V2V (Virtual-to-Virtual) is a common occurence for IT users anymore, especially for those working in big organizations. Since virtualization technology grows in the cloud computing era, many prefer to build a multi-hypervisor environment to better handle massive projects with different system requirements. Or, just simply migrate from one platform to... [Read More]

With agressive release cycles to faster integrate product features, security fixes and customer requests, it feels like yesterday when I was talking about Nakivo v10.6 as it hasn’t even been 5 months. This cadence and the content of the changelogs testify for solid product owning work going on behind... [Read More]

While playing a bit roughly in my homelab, I deleted a couple VMs from vCenter that were originally created and managed by VMware Cloud Director because I didn’t have time to start NSX-T, ALB, VCD… The problem is that after doing this, the VMs were still in VMware Cloud Director... [Read More]

What used to be the wild west several years ago is now a pretty stable and settled landscape of Backup software vendors, BDRSuite being one of them with BDRSuite v5.3 that was released recently. The company adopted a more aggressive release cycle with BDRSuite 5 to address clients feature requests... [Read More]

Aside from my day job and writing blogs, I teach the odd IT infrastructure courses in universities in the south of France, especially Bachelor degree students. Anyway, I usually get students that are on the junior side in terms of infrastructure knowledge. Data protection and recoverability concepts are often foreign... [Read More]

It is without a doubt that the IT landscape has been dominated and driven by data for the past decade or so and showing no sign on slowing down with cloud sovereignty jumping on the roadmap of most cloud providers in the last couple of years. The explosion of data... [Read More]

I recently wrote a piece about how to get started with CAPVCD, the Cluster API provider for VMware Cloud Director and kept playing with it. One of the great things with CAPVCD is that the upstream implementation automatically deploys the VCD CSI into the workload clusters using a ClusterResourceSet... [Read More]

Setting up a backup environment is among the most important aspects of an SDDC and this is a valid statement whether you are a 5 people startup or a 40.000 employees corporation. Backups can make or break businesses. There has been several occurences of businesses going under following a data... [Read More]

In recent months I have been busy learning about Kubernetes and Cluster API, an open source project that lets you provision Kubernetes clusters in a declarative way from within a Kubernetes cluster (called the management cluster). I already wrote... [Read More]

Data protection and recovery is among the main concerns of most organizations as losing data due to an outage with no restore capabilities can make or break a business. Keeping up with current trends is paramount to Backup vendors as ransomware attacks become more and more sophisticated and there is... [Read More]