vCloud Air Network Service Providers take note…rumours of vCloud’s death where greatly exaggerated. Enterprise users…I still feel you are missing out on one of the best Cloud Management Platforms going around…however! The Beta program for vCD 8.0 (seems we have skipped 6 and 7) will go live from June 1st. As you can see below there […] Read More
NSX vCloud Retrofit: NSX Manager Configuration and vCD VSE Deployment Validation
This blog series extends my NSX Bytes Blog Posts to include a more detailed look at how to deploy NSX 6.1.x into an existing vCloud Director Environment. Initially we will be working with vCD 5.5.x which is the non SP Fork of vCD, but as soon as an upgrade path for 5.5.2 -> 5.6.x is […] Read More
vCloud Director: vCD SP 5.6.3 Release …with a catch!
“With regards to the upgrade path for SPs looking to deploy vCD SP there will be a build released approx. Q1 15 that will allow upgrades from 5.5.2” On the 8th of October, VMware released the first vCloud Director build that was forked for the Service Provider Community. vCD for SP 5.6.3 (Build 2116763) represents […] Read More
v12 RTM Is Out…With Enhanced DRaaS, Direct to Object Storage and more!
Today, Veeam made available to our VCSP partners the RTM of Veeam Backup & Replication 12 (Build 12.0.0.1402). It actually feels like it’s been a while between major releases for us since v11 was released to manufacturing. In fact it’s been just under two years since that last RTM date, but in that time there […] Read More
VMware Explore 2022 – Session Breakdown and Analysis
Ok, here we are… it’s been three years since VMworld 2019 and we are back next week in San Francisco at the Mascone Centre. But we are not attending VMworld… we are now entering the multi-verse era of VMware Explore! This is going to be a really interesting test of the new post pandemic waters […] Read More
What’s New and Thoughts – oVirt 4.5.1 for KVM and RHV
Last year, I got myself a little more involved in the world of Red Hat and general Linux Kernel based Virtualization. It had been a space that I had basically ignored during the last decade working with VMware based virtualization almost exclusively. As I wrote in this post last year, KVM virtualization was something I […] Read More
v12 Preview – DRaaS For the Masses Featuring CDP
Disaster Recovery with Veeam Cloud Connect Replication (VCCR) has been a passion of mine since I first saw it demoed at VeeamON 2015 by Luca Dell’Oca back when I was still at ZettaGrid. Seven years later, it’s hard to believe that I was on that same general session stage at the Aria Resort (slightly different […] Read More
Veeam @VMworld 2021 Virtual Edition..still!
VMworld 2021 is today! This year, once again we will all be experiencing the conference remotely and a little more delayed than is usual for VMworld (US). With this being set in stone as a virtual event a long time ago VMware has adjusted to the challenges of running events during COVID times by bringing […] Read More
VMworld 2021 – Session Breakdown and Analysis
VMworld 2021 is different again this year a month later than usual, we are now only five days away from kicking off Virtually. The content catalog for the Virtual event has been live for a while now and once again, the big difference compared with in an in person VMworld is that the mad scramble […] Read More
Install and Configure oVIRT for KVM Homelab – Part 1
At VeeamON, we announced that Veeam would soon release Backup for RHV. In a subsequent post, I wrote down some of the observations I had seen over the past few months talking to customers and partners who have chosen to go down the KVM/Red Hat Virtualisation path also outlining some of the improvements with the […] Read More