UPDATE: Looks like we will be seeing some VSPP Pricing for VSAN in Q2 vCenter and ESXi 5.5 Update 1 has reached GA, and we now have v1.0 of VSAN officially ready for production use. Technically it’s a winner, and from an industry maturity standpoint…it clearly sets a new direction in how storage is consumed […] Read More
Quick CloudPhysics Card: Windows Server 2012 and E1000 NICs
Over the past couple of months we have seen a number of support requests coming into our HelpDesk around network connection dropouts in Windows Server 2012 Guest systems. Common factor in all these requests where E1000 NICS. https://communities.vmware.com/thread/433792 There are known issues with the E1000 NIC and Windows 2012 on ESXi 5.1 and above and […] Read More
2014
Seems that all bloggers I follow these days post a review on the year that’s been…in a short summation, my 2013 was extremely satisfying. Reading through my January 1st 2013 Post from last year, I managed to achieve my ultimate goal of greater work/life balance. This was done ultimately with a change in company and […] Read More
Upgrading vShield Manager 5.0.x – A Leap of Faith Upgrade
Having recently just completed the upgrading our vCloud Platform from 1.5 to 5.1 I thought it best to share my experiences around the upgrading of the vShield Manager Component of the vCloud Suite. There are plenty or reference articles out there on the on the general flakiness of the vShield Product and it certainly appears […] Read More
Nested ESXi – Reduced Network Throughput with Promiscuous Mode PortGroups
We have been conducting performance and stress testing of a new NFS connected storage platform over the past month or so and through that testing we have seen some interesting behaviours in terms of what effects overall performance relative to total network throughput vs Latency vs IOPS. Using a couple of stress test scripts, we […] Read More
vForum 2013: Session Details
vForum returns to the Sydney Convention and Exhibition Center next week and I’ll be attending for the 3rd year in a row, but this time around I’ll be there with ZettaGrid as a Platinum Sponsor, and also as a VMware vChampion. The vChampion Program is run in APJ and brings together a group of dedicated […] Read More
Course Review: VMware vSphere Optimize and Scale 5.1
While it’s fresh in my head, I thought I might get a short post up reviewing the Optimize and Scale Course I just completed this week. Overall I was impressed with the course content and in summary it has plugged a few knowledge gaps and reinforced key technology fundamentals. Course Description: This training course, for […] Read More
VMware Series 2013 – EUC and vDC Ready and Waiting
Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been fortunate to represent ZettaGrid, as a Platinum Sponsor of the VMware Series 2013 road shows in Melbourne and Sydney. The event has also been held in Brisbane and Canberra, and finishes up in Perth this week. The road shows main theme is showing off VMware’s End User […] Read More
#DIRECTION
For those that had been keeping up with my Twitter feed over the past couple of months, you may have picked up on the hashtag #direction being used a couple of times. This # was used to sum up an overall feeling of frustration about where I was in many aspects of life, but specifically […] Read More
How-To: VMware Horizon Workspace 1.0 vApp Install – Part 1
I’ve been waiting to deploy Project Octopus for the best part of 18 months… I’m still actively running the Octopus Beta and for my personal use/internal testing and it’s lived up to expectation for the most. There have been a number of bugs identified and general limitations with the Beta release builds, but all in all it does the […] Read More