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Dock Dock. Who’s there?
Jason Edelman comments on his blog: In my previous post about Docker, I focused on an introduction to networking with Docker. That post had a fair amount of traction mainly due to it being #dockercon...
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Dell & Nutanix: A Web-Scale Partnership with the XC Series
Bob Plankers writing for The Virtualization Practice comments: Dell and Nutanix have jointly announced the Dell XC Series of Web-scale Converged Appliances, a Dell hardware solution running Nutanix...
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Keep tabs on the health of your VMware environment with CloudPhysics analytics
Laurent Malhoit writing for Tech Republic comments: CloudPhysics is a Software as a Service (SaaS) analytics tool for VMware environments. Recently the company introduced a new Storage Analytics...
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Working with NSX – Configuring VXLAN and VTEPs
Chris Wahl of the Wahl Network comments: It’s now time to build the logical network and the control plane for NSX between the computer cluster resources and the controllers. To accomplish this, we’ll...
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I was DevOps before it was cool – My Pets and Cattle story
Jonathan Frappier of Virtxpert comments: I was DevOps before it was cool and had trendy tools like Ansible and Docker This example precedes the DevOps movement we are currently in. I was working at a...
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vExpert 2014 Q2 Announcement
Corey Romero of the VMTN Blog comments: First we would like to say thank you to everyone who applied for the 2014 Q2 vExpert program. I’m pleased to announce the list 2014 Q2 vExperts. We have a total...
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Learning Moments–HA didn’t work
Alastair Cooke of Demitasse comments: This learning moment came from a health check that I did with a client. They had a small VMware estate with only three ESX servers and a small SAN. They asked for...
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Gartner Magic Quadrant – 3 Year Quadrant for x86 Server Virtualization
Matt Heldstab of Show me the Hypervi$or comments: On July 9th, Gartner released their annual Magic Quadrant for x86 Server Virtualization. I went ahead and superimposed the past three years in a chart...
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Extra! Extra! See you at VMworld Tech Field Day!
Eric Wright of DiscoPosse comments: For those who know if the Tech Field Day event series already as I wrote here, you will know just how much I enjoy the events. Stephen Foskett, Tom Hollingsworth,...
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TechFieldDay Extra at VMworld US
Hans De Leenheer comments on his blog: Oh yes, I’m honoured to be included in the TFD crew yet again. I previously was included in Storage Field Day 1 and Storage Field Day 5 but also at several of the...
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A Quick Introduction to CoreOS
Scott Lowe of blog.scottlowe.org comments: In this post, I’m going to provide a very quick introduction to CoreOS. CoreOS, in case you haven’t heard of it, is a highly streamlined Linux distribution...
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The Emergence of Hyperconvergence
Bob Plankers writing for The Virtualization Practice comments: When it comes right down to it, most converged infrastructures we’ve seen so far can be summarized with three words: gilding the jalopy....
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Platform9 launch a Cloud Managed Platform
Andrea Mauro of vInfrastructure Blog comments: There is a new player in the virtualization ecosystem and is called Platform9. The company is founded by early VMware engineers (with several years of...
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So Ya Wanna Be an Architect?
Melissa of vMiss.net comments: What pops into your mind when you hear the word architect? The cool guy from The Matrix movie? Someone who builds cathedrals, or bridges? The person behind the new...
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What’s in PernixData FVP’s secret sauce
Julian Wood of WoodITWork.com writes: Sure, flash is revolutionising array storage but its going to take time to replace spinning rust with flash and again it often comes down to cost. Purchasing an...
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You Down With NTP?
Brandon Riley of virtual insanity comments: NTP. How can I explain it? I’ll take you frame by frame it. I’m sure that no readers of Virtual Insanity would ever neglect to setup NTP properly on every...
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A Look at the Cisco UCS M-Series
Kevin Houston of Blades Made Simple comments: Cisco is taking a very unique approach with the UCS M-Series. Veering away from the tradition server model of each server having its own NIC and RAID...
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Nutanix 4.1 Features Overview (Beyond Marketing) – Part 1
Andre Leibovici of myvirtualcloud.net comments: Today Nutanix announced the first part of a multi-month announcement for NOS 4.1. This release is mostly focused on enhancements for the areas of...
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The Under $800 VMware Quad-Core 32GB Home Lab
Jonathan Frappier of Virtxpert comments: Because I am a geek, and my needs change, and this is what I like to do I often check out new hardware, cost features etc. One of the things I wish I did on my...
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How vSphere APIs for IO Filtering (VAIO) Changes Everything
Chris Wahl of Wahl Network comments: During this year’s US based VMworld 2014 conference, I had the pleasure of sitting down with the Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld crew to hear a variety of vendors...
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