In two weeks I’ll be heading up to the annual UK VMware User Group meeting. This year a later VMworld Europe has pushed this conference’s date into Christmas season from it’s usual home in November and, speaking of homes, it’s relocated from the National Motorcycle Museum in Birmingham to the National Space Centre in …

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One of the new developments that caught my eye at VMworld this year was the introduction of file services to the VMware vSAN software-defined storage platform. vSAN already offers VMDK storage to vSphere and the ability to host iSCSI volumes, but this feature will allow NFS and SMB file-shares to be hosted directly on …

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Following on from a similar briefing at VMworld 2017 I sat down at this year’s event with a couple of the Rubrik execs to see what’s happened in the last 12 (and a bit) months, and what the future holds for the company. Last year Rubrik stood proudly on their flagship product- the “Brik” backup appliance and software, …

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A quick PowerCLI snippet for examining what VM Hardware versions exist in your virtual environment: Using the “Group-Object” cmdlet we can run up a quick count of all the VMs on each hardware version 1Get-VM | Group-Object Version 2 3Count Name Group 4—– —- —– 542 v13 {VM1,VM2,VM3…} 6257 v8 {VM4,VM5,VM6…} …

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A recording of my VMworld 2018 talk, thanks to the vBrownbag team. I believe every IT Ops person, SysAdmin, and vSphere administrator should do some coding, and this session will explain how to get started. This session will cover the core concepts required along with some PowerShell/ PowerCLI examples. The session is …

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Welcome to #VMworld Europe 2018 Posted by I.T. Should Just Work on Sunday, 4 November 2018 A quick look round the VMvillage just after VMworld Europe 2018 opened- click on the image for a 360 degree view. The village has the VMTN, VMware {code} stages, Partner and Alumni Lounges, Hands On Labs, CloudCred, and VMware …

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VMworld Europe 2018 officially started today (4th November) with registration opening this afternoon. The IT world has descended again upon Barcelona and you can’t go far in the airport or on the streets or metro without overhearing talk of virtualisation and VMware. After flying in over the snow-capped Pyrenees (yay …

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If you’re planning your schedule for the upcoming VMworld Europe event, you’ll no doubt find that some sessions are at capacity. Don’t panic- there’s still options open for you. Is the session being duplicated? Some sessions are available at multiple times- for example vSphere Clustering Deep Dive, Part 1: vSphere HA …

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In one month from now I’ll be speaking at VMworld in Barcelona with a concise session on coding skills for the IT operations team. To quote the abstract for the session: I believe every IT Ops person, SysAdmin, and vSphere administrator should do some coding This belief is one I definitely work to in my day-to-day IT …

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With VMworld US 2018 out of the way, focus turns to the European conference now only a couple of months away. For attendees of the Barcelona event, 25th September is a date to put in your diary as the “Schedule Builder” will be released. The Schedule Builder is used to book yourself seats in the hundreds of sessions …

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