cloudmaniac.net - Romain Decker

…to get ahead. And why not a personal post for once? :) I was almost completely disconnected for the last 2 weeks. After an awesome CTO Ambassador conference in Palo Alto during the last week of March, I flew to Santiago de Chile to join a childhood friend who lives there. After running the 1st trail of my life (not far from Valparaíso), we went south to climb 2 volcanoes (Lonquimay and Villarrica). ...

Nakivo is a solution for VMware backup, replication and recovery. It offers image-based VM backup (onsite, offsite or to Amazon cloud), replicate VM to create and maintain identical copies of source VMs on distant ESXi hosts, provide instant VM recovery or granular recovery (files, Active Directory or Exchange objects), and so on. Nakivo Backup & Replication is designed to to be easily plugged into virtual and cloud environments: the 1st time I tried it, I only needed 30 minutes to download the OVA, deploy the product, configure it and do my first backup (see screenshot below). ...

Edit (December 21st, 2020): I created this script a while ago for my specific need. However, a lot happened since 2016! In the meantime the Cross vCenter Workload Migration Utility Fling was released in 2018, and the Fling has been recently productized and is now part of the vSphere 7.0 Update 1c (Patch 02) release. For vSphere 6.x-to-6.x Migration, the Fling can still be used, but for newer migrations, it is recommended that you use the official Advanced Cross vCenter vMotion feature included in vSphere 7. ...

Another year has gone…bye 2016, welcome 2017! Looking back at 2016: I travelled a little more than 100,000 km I had the chance to fly over to the US seven times, essentially to Palo Alto and Austin I attended 2 VMworld (and my first VMworld US in Las Vegas) I had my first experience of public speaking in front of a large audience (> 600 people) I was nominated CTO Ambassador ...

Although NSX Load Balancer is not usually the feature that makes customers buy NSX, it’s quite commonly used. Included from the Advanced version, NSX-V Load Balancer offers L4 (TCP/UDP) and L7 (HTTP/HTTPS) load balancing, multiple SSL options (SSL Offload, SSL Passthrough or SSL End-to-End), in-line (transparent mode) or one-arm (proxy mode) load balancing, and many other features. The load balancing features and functionalities natively supported in NSX-V cover most of the type requirements found in real life deployments. ...