Opinion: VMware and NVIDIA Step Up on Private AI for Enterprises
It's not a surprise that Generative AI featured heavily as a topic at VMware Explore US last week in Vegas. 2023 is the year that most large tech companies j...
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Thoughts on 2023
NOTE: The following content was transcribed and modified from the Thoughts on X podcast…Click Play if you would like to listen. I think we should all put a p...
VMware Explore 2022 Veeam Recap... Sessions and Activities
I must say... it was good to be back at the Mascone Center and San Francisco for VMware Explore 2022. Some people might question my excitement at getting bac...
Ten Years of VMworld… and Travel
I’m currently heading over to the newly renamed VMware Explore and it’s not been lost on me that this is the 10th anniversary of my very first VMworld back i...
VMware Explore 2022 - Session Breakdown and Analysis
Ok, here we are... it's been three years since VMworld 2019 and we are back next week in San Francisco at the Mascone Centre. But we are not attending VMworl...
Quick Fix: vSphere Storage Provider Offline
It's been a while since i've done a vSphere specific Quick Fix post, but the great thing about tinkering and labbing is that you run into situations and corn...
Revisited - vRealize Network Insight ... Now with Cloud!
One of the things I wanted to do this year was get back into technologies, applications, platforms or solutions that I have drifted away from over recent yea...
Backup & Replication v11a - Platform Support and Performance Enhancements!
Overnight, we released v11a ( Build 11.0.1.1261 ) of our flagship product, Veeam Backup & Replication. This is the first major update to v11 which was releas...
v11 For Service Providers - Low RPO VMware Replication with CDP
When Veeam Backup & Replication v11 went Generally Available on the 24th of February I posted the What’s in it for Service Providers blog. In that post I bri...
VMware's App and Cloud Transformation Reveal - Happening This Week!
This week VMware is holding an online event to make and announcement around its vision for Application and Cloud Transformation . What does that exactly mean...
Still Time! - vExpert and Vanguard 2021
A Challenging Year for Community For a lot of us in the IT Industry, 2020 made it difficult to advocate technology like we had done in previous years. No dou...
Quick Fix - Issues Upgrading VCSA due to Password Expiration
2020 Update : It seems as though this issue also pops up if doing a major version upgrade of the VCSA through the migration option. I was getting this error ...
Quick Fix: VCSA 503 Service Unavailable Error
2020 Edit: Seems like this error has been updated in vSphere 7.x to be a little more friendly and less terminal. The old error I referenced below was somethi...
Deploying Tanzu with HAProxy on a Single ESXi HomeLab Host Architecture
VMware released Update 1 of vSphere 7 last month and one of the big things to come out of that release was the ability to deploy Tanzu Basic which is vSphere...
VMworld 2020 - Top Session Picks
VMworld 2020 is happening today! And as I have banged on about over the past week, this is a very very different VMworld. No one will be lining up for overfl...
VMworld 2020 - Tech, Career and Community with the vTrail Map
VMworld has been leveraged by a lot of people to help advance their careers with a lot of advancement seeded by personal interactions at the conference. Soci...
Veeam @VMworld 2020 Virtual Edition!
VMworld 2020 is now only a couple of days away, and this year we will all be experiencing the conference remotely. Without question this will be a different ...
VMworld 2020 - Session Breakdown and Analysis
VMworld 2020 is different this year... but in this COVID year, we are only five days away from kicking off Virtually. The content catalog for the Virtual eve...
Happy 10th Birthday VMware Cloud Director!
It is crazy to think that we could celebrate (those of us brave enough to admit it) the birthday of the piece of software. Throughout modern history, softwar...
Backup & Replication v10a - Platform Support and Performance Enhancements!
Over the weekend, we released the v10a ( Build 10.0.1.4854 ) release of our flagship product, Veeam Backup & Replication. This is the first major update to v...
VMUG Virtual #UserCon... Keeping the Streak Going!
I'm a fan of a good streak... but 2020 has forcefully ended a couple of existing streaks that I had in play. One of those was my annual trip over to Melbourn...
Quick Post - Backup & Replication v10 Certified for vSAN 7 Data Protection
VMware still represents a strong focus for the foundation of our core platform supportability. VMware workloads are still easily the most protected workloads...
Quick Fix - VCSA Low DB Storage Space Warning
I had a situation earlier this week where the VMware SDK/API service was being reported as offline. I was triggered by some failed backup jobs which made me ...
vExpert 2020 Second Half Applications Open
This is a very quick post to let people know that from the first of June, till the 20th of June, applications are open for the half yearly intake into the VM...
Google Cloud VMware Engine - VMware's Holy Trinity Complete
When VMware Cloud on AWS was announced in 2017 , it was met with trepidation and caution from the industry. Regardless of how successful the platform has bee...
vForum Online 2020 - Save The Date!
