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In a nutshell … Bye bye vScope, hello vRops

In a nutshell … Bye bye vScope, hello vROps

If you’re one of our Hosted Private Cloud managed VMware customers, you are probably familiar with the vScope view we’ve been providing for a long time. Well, this view will be soon replaced by a new dashboard based on VMware Aria Operations (vROps) This new dashboard includes more information that vScope. It still provides real […]

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In a nutshell: VMWare TKGm and vNKP on Hosted Private Cloud

In a nutshell…VMware TKGm and vNKP on Hosted Private Cloud

As the end of the year approaches, our Hosted Private Cloud powered by VMWare offer welcomes two important features enabled by the vSphere 7 update: Tanzu Kubernetes Grid multicloud (TKGm) and vSphere Native Key Provider (vNKP). As much as « Tanzu » was expected and follows the release of Tanzu CE, the availability of vNKP can come

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Uncovering our Managed Bare Metal Essentials range

Uncovering our Managed Bare Metal Essentials range

With remote working becoming widespread and an increase in online services, companies are having to accelerate their cloud transition. The demands on infrastructures and technical teams are growing, and the challenges associated with rapid, large-scale deployments of digital solutions have both financial and human impacts. In order to make life easier for our hosting and

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Industrialising storage benchmarks with Hosted Private Cloud from OVHcloud

Industrialising storage benchmarks with Hosted Private Cloud from OVHcloud

Benchmarking is a much debated topic in the computing industry due to the countless methods and approaches. However, this blog will not list all of these approaches but instead provide an insight into the way we benchmark different kinds of storage available under our Hosted Private Cloud solutions.  Before discussing this in more detail we

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OVH Private Cloud and HashiCorp Terraform – Part 1

When discussing the concepts of DevOps and Infrastructure-as-a-Code, the tools developed by HashiCorp quickly come up. With Terraform, HashiCorp offers a simple way to automate infrastructure provisioning in both public clouds and on-premises. Terraform has a long history of deploying and managing OVH’s Public Cloud resources. For example, you can find a complete guide on

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Federate your Private Cloud with your Active Directory

Federation is a beta feature offered to all OVH Private Cloud customers with vCenter 6.5. If you want to be part of the beta, please contact our support team. It allows you to use an external Microsoft Active Directory as the authentication source to access to the VMware vCenter server. The implementation of this feature has

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Upgrading vSphere

How we’ve updated 850 vCenter in 4 weeks

Handling release management on enterprise software isn’t an easy job: updating infrastructures, coping with the fear of not being supported by the software editor, upgrading licenses to be compatible with new versions, and taking all precautions to rollback if something isn’t working as expected…

With OVH Private Cloud, we take away from you this responsibility, we are managing this time-costing and stressful aspect to allow you to concentrate in your business and your production.

But, this doesn’t mean it’s not a challenge for us neither.

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