Last week it was my great pleasure to be the guest of the Sydney and Melbourne VMUGs. We managed to find time in the hetic […]
Part 50: My vCloud Journey – vINCEPTION: Building vSphere vApp (1 of 4) – Physical Storage
I recently got interested in the whole concept of nesting. Nesting is used in virtualization to describe a situation where you run a hypervisor under […]
Upgrading the vCenter Server Appliance in vSphere5.1
One of the things I really like about the vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) is the updating function. VMware Update manager is great for patching ESX […]
Part 49: My vCloud Journey Journal – vApp Customization
Warning: Remember for sysprep to join a VM to the domain you will need to have DHCP on your network where your vApp resides – […]
Hello World…
Well, I finally made it through my period of “non-compete”, and now able to launch fully mikelaverick.com. It took me ages to think of that […]
Chinwag with Vinay Gaonkar
Vinay Gaonkar used to work at VMware, and since switched to Violin Memory – last year and this year VMware worked with Violin to smash […]
Part 48: My vCloud Journey Journal – vCloud Connector 2.0 Private Configuration
The new version of vCloud Connector (vCC) was released just on the cusp of Christmas, which was very timely for me – as I’ve […]
vINCEPTION: Home Labs; Cloud Nesting; Nested Clouds; Cloud within Clouds…
[Alternative Blogpost Title: Follow your personal unicorn…] One thing I’ve been investigating is whether I can get ESX, vSphere, vCloud Director all working WITHIN a […]
Part 47: My vCloud Journey Journal – Destination NAT Rules with vApp Networks
In my previous blogpost I was looking at DNAT rules with a vApp/VM on the “Organization Network”. For peace of mind I wanted to […]
Part 46: My vCloud Journey Journal – Destination NAT Rules with VMware View
Warning: This configuration I’m doing between vCloud Director and View is largely unsupported. There’s a couple of things that kind of breaks the rules here. […]