Preparing for VMworld 2019 EU
I’d like to start this post saying that this is my 4th attendance to one of the important events in the world focused on virtualization and cloud: VMworld 2019. From…
Infrastructure models for Cloud-Native Applications – Part 1 Private Cloud
Containers and Kubernetes are definitive solutions to develop and deploy cloud-native applications. While the developer must produce code keeping in mind the abstraction of the underline systems, the infrastructure, and…
Focus on vSphere 6.7u2
A new vSphere version is live with some improvements. Near some useful vCenter features and improvements like File-based backup and restores using SMB and NFS protocol and simplified certificate management,…
Storage Field Day 15: The open convergence by Datrium
Today, during architecture design, the choices from old, converged and the hyper-converged infrastructures are strictly bound to capacity metrics and performance metrics which a required by the application. Analyzing the…
IBM PartyCloud at Milan: Codelab, meetups and learning moments
Last week I had the pleasure of participate to IBM PartyCloud, an interesting initiative coming from IBM, oriented to “learn by lab” how can use IBM Cloud platform starting from…
vSAN TechTip: Purge vSAN configuration with esxcli
Hi folks! The reuse of ex-vsan hosts could be a painful process if they are simply deleted from vCenter. In fact the correct host decommission from vSAN cluster is realized…
vSAN Tech Tips: change MegaRAID options with storcli
After my last vSAN deploy based on three Lenovo (IBM) x3650-M5 equipped with MegaRAID M5210 and 2 Cache and 4 Capacity disks, I discover from vSAN health section that a…
Storage Field Day 15: The data protection by IBM
Often we think about IBM as the leader of legacy solutions like AIX system, mainframe, and AS400. In fact for this company, keeping this product line has a strategic reason.…
Storage Field Day 15: Weka.io
For the first time ever in a Tech Field Day, Weka.io presented Matrix, an hyper converged filesystem with different rules and an interesting application in on-premises infrastructure and in cloud…