VSAN for Service Providers

Since VMworld in San Francisco, VMware have been on a tear backing up all the VSAN related announcements at the show by starting to push a stronger message around the improvements in the latest VSAN release. Cormac Hogan and Rawlinson Rivera have published articles while Duncan Epping has also released a number of articles around VSAN since […] Read More

First Look: PernixData Architect (Beta)

PernixData had a number of announcements at Virtualization Field Day back in June including details around their v3 release of FVP as well as the announcement of their Freedom Edition. The other announcement was around Architect which is PernixData’s play at deep storage Analytics and Intelligence. With the advantage of being plugged right into the ESXi […] Read More

First Look: Dell PowerEdge FX2 Converged Platform

For the last six months or so I’ve been on the look out for server and storage hardware to satisfy the requirement for new Management Clusters across our Zettagrid vCloud Zones… After a fairly exhaustive discovery and research stage the Dell PowerEdge FX2 dropped at the right time to make the newly updated converged architecture […] Read More

NSX Bytes: Migrating NSX Edges Between Clusters….The Right Way

Had a situation pop up today where an NSX Edge needed to be moved from it’s current location to another location due to an initial VM placement issue. The VM was being moved within the bounds of the NSX Transport Zone so no issues with it being out of scope… At first the VM was […] Read More

vSphere 5.5 Update 3 Released: Features and Top Fixes

vSphere 5.5 Update 3 was released earlier today and there are a bunch of bug fixes and feature improvements in this update release for both vCenter and ESXi. For most Service Providers updating to vSphere 6.0 is still a while away so it’s good to have continued support and improvement for the 5.5 platform. I’ve […] Read More

#vBrownBag TechTalk – NSX…An Unexpected Journey

While at VMworld a couple of weeks ago I presented a short talk around my journey working with NSX-v and how it has shifted (pivoted) the direction of what I consider to be important in my day to day role. The unexpected part of the journey dragged me kicking and screaming into the world of […] Read More

Altaro VMBackup – The Maltese Connection

Those that know me know that I am a very proud Australian of Maltese decent…so when I was emailed a while back to see if I would review the beta for Altaro’s new version of their Hyper-V Backup solution I was drawn by the surnames of the Altaro founders. After a quick Google I discovered […] Read More

PernixData FVP Freedom: Setup and First Look

At the Virtualization Field Day back in June PernixData Announced they would be releasing a free version of their FVP software…FVP Freedom. Overnight Freedom was released and as I have been eager to put it to use in my Lab for a while now I’ve gone through the install steps and put together a guide/first look. […] Read More

Released: PernixData FVP 3.0 – New Console + vSphere 6.0 Support

Last week at VMworld I was lucky enough to spend some quality time with the PernixData team and got some great insights into their future products including FVP, Architect and FVP Freedom. Today PernixData has released into GA FVP 3.0 which includes some significant new features and supportability for all those who are on vSphere […] Read More

vExpert VMworld Reception and Program Thoughts

Last week at VMworld we had the annual vExpert Reception…this year the party was held at the very swanky Julia Morgan Ballroom in the Merchants Exchange building. From looking around the room I counted at least a couple hundred vExperts which is a fantastic turnout given the spread of the 1300 vExperts around the world. The agenda […] Read More

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