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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
Update: my slidedeck: I’m very honored and proud to be speaking at the Dutch NLVMUG UserCon 2018 on March 20th. In the last few years I have been speaking at numerous events but funny enough, this is my very first appearance at a VMUG. Last year I really wanted to present at the UserCon but ...
Thoughts on the exam I originally planned to take the exam in 2017 but with some delay, I passed the AWS SAA exam this morning on my first try! I thought the exam was pretty tough but fair. I have not been exposed to AWS very much and the only hands-on experience was labbing around in ...
Common load balancing topologies Sometimes you stumble across something so obvious that you cannot believe you missed it. I had such a moment today. I have been discussing load balancing topologies with one of my customers in the last few days and in each discussion we stayed exactly within the predefined color lines: a one-arm ...
