New year, new tasks. NSX-T has always been known as a flexible solution to deliver microsegmentation and security in many layers. This should not be new to anyone. Before I commence into the topic and the joyful magical world of FQDN rules, let me tell a story. Some years ago…
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…
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…
Why we really need an updated NSX design guide….
With the release of NSX-T 3.0 and vSphere 7 a new option came in the form of distributed vSwitch. Finally ESXi hosts requires no NVDS at all they can freely consume vDS port groups. I am not stating all options below are valid and must be used. I am here…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Podcast E08 – Public/private/multi/hybrid cloud strategy and approach
As usual I was accompanied by two partners from VMware and together we discussed how to tackle the beast and where to start with the cloud journey. Mikolaj Wisniak Mikolaj is a strategist who has broad experience in large cloud projects and can tell the aspects of all party involved,…
VMware Horizon View 7.12 agent and RDSH server – possible bug
My last two days was nothing but troubleshooting. About the thing above there are couple of articles, but not many. Certanly not if someone runs that RDSH machine on bare metal, not to mention if in VM shape, but not on VMware but HyperV. This is a normal and supported…
Podcast E07 – Home office with company workplace – VDI in cloud/on prem
In this episode I have again two guest to discuss the options of remote access enabled workplace in an efficient and secure way. As earlier my partners are from VMware so they know what they talk about. Only using audio it is difficult to whiteboard something or show a slide,…
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…
Podcast E06 – VMware Cloud Foundation in practice
First time in my podcast series that I have a guest, what more two. So this episode two VMware employees will join me – well I join them – discussing lessons learned of real life VMWare Cloud Foundation implementations and why it should be a way forward for companies. Only…
2020 is the year of VDI – due to COVID-19
It is a returning saying year to year in IT, “this will be the year of VDI”, but usually this never happens. There are implementations here and there – in Hungary I mean – but never too wide. Due to recent crysis the remote working solutions are more actual than…
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…
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…
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….
The shoemaker’s children always go barefoot – own infrastructure at home
Infrastructure at home is a typical example of two distinct view of the same artifact, some say it must be easy as possible while others make it more difficult than an mid sized company IT infrastucture. I used to be in the first group, I was happy with my TPlink/AP…
