Pete Koehler

Pete Koehler is a Sr. Technical Marketing Manager at VMware in the Storage and Availability Business Unit. Much of Pete's experience in infrastructure design and optimization came from hands-on experience as a Virtualization Architect for a software company, and later as a field engineer for a VMware reseller, as well as a VMware partner. Pete has also spent many years engaged with the user community as a leader of the Seattle VMUG. You can find Pete's insights to challenges in the data center at http://vmpete.com, and can find him on twitter at @vmpete.

Recent Posts

Health Checks – Delivering a more Intelligent vSAN and vSphere

posted

Guidance in most forms is a nice option to have. Consider a scenario that is commonplace with people and today’s technology, where one may be almost certain of the driving directions to a destination. Even the most capable individuals will still enter the address into their phone for turn-by-turn guidance. Why? Compared to old methods Read more...
vR Ops 7.0

Better Visibility with New vSAN Metrics in vR Ops 7.0

posted

Infrastructure analytics helps to provide meaning and insight in the effort to make smarter decisions in the data center. Yet it can only do so if the right data is measured, from the right location, and in the right way. Infrastructure analytics has historically been difficult in part to these three data collection variables being Read more...

Awareness of vSAN Stretched Clusters in vR Ops 7.0

posted

With each new release of vSAN, it is easy to focus solely on the flagship features and functionality introduced. Enhancements like data-at-rest encryption, or adaptive resynchronization tend to get the most fanfare because they focus on addressing a very specific challenge. Beneath the headlining features lay enhancements that may benefit users more than first impressions Read more...

Delphix on vSAN – Optimizing Workflows on an Optimized Architecture

posted

Improving the performance of an infrastructure and the applications that live on it is a common battle for data center administrators. Line-of-business applications depend heavily on the performance of the infrastructure in ways that have a ripple effect throughout an organization. But the effort to improve the performance often overlooks areas that are subject to Read more...
Data Placement Optimization

Data Placement Optimizations in vSAN 6.7

posted

A primary responsibility of storage is to make data requested readily available for access. While this may seem obvious, storage systems go to great lengths to accomplish this clear, but challenging objective. Hyper-converged infrastructures factor in additional considerations for data placement and resilience, as the storage is distributed across hosts. Considerations include, but not limited Read more...
Performance Service

Changes in the Performance Service for vSAN 6.7

posted

The new Clarity based HTML5 user interface (UI) that VMware has adopted across its product portfolio has been a big win for new and existing customers. Since the debut of the new vCenter client in vSphere and vSAN 6.7, it has been quite common to hear from users who have made the transition on how Read more...

MySQL on VMware vSAN 6.7 All-Flash

posted

One measurement of success for an infrastructure design is if the platform used can meet the demands of various applications and workloads that help drive a business. Performance, scalability, resilience, and operational agility are all top of mind considerations for infrastructure architects. Application owners, and consumers of those applications share some of the same considerations, Read more...
vSAN 6.7, and vRealize Operations within vCenter

vSAN 6.7, and vRealize Operations within vCenter

posted

With the introduction of the new HTLM5 user interface for vCenter and vSAN in vSphere 6.7, VMware has taken a major step forward in improving the operations of an infrastructure to be a more intuitive and productive experience. The HTML 5 interface, built off the Clarity framework, allows VMware to not only take a fresh Read more...

Powering a Management Cluster with vSAN

posted

It is fair to say that VMware vSphere’s clustering technology introduced the concept, and the common practice of the management cluster. Now a staple of data centers large and small, most administrators have experience with running some form of a management cluster. While management clusters come in all shapes and sizes, the intention is largely Read more...