vCenter Orchestrator - Finally Gaining Traction
I have stated before (here), vCenter Orchestrator was the least utilized and least understood product in the VMware product suites, which is a shame – because the capabilities in Orchestrator are …
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Historically, VMware – the pioneer in virtualization – has always been a software/solutions vendor. They were never in the business of selling hardware, they left that to the hardware vendors. With …
Adopting the Cloud? Importing vs. Building Your Enterprise VMs
This is a re-post of my article, originally published on The Ravello Blog. The cloud has brought a change in how we view and manage virtualization, especially for enterprises that need to deploy their …
SDN Adoption Is Not As Easy As You Think
Yesterday I read an article titled Martin Casado on VMware’s 2014 Roadmap, the Competition, and SDN and the part on which I would like elaborate is the following On the tactical level, …
The Difference between Dev + Ops
This one has been simmering for a while, so lets see where this rolls. DevOps (a portmanteau of development and operations) is a software development method that stresses communication, collaboration …
Private Cloud – Getting Started Guide for the CIO
This is a re-post of my article, originally published on The Ravello Blog. Cloud adoption is on the fast track, companies of all size are seeking ways to adopt cloud while eliminating the traditional …
Some Thoughts About Openstack High Availability
As of late I have been putting some thought into how the underlying infrastructure that is needed for running and OpenStack environment and the lack of built-in high availability solutions to provide …
Installing ESXi with Razor
This is part #6 of the Razor series. In the last post we looked at what lies within the installer. In this post we will go more into detail of how exactly the installation process works. Fort his post …
0-Day Deployment - My Presentation at the UKVMUG
A few weeks ago - I gave a session about how to deploy a full environment starting from a bare rack to a fully functioning environment with deployed applications. Firstly about the VMUG event. I was …
OpenStack Israel 2013 OpenStackIL
This week at the OpenStack Israel conference there was a impressive turnout of approximately 400 people. It was a vibrant day, lots of interesting people from all over the world, and great sessions. I …