[UPDATE] – VMware have released an official KB for the CBT issue. Sadly if you recognize the title of this post it’s because this isn’t the first time I’ve felt compelled to write about the continued industry frustration with some repeat ESXi bugs. In February I wrote in general around the recent history of bugs […] Read More
Top vBlog 2016 – Still Time to Vote
While I have resisted temptation to post a blog on this years Top vBlog voting I thought with a couple of days to go it was worth giving it a shout just in case there where some of you who hadn’t had the chance to vote or didn’t know about the Top vBlog vLaunchPad list […] Read More
vSphere 6 Update 2 – Whats In It for Service Providers
It’s been just over a week since VMware released vSphere 6 Update 2 and I thought I would go through some of the key features and fixes that are included in the latest versions of vCenter and ESXi. As usual I generally keep an eye out for improvements that relate back to Service Providers who […] Read More
Released: vCloud Director SP 8.0.1
Somewhat hidden among the major releases that came our from VMware HQ yesterday was a point release for vCloud Director SP 8.x. This takes the vCD SP Build to 3635340. The build is mainly a maintenance release but does address a major issue with the upload and downloading of OVF and other media in Chrome. After […] Read More
ESXi Bugs – VMware Can’t Keep Letting This Happen!
VMware is at an interesting place at this point in time…there is still no doubting that ESXi and vCenter are the market leaders in terms of Hypervisor Platform and that the vCloud Suite offers a strong portfolio of management, automation and monitoring tools. However VMware has become the hunted and is suffering what most massivly successful tech companies go […] Read More
vCloud Air Rumours – vCAN in Focus…Again | VMware Rethinks Strategy
Well…the news isn’t great filtering out over the internets about the VMware Job Cuts and the apparent clipping of vCloud Air’s wings. While this is yet to be 100% confirmed nor are there any specifics about what it actually means for the vCloud Air Network. If what I am reading is true and no more […] Read More
Heads Up: Heavy VXLAN Traffic Causing Broadcom 10GB NICS to Drop
For the last couple of weeks we have had some intermittent issues where by ESXi network adapters have gone into a disconnected state requiring a host reboot to bring the link back online. Generally it was only one NIC at a time, but in some circumstances both NICs went offline resulting in host failure and […] Read More
Dell PowerEdge FX2: CMC Configuration Gotchya
Back in September I wrote an introductory post (If you haven’t read that post click here) on the DELL PowerEdge FX2 HCI hardware and why we had selected it for our VSAN Management platform. After a busy two months consisting of a VMworld, vForumAU and VeeamOn it’s finally time to put start working towards putting these babies into production. […] 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
vSphere 5.5 Update 3 Released: Features and Top Fixes
vSphere 5.5 Update 3 was released earlier today and there are a bunch of bug fixes and feature improvements in this update release for both vCenter and ESXi. For most Service Providers updating to vSphere 6.0 is still a while away so it’s good to have continued support and improvement for the 5.5 platform. I’ve […] Read More