Hewlett Packard Enterprise kicked off its Discover 2016 event this week in London. I am grateful that I am able to attend as a guest of HPE as an independent blogger. Here's a recap of the first day's events…
We've got ESXi installed and configured, now it's time to get the VCSA (vCenter Server Appliance) deployed into our lab so we can manage multiple ESXi servers in a single pane of glass.
In the storage wars, we typically hear about block vs file, iSCSI vs Fibre Channel, SAN vs NAS, and so on. The truth is, none of that really matters; at least, not as much as some make it out to.…
Next week is the start of Tech Field Day 12, and I am honored to be selected as a delegate! I've attended some previous Tech Field Day events, both at VMworld, but this will be my first full event.…
Recently, HPE invited me out to California for HPE Tech Day, and also the Nth Symposium. I had a great time, and was happy to see what HPE has been up to! During the Tech Day briefing, I was…
Part 1 here: Veeam Replication – Installation Part 2 here: Veeam Replication – Configuration Part 3 here: Veeam Replication - VM Replication The last part of the Veeam portion of the Replication Roundup, is VM Failover. While Veeam has failover…
While attending VMworld 2016 in Las Vegas this year, I was invited to sit on the Tech Field Day panel for Monday. One of the companies presenting was Docker. Mike Coleman from Docker presented to the panel and did a…
VMware's HCI (Hyper-Converged Infrastructure) solution is VSAN - or Virtual SAN. It's a kernel based solution built right into the ESXi Hypervisor, that allows each server to consume local storage, and pool it together and share it back out to…
After Partner Exchange, VMworld officially kicked off Sunday night, with a welcome reception in the Solutions Exchange. The welcome reception is a great time to get a layout of the solutions exchange, and to start talking with some of the…
This year will be my 5th year attending the largest virtualization conference in the world, VMworld 2016. I still remember my first year - arriving into San Francisco in 2012 wide-eyed and overwhelmed. My hotel was a good 25-minute…