When you start to utilise VMware Skyline, one of the first areas that you will be drawn to is the 'Findings & Recommendations' page and rightly so.The idea behind VMware Skyline is to proactively provide fixes to findings in your environment to allow you to remediate them before they become [...]
Read MoreThis is part 3 of this little blog series on my adventure with getting data out of the VMware Skyline API and into PowerBI. In the first part of this series, we went through the process of gaining access to the VMware Skyline API and testing access. The second part [...]
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On a daily basis, throughout my previous roles, I would perform tasks and use tools that others may not use or may not think to do. This gives me the opportunity to share some of the knowledge I have or items that I have found to be useful, and hopefully help others to learn and enhance their knowledge.
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Put quite simply, I’ve been in IT for a long time, working initially for small businesses, moving onto datacenter and server support for a company with 50,000 users worldwide before moving across to VMware in 2019 as a Technical Account Manager.
Read MoreAs you may recall from previous blog posts, Riverbed Steelfusion is an interesting way to provide the performance of a local VMware environment to a remote office whilst also keeping the data replicated back to a central data centre (or even to a cloud environment). This is done by presenting out storage from the data centre, via a Steelfusion Core […]
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 […]
Firstly, congratulations to all of the vExperts who have been recognised for another year or even, for some, their first year. Once again I have also received this recognition and hope to continue to provide more articles and posts to assist people and provide information over the coming year. This actually marks my fifth year of being accepted as a […]
A lot of things have been written about Net Neutrality and the FCC Net Neutrality repeal that was passed back in December 2017. This week there was a new twist in this saga but I’ll come to that later… first lets take a look at what Net Neutrality actually is: Firstly, Net Neutrality affects us all, whenever we are utilising […]
I know that a lot of people have provided snapshot reports in the past for vSphere, but a lot of them were not really suitable to work with on a regular basis. Therefore I pulled together a short script that will list all snapshots for virtual machines that are powered on – as these are the ones where the snapshots […]
KFC, the famous chicken institution, is suffering a lot at the moment. People hoping to feast on fried chicken in the UK have been hit by a nationwide KFC famine. The famine has occurred throughout the UK as KFC UK switched their logistics provider from Bidvest to DHL last week. All did not go smoothly through the transition resulting in […]
Back in 2015, I created a 3-day Backup Report for Veeam that was based on the ‘SysAdmin Modular Report’ (SAMReport) – this is the link to the original post for that report: http://virtualworlduk.co.uk/3-day-veeam-backup-report-powercli/ That report has been useful for a couple of years but I felt that I could do better, without having to link back to the vCenter server quite so […]
As you may be aware Broadcom had previously offered $70 per share to Qualcomm share holders in an attempt to acquire Qualcomm which made the offered amount around $100 billion… the biggest acquisition in history… unfortunately Qualcomm refused the offer as it believed that Broadcom had undervalued the company. The battle goes on and apparently Broadcom are now offering around […]
Firstly, let me apologise for the delay in this post coming out. Secondly, many people may have already seen this at the end of last week with regards to Dell having some secretive talks about their future. As you will all be aware, Michael Dell went through a phase a buying back shares to become a privately owned company, and […]
Now I am by no way an expert with Serverless Architectures, but I saw an announcement from VMware the other day about VMware releasing the Dispatch Framework, and I thought that I would investigate a little further. Having utilised servers as the main part of my career to date, the idea of a ‘Serverless’ environment seems a little strange. Here […]