This week Veeam released to GA version 9 of their Backup & Recovery product. It’s a significant release for Veeam for a number of reasons and after having attended their VeeamOn event Las Vegas late last year I believe this v9 release is their best to date and is representative of a company that’s listened […] Read More
Heads Up: Heavy VXLAN Traffic Causing Broadcom 10GB NICS to Drop
For the last couple of weeks we have had some intermittent issues where by ESXi network adapters have gone into a disconnected state requiring a host reboot to bring the link back online. Generally it was only one NIC at a time, but in some circumstances both NICs went offline resulting in host failure and […] Read More
Quick Fix: vCenter 5.5 Update 3x Phone Home Warning and VPXD Service not Starting
This week I’ve been upgrading vCenter in a couple of our labs and came across this issue during and after the upgrade of vCenter from 5.5 Update 2 to 5.5 Update 3a or 3b. During the upgrade of the vCenter the error below is thrown. It’s an easy one to ignore as it only relates […] Read More
Quick Fix: Python Error When Removing PernixData FVP Host Extensions
Came across an issue this morning trying to remove old 2.0 PernixData FVP Host Extensions from an ESXi 5.5 Update 3a Host. When running the uninstall script I was getting the error shown below. There is an old known issue with the version of Python that gets installed with the latest updates of ESXi 5.x […] Read More
Top Posts 2015
2015 is pretty much done and dusted and it’s been an great year in for Virtualization is Life! There was a 300% increase in site visits this year compared to 2014 and 1600% increase in visits since the first year I began blogging in 2012. In 2015 I managed to pump out 110 Posts (including this […] Read More
Veeam 9 – Important Cloud Connect Upgrade for VCSPs
[Update] There is a patch upgrade for v9 (build 9.0.0.773) that needs to be applied before GA which will take the build to build 9.0.0.902. Late last week Veeam dropped the RTM build of Veeam 9 to it’s Cloud Service Provider partners. As a VCSP partner you need to be ready for the v9 GA date (at […] Read More
AWS…Complex Simplicity?
I came across a tweet over the weekend which showed a screen grab of the AWS product catalog (shown below) and a comment pointing out the fact that the sheer number of AWS services on offer by Amazon was part of the reason why they are doing so well. The implication was that AWSs dominance was in part due […] Read More
An Early Christmas Gift From VMware: vCloud UI Announcements
This is a special post…apart from being this blog’s 200th it’s a great week for all those who have dedicated time and effort into VMware’s vCloud Director…During a night of restless sleep on Monday I checked my phone and my Twitter feed to find that VMware and the vCloud Team had given us an early […] Read More
vCloud Director SP 5.6.5 Released – Key Fixes
It’s been a big week for vCloud Director! For those still running the 5.6.x SP Build there was a point release last week taking vCD SP to 5.6.5 Build 3307437. The release is mostly a bug fix but there is the added support for Internet Explorer 11 (still no Edge Support but that’s not really […] Read More
NSX Edge vs vShield Edge: Part 6 – Syslog Configuration
Overview: Being able to view log information is critical in being able to ensure the Edge Gateway is functioning as expected. All services that the Edge provides can be logged. The NSX Edge relies on configuration and management from either the vSphere Web Client or directly via API calls which can then be consumed via a […] Read More