Upgrading to vSAN 6.7 – That was easy!
Background. I recently moved my vSAN 6.6 cluster from VCSA 6.5 to VCSA 6.7 which I detailed in this blog post. The next item on the list was to upgrade to the latest version...
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Moving vSAN 6.6 cluster from vCenter 6.5 to vCenter 6.7
Background. A little bit of background for you folks, I wrote a blog post a little while ago on how to deploy a 6.5 VCSA appliance onto Oracle Ravello bare metal. On the back...
Connecting Oracle Ravello applications with VeeamPN and Elastic IP’s
Background. If you are not familiar with the concept of an application in Ravello, it is a grouping of virtual machines that run in a defined region (notice I avoided saying container there, could become...
Quick and Dirty – How to add a static route to Nutanix CVM
Background My use case is that I have two Nutanix CE clusters connected with a VPN link. I have no ability to modify the routes on a router, so the next best thing is...
Quick and Dirty – Settings to make ESXi 6.7 work on Oracle Ravello
Background This is something a couple of us had been working on in the background during the vSphere 6.7 Beta testing to try and make it run on Oracle Ravellos cloud, which has a free...
Get out of any cloud for free with Veeam Agent free edition
Really? Ok, so maybe I lured you here with some marketing spin whilst omitting a few key details. However, given the right conditions, this is absolutely true. I was working on a project recently...
Oracle Ravello Bloggers Day 2 – The why
Why? I am going to try something a little different here and start with why for the rather than what, after watching this TED video from Simon Sinek. I made an investment in myself...
Deploy Nutanix CE 5.5 onto bare metal Oracle Ravello
Background. For a long time, I have wanted to build a Nutanix Community Edition (CE) cluster but never had the hardware to be able to do so. Enter Ravello by Oracle. I have covered...
How to deploy a Veeam proxy server to Azure
Background. Following on from my previous post about recovering virtual machines to Azure, there was a step I did not cover. Deploying a Veeam Proxy in Azure will improve recovery times as the data can...
Deploy VMware VCSA 6.5 onto bare metal Oracle Ravello
Background. Let’s start with Oracle Ravello, what is it and why am I bothered about it? There is an overview of the service here but let me show you the headline blurb. Enterprise VMware...
