Technical Support Summit 2018
Troubleshoot with the experts Next month will see the next technical support summit, which will be held in Cork, Ireland. This is a jam-packed 2-day event which will see our lead technical support engineers in EMEA deliver deep-dive technical troubleshooting workshops to attendees. This has something for everyone, ranging from vRealize Operations and Log [...]
What’s in the vSphere and vSAN 6.7 release?
Today VMware unveils vSphere version 6.7, which also includes a new version of vSAN. In this post, I am going to highlight some of the big-ticket items that are in vSphere 6.7 [...]
Getting started with Cloudera Hadoop on vSphere
This past week, my buddy Paudie and I have been neck-deep in Cloudera/Hadoop, with a view to getting it successfully deployed on vSphere. The purpose of this was solely a [...]
A closer look at VMware’s latest Cloud Launch
Today VMware has another cloud launch update, and this one is significant for many reasons. Our underlying goals of VMware Cloud are many. From an infrastructure perspective, [...]
Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI), Sustainability and Green IT
I'm sure it will come as no surprise to many readers that virtualization has brought (and continues to bring) huge benefits with regards to data center efficiency. I'm sure [...]
Which policy changes can trigger a rebuild on vSAN?
Some time ago, I wrote about which policy changes can trigger a rebuild of an object. This came up again recently, as it was something that Duncan and I covered in our VMworld [...]