This session covered the future direction for Site Recovery Manager, known as SRM. SRM 5.0 has some major enhancements, and will ship "soon." Among the current and future enhancements are: Simple, reliable DR which replaces manual runbooks Array integration with a wide range of vendors, currently supporting 28 arrays SRM...
This session covered a product which is a result of an acquisition last year, and has since undergone some significant enhancements. vCenter Operations is a product that provides operations intelligence for your virtual infrastructure. Major points in this session: The speaker stated that 90% of performance problems for virtualized applications...
Here I am again at VMware VMworld, and I'll try to blog about as many sessions as I can. Unfortunately the way VMware has structured the schedule it's not very conducive to a lot of blogging but I'll do the best I can. This session was a very high level...
When building vSphere VM templates best practices would recommend that a number of security lockdowns be incorporated into the template. There are a variety of sources for recommended lockdowns, such as the VMware vSphere 4.1 Hardening Guide. But what if you already have VMs in production that you need to lock down, or...
Among the licensing kerfuffle surrounding vSphere 5.0, VDI users may have overlooked some interesting information that VMware posted about VDI and vSphere 5.0 today. Myself and other bloggers like Brian Madden have done some analysis on what vSphere 5.0 means for VDI, mostly for non-VMware products such as XenDesktop. However,...
The story I broke last week about impending licensing changes to vSphere 5.0 turned out to be spot on. In fact CRN published a story about the impending licensing changes and referenced my blog. Today VMware made an official announcement of changes, which you can find here. CRN just put...