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March 31, 2016 Posted in Blogs

When we do datacenter virtualization or migration, we often need do P2V (Physical to Virtual) design. It involves estimation of the capacity on ESXi server since we neither want to over-commit the computing power of the virtual server, nor to keep redundant computing power.

VMware offers a free ESXi Capacity Planner but you can’t simply download it and put it work analyzing your server usage and end-user work pattern, since it’s usually a component from a larger paid program.

Here I would like to introduce a handy and lightweight VMware ESXi Capacity Planner that I have used in my previous data center virtualization and migration projects. It’s Excel-based...

March 11, 2015 Posted in Blogs

It’s an era of cloud computing. In order to provide adequate computing power, more and more data centers are under construction. In these data centers, VMware is the core solution to reduce costs while increasing the efficiency and utilization of the existing physical hardware.

It’s often to present enterprise architectural design with MS Visio diagrams. But the pain is VMware has never offered a set of stencils for this officially. Fortunately, someone made it for us. The quality of these stencils is just remarkable! And the best of all is, they are free! 😉

These stencils are offered by Maish Saidel-Keesing. You should be able to download them through his blog site. Enjoy!

Additionally, I would like to introduce MS Office 2014 Visio Stencil...