Tech and Other Stuff by Neil Koch

CloudPhysics New Card Builder Launched!

CloudPhysics who I have blogged about in the past announced today their much awaited new feature, Card Builder. Recently I had the privilege to try out CloudPhysics new Card Builder. Picture a dynamic interface reporting tool that is intuitive and extremely flexible! All the features you need when putting together reports for vSphere Analytics! ... Read more

vSphere Storage Appliance 5.1 Offline Demo

Recently a client ask about seeing a demonstration of VMware vSphere Storage Appliance in action. I didn’t have a live production or development to demo this setup on however, luckily there is a offline demo tool available direct through VMware to assist with this task. Using the VSA 5.1 Offline Demo you can go through the process of setting up... Read more

Want to use your iPad to manage vCenter?

The VMware vCenter Mobile Access tool allows you to use your iPad to manage and monitor your vCenter environment. This handy tool I deployed the other day in my lab environment in around 20 minutes or less. <figcaption id="caption-attachment-159" class="wp-caption-text">VMware vSphere iPad App</figcaption></figure> The proces... Read more

CloudPhysics review Big Data simplified

CloudPhysics is an online tool for monitoring your VMware environment available from CloudPhysics.com. The tool allows you to see a graphical representation of your VMware environment. The functionality of the reporting is based on setting up a CloudPhysics Observer Server OVF template The main monitoring page displaying the Observer Cards th... Read more

Another VMware Home Lab

Late last year I set up a VMware home lab to assist with my preparation for the VCP5 certification… For this set up I borrowed some ideas from Sammy Bogaert’s excellent blog. It was a 100% virtualized within VMware Workstation 9. The system I built has the following hardware; 1 x Intel Core i7-3770 BX80637i73770 Processor Quad Core, 8MB L3 C... Read more