Last week at VMworld 2017 in the US, VMware announced the initial availability of VMware Cloud on AWS. It was the focal point for VMware at the event and probably the most important strategic play that VMware has undertaken in it’s history. This partnership was officially announced at last year’s VMworld and at the time […] Read More
VMworld 2017: vCloud Air Network Again Out in Force
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
Cloud to Cloud to Cloud Networking with Veeam Powered Network
I’ve written a couple of posts on how Veeam Powered Network can make accessing your homelab easy with it’s straight forward approach to creating and connection site-to-site and point-to-site VPN connections. For a refresh on the use cases that I’ve gone through, I had a requirement where I needed access to my homelab/office machines while on the road […] 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
Released: vCloud Director SP 8.20.0.1
Last week VMware released an update for vCloud Director SP (Build 5439762) and while the small version increment suggest a small release, it actually contains a couple of important new features and introduces support for VVOL datastores which hopefully will get vCAN Service Providers looking at VVOLs a little more as well as a new […] Read More
Veeam DRaaS v10 Enhancements: vCloud Director Support!
Today at VeeamON 2017 we announced two very important enhancements to our DRaaS capabilities around Cloud Connect Replication and Tape Backup for our Veeam Cloud and Service Provider partners that help customer minimize the cost and reduce recovery times during a disaster. The press release can be found here, however as you could imagine I wanted […] Read More
Worth a Repost: “VMware Doubles Down” vCloud Director 8.20
It seems that with the announcement last week that VMware was offloading vCloud Air to OVH people where again asking what is happening with vCloud Director….and the vCloud Air Network in general. While vCD is still not available for VMware’s enterprise customers, the vCloud Director platform has officially never been in a stronger position. Those outside the vCAN […] Read More
vCloud Air Sold to OVH – Final Thoughts On Project Zephyr
I’ve just spent the last fifteen minutes looking back through all my posts on vCloud Air over the last four or five years and given yesterday’s announcement that VMware was selling what remains of vCloud Air to OVH Going over the content I thought it would be pertinent to write up one last piece on VMware’s attempt to build […] Read More
vCloud Director SP 8.20 – NSX Advanced Networking Overview
Many, including myself thought that the day would never come where we would be talking about a new UI for vCloud Director…but a a month on from the 8.20 release of vCloud Director SP (which was the 8th major release of vCD) I’m happy to be writing about the new Advanced Networking features of 8.20 based on NSX-v. […] 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