This time next week VMworld 2017 will be kicking off with the Sunday evening Welcome Reception among other sponsor and community events and for me, it will mark my fifth VMworld since 2012 having only missed the 2013 event. It’s become an annual pilgrimage to the west coast of the US so much so that […] Read More
ESXi 6.5 Storage Performance Issues and Fix
[NOTE] : I decided to republish this post with a new heading and skip right to the meat of the issue as I’ve had a lot of people reach out saying that the post helped them with their performance issues on ESXi 6.5. Hopefully people can find the content easier and have a fix in place […] Read More
Veeam Vault #5: $200 Million Give Away, VCSP Roadshow Plus Vanguard Blog Updates
Welcome to the fifth edition of the Veeam Vault and the second of 2017. It’s been a busy four or so weeks for me since the last update preparing for a number of event’s and webinar’s happening over the next month all focusing on Veeam’s Cloud Business. In this Veeam Vault I am going to talk about an […] Read More
NSX Bytes: NSX-T 2.0 Released
A couple of months ago in my NSX-v 6.3 and NSX-T 1.1 release post I focused around NSX-v features as that has become the mainstream version that most people know and work with…however NSX, in it’s Nicira roots has always been about multi-hypervisor and has always had an MH version that worked with Openstack deployments. The NSBU has […] Read More
NSX Bytes: NSX-v 6.3 Host Preparation Fails with Agent VIB module not installed
NSX-v 6.3 was released last week with an impressive list of new enhancements and I wasted no time in looking to upgrades my NestedESXi lab instance from 6.2.5 to 6.3 however I ran into an issue that at first I thought was related to a previous VIB upgrade issue caused by VMware Update Manager not being available […] Read More
NSX Bytes: NSX for vSphere 6.3 and NSX-T 1.1 Release Information
VMware’s NSX has been in the wild for almost three years and while the initial adoption was slow, of recent times there has been a calculated push to make NSX more mainstream. The change in licensing that happened last year has not only been done to help drive adoption by traditional VMware customers running vSphere that […] Read More
HomeLab – SuperMicro 5028D-TNT4 Unboxing and First Thoughts
While I was at Zettagrid I was lucky enough to have access to a couple of lab environments that where sourced from retired production components and I was able to build up a lab that could satisfy the requirements of R&D, Operations and the Development team. By the time I left Zettagrid we had a lab that most […] Read More
HomeLab – SuperMicro 5028D-TNT4 Storage Driver Performance Issues and Fix
Ok, i’ll admit it…i’ve had serious lab withdrawals since having to give up the awesome Zettagrid Labs. Having a lab to tinker with goes hand in hand with being able to generate tech related content…point and case, my new homelab got delivered on Monday and I have been working to get things setup so that I […] Read More
#300
Virtualization is Life! has hit post #300 and I thought I’d take this opportunity to list through some numbers and top posts since I launched this blog as Hosting is Life! back in April of 2012. Before going through the listing below I’d like to thank the extended VMware Virtualization Community for allowing me to […] Read More
NSX Bytes: Updated – NSX Edge Feature and Performance Matrix
A question came up today around throughput numbers for an NSX Edge Services Gateway and that jogged my memory back to a previous blog post where I compared features and performance metrics between vShield Edges and NSX Edges. In the original post I had left out some key metrics, specifically around firewall and load balance throughput […] Read More