Tales of Infrastructure and Network Virtualisation, Private and Public Cloud, and Storage Adventures
For those of us waiting excitedly for the opening of the 2019 VMware vExpert application process, the wait is now over! As of last night (UK time) the 2019 application process was launched, and with it begins the usual application process. Applications for the 2019 vExpert program are now open!...
I recently had a discussion with a Twitter connection regarding the ease and simplicity in which VMware vSAN can be enabled. It is so simply in fact, that it’s probably quicker than most client application installs. Granted, this discussion assumed that all hardware was already in place, had been racked and...
In what was a slightly quiet announcement, VMware NSX Data Center for vSphere 6.4.4 was released just two days ago on Thursday 13th December 2018. Unsure as to why this was such a hushed release as there are a number of cool items to shout about. Other than the usual...
With the release of VMware NSX 6.3.0 back in February 2017, we saw the introduction of the Application Rule Manager (ARM). The Application Rule Manager allows us to a) simplify the process of creating grouping objects and distributed firewall rules for the micro-segmentation of existing workloads, and b) deploy applications...
In Part 1 we looked at the deployment of the NSX Edge load balancer in One-Armed/Proxy mode. As detailed, this flavour of NSX Edge load balancer requires nothing from its back-end server pool members, and enables us to quickly and easily add a load balancer to an existing network segment which...
At this year’s VMworld Europe in Barcelona I was invited to take part in a Customer Panel session which saw me detailing my story with VMware NSX Data Centre. Myself and two other panellists covered three very different use cases and stories, and I loved hearing their challenges, why they...
Welcome to the first in a series of posts covering VMware NSX Edge load balancers. These posts will dive into the two main flavours – ‘One-Armed’ and ‘In Line’. We will cover use-cases for each option. NSX Edge load balancers allow us to distribute incoming requests across a number of...
Yesterday, Tuesday 16th October saw the much anticipated release of VMware’s vSphere 6.7 Update 1, however, shortly after the announcement a number of Veeam users decried the release due to compatibility issues with Veeam’s Backup & Replication suite. None other than Veeam’s Anton Gostev first announced the issue with the...
Not only will this year mark my first ever visit to VMworld Europe, I’ll also be taking part in a Customer Panel session. If you are interested in hearing my VMware NSX Data Center journey, how we implemented and operationalised NSX; how NSX continues to increase security and application performance,...
You don’t have to have an enterprise-grade lab environment to run VMware NSX Data Center for vSphere. For those who neither wish to house half a rack of servers, storage, and enterprise networking kit at home, nor wish to incur the wrath of their energy company for the privilege, a...
