(7279,40,'2012-09-04 11:25:24','2012-09-04 15:25:24','It’s difficult to notice when something is bad when you don’t know what good looks like.\r\n\r\nThat’s a big hurdle to overcome for any organization – whether you’re in IT or not.  When it comes to managing a <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/what-we-do/services/cloud-services\">complex virtual environment</a> with many inter dependencies, understanding the health, capacity and efficiency of each resource is nearly impossible. Luckily, VMware made it a lot easier for IT professionals with the release of <a href=\"http://www.vmware.com/products/datacenter-virtualization/vcenter-operations-management/overview.html\">vCenter Operations Manager</a> (vCOPS).\r\n\r\nJust last week at VMworld 2012, VMware announced the <a href=\"http://www.vmware.com/company/news/releases/vmw-vmworld-vcloud-suite-082712.html\" target=\"_blank\">VMware vCloud® Suite 5.1</a>, which allows customers to bundle the vCenter Operations Management Suite along with many other products at purchase time. Now we can easily find out what <em>good</em> looks like inside our virtual environments – no matter where they are in the cloud.\r\n\r\n<strong>How It Works</strong>\r\n\r\nMost of us understand that VMware vCenter Server manages resources like Clusters, Hosts, Virtual Machines and Datastores. Each resource has its own counters (performance metrics) that it sends to the vCenter Server. vCOPS takes the thousands of counters that vCenter receives every second and then analyses and transforms them into easy to understand metrics.  These metrics are then used by badges to score your environment on its Health, Risk, and Efficiency.\r\n\r\n<img src=\"data:image/png;base64,[encoded data, 34604 characters]\" alt=\"\" />\r\n\r\n<strong>The Transformation</strong>\r\n\r\nVirtualization and the migration of workloads to the Cloud has not only changed the way we provision and service IT, it has changed the way we manage it. Traditional Tools create a manual, reactive approach and can only manage IT in their separate silos. vCOPS monitors your compute, storage and networking environment by analyzing the counters from each resource. This allows vSphere Admins to view their entire virtual infrastructure from a single pane.\r\n\r\nLet’s take a look at a few common questions and scenarios and compare the traditional approach, the challenges faced, and then the vCOPS approach to managing a virtualized infrastructure.\r\n\r\n<strong><em>We need to do more with what we have – How can we use the resources we have more efficiently? </em></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>The Reactive Approach </strong>\r\n\r\n-          Calculate the consolidation ratio of VMs to Hosts - do the math, check back often, hope utilization doesn’t increase, and repeat. Maintain a spreadsheet or other documentation to keep track of things like CPU or RAM installed and try to correlate that with the performance of a resource in a VM.\r\n\r\n<strong> </strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>The Challenges</strong>\r\n\r\n-          The more workloads you can consolidate on existing resources, the more money you can save. Understanding the current and possible consolidation ratios will drive the business decisions for the acquisition of resources in the future.\r\n\r\n-          <strong> </strong>\r\n\r\n-          Change is <em>encouraged</em> in today’s virtual environments. Try keeping a static inventory of your VMs in a shared pool of resources and you’ll always be one step behind with DRS and Storage DRS migrating those VMs from resource to resource.\r\n\r\n<strong> </strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>The Proactive Approach - with vCOPS</strong>\r\n\r\n-          Have plenty of CPU but short on memory? Easily increase your consolidation ratios by quickly comparing your current consolidation ratio to a recommended ratio based on your specific resources and workload.\r\n\r\n-\r\n\r\n-          Advanced reporting and analytics can identify starved and overprovisioned VMs, easily allowing you to make resource entitlements with accuracy and confidence.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong><em> </em></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><em> </em></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><em> </em></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><em>We just upgraded our infrastructure - When will our resources run out?</em></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><em> </em></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>The Reactive Approach </strong>\r\n\r\nUsing static alerts, you’ll have to wait for an alert to notify you when capacity reaches a threshold, or you can check in monthly, weekly, or daily on the specific resource you want to monitor.\r\n\r\n<strong> </strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>The Challenges</strong>\r\n\r\nThe threat of not having enough resources to support a workload could be just as devastating to an environment as an outage.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWorkloads change, new workloads are created, and old workloads are decommissioned. Keeping up with these changes in a virtual environment is a daunting task.\r\n\r\n<strong> </strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>The Proactive Approach - with vCOPS</strong>\r\n\r\nCapacity planning is fully integrated with vCOPS.  Know how many days you have until a resource like CPU or memory will be depleted, and quickly understand what resource is holding you back from further growth.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nMitigate the risk of change and simulate what will happen to capacity and performance if you add or remove physical or virtual resources like a host or datastore with the “what-if” scenario planner.\r\n\r\n<strong><em> </em></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><em> </em></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><em> </em></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><em> </em></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><em>An application owner is requesting additional resources - What’s a normal workload for this application, and how do I know if they need additional resources?</em></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong> </strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>The Reactive Approach </strong>\r\n\r\nCheck the performance history by going to each individual resource (VM, Host, Cluster and Storage).\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSet a static alert (or keep the default) to notify you when utilization of a resource reaches a specific threshold.  Respond to the alert after the threshold has been reached – and to the phone calls of frustrated customers.\r\n\r\n<strong> </strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>The Challenges</strong>\r\n\r\nStatic metrics and measurements create unnecessary administrative overhead. Set enough metrics and you’ll soon have a full-time job for one of your employees.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nStatic metrics can only tell part of the story – they can’t tell you when CPU drops too low or tell you when you’re experiencing high utilization for an otherwise slow time like Saturday evening at 8 PM.\r\n\r\n<strong>                </strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>The Proactive Approach - with vCOPS</strong>\r\n\r\nDynamic alerts learn your environment and know that Tuesday morning your reporting database will be pegged out for an hour from before the Staff Meeting and relatively quiet the rest of the week.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nvCOPS learns what normal usage is – it learns the highs and lows for a resource and alerts you to the anomalies of performance, and the stress in your environment.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAs you can see, vCOPS takes virtual infrastructure management to a whole new level of easy.  Whether your environment consists of 50 or 5000 virtual machines, or whether your infrastructure is on premise or hosted in the cloud, vCenter Operations Manager brings control back where it belongs and thrusts you into a leadership position of proactivity.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','Hey IT Leaders – Would You Rather Be Proactive or Reactive?','','inherit','open','open','','7277-revision-2','','','2012-09-04 11:25:24','2012-09-04 15:25:24','',7277,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/7277-revision-2',0,'revision','',0),(7280,40,'2012-09-04 11:26:15','2012-09-04 15:26:15','It’s difficult to notice when something is bad when you don’t know what good looks like.\r\n\r\nThat’s a big hurdle to overcome for any organization – whether you’re in IT or not.  When it comes to managing a <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/what-we-do/services/cloud-services\">complex virtual environment</a> with many inter dependencies, understanding the health, capacity and efficiency of each resource is nearly impossible. Luckily, VMware made it a lot easier for IT professionals with the release of <a href=\"http://www.vmware.com/products/datacenter-virtualization/vcenter-operations-management/overview.html\">vCenter Operations Manager</a> (vCOPS).\r\n\r\nJust last week at VMworld 2012, VMware announced the <a href=\"http://www.vmware.com/company/news/releases/vmw-vmworld-vcloud-suite-082712.html\" target=\"_blank\">VMware vCloud® Suite 5.1</a>, which allows customers to bundle the vCenter Operations Management Suite along with many other products at purchase time. Now we can easily find out what <em>good</em> looks like inside our virtual environments – no matter where they are in the cloud.\r\n\r\n<strong>How It Works</strong>\r\n\r\nMost of us understand that VMware vCenter Server manages resources like Clusters, Hosts, Virtual Machines and Datastores. Each resource has its own counters (performance metrics) that it sends to the vCenter Server. vCOPS takes the thousands of counters that vCenter receives every second and then analyses and transforms them into easy to understand metrics.  These metrics are then used by badges to score your environment on its Health, Risk, and Efficiency.\r\n\r\n<img src=\"data:image/png;base64,[encoded data, 34604 characters]\" alt=\"\" width=\"448\" height=\"74\" />\r\n\r\n<strong>The Transformation</strong>\r\n\r\nVirtualization and the migration of workloads to the Cloud has not only changed the way we provision and service IT, it has changed the way we manage it. Traditional Tools create a manual, reactive approach and can only manage IT in their separate silos. vCOPS monitors your compute, storage and networking environment by analyzing the counters from each resource. This allows vSphere Admins to view their entire virtual infrastructure from a single pane.\r\n\r\nLet’s take a look at a few common questions and scenarios and compare the traditional approach, the challenges faced, and then the vCOPS approach to managing a virtualized infrastructure.\r\n\r\n<strong><em>We need to do more with what we have – How can we use the resources we have more efficiently? </em></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>The Reactive Approach </strong>\r\n\r\n-          Calculate the consolidation ratio of VMs to Hosts - do the math, check back often, hope utilization doesn’t increase, and repeat. Maintain a spreadsheet or other documentation to keep track of things like CPU or RAM installed and try to correlate that with the performance of a resource in a VM.\r\n\r\n<strong> </strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>The Challenges</strong>\r\n\r\n-          The more workloads you can consolidate on existing resources, the more money you can save. Understanding the current and possible consolidation ratios will drive the business decisions for the acquisition of resources in the future.\r\n\r\n-          <strong> </strong>\r\n\r\n-          Change is <em>encouraged</em> in today’s virtual environments. Try keeping a static inventory of your VMs in a shared pool of resources and you’ll always be one step behind with DRS and Storage DRS migrating those VMs from resource to resource.\r\n\r\n<strong> </strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>The Proactive Approach - with vCOPS</strong>\r\n\r\n-          Have plenty of CPU but short on memory? Easily increase your consolidation ratios by quickly comparing your current consolidation ratio to a recommended ratio based on your specific resources and workload.\r\n\r\n-\r\n\r\n-          Advanced reporting and analytics can identify starved and overprovisioned VMs, easily allowing you to make resource entitlements with accuracy and confidence.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong><em> </em></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><em> </em></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><em> </em></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><em>We just upgraded our infrastructure - When will our resources run out?