Apart from the K word, there was one other enduring message that I think a lot of people took home from VMworld 2019. That is, that Dev and Ops should be considered as seperate entities again. For the best part of the last five or so years the concept of DevOps, SecOps and other X-Ops […] Read More
VMworld 2019 Review – Project Pacific is a Stroke of Kubernetes Genius… but not without a catch!
Kubernetes Kubernetes, Kubernetes… say Kubernetes one more time… I dare you! If it wasn’t clear what the key take away from VMworld 2019 was last week in San Francisco then I’ll repeat it one more time… Kubernetes! It was something which I predicted prior to the event in my session breakdown. And all jokes aside, […] Read More
VMworld 2019 – Top Session Picks
VMworld 2019 is happening tomorrow (It is already Saturday here) and as I am just about to embark on the 20+ hour journey from PER to SFO I thought it was better late than never to share my top session picks. Now with sessions available online it doesn’t really matter that the actual sessions are […] Read More
Veeam @VMworld 2019 Edition…
VMworld 2019 is now only a couple of days away, and I can’t wait to return to San Francisco for what will be my seventh VMworld and third one with Veeam. It has again been an interesting year since the last VMworld and the industry has shifted a little when it comes to the backup […] Read More
VMworld 2019 – Session Breakdown and Analysis
Everything to do with VMworld this year feels like it’s arrived at lightning speed. I actually thought the event was two weeks away as the start of the week… but here we are… only five days away from kicking off in San Francisco. The content catalog for the US event has been live for a […] Read More
Orchestration of NSX by Terraform for Cloud Connect Replication with vCloud Director
That is probably the longest title i’ve ever had on this blog, however I wanted to highlight everything that is contained in this solution. Everything above works together to get the job done. The job in this case, is to configure an NSX Edge automatically using the vCloud Director Terraform provider to allow network connectivity […] Read More
Quick Post – vCloud Director 9.5.0.3 Released as Critical Update
Late last week, on the same day as vCloud Director 9.7 was released to GA, an update was also released for vCloud Director 9.5.x which has been marked are critical. Specifically it relates to a vulnerability in previous vCloud Director 9.5.x with identifier CVE-2019-5523. Ironically this threat targets the new Tenant and Provider Portals. VMware […] Read More
Quick Post – vCloud Director 9.5.0.2 Released
While we wait for the upcoming release of vCloud Director 9.7 next month (after the covers where torn off the next release in a blog post last week by the vCloud Team), VMware have released a new build (9.5.0.2 Build 12810511) of vCloud Director 9.5 that contains a number of resolved issues and is a […] Read More
First Look – Runecast Adding Support for VMware HCL
Two years ago at the 2017 Sydney and Melbourne UserCons, I spent time with a couple of the founders of Runecast, Stanimir Markov and Ched Smokovic and got to know a little more about their real time analytics platform for VMware based infrastructure. Fast forward to today and Runecast have continued to build on the their initial […] Read More
VMUG UserCon – Sydney and Melbourne Events!
A few years ago 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, over the past couple of years I still feel like that statement holds court even though there are much bigger UserCons around the world. In […] Read More