About four years ago I was invited to join a program called the VMware vChampions…this program is run and operated by the VMware ANZ Channel and Marketing teams and is an invite only advocacy group who’s members are made up exclusively from VMware’s top partners and service providers in the ANZ region. The numbers have varied over […] Read More
vForumAU 2016: #VMDownUnderground
vForumAU is just over a week away and for those that are in Sydney for the event and are around a day earlier should cancel any existing plans and attend VMDownUnderground that is happening at the King Street Brewhouse from 6pm. The little brother of the VMworld US event is running for a sixth year and it’s […] Read More
Worth a Repost: Debunking Three Common Myths Around vCloud Director #LongLivevCD
It seems that all with all the announcements of late around VMware’s (re)shifting Hybrid Cloud strategy with Cross Cloud Foundation and VMware’s partnership with AWS people where again asking what is happening with vCloud Director. While vCD is still not available for VMware’s enterprise customers, the vCloud Director platform has officially never been in a stronger position. […] Read More
A New Direction …A New Company …A New Role
Three and a half years ago I was given a brilliant opportunity to join what was at the time Australia’s leading vCloud Powered Service Provider…Zettagrid. At that time I talked about needing direction in my career and the opportunity to join Zettagrid was undeniably one of the best decisions I have made in my life. […] 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: vCloud Director Can’t Deploy NSX Edges
Over the weekend I was tasked with the recovery of a #NestedESXi lab that had vCloud Director and NSX-v components as part of the lab platform. Rather than being a straight forward restore from the Veeam backup I also needed to downgrade the NSX-v version from 6.2.4 to 6.1.4 for testing purposes. That process was […] Read More
Cross Cloud: Why The VM Shouldn’t Be The Base Unit of Measurement
I’ve been sitting on this topic since the VMworld 2016 US Keynote where VMware announced the Cross Cloud Architecture. I posted some raw thoughts the day after keynote and have been reflecting on how the Cross Cloud Platform could impact on VMware’s vCAN business. As mentioned previously I believe it’s representative of how VMware is […] Read More
CBT Bugs – VMware Can’t Keep Letting This Happen!
[UPDATE] – VMware have released an official KB for the CBT issue. Sadly if you recognize the title of this post it’s because this isn’t the first time I’ve felt compelled to write about the continued industry frustration with some repeat ESXi bugs. In February I wrote in general around the recent history of bugs […] Read More
VSAN 6.2 ESXi Patch Updates + DELL PERC Firmware Updates
I wanted to cover off a couple of important updates in this post relating to the DELL PERC storage controller Firmware and software drivers as well as an important new release of ESXi 6.0 that addresses a couple of issues with VSAN and also fixes to more VMXNET3 problems which seem to keep popping up. […] Read More
ESXi Bugs – VMware Can’t Keep Letting This Happen!
VMware is at an interesting place at this point in time…there is still no doubting that ESXi and vCenter are the market leaders in terms of Hypervisor Platform and that the vCloud Suite offers a strong portfolio of management, automation and monitoring tools. However VMware has become the hunted and is suffering what most massivly successful tech companies go […] Read More