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Top vBlog 2014

By on February 27, 2014 in VMware Posts

Wow! The voting for Top vBlog 2014 is now open! I didn’t blog as much over 2013 as I wanted, but have been able to pick back up after changing roles and I hopefully have some content that people will find interesting, so 2014 will be an exciting year for me personally.  I hope people over the past year have enjoyed the small articles I wrote.  Please note: If you kindly vote for me, my site is listed under my old domain name virtual-blog.com. One of things I wanted to do was list some of my favourite bloggers, that I read regularly and feel are worth a mention. Duncan Epping Kendrick Coleman Chris Colotti Eric Sloof Cormac Hogan Rawlinson Rivera William Lam Alan Renouf Frank Denneman Massimo Re Ferre Eric Siebert recommends to keep the following in mind when voting for your top blogs: Longevity – Anyone can start a blog but […]

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Configure vCHS Endpoint in vCAC

By on February 21, 2014 in Cloud Computing, vCloud Air

Looking to configure vCHS endpoint in vCAC? I have been asked this question quite a few times since I published my Home Lab design. How do you do it? Well anyone who has used vCAC knows its not just 4 clicks, it requires some thought around how you are going to setup and consume the resources on the endpoint. I use vCAC to deploy to these endpoints in my home lab: This really great video has just been released that has a complete walk through on how to do it. Its worth a watch if you are trying to configure vCHS endpoint in vCAC. VMware has lots of other videos available on vCAC.  Click here to see them all

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Host Microsoft Exchange in a hybrid cloud

By on February 13, 2014 in Cloud Computing, vCloud Air

After a crazy few days at PEX, and lots of conversations with people, one of the questions that kept coming up was how can I design and host Microsoft Exchange Cloud in a hybrid cloud model. Great Question!! This is a great use case for the hybrid cloud.  One of the easiest answers is You could split up your exchange design however you see fit.  Client Access Servers could be hosted on vCHS providing the public facing part of Exchange, with the backend Mailbox servers on Premise perhaps, or split across multiple clouds for DR? Anyone who knows exchange, will be thinking now of all the different possibilities you could have. In my opinion Exchange is the best product to come from Microsoft.  They have advanced it tremendously with every release, and with Exchange 2013 you have all the built in Disaster Recovery and Disaster Avoidance features that really make […]

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Presenting the Keynote @ St Louis VMUG Conference

By on February 6, 2014 in VMUG

Its with great pleasure and pride that I have been asked to present The Keynote at the St Louis VMUG Conference, covering VMware vCHS. The conference is scheduled for March 11 2014. Im really looking forward to presenting, this will be the first time I have presented at a US VMUG, so will be a great experience for me. I already know a few people from the community who are attending, but will be great to meet new people and see old friends.  Please don’t hesitate to come and talk to me. The agenda is looking pretty packed. The full agenda can be read by clicking here. TIME EVENT 7:30 AM – 8:15 AM Registration | Breakfast 8:15 AM – 8:30 AM VMUG Welcome 8:30 AM – 9:00 AM VMware | Update 9:00 AM – 9:15 AM Break | Mingle with Vendors 9:15 AM – 10:15 AM Breakout Block #1 […]

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Multicast within Cloud environments

By on January 23, 2014 in Cloud Computing, vCloud Air

Question: Can you use Multicast within Cloud Environments? I got asked this question the other day on the Q&A for the Virtual VMUG. Their question was “could they use Multicast within Cloud environment?” specifically vCHS. The short answer yes you can but it depends 🙂 The Long Answer Lets initially look at what Multicast is, this is an excerpt from Wikipedia: In computer networking, multicast is the delivery of a message or information to a group of destination computers simultaneously in a single transmission from the source. Copies are automatically created in other network elements, such as routers, but only when the topology of the network requires it. IP multicast is a technique for one-to-many communication over an IP infrastructure in a network. It scales to a larger receiver population by not requiring prior knowledge of who or how many receivers there are. Multicast uses network infrastructure efficiently by requiring […]

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