Do you have the right insights?
Are you transitioning to cloud? Do you have the right insights for that? In my last blogpost I wrote about NetApp being more than just a storage vendor. I explained that NetApp is a cloud-led data-centric software company that helps organizations unlock the best of…
Perception is everything
Wow, it really has been a while ago since I wrote my last blog. A lot has happened. The COVID-19 pandemic really kicked-in globally, social distancing, working from home since March 2020, Zoom and Teams are my best two friends now, homeschooling two teenage sons,…
Cybersecurity Trends & Predictions for 2021
Being able to retain customer trust has never been more important – or more difficult – following the events of 2020. With so much disarray and widespread changes to working patterns, such as the mass migration to remote working, the job of keeping businesses secure…
VMGuru TV Episode 4
It almost didn’t happen: VMGuru TV Episode 4. We planned on talking about VMworld 2020 and vSphere 7, but, the first attempt was no good. Even though we’re almost daily in Zoom calls, recording is something different. We forgot some important configuration that resulted in…
Get Insight in an Advanced Ransomware Threat
Cyberthreats, including devious attacks such as ransomware, spyware and malware, are among the most common IT challenges. What would you do in case your data is attacked and held ransom? Attacks have increased in numbers and complexity and spread to organisations of any size and…
VMGuru TV Episode 3 – Our VMworld 2020 recommendations
You probably didn’t miss it, but it is almost time for VMworld 2020. This year it will be held in a virtual format. From September 29 till October 1 you have the possibility to not only see, but also ‘Shape your Future’. VMworld 2020 will…
Today’s the day! Register for the vMA & vNS TechCon 2020!
Yes! Today’s the day that you can register for our annual vCommunity event the vMA & vNS TechCon 2020 – one event with two tracks focussing on: Management & Automation (vMA) and Networking & Security (vNS). October 29th is the date for our 3rd edition…
Gain insight in Kubernetes
In my previous post I showed how easy it is to deploy and manage Kubernetes clusters and namespaces using VMware vRealize Automation. In my case, Kubernetes is automatically installed on Virtual Machines running on a VMware vSphere infrastructure. These Virtual Machines run pods, containers, storage-…
VMGuru TV Episode 2: What if you need support?
I hope you had as much fun watching our first episode as we did making it. And like the saying goes: One is none, we decided that we would make another episode. And this time we’re talking about getting support. In this episode Alex and…
Kubernetes as a Service
In 2017 I wrote a blog on Containers as a Service. In that time Docker containers were the next new big thing and VMware created a tightly integrated solution for vSphere, named vSphere Integrated Containers (VIC) to run containers on vSphere like a VM and…
We finally did it: VMGuru TV Episode 1 – working / learning from home
A couple of weeks ago Alex and I were talking about what we can do for VMGuru to keep giving you relevant information. Blogging is an interesting format, but it takes a lot of time: research, writing, rewriting because it was not easy to read, getting…
Add Veeam to a Workgroup, Domain or Forest?
Microsoft Active Directory is the heart of the IT infrastructure for nearly every organization. When setting up the Veeam Availability infrastructure keep in mind the principle that a data protection system should not rely on the environment it is meant to protect in any way!…
Monitor QNAP NAS devices with vROPS SNMP Adapter
vRealize Operations (vROPS) is a great tool to monitor your vSphere environment. What’s so great about vROPS is that it can be extended with (3rd-party) Management Packs to communicate with a wide variety of infrastructure components such as servers, network switches and storage devices and…
How to install HyTrust KeyControl 5.1 in vSphere 6.7
In vSphere 6.7 VMware has added a new device called virtual TPM 2.0. Before you can use and add this device to virtual machines vSphere VM Encryption needs to be in place. Starting with vSphere 6.5, you can take advantage of Virtual Machine encryption. Encryption…
Create Custom Names with vRealize Automation 8
In the latest version of vRealize Automation (vRA), version 8, when you create a new blueprint for deploying a Virtual Machine, you probably noticed once you deploy the Virtual Machine it gets a standard machine name something like Cloud_Machine_1-mcmxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx. But most customers use their own…