</em></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><em> </em></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>The Reactive Approach </strong>\r\n\r\nUsing static alerts, you’ll have to wait for an alert to notify you when capacity reaches a threshold, or you can check in monthly, weekly, or daily on the specific resource you want to monitor.\r\n\r\n<strong> </strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>The Challenges</strong>\r\n\r\nThe threat of not having enough resources to support a workload could be just as devastating to an environment as an outage.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWorkloads change, new workloads are created, and old workloads are decommissioned. Keeping up with these changes in a virtual environment is a daunting task.\r\n\r\n<strong> </strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>The Proactive Approach - with vCOPS</strong>\r\n\r\nCapacity planning is fully integrated with vCOPS.  Know how many days you have until a resource like CPU or memory will be depleted, and quickly understand what resource is holding you back from further growth.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nMitigate the risk of change and simulate what will happen to capacity and performance if you add or remove physical or virtual resources like a host or datastore with the “what-if” scenario planner.\r\n\r\n<strong><em> </em></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><em> </em></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><em> </em></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><em> </em></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><em>An application owner is requesting additional resources - What’s a normal workload for this application, and how do I know if they need additional resources?</em></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong> </strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>The Reactive Approach </strong>\r\n\r\nCheck the performance history by going to each individual resource (VM, Host, Cluster and Storage).\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSet a static alert (or keep the default) to notify you when utilization of a resource reaches a specific threshold.  Respond to the alert after the threshold has been reached – and to the phone calls of frustrated customers.\r\n\r\n<strong> </strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>The Challenges</strong>\r\n\r\nStatic metrics and measurements create unnecessary administrative overhead. Set enough metrics and you’ll soon have a full-time job for one of your employees.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nStatic metrics can only tell part of the story – they can’t tell you when CPU drops too low or tell you when you’re experiencing high utilization for an otherwise slow time like Saturday evening at 8 PM.\r\n\r\n<strong>                </strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>The Proactive Approach - with vCOPS</strong>\r\n\r\nDynamic alerts learn your environment and know that Tuesday morning your reporting database will be pegged out for an hour from before the Staff Meeting and relatively quiet the rest of the week.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nvCOPS learns what normal usage is – it learns the highs and lows for a resource and alerts you to the anomalies of performance, and the stress in your environment.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAs you can see, vCOPS takes virtual infrastructure management to a whole new level of easy.  Whether your environment consists of 50 or 5000 virtual machines, or whether your infrastructure is on premise or hosted in the cloud, vCenter Operations Manager brings control back where it belongs and thrusts you into a leadership position of proactivity.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','Hey IT Leaders – Would You Rather Be Proactive or Reactive?','','inherit','open','open','','7277-revision-3','','','2012-09-04 11:26:15','2012-09-04 15:26:15','',7277,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/7277-revision-3',0,'revision','',0),(7282,40,'2012-09-04 11:41:59','2012-09-04 15:41:59','It’s difficult to notice when something is bad when you don’t know what good looks like.\n\nWhen it comes to managing a <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/what-we-do/services/cloud-services\">complex virtual environment</a> with many inter dependencies, understanding the health, capacity and efficiency of each resource is nearly impossible. Luckily, VMware is helping IT professionals understand both the <em>good </em>and the <em>bad </em>by allowing them to be much more proactive with the release of <a href=\"http://www.vmware.com/products/datacenter-virtualization/vcenter-operations-management/overview.html\">vCenter Operations Manager</a> (vCOPS).\n\nJust last week at VMworld 2012, VMware announced the <a href=\"http://www.vmware.com/company/news/releases/vmw-vmworld-vcloud-suite-082712.html\" target=\"_blank\">VMware vCloud® Suite 5.1</a>, which allows customers to bundle the vCenter Operations Management Suite along with many other products at purchase time. Now we can easily find out what <em>good</em> looks like inside our virtual environments – no matter where they are in the cloud.\n\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>How It Works</strong></span>\n\nMost of us understand that VMware vCenter Server manages resources like Clusters, Hosts, Virtual Machines and Datastores. Each resource has its own counters (performance metrics) that it sends to the vCenter Server. vCOPS takes the thousands of counters that vCenter receives every second and then analyses and transforms them into easy to understand metrics.  These metrics are then used by badges to score your environment on its Health, Risk, and Efficiency.\n\n<img src=\"data:image/png;base64,[encoded data, 34604 characters]\" alt=\"\" width=\"498\" height=\"74\" />\n\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>The Transformation</strong></span>\n\nVirtualization and the migration of workloads to the Cloud has not only changed the way we provision and service IT, it has changed the way we manage it. Traditional Tools create a manual, reactive approach and can only manage IT in their separate silos. vCOPS monitors your compute, storage and networking environment by analyzing the counters from each resource. This allows vSphere Admins to view their entire virtual infrastructure from a single pane.\n\nLet’s take a look at a few common questions and scenarios and compare the traditional approach, the challenges faced, and then the vCOPS approach to managing a virtualized infrastructure.\n\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>1. We need to do more with what we have – How can we use the resources we have more efficiently? </em></strong></span>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">The Reactive Approach &amp; Challenges</span>\n</strong></p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Calculate the consolidation ratio of VMs to Hosts - do the math, check back often, hope utilization doesn’t increase, and repeat. Maintain a spreadsheet or other documentation to keep track of things like CPU or RAM installed and try to correlate that with the performance of a resource in a VM.</p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The more workloads you can consolidate on existing resources, the more money you can save. Understanding the current and possible consolidation ratios will drive the business decisions for the acquisition of resources in the future. Change is <em>encouraged</em> in today’s virtual environments. Try keeping a static inventory of your VMs in a shared pool of resources and you’ll always be one step behind with DRS and Storage DRS migrating those VMs from resource to resource.</p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>The Proactive Approach &amp; Solutions</strong></span></p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Have plenty of CPU but short on memory? Easily increase your consolidation ratios by quickly comparing your current consolidation ratio to a recommended ratio based on your specific resources and workload. Advanced reporting and analytics can identify starved and overprovisioned VMs, easily allowing you to make resource entitlements with accuracy and confidence.</p>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"> <strong><em>2. We just upgraded our infrastructure - When will our resources run out?</em></strong></span>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><em></em><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">The Reactive Approach &amp; Challenges</span>\n</strong></p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Using static alerts, you’ll have to wait for an alert to notify you when capacity reaches a threshold, or you can check in monthly, weekly, or daily on the specific resource you want to monitor.</p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The threat of not having enough resources to support a workload could be just as devastating to an environment as an outage. Workloads change, new workloads are created, and old workloads are decommissioned. Keeping up with these changes in a virtual environment is a daunting task.</p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">The Proactive Approach &amp; Solutions</span>\n</strong></p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Capacity planning is fully integrated with vCOPS.  Know how many days you have until a resource like CPU or memory will be depleted, and quickly understand what resource is holding you back from further growth. Mitigate the risk of change and simulate what will happen to capacity and performance if you add or remove physical or virtual resources like a host or data store with the “what-if” scenario planner.<strong><em></em></strong></p>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>3. An application owner is requesting additional resources - What’s a normal workload for this application, and how do I know if they need additional resources?</em></strong></span>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">The Reactive Approach &amp; Challenges</span>\n</strong></p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Check the performance history by going to each individual resource (VM, Host, Cluster and Storage).</p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Set a static alert (or keep the default) to notify you when utilization of a resource reaches a specific threshold.  Respond to the alert after the threshold has been reached – and to the phone calls of frustrated customers. Static metrics and measurements create unnecessary administrative overhead. Set enough metrics and you’ll soon have a full-time job for one of your employees. Static metrics can only tell part of the story – they can’t tell you when CPU drops too low or tell you when you’re experiencing high utilization for an otherwise slow time like Saturday evening at 8 PM.<strong>  </strong></p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">The Proactive Approach &amp; Solutions</span>\n</strong></p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Dynamic alerts learn your environment and know that Tuesday morning your reporting database will be pegged out for an hour from before the Staff Meeting and relatively quiet the rest of the week. vCOPS learns what normal usage is – it learns the highs and lows for a resource and alerts you to the anomalies of performance, and the stress in your environment.</p>\nAs you can see, vCOPS takes virtual infrastructure management to a whole new level of easy.  Whether your environment consists of 50 or 5000 virtual machines, or whether your infrastructure is on premise or hosted in the cloud, vCenter Operations Manager brings control back where it belongs and thrusts you into a leadership position of proactivity.\n\n&nbsp;','Hey IT Leaders – Would You Rather Be Proactive or Reactive?','','inherit','open','open','','7277-revision-5','','','2012-09-04 11:41:59','2012-09-04 15:41:59','',7277,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/7277-revision-5',0,'revision','',0),(7283,40,'2012-09-04 11:42:54','2012-09-04 15:42:54','It’s difficult to notice when something is bad when you don’t know what good looks like.\r\n\r\nWhen it comes to managing a <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/what-we-do/services/cloud-services\">complex virtual environment</a> with many inter dependencies, understanding the health, capacity and efficiency of each resource is nearly impossible. Luckily, VMware is helping IT professionals understand both the <em>good </em>and the <em>bad </em>by allowing them to be much more proactive with the release of <a href=\"http://www.vmware.com/products/datacenter-virtualization/vcenter-operations-management/overview.html\">vCenter Operations Manager</a> (vCOPS).\r\n\r\nJust last week at VMworld 2012, VMware announced the <a href=\"http://www.vmware.com/company/news/releases/vmw-vmworld-vcloud-suite-082712.html\" target=\"_blank\">VMware vCloud® Suite 5.1</a>, which allows customers to bundle the vCenter Operations Management Suite along with many other products at purchase time. Now we can easily find out what <em>good</em> looks like inside our virtual environments – no matter where they are in the cloud.