Author: Derek Seaman

VMworld 2015: vSphere 6.1 Upgrade & Deployment Pt. 1

Session INF4944 Goal: Deliver and enhanced customer experience for deploying and upgrading vCenter environments. vCenter server 6.0 platforms: Windows and VCSA support the same scale and performance Enhanced Linked mode is brand new in 6.0 and supported on Windows or VCSA. Policies and tags are now supported in Linked Mode....

VMworld 2015: Future of SDS in 3 years

Session CTO6453 Speaker goes over various workloads that vary widely in terms of their requirements (big data, high IOPS, etc.) What do Linux containers need from Storage? Ability to copy and clone root images. Isolated namespaces between containers, QoS controls between containers. Containers and fast clone using shared read-only images...

VMworld 2015: 5 Functions of SW Defined Availability

Session: INF4535 Duncan Epping, Frank Denneman Introduction to SDA (Software defined availability): VM, server, storage, data center, networking, management. Business only cares about the application, not the underlying infrastructure. vSphere HA Configured through vCenter but not dependent on it Each host has an agent (FDM) will be installed for monitoring...

VMworld 2015: Horizon Air at Low Cost

Session: EUC6082 Quick DaaS Overview Desktop as a service from VMware Tiered role separation, user experience, enterprise integration, choice of device, security Offerings: Public cloud: VMware Horizon Air, Horizon DaaS powered service provider; Private cloud Cloud makes complex easy Typical Deployment Model MPLS link from on-prem to VMware cloud services...

VMworld 2015: Day 2 keynote

Sanjay Poonen (VMware, EUC) We live in a fantastic world transformed by smart phones VMware is laser focused on EUC. Any application any device. Consumer grade interfaces with enterprise security According to IDC VMware leapfrogged Citrix for EUC AirWatch is a market share leader Jim Alkove from Microsoft comes on...

VMworld 2015: vCSA Best Practices

INF4528, William Lam, VMware VCSA is on parity with Windows server in terms of scale and performance VUM still requires a Windows server (future version will not) FULL VUM capabilities in vSphere web client in 6.0 U1 Deployment types: Embedded (PSC and VC), or PSC as external Multiple vCenters can...

VMworld 2015: Hot topics in VMware R&D

Moore's Law: Old faithful + rising tide In the future Moore's law will be less predictable Moore's law may end around 2020 or 2022 Silicon lattice will be a limiting factor in how small transistors can go Past 40 years the industry has marched towards homogeneous (x86, ARM, CMOS, etc.)...

VMworld 2015: What’s new in SRM

Application  uptime is key for businesses 40% of companies still use tape for DR purposes Legacy DR solutions can lead to extended periods of downtime Announcing SRM 6.1 and site recovery manager air From private cloud to public cloud - the hybrid cloud SRM automates every workflow of DR orchestration...

VMworld 2015: Monday Keynote

VMware President Carl Eschenbach Record attendance at VMworld. More than 23,000 20 people have been to all 20 VMworlds (21 including Carl) Theme: Ready for Any Challenges: Innovation, productivity, security, cost, agility Run - Run a true hybrid cloud platform Built - Build and embrace containers Deliver - Any app...

VMworld 2015: vCenter Appliance as First Choice

Session: INF5975 Transforming software delivery with software appliances Accelerat e time to value Simplify software management Performance Security Reduced total cost of ownership (TCO) vCSA Security hardened Suse OS (SLES 11 SP3) vCenter server and vPostgreSQL DB in a single VM Appliance shell and UI support for appliance configuration vCenter...

Nutanix Acropolis is Citrix Ready

Just over two months ago Nutanix took the covers off our Acropolis hypervisor at our .Next Conference in Miami. Even prior to that announcement, Nutanix has been working behind the scenes with a number of close partners for ecosystem support. I'm very proud to announce that today that Citrix XenDesktop...

Nutanix Acropolis 101: Creating VMs

Now that Nutanix Acropolis is shipping with NOS 4.1.3, I wanted to cover a few basics in a series of blog posts. Most of you won't be familiar with Acropolis, which is based on KVM. If you've used KVM in the past, you will know how difficult it can be....

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