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
Hopefully you’ve had time to read my blog on getting VMware vRealize Operations Manager (vRO) running on Ravello Systems cloud platform. Since I recently took delivery of a Scale Computing cluster (kindly gifted to me by the lovely people at Scale, thanks @bocanuts) and I’ve been playing with image installs… Read More
I’m about to pen a series of blogs about VMware’s vRealize Operations Manager product (vRO), and in the interests of full disclosure, I need to tell you that I’m being paid to do so, and the parameters of this engagement. By now I hope you’re familiar with my approach to disclosure, and… Read More
I’m currently taking advantage of the generous vExpert offering from Ravello Systems, wherein we get some free time every month. So far it’s an excellent service, though not without some flaws, but hey, they’re brand new! I may do a more comprehensive writeup on Ravello later on, but if you’re… Read More
I’ve been at the Dell Solutions Tour in Melbourne today, and while the keynote was forgettable, the overall story of Dell continues pretty much unchanged since late 2013. Forrester Gonna Forrester We were talked at by someone from Forrester who waved some barely researched graphs at us (n=150, and really… Read More
This piece of extremely specific Howto information is brought to you courtesy of my #vExpert trial license for VMware Workstation 11. I think Workstation was my first experience with VMware, back in the 2.x days. That or I was using vmware-server v1.x as a desktop virtualisation thing, as well as… Read More
The Melbourne VMUG UserCon 2015 was held last week, and was a great success. The vibe on the day was wonderful, and aside from the usual niggles that always crop up, attendees and sponsors alike told me they enjoyed the day. Numbers were slightly down on last year, but it… Read More
Quite a lot has happened for StorMagic since presenting at Virtualization Field Day 4. They’ve had plenty of good coverage from my fellow VFD4 delegates, and I highly recommend you go and read their perspectives: Jeff Wilson has a conversation with himself about StorMagic. Marco Broeken compares VMware VSAN to… Read More
Multiple tech companies are in the news lately because they’re splitting off parts of themselves. HP, Symantec, and eBay are all splitting off major sections, and there’s speculation about EMC splitting off VMware, and maybe Cisco doing something similar. There was also a conversation about the topic on this week’s… Read More
