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vSAN SPBM and vCloud Director

02/12/2017 by Myles Gray Leave a Comment

vSAN SPBM and vCloud Director

I had a question last week from Bozo Popovic during our EMEA field SE training session on vSAN operations relating to SPBM support for service providers that use vCloud Director in their environments. Next up Mr. @mylesagray giving a #vSAN operations overview to our EMEA field at the @vmwarevsan workshop this morning pic.twitter.com/48seQc8i7d — Cormac […]

Filed Under: Cloud Frameworks, Infrastructure, Storage, Virtualisation Tagged With: spbm, vcloud director, vmware, vsan

Migrating vSAN vmkernel ports to a new subnet

03/11/2017 by Myles Gray Leave a Comment

Migrating vSAN vmkernel ports to a new subnet

After deploying a vSAN cluster, the need sometimes arises to make changes to its network configuration, such as migrating the vmkernel network of the cluster to a new subnet. This requirement may appear for example when changing the network in which the vSAN cluster is running, or even, in a more complex scenario such as […]

Filed Under: Featured, Infrastructure, Networks, Storage, Virtualisation Tagged With: esxi, vmware, vsan, vsphere

vCloud Director console proxy and UI on a single interface

20/08/2017 by Myles Gray 1 Comment

vCloud Director console proxy and UI on a single interface

I was recently rebuilding part of my lab infrastructure, and as part of it, I wanted to migrate my vCD cells from two IPs each to a single IP (as this feature was added in vCD 8.10) for both the web UI and the console proxy. It simplifies provisioning, potential routing problems, and load-balancer configuration […]

Filed Under: Cloud Frameworks, Infrastructure, Networks, Virtualisation Tagged With: load-balancing, vcloud director, vmware

Customer, Partner, Vendor.

18/07/2017 by Myles Gray 2 Comments

Customer, Partner, Vendor.

Over the last 9 months, a lot has happened in my life; I have a nice titanium plate in my shoulder now courtesy of a major car accident. I changed roles at Novosco from Infrastructure Engineer to Cloud Technologist – focusing more on R&D and emerging platforms, and I helped out Frank Denneman and Niels […]

Filed Under: Infrastructure, Personal, Storage, Virtualisation Tagged With: vexpert, vmware

Vote for your top vBlogs and podcasts!

01/06/2017 by Myles Gray 3 Comments

Vote for your top vBlogs and podcasts!

It’s time for the annual Top 100 vBlog voting as hosted every year by Eric Siebert. This year is notable as some of the long-standing champs of the blogging scene have chosen to withdraw (notably Frank Dennemann and Duncan Epping) to allow some new blood to enter the top 10. For good reason, as Duncan […]

Filed Under: Personal, Virtualisation Tagged With: blogging

Implementing a multi-tenant networking platform with NSX

23/03/2017 by Myles Gray 1 Comment

Implementing a multi-tenant networking platform with NSXThis post is part of the Multi-tenant IaaS Networking course.

So we have covered the typical challenges of a multi-tenant network and designed a solution to one of these, it’s time to get down to the bones of it and do some configuration! Let’s implement it in the lab, I have set up an NSX ESG Cust_1-ESG and an NSX DLR control VM Cust_1-DLR with […]

Filed Under: Featured, Infrastructure, Networks, Virtualisation Tagged With: networking, nsx, vmware

Recovering NSX Manager with corrupt filesystem

13/11/2016 by Myles Gray 1 Comment

Recovering NSX Manager with corrupt filesystem

I had a bit of a storage outage in my lab due to a funky behaviour on the Synology that I use as primary storage for all my VMs: Today I Learned: Adding IP address to interfaces on Synology causes reboots :/ Lab now in not such great shape. 80 VMs with APD. #vExpert — […]

Filed Under: Infrastructure, Networks, Virtualisation Tagged With: fsck, linux, nsx, vmware

Migrating from VCSA embedded PSC to external PSC

30/10/2016 by Myles Gray 5 Comments

Migrating from VCSA embedded PSC to external PSC

On a bit of a shorter note to my previous article/novella1https://blah.cloud/architecture/designing-modern-private-cloud-network/ – I have been moving my lab to a bit more of an “enterprise” style architecture – deploying SRM was in the way for that, so I had the need to set up another vCenter, however this gave the opportunity to move to a […]

Filed Under: Infrastructure, Virtualisation Tagged With: psc, vcenter, vmware

Replicating SAN on openSUSE with VAAI

27/08/2016 by Myles Gray Leave a Comment

Replicating SAN on openSUSE with VAAI

This article was written a few years back, but never published – it was some work I was doing in my lab to try and get to grips around the work involved in creating a SAN with synchronous replication built in from scratch. It in no way should be used for production, but rather as […]

Filed Under: Hardware, Infrastructure, Software, Virtualisation Tagged With: drbd, iscsi, linux, openSUSE, OSS

VMworld 2016 EMEA: My Sessions

23/08/2016 by Myles Gray Leave a Comment

VMworld 2016 EMEA: My Sessions

It’s the time of year again for VMworld and now comes the unpleasantness of choosing sessions and fighting them out against each other for time slots, last year my session list was basically completely dominated by NSX sessions. Taken a bit more of a broad view, instead with some cool stuff around service provider networking/administration, […]

Filed Under: Virtualisation Tagged With: vmware, vmworld

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Myles Gray

I am a Senior Technical Marketing Architect for VMware in the Storage and Availability Business Unit. Focused primarily on content generation, product enablement and feedback from customers and field to engineering. Read More…

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