Just after I joined Zettagrid in June of 2013 I decided to load up vSphere 5.1 Clustering Deepdive by Duncan Epping and Frank Denneman on my iPad to read on my train journey to and from work. Reading that book allowed me to gain a deeper understanding of vSphere through the in depth content that Duncan and […] Read More
CPU Overallocation and Poor Network Performance in vCD – Beware of Resource Pools
For the longest time all VMware administrators have been told that resource pools are not folders and that they should only be used under circumstances where the impact of applying the resource settings is fully understood. From my point of view I’ve been able to utilize resource pools for VM management without too much hassle since […] Read More
VMworld 2017 – #vGolf Las Vegas
[Please head to this page for updated information] #vGolf is back! Bigger and better than the inaugural #vGolf held last year at VMworld 2016! Last year we had 24 participants and everyone who attended had a blast at the majestic Bali Hai Golf complex which is in view of the VMworld 2017 venue, Mandalay Bay. […] Read More
Important ESXi 6.0 Patch – Upgrade Now!
Last week VMware released a new patch (ESXi 6.0 Build 5572656) that addresses a number of serious bugs with Snapshot operations. Usually I wouldn’t blog about a patch release, but when I looked through the rest of the fixes in the VMwareKB it was apparent to me that this was more than your average VMware […] Read More
Attack from the Inside – Protecting Against Rogue Admins
In July of 2011, Distribute.IT, a domain registration and web hosting services provider in Australia was was hit with a targeted, malicious attack that resulted in the company going under and their customers left without their hosting or VPS data. The attack was calculated, targeted and vicious in it’s execution… I remember the incident well […] Read More
Homelab – Lab Access Made Easy with Free Veeam Powered Network
A couple of weeks ago at VeeamON we announced the RC of Veeam PN which is a lightweight SDN appliance that has been released for free. While the main messaging is focused around extending network availability for Microsoft Azure, Veeam PN can be deployed as a stand alone solution via a downloadable OVA from the veeam.com site. […] Read More
Service Providers Be Aware: Samba Vulnerability is out there! SambaCry
Having worked in and around the service provider space for most of my career when I heard about the Linux variant of WannaCry, SambaCry last week, I thought to myself that it had the potential to be fairly impactful given there would be significant numbers of systems that use Samba for file services in the wild. In fact this […] Read More
Released: vCloud Director SP 8.20.0.1
Last week VMware released an update for vCloud Director SP (Build 5439762) and while the small version increment suggest a small release, it actually contains a couple of important new features and introduces support for VVOL datastores which hopefully will get vCAN Service Providers looking at VVOLs a little more as well as a new […] Read More
VeeamON 2017 Wrap
VeeamON 2017 has come and gone and even though I left New Orleans on Friday afternoon, I just arrived back home…54 hours of travel, transit and delays has meant that my VeeamOFF continued longer than most! What an amazing week it was though for Veeam, our partners and our customers…The announcements that we made over the […] Read More
Veeam is now in the Network Game! Introducing Veeam Powered Network.
Today at VeeamON 2017 we announced the Release Candidate of Veeam PN (Veeam Powered Network) which together with our existing feature, Direct Restore to Microsoft Azure creates a new solution called Veeam Disaster Recovery for Microsoft Azure. At the heart of this new solution is Veeam PN which extends an on-premises network to one that’s […] Read More