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My 2015 Predictions
So it’s that time of year and this year I decided to post my 2015 predictions. I like to keep it short and sweet though.
- We’ll see the emerging companies that are developing the glue to help hybrid cloud really work come to fruition. The ability to move VMs between clouds will become easier. The problem I see is there will be no standard. My advice is, be careful of lock-in.
- More Service Providers will be doing Desktop as a Service. The technologies like Desktone/Horizon/Airwatch are coming into alignment
- Last but not least and this one I have no information to back up this prediction but I believe at least one of my previous employers is ripe for acquisition. Read into that what you want 🙂
All the best all….
Starwind Silver Sponsor
I’m pleased to announce Starwind Software as a Silver sponsor.
Now I first came across Starwind in 2006. Back then the company was part of RocketDivision . In 2006 I was looking for a software ISCSI solution so I didn’t have to purchase a piece of hardware. I used it for VMware training courses to demonstrate VMware works with ISCSI as it was new back then. The nice guys at Starwind gave me a NFR and in return I showed it off to both VMware and students of VMware.
Since then I blogged about them here and there whilst watching the solution mature from a standard ISCSI target to a solution that has backup, dedupe and is software defined.
StarWind Virtual SAN is entirely software-based, hypervisor-centric virtual machine storage. It creates a fully fault-tolerant and high-performing storage pool that is built for the virtualization workload “from scratch”. StarWind Virtual SAN basically “mirrors” inexpensive internal storage between hosts. Virtual SAN completely eliminates any need for an expensive SAN or NAS or other physical shared storage. It seamlessly integrates into the hypervisor for unbeatable performance and exceptional simplicity of use.
VMware and Wildcard Certificates
Recently I rebuilt my lab and decided to go for a wildcard certificate to get rid of those irritating security warnings. I found some nasty things happen down the line and in fact I ended up rebuilding my lab completely once again to fix the numerous problems I had which I believe was caused by using wildcard certs. Below I drew up a table of my experience:
| Feature | Use Wildcard | Comment |
| vCenter | Yes but NO | Seems to work but then you find nasty things later like the storage profile function doesn’t work |
| vCenter SSO | NO | Stops services |
| Web Client | No | Stops services |
| Log Browser | No | Stops services |
| vCAC | No | Not happy about the hostname in the cert |
| vCAC SSO | No | Not happy about the hostname in the cert |
| View | Yes | Seems OK |
| Horizon Workspace Configurator | Yes | Seems OK |
| Horizon Worksapce Gateway | Yes | Seems Ok |
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