Released: Veeam Backup and Replication 8 Updated 3 – Cloud Connect Updates

Last week Veeam released Update 3 for Backup & Replication 8 taking the build number to 8.0.0.2084 and with the update, Veeam have released a couple new features and enhancements including: Support for Windows 10 as guest virtual machines (VMs), including application-aware processing. Support for vSphere 6.0 Update 1 Improved performance of certain user interface operations, such […] Read More

vCloud Director 8: New Features And A New UI Addition…

Since June the vCloud Director SP Beta has been running with a lot of renewed interest in the IaaS Platform. The beta was well participated in and there was a lot of robust discussion around the future of vCD as well as questions around the lack of a decent UI for those without in house […] Read More

NSX Bytes: NSX-v 6.1.5 Released

Last week NSX-v 6.1.5 (Build 3102213) was released…This is a minor point release but does resolve a number of bugs present from previous 6.1.x builds and introduces one new feature into the Web Client: Controller connectivity status: NSX Manager user interface is enhanced to display the connectivity status between NSX controllers in the controller cluster. […] Read More

NSX Bytes: Testing VXLAN Tunnel End Points between ESXi Hosts

When working with NSX you have the option to create logical switches that are bound by Transport Zones…within those Transport Zones you could have a single vSphere Cluster or a number of Clusters that may or may not span different VLANs or Subnets. For those that have created NSX Logical Switches that span multiple clusters […] Read More

VSAN for Service Providers

Since VMworld in San Francisco, VMware have been on a tear backing up all the VSAN related announcements at the show by starting to push a stronger message around the improvements in the latest VSAN release. Cormac Hogan and Rawlinson Rivera have published articles while Duncan Epping has also released a number of articles around VSAN since […] Read More

First Look: PernixData Architect (Beta)

PernixData had a number of announcements at Virtualization Field Day back in June including details around their v3 release of FVP as well as the announcement of their Freedom Edition. The other announcement was around Architect which is PernixData’s play at deep storage Analytics and Intelligence. With the advantage of being plugged right into the ESXi […] Read More

First Look: Dell PowerEdge FX2 Converged Platform

For the last six months or so I’ve been on the look out for server and storage hardware to satisfy the requirement for new Management Clusters across our Zettagrid vCloud Zones… After a fairly exhaustive discovery and research stage the Dell PowerEdge FX2 dropped at the right time to make the newly updated converged architecture […] Read More

NSX Bytes: Migrating NSX Edges Between Clusters….The Right Way

Had a situation pop up today where an NSX Edge needed to be moved from it’s current location to another location due to an initial VM placement issue. The VM was being moved within the bounds of the NSX Transport Zone so no issues with it being out of scope… At first the VM was […] Read More

vSphere 5.5 Update 3 Released: Features and Top Fixes

vSphere 5.5 Update 3 was released earlier today and there are a bunch of bug fixes and feature improvements in this update release for both vCenter and ESXi. For most Service Providers updating to vSphere 6.0 is still a while away so it’s good to have continued support and improvement for the 5.5 platform. I’ve […] Read More

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