Last night was the grand final of this seasons Virtual Design Master and what an experience it has been over the past 4 weeks or so. Sadly for me this challenge became too much, the final challenge was a tough one we had to not only look to design something […]
Last night was the live episode of challenge 3 and the semi final for the competition where it goes down to the final 3 contestants. This weeks challenge was a really good one and great chance for me to get hands on. The challenge was to expand our design to […]
Yesterday was challenge 2 for this years Virtual Design Master and what a gruelling week it was especially the defence. This weeks challenge was to take the design from week 1 and document how the infrastructure would fair against a malware infection such as ransonware. My original design had some […]
I recently signed up for the online Virtual Design Master community event as I watched last years event and thought its looked fun. The idea around VDM is to get participants from around the globe and assign them made up design challenges in a made up scenarios, over the seasons […]
Yesterday was our second event of 2017 and hot of the heels from a very successful March event. This time we focused more on community speakers to some real world examples and give the audience a little bit of variety. We initially had 4 community speakers coming from all over […]
This year I joined the VMware EUC Champion group and I must say out all of the community groups I have been involved with the updates I get from this group have been the best, maybe because its a smaller group but either way its a fantastic group to be […]
The following will illustrate the vSAN upgrade procedure to version 6.6. I have been slowly upgrading my lab to vSphere 6.5 and with it NSX to 6.3 and now vSAN 6.6, as always follow the official upgrade procedure here and see the vSAN 6.6 release notes here. The first step to patch my […]
Recently I attended a session as part of the VMware blogger early access program. This session was an update to the vRealize Operations suite and announcing vROps 6.6, this post will highlight some of the new features. The new key messaging was “Intelligent Operations - from applications to infrastructure helps […]
Its with great pleasure we can finally release the details of our next event of 2017, our next event will on Thursday June 22nd. Having already had the date planned since the last event we haven’t released any details until we had the speakers lined up. This event will be more […]
Recently NAKIVO released their new product NAKIVO Backup and Replication version 7. Some of the key features of this version are as follows. Support for Hyper-V Backups and Replication Support for Hyper-V 2012 and 2016. Image-based, application-aware and forever incremental backups. Compression and dedupe supported. Support for offiste copies to […]