Goodbye Tanzu Community Edition :sad:

Posted on October 21, 2022

You may have missed the news as it was somewhat under the radar but it was an expected outcome for those that were involved in the community, Tanzu Community Edition has been murdered retired. I don’t consider myself as such since I don’t do... [Read More]

Runecast - From vSphere KBs to multi-cloud compliance

Posted on October 7, 2022

Back at the beginning of my journey through infrastructure in IT, I came across Runecast I think from Yellow Bricks (Duncan Epping’s blog). It must have been around 2015 or 2016 when I was in Scotland and back then the product was somewhat revolutionary within the VMware space as it... [Read More]

VMware Cloud Director 10.3 refresh token and how to use them

Posted on September 18, 2022

In the previous release of VMware Cloud Director with VCD 10.3, a number of new features and improvements were introduced around Kubernetes integration, vAPP mobility, VM placement and a lot more. However, what we are talking about here was release in VMware Cloud Director 10.3.1 and offers authenticated users to... [Read More]

How to Migrate oVirt/RHEV VMs to VMware ESXi

Posted on September 15, 2022

V2V (Virtual-to-Virtual) is a common occurence for IT users anymore, especially for those working in big organizations. Since virtualization technology grows in the cloud computing era, many prefer to build a multi-hypervisor environment to better handle massive projects with different system requirements. Or, just simply migrate from one platform to... [Read More]

Nakivo v10.7 beta tightens Microsoft integration

Posted on August 14, 2022

With agressive release cycles to faster integrate product features, security fixes and customer requests, it feels like yesterday when I was talking about Nakivo v10.6 as it hasn’t even been 5 months. This cadence and the content of the changelogs testify for solid product owning work going on behind... [Read More]

VMs deleted in vCenter stuck in VMware Cloud Director

Posted on August 2, 2022

While playing a bit roughly in my homelab, I deleted a couple VMs from vCenter that were originally created and managed by VMware Cloud Director because I didn’t have time to start NSX-T, ALB, VCD… The problem is that after doing this, the VMs were still in VMware Cloud Director... [Read More]

What's new in BDRSuite v5.3

Posted on July 20, 2022

What used to be the wild west several years ago is now a pretty stable and settled landscape of Backup software vendors, BDRSuite being one of them with BDRSuite v5.3 that was released recently. The company adopted a more aggressive release cycle with BDRSuite 5 to address clients feature requests... [Read More]

Back to basic about DR, BC and HA

Posted on July 18, 2022

Aside from my day job and writing blogs, I teach the odd IT infrastructure courses in universities in the south of France, especially Bachelor degree students. Anyway, I usually get students that are on the junior side in terms of infrastructure knowledge. Data protection and recoverability concepts are often foreign... [Read More]

Data Lifecycle Management and Backup Retention

Posted on June 21, 2022

It is without a doubt that the IT landscape has been dominated and driven by data for the past decade or so and showing no sign on slowing down with cloud sovereignty jumping on the roadmap of most cloud providers in the last couple of years. The explosion of data... [Read More]