Many, including myself thought that the day would never come where we would be talking about a new UI for vCloud Director…but a a month on from the 8.20 release of vCloud Director SP (which was the 8th major release of vCD) I’m happy to be writing about the new Advanced Networking features of 8.20 based on NSX-v. […] Read More
VMworld 2017 : Session Analysis and Voting Open…Already!
Well this has crept up on us quickly this year! It’s time to vote for the VMworld Sessions that will be part of the US and Europe VMworld’s held later in the year. The Session Voting is more Session liking as you have the ability to mark multiple sessions as ones that you would like […] Read More
It’s ok to steal… VMUG UserCon Key Take Aways
Last week I attended the Sydney and Melbourne VMUG UserCons and apart from sitting in on some great sessions I came away from both events with a renewed sense of community spirit and enjoyed catching up with industry peers and good friends that I don’t see often enough. While the VMUG is generally struggling a […] Read More
ESXi 6.5 Storage Performance Issues and Fix
[NOTE] : I decided to republish this post with a new heading and skip right to the meat of the issue as I’ve had a lot of people reach out saying that the post helped them with their performance issues on ESXi 6.5. Hopefully people can find the content easier and have a fix in place […] Read More
VMUG UserCon – Sydney and Melbourne Events are Huge This Year!
Last year I claimed that the Melbourne VMUG Usercon was the “Best Virtualisation Event Outside of VMworld!” …that was a big statement if ever there was one however, fast forward a year and credit goes to the VMUG steering committee’s of both Sydney and Melbourne as it seems they have bettered themselves this time around for the […] Read More
Quick Fix: vCloud Director SP None of the Cells have a vCenter Proxy Service Running. SSL Protocol Fix
vCloud Director SP 8.20 was released a few weeks ago and I wanted to highlight an issue I ran into while testing of the BETA. I hadn’t come across this issue in previous versions of vCD and even though it relates to the fact I had a vCenter 5.5 I thought it worth a post now […] Read More
Released: vCenter and ESXi 6.0 Update 3 – What’s in It for Service Providers
Last month I wrote a blog post on upgrading vCenter 5.5 to 6.0 Update 2 and during the course of writing that blog post I conducted a survey on which version of vSphere most people where seeing out in the wild…overwhelmingly vSphere 6.0 was the most popular version with 5.5 second and 6.5 lagging in adoption […] Read More
Released: vCloud Director SP 8.20 with HTML5 Goodness!
This week, VMware released vCloud Director SP version 8.20 (build 5070630) which marks the 8th Major Release for vCloud Director since 1.0 was released in 2010. Ever since 2010 the user interface give or take a few minor modifications and additions has been the same. It also required flash and java which has been a pain […] Read More
NSX Bytes: NSX-T 2.0 Released
A couple of months ago in my NSX-v 6.3 and NSX-T 1.1 release post I focused around NSX-v features as that has become the mainstream version that most people know and work with…however NSX, in it’s Nicira roots has always been about multi-hypervisor and has always had an MH version that worked with Openstack deployments. The NSBU has […] Read More
vExpert’s of 2017 – Listen Up! It’s about the Advocacy
Overnight Cory Romero announced the intake of the 2017 VMware vExperts. As a now six 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 has […] Read More