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VMworld 2017: Don’t Take it for Granted!

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

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

#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

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