Today vSphere 6.0 was officially announced and will be GA in about 6-8 weeks…I’ve had limited time myself to tinker with the BETA in great depth, however I have been keeping a close eye on some of the key features being released in the v6.0 edition. I’ve gone through and pulled out the top new features/enhancements […] Read More
Platform9 Introduction
I came across Platform9 while wandering the back halls of the VMWorld Solutions Exchange last year in San Francisco…as a fan of the movie District 9 I was drawn to the name without really knowing anything about the tech being shown. After a brief chat with the booth staff going over product I thought to […] Read More
2015
Time flies when you are having fun! 2014 from a work point of view was challenging at times…but overall I felt a lot was achieved. In my last couple of new year posts I’ve talked about work/life balance and looking back at 2014 I can say that overall balance was maintained…I’m pretty lucky to work […] Read More
vForumAU Week in Review
Another vForumAU has come and gone and upon reflection it was possibly the best event I’ve attended since my first one back in 2011. This year the venue for vForumAU was Luna Park Sydney…partly due to the redevelopment of the Sydney Exhibition Center but chosen ultimately as the venue to Celebrate the 10th Australian vForum […] Read More
ESXi 5.5 Update 2: vMotion Fails at 14% with Stale Admission Control and VM Reservations
We are currently in the process of upgrading all of our vCenter Clusters from ESXi 5.1 to 5.5 Update 2 and have come across a bug whereby the vMotion of VMs from the 5.1 hosts to the 5.5 hosts fails at 14% with the following error: [UPDATE 6/10] – Observed Conditions: vCenter 5.5 U1/2 (U2 […] Read More
EVO:RAIL – Who are VMware Really Targeting?
Probably the biggest announcement from last week’s VMworld was the unveiling of the Project Marvin/Mystic as EVO:RAIL. Most of the focus on VMware releasing their own OEM distributed hyperconverged solution was to compete head to head with established hyper converged players like Nutanix…however after reading through Duncan Eppings blog post and seeing the UI Demo […] Read More
VMworld 2014: #vBrownBag Tech Talk’s
Like a few others out there I was unsuccessful in my session submission for VMworld 2014…With vCloud Director not being flavour of the month at the moment (I counted only 3 sessions on vCD related content) my chances where slim! However I have managed to secure a speaking slot with the #vBrownBag Tech Talk’s which is an […] Read More
NSX Bytes – Unicast Transport Zone Creation Error
One of VMware NSX’s best features is the ability to have the VXLAN Control Plane working in Unicast Mode…removing the requirement for Multicast traffic on the underlying Physical network. This is a significant step forward in that Multicast often created issues for traditional network teams and getting it retrofitted to an existing platform was often […] Read More
Follow Up: The NSX Roadblock
About 7 weeks ago I wrote a post detailing my frustration at the way in which VMware’s NSX was being trickled out into the market place and the hefty caveats that where involved in getting ones hands on NSX…even for dev and test purposes…The basis of my arguement was that while I understood the general stratagy […] Read More
VMWorld 2014: Session Voting
Voting is Open for VMWorld 2014 and I have submitted three sessions for your consideration. The first session is a VMUG User Conference Presentation I Co-Presented at the Sydney and Melbourne Events in February and I’ve decided to take it solo to VMWorld…the other two are joint sessions I will present with CloudPhysics as talk […] Read More