HPE Nimble Storage dHCI #TFDx, @HPE_Storage , #NthSymp2019 Dianne Gonzalez Hyperconverged Control – Intelligent simple Infrastructure out of sight and out of mind Simple to deploy Simple to manage Simple to scale Simple to support HPE Nimble dHCI platform overview HPE Nimble Storage HF or AF Compute HP Proliant DL 360/380 2 procs per…
Who is Clumio and how do they play in the cloud
Who is Clumio: Clumio Background $51M+ Raised In Series A and B Founded 2017 – Built on the public cloud Co-founders Poojan Kumar : CEO Oracle Exadata Co-founder, PernixData CEO, Nutanix VP Engineering and Products Woon Ho Jung : CTO : VMware, PernixData, Nutanix Kaustubh Patil : VP of Engineering : VMware, PernixData,…
Security Field Day 2
After years of watching Tech Field Day events from afar, next week I will be joining in the fun as a delegate for Security Field Day 2. We will be joined by Palo Alto Networks, Banyan, Extrahop, Illumio, Edgewise Networks, Guardicore, and VMware presenting their visions on security in today’s increasingly large and complex environments.…
HP/HPE Physical to VMware conversion for Windows 2008 R2 blue screens
Recently, I was converting an HP/HPE Windows 2008 R2 physical server into VMware (yes, P2V still happens), when I hit a blue screen on boot. Turned out I was getting an Inaccessible Boot Volume stop error – a partial screenshot is below. Problem was, the blue screen went by so quickly that I had a…
Vembu BDR Suite, first look.
I have previously written about Vembu BDR Suite, so lets go into a little more detail. Vembu BDR Suite is a server based suite of packages integrated behind a single intuitive web console. once installed, logging onto the server gives a landing page with 4 common tasks, adding Virtualization servers, be it Microsoft Hyper-V or…
Windows Backup and Virtualization using Vembu BDR pt1.
Windows Backup and Virtualization using Vembu BDR One of the most appealing functionalities of Vembu BDR was the ability to back up stand-alone windows machines, and should the need occur, recover a backed up machine to a virtual machine, thus offering a easy route to migrating physical servers or workstations to a virtual machine. I…
Investigating and setting syslog settings for ESXi with #PowerCLI
Persistent logs in ESXi are useful in all troubleshooting situations. Earlier this week, I posted about vRealize Log Insight and as part of the quick-start of that product, it can set remote syslog settings on an ESXi host. What should you do if you want to set your own settings – to a third party…
VMware vCenter users are entitled to free 25 OSI licenses of vRealize Log Insight #FreeVMwareStuff
Its not news, but I find that a lot of folks still don’t realize that they are entitled to free benefits from VMware, included with their vSphere licenses. In this #FreeVMwareStuff post, I want to focus on vRealize Log Insight. Anyone who has entitlement to VMware vCenter also gets 25 OSI licenses for vRealize Log…
Cross vCenter vMotion UI from VMware Flings #FreeVMwareStuff
File this under – have you seen it? Cross vCenter vMotion is one of the most useful features that was introduced in recent years. I say that because a lot of times we have consolidation projects in a company that does a lot of mergers and acquisitions. We inherit companies that already have vSphere and…
Cross vCenter vMotion UI from VMware Flings #FreeVMwareStuff
File this under – have you seen it? Cross vCenter vMotion is one of the most useful features that was introduced in recent years. I say that because a lot of times we have consolidation projects in a company that does a lot of mergers and acquisitions. We inherit companies that already have vSphere and…