DHPA TechFest 2018 I was invited to talk at the DHPA TechFest 2018. The DHPA foundation is a collaboration between market-leading hosting and cloud providers in The Netherlands. DHPA TechFest is not your regular IT event. It is called an IT festival by the organization with the tagline “work hard, play hard”. Besides several technical ...
My blog sponsor Vembu notified me about the v3.9.1 release of their BDR Suite. They have now introduced a tiered licensing model with the introduction of a new Standard Edition (next to the existing Enterprise and Free editions. Check out my What’s new article or the v3.9.1. release notes at https://www.vembu.com/vembu-bdr-suite-release-notes/. Vembu BDR Suite v3.9.1 ...
Nested homelab introduction I was chatting with someone the other week about homelab setups. The old debate of running on physical hosts vs. nested came up. I am running a completely nested homelab with stretched vSAN, NSX-v, et cetera and as a follow-up to that conversation I was having, I decided to do a short ...
VCAP6.5-DCV Design … finally This morning, I finally got around to taking the VMware Certified Advanced Professional 6.5 Data Center Virtualization (VCAP6.5-DCV) Design exam. I have been planning this exam and blogging [1, 2] about preparing for it for quite a while now. Due to all sort of planning issues I kept postponing the exam. ...
This evening, NAKIVO pushed it’s Backup & Replication v7.4 release to General Availability. You can download this most recent release here. While this release carries a lot of new features, the most anticipated new feature in this release is Automated VM Failover. This feature, and all other updates to the product are briefly explained in this ...
NSX DFW Enable TCP Strict Today, I finally had some time to dive a bit deeper into the 6.4.0 release of NSX for vSphere. When I was configuring the Distributed Firewall, I noticed a setting called ‘Enable TCP Strict” which I didn’t immediately recognize. After some investigation, it became clear that this setting strengthens the ...
Ever since I achieved my VCDX on vSphere (VCDX-DCV) last year, I have been contemplating about also going for VCDX on NSX (VCDX-NV). I have the prerequisite VCIX-NV accreditation and I’ve done quite a few NSX architecture projects, so when I was discussing personal goals for 2018 at ITQ, I thought to myself … why ...
My blog sponsor Nakivo informed me about the public release of a new beta version for NAKIVO Backup & Replication v7.4. The beta program is open to everyone, and all Beta program participants who fulfil the program requirements can receive an Amazon gift card. More details on all the new features and registration for v7.4 Beta ...
What is AWS Storage Gateway AWS Storage Gateway is basically an on-premises software appliance that exposes AWS cloud storage to your local environment. You basically deploy the appliance, connect it to the AWS Storage Gateway backend service and create a File Share (S3 or Glacier backed) or Volume (EBS Snapshot backed): In this blogpost ...
VMware Cloud Briefing Event Today, VMware held an online Cloud Briefing Event in which updates to the VMware cloud strategy were announced. Most prominently, VMware announced general availability of the VMware Cloud on AWS (VMC) service in Europe. The first region is London and additional regions are already on the horizon. Besides the global expansion ...
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