It shouldn't come as a surprise that I'm writing about an event that is being held online... especially in this very moment in time. 2020 is the year of the ...
How to Configure NestedESXi on a Single Host - Part 2
Back for part two of this look at how I went about configuring a single host for NestedESXi deployments. In the previous post I looks at the physical configu...
Quick Fix - No Datastores after ESXi 7.0 Upgrade on SuperMicro with Intel Based SATA Adapters
As usual, I like to jump right into software upgrades to test out new functionality (on none production systems of-course). With the GA of vSphere7 overnight...
v10 Update: On Demand Recovery with Cloud Tier and VMware Cloud on AWS
With the release of v10 of Backup & Replication came significant enhancements to the Cloud Tier. As I wrote about here , we introduced Copy Policy , Immutabi...
How to Configure NestedESXi on a Single Host - Part 1
I've should have written this article a long long time ago! In fact, i've been promising certain people that I would write this up for a number of years. The...
Never Deploy Backup Proxies Manually Again With Infrastructure as Code!
My recent obsession with automation and Infrastructure as Code in general has resulted in a lot of efficiencies in my day to day work life. Where I used to d...
vExpert 2020 - Nine Years Worth of Value...A Collection of Thoughts
Today, VMware announced the vExpert class of 2020 and as per usual this generated lots of social media buzz as well as the now customary backlashes that have...
Updated - Important ESXi 6.0, 6.5 and 6.7 Patch Release - CBT Fixes and More!
Over the last few years the amount of CBT related issues has decreased significantly from VMware. I remember back in my previous roles of having to deal with...
Important ESXi 6.0 and 6.7 Patch Release - CBT Fixes and More!
Over the last few years the amount of CBT related issues has decreased significantly from VMware. I remember back in my previous roles of having to deal with...
The Separation of Dev and Ops is Upon Us!
Apart from the K word, there was one other enduring message that I think a lot of people took home from VMworld 2019 . That is, that Dev and Ops should be co...
VMworld 2019 Review - Project Pacific is a Stroke of Kubernetes Genius... but not without a catch!
Kubernetes Kubernetes, Kubernetes... say Kubernetes one more time... I dare you! If it wasn't clear what the key take away from VMworld 2019 was last week in...
VMworld 2019 - Session Breakdown and Analysis
Everything to do with VMworld this year feels like it's arrived at lightning speed. I actually thought the event was two weeks away as the start of the week....
First Look - Runecast Adding Support for VMware HCL
Two years ago at the 2017 Sydney and Melbourne UserCons, I spent time with a couple of the founders of Runecast, Stanimir Markov and Ched Smokovic and got to...
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 ...
AWS Outposts and VMware...Hybridity Defined!
Now that AWS re:Invent 2018 has well and truly passed...the biggest industry shift to come out of the event from my point of view was the fact that AWS are g...
Quick Fix - VCSA 6.7.0.10000 Can't Update via URL from Management Interface
I had an issue with my VCSA today trying to upgrade to vCenter 6.7 Update 1 whereby the Management Interface Upgrade option was not detecting the update to u...
Quick Fix: Terraform Plan Fails on Guest Customizations and VMware Tools
Last week I was looking to add the deployment of a local CentOS virtual machine to the Deploy Veeam SDDC Toolkit project so that it included the option to de...
Quick Fix - Backing up vCenter Content Library Content with Veeam
A question came up in the Veeam Forums this week about how you would backup the contents of a Content Library. As a refresher, content libraries are containe...
Veeam on the VMware Cloud Marketplace Protecting VMware Cloud on AWS Workloads
At VMworld 2018, myself and Michael Cade gave a session on automating and orchestrating Veeam on VMware Cloud on AWS . The premise of the session was to show...
VMworld 2018 Recap Part 2 - Community and Veeam Recap
VMworld 2018 has come and gone and after a couple of days recovery from the week that was, i’ve had time to reflect on what was a great week and an another g...
VMworld 2018 Recap Part 1 - Major Announcement Breakdown!
VMworld 2018 has come and gone and after a couple of days recovery from the week that was, i've had time to reflect on what was a great week and an another g...
Creating a Single Host SDDC for VMware Cloud on AWS
While preparing for my VMworld session with Michael Cade on automating and orchestrating the deployment of Veeam into VMware Cloud on AWS, we have been testi...
Workaround - VCSA 6.7 Upgrade Fails with CURL Error: Couldn't resolve host name
It's never an issue with DNS! Even when DNS looks right...it's still DNS! I came across an issue today trying to upgrade a 6.5 VCSA to 6.7. The new VCSA appl...
Released: vSAN 6.7 - HTML5 Goodness, Enhanced Health Checks and More!
