Author: Derek Seaman

VMworld 2014: Future Direction of NSX

Session NET1674 Network virtualization - You decouple the network from the underlying hardware. In software you replicate all of the network functionality (faithful reproduction). NSX Platform - Support multiple hypervisors (vSphere, KVM, XenServer). To get out of the network you have the NSX Edge, which terminates traffic. Connecting the physical...

VMworld 2014: Site Recovery Manager tech preview

Session BCO1916 Topologies for business continuity "Bunker site" - Core repository of all production data - Supported by SRM today Dedicated sites for prod and DR - Supported by SRM today Bi-directional failover - Supported by SRM today SRM tech preview - active-active datacenter - zero downtime for planned events;...

VMworld 2014: VCDX Architecture Panel

Panel: Mark Gabryjeski, Mostafa Khalil, Chris McCain, Michael Webster VCDX Objective of the defense Design judgments and technique Successful interactive design exercise Successful interactive troubleshooting exercise The Art of Infrastructure Design Discover inputs - Conceptual model Develop solution - Logical model Design Architecture - Physical model Determine success - Validation...

VMworld 2014: Day 2 Keynote

Today is day two of VMworld 2014 in San Francisco, and to kick off the day is another keynote. Today should be a bit more technical in nature, if they follow the patterns from past years. First up today is Ben Fathi, office of the CTO of VMware Starts off...

VMworld 2014: Ask the expert vBloggers

Session:SDDC1176 Panelists: Rick Scherer, Duncan Epping, William Lam, Scott Lowe, Chad Sakac Q: We know NSX solves big problems like Amazon datacenters. What is the smaller/smallest environment that it is deployed in? A: Scott Lowe - In the smaller environment distributed firewalling is very, very powerful and a big use...

VMworld 2014: BC/DR: Solution Overview

Session: BCO2410 43% of data center outages are due to power, 31% by IT hardware failure A comprehensive portfolio for cost-effective IT resilience: Ranges from Oracle RAC, Microsoft MSCS, replication and backup The hypervisor opens up new opportunities: Knows the needs of all apps in real time, sits directly in...

VMworld 2014: Management Product Overview

Session MGT2310S Evolving customer needs: Do more with less, competing priorities, converged silos, unified management vRealize Brand - Cloud platform (automation, operations, business) VMware vRealize Suite: Mobile, social, big data, web-scale: Heterogeneous and hybrid infrastructure Integrates with git, JUnit, Jenkins, Puppet, Chef, Yum, Saltstack, SeleniumHQ, Artifactory vCenter operations management suite...

VMworld 2014: How vVols provides storage x-ray vision

Session STO2554-SPO This was a short 30 minute session on a high level overview of VMware vVols, and then a presentation by HP about their 3PAR integration. Today's Challenges: Today: fixed sized LUNs, lack of granular control, complex provision cycles, LUN centric storage configuration, wasted resources, frequent data migrations Hypervisor...

VMworld 2014: Vision and Strategy for SW defined Storage

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...

VMworld 2014 Keynote Day 1

This is the first general session of the week at VMworld 2014 in San Francisco. We expect several announcements to be made. Robin Matlock, Chief Marketing Officer, comes on stage. She states that over 22,000 people are at VMworld from 85 countries. Change is either a barrier or opportunity, and which...

VMUnderground Opening Acts: Networking

This was a panel discussion hosted by vBrownBag and VMUnderground. Panelists: Chris Wahl, Scott Lowe, and several others that I didn't catch. Sorry! These are real-time notes so forgive any typos. 1. SDN was defined because networks are too complex and slow to change. 2. The networking industry is long...

VMUnderground Opening Acts: Storage Panel

This is not an official VMware session, but one put together by vBrownBag and VMUnderground. This is a panel on storage. Panel: Wade Holmes (VMware), Michael Webster (Nutanix), Matt Vogt (Simplivity), Matt Cowger (EMC), Keith Norbie, J Metz 1. What are vVols? Storage policy management vision allows you to manage...

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