OK so this may seem like a stupid thing to post about but I have been out of the VMware game for a little over a year now. I have been dabbling in it a bit again as we are building a lab at work. I installed the vCenter Appliance today and I needed to…
Splunk Announces Availability of Splunk Enterprise 7.0
Splunk Enterprise 7.0 is now available for download. Some key new features have been added to the latest release. These are: Metrics – which are sets of numerical, time series data are now treated as a first class data type bringing massive performance improvements such as up to 200x faster queries Event Annotation seamlessly unifies logs and…
Splunk.conf Coming
Hello everyone! It has been a while since I have posted. My new job role is completely focused around Splunk these days. Splunk’s annual conference is next week in Washington DC. I will be posting news and announcements throughout the week so stay tuned for some Splunk goodness. Sometime after the conference I will work…
Nutanix Announces New Release with 4x Performance Improvement
The Nutanix web-scale computing platform is getting an upgrade! A new release was announced on February 16 that promises 4x performance improvement for any workload without additional hardware or software license. Some snippets from the press release are below: SAN JOSE, Calif. – February 16, 2016 – Nutanix, the enterprise cloud company, today announced a…
vCenterServer FQDN does not match DNS when upgrading vCenter Appliance from 5.5 to 6.0
Thanks to the vExpert program I have some new licenses for my lab systems. Since I only have vCenter 6 Standard licenses and my current vCenter Appliance is running 5.5, I need to upgrade to 6.0. I found a great walkthrough article on the VMware site that I followed. During step 4 of the appliance…
Announcing Veeam Backup™ for Linux
Veeam announced Veeam Backup™ for Linux on Tuesday October 27 at VeeamON. Veeam Backup for Linux is a FREE standalone agent that delivers backup and recovery for Linux servers running in the public cloud, or on premises. It is only targeted for those type of Linux servers as on premise virtual Linux machines are already…
Introducing Veeam Managed Backup Portal for Service Providers
On Monday October 26 2015 Veeam announced a new offering called Veeam Managed Backup Portal for Service Providers. Here is an excerpt from the press release explaining what this is: Veeam Managed Backup Portal for Service Providers, available through the Microsoft Azure Marketplace, streamlines the delivery of Veeam-powered backup services (including BaaS) for service providers,…
VeeamON – What to Expect
Hello everyone! I am here at VeeamOn 2015 at the Aria Resort in Las Vegas! As a member of the media here to cover VeeamON I just wanted to post what you can expect from vBrainstorm. I will be blogging and tweeting about sessions and announcements while here. The conference general session is not until…
Introducing Altaro VM Backup
Altaro is introducing a new version of their backup software that now adds support for VMware. The previous version was called Altaro Hyper-V Backup. The name change reflects support for backing up VMs regardless of Hyper-V or VMware. I had the opportunity to Beta test the new version and I wanted to share with you…
VMworld 2015 – Day 2 Announcements
The general sessions on Day 2 of VMworld centered around EUC (End User Computing). Here is a quick summary and I will post links to more information as well. VMware Workspace Suite The VMware Workspace Suite is comprised of Horizon desktop virtualization, Identity Manager, Horizon FLEX and AirWatch EMM. The goal of this suite is…