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>How It Works</strong></span>\r\n\r\nMost of us understand that VMware vCenter Server manages resources like Clusters, Hosts, Virtual Machines and Datastores. Each resource has its own counters (performance metrics) that it sends to the vCenter Server. vCOPS takes the thousands of counters that vCenter receives every second and then analyses and transforms them into easy to understand metrics.  These metrics are then used by badges to score your environment on its Health, Risk, and Efficiency.\r\n\r\n<img src=\"data:image/png;base64,[encoded data, 34604 characters]\" alt=\"\" width=\"498\" height=\"74\" />\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>The Transformation</strong></span>\r\n\r\nVirtualization and the migration of workloads to the Cloud has not only changed the way we provision and service IT, it has changed the way we manage it. Traditional Tools create a manual, reactive approach and can only manage IT in their separate silos. vCOPS monitors your compute, storage and networking environment by analyzing the counters from each resource. This allows vSphere Admins to view their entire virtual infrastructure from a single pane.\r\n\r\nLet’s take a look at a few common questions and scenarios and compare the traditional approach, the challenges faced, and then the vCOPS approach to managing a virtualized infrastructure.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>1. We need to do more with what we have – How can we use the resources we have more efficiently? </em></strong></span>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">The Reactive Approach &amp; Challenges</span>\r\n</strong></p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Calculate the consolidation ratio of VMs to Hosts - do the math, check back often, hope utilization doesn’t increase, and repeat. Maintain a spreadsheet or other documentation to keep track of things like CPU or RAM installed and try to correlate that with the performance of a resource in a VM.</p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The more workloads you can consolidate on existing resources, the more money you can save. Understanding the current and possible consolidation ratios will drive the business decisions for the acquisition of resources in the future. Change is <em>encouraged</em> in today’s virtual environments. Try keeping a static inventory of your VMs in a shared pool of resources and you’ll always be one step behind with DRS and Storage DRS migrating those VMs from resource to resource.</p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>The Proactive Approach &amp; Solutions</strong></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Have plenty of CPU but short on memory? Easily increase your consolidation ratios by quickly comparing your current consolidation ratio to a recommended ratio based on your specific resources and workload. Advanced reporting and analytics can identify starved and overprovisioned VMs, easily allowing you to make resource entitlements with accuracy and confidence.</p>\r\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"> <strong><em>2. We just upgraded our infrastructure - When will our resources run out?</em></strong></span>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><em></em><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">The Reactive Approach &amp; Challenges</span>\r\n</strong></p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Using static alerts, you’ll have to wait for an alert to notify you when capacity reaches a threshold, or you can check in monthly, weekly, or daily on the specific resource you want to monitor.</p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The threat of not having enough resources to support a workload could be just as devastating to an environment as an outage. Workloads change, new workloads are created, and old workloads are decommissioned. Keeping up with these changes in a virtual environment is a daunting task.</p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">The Proactive Approach &amp; Solutions</span>\r\n</strong></p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Capacity planning is fully integrated with vCOPS.  Know how many days you have until a resource like CPU or memory will be depleted, and quickly understand what resource is holding you back from further growth. Mitigate the risk of change and simulate what will happen to capacity and performance if you add or remove physical or virtual resources like a host or data store with the “what-if” scenario planner.<strong><em></em></strong></p>\r\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>3. An application owner is requesting additional resources - What’s a normal workload for this application, and how do I know if they need additional resources?</em></strong></span>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">The Reactive Approach &amp; Challenges</span>\r\n</strong></p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Check the performance history by going to each individual resource (VM, Host, Cluster and Storage).</p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Set a static alert (or keep the default) to notify you when utilization of a resource reaches a specific threshold.  Respond to the alert after the threshold has been reached – and to the phone calls of frustrated customers. Static metrics and measurements create unnecessary administrative overhead. Set enough metrics and you’ll soon have a full-time job for one of your employees. Static metrics can only tell part of the story – they can’t tell you when CPU drops too low or tell you when you’re experiencing high utilization for an otherwise slow time like Saturday evening at 8 PM.<strong>  </strong></p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">The Proactive Approach &amp; Solutions</span>\r\n</strong></p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Dynamic alerts learn your environment and know that Tuesday morning your reporting database will be pegged out for an hour from before the Staff Meeting and relatively quiet the rest of the week. vCOPS learns what normal usage is – it learns the highs and lows for a resource and alerts you to the anomalies of performance, and the stress in your environment.</p>\r\nAs you can see, vCOPS takes virtual infrastructure management to a whole new level of easy. Whether your environment consists of 50 or 5000 virtual machines, or whether your infrastructure is on premise or hosted in the cloud, vCenter Operations Manager brings control back where it belongs and thrusts you into a leadership position of proactivity.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','Hey IT Leaders – Would You Rather Be Proactive or Reactive?','','inherit','open','open','','7277-revision-6','','','2012-09-04 11:42:54','2012-09-04 15:42:54','',7277,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/7277-revision-6',0,'revision','',0),(7324,40,'2012-09-05 09:57:28','2012-09-05 13:57:28','<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Dave-W.jpg\"><img class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-7313 alignleft\" title=\"P Reynolds\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Dave-W-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"EMC Journey to the Cloud\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>\n\nAs we mentioned in an earlier post, we rarely <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/beware-egroup-chest-thumping-on-inc-5000-just-this-once\" target=\"_blank\">beat our chest</a>, but when it comes to our customers, we have no problem in sharing their successes. And so is the case with Williams &amp; Fudge, Inc., who received <a href=\"http://www.emc.com/about/news/press/2012/20120829-01.htm\" target=\"_blank\">EMC\'s Journey to the Cloud Award at VMworld 2012</a>.\n\n<a href=\"https://twitter.com/philvirtual\" target=\"_blank\">Phillip Reynolds</a> (pictured above), Director of Data Center Operations, accepted the award for demonstrating excellence in driving innovation, performance and creating business value through the use of virtualization.\n\nWell done, Phillip and team!','Williams & Fudge Wins EMC\'s Journey to the Cloud Award!','','inherit','open','open','','7311-autosave','','','2012-09-05 09:57:28','2012-09-05 13:57:28','',7311,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/7311-autosave',0,'revision','',0),(7429,23,'2012-09-24 23:52:04','2012-09-25 03:52:04','When you get into creating workflows for your SharePoint Server 2010 farm, you may run into some delays or errors. The one most commonly seen is...\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Due to heavy load, the latest workflow operation has been queued. It will attempt to resume at a later time</strong></span>\r\n\r\nThis is because SharePoint has a default limit of 15 workflows that can run at the same time. If you didn\'t know, there are quite a few workflows that run in the background all the time.  There are 2 main settings that you should be concerned with. The first is the WorkflowPostponeThreshold which controls how many workflows can execute at a time. The default is 15 and you can run this command in the SharePoint 2010 Management console to see what your setting is...\r\n\r\n<em>Get-SPFarmConfig | Select WorkflowPostponeThreshold</em>\r\n\r\nTo change this setting, modify the number in the following statement to fit your needs and run in the same console...\r\n\r\n<em>Set-SPFarmConfig -WorkflowPostponeThreshold 75</em>\r\n\r\nThe other setting is the WorkflowBatchSize which controls how many workflows can be in the \'queue\' at a time. The queue is basically a \'bucket\' of workflows that are waiting for the timer service to execute them. To see what your setting is, run the following command in the SharePoint 2010 Management console...\r\n\r\n<em>Get-SPFarmConfig | Select WorkflowBatchSize</em>\r\n\r\nTo change this setting, modify the number in the following statement to fit your needs and run in the same console...\r\n\r\n<em>Set-SPFarmConfig -WorkflowBatchSize 200</em>\r\n\r\nThis works for 3rd party workflows, like Nintex too! Be sure to monitor your servers and their performance to make sure you aren\'t overwhelming your environment.','SharePoint: Workflow Error - Due to Heavy Load','','publish','open','open','','sharepoint-2010-workflow-error-due-to-heavy-load','','','2012-09-25 09:15:56','2012-09-25 13:15:56','',0,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/?p=7429',0,'post','',0),(7327,36,'2012-09-11 15:49:14','2012-09-11 19:49:14','For all the system admins out there deploying <a href=\"http://www.citrix.com/English/ps2/products/product.asp?contentID=163057&amp;ntref=mainxdvanityurl\" target=\"_blank\">Citrix XenDesktop</a> for the first time, I suggest you read below!\r\n\r\nRecently, I tried to create a XenDesktop group that is using ESX 5.x as the hosting infrastructure, only to receive the following error message:\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>\"Unable to contact the hypervisor\"</strong></span>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.vmware.com/products/vcenter-server/overview.html\" target=\"_blank\">vSphere vCenter Server</a> only allows connection through SSL (HTTPS) on port 443 by default. The vCenter uses a self-signed certificate that the Citrix XenDesktop application will not accept. The automatic installation process for certificates does not import into the correct location required for XenDesktop.\r\n\r\nBelow are the steps required to import the self-signed certificate onto the XenDesktop server to make the connection. Hope this helps. If you encounter any other issues or have any specific feedback, leave it in the comments below.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">To use the VMware installed, self-signed certificate on vSphere</span>\r\n<ol start=\"1\">\r\n	<li>Add the fully qualified domain name for the vSphere server to c:\\windows\\drivers\\etc\\hosts if not present in DNS.</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n<ol start=\"2\">\r\n	<li>Using Internet Explorer - enter <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https://%3Cfqdn/\" target=\"_top\">https://&lt;FQDN</a></span> of vSphere server&gt;.</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n<ol start=\"3\">\r\n	<li>Accept the security warnings.</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n<ol start=\"4\">\r\n	<li>Click on the <strong>Certificate Error</strong> part of the address bar and select <strong>View Certificates</strong>.</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n<ol start=\"5\">\r\n	<li>Click <strong>Install Certificate</strong>.</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n<ol start=\"6\">\r\n	<li>Click <strong>Next</strong>.</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n<ol start=\"7\">\r\n	<li>Click <strong>Place all certificates in the following store</strong>.