Veeam Cloud Backup – Another Great Way to Protect with Veeam!

For current and potential customers of Veeam Backup & Replication, there is a new sheriff in town! Thanks to the awesome folks at Veeam Software, they are introducing the new Veeam Backup Cloud Edition. Why Cloud Backup? The advantage to using Veeam Backup Cloud Edition is that you can leverage numerous cloud storage services (15 … Read more

Toronto VMUG February 6th Full Day Event Recap

What a week it has been! My task list grew massively, but it was because I created my own workload. The reason why: Toronto VMUG inspired me once again! On February 6th the Toronto VMUG hosted a full day event at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre here in Toronto. It was a great event and … Read more

PowerCLI – Add Multiple VLAN Port Groups to vSphere Cluster Standard vSwitches

A recent change to my networking environment added the requirement to put different VM guests onto different VLANs according to their role. This is a fairly common configuration for a lot of virtualized datacenters. What is also common is that we don’t have the design fully prepared when we build our virtual infrastructure. Limitations of … Read more

OpenStack Lab on VMware Workstation – Setting up the All-In-One VM

In our first post, we got to the start of the OpenStack install using the Rackspace Private Cloud ISO (Alamo). Because we had to set up the VM, we stopped at our first menu option. Now we are going to set up the base system using the All-In-One option which co-locates all of the OpenStack … Read more