Virtualisation | Cloud | Strategy
Following on from the VMware licence change announcements, detailed here. I thought I’d take a quick look at the accompanying PowerShell module to see what the output looks like and what we can do with data that it gathers. The VMware KB for the PowerShell module includes details on how to import and usage. You […]
Simple Network Mapping In an earlier post I demonstrated how you could use a very simple toolset such as VMware tools and Netstat to create visualisations for what devices are talking to each other on a network. I had a few thoughts of my own on some additional simple steps that could be taken to […]
The impact of gravity on the cloud, what am I talking about now… Gravity is defined as “the force that attracts a body towards the centre of the earth”, that can be extrapolated onwards to state “or towards any other physical body having mass”. It’s a force that has shape everything in our universe. Which […]
We’ve spent years removing consumption silos, so why are they making a comeback under a cloud banner?
Cloud Migration Steps to Success The future for many services will be cloud hosting. Services that are now hosted on on-premises infrastructure, will be able to be rebuilt and consume cloud architectures in new and innovative ways outside of the traditional data center. Imagine you’re tasked with overseeing that development of business services, how do […]
Data Centre Hybridity VMware Hybrid Cloud Extension Earlier on this year VMware announced Hybrid Cloud Extension (HCX). The release and subsequent detail about the service has been a cause of excitement. Why? Traditionally the most complex element of any service migration, is understanding the interdependence between elements. If you are migrating from an environment dependent […]
Presenter – Martin Hosken Session expectations VMware Cloud Provider Vision and Strategy Managed Service Provider and VMware Cloud on AWS VMware Cloud on AWS technical deep-dive How can MSP consume this model
Having worn both my fingers and my laptop battery down trying to keep up with the previous sessions in the day, I didn’t live blog the general session. In brief, lots of numbers about how well the various product streams within VMware are performing. However, in my opinion the session really started to ‘sparkle’ when […]
VMware EMPOWER – Planning Your Migrations to VMware Cloud on AWS Session Presenter – Andrea Siviero, VMware Principal Architect Come and learn how to accelerate cloud migration without complex conversions and run you applications on VMware Cloud on AWS
This is a migration post with a slight change of viewpoint. I’m not going to write about how to migrate a vSphere environment from the infrastructure perspective, there is lots of very good content that covers how to migrate to vSphere 6.5. This is the first post in a series that I’m going to write […]