VMware acquired Avi Networks in the summer of 2019 to add Software-Defined ADC (Application Distribution Controller) capabilities to their Virtual Cloud Network portfolio. That’s a fancy way of saying they bought the most awesome load balancing, WAF and container ingress traffic management solution in the market. VMware rebranded Avi Networks Load Balancer to VMware NSX ...
Last month, NAKIVO released a new feature-packed version of their data protection solution Backup & Replication. This version includes a range of new features including expanded support for Microsoft 365, Direct Connect for MSPs and support for VMware Cloud Director (previously known as VMware vCloud Director) which I want to cover in a bit more ...
NAKIVO recently launched v10.2 of NAKIVO Backup & Replication. The latest release expands the scope of Microsoft 365 data protection with support for SharePoint Online, introduces Tenant Resource Allocation, and adds ransomware protection for backups with Amazon S3 Object Lock Support. With cyberattacks on the rise, adding ransomware protection to your backup data is crucial ...
Last year I decided to start a YouTube channel to share VMware-related tutorials and demos. I have to admit I felt the same hesitance as when I started my blog several years ago. There is so much rich content on VMware technology already available on YouTube. What value am I going to add? These were ...
Nakivo Backup and Replication allows you to replicate Virtual Machines with a wide range of options. You can replicate between vCenters, clusters and so on. This blogpost provides a quick overview of the setup and configuration of a replication job. To create a replication job, click Create and then click VMware vSphere replication job on the Dashboard: My homelab contains ...
In my previous video and blogpost, I explained how I set up a fully nested vSphere 7 homelab with NSX-T. In this video tutorial, I’m adding a second VyOS appliance and a second NSX-T Edge Node to my homelab. The video covers setting up the proper Edge Uplink profiles, configuring the Edge Nodes, and finally ...
In my previous video and blogpost, I explained how I set up a fully nested vSphere 7 homelab with NSX-T. Now I want to go back to basics with NSX-T Logical Networking. There is so much exciting content out there on some of the most advanced use cases for NSX-T and last week I realized, ...
Setting up vSphere 7 with Kubernetes I recently upgraded my VMware homelab to vSphere 7 Update 1. One of the major new features of vSphere 7 Update 1 is the introduction of vSphere 7 with Kubernetes without requiring a full VMware Cloud Foundation deployment. vSphere 7 with Kubernetes now supports a bring your own network, ...
In my previous video and blogpost, I explained how I set up a fully nested vSphere 7 homelab in a single box. This new video gives a basic explanation about how I set up NSX-T in a nested homelab: Topics covered in the video Transport Zones Uplink Profiles Transport Node Profiles ESXi Transport Nodes Edge ...
With roughly two weeks to go, VMworld 2020 is just around the corner. The number of sessions available in the catalog is HUGE! If I just look at the number of sessions available with the general (free!) pass … wow! The schedule builder allows you to easily search and filter through the catalog. All sessions ...
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