This is something to look out for if you are upgrading from vCloud Director 5.5.x to 5.6.x SP and if you have altered the syslog settings of your cells….This little gotcha nearly caused a couple of our production vCloud Director Cells to fail due to insufficient storage on the their file systems. Prior to our alerting […] Read More
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
NSX Bytes: NSX Edge – High Availability Status Down
In doing some testing around NSX Edge deployment scenarios I came across a small quirk in the High Availability Config for the NSX Edge Gateway where by after configuring HA from either the Web Client of through the Rest API you will see the High Availability Status as Down in the Web Client even though […] 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