Month: April 2013

San Diego VMUG: Infrastructure Convergence with SimpliVity

This San Diego VMUG session was put on by Gabriel Chapman of SimpliVity. If you've never heard of SimpliVity, you aren't alone. They are a start-up and emerged from stealth mode last year, and have been shipping product for about a month. Their OmniCube is an all-in-one 2U platform consisting...

San Diego VMUG: Overcome Challenges with Tier-1 Apps

This was the best session of the day at the San Diego VMUG! Dave Elliott and Dave Troutt from Symantec presented the detailed methodology Symantec used to define requirements essential to successfully virtualizing tier-1 apps like SQL Server, Exchange and SharePoint. Bottom line is you can virtualize nearly any app that...

San Diego VMUG: vCloud Director Best Practices

This session covered some high level Clould Director best practices, by Spencer Cuffe (VMware). It was short session without a lot of detail, but for what it's worth here are a few notes: Pre-Reqs - One cell per vCenter, NTP across all devices, one vCNS per vCenter, one provider vDC...

San Diego VMUG: VMware Backup Tips from Veeam

At the San Diego VMUG this session was presented by Rick Vanover from Veeam. He covered some tips and tricks for doing VMware backups. Of course the session was Veeam focused, and highlighted features of their backup software. Tips for efficient VM Backups Take a modern approach We have a...

San Diego VMUG: The Power of Server Side Caching

This was a good session presented by Proximal Data, focusing on using flash-based cache in your VMware environment. They have a product called AutoCache that boosts storage performance for VMware environments. Sounds like an interesting product. Session went by very fast, but here are some of the notes I took:...

San Diego VMUG: Software-Defined Datacenter Brief

Today at the San Diego VMUG Michael Ibarra, Office of the CTO (VMware), gave us a very quick brief on what is the Software Defined Datacenter. Here are a few highlights of his quick session: Software is taking over the world The shifting landscape: Delivery methods (cloud), devices (tablets), applications,...

Whoops..Blogspot redirection now working again…

Due to human error on my part, per-post redirection from my old BlogSpot blog was just sending people to the homepage of my new site, not the correct post. I fixed the problem, so now permalinks to any old posts will send you to the same post on my new...

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HP ESXi 5.1 Update 1 Custom ISO Released

Just like clockwork, the day VMware releases a major update to ESXi, HP releases customized installation media the same day. Hard to beat such great and timely support for your VMware environment! Last week VMware released vSphere 5.1 Update 1, and also posted was the HP ESXi 5.1 update 1...

VMware vSphere 5.1 Update 1..is it for you?

VMware vSphere 5.1 update 1 is probably one of the most recently anticipated updates of the VMware stack and it has finally hit the streets. For those of you following the release of vSphere 5.1, you have seen the GA release last fall, followed by 5.1.0a then a couple of...

VMware Virsto Acquisition: VMUG Presentation

Last month at the March San Diego VMUG they had Mark Davis (former CEO) from Virsto give a very informative presentation and some details on why VMware acquired them. I would have gotten this article done sooner, but between getting my new blog site up and other things it's been...

ATTENTION: Blog is now at www.derekseaman.com

ATTENTION: Blog is now at www.derekseaman.com

A few minutes ago I flipped the DNS records and setup redirection so the Derek Seaman blog is now at new domain with a fresh coat of paint. Any traffic to derek858.blogspot.com will now be redirected to www.derekseaman.com. This site is based on WordPress, which I'm really loving. I still have many tweaks to...

Attention! My blog is moving!

Back in January 2009 I started my own blog, after blogging for a former employer as one of our quarterly professional development goals. Since then I've managed to write over 400 articles, and got over 1200 comments. I was also awarded VMware vExpert status in 2012 for my blogging efforts. With the...