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VMware vCloud Director 5.5 new features
With the announcement of VMware vCloud Director 5.5 I thought it would be a good idea to list the new features that are included in vCloud Director 5.5. I would like to thank my colleague Ananda...
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VMware Virtual SAN Scalability Limits – VSAN
I have had a few questions off people recently asking what are the scalability limits of the new VMware Virtual SAN. I thought I would post a quick table to show these. Description Limit Maximum...
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VMware SDDC Architects Group
During VMworld VMware launched a Software Defined Data Center community, where architects could go for a few drinks and discuss all things SDDC. This was a really cool idea, and allowed people to ask...
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General Availability vCloud Director 5.5
VMware vCloud Director 5.5 has now been released for general availability. There are a number of new features in this release that will help customers deliver better cloud environments and they...
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How vCloud Director constructs map to vCloud Automation Center
As most people know, I have been working with vCloud Director since its beta days. My mind thinks of cloud in easy bite site chunks of Virtual Data Centre and Organisations. I have now been spending...
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My VMworld Barcelona Schedule
Here is my VMworld Barcelona Schedule? I am a bit late posting this, I have noticed most other people have done this a while ago. I have two sessions I am presenting at VMworld Barcelona, and the...
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Wifi No Hardware installed – Macbook Air Mavericks install
I updated to Mac OS X Mavericks today. After the update, once the computer started up, the wifi wouldn’t work. Couldn’t enable it. Everytime you clicked the wireless icon you got the error WIFI No...
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New role at VMware – Senior Technical Marketing Architect
I have now been at VMware for nearly four years, and I still love every day. I am pleased to announce that I am taking on a new role at VMware – I am joining the vCloud Hybrid Service Business Unit...
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Enable backups of Virtual Machines in vCloud Hybrid Service
Starting in my new role as Technical Marketing Manager yesterday for the vCloud Hybrid Service, I have found that you can very easily backup your VM’s running in vCHS. I wasnt aware you could do this....
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vCloud Connector interoperability v2.5
This is a quick article to document vCloud Connector interoperability and the supported versions of vSphere and vCloud Director. I am not one for trawling through Installation documents to find a...
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My VMware Home Lab v2
A while back I wrote an article on what my VMware Home Lab looked like. (Original Article is here) Since I wrote this article I have been able to acquire some more HP Microservers (Thanks again...
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Rename Edge Gateway in vCHS
As most of you know, I recently joined the vCHS BU as a Technical Marketing Architect. While playing with vCHS, I deployed my own Edge Gateway device, so I could have access to my VM’s from the...
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Multicast within Cloud environments
Question: Can you use Multicast within Cloud Environments? I got asked this question the other day on the Q&A for the Virtual VMUG. Their question was “could they use Multicast within Cloud...
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Rebranded and renamed
Hello from davidhill.co and goodbye virtual-blog.com I have decided to rebrand and rename my blog site to better reflect me and what I write about. Not everything I write about is virtualisation and...
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WordPress change domain names
Well I thought it was time to change domain names hosting my blog WordPress site. Hello from davidhill.co and goodbye virtual-blog.com So why did I make this decision? I certainly haven’t taken it...
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Presenting the Keynote @ St Louis VMUG Conference
Its with great pleasure and pride that I have been asked to present The Keynote at the St Louis VMUG Conference, covering VMware vCHS. The conference is scheduled for March 11 2014. Im really looking...
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Host Microsoft Exchange in a hybrid cloud
After a crazy few days at PEX, and lots of conversations with people, one of the questions that kept coming up was how can I design and host Microsoft Exchange Cloud in a hybrid cloud model. Great...
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Configure vCHS Endpoint in vCAC
Looking to configure vCHS endpoint in vCAC? I have been asked this question quite a few times since I published my Home Lab design. How do you do it? Well anyone who has used vCAC knows its not just 4...
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Top vBlog 2014
Wow! The voting for Top vBlog 2014 is now open! I didn’t blog as much over 2013 as I wanted, but have been able to pick back up after changing roles and I hopefully have some content that people will...
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Change of focus
Most people who read my blog will have noticed the change of domain names. I wrote a brief article on the change here Quite a few people on my travels over the past few weeks have asked why I...
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