Last Friday Veeam released version 8 of their Backup and Replication product and like the previous releases the features keep on coming with improvements to an already rock solid backup platform continuing. Most exciting from my point of view is the debut of Veeam Cloud Connect which I have been lucky enough to be beta testing […] Read More
vForumAU Week in Review
Another vForumAU has come and gone and upon reflection it was possibly the best event I’ve attended since my first one back in 2011. This year the venue for vForumAU was Luna Park Sydney…partly due to the redevelopment of the Sydney Exhibition Center but chosen ultimately as the venue to Celebrate the 10th Australian vForum […] Read More
vCloud Director: vCD SP 5.6.3 Release …with a catch!
“With regards to the upgrade path for SPs looking to deploy vCD SP there will be a build released approx. Q1 15 that will allow upgrades from 5.5.2” On the 8th of October, VMware released the first vCloud Director build that was forked for the Service Provider Community. vCD for SP 5.6.3 (Build 2116763) represents […] Read More
In Vendors We Trust! Storage is God…
I tweeted recently that IT Professionals at some level must love pain…All through my working life I’ve dealt with outages and issues that cause myself and other around me significant amounts of agita and pain. The IT industry is unique in that we, as professionals must deal with issues that to a certain extent are caused […] Read More
ESXi 5.5: IOPS Limit and mClock scheduler
It’s fair to say that it’s not very often the difference between a 1 and 0 can have such a massive impact on performance…I had read a couple of posts from Duncan Epping in regards to a new DiskIO Schedular introduced in ESXi 5.5 and what it meant for VM Disk Limits compared to how […] Read More
ESXi 5.5 Update 2: vMotion Fails at 14% with Stale Admission Control and VM Reservations
We are currently in the process of upgrading all of our vCenter Clusters from ESXi 5.1 to 5.5 Update 2 and have come across a bug whereby the vMotion of VMs from the 5.1 hosts to the 5.5 hosts fails at 14% with the following error: [UPDATE 6/10] – Observed Conditions: vCenter 5.5 U1/2 (U2 […] Read More
NSX Bytes: 6.1 Upgrade Part 3|4 – Clusters, Logical Switches, Edges and Guest Introspection
In Part 1 and Part 2 we went through the relatively straight forward upgrade of the NSX Manager and the more involved upgrading the NSX Controllers. To complete things…in this post we will upgrade the rest! NSX components must be upgraded in the following order: NSX Manager NSX controller Clusters and Logical Switches NSX Edge and Guest Introspection […] Read More
NSX Bytes: 6.1 Upgrade Part 2 – NSX Controller
In Part 1 we went through the relatively straight forward upgrade of the NSX Manager. In this post we will upgrade the NSX Controllers from 6.0.x to 6.1. NSX components must be upgraded in the following order: NSX Manager NSX controller Clusters and Logical Switches NSX Edge and Guest Introspection The upgrade process is managed by the […] Read More
NSX Bytes: 6.1 Upgrade Part 1 – NSX Manager
On the back of VMworld US and a bunch of other VMware Product Updates released last week…NSX 6.1 went GA late last week…. For a quick overview of the new feature enhancements from 6.0.x have a look at this post from @pandom_ Word is on the street that this upgrade is not without it’s complications. There […] Read More
Bug Fix: vCloud 5.x IP Sub Allocation Pool Error (5.5.2 Update)
A few months ago I wrote a quick post on a bug that existed in vCloud Director 5.1 in regards to IP Sub Allocation Pools and IP’s being marked as in use when they should be available to allocate. What this leads to is a bunch of unusable IPs…meaning that they go to waste and pools […] Read More