When to choose a managed private cloud
A private cloud can help organise multiple virtual machines on a planned cluster, with shared operational controls and capacity management. It is most useful when the environment needs to b…
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Allowing capacity for host maintenance and failures
Cluster capacity should include room for a host to be unavailable. If every host is fully allocated, a maintenance event or failure may leave too little capacity for the remaining workload.…
Understanding usable capacity in a vSAN cluster
Raw drive capacity is not the same as space available to virtual machines in a distributed storage cluster. Protection policies, layout, metadata, operational reserves and rebuild requireme…
Separating management, application and backup networks
Network design should make it clear which systems may communicate and who may administer them. Separating management, application and backup traffic can make access policies easier to maint…
Requesting virtual-machine changes safely
A request to change a virtual machine should identify both the new resource requirement and the effect on the application. Some changes can be made online in certain environments, while oth…
