Scale Computing have teamed up with Google to leverage it’s Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to bring ultimate IT agility. In recently announced news Scale Computing and Google have teamed up to bring us HC3 Unity an extension to Scale’s excellent Hyper Converged Infrastructure (HCI) solution HC3. This seamlessly integrates HC3’s on premises cloud solution with…
Installing a server on our hypervisor with vSphere 6.0
Installing a server on our hypervisor with vSphere So, where are we? We have a virtual server with exsi hypervisor running on as a base for a virtual lab, now as a (out of touch) windows domain admin i think installing windows server to refresh myself is a good a place as any to start.…
Hypervisor installed, what now?
Hypervisor installed so what now? Well a hypervisor has one purpose, host and allocate resources to virtual machines. so to do that we need some way to manage the hypervisor and the virtual hardware it will provide How do we manage esxi? well looking at the splash screen on the esxi server we have a…
Repost : What is vNIC, VMKNIC, PortGroups, Uplink Ports, vPorts and VMXNET3 Adapter
Studying NSX, I found that a review of the differences between vmnics, vNIC’s, and the terminology where in order. I thought this blog post did a good job of over viewing the terms. What is vNIC, VMKNIC, PortGroups, Uplink Ports, vPorts and VMXNET3 Adapter ” Virtual Networking is one of the Key…
Scale on the up with Scale computing Hypercore 7.3 and Hardware updates
Scale on the up with Scale computing Hypercore 7.3 and Hardware updates Scale Computing have been making waves in the hyperconvergence world and their recent announcement of hardware updates and new admin friendly additions to their HyperCore management software are sure to continue to impress. Especially considering the recent News of their HC3 cloud utility…
Let’s get started…. with VMware workstation pro (12)
Let’s get started…. So, I need to learn about VMware, what’s the best way to go about it I asked myself? Jump on In and install VMware workstation pro (12) and have a play! My desktop has 8 4ghz cores, 24 gigs of ram and a few terabytes of disk, I think I should be…
It Begins…
Howdy! Phew, now that’s out the way, I was expecting writers block, but hey, no! Who is this fool you ask? Well let me introduce myself, My name is Phil Marsden and I have been invited by @rogerlund to start blogging my experiences, well at least my experiences in the world of cloud computing…
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…
Netapp ‘s Soldifire HCI Overview at VMworld 2017 – Tech Field Day Extra.
Netapp ‘s Soldifire HCI Overview. I had a chance to get a overview of Netapp’s new HCI Product while at Tech Field Day Extra while attending VMworld 2017. I’ve long been a fan of the Solidfire Technology. From the early day’s to after the purchase and the re-branding of the product into Netapp. …