Category: VMware

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)

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

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....

Pick up the pace with VMware NSX network virtualization

Finally got round to finishing off my article on NSX for SearchVMware.com.... I've been sitting on this article since last year, but given that my company, MTI Technology, are one of the focus NSX partners in UK this year (one of five partners), it's probably appropriate if I got the article published.... =) http://searchvmware.techtarget.com/tip/Pick-up-the-pace-with-VMware-NSX-network-virtualization Enjoy...

Top vBlog 2016 – Voting now open

So it's that time again, when the general public gets to vote for their top 12 blogs on VMware and virtualisation! Eric Siebert of vSphere-land.com has been running this over the years, and I think it's a great way for people to recognise and give thanks to those bloggers who take time to post articles to help … Continue reading Top vBlog 2016 – Voting now open

Changes to VMware NSX Licensing

So yesterday VMware announced a new licensing model for NSX - VMware's Software-Defined Network product. Up until now, VMware have only had a single version of NSX available to buy - which customers were not too fond off - it was an 'all-or-nothing' approach to SDN which customers found too restricting. I'm glad to see that VMware … Continue reading Changes to VMware NSX Licensing