</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n<ol start=\"8\">\r\n	<li>Click <strong>Browse</strong>.</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n<ol start=\"9\">\r\n	<li>Click <strong>Show physical stores</strong>.</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n<ol start=\"10\">\r\n	<li>Expand <strong>Trusted People</strong>.</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n<ol start=\"11\">\r\n	<li>Select <strong>Local Computer</strong>.</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n<ol start=\"12\">\r\n	<li>Click <strong>OK</strong>.</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n<ol start=\"13\">\r\n	<li>Click <strong>Next</strong>.</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n<ol start=\"14\">\r\n	<li>Click <strong>Finish</strong>.</li>\r\n</ol>\r\nHere\'s an easy step by <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Step-by-Step-install-of-self-signed-certificate1.docx\">Step by Step install of self-signed certificate</a> (word document).','Fixing the XenDesktop error: \"Unable to contact the hypervisor\"','','publish','open','open','','xendesktop-error-unable-to-contact-the-hypervisor','','','2012-09-11 16:06:32','2012-09-11 20:06:32','',0,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/?p=7327',0,'post','',0),(7335,36,'2012-09-07 13:28:52','2012-09-07 17:28:52','XenDesktop Site Configuration\n\nWhen trying to create a XenDesktop group that is using ESX 5.x as the hosting infrastructure, you receive the following error message:\n\n\"Unable to contact the hypervisor\"\n\nvSphere vCenter Server only allows connection through SSL (HTTPS) on port 443 by default. The vCenter uses a self-signed certificate that the Citrix XenDesktop application will not accept. The automatic installation process for certificates does not import into the correct location required for XenDesktop. Below are the steps required to import the self-signed certificate onto the XenDesktop server to make the connection.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">To use the VMware installed, self-signed certificate on vSphere</span>\n<ol start=\"1\">\n	<li>Add the fully qualified domain name for the vSphere server to c:\\windows\\drivers\\etc\\hosts if not present in DNS.</li>\n</ol>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n	<li>Using Internet Explorer - enter <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"https://%3Cfqdn/\" target=\"_top\">https://&lt;FQDN</a></span> of vSphere server&gt;.</li>\n</ol>\n<ol start=\"3\">\n	<li>Accept the security warnings.</li>\n</ol>\n<ol start=\"4\">\n	<li>Click on the <strong>Certificate Error</strong> part of the address bar and select <strong>View Certificates</strong>.</li>\n</ol>\n<ol start=\"5\">\n	<li>Click <strong>Install Certificate</strong>.</li>\n</ol>\n<ol start=\"6\">\n	<li>Click <strong>Next</strong>.</li>\n</ol>\n<ol start=\"7\">\n	<li>Click <strong>Place all certificates in the following store</strong>.</li>\n</ol>\n<ol start=\"8\">\n	<li>Click <strong>Browse</strong>.</li>\n</ol>\n<ol start=\"9\">\n	<li>Click <strong>Show physical stores</strong>.</li>\n</ol>\n<ol start=\"10\">\n	<li>Expand <strong>Trusted People</strong>.</li>\n</ol>\n<ol start=\"11\">\n	<li>Select <strong>Local Computer</strong>.</li>\n</ol>\n<ol start=\"12\">\n	<li>Click <strong>OK</strong>.</li>\n</ol>\n<ol start=\"13\">\n	<li>Click <strong>Next</strong>.</li>\n</ol>\n<ol start=\"14\">\n	<li>Click <strong>Finish</strong>.</li>\n</ol>\n&nbsp;','XenDesktop error \"Unable to contact the hypervisor\"','','inherit','open','open','','7327-revision-5','','','2012-09-07 13:28:52','2012-09-07 17:28:52','',7327,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/7327-revision-5',0,'revision','',0),(7332,36,'2012-09-07 13:21:32','2012-09-07 17:21:32','XenDesktop Site Configuration\n\nWhen trying to create a XenDesktop group that is using ESX 5.x as the hosting infrastructure, you receive the following error message:\n\n\"Unable to contact the hypervisor\"\n\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/DS-error2.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7330\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/DS-error2-300x169.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" /></a>\n\nvSphere vCenter Server only allows connection through SSL (HTTPS) on port 443 by default. The vCenter uses a self-signed certificate that the Citrix XenDesktop application will not accept. The automatic installation process for certificates does not import into the correct location required for XenDesktop. Below are the steps required to import the self-signed certificate onto the XenDesktop server to make the connection.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">To use the VMware installed, self-signed certificate on vSphere</span>\n<ol start=\"1\">\n	<li>Add the fully qualified domain name for the vSphere server to c:\\windows\\drivers\\etc\\hosts if not present in DNS.</li>\n</ol>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n	<li>Using Internet Explorer - enter <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"https://%3Cfqdn/\" target=\"_top\">https://&lt;FQDN</a></span> of vSphere server&gt;.</li>\n</ol>\n<ol start=\"3\">\n	<li>Accept the security warnings.</li>\n</ol>\n<ol start=\"4\">\n	<li>Click on the <strong>Certificate Error</strong> part of the address bar and select <strong>View Certificates</strong>.</li>\n</ol>\n<ol start=\"5\">\n	<li>Click <strong>Install Certificate</strong>.</li>\n</ol>\n<ol start=\"6\">\n	<li>Click <strong>Next</strong>.</li>\n</ol>\n<ol start=\"7\">\n	<li>Click <strong>Place all certificates in the following store</strong>.</li>\n</ol>\n<ol start=\"8\">\n	<li>Click <strong>Browse</strong>.</li>\n</ol>\n<ol start=\"9\">\n	<li>Click <strong>Show physical stores</strong>.</li>\n</ol>\n<ol start=\"10\">\n	<li>Expand <strong>Trusted People</strong>.</li>\n</ol>\n<ol start=\"11\">\n	<li>Select <strong>Local Computer</strong>.</li>\n</ol>\n<ol start=\"12\">\n	<li>Click <strong>OK</strong>.</li>\n</ol>\n<ol start=\"13\">\n	<li>Click <strong>Next</strong>.</li>\n</ol>\n<ol start=\"14\">\n	<li>Click <strong>Finish</strong>.</li>\n</ol>\n&nbsp;','XenDesktop error \"Unable to contact the hypervisor\"','','inherit','open','open','','7327-revision-2','','','2012-09-07 13:21:32','2012-09-07 17:21:32','',7327,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/7327-revision-2',0,'revision','',0),(7328,36,'2012-09-07 13:13:20','2012-09-07 17:13:20','','XenDesktop error','','inherit','open','open','','ds-error','','','2012-09-07 13:13:20','2012-09-07 17:13:20','',7327,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/DS-error.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(7330,36,'2012-09-07 13:17:56','2012-09-07 17:17:56','CTX131512 error ','XenDesktop Error','','inherit','open','open','','ds-error-3','','','2012-09-07 13:17:56','2012-09-07 17:17:56','',7327,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/DS-error2.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(7329,36,'2012-09-07 13:16:19','2012-09-07 17:16:19','','DS error','','inherit','open','open','','ds-error-2','','','2012-09-07 13:16:19','2012-09-07 17:16:19','',7327,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/DS-error1.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(7331,36,'2012-09-07 13:17:18','2012-09-07 17:17:18','XenDesktop Site Configuration\n\nWhen trying to create a XenDesktop group that is using ESX 5.x as the hosting infrastructure, you receive the following error message:\n\n\"Unable to contact the hypervisor\"\n\n&nbsp;\n\nvSphere vCenter Server only allows connection through SSL (HTTPS) on port 443 by default. The vCenter uses a self-signed certificate that the Citrix XenDesktop application will not accept. The automatic installation process for certificates does not import into the correct location required for XenDesktop. Below are the steps required to import the self-signed certificate onto the XenDesktop server to make the connection.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">To use the VMware installed, self-signed certificate on vSphere</span>\n<ol start=\"1\">\n	<li>Add the fully qualified domain name for the vSphere server to c:\\windows\\drivers\\etc\\hosts if not present in DNS.</li>\n</ol>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n	<li>Using Internet Explorer - enter <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"https://%3Cfqdn/\" target=\"_top\">https://&lt;FQDN</a></span> of vSphere server&gt;.</li>\n</ol>\n<ol start=\"3\">\n	<li>Accept the security warnings.</li>\n</ol>\n<ol start=\"4\">\n	<li>Click on the <strong>Certificate Error</strong> part of the address bar and select <strong>View Certificates</strong>.</li>\n</ol>\n<ol start=\"5\">\n	<li>Click <strong>Install Certificate</strong>.</li>\n</ol>\n<ol start=\"6\">\n	<li>Click <strong>Next</strong>.</li>\n</ol>\n<ol start=\"7\">\n	<li>Click <strong>Place all certificates in the following store</strong>.</li>\n</ol>\n<ol start=\"8\">\n	<li>Click <strong>Browse</strong>.</li>\n</ol>\n<ol start=\"9\">\n	<li>Click <strong>Show physical stores</strong>.</li>\n</ol>\n<ol start=\"10\">\n	<li>Expand <strong>Trusted People</strong>.</li>\n</ol>\n<ol start=\"11\">\n	<li>Select <strong>Local Computer</strong>.</li>\n</ol>\n<ol start=\"12\">\n	<li>Click <strong>OK</strong>.</li>\n</ol>\n<ol start=\"13\">\n	<li>Click <strong>Next</strong>.</li>\n</ol>\n<ol start=\"14\">\n	<li>Click <strong>Finish</strong>.</li>\n</ol>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Step by step installation of the self-signed certificate:</span>\n\nFrom the XenDesktop server, open Internet Explorer and enter the FQDN for the vCenter server.\n\nSelect “Continue to this website”\n\n&nbsp;\n\nBeside the URL link select the Certificate Error as shown below.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\nIn the Certificate window on the General tab select Install Certificate and then select Next to start the wizard.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nSelect “Place all certificates in the following store” and select the browse button.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\nOn the Select Certificate Store window, select “Show physical stores option”. Select the folder called “Trusted People” and then the sub menu “Local Computer”. Click the OK button and then Next and Finish.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nTo finish the Site connection to the vSphere host, enter the appropriate information in the “Host Type” selection window. Select VMware from the drop down menu.\n\nEnter the URL for the vCenter server using HTTPS:\\\\ https://&lt;FQDN of the vCenter server&gt;\\sdk\n\nProvide the appropriate credentials. I show administrator, but always recommend a service account instead.\n\nProvide a connection name and determine if you whether you will have automatically created desktops or manual.\n\nSelect Next.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nBrowse the vCenter Cluster for the appropriate location.\n\nSelect the Network associated with the new desktops and select Next.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nSelect the datastore(s) that will host the desktop image files. Note that XenDesktop will try to spread the desktops across these datastores on the initial provisioning.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nOnce you select the storage for the VMs to run on and select next, provide a host name for the connection and select finish.\n\n&nbsp;','XenDesktop error \"Unable to contact the hypervisor\"','','inherit','open','open','','7327-revision','','','2012-09-07 13:17:18','2012-09-07 17:17:18','',7327,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/7327-revision',0,'revision','',0),(7333,36,'2012-09-07 13:26:44','2012-09-07 17:26:44','XenDesktop Site Configuration\n\nWhen trying to create a XenDesktop group that is using ESX 5.x as the hosting infrastructure, you receive the following error message:\n\n\"Unable to contact the hypervisor\"\n\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/DS-error2.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7330\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/DS-error2-300x169.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" /></a>\n\nvSphere vCenter Server only allows connection through SSL (HTTPS) on port 443 by default. The vCenter uses a self-signed certificate that the Citrix XenDesktop application will not accept. The automatic installation process for certificates does not import into the correct location required for XenDesktop. Below are the steps required to import the self-signed certificate onto the XenDesktop server to make the connection.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">To use the VMware installed, self-signed certificate on vSphere</span>\n<ol start=\"1\">\n	<li>Add the fully qualified domain name for the vSphere server to c:\\windows\\drivers\\etc\\hosts if not present in DNS.</li>\n</ol>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n	<li>Using Internet Explorer - enter <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"https://%3Cfqdn/\" target=\"_top\">https://&lt;FQDN</a></span> of vSphere server&gt;.