David Davis

In the conclusion of this series on vCloud Director, we discuss creating two important entities: a Provider Virtual Datacenter and a VM Deployment Template.

Interested in learning more about VMware vCloud Director? In the first of this two-part series, we’ll show you how to set up vCloud Director from the web interface.

In this video post, vExpert David Davis shares his experience with Citrix VDI-in-a-box, and shows how to install, configure, and test this affordable and easy to use product. Learn how to get started with VDI-in-a-box, as well as how virtual desktops are deployed and how end users can connect to and actually use them.

In this tutorial, vExpert David Davis partners with Elias Khnaser to show you how to use Auto Deploy, one of the coolest features that comes with vSphere 5. Auto Deploy enables admins to significantly cut down time they usually spend in provisioning vSphere servers, and Davis and Khnaser take you through the step-by-step process.

Overview The free VMware vSphere tools that are available from third-party vendors are an essential part of every good virtualizaion admin’s tool box. Let’s face it, VMware vSphere does a lot but you still need third-party tools to get the job done — and to make your life as an admin easier and more productive….

In this post, vExpert David Davis shares his free 2 hour training course and whitepaper on virtualization that covers a variety of topics ranging from what virtualization is, why you need it, overviews of the various virtualization solutions and more.

David Davis explains an exciting feature with VMware’s new vSphere 5 that allows you to manage your vSphere environments through an iPad with the new VMware vSphere Client for iPad. David explains how to set up the client on your machine and iPad. After reading this article, you’ll be managing your virtual machines from a sunny beach in no time.

If you’re an IT Professional unfamiliar with virtualization, then now is the time to start learning and building your skills. In this free webinar I’ll explain what virtualization is and why you need it and show you how you can get started with virtualization right away by building your own testing lab.

Every now and then an application on a virtual machine will become very resource hungry. If the application requires high-availability and is mission critical, shutting the application down to add more RAM or CPU is not an option. In such an instance, Hot-Adding CPU or RAM is a very useful skill. The following article describes how to Dynamically add CPU and Memory using vSphere Hot-Add.

The Power Management feature in vSphere 4.1 allows you to choose between five power management policies, helping you reduce energy consumption and increase savings. See how easy it is to configure hardware power management in vSphere and utilize graphing to monitor the CPU of your ESX and ESXi servers.

In this article, David Davis covers issues related to keeping track of IP addresses on lab and production networks. Included are suggested tools which can help prevent outages caused by duplicate IP addresses.

Esxtop is VMware’s command-line tool to analyze performance. David Davis provides an overview and configuration options of this valuable tool for solving vSphere performance issues. Also included are suggestions on top resources available to further your understanding of esxtop.