Over the past week or so, i’ve been diving back into working on VMware Cloud on AWS… for the most, the experience hasn’t changed that much since I started tinkering back in 2018. That said, the main networking elements powered by NSX-T under the surface are now controlled through the main SDDC configuration portal. You […] Read More
VMworld 2021 – Session Breakdown and Analysis
VMworld 2021 is different again this year a month later than usual, we are now only five days away from kicking off Virtually. The content catalog for the Virtual event has been live for a while now and once again, the big difference compared with in an in person VMworld is that the mad scramble […] Read More
Backup & Replication v11a – Platform Support and Performance Enhancements!
Overnight, we released v11a (Build 11.0.1.1261) of our flagship product, Veeam Backup & Replication. This is the first major update to v11 which was released back in February. While these a released a not touted as a major release, Veeam R&D team has delivered a lot of value in this release. Apart from dealing […] Read More
VeeamON 2021 – Veeam Backup for RHV Announcement and Thoughts
At VeeamON 2021 we made a significant new product announcement which was the unveiling of Veeam Backup for Red Hat Virtualization. While this might not be the final product name, the intent and direction of this announcement means that we will soon add supportability for a fourth hyper-visor meaning that we will cover VMware, Hyper-V, […] Read More
Quick Post: New Backup & Replication v11 Patch – VMware vSphere 7.0 U2 Support and more!
Overnight we released a new patch release (Build P20210507) for Veeam Backup & Replication v11. This is actually quite a big patch release and contains a number of fixes to issues that have been picked up since v11 went GA. Probably the biggest addition in this patch is the supportability for vSphere 7.0 Update 2 […] Read More
A Quick and Easy Load Balancer for Kubernetes Labs with MetalLB
I’ve been tinkering with a number of different Kubernetes platforms again and the relative complication of external networking for deployed Kubernetes applications remains real. In the Public Cloud world, services such as EKS, GKE and AKS all have some form of external networking built into the offerings and VMware’s Tanzu can rely on NSX-T, HAProxy […] Read More
vSphere 7 Update 2 – Tanzu and vSAN Enhancements
I haven’t done one of these VMware Update release posts in a while… Having attended the #vExpert pre-brief a couple weeks back I thought there was enough relevant goodness to share. It’s been such an interesting time in our industry over the past 12-18 months and this vSphere 7 and vSAN 7 Update 2 release […] Read More
Posts, Travel, Stats and more from a year we don’t want to talk about too much more…
Four days into 2021 and I am doing my final retrospectives on the year just gone. I can’t/won’t even type in the year as most of you reading this wish it absolute hard and destruction. There are reasons why last year wasn’t that bad for me personally and I really don’t want to talk about […] Read More
Deploying Tanzu with HAProxy on a Single ESXi HomeLab Host Architecture
VMware released Update 1 of vSphere 7 last month and one of the big things to come out of that release was the ability to deploy Tanzu Basic which is vSphere with Tanzu, which was vSphere with Kubernetes, which was Project Pacific. I think the only way in which you will truly get an appreciation […] Read More
VMworld 2020 – Session Breakdown and Analysis
VMworld 2020 is different this year… but in this COVID year, we are only five days away from kicking off Virtually. The content catalog for the Virtual event has been live for a while now but one big difference this year is that the mad scramble for session reservations was not required! There are 175 […] Read More