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  • NSX Activity Monitoring

    May 19, 2016 nsx vcix

    As part of study for VCIX-NV I’ve given myself task of exploring all parts of NSX which I don’t use at work. One of these things is NSX Activity Monitoring, to investigate this I came up with a test scenario and then worked through the steps to achieve a solution to meet the scenario design. Scenario Design …

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  • Create VMware Virtual Machine Templates

    May 17, 2016 vm guest customization vsphere
    Create VMware Virtual Machine Templates

    When creating virtual machine templates I’d like to do this consistently as such I’ll try and keep this post up to date with the settings I am including. CentOS 7 New custom VM named CentOS7, hardware version 11, guest operating system Linux version ‘CentOS 4/5/6/7 (64-bit)’. We’d like a …

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  • vCloud Director REST API

    Jan 16, 2016 vcd
    vCloud Director REST API

    If you find the vCloud Director GUI a little annoying a nice way to get the information you need is via the REST API. Using the REST API you can gather information (GET), update information (PUT) and call operational methods like (POST). There are many ways you would call the REST API, if you want to control this …

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  • DevOps != Products

    Oct 6, 2015 devops
    DevOps != Products

    The last 10 to 20 years in the enterprise has been defined by increasing capital spending on fixed assets (CapEx) while reducing the cost of staffing and operations (OpEx). Gartner report the growth of spend on enterprise application software (EAS) is continuing to grow and in 2015 will grow at 7.5% to $149.9 Billion. …

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  • Project Bonneville - vSphere Integrated Containers

    Oct 6, 2015 docker vsphere
    Project Bonneville - vSphere Integrated Containers

    Working for a company which develops software for business I’ve been keen on following the story of containers unfold. The explosion of containers and microservices in the software development space has been a revolution in the way applications can be architected and deployed. This has put a great deal of power …

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  • VMware Projects Fargo (VMFork) & Meteor

    Oct 6, 2015 docker vsphere
    VMware Projects Fargo (VMFork) & Meteor

    There was announced during VMworld a technology preview for Project Fargo (formerly VMFork) it is likely this will be launched with vSphere6. The aim of Fargo is to provides a fast, scalable differential clone of a running VM. I see this as very similar to Redirect-on-Write (RoW) methodology used by NetApp snapshots …

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  • NSX Distributed Firewall Under The Covers

    Jul 21, 2015 nsx dfw

    An NSX distributed firewall (dFW) runs as an ESXi host as a kernel module added as a VMware Installation Bundle (VIB). The dFW rules operate on Layer 2 through Layer 4; although this can be extended through Layer 7 by integrating with a 3-Party vendor. L2 rules are based on MAC address L2 protocols like ARP, RARP and …

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  • What is Virtustream xStream Cloud

    Jul 21, 2015 virtustream

    If you are an IT consumer with Enterprise workload it is a risk moving this workload to the cloud, how can you guarantee your potential future cloud provider is delivering you the service you require and once there how can you measure how well they are achieving delivering that service. What Is A Micro VM (uVM) A Micro …

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  • Configuring Network Core Dump With PowerCLI

    Jun 17, 2015 powershell vsphere
    Configuring Network Core Dump With PowerCLI

    The VMware vSphere Network Dump Collector service enables a host to transmit diagnostic information via the network to a remote netdump service, which stores it on disk. Network-based coredump collection can be configured in addition to or instead of disk-based coredump collection. This may be useful in stateless …

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  • Docker On Photon On vCloud Air

    Jun 4, 2015 docker
    Docker On Photon On vCloud Air

    There has been a lot of industry noise around Docker and VMware project Photon so these have been on the agenda to explore as well. I generally perform my little research projects running nested ESXi on VMware Fusion on my laptop, but VMware are offering £300 of free service credits for trialing vCloud Air OnDemand. …

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Darryl Cauldwell

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