Tag : AWS
Written by Christopher Lewis on October 14, 2019 .
Goodbye Wordpress and Hello! Hugo
I have been using WordPress ever since I started my blog in 2016 and whilst it was a great platform to start blogging with, after 3 years I wanted something more from my blog.
Reasons for Change
My reasons for changing my blog was:
- Speed - The blog was incredibly slow to load and was not giving the sort of performance I wanted.
- Offline Blogging - I always found WordPress easy to use but I disliked the new interface and found it difficult to be able to write blogs offline.
- Cost - I was using a WordPress hosting company and that was costing me a reasonable amount of money. I’m hoping Hugo and AWS will reduce my annual bill!
- Learning Opportunity - Changing my blog to be written in Hugo and markdown gives me a reason to go back to my university roots where I was writing a web pages in HTML but also learn a new platform like Hugo!
- Learning Git - Having written the blog in Hugo and markdown, I’m storing my work in Github and this is giving me a real reason to get to know how to use Git!
What is next?
I am still ironing out a few kinks in the blog. I have a list of things I still need to sort out and this will take some time but I’m working on it! These items includes:
Written by Christopher Lewis on March 8, 2018 .
Today was a big day for VMware and VMware Cloud Services with their global Cloud Briefing. The briefing concentrated around their two mantra’s: Any Application, Any Cloud, Any Device and Consistent Infrastructure, Consistent Operations. Both of which resonate with what I am seeing customers are looking for.
The Highlights
During the briefing there were multiple announcements were made and demo’s given, including:
VMware Cloud on AWS
- General Availability of VMware Cloud on AWS in **EU West (London) **- Frankfurt coming soon!
- Introducing High Availability using VMware Stretched Clusters across AWS Availability Zones (Tech Preview) #MindBlown
- VMConAWS now supports native **vSAN Deduplication and Compression (DD&C) **for space efficiency.
- Support for AWS Cloud Formation on VMConAWS.
VMware Cloud Management Services
- Hybrid Cloud Extension (HCE) - Now enhanced to work OOTB with VMConAWS so workloads from an on-premises vSphere can be moved directly into the vSphere based-cloud.
- HCE Enterprise for moving on-premises workloads to/from cloud or to other on-premises vSphere Cloud.
- HCE Cloud for moving VMs between VMConAWS, IBM Cloud and OVH.
- VMware Cost Insight - Enhancements to support VMConAWS to allow companies to understand the relative cost of migrating to the cloud.
- VMware Cost Insight now integrates with VMware Network Insight to enable accurate identification of Network Ingress costs.
- VMware Log Intelligence a new VMware Cloud Service
- Use Machine Learning to analyse cloud based logs.
- Wavefront enhanced with 45+ OOTB integrations to Cloud Native Apps (including Cassandra, MongoDB, etc).
- Introducing Wavefront for vROPs so you can get a full Application view across the hybrid cloud.
Partner Program Enhancements
- Solution Provider and Cloud Provider MSP models will be expanded to include VMConAWS.
- Introducing the VMware Cloud on AWS Competency for VMware Partners
Other noteworthy mentions
- Fujitsu have become a Global Systems Integration provider.
- The ability to use Site Recovery Manager 8 to 1-click recover from On Premises into VMConAWS.
Final Thoughts
If you have 50 minutes then I can think of worse ways to spend that time, check it out at https://cloud.vmware.com/cloudbriefing .
AWS Cloud Cost Insight Log Intelligence VMConAWS VMware VMware Cloud Services VMware vSAN VSAN Wavefront
Written by Christopher Lewis on June 29, 2017 .
Today I attended my first AWS Summit (London) at the Excel Centre.
What is AWS Summit?
AWS Summit is a free one day expo that allows people with all different levels of experience with AWS to get better understanding about its capabilities and how those experiences can be leveraged for their business.
It all started with the Keynote
The keynote was started by Gavin Jackson (Managing Director, AWS UK and Ireland) who covered various topics around AWS including AWS:Restart which is an initiative to help those people (such as ex-Servicemen and youngsters) into the tech industry.
Written by Christopher Lewis on June 27, 2017 .
Tomorrow is AWS Summit in London. Having never been, I am not sure what to expect but I am looking forward to seeing what AWS has to offer.
My journey to learn about AWS started a few months ago using the acloud.guru courses but life has gotten in the way. I am hoping AWS Summit will give me the push I need to get learning AWS again.
Luckily I also know a few others that are attending so it will be good to catch up in person with everyone too.
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- Operating a Private Cloud - Part 1: Understanding Pricing Cards in VMware Aria
- Zero2Hero - Using Aria Automation to Deploy Multiple Machines with Multiple Disks - Part 5
- Zero2Hero - Using Aria Automation to Deploy Multiple Machines with Multiple Disks - Part 4