</li>\n</ol>\n<ol start=\"3\">\n	<li>Accept the security warnings.</li>\n</ol>\n<ol start=\"4\">\n	<li>Click on the <strong>Certificate Error</strong> part of the address bar and select <strong>View Certificates</strong>.</li>\n</ol>\n<ol start=\"5\">\n	<li>Click <strong>Install Certificate</strong>.</li>\n</ol>\n<ol start=\"6\">\n	<li>Click <strong>Next</strong>.</li>\n</ol>\n<ol start=\"7\">\n	<li>Click <strong>Place all certificates in the following store</strong>.</li>\n</ol>\n<ol start=\"8\">\n	<li>Click <strong>Browse</strong>.</li>\n</ol>\n<ol start=\"9\">\n	<li>Click <strong>Show physical stores</strong>.</li>\n</ol>\n<ol start=\"10\">\n	<li>Expand <strong>Trusted People</strong>.</li>\n</ol>\n<ol start=\"11\">\n	<li>Select <strong>Local Computer</strong>.</li>\n</ol>\n<ol start=\"12\">\n	<li>Click <strong>OK</strong>.</li>\n</ol>\n<ol start=\"13\">\n	<li>Click <strong>Next</strong>.</li>\n</ol>\n<ol start=\"14\">\n	<li>Click <strong>Finish</strong>.</li>\n</ol>\n&nbsp;','XenDesktop error \"Unable to contact the hypervisor\"','','inherit','open','open','','7327-revision-3','','','2012-09-07 13:26:44','2012-09-07 17:26:44','',7327,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/7327-revision-3',0,'revision','',0),(7334,36,'2012-09-07 13:27:00','2012-09-07 17:27:00','XenDesktop Site Configuration\r\n\r\nWhen trying to create a XenDesktop group that is using ESX 5.x as the hosting infrastructure, you receive the following error message:\r\n\r\n\"Unable to contact the hypervisor\"\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/DS-error2.png\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-7330 alignnone\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/DS-error2-300x169.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" /></a>\r\n\r\nvSphere vCenter Server only allows connection through SSL (HTTPS) on port 443 by default. 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Feel free to download the audio playback by clicking the picture or <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/2012-08-31-09.36-eGroup-Roundtable_-LIVE-from-VMworld-2012.wmv\">here</a>. For your convenience, we time stamped (minute and second) some of the more interesting discussions and insights from our thought leaders, Jason Webster, Ian Jones and John Flisher.\n\nWe hope you enjoy our ongoing eGroup Roundtable Series. We welcome any suggestions and/or feedback. 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Stay tuned for an update on our September 19 Roundtable, “Citrix XenApp 6.5 and beyond” with eGroup’s Cloud Services Manager, Steve Rattacasa.\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>4:50 –</strong> Ian discusses VMware’s most notable shifts in its messaging and positioning as it relates to application services, adoption of Hadoop, increased messaging around big data, and integration of application development into the rest of the VMware offering.</p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>8:15 –</strong> Ian explains big data and the challenges facing enterprises in understanding their data sets.</p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>12:20 –</strong> Ian highlights Project Serengeti and covers the history of Hadoop, the various flavors and how companies are using it.</p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>15:50 –</strong> Big Data in 10 words or less!</p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>18:05 –</strong> Ian shares his thoughts on VMworld 2012 and the week’s most exciting news and advancements around storage technologies.</p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>24:15 –</strong> John recaps the keynote and thunderous applause when it was announced vRAM entitlement would be removed, in fact, John thought he was at Woodstock there was such a wave of excitement.</p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>28:30 –</strong> John touches on vSphere 5.1 including vSphere enhanced vMotion and vSphere Replication.</p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>32:30 –</strong> Ian discusses VMware’s move into web based interfaces, tight integration with other plugins.</p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>34:10 –</strong> John updates on the VMware vSphere Storage Appliance and continues on the discussion around VMware’s unified client.</p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>38:00 –</strong> everything you wanted to know about vSphere Data Protection technology geared towards SMBs.</p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>41:00 –</strong> John elaborates on VMware’s end user computing strategies, the Wanova Mirage product and what was demoed at VMworld.</p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>50:00 –</strong> John and Ian drop some final thoughts and closing statements on VMworld 2012.</p>','eGroup Roundtable Series: Live from VMworld Recap & Recording','','inherit','open','open','','7336-revision-12','','','2012-09-07 16:25:43','2012-09-07 20:25:43','',7336,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/7336-revision-12',0,'revision','',0),(7354,40,'2012-09-07 16:25:56','2012-09-07 20:25:56','<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/2012-08-31-09.36-eGroup-Roundtable_-LIVE-from-VMworld-2012.wmv\" rel=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/2012-08-31-09.36-eGroup-Roundtable_-LIVE-from-VMworld-2012.wmv\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-7346\" title=\"Live from VMworld\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Capture-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>\r\n\r\nFor those of you who missed last week’s eGroup Roundtable series, Live from VMworld, we have you covered. Feel free to download the audio playback by clicking the picture or <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/2012-08-31-09.36-eGroup-Roundtable_-LIVE-from-VMworld-2012.wmv\">here</a>. For your convenience, we time stamped (minute and second) some of the more interesting discussions and insights from our thought leaders, Jason Webster, Ian Jones and John Flisher.\r\n\r\nWe hope you enjoy our ongoing eGroup Roundtable Series. We welcome any suggestions and/or feedback. 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Other workarounds are detailed here in this <a href=\"http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX127403\">KB Article from Citrix.</a>\n\nIt would be a better model for the installer to first check the size of the database and then increase it only if it is not already 20 MB.','PROVISIONING SERVER 5.6 SP1 DATABASE SIZE CAUSES FAILED INSTALL','','inherit','open','open','','4559-autosave','','','2012-09-10 10:55:16','2012-09-10 14:55:16','',4559,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/4559-autosave',0,'revision','',0),(7357,40,'2012-09-10 14:35:31','2012-09-10 18:35:31','eGroup recently donated in support of the Boys &amp; Girls Clubs of the Trident Area\'s 2011 \"Push-Up Lowcountry Kids\" 4th Annual Push-Up Competition.  This investment will enable the Boys and Girls Clubs staff members to provide children with a safe and encouraging environment that focuses on improving Club Members\' academic success, good character, citizenry, and lifestyle habits.  It will help deliver exciting and educational programs to hundreds od boys and girls, and help the Club to achieve its mission to enable all young people, especially those who need it the most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, and responsible citizens.\n\nOn April 30th Dean Stephens, of Channel 4, led teams of 6  formed from local gyms, businesses, restaurants, and sports teams. Each team was responsible for raising $5,000 throughout the time leading up to the event. One the day of the event, all of the teams met in Marion Square to see which team could do the most push-ups. 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Check it out:<a href=\"http://youtu.be/mGthcuEWzgo\"> Beaufort Memorial Hospital enhances care delivery.</a>\n\nYou can also download the <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/VMware-Beaufort-Memorial-Hospital-12Q1-EN-Case-Study2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Beaufort Memorial Hospital case study</a>.','Video: Beaufort Memorial Hospital\'s CPOE Implementation','','inherit','open','open','','7358-revision-7','','','2012-09-11 08:53:27','2012-09-11 12:53:27','',7358,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/7358-revision-7',0,'revision','',0),(7367,40,'2012-09-11 08:56:06','2012-09-11 12:56:06','<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Capture1.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7364\" title=\"Beaufort Memorial Hospital\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Capture1.png\" alt=\"Beaufort Memorial Hospital\" width=\"240\" height=\"101\" /></a>\n\nComputerized physician order entry (CPOE) is part of Beaufort Memorial Hospital drive toward Meaningful Use of certified Electronic Health Records (EHR) technology, as defined by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. 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Check it out:<a href=\"http://youtu.be/mGthcuEWzgo\"> Beaufort Memorial Hospital enhances care delivery.</a>\r\n\r\nYou can also download the <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/VMware-Beaufort-Memorial-Hospital-12Q1-EN-Case-Study2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Beaufort Memorial Hospital case study</a>.','Video: Beaufort Memorial Hospital\'s CPOE Implementation','','inherit','open','open','','7358-revision-10','','','2012-09-11 09:02:11','2012-09-11 13:02:11','',7358,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/7358-revision-10',0,'revision','',0),(7370,40,'2013-02-26 14:45:07','2013-02-26 19:45:07','This is regarding the issue with Citrix Receiver, when launching the Citrix application through a URL, we were getting an error “Citrix online plug-in Configuration Manager: No value could be found for (Allowhotkey) that satisfies all lockdown requirements. The lockdown requirements in force may be conflicting.” After reinstalling and installing Citrix Receiver many times there was still no fix for the issue. It wasn’t until I dug deeper into the registry of my desktop. Follow these steps and you will be back to work in no time!\r\n\r\nThe following Steps will resolve this issue.\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li>Deleting the following entries under the registry location\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li>HKLM\\SOFTWARE\\Wow6432Node\\Citrix\\ICA Client\\Engine\\Lockdown Profiles\\All Regions\\Lockdown\\Virtual Channels\\Control</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>Search for (AllowHotKey)\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li>Delete “AllowHotKey”</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>Log back into Citrix\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li>Another error should pop up mentioning “URLRedirection”</li>\r\n	<li>Search within the registry for “URLRedirection”</li>\r\n	<li>Delete “URLRedirection”</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>Log into Citrix again\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li>Another similar error should populate mentioning “ClientHostedApps”</li>\r\n	<li>Search within the registry for “ClientHostedApps”</li>\r\n	<li>Delete “ClientHostedApps”</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>Log into Citrix once more, and you should be good to go.</li>\r\n</ol>\r\nWe know Citrix so if you have any other issues or questions, let us know in the comments below!\r\n\r\n<!-- Google Code for Partner\'s Home Page [Managed by template audience id 35] Conversion Page --> <script type=\"text/javascript\"> /* <![CDATA[ */ var google_conversion_id = 995397338; var google_conversion_language = \"en\"; var google_conversion_format = \"3\"; var google_conversion_color = \"ffffff\"; var google_conversion_label = \"KqqgCLbsmAQQ2p3S2gM\"; var google_conversion_value = 0; /* ]]> */ </script> <script type=\"text/javascript\" src=\"http://www.googleadservices.com/pagead/conversion.js\"> </script> <noscript> <div style=\"display:inline;\"> <img height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"border-style:none;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http://www.googleadservices.com/pagead/conversion/995397338/?value=0&label=KqqgCLbsmAQQ2p3S2gM&guid=ON&script=0\"/> </div> </noscript>','Citrix Receiver/Online Plugin (AllowHotKey)','','inherit','open','open','','6875-autosave','','','2013-02-26 14:45:07','2013-02-26 19:45:07','',6875,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/6875-autosave',0,'revision','',0),(7371,40,'2012-06-21 20:04:33','2012-06-21 20:04:33','This is regarding the issue with Citrix Receiver, when launching the Citrix application through a URL, we were getting an error “Citrix online plug-in Configuration Manager: No value could be found for (Allowhotkey) that satisfies all lockdown requirements. The lockdown requirements in force may be conflicting.” After reinstalling and installing Citrix Receiver many times there was still no fix for the issue. It wasn’t until I dug deeper into the registry of my desktop. Follow these steps and you will be back to work in no time!