NSX-V, vRealize, All-Flash VSAN Homelab
16 May 2016As VMware add more products to its suite its more difficult to run a suitable homelab to host them. With this I aim to describe the steps I followed to create my current homelab.
(Read more...)As VMware add more products to its suite its more difficult to run a suitable homelab to host them. With this I aim to describe the steps I followed to create my current homelab.
(Read more...)Over the last few years the suite of products which VMware offer has grown its made it less practical to obtain
and run enough hardware for a home learning lab. At the same time the cloud promises access to resources on demand
and paid for as consumed. I came across Ravello who offer a unique proposition, namely running nested ESXi on
public cloud. They are able to achieve this as they have written an abstraction layer called HPX which offers
nested virtualisation engine, a software defined network and a storage overlay. The solution is pay as you use,
and so seems potentially the ideal way to run my homelab cloudlab.
The last 10 to 20 years in the enterprise has been defined by increasing capital spending on fixed assets (CapEx) while reducing the cost of staffing and operations (OpEx). Gartner report the growth of spend on enterprise application software (EAS) is continuing to grow and in 2015 will grow at 7.5% to $149.9 Billion. According to the Hardware Business Review in 2011 one in six IT projects had an average cost overrun of 200% and a schedule overrun of 70%.
(Read more...)Working for a company which develops software for business I’ve been keen on following the story of containers unfold. The explosion of containers and microservices in the software development space has been a revolution in the way applications can be architected and deployed. This has put a great deal of power in the hands of the developer but with great power comes great responsibility for operational management.
(Read more...)Historically VMware engineers and architects produce best practice documentation by way of reference architectures and whitepapers which are product and product version focused. As the VMware product portfolio is expanding to more of a suite of products under the banner Software-Defined Data Centre (SDDC) interoperability becomes more important and the best practice settings, testing and supportability becomes more complex.
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