Author: Derek Seaman

This session was quite advanced and had a lot of troubleshooting examples which are hard to adequately capture without the slides, so I'll just touch on some of the counters he used during some troubleshooting examples. Maybe in future posts I'll focus on one subject like storage stats and recreate...

This session was a bit more high level and basic than I had hoped for, but here are the highlights: Virtual Port ID load balancing is the default option and the least complicated option. IP hasing is more advanced and requires Etherchannel to be configured on the switch VTS (virtual...

This was a pretty advanced session about the vCloud Director, which is a complex product. The speakers were very, very good, but given the advanced nature of the discussion it will be hard to recap the session in full and some of the concepts need more explanation than I can provide...

This session covered some of the major performance enhancements in vSphere 5.0. The presenter flew through the slides at 100 MPH and didn't spend much time on the bullets so I wasn't able to capture all of the highlights. But here's what I did capture: 32-way vCPUs with 92-97% of...

Unlike the last session I attended, this one was very good and had quite a bit of great technical material that went beyond common sense most IT guys have. SRM 5.0 is a major release that addressed many of the shortcomings of the 4.x releases. Highlights include: Customers need simple,...

This session was a bit higher level and more common sense tips, so I split after 30 minutes and went to another session. The speakers had 8 best practice tips, and both of them were from Dell/Compellent. So they had a few minutes sales pitch before they started the meat...

This session covered many of the new and cool storage features in vSphere 5.0. The speaker mentioned that if you think vSphere 4.0 was 'for networks' then vSphere 5.0 is 'for storage.' Many of the cool tools such as DRS that you are used to for compute/memory resources are now...

This was an excellent fire hose of a session..far too much data to try and write down. Highlights of this session include: Ten 1Gb links does not equal a single 10Gb link. With bursting you can more effectively us a single 10Gb link. With vSphere 5.0 vMotion saturate two 10Gbps links...

This morning I attended the keynote session by Dr. Stephen Herrod, the VMware CTO. Key points during his presentation were: It (hypervisors) should just work and work well. IT industry is moving away from servers to services and toward people, not devices. DUH: Devices, Universal access, High expectations We are...