5 AWS Certifications in 237 days
Today I completed my 5th AWS Certification. Something which I had hoped to complete before the end of 2017, but life got in the way. I started working dabbling with AWS a while ago - signed up for a …
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Subscribe via RSS →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 …
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 …
It is All About Resource Abstraction VMworld
I am here sitting here at the blogger table on Day-0 (Partner Day) of VMworld in Barcelona, and it is time to close some technical debt (well not really technical but it would be better to call it …
The OpenStack Architecture Design Guide Story
Over 6 weeks ago I posted that I was going to embark on a journey, another book journey, and this time it was an OpenStack one. Go ahead and read the post OpenStack Design Guide Book Sprint. I have …
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 …
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 …
Is DevOps The Answer to Everything?
I was just watching a discussion on DevOps, Automation and Continuous integration and heard the following, “Chef is a tool for doing infrastructure automation - config management, application …
Ravello Systems - and A Bit of Deja Vu
A while back Duncan Epping wrote a wonderful post VMotion, the story and confessions about how people remembered the when they witnessed vMotion for the first time and asked people to add their …