I’m currently sitting in my hotel room in sunny sunny San Jose. Today and tomorrow will be spent finishing off preparations for Tech Field Day 20. This will be my second Tech Field Day event following up from Cloud Field Day 5 in April. #TFD20 is the 10th year anniversary of Tech Field day and […] Read More
Quick Fix: Deploying Multiple Ubuntu 18.04 VMs From Template with DHCP Results Same in IP Allocation
In the continuing work I’ve been doing with Terraform, i’ve come across a number of gotchyas when working with VM Templates and deploying them on mass. The nature of the work is that i’m creating and destroying VMs often. Generally speaking I like using Static IP addresses but for the project i’m working on I […] Read More
There is still a Sting in the Tail for Cloud Service Providers
This week it gave me great pleasure to see my former employer, Zettagrid announced a significant expansion in their operations, with the addition of three new hosting zones to go along with their existing four zones in Australia and Indonesia. They also announced the opening of operations in the US. Apart from the fact I […] Read More
Veeam Vault #11 – VBR, Veeam ONE, VAC Releases plus Important Update for Service Providers
Welcome to the 11th edition of Veeam Vault and the first one for 2019! It’s been more than a year since the last edition, however in light of some important updates that have been released over the past couple of weeks and months, I thought it was time to open up the Vault again! Getting […] Read More
Quick Fix – OS Not Found Deploying Windows Template with Terraform
During the first plan execution of a new VM based on a Windows Server Core VM Template, my Terraform plan timed out on Guest Customizations. The same plan had worked without issue previously with an existing Windows Template, so I was a little confused as to what had gone wrong. When I checked the console […] Read More
VMworld 2019 – Still Time To Go for FREE*!
VMworld is rapidly approaching, and for those that have not secured their place at the event in San Francisco, and for whatever reason have been hindered in terms of purchasing an event ticket… there is still time and there is still a way! We (Veeam) have been running a competition that gives away three FULL […] Read More
I went on Holiday (Vacation) and Managed to Switch Off!!
The jet lag has almost passed… I’ve nearly caught up with the backlog of messages on my various social platforms… expenses are almost done… and i’m about to hit Outlook and clear my email inbox. Yes, I’ve just come back from nearly 4.5 weeks away on holiday (vacation) and barring a few conversations on Teams […] Read More
Kubernetes Everywhere…Time to Take off the Blinkers!
This is more or less a follow up post to the one I wrote back in 2015 about the state of containers in the IT World as I saw it at the time. I started off that post talking about the freight train that was containerization along with a cheeky meme… fast forward four years […] Read More
First Look: On Demand Recovery with Cloud Tier and VMware Cloud on AWS
Since Veeam Cloud Tier was released as part of Backup & Replication 9.5 Update 4, i’ve written a lot about how it works and what it offers in terms of offloading data from more expensive local storage to what is fundamentally cheaper remote Object Storage. As with most innovative technologies, if you dig a little […] Read More
Quick Fix: Unable to Login to WordPress Site
I’ve just had a mild scare in that I was unable to log into this WordPress site even after trying a number of different ways to gain access by resetting the password via the methods listed on a number of WordPress help sites. The standard reset my password via email option was also not working. […] Read More