TFD10 Prep: VMTurbo
VMTurbo brings manufacturing style automation to IT operations. And it’s about time! Read More
VMTurbo brings manufacturing style automation to IT operations. And it’s about time! Read More
Platform9 bring simplicity and ease of use to OpenStack, but can they do white glove service at low cost? Read More
Rubrik want to bring hyper-converged infrastructure to secondary storage. Read More
Justin chats to Veeam about what it takes to found a successful software company, and how to appear to the enterprise and SMB customers at the same time. Read More
This week sees me back in Austin, TX for DellWorld 2015. I accepted the invitation months before the Dell/EMC news broke, so it’s going to be very interesting to see what this year is like. I travel there as a guest of Dell, so that may well colour my impression of… Read More
RavelloSystems provides a cloud-based platform for spinning up a test-lab quickly and easily, and it supports VMware’s vSphere/ESXi hypervisor through nested hypervisors (running ESXi on a Google or AWS compute instance). Platform9 is a cloud-based automation and control platform for spinning up and managing an OpenStack environment quickly and easily,… Read More
This is the third post in a series on vROps sponsored by VMware. Check out part 1 and part 2. I’ve had vROps running in the lab for over a month now, and I’ve also been playing with it in Hands On Labs. Overall, it’s a good product, though not… Read More
This is part of a series of posts sponsored by VMware. Read my disclosure statement here. You’ve got vROps installed after reading my last post on how to do it. Great! Now what? Now we need to configure it to do things. This is both really easy, and also a… Read More
This is part of a series of posts sponsored by VMware. Check out part 2 and part 3. Read my disclosure statement here. What is it like to install vROps from scratch for the first time? Until this post series, I’d never done it, and while you can have a… Read More
To get the vRealize Operations OVA uploaded and installed on Ravello Systems, read my previous post about how to do that. Once you’ve got the VM added to your Ravello application, you’ll need to configure a couple of things so that it starts correctly at boot time. HTTPS Service vRO has… Read More