VMware Cloud Foundation 9 on Tintri NFS storage
VCF on NFS, end to end, including the parts the deployment guide leaves out. - ESXi Log Analyser
A tool for turning an ESXi support bundle into an answer instead of an afternoon. - Troubleshooting vimService Creation Failed 403 in vCenter
A root cause walkthrough for one of the more misleading vCenter errors. - VMKPing “Invalid Argument” while testing the vMotion network
Why the error text points you at the wrong layer, and how to find the real one.
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vSphere and ESXi
The core of the site. Hypervisor internals, vCenter, cluster services, and the failure modes that actually turn up in production.
- All vSphere posts (172)
- Virtualization fundamentals (20)
- Troubleshooting (37)
- Site Recovery Manager (10)
Storage
Array internals, NFS and VMFS behaviour, snapshot chains, latency analysis, and where the milliseconds actually go.
- vSAN (42)
- Tintri (27)
- Storage concepts (5)
Automation
Scripts and tooling that replace repeated clicking. Mostly PowerCLI, with Python where the API is friendlier.
- PowerShell and PowerCLI (84)
- PowerShell for Tintri (10)
- Python (3)
Compute and networking
The layer underneath the hypervisor. Fabric interconnects, service profiles, and the network faults that look like storage faults.
- Cisco UCS (21)
- Network troubleshooting (7)
Containers and cloud
Kubernetes, container runtimes and public cloud, mostly where they meet on premises infrastructure.
- Kubernetes (2)
- Docker troubleshooting (3)
- AWS (3)
Operations
Monitoring, backup and the other platforms that sit alongside a vSphere estate.
- Grafana and observability (3)
- Rubrik (3)
- Hyper-V (5)
Counts are approximate and posts often sit in more than one subject. If you are looking for something specific, search is usually faster than browsing.