When you get your new DELL FX2s out of the box and powered on for the first time you will notice that the disk configuration has not been setup with VSAN in mind…If you where to log into ESXi on the blades in SLOT1a and 1c you would see that each host will have each SAS […] Read More
VSAN + DELL PERC: Important Driver and Firmware Updates
I’m currently going through and documenting the build process for our VSAN Management Clusters and one of the first steps I noted down was to double check that the I/O Controllers where compatible as per the VSAN HCL. As I am using the DELL FX2s I checked to ensure that there where no issues with the FD332-PERC […] Read More
VSAN for Service Providers
Since VMworld in San Francisco, VMware have been on a tear backing up all the VSAN related announcements at the show by starting to push a stronger message around the improvements in the latest VSAN release. Cormac Hogan and Rawlinson Rivera have published articles while Duncan Epping has also released a number of articles around VSAN since […] Read More
VMware VSAN: VSPP Pricing Revealed
Just after the release of VSAN a couple weeks back, I wrote this post talking about the need for VSAN to appear on the VSPP pricelist. At the time there only a little info on dates and more importantly pricing. A few days later it was confirmed that VSPP pricing would appear in Q2 of this […] Read More
Quick Thought: VSAN Pricing…We need a VSPP Option
UPDATE: Looks like we will be seeing some VSPP Pricing for VSAN in Q2 vCenter and ESXi 5.5 Update 1 has reached GA, and we now have v1.0 of VSAN officially ready for production use. Technically it’s a winner, and from an industry maturity standpoint…it clearly sets a new direction in how storage is consumed […] Read More
VMware Explore 2022 – Session Breakdown and Analysis
Ok, here we are… it’s been three years since VMworld 2019 and we are back next week in San Francisco at the Mascone Centre. But we are not attending VMworld… we are now entering the multi-verse era of VMware Explore! This is going to be a really interesting test of the new post pandemic waters […] Read More
Quick Fix: vSphere Storage Provider Offline
It’s been a while since i’ve done a vSphere specific Quick Fix post, but the great thing about tinkering and labbing is that you run into situations and corner cases that are not that well documented. This was the case while I was working on my upcoming VeeamON demo leveraging the new CDP capabilities in […] 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
Why the Kubernetes wave is not equal to Virtualization… but why that doesn’t matter!
If you are engaged with the general IT community that deals with infrastructure, virutalization or cloud, you have probably heard the comparison between Kubernetes and Virtualization. The narrative goes something along the lines of “Kubernetes will have the same level of impact on IT as what Virtualization had”. That is to say that Kubernetes is […] Read More