Month: August 2012

VMworld 2012: vSphere 5 Storage Best Practices INF-STO2980

Speaker: Chad Sakac, Vaughn StewartThis was a really great session! Had two of the best sessions on the last day of VMworld. Each protocol has different configuration considerations Majority of customers use block protocols (iSCSI, FC, FCoE) NetApp: NFS 50% usage, block the other 50% from autosupport data Best flexibility...

VMworld 2012: Virtualizing SQL Server 2012 APP-BCA1516

Speakers: Michael Cory, Jeff SzastakThis session was by far the best this week! 160 slides in 60 minutes, packed to the gills with actionable information on properly virtualizing your SQL server. In short, there's no reason why you can't virtualize SQL and have it meet business performance requirements. 80% of SQL performance...

VMworld 2012: vSphere HA and Datastore Access Outages INF-BCO2807

This session was extremely technical and went over the inner workflows of HA. For a better and more in-depth details, I would strongly suggest getting the VMware vSphere 5.1 Clustering Deepdive book. HA protects against three failure modes: Host/VM failures; host network isolated and datastore PDL; Guest OS hangs and...

VMworld 2012: vSphere Performance Best Practices INF-VSP1800

Speaker: Pete BooneThis session covered various aspects of a virtualized infrastructure that need to be looked at when optimizing performance. The basic four food groups are memory, CPU, network, and storage. Benchmarking and Tools Consistent and reproducible results Important to have a baseline of acceptable performance Determine baseline of performance...

VMworld 2012: vSphere HA Recommendations INF-BCO2382

Speakers: Josh Gray, Jeff HunterThis was a great session for real-world HA tips and tricks of the trade. Everyone should be using vSphere HA, so theh tips apply to everyone. For more information check out the most excellent vSphere 5.1 Clustering Deepdive book by Duncan and Frank. Recent Enhancements in...

VMworld: Architecting Storage DRS Clusters, INF-STO1545

Speakers: Frank Denneman, Valetin HamburgerThis was a great session covering the ins and outs of storage DRS. SRDS is a great feature of vSphere 5.0, with a couple of minor tweaks for vSphere 5.1. But understanding how it works, when to use it, and when not to are very important....

VMworld: Tech Preview of Software-defined Storage Technology

This session focused on VMware's concept of software defined everything, and in particular for this session, software defined storage. The session wasn't all just vaporware PointPoint slides. They had a pre-recorded video of configuring their "distributed storage" and showing how storage profiles worked. For example, I could set the SLA on...

VMworld 2012: Insight into vMotion and Futures INF-VSP1549

This session recapped how vMotion currently works, enhancements in vSphere 5.1, and a "future" version. The biggest news for vSphere 5.1 is Unified vMotion, which requires no shared storage. Now on-par with Hyper-V 3.0. Future vMotion capabilities are very cool....in short, live vMotion any VM anywhere around the globe. Session...

VMworld 2012: vCenter Deep Dive INF-VSP1353

This session covered the best new features in vCenter 5.1. For a point release, vCenter has undergone some major change, and as VMware releases more of their roadmap, you see how features coming out next month will be leveraged for way cool features in the future such as global live...

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