Category: Technology

  • VMware Photon on vCloud Air

    VMware Photon on vCloud Air

    Tonight I wanted to provision one of VMware’s newest open source projects on . Photon is a minimal Linux container host OS. It is designed to have a small footprint and boot extremely fast on VMware platforms. Photon is optimized for vSphere and validated on VMware product and provider platforms. Photon supports the following container…

  • Cisco Live 2015 – ABC Guide

    Cisco Live 2015 – ABC Guide

    Cisco Live is coming around again this year and in order to get all of the information to you I thought the easiest way to organize it would be to do it alphabetically. So here is my attempt to give you all you need to know about Cisco Live 2015 in ABC order… Cisco Live Aerosmith…

  • EMCElect 2015

    EMCElect 2015

    First and foremost I want to thank the EMCElect of 2014, I had a great year and learned quite a bit on utilizing social media for the greater good of the community. I’ve always had social profiles and dabbled with social media but this past year I truly learned the value and benefits of social media.…

  • EMC VSPEX BLUE KEYNOTE RECAP

    EMC VSPEX BLUE KEYNOTE RECAP

    Incase you missed the EMC VSPEX BLUE announcement earlier today, you can still access the launch presentation here. The VSPEX BLUE offering is a hyper-converged infrastructure appliance that integrates VMware’s EVO: Rail software stack with EMC’s management software. In  keeping with the EVO:Rail reference architecture, each VSPEX Blue appliance has four server nodes in a 2U rackmount…

  • VMware vCloud Air from Beta to Now

    VMware vCloud Air from Beta to Now

    I was given the privilege to test out what was formally called VMware vCHS on demand, and up until the beta phase of OnDemand you would have to size and buy chunks of resources if you were going to use the VMware vCHS service. When they announced the beta on demand program I was nothing…

  • VMware CBT may not be giving your backups accurate data.

    VMware CBT may not be giving your backups accurate data.

    If you are currently using VMware vSphere and you are utilizing CBT (Change Block Tracking) for you backups you may be at risk of bad backups. Luckily this issue only effects vmdk files that have grown over 128GB in size, so this should narrow down your scope of affected backups. This issue can be reproduced…

  • Shellshock Bash and Bashbug Vulnerability

    Shellshock Bash and Bashbug Vulnerability

    I’m sure most of you are familiar with the Heartbleed vulnerability with OpenSSL and how it has affected most of the applications and systems across the internet. Well a new vulnerability has appeared and is potentially much worse. While this vulnerability is new to the public it has been a “bug” for over 25 years…

  • VMware’s Hyperconverged Infrastructure Appliance: EVO Rail

    VMware’s Hyperconverged Infrastructure Appliance: EVO Rail

    VMware EVO RAIL At VMworld 2014 this year, a new hyperconverged infrastructure appliance emerged. This appliance brings together storage, networking and compute for an easy to manage IT infrastructure. A simple and powerful appliance taking a large step in the SDDC direction. When you no longer have to manage hardware, you can focus more on applications and…

  • VMware Project Mystic – MARVIN Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Appliance

    VMware Project Mystic – MARVIN Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Appliance

    Word on the internets is: VMware is coming out with a new Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Appliance. I plan to use this page to centralize any and all information I find out about this appliance. The converged infrastructure market will hit $17.8 billion in 2016, up from $4.6 billion in 2012. Converged infrastructure will account for 12.8 percent…

  • OpenStack Icehouse Released Today

    OpenStack Icehouse Released Today

    The latest version of OpenStack called Icehouse was released today. New Features in Icehouse OpenStack Icehouse has nearly 350 new features that reflect a community-wide effort to bring the voice of the user into the rapidly maturing open source cloud software platform. Key themes this release cycle have been raising the bar on testing and…