Tag: vcenter

Getting started with managing VMware with Red Hat CloudForms

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Jerome Marc, Technical Marketing Manager, Red Hat

The VMworld 2016 US event is approaching and Red Hat will be there to showcase our Management portfolio. This includes Red Hat CloudForms which provides unified management for container, virtual, private, and public cloud infrastructures.

With this in mind, we thought it would be a good time to recap how easy it is to deploy Red Hat CloudForms in a VMware virtualized environment. Deploying CloudForms for VMware is very straightforward and consists of three steps to get to an implemented solution that gives full visibility of your VMware infrastructure.

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Workload Placement by Type (Not Near That)

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John Hardy, Senior Principal Product Manager, Red Hat

Use Case – I want that when I provision a virtual machine I can specify certain workload types that I wish to avoid being placed with.

Example 1 – I will be requesting a virtual machine that will be very intensive on CPU or Disk I/O, therefore I want to ensure that I do not place it with any Database Servers, as I may impact their operation or they could equally stave me of resources. But I don’t know where the Database servers are located nor do I care, also real time the database servers are DRS managed therefore they may not be where they were first provisioned!

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