Virtualisation | Cloud | Strategy
VMware Perpetual vs SnS vs Subscription vs SaaS As VMware move more and more licensing to a subscription model one question I’m getting asked more frequently is “what is the difference between VMware Perpetual vs Subscription vs SaaS vs SnS?” and “what is the best way for my organisation to purchase licensing from VMware now?” […]
I had a great question earlier in the week from someone wanting to understand where and how to use the vSphere Essentials kits and the ROBO kits So here we go VMware vSphere Essentials Kits vs ROBO Kits! VMware vSphere Essentials Kits vs ROBO Kits The vSphere Essentials and ROBO products fill two different needs. […]
What is the limit on how many virtual machines that can be deployed at once? This came up in conversation, where we were considering where to place template storage and what the implications might be behind various choices. which leads to… Limits on Simultaneous Migrations The answer for how many virtual machines can be deployed […]
Following on the migration theme just recently, I’ve had a lot of queries over the past month related to VMware HCX licensing, so thought I’d pull this post together for reference. Remind me what is HCX again? VMware Hybrid Cloud Extension (HCX), in its own words is: “an application mobility platform, simplifies application migration, rebalances […]
How should I migrate VMware virtual machines between VMware data centres? This is a question I got asked just before I broke for the festive period. In previous posts I’ve covered how to work around some of the most common issues that I see, providing mechanisms to help with Application Discovery and Network Mapping. There […]
Deploying Tanzu SQL to Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Clusters I’ve been reading up on the Tanzu SQL announcements I found a bit of time to have a look and some space on a Tanzu Kubernetes Grid (TKG) cluster deployed via the excellent TKG demo appliance fling. What Tanzu SQL does is enables us to operate a […]
VMware Virtual Machines MAC addresses Occasionally I feel old, today was one of those days. The feeling snuck up on me during a conversation about MAC addresses. Someone mentioned a MAC address starting 00:50:56 and I said with confidence that it was a VMware virtual machine, which prompted the response “how do you know that?”. […]
vSphere with Tanzu Kubernetes – Day 2 Operations for the VI Admin As part of a recent Canadian UserCon event myself and Dean Lewis poured many hours of blood, sweat and swearing into creating the session “vSphere with Tanzu Kubernetes – Day 2 Operations for the VI Admin”. The basic premise of the presentation was […]
vSphere HA Advanced Settings to Consider Working in the field I come across a lot of VMware products configurations, in addition to working directly advising how to meet architectural and business goals. After conversations this week I’d like to draw attention to two small but often overlooked configuration settings for vSphere HA and one that […]
IDS and IPS in NSX-T IDS/IPS IDS stands for Intrusion Detection System and IPS stands for Intrusion Prevention System. It is what is says on the tin, it protects your environment from an attack. IDS is a system that monitors the traffic in case of an attack and In the event of this IPS will […]