Saving a Few Shekels on your AWS bill
I have a jumpbox that I use to access resources in the cloud – and I use it at work, only during work hours and only on workdays. There are usually 720 work hours in the month or 744 in months that …
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Subscribe via RSS →Installing OpenStack CLI clients on Mac OSX
I usually have a Linux VM that I use to perform some of my remote management tasks, such a OpenStack CLI commands. But since I now have a Mac (and yes I am in enjoying it!!) I thought why not do it …
Deploying the VCSA 6.0 Appliance directly into vCenter
Hey… Is that even possible? It seems that it is not – at least that is what I heard this week over Twitter. The documentation also says the same thing. When trying to put in a vCenter as the target …
vCenter is Still a Single Point of Failure - An Update
My previous post vCenter is Still a Single Point of Failure caused a decent amount of discussion on Twitter and comments on the blog. I am actually glad about that because it raised a point that I …
VMware Integrated OpenStack - Cost Analysis
VMware announced last week the launch of VIO and there are a number of things that I think people are missing and should be pointed out. The information I have taken is from the Datasheet and publicly …
vCenter is Still a Single Point of Failure
A few days ago VMware (Mike Brown, Anil Kapur and Justin King are the authors) announced the updated document for the vCenter Server 5.5 Availability guide. I would like to make clear a few things …
Keeping up to date with OpenStack Blueprints
OpenStack is a living product – and because it is community driven - changes are being proposed almost constantly. So how do you keep up with all of these proposed changes? And even more so why would …
The Multi-Cloud Future: Challenges and Benefits
This is a re-post of my article, originally published on The Ravello Blog. Over the last year, as enterprise awareness of the cloud has increased, more and more enterprises outsource their workload …
UCS Manager Plugin 0.9.2 (beta) for VMware vCenter
From the official blurb.. Cisco UCS vCenter Plug-in is an extension for the vSphere Web Client v5.1 or higher. It enables virtualization administrators to view, manage and monitor various aspects of …
VMware and the Public Cloud – Frenemies
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 …