Session STO2480, Rawlinson Rivera, Wade Holmes This was a great session by the dual which covered VMware storage technology, the VCDX way. The session was a continuation of Part 1, which was at VMworld 2013. As a side note, the great Part 1 session was one of the factors figuring...
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 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...
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;...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...