Author: Michael White

I am Michael White. I started out in this industry with professional services at a Canadian partner a very long time ago. It was a great time and I learned a lot. I started with VMware products there as well. I joined VMware in January of 2007 and left in December of 2013. I finished with Integration Engineering in R&D which is the customer[0] organization that tries to build and test like customers to find issues before customers do. In late 2007 I started a Notes from VMware private newsletter. In 2013 when I left VMware there was approximately 1400 people on that list. That newsletter has turned into this web site. The goal of this web site, like the newsletter, is to share technology ideas and thoughts and make technology more accessible. In January of 2014 I started with a start-up by the name of DataGravity that I think will do great things! You can see more about that here. On February 3rd 2016 I left DataGravity and on April 18th 2016 I joined Veeam as a Global Technical Evangelist in the Global Marketing organization. I will be working on a yet to be released product by the name of Veeam Availability Orchestrator (VOA). In June of 2017 I became a product manager at Veeam. Very exciting.

So, you cannot use tags to protect your VMs?

In Veeam Availability Orchestrator (VAO) you have by default the ability to protect virtual machines by vSphere tags, and it works pretty good. However, I know a customer who is on vSphere 6.0 and tags are not working so they need a new method of selecting VMs to be protected.  It turns out we have … Continue reading So, you cannot use tags to protect your VMs? →

Checking out Admin Center

I had looked at Project Honolulu and I liked it.  So when it became Admin Center, and 1.0 I was excited to check it out.  This is my story of checking it out, and being both excited and sad. Background Announcement - https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/windowsserver/2018/04/12/announcing-windows-admin-center-our-reimagined-management-experience/ Background - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/manage/windows-admin-center/understand/what-is Overview - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/manage/windows-admin-center/overview Review - https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/04/16/windows_admin_center_browser_based_server_admin/ Simple MSI to install … Continue reading Checking out Admin Center →