A few weeks ago I wrote an article on how Veeam Powered Network can make accessing your homelab easy with it’s straight forward approach to creating and connection site-to-site and point-to-site VPN connections. Since then I’ve done a couple of webinars on Veeam PN and I was asked a number of times if Veeam PN can be […] Read More
VMworld 2017 – Session Breakdown and Analysis
Everything to do with VMworld this year feels like it’s earlier than in previous years. The call for papers opened in Feburary with session voting happening around the end of March. A couple of weeks ago presenters where notified if their session was accepted…or if it was rejected and the content catalog for the US […] Read More
Top vBlog 2017 – Last week to Vote!
While I had resisted the temptation to put out a blog on this years Top vBlog voting I thought with the voting coming to an end it was worth giving it a shout just in case there are some of you who hadn’t had the chance to vote or didn’t know about the Top vBlog […] Read More
VMware vSphere 6.5 Host Resources Deep Dive – A Must Have!
Just after I joined Zettagrid in June of 2013 I decided to load up vSphere 5.1 Clustering Deepdive by Duncan Epping and Frank Denneman on my iPad to read on my train journey to and from work. Reading that book allowed me to gain a deeper understanding of vSphere through the in depth content that Duncan and […] Read More
CPU Overallocation and Poor Network Performance in vCD – Beware of Resource Pools
For the longest time all VMware administrators have been told that resource pools are not folders and that they should only be used under circumstances where the impact of applying the resource settings is fully understood. From my point of view I’ve been able to utilize resource pools for VM management without too much hassle since […] Read More
VMworld 2017 – #vGolf Las Vegas
[Please head to this page for updated information] #vGolf is back! Bigger and better than the inaugural #vGolf held last year at VMworld 2016! Last year we had 24 participants and everyone who attended had a blast at the majestic Bali Hai Golf complex which is in view of the VMworld 2017 venue, Mandalay Bay. […] Read More
Important ESXi 6.0 Patch – Upgrade Now!
Last week VMware released a new patch (ESXi 6.0 Build 5572656) that addresses a number of serious bugs with Snapshot operations. Usually I wouldn’t blog about a patch release, but when I looked through the rest of the fixes in the VMwareKB it was apparent to me that this was more than your average VMware […] Read More
Attack from the Inside – Protecting Against Rogue Admins
In July of 2011, Distribute.IT, a domain registration and web hosting services provider in Australia was was hit with a targeted, malicious attack that resulted in the company going under and their customers left without their hosting or VPS data. The attack was calculated, targeted and vicious in it’s execution… I remember the incident well […] Read More