NSX-T materials and new design guide

Some weeks ago I had a post about why we need a new design guide as with the arrival of NSX-T 3.0 and vSphere 7 many new options came into the picture. Just had to ask and now it is out 😀 Before we check that, let’s see what others…

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My view on VMware Cloud Foundation

Before I commence into any details, let me emphasize I like VMware Cloud Foundation which is the best way forward for clients who want cloud in their premises that works pretty much similar to their currently consumed vSphere base population. No need to explain that is VMware Cloud Foundation since…

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VMware Cloud Foundation 4.0.1 – issue resolved

A month ago or so I posted about having some issues with VMware Cloud Foundation 4.0.1 in a greenfield deployment that uses fully compatible servers underneath. Management domain was never an issue that was deployed many times out of the box – repeated it three times – but the first…

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Dell EMC PowerStore hands on

Thanks to Ingram had the opportunity to put my hands on a real – and remote – Dell EMC Powerstore array. Picture taken by me in our dataceter are all off now, the system is 600km away from me. The environment it was sitting consist two Dell EMC PowerEdge R740…

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VMware Cloud Foundation 4.0.1 – actual challenges

In a proof of concept I am building a VMware Cloud Foundation deployment using it’s latest release – 4.0.1. Before the bring up, there were some questions how to deploy the management domain that uses 4 pnics per server, sorted into two distributed switches. 4.0 major release solved that, Cloud…

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VMware vExpert 2020 application – mid year

The application has been opened for as we reached the mid of this year. If you have done things that help spreading the use of VMware products, presented and evangelized how VMware can help or have a blog/podcast this is your time to apply! What vExpert program is? vExpert is…

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Dell EMC PowerStore

Like half year ago there were rumours that Dell EMC is working on refactoring of its storage portfolio. All agree it was time to do it since many storage systems were in the product line, which all were brought by either Dell or EMC to the table. This caused quite…

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Folding@home – in your datacenter

Unusual topic here, but I am sure many of you have at least one VMware cluster – except if you don’t use VMware, which gives an excuse to close this windows anyway – where you have some excess capacity. At least I really hope that my posts – in hungarian…

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Aruba User Experience Insight – experience

Preface: I am not an expert in wireless networking, nor Aruba products and capabilities, so if I write something incorrect, don’t send me to hell. Our company got a device like this and my colleague, Gabor Juhasz set it up, so he has the credit for all this. Wireless network…

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Factors to consider in case of hyperconverged systems

After having two events related to HCI system I have spend quite some time explaining how to determine design factors and decision points if someone is evaluating hyperconverged as a solution. That list of course will never be finalized as every case is different, however if these points are taken…

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Pursuing exams – being multi use engineer

Couple of months ago read an article about exams in IT profession. If they worth the hard work to achieve them, but more importantly, to keep them. As today’s IT scene, regardless which part of IT we discuss here, but it is true and fair to say, crowded and multi-vendor….

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