Introduction to vSphere Integrated Containers (VIC) Containerization is a hot topic in IT nowadays. In most companies containers are synonymous with Docker and what we are seeing a lot is developers simply requesting huge VMs from the IT infrastructure team to run Docker on it. The infra team manages a VM so they are happy, ...
Vembu has released version 3.8.0 of its BDR Suite data protection solution. BDR Suite comprehensive universal backup solution catering to the backup, recovery and disaster recovery needs of diverse and heterogeneous IT environments. To find out more about Vembu BDR Suite have a look at their partner page on my website or visit their website directly. ...
VCDX Defense I have been meaning to write this post for a while now and with a new round of defenses coming up, I decided to put it online ASAP. Based on my own experience, I will provide 7 tips that will hopefully help aspiring VCDX’s in their preparation and during their defense. Just remember: ...
VCAP6.5-DCV Design reference documents The new VCAP6.5-DCV Design exam guide contains a list of reference documents. This list is just a simple list of URLs and some of them are broken. I’ve sanitized the list a bit, fixed the broken URLs and included a document title to make the list easier to consume. For more ...
VCAP6.5-DCV Design to the rescue July 10th 2017 was as a sad day for me. I failed my very first IT exam ever since starting in IT over 20 years ago. It was VMware’s VCAP6-DCV Design exam that drew first blood. I completed MCSE, CCNP, VCAP5 and even VCDX on my first try, so failing ...
Backup & Replication v7.2 Beta Yesterday, NAKIVO released the public beta of Backup & Replication v7.2. You can sign up for the beta download at https://www.nakivo.com/resources/releases/v7.2/. I will hopefully have time to install this new release and test the new features. For now, here is a short description of these new features: VM Backup Appliance Based ...
vRNI and Cross Cloud Architecture As part of last year’s announced VMware’s Cross Cloud Architecture, VMware introduced native Amazon AWS public cloud support for vRealize Network Insight 3.4 Enterprise Edition: “vRealize Network Insight now provides visibility into native AWS constructs such as VPC, VM, Security Group, and Firewall rules. Traffic flows are also analyzed to ...
My very first AWS EC2 instance In this blogpost I will quickly take you through the process of spinning up my very first EC2 instance in my AWS Free Tier lab environment. I will be using T2.micro instances which are eligible for the Free Tier. The first step is to go to the EC2 service ...
