As you may recall a couple of months ago, VMware announced its intent to acquire Pivotal from Dell Technologies. By including Pivotal into the VMware fold, it opens up new opportunities to have Kubernetes supported natively directly in the vSphere product line among other benefits. On 30th December 2019, a press announcement was released to confirm that the acquisition of […]
If you are in the IT Industry and have done anything with virtualisation, then you’ll know about VMworld. This blog post isn’t going to explain what you should bring to VMworld, what to do and what parties to attend… as that will be covered by lots of other people across the world. This blog post is more about reminiscing about […]
I’ve been working with VMware products for a long time. Being based in the UK, I had been to the VMware UK office in Staines and previously Frimley on a few occasions but I had never had the opportunity to make the visit to the VMware Headquarters in Palo Alto… until now. I was recently offered the opportunity to visit […]
It’s been a long time since I wrote a blog post on here and that has been for a number of reasons. The main reason is due to me deciding to change jobs. My previous job was a good job, don’t get me wrong, it’s just that after 11 years, it was time to move on. The positive thing for […]
If you haven’t already seen the news, vSphere 6.7 Update 1 is now available for download from the VMware website. As with any VMware upgrade, please confirm that any systems/software that connect to vCenter and ESXi are fully supported on the new version before upgrading. Blog-a-Week 2018 Posting (BAW): In previous years, I have had periods throughout the year […]
This information has been around for a little while and therefore I apologise if you have seen it already. I have been investigating the different ways to migrate virtual machines from a local VMware vSphere environment to Microsoft Azure. The main concern that I have had is around virtual machines configured with EFI in VMware and being able to get […]
Here is a short post about what I believe that you should do in preparation to attend VMworld. My experience is mainly based on VMworld Europe but some of the items are certainly valid for VMWorld US as well. Registration, Hotels & Travel Discounts – When you register, make sure that you take advantage of any discounts that are available. […]
As you may have heard as part of the E3 announcements last week, there is a strong belief that after the next generation of games consoles, development on future games consoles will stop. This type of thing has been muted around on a number of occasions but it has never really happened, so why could it happen this time? With […]
For those of your who do not currently subscribe to the Weekly Veeam Community Forum emails provided by Anton Gostev at Veeam, here are details taken from his most recent email with regards to Veeam 9.5 support for vSphere 6.7. So the biggest news of the past week is VMware vSphere 6.7 becoming generally available, bringing the long-awaited HTML5 client! […]
Yesterday, it was announced by VMware that the latest release of vSphere will be vSphere 6.7. vSphere 6.7 builds on the great work that has been done with vSphere 6.5, to provide simple management and operational efficiency. With vSphere 6.7 there is an enhanced vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA). This introduces new APIs that will improve the efficiency and experience to […]