Monday, April 20, 2015
Wednesday, September 17, 2014
Vmturbo over VCOP
I first must admit that I haven't used VCOP in 2 years at least. Why would I after I started using VMturbo. VCOP is suppose to have an advantage because they are pulling from their own vcenter database. I found VCOP very robust and very difficult to pull the info I wanted from it. The reports could never be as custom as I wanted them to be either. Add all that on top of the price which was crazy expensive we had to look at alternatives.
Vmturbo sent me an ova, I had it up in about 20 minutes. let it run for an hour before they called to walk me through the setup(was already finished with the setup once they called). As soon as we signed in together My whole environment had recommendations and ways to balance my virtual environment on hosts better than what Vmware was doing native. After a few weeks of testing and monitoring I no longer was letting vmware manage the Vmotion.
I was able to write custom reports, find deep dive details about each guest and host in my environment. I love this tool you can hear a little more of my thoughts here.
https://greencircle.vmturbo.com/community/customer-access/blog/2014/09/04/vmturbo-customers-vmworld-city-of-garland-tx?et=notification.mention
Vmturbo sent me an ova, I had it up in about 20 minutes. let it run for an hour before they called to walk me through the setup(was already finished with the setup once they called). As soon as we signed in together My whole environment had recommendations and ways to balance my virtual environment on hosts better than what Vmware was doing native. After a few weeks of testing and monitoring I no longer was letting vmware manage the Vmotion.
I was able to write custom reports, find deep dive details about each guest and host in my environment. I love this tool you can hear a little more of my thoughts here.
https://greencircle.vmturbo.com/community/customer-access/blog/2014/09/04/vmturbo-customers-vmworld-city-of-garland-tx?et=notification.mention
New to the blog world-ramble
People always wonder what it is we do. When I say we I mean
those of us, when asked what you do for a living we answer I’m in I.T. The reason most say this answer is because it’s
easier than explaining exactly what it is we do. Part of the problem is titles. Titles in I.T.
is a fluid art form based on the company you are at, the industry you’re in,
and if your HR rep has figured out a way to pay you less based on a different
title. Right now I am labeled as a “Senior
System Engineer” when talking to others or looking at job posts I know that I
have to look at “Senior System Admin, Senior Network Admin, System Architect” these
are just a few of the titles my position can be referred to. We all do the same thing, So back to what it is I do; I do everything in
I.T. meaning I have had to do networking (switches, routers, vpn, load
balancers…), System admin (windows, linux, unix, aix, sun), Data Center
migration, architect and mobile technology. Software development, write code,
white hat. I could continue but I believe this is what most people in my
position also have experience in. I
doubt many people will have a use for what I write in my blogs. I do not plan on making my blogs just I.T.
related. It will be Politics, Sports, Religion and I.T. all things that normally
can cause people some type of reaction.
If you don’t like it stop reading that’s easy. Disclaimer: My thoughts posted on this blog
are not the views expressed by my employer and all that good stuff.
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