There is no doubt we are moving into a new era of infrastructure to host applications and workloads on. And as organisations start to move back to on-premises platforms from the public cloud it’s not necessarily vSphere that they are coming back to. RedHat is pushing hard with on-premises stacks such as OpenShift and […] Read More
I remember back a few years ago when VMware first launched their Flings how useful some of them where (and still are). Seemed like no matter what area of the VMware platform you worked on, there was some sort of fling to made life easier. Back in the day I used to cover my Top […] Read More
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
One of the things I wanted to do this year was get back into technologies, applications, platforms or solutions that I have drifted away from over recent years. The reason for this is two-fold… Firstly, I’m interested to see how far they have progressed over the years (or maybe they have not) and secondly get […] Read More
I’ve been using MetalLB for a while now in my Kubernetes Clusters and it’s a great easy way to achieve high availability networking for service endpoints. For an overview of MetalLB, head to this earlier post. When initially deploying MetalLB, I usually configure a fairly small address pool for the Layer 2 mode configuration […] Read More
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
Back for part two of this look at how I went about configuring a single host for NestedESXi deployments. In the previous post I looks at the physical configuration of the ESXi Host networking as well as what needed to be configured in the ESXi switching to prepare the top level to correctly have the […] Read More
Version 10 of Veeam Backup & Replication isn’t too far away and we are currently at the end of a second private BETA for our customers and partners. There has been a fair bit of content released around v10 functionality and features from our Veeam Vanguard’s over the past couple of weeks and as we […] Read More
I had a really strange situation pop up in one of my lab environments over the weekend. vSAN Health was reporting that one of the hosts had lost networking connectivity to the rest of the cluster. This is something i’ve seen intermittently at times so waited for the condition to clear up. When it didn’t […] Read More
When it comes to connecting remote sites, branch offices or extending on-premises networks to the cloud that level of complexity has traditionally always been high. Networking has always been the most complex part of any IT platform. There has also always been a high level of cost associated with connecting sites…both from a hardware or […] Read More