Yesterday vCloud Director 5.1 was released for general availability. This release is a massive step forward with some really important new features available. The product page is available here and a great Whats new Technical whitepaper is available here Below is a brief list of the new features included: VXLAN vCloud Networking and Security (vCNS) Storage Profiles Storage DRS support Snapshot support Elastic Virtual Datacenters expanding multiple subnets/clusters There are a lot more to list, and I would strongly recommend to read the Whats new Whitepaper.
VSP1168: Session made the top 10 at VMworld 2012
The session I submitted for VMworld 2012 has made it into the top 10. Massive thank you to Chris Colotti, Aidan Dalgleish and Rawlinson Riveria for presenting this session, and Duncan Epping for standing in for me in my absence. You guys rock. The presentation an be viewed below:
Paying my own way to VMworld US
I need your help For anyone who follows my blog, or twitter you probably know that I recently had major surgery on my ear. Due to this operation I didn’t believe I would be able to attend VMworld US, so I informed the powers that be, I would not be able to travel or participate, so my place got cancelled. I have now received the excellent news yesterday from my consultant that my ear is healing nicely and I can fly again. Unfortunately due to the short notice, I am not able to get the internal approval needed to be a speaker. However because of how awesome VMworld US is, and all the great people I meet and know, I have decided to pay my own way there. This is where the difficulty lies, I do not have a pass for the conference, and need someone’s help or sponsorship to […]
Why am I so quiet?
Thought I would write a quick blog post now that I am feeling a bit better explaining where I have been and why I have been so quiet on Twitter. On Wednesday 1st August I was admitted to hospital for an urgent operation on my inner ear. It turns out I had a severe infection that was attacking my balance organ and potentially my brain. They had to operate fast. After an operation of this kind, and with such disruption to my balance organ I have been quite ill. I am recovering but it is a slow process. I am hoping to be back fully fit in a few more weeks. Unfortunately I will not be able to make VMworld US, but will be fully fit for VMworld Barcelona. Thanks for all your support. The pictures below are taken from when I came out of theatre. Hope to see you all […]
vCloud Ecosystem Monitoring Architecture
This is a re-post of the VMware blog article I wrote over at http://blogs.vmware.com/vcloud/2012/07/vcloud-ecosystem-monitoring-with-vcenter-operations-and-vfabric-hyperic.html At the beginning of this year, a team within VMware looked at how we could utilise vCenter Operations and vFabric Hyperic to create a vCloud Monitoring solution. The following blog post shows how this architecture fits together and is integrated. I wrote a previous article giving an overview of the integration points, which can be read by clicking here. Architecture The integration of these products relies on a vCloud environment following the vCAT reference architecture. There are numerous articles written on how to design your vCloud environments, which this article will not go in too, however the following diagram depicts the logical representation of a vCloud Environment as taken from the vCAT documentation. The Management Cluster contains all the vCloud Infrastructure Virtual Machines that are required to provide the vCloud ecosystem. The following list depicts the […]