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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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WordPress change domain names

By on January 31, 2014 in Word Press

Well I thought it was time to change domain names hosting my blog WordPress site. Hello from davidhill.co and goodbye virtual-blog.com So why did I make this decision?  I certainly haven’t taken it lightly.  Moving Domain Names is challenging and requires a lot of thought and pre-planning.  However, I wanted to have a blog site that was more relevant to me personally, rather than just purely virtualisation.  My old domain name just didn’t fully reflect the content anymore.  I was able to purchase davidhill.co when they released the .co domains with the intention of switching.  Now I have finally bitten the bullet and gone ahead with the migration. WordPress Change Domain Names So what steps did I take? Well first off, I bought the domain name (yeah duh!!) Secondly I spent a number of hours researching what I had to do to manage my SEO. This is a really good […]

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Rebranded and renamed

By on January 31, 2014 in Randomness

Hello from davidhill.co and goodbye virtual-blog.com I have decided to rebrand and rename my blog site to better reflect me and what I write about.  Not everything I write about is virtualisation and felt that beginning 2014 it was time to finally move over. As you may notice, not everything is working as expected.  Some of the plugins are crashing the site, and have had to be disabled.  Fancybox (the image popup) is having some issues for example. Please bear with me while I resolve the issues and get everything working. Once everything is completed and fully working, I will be writing a lessons learned post for anyone else considering undertaking a domain name change.  

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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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