VMware has announced the general availability of vSAN 6.7 . As vSAN continues to grow, VMware are very buoyant about how it's performing in the market. With ...
vExpert 2018 – The Value Remains!
After a longer than expected deliberation period the vExpert class of 2018 was announced late last Friday (US Time). I’ve been a vExpert since 2012 with 2018...
VMware Cloud Briefing Roundup - VMware Cloud on AWS and other Updates
VMware has held it's first ever VMware Cloud Briefing today. This is an online, global event with an agenda featuring a keynote from Pat Gelsinger, new annou...
Released: Runecast Analyzer 1.7 with vSAN Support
Runecast has released version 1.7 of their Analyzer today and it has added support for VMware vSAN. By using a number of resources within VMware’s knowledge ...
VMware Cloud on AWS Availability with Veeam
It’s been exactly a year since VMware announced their partnership with AWS and it’s no surprise that at this year’s VMworld the solution is front and center ...
Runecast: Overview and Service Provider Use Case
A few months ago I was lucky enough to spend time with a couple of the founders of Runecast, Stanimir Markov and Ched Smokovic and got to know a little more ...
VMworld 2017 - Session Breakdown and Analysis
Everything to do with VMworld this year feels like it's earlier than in previous years. The call for papers opened in Feburary with session voting happening ...
VMware vSphere 6.5 Host Resources Deep Dive - A Must Have!
Just after I joined Zettagrid in June of 2013 I decided to load up vSphere 5.1 Clustering Deepdive by Duncan Epping and Frank Denneman on my iPad to read on ...
Quick Thought: VMUG is now part of DTUC
I awoke this morning to the news that an announcement was made at DELL|EMC World that VMUG had been rolled into a the recently formed Dell Technologies User ...
NSX Bytes: NSX-T 2.0 Released
A couple of months ago in my NSX-v 6.3 and NSX-T 1.1 release post I focused around NSX-v features as that has become the mainstream version that most people ...
vForumAU 2016 Recap: Best Event In Years!
Last week I was in Sydney for the 2016 edition of vForumAU ...I've been coming to vForumAU since 2011 and this years event was probably up there with the bes...
VMware vChampion Farewell!
About four years ago I was invited to join a program called the VMware vChampions...this program is run and operated by the VMware ANZ Channel and Marketing ...
VMware on AWS: vCloud Director and What Needs to be Done to Empower the vCAN
Last week VMware and Amazon Web Services officially announced their new joint venture whereby VMware technology will be available to run as a service on AWS ...
VMware on AWS: Thoughts on the Impact to the vCloud Air Network
Last week VMware and Amazon Web Services officially announced their new joint venture whereby VMware technology will be available to run as a service on AWS ...
CBT Bugs - VMware Can't Keep Letting This Happen!
[ UPDATE ] - VMware have released an official KB for the CBT issue. Sadly if you recognize the title of this post it's because this isn't the first time I've...
Quick Post: ESXi 6.0 Patch Breaks Veeam Instant VM Recovery
This is a quick post to alert Veeam users to an issue that was raised in the Veeam Community Forums yesterday...firstly if you are a Veeam customer and are n...
ESXi Bugs - VMware Can't Keep Letting This Happen!
VMware is at an interesting place at this point in time...there is still no doubting that ESXi and vCenter are the market leaders in terms of Hypervisor Plat...
Rubrik Hands On: Initial Setup and Configuration
Why Veeam's software-driven, hardware agnostic approach makes sense for backups https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDBlTdzE6Us&t=8s Late last year I attended a ...
Quick Fix: vCenter 5.5 Update 3x Phone Home Warning and VPXD Service not Starting
This week I've been upgrading vCenter in a couple of our labs and came across this issue during and after the upgrade of vCenter from 5.5 Update 2 to 5.5 Upd...
Quick Fix: Python Error When Removing PernixData FVP Host Extensions
Came across an issue this morning trying to remove old 2.0 PernixData FVP Host Extensions from an ESXi 5.5 Update 3a Host. When running the uninstall script ...
Altaro VMBackup - The Maltese Connection
Those that know me know that I am a very proud Australian of Maltese decent ...so when I was emailed a while back to see if I would review the beta for Altar...
vExpert VMworld Reception and Program Thoughts
Last week at VMworld we had the annual vExpert Reception…this year the party was held at the very swanky Julia Morgan Ballroom in the Merchants Exchange buil...
NSX Bytes: NSX 6.2 GA and NSX Manager Upgrade
NSX for vSphere version 6.2 was made Generally Available earlier today and there has been some significant updates and improvements to the Network Virtualiza...
