Over the last few years Proxmox Virtual Environment (PVE) has been gaining a lot of interest as a way of easily managing virtual machines and container images using Open Source software and the Linux KVM hypervisor. In my home lab I was keen to try out the latest (v8.1.3) PVE environment including advanced networking …

As part of planning our upgrade from VMware NSX-V from v6.2.2 to v6.2.4 we became aware of the VMware issue KB2146171 (link) which can cause VMs to lose network connectivity when vMotioned to other hosts following the upgrade. Obviously wishing to avoid this for our own (and customer) VMs, we raised a support case to …

This week Microsoft released Technical Preview 2 (TP2) of their ‘Cloud in a box’ Azure Stack product. This is scheduled for release in mid-2017 to allow enterprises and service providers to run Azure consistent services from their own datacenters. TP2 has a number of additional features over TP1 released earlier this …