\r\n\r\nThe following Steps will resolve this issue.\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li>Deleting the following entries under the registry location\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li>HKLM\\SOFTWARE\\Wow6432Node\\Citrix\\ICA Client\\Engine\\Lockdown Profiles\\All Regions\\Lockdown\\Virtual Channels\\Control</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>Search for (AllowHotKey)\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li>Delete “AllowHotKey”</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>Log back into Citrix\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li>Another error should pop up mentioning “URLRedirection”</li>\r\n	<li>Search within the registry for “URLRedirection”</li>\r\n	<li>Delete “URLRedirection”</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>Log into Citrix again\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li>Another similar error should populate mentioning “ClientHostedApps”</li>\r\n	<li>Search within the registry for “ClientHostedApps”</li>\r\n	<li>Delete “ClientHostedApps”</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n</li>\r\n	<li>Log into Citrix once more, and you should be good to go!</li>\r\n</ol>','Citrix 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create a new SMB 3 file share, granting the necessary permissions.\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>In the \"File and Storage Services\" section, select \"Shares\", the \"Tasks\" drop-down menu, \"New Share\".</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Screen-Shot-2012-09-04-at-5.07.24-PM1.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7300\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Screen-Shot-2012-09-04-at-5.07.24-PM1-300x153.png\" alt=\"New Share\" width=\"300\" height=\"153\" /></a>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>For the \"Select Profile\" option, select \"SMB Share - Applications\".</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Screen-Shot-2012-09-04-at-5.07.58-PM.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7304\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Screen-Shot-2012-09-04-at-5.07.58-PM-300x218.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"218\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Make select \"Customize\" on the permissions screen, \"Select a Principal\", change the Object Type to \"Computers\", enter the Hyper-V host, and select \"Full Control\".</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Screen-Shot-2012-09-04-at-5.10.07-PM1.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7303\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Screen-Shot-2012-09-04-at-5.10.07-PM1-300x170.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"170\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Now, when creating a virtual machine enter the UNC path for the new file share.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Screen-Shot-2012-09-04-at-6.05.40-PM.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7306\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Screen-Shot-2012-09-04-at-6.05.40-PM-300x228.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"228\" 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to use file storage provides a good option for administrators looking to deploy the virtualization platform without the added complexity of managing a traditional storage array.  SMB 3 brings features such as \"Multichannel\", out-of-the-box network teaming and failover, without the needing addition\n\n&nbsp;','Microsoft Server 2012: Hyper-V and SMB 3','','inherit','open','open','','7295-revision-2','','','2012-09-04 16:24:53','2012-09-04 20:24:53','',7295,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/7295-revision-2',0,'revision','',0),(7298,25,'2012-09-04 16:26:52','2012-09-04 20:26:52','Microsoft has dubbed Server 2012 a true \"Cloud OS\", and the enhancements to Hyper-V included in this release certainly give that claim credence.  One of these new features is the ability to run Hyper-V workloads on SMB file-based storage.  More specifically, using the SMB 3 protocol released with Server 2012 (and soon available on other NAS appliances from leading vendors).  The ability to use file storage 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(and soon available on other NAS appliances from leading vendors).  The ability to use file storage provides a good option for administrators looking to deploy the virtualization platform without the added complexity of managing a traditional storage array.\n\nDeploying Hyper-V over SMB is a very simple process.  The first step is using Server Manager (or PowerShell) to create a new SMB 3 file share, granting the necessary permissions.\n<ul>\n	<li>In the \"File and Storage Services\" section, select \"Shares\", the \"Tasks\" drop-down menu, \"New Share\".</li>\n</ul>\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Screen-Shot-2012-09-04-at-5.07.24-PM1.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7300\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Screen-Shot-2012-09-04-at-5.07.24-PM1-300x153.png\" alt=\"New Share\" width=\"300\" height=\"153\" /></a>\n<ul>\n	<li>For the \"Select Profile\" option, select \"SMB Share - 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good option for administrators looking to deploy the virtualization platform without the added complexity of managing a traditional storage array.\n\nDeploying Hyper-V over SMB is a very simple process.  The first step is using Server Manager on a designated file server (or PowerShell) to create a new SMB 3 file share, granting the necessary permissions.\n<ul>\n	<li>In the \"File and Storage Services\" section, select \"Shares\", the \"Tasks\" drop-down menu, \"New Share\".</li>\n</ul>\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Screen-Shot-2012-09-04-at-5.07.24-PM1.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7300\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Screen-Shot-2012-09-04-at-5.07.24-PM1-300x153.png\" alt=\"New Share\" width=\"300\" height=\"153\" /></a>\n<ul>\n	<li>For the \"Select Profile\" option, select \"SMB Share - Applications\".</li>\n</ul>\n<a 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from leading vendors).  The ability to use file storage provides a good option for administrators looking to deploy the virtualization platform without the added complexity of managing a traditional storage array.\r\n\r\nDeploying Hyper-V over SMB is a very simple process.  The first step is using Server Manager on a designated file server (or PowerShell) to create a new SMB 3 file share, granting the necessary permissions.\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>In the \"File and Storage Services\" section, select \"Shares\", the \"Tasks\" drop-down menu, \"New Share\".</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Screen-Shot-2012-09-04-at-5.07.24-PM1.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7300\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Screen-Shot-2012-09-04-at-5.07.24-PM1-300x153.png\" alt=\"New Share\" width=\"300\" height=\"153\" /></a>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>For the \"Select Profile\" option, select \"SMB Share - 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share.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Screen-Shot-2012-09-04-at-6.05.40-PM.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7306\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Screen-Shot-2012-09-04-at-6.05.40-PM-300x228.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"228\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','Microsoft Windows Server 2012: Hyper-V and SMB 3','','inherit','open','open','','7295-revision-7','','','2012-09-04 18:10:36','2012-09-04 22:10:36','',7295,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/7295-revision-7',0,'revision','',0),(7309,40,'2012-09-06 09:59:41','2012-09-06 13:59:41','Microsoft has dubbed Windows Server 2012 a true \"Cloud OS\", and the enhancements to Hyper-V included in this release certainly give that claim credence.  One of these new features is the ability to run Hyper-V workloads on SMB file-based storage.  More specifically, using the SMB 3 protocol released with Windows Server 2012 (and soon available on other NAS appliances from leading vendors).  The ability to use file storage provides a good option for administrators looking to deploy the virtualization platform without the added complexity of managing a traditional storage array.\n\nDeploying Hyper-V over SMB is a very simple process.  The first step is using Server Manager on a designated file server (or PowerShell) to create a new SMB 3 file share, granting the necessary permissions.\n<ul>\n	<li>In the \"File and Storage Services\" section, select \"Shares\", the \"Tasks\" drop-down menu, \"New Share\".</li>\n</ul>\n<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Screen-Shot-2012-09-04-at-5.07.24-PM1.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7300\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Screen-Shot-2012-09-04-at-5.07.24-PM1-300x153.png\" alt=\"New Share\" width=\"300\" height=\"153\" /></a>\n<ul>\n	<li>For the \"Select Profile\" option, select \"SMB Share - 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href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/beware-egroup-chest-thumping-on-inc-5000-just-this-once\" target=\"_blank\">beat our chest</a>, but when it comes to our customers, we have no problem in sharing their successes. And so is the case with Williams &amp; Fudge, Inc., who received <a href=\"http://www.emc.com/about/news/press/2012/20120829-01.htm\" target=\"_blank\">EMC\'s Journey to the Cloud Award at VMworld 2012</a>.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https://twitter.com/philvirtual\" target=\"_blank\">Phillip Reynolds</a> (pictured above), Director of Data Center Operations, accepted the award for demonstrating excellence in driving innovation, performance and creating business value through the use of virtualization.\r\n\r\nWell done, Phillip and team!','Williams & Fudge Wins EMC\'s Journey to the Cloud Award!','','publish','open','open','','williams-fudge-wins-emcs-journey-to-the-cloud-award','','','2012-09-05 09:53:08','2012-09-05 13:53:08','',0,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/?p=7311',0,'post','',0),(7312,40,'2012-09-05 09:43:23','2012-09-05 13:43:23','As we mentioned in an earlier post, we rarely <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/beware-egroup-chest-thumping-on-inc-5000-just-this-once\" target=\"_blank\">beat our chest</a>, but when it comes to our customers, we have no problem in sharing their successes. And so is the case with Williams &amp; Fudge, Inc., who received EMC\'s Journey to the Cloud Award at VMworld 2012.\n\n<a href=\"https://twitter.com/philvirtual\" target=\"_blank\">Phillip Reynolds</a> (pictured here), Director of Data Center Operations, accepted the award for demonstrating excellence in driving innovation, performance and creating business value through the use of virtualization.\n\nWell done, Phillip and team!\n\n&nbsp;\n\nhttp://www.emc.com/about/news/press/2012/20120829-01.htm','','','inherit','open','open','','7311-revision','','','2012-09-05 09:43:23','2012-09-05 13:43:23','',7311,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/7311-revision',0,'revision','',0),(7313,40,'2012-09-05 09:44:44','2012-09-05 13:44:44','EMC and Intel at the Grand Nightclub in San Francisco for VMWorld 2012. 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And so is the case with Williams &amp; Fudge, Inc., who received <a href=\"http://www.emc.com/about/news/press/2012/20120829-01.htm\" target=\"_blank\">EMC\'s Journey to the Cloud Award at VMworld 2012</a>.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https://twitter.com/philvirtual\" target=\"_blank\">Phillip Reynolds</a> (pictured above), Director of Data Center Operations, accepted the award for demonstrating excellence in driving innovation, performance and creating business value through the use of virtualization.\r\n\r\nWell done, Phillip and team!','','','inherit','open','open','','7311-revision-2','','','2012-09-05 09:43:58','2012-09-05 13:43:58','',7311,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/7311-revision-2',0,'revision','',0),(7315,40,'2012-09-05 09:45:16','2012-09-05 13:45:16','<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Dave-W.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-7313\" title=\"P Reynolds\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Dave-W-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>As we mentioned in an earlier post, we rarely <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/beware-egroup-chest-thumping-on-inc-5000-just-this-once\" target=\"_blank\">beat our chest</a>, but when it comes to our customers, we have no problem in sharing their successes. And so is the case with Williams &amp; Fudge, Inc., who received <a href=\"http://www.emc.com/about/news/press/2012/20120829-01.htm\" target=\"_blank\">EMC\'s Journey to the Cloud Award at VMworld 2012</a>.