Who said big corporations don’t listen to their clients! VMware have come to the party in a huge way with the release of VSAN 6.2…and not only from a technical point of view. Ever since the release of VSAN the pricing structure for vCloud Air Service Provider partners has been off the mark in terms of […] Read More
NSX Bytes: Host Preparation Errors Out or Doesn’t Complete…Spins In Progress
I’ve had this situation happen a couple of times in production where NSX Host Preparation Install or Upgrade seems to hang forever without timing out and spinning the In Progress message…most recently in one of the Zettagrid Labs where we run NSX-v in #NestedESXi environments we had the exact issue and I decided (with the […] Read More
NSX Bytes: NSX-v 6.2.2 Released
Last week VMware released version 6.2.2 of NSX-v. The 6.2.2 release is mainly aimed at patching a security hole in the glibc libraries as well as removing a constraint with the DHCP Pool setup allowing .local domains in the config and improving the user experience when configuring the Distributed Firewall. Once following the standard NSX Upgrade […] Read More
Quick Post: Web Client vs VI Client Permissions with VCSA
I’ve been using the VCSA for a couple of years now since the release of vSphere 5.5 and have been happily using the upgraded 6.0 version for a couple of my environments As with most people I found the adjustment going from the VI Client to the new Web Client to be a little rough and I […] Read More
ESXi Bugs – VMware Can’t Keep Letting This Happen!
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
Melbourne VMUG UserCon – Best Virtualisation Event Outside of VMworld!
“Best Virtualisation Event Outside of VMworld!” …now there is a big statement if ever there was one! Without insulting every other VMUG UserCon around the world, what I didn’t add to the blog title was “…in the southern hemisphere”. This will be my third Mebourne VMUG UserCon and without disrespecting Sydney’s VMUG UserCon happening a couple […] 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
VSAN 6.2 – Things Just Got Interesting!
There is a saying in our industry that Microsoft always get their products right on the third attempt…and while this has been less and less the case of late (Hyper-V 2012 didn’t exactly deliver) it is more or less an accurate statement. Having been part of the beta and early access blogger sessions for VSAN […] Read More
Learning VMware NSX: Special Discount Offer
Continuing on from post earlier on the week on the release of the new Learning VMware NSX Book by Ranjit Singh and reviewed by myself @jfrappier…the guys at Packt Publishing are offering readers of this post a 50% discount on the book. So if you are looking to grab a copy, you have until the 4th of March […] Read More
Rubrik Hands On: Initial Setup and Configuration
Why Veeam’s software-driven, hardware agnostic approach makes sense for backups Late last year I attended a bloggers briefing for the launch of Rubrik Converged Data Management where the secondary storage startup announced version 2.0 of their hardware plus software backup platform. This week Rubrik will be presenting at Tech Field Day 10 and have […] Read More