VMworld 2016 US – Day 1 General Session Overview

So the replay of yesterdays Day 1 General Session is now online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwS-AwGtEMw The biggest announcement is the tech preview of Cross-Cloud Architecture. This is obviously VMware's next step in their "Any Cloud, Any Application, Any Device" vision. According to VMware: "This architecture extends VMware’s hybrid cloud strategy, enabling customers to run, manage, connect and secure their applications … Continue reading VMworld 2016 US – Day 1 General Session Overview

Schedule Builder now live for VMworld 2016 Europe

Schedule Builder is now live for VMworld 2016 Europe.... http://www.vmworld.com/en/europe/learning/schedule-builder.html I've been checking out the content catalog for a few weeks now to try and plan my time at VMworld Europe in October. Previous years I've been quite mad, dashing around to as many sessions as possible, which has been quite tiring! This year I'm … Continue reading Schedule Builder now live for VMworld 2016 Europe

VMware VSAN & NSX vExperts 2016 Announced

Proud to say that I've been chosen as a VSAN vExpert for 2016.... Honoured to have my name amongst some highly rated peers who were chosen out of the large pool of current vExperts! I didn't really set out to become a subject matter expert, but when VMware announced they were going to create 2 … Continue reading VMware VSAN & NSX vExperts 2016 Announced

NSX 6.2.3 pulled by VMware

Hmm.... well that was unfortunate timing..... I've been penning the last blog post for the past 2 weeks after I downloaded 6.2.3 and played around with it.... and I didn't really double check my blog post before publishing it. Turns out there are quite a number of bugs in 6.2.3 which was causing loss of … Continue reading NSX 6.2.3 pulled by VMware

NSX 6.2.3 Released – support for vShield Endpoint Management

As most people are aware, VMware pulled their support for vCloud Network & Security (and with that vShield Manager) earlier this year and a lot of my customers have been wondering what's going to happen to their vShield Endpoint deployments (for agentless AV). It was strange that VMware announced the EoA for vCNS without really … Continue reading NSX 6.2.3 Released – support for vShield Endpoint Management

Installing vShield Endpoint (vCNS Mgr 5.5.4-3)

Very quick blog entry as I'm busy tying up loose ends before jetting off on my summer hols.... It's pretty easy to install vShield Endpoint as it's a wizard-based OVA deployment. I'm not going to step through the process as it's very simple (plus the install guide explains it very well). Once that's done log … Continue reading Installing vShield Endpoint (vCNS Mgr 5.5.4-3)

Nutanix to gobble PernixData?!?

Hmm, interesting rumours...... http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/07/01/hyperconverged_nutanix_could_be_buying_vmcare_cacher_pernixdata/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/07/06/nutanix_gobbling_pernix_why_not/ Anthony Spiteri sums up my thoughts about PernixData quite well in his blog: http://anthonyspiteri.net/nutanix-buying-pernixdata-critical-analysis/ Based on past experience with FVP and Architect and running both in a demo lab, I've always thought they're pretty clever products.... FVP especially with the way it handles fault tolerance with their clever clustering functionality … Continue reading Nutanix to gobble PernixData?!?

Top vBlog 2016 Full Results – #161 The Virtual Unknown

So the votes have been cast and the results are in for Eric Sieberts (http://vsphere-land.com/) annual Top vBlog award, sponsored by VMTurbo.... There were over 1600 votes cast this year, and BIG Congratulations once again to Duncan Epping (http://www.yellow-bricks.com) who has finished top for the 8th consecutive year!! That's quite a feat considering Duncan has only been blogging for around … Continue reading Top vBlog 2016 Full Results – #161 The Virtual Unknown

vCenter Server 6.0 Upgrade – Log on as a Service error

It's been a while since I upgraded an old version of vCenter Server to 6.0 and I totally forgot about the error that pops up about NT Service\All Services not having Log on as a Service rights..... I was actually going to blog about this when I encountered the error at the start of the year, … Continue reading vCenter Server 6.0 Upgrade – Log on as a Service error

The End of vSphere C# Client

I've been so busy the past week or so that I totally forgot to post up a link to an article I wrote for SearchVMware regarding the recent announcement of the end of the C# Client! http://searchvmware.techtarget.com/tip/VMware-focuses-on-the-future-with-vSphere-HTML5-Web-Client Enjoy....