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Terraform As I said above, I wanted to get into some of the examples of actually some of the tools used to provision your infrastructure using code, terraform use the terms “Execution Plans” to describe the way your code is deployed. Terraform was created by a company called Hashicop they have a number of really good tools in this space. The biggest pull factor for me and why I wanted to kick things off with Terraform is because Terraform is cloud agnostic or pretty much any infrastructure agnostic as you can use Terraform with you on premises vSphere environment as well as AWS, Azure andRead More →

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Anyone else feel like they have more Slack channels than they do hot dinners in a week? Yep. Me too! Slack was a game changer for me it was a door opener to a remote team and communication became so much easier than email and even Skype. But it also has or had it’s moments of being an absolute drain on time. I want to touch on 5 things that either will help you in your Slack bubble or just show you that you might be spending too much time in a Slack bubble. 1. The problem with Slack Lets start off with what isRead More →

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From my first post I wasn’t sure what to expect when diving head first into this newish world of Infrastructure As Code and what it would look like specifically in another world I wasn’t too sure about which is Cloud Computing. I felt that although I believe in the first post, I have grasped the reasons behind and the benefits for Infrastructure As Code I think we need to take a look how things were traditionally managed and still are for the most part in on premises datacentre. But also highlight some of the reasons why things are changing. How was infrastructure traditionally managed TheRead More →

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In the last post I said I was going to be kicking off my summer project and this year it was going to be around being more aware of cloud computing, by no means am I going to be knowing everything in the 3 weeks I have set aside but I want to be in a better place than I was at the beginning of summer and understand enough to have a good solid conversation with our customers but also the IT Community. First Steps I also mentioned in the first post about some of the resources I was going to get into but thisRead More →

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Every year the summer months in the UK and all over I guess are a good time to start not only reflecting but also thinking about things, last year we worked on some pretty interesting Infrastructure as code as part of a project that saw a lot of good content come out around deploying Veeam components using Terraform and CHEF, this actually made up the majority of our VMworld session and a few other events thereafter. This summer I felt it was now around the right time to use these slowly dwindling 3 weeks of summer before we head to VMworld to really focus inRead More →

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I am lucky enough this week to be over in Sunnyvale, CA at my 6th ETL which is the NetApp A Team event. It also happens to be the week NetApp have their Spring 2019 release event. Last year I spoke about their Spring Launch around a month earlier. That release saw updates focused on ONTAP 9.4, Security, FabricPool and FlexGroups. Here is a link to that post from last year. This year I wanted to summarise some of the cool and important announcements NetApp have made this week. It was around 5 years ago now that we heard the term “NetApp Data Fabric” butRead More →

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Yesterday I posted the What is NetApp StorageGRID post and normally in true Simon Sinek fashion I would or maybe should have started with the Why… but 24 hours later here you go with the why. As Duncan Moore would say this is the best kept secret at NetApp. It is as described before their Object Storage offering. I first want to point out the obvious and something we hear in every vendor meeting or conference “business” breakout and that’s how about trends or about the challenge of data management. We are the same at Veeam we have a lovely slide that outlines this, andRead More →

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What is NetApp StorageGRID WebScale? Well it is NetApp’s software-defined unstructured data management platform. Or from NetApp themselves “StorageGRID is a software-defined, object-based storage platform that provides intelligent policy-driven data management.” Deployment   NetApp StorageGRID can be deployed a number of ways, this is one of the biggest advantages of being software defined, the ability to be deployed as a Docker container, within VMware environments or as an engineered appliance is all possible. This also allows for a mix and match approach to where and what is deployed in each location, you can choose to deploy differently in each location.   Scale & Service  Read More →

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Introduction On May 30th, 2019 a small update was released by Veeam for the product Veeam Availability for Nutanix AHV 1.0. this update contains some bug fixes that will improve performance but also could improve your day to day management of the proxy appliance and your Nutanix AHV backups. The release notes can be found at the bottom of this post. Minor fixes You can see from the release notes linked below the detailed improvements that have been made but a summarised list of those are as follows: Update 2 includes: Improved backup performance and optimal operation In some cases, the proxy appliance would scheduleRead More →

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We seem to be heading fast toward VeeamON 2019, this year our conference heads to Miami and none other than the famous Fontainebleau Miami Beach luxury hotel and resort. I have never been to Miami, so I am really looking forward to being there but also there is nothing quite like the VeeamON feeling and that of your own conference. The conference officially runs from May 20th to May 22nd all in the same resort. But the fun actually starts on the Saturday for the die-hard techies heading out to Miami they will be starting their VMCE course that runs from Saturday to Monday beforeRead More →