More on vSAN Encryption

So not long after my article was published on SearchVMware, the guys at Virtual Blocks (VMware's own storage blog) released 2 articles which went into vSAN encryption in a bit more detail. https://blogs.vmware.com/virtualblocks/2017/06/24/vsan-encryption-1/ https://blogs.vmware.com/virtualblocks/2017/06/24/vsan-encryption-2/ It's definitely worth noting that using hardware encryption does have an overhead whenever you need to rekey (eg when you need … Continue reading More on vSAN Encryption

VMware Announces General Availability of…

VMware Announces General Availability of vSphere 6.5 Update 1VMware Announces General Availability of...vSphere 6.5 Update 1 is the Update You’ve Been Looking For! Today, VMware is excited to announce the general availability of vSphere 6.5 Update 1. This is the first major update to the well-received vSphere 6.5 that was released in November of 2016. … Continue reading VMware Announces General Availability of…

VMworld 2017 Content Catalog now live

Content Catalog is now live for this years VMworld..... time to start planning my schedule and moan about conflicting sessions! =) https://my.vmworld.com/scripts/catalog/eucatalog.jsp

vSAN 6.6 enhances Stretched Clustering

My second article has now been published on SearchVMware.com about the new enhancements to vSAN Stretched Clustering. Enjoy.... =) http://searchvmware.techtarget.com/tip/VSAN-66-stretched-cluster-feature-offers-built-in-RAID-protection

vSAN Encryption: What it is, what it does and how to use it

Another article published on SearchVMware.com, this time on the new feature announced with vSAN 6.6 - vSAN Data-at-Rest Encryption! Enjoy.... http://searchvmware.techtarget.com/tip/VSAN-Encryption-What-it-is-what-it-does-and-how-to-use-it

Voting now open for Top vBlog 2017!

It's that time of year again when the VMware community starts to cast their votes as to which blog should be crowned "Top vBlog" for 2017...! This year Duncan Epping (http://www.yellow-bricks.com/) and Frank Denneman (http://frankdenneman.nl) have decided to withdraw their blogs from the voting, which is admirable as they both always feature in the top 5 … Continue reading Voting now open for Top vBlog 2017!

VMware vSAN 6.6 launched – so What’s New?

Earlier this year it was announced that vSAN had grown to over 7000 customers since launch, which is a pretty decent number given the product went GA just over 3 years ago and we’re on the 6th iteration! What’s even more impressive is how quickly VMware are turning these updates around (almost every 6 months … Continue reading VMware vSAN 6.6 launched – so What’s New?

VMware sells off vCloud Air to OVH

Hmm.... so that was an interesting announcement from VMware last week!..... although if I'm honest it makes perfect sense! OVH Group announcing it's intent to acquire the vCloud Air Business from VMware: https://www.vmware.com/radius/vmware-cloud-air-evolves/ Last year when VMware announced their tie up with AWS - vCloud on AWS - many had already started wondering what that partnership would do … Continue reading VMware sells off vCloud Air to OVH

End of Availability of vSphere Data Protection

Wow.... ok..... so this was an interested announcement to receive. Whilst I kind of understand that VDP wasn't really deployed by the masses, it was still nice to be able to have a free backup solution if you were deploying a small VMware environment. The EoA of vSphere Data Protection pretty much means anyone wanting … Continue reading End of Availability of vSphere Data Protection

Opinion Piece on VMware Licensing

So over the past few months I've been seeing a lot of customers within the Public Sector and Education looking at transitioning off VMware vSphere and onto Microsoft Hyper-V! With tightening budgets or even budget cuts, IT admins in these industries are looking for quick wins in slashing their IT bills and many see dropping … Continue reading Opinion Piece on VMware Licensing