Breakout Session DCIM-B412: Effortless Migration from VMware to Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V If there was any session at TechEd that could initiate the self-destruction sequence for my VCDX certification, I think this session would be at the top of the list. That being said, it was a good session...
Breakout session: DCIM-B378 This was a great session which covered a multitude of NIC features (VMQ, RSS, SR-IOV, etc.), when to use them (or not), which features are compatible with each other, and other Hyper-V networking topics. Historical topology for Hyper-V was discreet NICs for different traffic types (management, storage,...
Session: DCIM-B317 The Cloud OS is transforming IT to address new questions: Mobility, apps, big data, cloud. Provide a cloud platform regardless of the datacenter that it is deployed on (Azure, partner, on-prem). Cloud OS enables nodern business apps, empower people centric IT, unlock insights on any data, and transform...
Microsoft TechEd 2014 is in full swing and this is the first general session that I'm attending. It will cover what's new in Exchange, both in Office 365 and on-prem. As usual during conference this is live blogging, directly from content presented in the session. So editing is minimal, and...
Note: This article has been significantly updated on 4/18/14 with new information, in a great collaborative effort with Luca Dell'Oca (@dellock6)Â from Veeam. The official whitepaper can be downloaded here. The goal of the joint whitepaper between Veeam and Nutanix is to help customers deploy Veeam Backup & Replication v7 on...
So almost two weeks after voting was closed for the 2014 Top Blogger voting, the results are out! The live web cast was running concurrently with a meeting I was attending virtually, so I had one ear in the meeting and one on the web cast. Eric and his crew...
Hot off the presses is VMware vSphere 5.5 Update 1. Unlike prior "update" releases which are mostly bug fixes, this update packs more of a punch. Full vCenter release notes can be found here. ESXi 5.5 Update 1 release notes are here. What's New: vCloud Hybrid Services vSphere client plug-in...
For several years now Eric Siebert has held voting for the top Virtualization Bloggers. This is a huge undertaking, and this year he has over 300 blogs listed. You should keep in mind several factors when voting, such as longevity, length of content, frequency, and quality. Voting is now open,...
In Part 1 of this two part VMware VCDX journey series I accounted for the first 120 days of my VCP5 to VCDX #125 journey. This post will cover the final 60 days, which were just as important, if not more so, than the first 120. In my last post we...
This is Part 1 of my tale of the last 180 days of my life, my adventure from VCP5 to becoming ...drum roll... VMware VCDX #125. Yes, I successfully defended my design at VMware PEX 2014 in San Francisco this past week, which was for VCDX5-Datacenter Virtualization (DCV)! It was a fun, educational, and...
Now that vSphere 5.5 has been out for a few months, if you haven't already started working with it in your test environment, you should! A lot of great new features, and major improvements to the SSO experience. However, you still may find it a bit challenging to secure vCenter...
Yes, time to update my vSphere 5.5 Toolkit with a few more features and bug fixes. For those of you that need to replace your vSphere 5.5 SSL certificates, the process can be somewhat cumbersome and time consuming. While VMware has a tool to help you replace the certificates once...