Category vSphere

• Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
• Platform as a Service (PaaS)
• Software as a Service (SaaS)
• On-Premise
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

Examples I’ve used

What are the differences?

Infrastructure as Code

So what is IaC, Infrastructure as Code? Standardise Infrastructure, Automate deployment and recreate, well-documented code. Exampled formats such as JSON & ARM templates.

DevOps teams will use IaC to recreate production like environments in dev cycles. Validate and Test deployments, prior to a production deployment. The end result being able to deliver a stable and repeatable environment.

Azure Resource Manager

The alternative to just running scripts. Manage your infrastructure resources in a group by templates. In addition, you apply security (RBAC) and tags, then associate costs to the group.

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vSphere 5.5 was released in 2013. Now 5 years on and its out of General Support. What does it mean? My simplistic techie take on this is, you still have support if you vSphere farm has a wobble and you need VMware technical support, and don’t be surprised if the solution is to upgrade. However if your still running 5.5 and your not quite sure what to do, feel free to call on a certified professional to plan an upgrade to the latest and greatest release :-).

What does End of General Support mean?

On September 19th, vSphere 5.5 exited its general support phase and moved into something called “Technical Guidance”. In response to this, many have already moved to a newer release of the vSphere 6.x line. Whether it be for compatibility concerns or a reasonable wariness of touching what’s not broken, there are several of us who The post What does End of General Support mean? appeared first on VMware vSphere Blog .

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