Last year saw a resurgence in vCloud related sessions at VMworld and the trend has continued this year at the 2017 event. Looking through the sessions at Partner Exchange and VMworld proper the refocus on the vCloud Air Network that was announced at VMworld 2015 has gathered steam. This together with the subsequent release of vCloud Director SP […] Read More
Runecast: Overview and Service Provider Use Case
A few months ago I was lucky enough to spend time with a couple of the founders of Runecast, Stanimir Markov and Ched Smokovic and got to know a little more about their real time analytics platform for VMware based infrastructure. Soon after that I downloaded and deployed it in my lab and have been […] Read More
vSphere 6.5 Update 1 – What’s in it for Service Providers
Late last week VMware released vSphere 6.5 Update 1 which included updated builds of both vCenter and ESXi and as per usual I will go through some of the key features and fixes that are included in the latest versions of vCenter and ESXi. When looking through the release notes I generally keep an eye […] Read More
VMworld 2017 – Session Breakdown and Analysis
Everything to do with VMworld this year feels like it’s earlier than in previous years. The call for papers opened in Feburary with session voting happening around the end of March. A couple of weeks ago presenters where notified if their session was accepted…or if it was rejected and the content catalog for the US […] Read More
Top vBlog 2017 – Last week to Vote!
While I had resisted the temptation to put out a blog on this years Top vBlog voting I thought with the voting coming to an end it was worth giving it a shout just in case there are some of you who hadn’t had the chance to vote or didn’t know about the Top vBlog […] Read More
VMware vSphere 6.5 Host Resources Deep Dive – A Must Have!
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
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
VeeamON 2017: Top Session Picks
VeeamON is less than three weeks away and I can tell you that that this years event is going to be huge! This is going to be my second VeeamOn, but for the first time I’ve been involved in the preparation of a major vendor conference. Having been behind the scenes, and knowing what our customers and […] Read More
VMworld 2017 : Session Analysis and Voting Open…Already!
Well this has crept up on us quickly this year! It’s time to vote for the VMworld Sessions that will be part of the US and Europe VMworld’s held later in the year. The Session Voting is more Session liking as you have the ability to mark multiple sessions as ones that you would like […] Read More
It’s ok to steal… VMUG UserCon Key Take Aways
Last week I attended the Sydney and Melbourne VMUG UserCons and apart from sitting in on some great sessions I came away from both events with a renewed sense of community spirit and enjoyed catching up with industry peers and good friends that I don’t see often enough. While the VMUG is generally struggling a […] Read More