MyAccount Relase 61 (Abrolhos) Notes

05-Feb-2020 12:51:42

See below for the public release notes for Release 61 Improvements Improved Password Retrieval System Improved Validation on adding zero licence to cart VPS console now opens in a new tab Automated Volume Discounting Ability to create new cart when editing a saved order Bugs/Fixes Veeam Replication Catalog Page new failed over boostrap card container Resizing VDC allows zero Internet Traffic...}

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Adelaide & Brisbane Zones Launched at VMware vForum Sydney 2019

19-Nov-2019 10:54:13

VMware vFORUM 2019 Sydney ICC – Zettagrid (www.zettagrid.com) today announced the company has opened new cloud availability zones in Adelaide, Brisbane in addition to the Singapore opened last week. The opening of these new VMware Cloud Verified locations increases Zettagrid’s geographic coverage to eight locations including Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, Adelaide, Brisbane, Singapore and two zones in...}

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Singapore Zone is Now Available

14-Nov-2019 10:45:00

We are pleased to announce that the Singapore Availability Zone (SGP) is now publicly available for customer deployments. We have partnered with Equinix, DELL, Megaport and VMware to host the new zone in Singapore. “Since we opened our first zone in Jakarta 2 years ago, we have seen staggering growth which has far exceeded our expectations. This growth has resulted in Zettagrid opening a second...}

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We Are Growing. Three New Zettagrid Zones (Singapore, Adelaide, Brisbane)

08-Oct-2019 08:56:45

As part of our continued expansion across Australia and South East Asia, I'm delighted to announce that we will be opening new Zettagrid availability zones in Singapore, Adelaide and Brisbane in November 2019. All cloud products will be available from launch, which means you will have access to VPS, Virtual Data Centre (VDC), VDC Backup, Veeam Cloud Connect/Replication and SecondSite DRaaS in...}

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VDC Backup - Another Global First (Veeam + vCloud Director)

08-Aug-2019 15:26:47

We are pleased to announce the launch of VDC Backup today. The backup service is a global first and seamlessly integrates Veeam Backup and Recovery Enterprise Plus into VMware's vCloud Director. VDC Backup is fully automated and completely self-service. Here is a general comparison between our existing backup product called ImageArchive and the new VDC Backup. Continued Use of Image Archive You...}

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VMware NSX and vShield Upgrades

06-Jun-2019 09:08:39

There are many new Edge and Firewall advancements at Zettagrid. These advancements will impact all customers at some point, and it is important that you understand the changes. There are 3 phases to our Edge upgrade project: Cease sale of vShield as of 5-Jun-2019 and introduce NSX Advanced Edges as default for new VDCs. Migrate existing NSX VDC management from the Zettagrid MyAccount portal and...}

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Supercharged Update - VMware vCloud Director 9.5

14-May-2019 09:39:55

I am pleased to announce that VMware vCloud Director 9.5 will be available to customers in the next few weeks. This will be a great leap forward in the features available to manage your Virtual Data Centre. In our eyes, it has been far too long since we made an upgrade to the core functionality of Zettagrid. The environment began with vCD 1.0, then 1.5, 5.5, 8.0, 8.2 and now to 9.5. Having a...}

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Back to the Future circa 2010

09-May-2019 09:51:00

Nicki (the CTO) and I have always been about automation and self-service. We are right on the edge of GenX and Millennial and are addicted to being able to order and use whatever (call it WidgetX) at 2am on a Tuesday morning without interacting with a sales person. I want to be able to find all the information I want about WidgetX in support forums and videos without calling a help desk. We've...}

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Project Arkham, Part 3 - Do I cut the red cable or the blue cable?

19-Mar-2019 12:35:11

I recommend you read Project Arkham Pt2 - Yes, Virtualisation is still amazing before reading blog post. Automation for Migration One thing that was missed during Part2 was some specific detail on how we performed the migration of VMs. In most cases you could use the UI to perform the migration. That only works during business hours with human interaction. You wouldn't want to do this 3500 times....}

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Project Arkham, Part 2 - Yes, virtualisation is still amazing

12-Feb-2019 15:35:40

Read Project Arkham, Data centres are like Tribbles for Part 1 of this blog series. There were two major areas to our DC consolidation project which needed to be tackled separately. Firstly, our core business of Zettagrid cloud runs 24x7 and secondly the underlying network with about 2500 last mile services (Fibre, NBN, 4G etc) which connect into Zettagrid could not be interrupted. Starting with...}

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