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
Quick Fix – ESXi loses all Network Configuration… but still runs?
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
Released : Veeam PN v2…Making VPNs Simple, Reliable and Scalable
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
Quick Post – Installing WireGuard® Client on MacOS
For those that have been monitoring my Twitter posts over the past month of so, i’ve been hinting at some upcoming news around WireGuard and the research i’ve been doing by way of getting to know about what makes it tick. In a nutshell, WireGuard is a VPN protocol similar to OpenVPN or IPsec, but […] Read More
NSX Bytes – What’s New in NSX-T 2.4
A little over two years ago in Feburary of 2017 VMware released NSX-T 2.0 and with it came a variety of updates that looked to continue to push NSX-T beyond that of NSX-v while catching up in some areas where the NSX-v was ahead. The NSBU has had big plans for NSX beyond vSphere for […] Read More
Configuring Amazon S3 Access from VMware Cloud on AWS through an S3 Endpoint
When looking at how to configure networking for interactions between a VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC and an Amazon VPC there is a little bit to grasp in terms of what needs to be done to achieve traffic flow between the SDDC and the rest of the world. As an example, by default if you […] Read More
Deploying Veeam Powered Network into a AWS VPC
Veeam PN is a very cool product that has been GA for about four months now. Initially we combined the free product together with Veeam Direct Restore to Microsoft Azure to create Veeam Recovery to Microsoft Azure. Of late there has been a push to get Veeam PN out in the community as a standalone […] Read More
NSX-v 6.4.0 Released! What’s in it for Service Providers
This week VMware released NSX-v 6.4.0 (Build 7564187) and with it comes a new UI Plug-in for vSphere Client (HTML5) which includes some new dashboards including a new Update Lifecycle Manager built right into the Web Client. Reading through the release notes, for me the biggest improvements seem to be around NSX Edges and Edge […] Read More
Released: NSX-v 6.3.5 and New Features and Fixes
Last week VMware released NSX-v 6.3.5 (Build 7119875) that contains a few new features and addresses a number of bug fixes from previous releases. Going through the release notes there are a lot of known issues that should be known and there are more than a few that apply to service providers…specifically there are a […] Read More
Veeam Powered Network: Quick Video Walkthrough
Earlier this year at VeeamON we announced Veeam PN as part of the Restore to Microsoft Azure product. While Veeam PN is still in RC, I’ve written a series of posts around how Veeam PN can be used for a number of different use cases (See list below) and at VMworld 2017 I delivered a […] Read More
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