Author: Derek Seaman

HP 3PAR announces next generation array…P10000

Last week HP announced their new 3PAR P10000 array, which is the next generation virtualization array. It features a number of enhancements over their previous generation, released when 3PAR was still independent. Today at VMware vmworld HP had an unveiling of the P10000 and former 3PAR CEO David Scott was...

VMware General Session, Paul Martiz.

This afternoon was a keynote general session by Paul Martiz, the CEO of VMware. Some of the highlights from this session are: As of 2010 50% of all workloads are now virtualized. 20 million VMs run on vSphere. 68,000 VCPs. In 2014 80% of all internet connected devices will NOT...

BCO3420: Avoiding the 16 biggest HA and DRS mistakes

Wow this session was a riot. The speaker (Greg Shields) could easily double as a stand-up comedian, much like Mark Minasi. Beyond the entertainment, the session was quite technical and had great content. I had a hard time writing everything down he was going so fast. Before he got into...

SPO3962: Enabling business continunity with VMware Metro vMotion

This session was pretty good and covered many use cases for long distance (metro) vMotion for DR/BC purposes. Highlights include: Planning for BC/DR is imperative and if you don't and a disaster strikes, statistically you could be out of business in less than a year. New technologies are enabling disaster avoidance,...

SEC2284: Securing Government Virtual Environments

This session was a panel discussion with several industry experts and representatives. Panelists included Texiwill (Ed Haletky), the Catbird CTO, a VMware employee, and others. Topics of discussion included: There is no ETA on a DISA STIG for vSphere 4.x or 5.0. DISA is stating that they are relying on...

BCO3334: Site Recovery Manager Futures

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...

CIM225: Automated Infrastructure using VMware vCenter Operations

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...

Automate VMware VMX Security Lockdowns

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...

vSphere 5 VDI Licensing Redux

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,...

VMware Changes vSphere 5.0 Licensing

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...

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