I wanted to supply a small, yet interesting piece of information that Frank Denneman and I discovered while writing our upcoming white paper. I want to preface the fact we are looking at this from the PROVIDER’s perspective. So from a catalog storage aspect this would be the “Published” catalogs …
Read More »[INFO] vCloud Director 1.5.1 Released!
I know I am about 8 hours late to the party on this one, but there is a few things I wanted to point out. Although this is a minor release, with some feature enhancements, to me there is a lot to this in the way of fixes. The feature …
Read More »Bringing Fitness To The Virtual World
Many people who have been following me know that my only other hobby besides work is Health and Fitness. About a month ago I started reaching out through Twitter and a new blog site, Virtual Fitness, to help others get fit if they wanted to change-up their routines. The interesting …
Read More »vCloud Director Infrastructure Resiliency Case Study
A couple of weeks ago Duncan Epping and I released a blog article that was an overview of Disaster Recovery for vCloud Director. Today the follow-up more detailed whitepaper was released to VMware.com. You can download the full whitepaper from the Tech Resources site on VMware.com. The paper focusses on …
Read More »Gotcha: vShield and vCloud Director Static – IP Pool Considerations
Some interesting conversation around this topic came up during our Disaster Recovery for vCloud testing, and they also rang true when I visited the vCloud Director Bootcamp at Partner Exchange a few weeks ago. The challenge has to do with how to deal with vApps that are getting IP Addresses …
Read More »[INFO] How a vCloud Director Export Actually Works
The question of “How does a vCloud Director Export Actually work?” came up yesterday from a fellow VCDX, Mark Achtemichuk. I was pretty sure I had the right answer based on the work I did around the vCloud clone/copy process a couple of months back. However, I did inquire with an …
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