This morning I gave an internal presentation to my colleagues about upgrading vCloud Networking & Security (vCNS) to NSX including vCloud Director (vCD), as there’s still quite some customers that need to follow up on this. In this article, you can find my remarks and key takeaways that might assist you in performing the upgrade without any hassle.
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Happy New Year from SnowVM!
First of all I would like to wish everyone a happy New Year! This post is dedicated to my personal highlights of 2014 and give you a brief insight about the things that have been keeping me busy and how my blog is doing at the moment.
Virtualizing Internet using VMware and Sophos
Have you ever wondered how far virtualization goes? How much flexibility can you implement in your environment and what is the minimum amount of hardware you still require?
These questions will hopefully be answered if you read on.
VMware NSX: Install, Configure, Manage [V6.0] Experiences
Considering whether you should attend the just released VMware NSX course? I have followed the course about 3 weeks ago and would like to share my experiences with the course and trainer.
VMworld 2014: Software-Defined Data Center and vCloud Suite Roadmap
This session brought by Fausta Ibarra and Wayne Greene, both from VMware, was all about the roadmap and missions for SDDC and the vCloud Suite. I will share the highlights of this session with you in case you missed it.
VMworld 2014: General Session – Monday
The first general session for this year’s VMworld just finished and brought us some interesting announcements and provided new and returning VMworld visitors insight into the vision and strategy of VMware. More then 400 unique sessions will be given this year!
VMworld 2014: No Limits
As the ticker on my blog indicates, in less then 4 weeks VMworld will be the center of attention in San Francisco! Whether you are new to VMworld or have been here before, there are always new things to discover, new people to meet and of course an amazing experience to be there!
VMware and HP Software-Defined Enterprise Roadshow
Today the enterprise roadshow by VMware and HP was held at Park Plaza Airport in Lijnden, the Netherlands. This post sums up the highlights of this day.
VMworld 2013: General Session – Tuesday #GS-TUE
This morning the second keynote was kicked off by Carl Eschenbach, President and Chief Operating Officer of VMware. He pretty much recapped the announcements made yesterday:
- vSphere 5.5
- vCloud Suite 5.5
- Cloud Foundry
- VSAN
- NSX
- vCloud Automation Center
See my blog post about the General Session on monday below in the related articles section.
Today we finally heard how many attendees were here in San Francisco to be at the VMworld event: twenty-thousand-five-hundred. Holy shit!
Carl gave the word to Kit Colbert and Joe Baguley for the more technical details.
Next to the announcements, I got to know more about NSX now so I can tell my colleagues more about the technology. NSX makes it possible to bridge your NSX networks (VXLAN networks?) to the portgroups you created on the physical network and make life between virtual and physical networks a reality.
With this possible, NSX will provide switches, routers, firewalls and load balancers on your hypervisor and will be attached to your VMs and/or vApps. No more central network devices, just a bunch of features attached to your VM. Deployed when your VM gets deployed, removed when your VM gets removed. Automation eh? =)
NSX will prevent so called ‘hairpinning’ which means that VM traffic from one VLAN to another, on the same host, will flow thru the physical switches behind your ESXi hosts. NSX will happily route the traffic inside the hypervisor, speeding up traffic and decrease load on your physical network.
The demos about vCloud Automation Center were also very cool. The way customers and managers can request applications by using a user-friendly interface is something I want to build myself! Next, integrating vCenter Operations Management Suite with vCAC provides you and your customer with the latest status of their applications. Even more; when problems arise and vCOPS is able to fix it by adding capacity (in the form of auto-scaling, a new feature in vCAC enabling automatic enroll of VMs to your existing application cluster) or moving your vApp to a different storage tier, for example. These features an be enabled and disabled per user/customer and per VM.
I made some photos during the session to give a better impression of the topics and the speakers.
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- Joe Baguley, Chief Technology Officer, EMEA office of the CTO at VMware
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- vCAC Service Catalog
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- VMware NSX Provisioning
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- Kit Colbert, Principal Engineer at VMware
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- Carl Eschenbach, President and Chief Operating Officer at VMware
In september I will be giving a presentation together with my colleague Eelco de Boer (See related articles below) about this VMworlds highlights. I will most certainly show a demo of vCAC with vCOPS integration; very very cool!
Thanks for reading!
Related articles
- VMworld 2013: General Session #GS-MON (snowvm.com)
- Blog of Eelco de Boer (virtualisatieadvies.wordpress.com)
