Today Mike Laverick drew my attention to his blogpost about BareMetalCloud. He writes about the possibilities to run your virtual ESXi host on their cloud offering. And best of all, by using a promocode, something like MikeLaverickIsAnAwesomeDudeAndThisWillGiveMeCloudForFree or maybe a shorter version, you can get free access. Read all about it on Mike’s blogpost: Bare Metal […]
Veeam first to offer real vCloud Backup?
I don’t often publish news bulletins and especially not about products that haven’t been released yet, but today I made an exception. In my mailbox I found Veeam’s announcement of Veeam Backup & Replication v7. The announcement is about the ability to back-up vCloud Director VMs including the vApp, metadata and attributes. This is great […]
Voting for the top virtualisation blogs of 2013
It’s that time of year again, Eric Siebert launched the new vLaunchpad top VMware/virtualization blogs survey and is asking you to vote for the best blogs on virtualization in 2013. Go to: http://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/1165270/Top-vBlog-2013 and select your top 10 favourite blogs. This year my blogging was mostly about getting to know vSphere 5.1 and my first steps in to […]
vCloud disk space thresholds crossed
Oh those little things in life that sometimes cost you a whole day before you figured out that you we’re doing it all wrong. This was one of those days where I got alerted by some colleagues about vCloud Director reporting “Disk space red threshold crossed.” When looking at the “Datastores” in the “Manage & […]
Software Defined Datacenter Roadshow – Benelux – Free Event!
(Shamelessly copied from Yellow-Bricks.com) Would like to hear more about Software Defined Datacenters from experts like Frank Denneman, Mike Laverick, Cormac Hogan, Kamau Wanguhu and many others? VMware and IBM are organizing an awesome event in the Benelux. Yes this is a full day event, and it is free for everyone, if you just want […]