In 2008 I vividly remember the impact that leap year/day/seconds can have on systems that are not prepared to handle the changes in time or date. It was the 29th of February and at the time I was working for a Service Provider offering Hosted Exchange services based on Exchange 2007. All off a sudden […] Read More
Announced: Veeam 9 Cloud Connect Replication For Service Providers
Last week Veeam announced that version 9 of Backup & Replication will feature a new addition to it’s Cloud Connect product…Replication for Service Providers. The version 8 functionality will be extended to include advanced image-based VM replication. The extended functionality will give service providers the ability to provide clients with RaaS (recovery-as-a-service) in the form of Veeam […] Read More
NSX Edge vs vShield Edge: Part 2 – High Availability
Overview: High Availability in both VSE and NSX Edges ensures Edge Network Services are always available by deploying a pair of Edge Appliances that work together in an active/passive HA cluster Pair. The primary appliance is in the active state and the secondary appliance is in the standby state. The configuration of the primary appliance is replicated […] Read More
NSX Edge vs vShield Edge: Part 1 – Feature and Performance Matrix
I was having a discussion internally about why we where looking to productize the NSX Edges for our vCloud Director Virtual Datacenter offering over the existing vCNS vShield Edges. A quick search online didn’t come up with anything concrete so I’ve decided to list out the differences as concisely as possible. This post will go through […] Read More
Containers Everywhere…Are we really ready?
Depending on what you read, certain areas of the IT Industry are telling us that there is a freight train coming our way…and that train is bringing with it containers. With the recent release of container platforms from Microsoft and VMware it seems as though those that control the vast majority of the x86 platforms around the world […] Read More
VMworld 2015: Registration and Session ‘Liking’ Open
There are only 101 Days to go till VMworld 2015 with Registrations now Open and Session voting for this years event going live last week. Skimming through the 1400+ sessions listed on VMworld Site this years event promises to be filled with quality content and great discussion. The voting process isn’t really voting as such because there […] Read More
Installing and Configuring Cassandra and KairosDB on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
Earlier this year I put together a post on installing and configuring a Cassandra Cluster in order to meet the requirements for vCloud SP 5.6.x Metric Reporting. In that post I went through the deployment of a Cassandra Cluster and promised a follow up on installing KairosDB. In my labs we are currently working with […] Read More
Updated Feature Review: Veeam 8 – Update 2
When Veeam 8 went GA in November of last year I put together a post where I reviewed the best New Features of the v8 release. Last week Veeam released Patch 2 for version 8 and in going through the release notes it’s much more than a patch and in truth, probably could have been a point release. […] Read More
VCAP Exam Retirement – Not Well Received…
VMware Education dropped somewhat of a bombshell today when they announced the almost immediate retirement of the VCAP CIA/CID/DTA/DTD http://blogs.vmware.com/education/2015/03/exam-retirement-announcement.html Effective March 2, 2015 the following certification exams will be retired and no new registrations accepted: VCID510 – VMware Certified Advanced Professional 5 – Cloud Infrastructure Design VCIA510 – VMware Certified Advanced Professional 5 – Cloud […] Read More
Top Blog 2015 Voting
The Top vBlog Voting for 2015 at vSphere-land.com which is headed up and run by Eric Sebert (@ericsebert) is now open. http://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/2032977/TopvBlog2015 There are so many excellent Blogs out there and it’s a credit to the community that so much content is being created. It’s a hard gig to get a vote with almost 400+ sites listed, but […] Read More