There where some pretty big announcements and reveals at VMworld 2012, but unless I missed something (which was totally possible had any accouncement been made on Wednesday morning) nothing significant/direct was said of Project Zephyr VMware’s public cloud offering. What is slightly confusing is that VMware have been very open in the beta for the […] Read More
First Look: Apache DeltaCloud
As I was browsing my Twitter feed last night I can across a tweet that talked about the 1.0 Release of Apache DeltaCloud. As described on the website: Deltacloud provides the API server and drivers necessary for connecting to cloud providers. Deltacloud maintains long-term stability for scripts, tools and applications and backward compatibility across different […] Read More
Quick Thought: VMware’s first “Microsoft” move with SocialCast
VMware announced overnight that their aquired Private Social Media Platform SocialCast is to have full features enabled for 50 users. http://www.vmware.com/company/news/releases/vmw-socialcast-free-06-06-12.html I have been using SocialCast for about 6 months privately and I’ve been involved in a couple VMware run Private Beta programs using SocialCast as the social platform…it’s excellent, intuitive and easy to use. I have seen the potential in the product […] Read More
vCloud Director and Citrix NetScaler How-To
Ive come across a couple of how-to’s on configuring vCloud Cells in a highly available Load Balanced environment. There is a good overview here by @hany_michael with the always excellent @ccolotti referenced throughout. Ive come across specific posts such as this one from @DuncanYB for F5 Load Balancers…but nothing on Citrixs NetScalers. It must be said that […] Read More
vCenter Operations Manager 5 – UI Time-out Settings
A little after vCenter Operations Manager 5.0 went GA I posted this forum thread in regards to the default time-out value of the Web UI…Thanks to ILIO and VEIgel for follow-up posts with the initial solution, which at this time wasn’t documented. This is now covered in the release notes for 5.0.1 under known issues. But […] Read More
vExpert 2012 – My Journey in Virtualization so far…
If you had asked me 2 years ago that I’d be writing as a VMware vExpert I would have thought you were crazy. At that stage my only exposure to VMware was on a co-lo server I was hosting for a mates start-up back in 2008. It was ESXi 3.5 back then and, compared to […] Read More