Last year, VMware announced "Project Arctic" as a technology preview, which aimed to natively integrate cloud connectivity into vSphere. The idea was to consolidate all management functionality into one cloud-based console that not only allows management of all vSphere platforms, regardless of their location but also allows add-on services to be made available to them [...]
Tech talks are so much better when vendors present to a small group of like-minded techie friends in an informal way, followed by some fun and chats afterwards. vRetreat, run by Patrick Redknap, is such an event, and why I try not to miss it. This time, we had Mark Hoffmann (Senior Product Manager - [...]
Storage has always been a difficult subject for VMware Cloud on AWS. While the default vSAN storage is highly performant and well-engineered, it is not the most cost-effective option. The only way to scale is to add or remove hosts. Doing so is seamless but it is a rigid amount without any choice available in [...]
I have always believed that hybrid infrastructure will remain the dominant topology for most organisations; regardless of the talk about total migration to the public cloud in recent years. If an organisation can develop the required expertise to develop for and support multiple clouds, they should pick the right cloud for whatever their application or [...]
Recently, Synology added a new check to "Security Advisor" that would generate a warning if it found the default "admin" account still enabled. That is accompanied by a recommendation to create another equivalent account, log in using that account and disable the admin account. Doing so eliminates one of the attack vectors as the default [...]
It's no secret that security threats are on the rise. While ransomware seems like the flavour of the month, it is just one kind of threat amongst countless others we face when trying to secure the perimeter of our organisations. One of the biggest threats that can have a devastating effect on an organisation (if [...]
While deploying a vCloud Director cell and logging into the VAMI interface of the appliance (https://<hostname>:5480) for the first time, you might see an error saying: OS Configuration Phase has failed. Please check the log at /opt/vmware/var/log/firstboot for more details on the failure before redeploying this appliance node. For reference, this is what one expects [...]
Since the dawn of IT systems and the networking that plumbs it all together, the argument between system and network admins have raged on, blaming each other when the users complain that "the application is not working!" While it was enough for the networking admin to provide "proof" and claim victory using the classic methods [...]
According to surveys, most CIOs feel that digital transformation is not an easy journey. Three main obstacles that they often quote are: Transforming monolithic apps to cloud-native is complex, The latency between the different application components is a major concern, and There is a lack of developer skills and resources in the industry in general. [...]
Along with the release of vSphere 7 Update 2, also came the vSAN 7 Update 2 as well. You may have read my posts on the vSphere 7 updates but if not, you'll find it here. Update 2 is by design a major update for vSAN 7 so for the full list of updates, please [...]