VMware is at an interesting place at this point in time…there is still no doubting that ESXi and vCenter are the market leaders in terms of Hypervisor Platform and that the vCloud Suite offers a strong portfolio of management, automation and monitoring tools. However VMware has become the hunted and is suffering what most massivly successful tech companies go […] Read More
Another vExpert Post – Listen Up! It’s about the Advocacy
Last Friday Cory Romero announced the first intake of the 2016 VMware vExperts. As a five time returning vExpert it would be easy for me to sit back enjoy a perceived sense of entitlement that comes with being a vExpert…but times have changed. The award has changed and the way people feel about the program […] Read More
Veeam 9 Released: Top New Features
This week Veeam released to GA version 9 of their Backup & Recovery product. It’s a significant release for Veeam for a number of reasons and after having attended their VeeamOn event Las Vegas late last year I believe this v9 release is their best to date and is representative of a company that’s listened […] Read More
Top Posts 2015
2015 is pretty much done and dusted and it’s been an great year in for Virtualization is Life! There was a 300% increase in site visits this year compared to 2014 and 1600% increase in visits since the first year I began blogging in 2012. In 2015 I managed to pump out 110 Posts (including this […] Read More
AWS…Complex Simplicity?
I came across a tweet over the weekend which showed a screen grab of the AWS product catalog (shown below) and a comment pointing out the fact that the sheer number of AWS services on offer by Amazon was part of the reason why they are doing so well. The implication was that AWSs dominance was in part due […] Read More
NSX Edge vs vShield Edge: Part 6 – Syslog Configuration
Overview: Being able to view log information is critical in being able to ensure the Edge Gateway is functioning as expected. All services that the Edge provides can be logged. The NSX Edge relies on configuration and management from either the vSphere Web Client or directly via API calls which can then be consumed via a […] Read More
vCloud Air and Virtustream – Ok…So This Might Not Happen!
Last week I wrote a piece on the talk around vCloud Air’s demise or more to the point…the often suggested demise of VMware’s Public Cloud Platform. The basis for this talk was VMware’s partnership with Google and the joint venture with Virtustream happening as part of the DELL/EMC Merger. For those that missed that post have a read […] Read More
vCloud Air and Virtustream – Just kill vCloud Air Already?!?
I’ve been wanting to write some commentary around the vCloud Air and Virtustream merger since rumours of it took place just before VMworld in Auguest and I’ve certainly been more interested in the whole state of play since news of the EMC/VMware Cloud Services spin off was announced in late October…the basis of this new […] Read More
The Power of Network Automation: How a Huge Low Turned into a Great High!
A few weeks back at Zettagrid we released our NSX Advanced Networking product that we have been working on for the best part of 12 months. I’m particularly proud of this release as it represents a significant realisation of a vision myself and others have had in trying to integrate NSX into the Zettagrid IaaS platform. Furthermore the […] Read More
VSAN + DELL PERC: Important Driver and Firmware Updates
I’m currently going through and documenting the build process for our VSAN Management Clusters and one of the first steps I noted down was to double check that the I/O Controllers where compatible as per the VSAN HCL. As I am using the DELL FX2s I checked to ensure that there where no issues with the FD332-PERC […] Read More