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 ...
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 I was in ...
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 ...
… or are they? Every (aspiring VCDX) architect knows design assumptions are the mother of all <….>. Yes, design assumptions are frowned upon and should be avoided whenever possible. But, in certain situations, assumptions can actually be real lifesavers. This blogpost aims to show you how assumptions – when used properly! – can really improve ...
AWS re:Invent 2017 Keynote Day Three of AWS re:Invent 2017 was a real kicker. The keynote presentation by AWS CEO Andy Jassy was awesome. The keynote started a bit slow for me and I’m not a big fan of the whole “I’m bigger and bolder and rougher and tougher” thing with all the numbers, charts ...
AWS re:Invent summary: Queues, queues …. queues everywhere On Monday, November 27nd, AWS re:Invent 2017 kicked of in Las Vegas. If I had to summarize the day in a single word, it would have to be “queue“. Twitter exploded yesterday with people complaining about the enormous queues at re:Invent. It was pretty crazy. There were queues for ...
vSphere Integrated Containers (VIC) v1.2 Part 1 of this blogseries explained what VIC is, why and when you should use it and which components are included. Part 2 walked through the installation procedure for VIC 1.1. This final part will focus on the VIC v1.2 release and how to upgrade your installation: This blogseries covering ...
Why am I going to AWS re:Invent? Hybrid Cloud momentum I’m really excited about the upcoming AWS re:invent 2017 conference in Las Vegas. With five VMworld’s on my belt, and being part of the VMware community for some time now, I feel pretty at ease at a VMworld conference. Each consecutive year I attend VMworld, ...