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https://twitter.com/philvirtual\" target=\"_blank\">Phillip Reynolds</a> (pictured above), Director of Data Center Operations, accepted the award for demonstrating excellence in driving innovation, performance and creating business value through the use of virtualization.\r\n\r\nWell done, Phillip and team!','','','inherit','open','open','','7311-revision-3','','','2012-09-05 09:45:16','2012-09-05 13:45:16','',7311,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/7311-revision-3',0,'revision','',0),(7316,40,'2012-09-05 09:45:48','2012-09-05 13:45:48','<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Dave-W.jpg\"><img class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-7313 alignleft\" title=\"P Reynolds\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Dave-W-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>As we mentioned in an earlier post, we rarely <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/beware-egroup-chest-thumping-on-inc-5000-just-this-once\" target=\"_blank\">beat our chest</a>, but when it comes to our customers, we have no problem in sharing their successes. And so is the case with Williams &amp; Fudge, Inc., who received <a href=\"http://www.emc.com/about/news/press/2012/20120829-01.htm\" target=\"_blank\">EMC\'s Journey to the Cloud Award at VMworld 2012</a>.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https://twitter.com/philvirtual\" target=\"_blank\">Phillip Reynolds</a> (pictured above), Director of Data Center Operations, accepted the award for demonstrating excellence in driving innovation, performance and creating business value through the use of virtualization.\r\n\r\nWell done, Phillip and team!','','','inherit','open','open','','7311-revision-4','','','2012-09-05 09:45:48','2012-09-05 13:45:48','',7311,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/7311-revision-4',0,'revision','',0),(7319,40,'2012-09-05 09:47:19','2012-09-05 13:47:19','<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Dave-W.jpg\"><img class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-7313 alignleft\" title=\"P Reynolds\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Dave-W-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAs we mentioned in an earlier post, we rarely <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/beware-egroup-chest-thumping-on-inc-5000-just-this-once\" target=\"_blank\">beat our chest</a>, but when it comes to our customers, we have no problem in sharing their successes. And so is the case with Williams &amp; Fudge, Inc., who received <a href=\"http://www.emc.com/about/news/press/2012/20120829-01.htm\" target=\"_blank\">EMC\'s Journey to the Cloud Award at VMworld 2012</a>.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https://twitter.com/philvirtual\" target=\"_blank\">Phillip Reynolds</a> (pictured above), Director of Data Center Operations, accepted the award for demonstrating excellence in driving innovation, performance and creating business value through the use of virtualization.\r\n\r\nWell done, Phillip and team!','','','inherit','open','open','','7311-revision-7','','','2012-09-05 09:47:19','2012-09-05 13:47:19','',7311,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/7311-revision-7',0,'revision','',0),(7317,40,'2012-09-05 09:46:30','2012-09-05 13:46:30','<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Dave-W.jpg\"><img class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-7313 alignleft\" title=\"P Reynolds\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Dave-W-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAs we mentioned in an earlier post, we rarely <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/beware-egroup-chest-thumping-on-inc-5000-just-this-once\" target=\"_blank\">beat our chest</a>, but when it comes to our customers, we have no problem in sharing their successes. And so is the case with Williams &amp; Fudge, Inc., who received <a href=\"http://www.emc.com/about/news/press/2012/20120829-01.htm\" target=\"_blank\">EMC\'s Journey to the Cloud Award at VMworld 2012</a>.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https://twitter.com/philvirtual\" target=\"_blank\">Phillip Reynolds</a> (pictured above), Director of Data Center Operations, accepted the award for demonstrating excellence in driving innovation, performance and creating business value through the use of virtualization.\r\n\r\nWell done, Phillip and team!','','','inherit','open','open','','7311-revision-5','','','2012-09-05 09:46:30','2012-09-05 13:46:30','',7311,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/7311-revision-5',0,'revision','',0),(7318,40,'2012-09-05 09:46:54','2012-09-05 13:46:54','<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Dave-W.jpg\"><img class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-7313 alignleft\" title=\"P Reynolds\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Dave-W-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAs we mentioned in an earlier post, we rarely <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/beware-egroup-chest-thumping-on-inc-5000-just-this-once\" target=\"_blank\">beat our chest</a>, but when it comes to our customers, we have no problem in sharing their successes. And so is the case with Williams &amp; Fudge, Inc., who received <a href=\"http://www.emc.com/about/news/press/2012/20120829-01.htm\" target=\"_blank\">EMC\'s Journey to the Cloud Award at VMworld 2012</a>.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https://twitter.com/philvirtual\" target=\"_blank\">Phillip Reynolds</a> (pictured above), Director of Data Center Operations, accepted the award for demonstrating excellence in driving innovation, performance and creating business value through the use of virtualization.\r\n\r\nWell done, Phillip and team!','','','inherit','open','open','','7311-revision-6','','','2012-09-05 09:46:54','2012-09-05 13:46:54','',7311,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/7311-revision-6',0,'revision','',0),(7320,40,'2012-09-05 09:50:46','2012-09-05 13:50:46','<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Dave-W.jpg\"><img class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-7313 alignleft\" title=\"P Reynolds\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Dave-W-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>\n\nAs we mentioned in an earlier post, we rarely <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/beware-egroup-chest-thumping-on-inc-5000-just-this-once\" target=\"_blank\">beat our chest</a>, but when it comes to our customers, we have no problem in sharing their successes. And so is the case with Williams &amp; Fudge, Inc., who received <a href=\"http://www.emc.com/about/news/press/2012/20120829-01.htm\" target=\"_blank\">EMC\'s Journey to the Cloud Award at VMworld 2012</a>.\n\n<a href=\"https://twitter.com/philvirtual\" target=\"_blank\">Phillip Reynolds</a> (pictured above), Director of Data Center Operations, accepted the award for demonstrating excellence in driving innovation, performance and creating business value through the use of virtualization.\n\nWell done, Phillip and team!','Williams & Fudge Wins EMC\'s Journey to the Cloud Award!','','inherit','open','open','','7311-revision-8','','','2012-09-05 09:50:46','2012-09-05 13:50:46','',7311,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/7311-revision-8',0,'revision','',0),(7321,40,'2012-09-05 09:52:32','2012-09-05 13:52:32','<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Dave-W.jpg\"><img class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-7313 alignleft\" title=\"P Reynolds\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Dave-W-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"EMC Journey to the Cloud\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>\n\nAs we mentioned in an earlier post, we rarely <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/beware-egroup-chest-thumping-on-inc-5000-just-this-once\" target=\"_blank\">beat our chest</a>, but when it comes to our customers, we have no problem in sharing their successes. And so is the case with Williams &amp; Fudge, Inc., who received <a href=\"http://www.emc.com/about/news/press/2012/20120829-01.htm\" target=\"_blank\">EMC\'s Journey to the Cloud Award at VMworld 2012</a>.\n\n<a href=\"https://twitter.com/philvirtual\" target=\"_blank\">Phillip Reynolds</a> (pictured above), Director of Data Center Operations, accepted the award for demonstrating excellence in driving innovation, performance and creating business value through the use of virtualization.\n\nWell done, Phillip and team!','Williams & Fudge Wins EMC\'s Journey to the Cloud Award!','','inherit','open','open','','7311-revision-9','','','2012-09-05 09:52:32','2012-09-05 13:52:32','',7311,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/7311-revision-9',0,'revision','',0),(7322,40,'2012-09-05 09:52:35','2012-09-05 13:52:35','<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Dave-W.jpg\"><img class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-7313 alignleft\" title=\"P Reynolds\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Dave-W-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"EMC Journey to the Cloud\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAs we mentioned in an earlier post, we rarely <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/beware-egroup-chest-thumping-on-inc-5000-just-this-once\" target=\"_blank\">beat our chest</a>, but when it comes to our customers, we have no problem in sharing their successes. And so is the case with Williams &amp; Fudge, Inc., who received <a href=\"http://www.emc.com/about/news/press/2012/20120829-01.htm\" target=\"_blank\">EMC\'s Journey to the Cloud Award at VMworld 2012</a>.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https://twitter.com/philvirtual\" target=\"_blank\">Phillip Reynolds</a> (pictured above), Director of Data Center Operations, accepted the award for demonstrating excellence in driving innovation, performance and creating business value through the use of virtualization.\r\n\r\nWell done, Phillip and team!','Williams & Fudge Wins EMC\'s Journey to the Cloud Award!','','inherit','open','open','','7311-revision-10','','','2012-09-05 09:52:35','2012-09-05 13:52:35','',7311,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/7311-revision-10',0,'revision','',0),(7323,40,'2012-09-05 09:52:43','2012-09-05 13:52:43','<a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Dave-W.jpg\"><img class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-7313 alignleft\" title=\"P Reynolds\" src=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Dave-W-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"EMC Journey to the Cloud\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAs we mentioned in an earlier post, we rarely <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/beware-egroup-chest-thumping-on-inc-5000-just-this-once\" target=\"_blank\">beat our chest</a>, but when it comes to our customers, we have no problem in sharing their successes. And so is the case with Williams &amp; Fudge, Inc., who received <a href=\"http://www.emc.com/about/news/press/2012/20120829-01.htm\" target=\"_blank\">EMC\'s Journey to the Cloud Award at VMworld 2012</a>.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https://twitter.com/philvirtual\" target=\"_blank\">Phillip Reynolds</a> (pictured above), Director of Data Center Operations, accepted the award for demonstrating excellence in driving innovation, performance and creating business value through the use of virtualization.\r\n\r\nWell done, Phillip and team!','Williams & Fudge Wins EMC\'s Journey to the Cloud Award!','','inherit','open','open','','7311-revision-11','','','2012-09-05 09:52:43','2012-09-05 13:52:43','',7311,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/7311-revision-11',0,'revision','',0),(7284,40,'2012-09-04 11:46:16','2012-09-04 15:46:16','It’s difficult to notice when something is bad when you don’t know what good looks like.\n\nWhen it comes to managing a <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/what-we-do/services/cloud-services\">complex virtual environment</a> with many inter dependencies, understanding the health, capacity and efficiency of each resource is nearly impossible. Luckily, VMware is helping IT professionals understand both the <em>good </em>and the <em>bad </em>by allowing them to be much more proactive with the release of <a href=\"http://www.vmware.com/products/datacenter-virtualization/vcenter-operations-management/overview.html\">vCenter Operations Manager</a> (vCOPS).\n\nJust last week at VMworld 2012, VMware announced the <a href=\"http://www.vmware.com/company/news/releases/vmw-vmworld-vcloud-suite-082712.html\" target=\"_blank\">VMware vCloud® Suite 5.1</a>, which allows customers to bundle the vCenter Operations Management Suite along with many other products at purchase time. Now we can easily find out what <em>good</em> looks like inside our virtual environments – no matter where they are in the cloud.