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 […]
Background. Some of you may have read my guide on deploying Nutanix CE 5.5 onto bare metal Oracle Ravello. Well as tends to happen, software is updated and now is the time to look to upgrade to the next Nutanix CE release which is based on Acropolis Operating System 5.6. I […]
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 of this, I followed the vMusketeers excellent guide on creating a vSAN cluster on Oracle Ravello. […]
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 by attending this event on my own time to learn more about what Oracle Ravello has to […]
vee Afterthoughts I recently attended VeeamON Forum London which was a one day event put on by Veeam. The idea behind the event was for Veeam to update its audience on upcoming features and to provide some tips and tricks around improving the Veeam experience. I am looking at this […]
Background. I recently returned from Tech Field Day 15 where Scale Computing was giving the delegates an overview of their very recently announced HC3 Cloud Unity with Google Cloud Platform. I will be honest, up until setting foot in the fabulous Scale Computing office in San Francisco, all I knew […]
Background. I recently returned from Tech Field Day 15 where DataCore was giving the delegates an overview of their MaxParallel solution for SQL server. DataCore has a long established history in dealing with getting more performance from less with such products as SANSymphony and Hyperconverged Virtual SAN by leveraging Parallel […]
Introduction – VeeamON Wow what a week in sunny New Orleans! VeeamON 2017 was held between the 16th and 18th May at the Ernest N. Morial Convention centre with around 3000+ people in attendance. It was a great opportunity to catch up with old friends, hook up with digital amigos in real life and […]