I got the opportunity to sit down with Keith Townsend ( The CTO Advisor) to talk about announcements at VMworld 2018. Among those announcements was ESXi on ARM, as well as Amazon RDS (relational database services) on vSphere on-premises. Be sure…
Today was the first day of VMworld 2018, and this will be the first post in a series on the event. Announced was vSphere 6.7 update 1. While an update release typically wouldn't warrant a blog post, this one almost…
On April 5th, VMware announced that they would discontinue VDP, vSphere Data Protection - VMware's integration backup solution. Now, VMware will not have an integrated backup solution but instead will rely (as they should) on partner solutions that utilize official…
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.
Now that ESXi is installed on our server, let's log into each of the vSphere clients - C# client, and the embedded HTML5 host client, to view the configuration options for our server.
The first product in our Replication Roundup is vSphere Replication. vSphere Replication is VMware's product for VM based replication, and is included in licensing Essentials Plus and up. The Lab Setup: For our lab, we have 2 vCenter 6.0…
At VMworld this morning, VMware announced it's latest product, EVO:RAIL. So just what is EVO:RAIL? EVO:RAIL is a hyper-converged solution for business of many sizes. Partnering with multiple hardware vendors, and utilizing vSphere with VSAN, VMware is able to…