In my pre-VMworld post last weekend, I mentioned that I was invited to participate in a discussion panel at Tech Field Day Extra. I had the pleasure of joining the panel Tuesday morning for a presentation by Dell EMC Protect. Before I jump right into the recap, I want to give a little back story. I … Continue reading Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld 2018 – Dell EMC Protect
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vCloud Director Automation with RES
A while back, I needed to add a new tenant into our cloud environment. I went through all the manual steps needed to carve out storage, compute and network resources, and after a little bit of trial and error, got the tenant deployed successfully into vCloud Director. This process wasn't something I did fairly often, … Continue reading vCloud Director Automation with RES
Netscaler Load Balancing for vCD 9
As mentioned in my previous post, after my upgrade to vCloud Director version 9, I was unable to access vCD via the load balanced virtual IP. We use a Netscaler HA pair for load balancing in this environment, and since I was able to hit the individual vCD cells just fine, this is where I … Continue reading Netscaler Load Balancing for vCD 9
Upgrade to vCloud Director 9
Last week VMware announced the official release of vCloud Director 9. Ever since hearing about this release at VMworld 2017, I've been excited about having the chance to give it a run in production. There are already some great blog posts out there now on the latest features. The other night I decided to upgrade … Continue reading Upgrade to vCloud Director 9
Virtual Volumes on SolidFire
We recently installed a Solidfire cluster in one of our multi-tenant environments. I figured it would be a good idea to test the use of Virtual Volumes (VVols), since SolidFire touts easy integration for VVol use. SolidFire has a great VVols configuration guide, so I used that as a jumping off point. First of all, … Continue reading Virtual Volumes on SolidFire