\n\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>How It Works</strong></span>\n\nMost of us understand that VMware vCenter Server manages resources like Clusters, Hosts, Virtual Machines and Datastores. Each resource has its own counters (performance metrics) that it sends to the vCenter Server. vCOPS takes the thousands of counters that vCenter receives every second and then analyses and transforms them into easy to understand metrics.  These metrics are then used by badges to score your environment on its Health, Risk, and Efficiency.\n\n<img src=\"data:image/png;base64,[encoded data, 34604 characters]\" alt=\"\" width=\"498\" height=\"74\" />\n\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>The Transformation</strong></span>\n\nVirtualization and the migration of workloads to the Cloud has not only changed the way we provision and service IT, it has changed the way we manage it. Traditional Tools create a manual, reactive approach and can only manage IT in their separate silos. vCOPS monitors your compute, storage and networking environment by analyzing the counters from each resource. This allows vSphere Admins to view their entire virtual infrastructure from a single pane.\n\nLet’s take a look at a few common questions and scenarios and compare the traditional approach, the challenges faced, and then the vCOPS approach to managing a virtualized infrastructure.\n\n<img class=\"alignleft\" src=\"data:image/png;base64,[encoded data, 60824 characters]\" alt=\"vCOPS\" width=\"248\" height=\"428\" />\n\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>1. We need to do more with what we have – How can we use the resources we have more efficiently? </em></strong></span>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">The Reactive Approach &amp; Challenges</span>\n</strong></p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Calculate the consolidation ratio of VMs to Hosts - do the math, check back often, hope utilization doesn’t increase, and repeat. Maintain a spreadsheet or other documentation to keep track of things like CPU or RAM installed and try to correlate that with the performance of a resource in a VM.</p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The more workloads you can consolidate on existing resources, the more money you can save. Understanding the current and possible consolidation ratios will drive the business decisions for the acquisition of resources in the future. Change is <em>encouraged</em> in today’s virtual environments. Try keeping a static inventory of your VMs in a shared pool of resources and you’ll always be one step behind with DRS and Storage DRS migrating those VMs from resource to resource.</p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>The Proactive Approach &amp; Solutions</strong></span></p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Have plenty of CPU but short on memory? Easily increase your consolidation ratios by quickly comparing your current consolidation ratio to a recommended ratio based on your specific resources and workload. Advanced reporting and analytics can identify starved and overprovisioned VMs, easily allowing you to make resource entitlements with accuracy and confidence.</p>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"> <strong><em>2. We just upgraded our infrastructure - When will our resources run out?</em></strong></span>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><em></em><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">The Reactive Approach &amp; Challenges</span>\n</strong></p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Using static alerts, you’ll have to wait for an alert to notify you when capacity reaches a threshold, or you can check in monthly, weekly, or daily on the specific resource you want to monitor.</p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The threat of not having enough resources to support a workload could be just as devastating to an environment as an outage. Workloads change, new workloads are created, and old workloads are decommissioned. Keeping up with these changes in a virtual environment is a daunting task.</p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">The Proactive Approach &amp; Solutions</span>\n</strong></p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Capacity planning is fully integrated with vCOPS.  Know how many days you have until a resource like CPU or memory will be depleted, and quickly understand what resource is holding you back from further growth. Mitigate the risk of change and simulate what will happen to capacity and performance if you add or remove physical or virtual resources like a host or data store with the “what-if” scenario planner.<strong><em></em></strong></p>\n<img src=\"data:image/png;base64,[encoded data, 32988 characters]\" alt=\"\" />\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>3. An application owner is requesting additional resources - What’s a normal workload for this application, and how do I know if they need additional resources?</em></strong></span>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">The Reactive Approach &amp; Challenges</span>\n</strong></p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Check the performance history by going to each individual resource (VM, Host, Cluster and Storage).</p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Set a static alert (or keep the default) to notify you when utilization of a resource reaches a specific threshold.  Respond to the alert after the threshold has been reached – and to the phone calls of frustrated customers. Static metrics and measurements create unnecessary administrative overhead. Set enough metrics and you’ll soon have a full-time job for one of your employees. Static metrics can only tell part of the story – they can’t tell you when CPU drops too low or tell you when you’re experiencing high utilization for an otherwise slow time like Saturday evening at 8 PM.<strong>  </strong></p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">The Proactive Approach &amp; Solutions</span>\n</strong></p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Dynamic alerts learn your environment and know that Tuesday morning your reporting database will be pegged out for an hour from before the Staff Meeting and relatively quiet the rest of the week. vCOPS learns what normal usage is – it learns the highs and lows for a resource and alerts you to the anomalies of performance, and the stress in your environment.</p>\nAs you can see, vCOPS takes virtual infrastructure management to a whole new level of easy. Whether your environment consists of 50 or 5000 virtual machines, or whether your infrastructure is on premise or hosted in the cloud, vCenter Operations Manager brings control back where it belongs and thrusts you into a leadership position of proactivity.\n\n&nbsp;','Hey IT Leaders – Would You Rather Be Proactive or Reactive?','','inherit','open','open','','7277-revision-7','','','2012-09-04 11:46:16','2012-09-04 15:46:16','',7277,'http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/7277-revision-7',0,'revision','',0),(7285,40,'2012-09-04 11:47:51','2012-09-04 15:47:51','It’s difficult to notice when something is bad when you don’t know what good looks like.\n\nWhen it comes to managing a <a href=\"http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/what-we-do/services/cloud-services\">complex virtual environment</a> with many inter dependencies, understanding the health, capacity and efficiency of each resource is nearly impossible. Luckily, VMware is helping IT professionals understand both the <em>good </em>and the <em>bad </em>by allowing them to be much more proactive with the release of <a href=\"http://www.vmware.com/products/datacenter-virtualization/vcenter-operations-management/overview.html\">vCenter Operations Manager</a> (vCOPS).\n\nJust last week at VMworld 2012, VMware announced the <a href=\"http://www.vmware.com/company/news/releases/vmw-vmworld-vcloud-suite-082712.html\" target=\"_blank\">VMware vCloud® Suite 5.1</a>, which allows customers to bundle the vCenter Operations Management Suite along with many other products at purchase time. Now we can easily find out what <em>good</em> looks like inside our virtual environments – no matter where they are in the cloud.\n\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>How It Works</strong></span>\n\nMost of us understand that VMware vCenter Server manages resources like Clusters, Hosts, Virtual Machines and Datastores. Each resource has its own counters (performance metrics) that it sends to the vCenter Server. vCOPS takes the thousands of counters that vCenter receives every second and then analyses and transforms them into easy to understand metrics.  These metrics are then used by badges to score your environment on its Health, Risk, and Efficiency.\n\n<img src=\"data:image/png;base64,[encoded data, 34604 characters]\" alt=\"\" width=\"498\" height=\"74\" />\n\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>The Transformation</strong></span>\n\nVirtualization and the migration of workloads to the Cloud has not only changed the way we provision and service IT, it has changed the way we manage it. Traditional Tools create a manual, reactive approach and can only manage IT in their separate silos. vCOPS monitors your compute, storage and networking environment by analyzing the counters from each resource. This allows vSphere Admins to view their entire virtual infrastructure from a single pane.\n\nLet’s take a look at a few common questions and scenarios and compare the traditional approach, the challenges faced, and then the vCOPS approach to managing a virtualized infrastructure.\n\n<img class=\"alignleft\" src=\"data:image/png;base64,[encoded data, 60824 characters]\" alt=\"vCOPS\" width=\"223\" height=\"385\" />\n\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>1. We need to do more with what we have – How can we use the resources we have more efficiently? </em></strong></span>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">The Reactive Approach &amp; Challenges</span>\n</strong></p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Calculate the consolidation ratio of VMs to Hosts - do the math, check back often, hope utilization doesn’t increase, and repeat. Maintain a spreadsheet or other documentation to keep track of things like CPU or RAM installed and try to correlate that with the performance of a resource in a VM.</p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The more workloads you can consolidate on existing resources, the more money you can save. Understanding the current and possible consolidation ratios will drive the business decisions for the acquisition of resources in the future. Change is <em>encouraged</em> in today’s virtual environments. Try keeping a static inventory of your VMs in a shared pool of resources and you’ll always be one step behind with DRS and Storage DRS migrating those VMs from resource to resource.</p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>The Proactive Approach &amp; Solutions</strong></span></p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Have plenty of CPU but short on memory? Easily increase your consolidation ratios by quickly comparing your current consolidation ratio to a recommended ratio based on your specific resources and workload. Advanced reporting and analytics can identify starved and overprovisioned VMs, easily allowing you to make resource entitlements with accuracy and confidence.</p>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"> <strong><em>2. We just upgraded our infrastructure - When will our resources run out?</em></strong></span>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><em></em><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">The Reactive Approach &amp; Challenges</span>\n</strong></p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Using static alerts, you’ll have to wait for an alert to notify you when capacity reaches a threshold, or you can check in monthly, weekly, or daily on the specific resource you want to monitor.</p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The threat of not having enough resources to support a workload could be just as devastating to an environment as an outage. Workloads change, new workloads are created, and old workloads are decommissioned. Keeping up with these changes in a virtual environment is a daunting task.</p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">The Proactive Approach &amp; Solutions</span>\n</strong></p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Capacity planning is fully integrated with vCOPS.  Know how many days you have until a resource like CPU or memory will be depleted, and quickly understand what resource is holding you back from further growth. Mitigate the risk of change and simulate what will happen to capacity and performance if you add or remove physical or virtual resources like a host or data store with the “what-if” scenario planner.<strong><em></em></strong></p>\n<img class=\"alignleft\" src=\"data:image/png;base64,[encoded data, 14387 characters]