Session: INF1736 Jon Kohler (Nutanix), Josh Odgers (Nutanix), Matt Cowger (EMC), Scott Lowe (VMware), Jason Nash (Varrow) This was a very lively session with a panel of five VCDXs from a variety of companies. I was taking real time notes, so I didn't capture all of comments and some of...
Session BCO2629 Software defined storage and availability Bringing the efficient operational model of virtualization to storage Common policy based model VM centric data services Abstraction and pooling of infrastructure vCenter Site Recovery Manager Industry-leading disaster recovery automation solution for vSphere environments Uses array-based replication Use cases include DR, disaster avoidance,...
Session STO2496 with Rawlingson Rivera (VMware), Chad Sakac (EMC), and Vaughn Stewart (Pure Storage) Simplicity is the key to success: Use large datastores Limit use of RDMs Use datastore clusters Use array automated tiering storage Avoid jumbo frames for iSCSI and NFS KISS gets you out of jail a lot...
Session: STO1853S The software defined datacenter: Expand virtual compute to all applications; virtualize the network for speed and efficiency; transform storage by aligning it with app demands; management tools give way to automation. Between 2014 and 2016: 41% Y-over-Y storage capacity increase. Most pressing challenges are meeting SLA, troubleshooting, data...
This was a great "put your architecture cap on" session by two well known VCDX's, Wade Holmes and Rawlinson Rivera. Software defined <insert virtualization food group here> is all the rage these days. Be it SDN (networking), SDS (storage), SDDC (datacenter) or software defined people. Well maybe not quite at the people stage but...