Rubrik - Converged Data Management 2.0 Announcement
Rubrik is a company a lot of IT Professionals have been keeping an eye since release of their v1.0 Appliance back in May. Their industry DNA is extremely imp...
Platform9 - GA of Managed OpenStack for VMware vSphere
Today, Platform9 have announced the General Availability of their Managed OpenStack for VMware vSphere environments which adds to Platform9's ability to mana...
VMware Labs: Top 5 Flings
For those that are not aware, VMware has had their Lab Flings going for a number of years now and on the back of the latest release ( ESXi Embedded Host Clie...
vSphere 6.0 Launch: What's in it for Service Providers #vmw28days
Today vSphere 6.0 was officially announced and will be GA in about 6-8 weeks...I've had limited time myself to tinker with the BETA in great depth, however I...
VMware Fling: ESXi MAC Learning dvFilter for Nested ESXi
Late last year I was load testing against a new storage platform using both physical and nested ESXi hosts...at the time I noticed decreased network throughp...
EVO:RAIL - Who are VMware Really Targeting?
Probably the biggest announcement from last week’s VMworld was the unveiling of the Project Marvin/Mystic as EVO:RAIL. Most of the focus on VMware releasing ...
CloudPhysics: Heartbleed Health Checks for vCenter and ESXi
The power of a service like CloudPhysics continues to grow almost weekly as they add new features and Cards. Not only is it brilliant for analytics and metri...
NSX Bytes: Deploying vShield Endpoint with NSX Manager
I recently had to deploy a solution into our Labs that required the installation of vShield Endpoint VMs to facilitate a 3rd Party service. No worries there....
NSX Bytes - Unicast Transport Zone Creation Error
One of VMware NSX's best features is the ability to have the VXLAN Control Plane working in Unicast Mode...removing the requirement for Multicast traffic on ...
NSX Bytes - Controller Deployment Gotchyas
There are a lot of great posts already out there in regards to install and configuration of NSX. Rather than reinvent the wheel I've decided to do a series o...
Follow Up: The NSX Roadblock
About 7 weeks ago I wrote a post detailing my frustration at the way in which VMware's NSX was being trickled out into the market place and the hefty caveats...
VMWorld 2014: Session Voting
Voting is Open for VMWorld 2014 and I have submitted three sessions for your consideration. The first session is a VMUG User Conference Presentation I Co-Pre...
The NSX Roadblock
I'm a little frustrated! When VMware announced that their Network Virtualization acquisition Nicira (rebranded NSX) was officially GA at VMWorld 2013 most ha...
Quick Thought: VSAN Pricing...We need a VSPP Option
UPDATE : Looks like we will be seeing some VSPP Pricing for VSAN in Q2 vCenter and ESXi 5.5 Update 1 has reached GA, and we now have v1.0 of VSAN officially ...
First Look: CloudPhysics - Knowledge Base Advisor
I've been lucky enough to have been early access to a new Card from the guys at CloudPhyics which, at it's core lets VMware admins quickly and precisely get ...
VMware Series 2013 - EUC and vDC Ready and Waiting
Over the last couple of weeks I've been fortunate to represent ZettaGrid, as a Platinum Sponsor of the VMware Series 2013 road shows in Melbourne and Sydney....
Quick Fix: Horizon Workspace : Error creating admin user “ hostname in certificate didnt match: !="
I came across this issue yesterday while trying to deploy a new instance on Horizon Workspace 1.0 in a POC environment. Having installed the vAPP a couple ti...
First Look: CloudPhysics Card Designer
The boys at CloudPhysics are working hard behind the scenes at adding new features to their current stable of Analytic Cards based on data collected from t...
VMware PEX ANZ 2013 Thoughts - Software Defined Storage
I was luckey to attend PEX at Australia Technology Park this week and thought I would share some of my take always. The venue was a little different to what ...
Quick Fix: ESX 4.1 Host Stops Responding When iSCSI LUN is "pulled"
REMOVING DEAD PATHS IN ESX4.1 (version 5 guidance here ) Very quick post in relation to a slightly sticky situation I found myself in this afternoon. I was ...
First Look: CloudPhysics - Datastore Contention Card
I first came across CloudPhysics just before VMWorld 2012. For a general overview, go here : I am a massive fan of analytics and trend metrics and I use a ...
VMworld - The EUC Revolution is Here
A few years ago there was a theory put forward by a certain Apple CEO that we were entering the Post PC Era…while I have never subscribed to that theory (w...
VMworld - Where is the Zephyr?
There where some pretty big announcements and reveals at VMworld 2012, but unless I missed something (which was totally possible had any accouncement been ma...
vExpert 2012 - My Journey in Virtualization so far...
If you had asked me 2 years ago that I'd be writing as a VMware vExpert I would have thought you were crazy. At that stage my only exposure to VMware was on ...