Bring your own licenses to the cloud
A little while ago Gabrie van Zanten (aka Gabes Virtual World) asked me a question about how you license Microsoft products in a cloud? Specifically he wanted to know how VMware states “You can bring your own licenses to the cloud”. Lets take a look at this. Currently VMware has two cloud offerings: VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) and Dedicated Cloud. The key differences here is that a Virtual Private Cloud is multi-tenant. You are logically separated from other consumers of the service. A dedicated cloud on the other hand is each customer is hosted on physically isolated servers, away from other customers. Its exactly that, its your dedicated cloud. This has an impact on how you license your apps and OS’s. So back to licensing, how does it differ across the two services: Operating Systems – Microsoft requires all customers on multi-tenant public cloud environments to purchase the Windows Server licenses […]
vExpert 2014 status announced
The people being awarded vExpert 2014 status have been released today. On April 1st of all days! I have now been awarded vExpert status for three years in a row, and every year I always feel very accomplished when I see my name on the list. People I have known well have dropped off, and it is with great pleasure and honour that I received this status. Anyway, thanks to the judges who decide. Awarding to 754 people must be a tough job to judge, so thanks for including me for another year. To view the full list of people who have been awarded the status, click here.
AWS Summit Review by a VMware guy – Part 2
Yesterday I attended the AWS Summit in San Francisco. I wrote part 1 of my AWS Summit Review series yesterday, and this can be read by clicking here. That article focused on the feel of the conference and gave some details on the keynote. What I want to talk around in Part 2 is the technical sessions I attended, and what I felt about those. Lets start with Session 1: Introduction to AWS I selected this session, as I hardly know anything about AWS EC2. I created an account in November and deployed a few things but never used it in anger. An interesting area I thought were that they provide different types of service that are optimised for the workload: Compute-Optimized General Purporse Micro INstances Memory Optimized Storage Optimized GPU Instances They are updating the hardware revisions, and have multiple hardware revisions, for example, compute1 (c1) cluster compute 1 […]
AWS Summit Review by a VMware guy – Part 1
So today, I attended the AWS Summit in San Francisco. This is my first non VMware conference, so I admit I was a little excited to attend the conference. I thought it would be a good to write an AWS Summit Review from a VMware guys perspective. So welcome to Part 1. Disclaimer: If you don’t know, I work for VMware in the vCloud Hybrid Service Business Unit. You will not find anything in this article that is in any way detrimental to VMware or its services. If your looking for that, sorry. Right, now thats out the way, lets talk about the day, and provide an intro to my later posts. One of the cool things about the AWS Summit is the fact that its free! Yes free! I like this idea, as it means a lot of people who don’t/cant haver the means to pay $$$ for conferences […]