Background When Veeam Backup and Replication 9.4 U4 was released in January 2019, it brought with it a new licensing model called Instance licensing. The marketing machine at Veeam would have you believe this is a great thing and possibly a money saver as well as getting better value from […]
Background Following an upgrade to Veeam 9.5 U4, some of my back jobs started to fail with the error, “Error: Failed to find crypto key” Solution There was not much info on the old interwebs about this, but I did stumble across a solution in this Veeam Forum post (Thanks […]
Before we begin If you have not checked out what this series is about then please take a look at the previous parts below. Part 1: Planning Part 2: Ancillary Services Part 3: Management Cluster “Hardware” Part 4: Management Cluster Software Software Defined DataCentre Manager deployment The aim of this […]
Background Whilst deploying bare metal ESXi host workloads on Oracle Ravello, I always thought it odd that you could only specify single core processors per server which results in a 4 CPU system consuming 4 socket license for VMware. When you are limited to 16 socket licenses with vExpert license […]
Before we begin If you have not checked out what this series is about then please take a look at the previous parts below. Part 1: Planning Part 2: Ancillary Services Part 3: Management Cluster “Hardware” Management Cluster Software Management cluster ESXi host install If you made it this far, […]
Before we begin If you have not checked out what this series is about then please take a look at the previous parts below. Part 1: Planning Part 2: Ancillary Services Management Cluster “Hardware”. Part way through writing this blog series, VMware released version 3.5 of VCF. From this point […]
Before we begin If you have not checked out Part 1 of this series, please click here to see what this project is about. Ancillary services? These are the components that are required to make VMware Cloud Foundation work but are not going to be managed by the Software Defined […]
Background If you have read any of my previous blog posts, you may have seen I have run a few different workload types on top of Oracle Ravellos public cloud infrastructure. As a vExpert, a nice little perk available from Ravello is 1000 CPU hours per month, for free, to use […]
Background I have been evaluating Multi-Factor Authentication solutions recently and came across Duo on my travels. One of the things that grabbed my attention with Duo, in particular, was the free access tier for up to 10 users for personal use. Great! I have also had a niggling issue with my […]
Say what now? What I don’t want this post to come across as is a Hey look at me type of post. It is not. Instead, I want to share my journey into the vCommunity over the last couple of years and share with you some of the great groups and resources […]