VMworld is a little over three weeks away and from the looking through the sessions at Partner Exchange and VMworld proper the refocus on the vCloud Air Network that was announced last year at VMworld 2015 is being put well into action. This together with a couple of recent announcements around OnApp being available via VSPP […] Read More
Work Life Balance: My Impossible Reality
I’ve been wanting to write about this topic for a while but haven’t been able to articulate myself in terms of the message I wanted get across until now. This post is about work life balance and how it’s so critical to maintain. This is about not letting yourself become consumed by work and career. […] Read More
VSAN Upgrading from 6.1 to 6.2 Hybrid to All Flash – Part 3
When VSAN 6.2 was released earlier this year it came with new and enhanced features and with the price of SSDs continuing to fall and an expanding HCL it seems like All Flash instances are becoming more the norm and for those that have already deployed VSAN in a Hybrid configuration the temptation to upgrade […] Read More
VSAN Upgrading From 6.1 To 6.2 Hybrid To All Flash – Part 2
When VSAN 6.2 was released earlier this year it came with new and enhanced features and with the price of SSDs continuing to fall and an expanding HCL it seems like All Flash instances are becoming more the norm and for those that have already deployed VSAN in a Hybrid configuration the temptation to upgrade […] Read More
VSAN Upgrading from 6.1 to 6.2 Hybrid to All Flash – Part 1
When VSAN 6.2 was released earlier this year it came with new and enhanced features and depending on what version you where running you might not have been able to take advantage of them all right away. Across all versions, Software Checksum was added with Advanced and Enterprise versions getting VSANs implementation of Erasure Coding (RAID 5/6) with Deduplication and Compression available for the […] Read More
Azure Stack – Microsoft’s White Elephant?
Microsoft’s World Wide Partner Conference is currently on again in Toronto and even though my career has diverged from working on the Microsoft stack (no pun) over the past four or five years I still attend the local Microsoft SPLA monthly meetings where possible and keep a keen eye on what Microsoft is doing in […] Read More
Sneak Peek – Veeam 9.5 vCloud Director Self Service Portal
Last month Veeam announced that they had significantly enhanced the capabilities around the backup and recovery of vCloud Director. This will give vCloud Air Network Service Providers the ability to tap into a new set of RESTful APIs that adds tenanted, self service capabilities and be able to offer a more complete service that is totally controlled and […] Read More
Quick Post: VLAN Trunking with vCloud Director
This week one of our Vitualisation Engineer’s (James Smith) was trying to come up with a solution for a client that wanted the flexibility to bring in his own VLANs mapped into our vCloud networking stack. We get this request quiet often and we generally configure a one to one relationship between the VLAN being mapped […] Read More
Top vBlog 2016: Aussie (vMafia) Representation
The Top vBlog for 2016 Results where announced a couple of nights ago and Australia had an ok representation this year, though the number of active bloggers on the list has decreased from last year. There where 321 blogs listed at vSphere-Land.com. I know of a lot more bloggers locally so if you have a chance head over […] Read More
Nutanix Buying PernixData: My Critical Analysis
Overnight The Register posted an article claiming that Nutanix is about to buyout PernixData…this has apparently come through reliable sources and hasn’t been denied by those who have been asked at PernixData. I tweeted that I was pretty bummed at the news and as a PernixData Customer and PernixPro I feel inclined to comment on why I do feel […] Read More