Well…the news isn’t great filtering out over the internets about the VMware Job Cuts and the apparent clipping of vCloud Air’s wings. While this is yet to be 100% confirmed nor are there any specifics about what it actually means for the vCloud Air Network. If what I am reading is true and no more […] Read More
Preserving VSAN + DELL PERC Critical Drivers after ESXi 6.0 CBT Update
Last week VMware released a patch to fix another issue with Change Block Tracking (CBT) which took the ESXi 6.0 Update 1 Build to 3247720. The update bundle contains a number of updates to the esx-base including the resolution of the CBT issue. This patch updates the esx-base VIB to resolve an issue that occurs […] Read More
Dell PowerEdge FX2: VSAN Disk Configuration Steps
When you get your new DELL FX2s out of the box and powered on for the first time you will notice that the disk configuration has not been setup with VSAN in mind…If you where to log into ESXi on the blades in SLOT1a and 1c you would see that each host will have each SAS […] Read More
Dell PowerEdge FX2: CMC Configuration Gotchya
Back in September I wrote an introductory post (If you haven’t read that post click here) on the DELL PowerEdge FX2 HCI hardware and why we had selected it for our VSAN Management platform. After a busy two months consisting of a VMworld, vForumAU and VeeamOn it’s finally time to put start working towards putting these babies into production. […] Read More
VSAN for Service Providers
Since VMworld in San Francisco, VMware have been on a tear backing up all the VSAN related announcements at the show by starting to push a stronger message around the improvements in the latest VSAN release. Cormac Hogan and Rawlinson Rivera have published articles while Duncan Epping has also released a number of articles around VSAN since […] Read More
First Look: Dell PowerEdge FX2 Converged Platform
For the last six months or so I’ve been on the look out for server and storage hardware to satisfy the requirement for new Management Clusters across our Zettagrid vCloud Zones… After a fairly exhaustive discovery and research stage the Dell PowerEdge FX2 dropped at the right time to make the newly updated converged architecture […] Read More
VMware VSAN: VSPP Pricing Revealed
Just after the release of VSAN a couple weeks back, I wrote this post talking about the need for VSAN to appear on the VSPP pricelist. At the time there only a little info on dates and more importantly pricing. A few days later it was confirmed that VSPP pricing would appear in Q2 of this […] Read More