Ok, We all like fast storage, and E8 are blazing new trails with their shared NVMe storage solutions, facilitating distributed storage at mind bending speeds, Utilizing the massively parallel capabilities of the NVMe protocol. With massive overhead in the NVMe protocol E8`s potential for expansion and optimization make them a storage provider to watch.…
vBE – VM Backup Essentials
I have been given the opportunity to blog about a new product from Unitrends. The new product is called VM Backup Essentials, or vBE for short. Certain bloggers were provided a blogger release which I am going to post below. I will add my comments under each section as I downloaded the product into my…
WhereScape Announces WhereScape Migration Express for Snowflake
WhereScape has released a product to help companies migrate existing data warehouses, vaults and marts to Snowflake. The name of the product is WhereScape® Migration Express™ for Snowflake. Their goal is to make this migration fast and easy for organizations. For more information, check out the press release below. WhereScape Announces WhereScape® Migration Express™ for Snowflake…
Change Host Hostname and DNS in vSphere 6.7 in vCenter.
With the release of vSphere 6.7, The interface looks a bit different. Thus , I thought I would do a write up on how to change a ESXi Host’s Hostname and DNS in vSphere 6.7 within vCenter. We are going to use the HTML 5 interface. Lets expand to the host…
E8 Storage Announces InfiniBand Support Extending High Performance Compute (HPC) Options for New and Existing Customers
Big news from growing storage player, E8. Bringing InfiniBand to its blazingly fast storage solutions. In a very welcome move E8 have announced added support for InfiniBand to their storage solutions for customers looking to leverage the blazing speed of the centralized NVMe flash only storage, in storage intensive workloads via the speed of InfiniBand.…
How To Properly Shutdown vCenter Appliance 6.5
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…
Installing ESXI 6.5
OK, So its been a while and now the holidays are over i’m back on it, so after discovering that there were significant changes between ESXI 6.0 and 6.5 I decided it was time to start over with 6.5. so without further ado lets rebuild my virtual lab and get a hypervisor installed. As a…
Repost: Avere Systems is Acquired by Microsoft
Big congratulations to Avere Systems, who recently announced their acquisition by Microsoft. Avere is a company I’ve followed since inception in 2008. Their technology started as an edge NAS filer, extending data centre content to branch offices. Over time, the platform became virtual and moved to the public cloud. Today, vFXT (the cloud instance of…
Looking Forward to 2018
Looking Forward to 2018…. 2017 was the year of virtualization, the days of buying dedicated hardware is coming to a close. and I can only see this continuing as the power of virtualization is clear for all to see, dedicated task orientated servers are relics from the past being phased out in all sectors. Virtualization…
New Tintri FlexDrive Lets Customers Expand All-Flash Storage Capacity One Drive at a Time
New Tintri FlexDrive Lets Customers Expand All-Flash Storage Capacity One Drive at a Time Organizations simply insert drives and click-to-expand storage capacity Exciting news for Tintri customers, and potential costomers alike, Tintri, a leading player in enterprise storage solutions have announced this morning an exciting development allowing much more granular and affordable storage for enterprises.…