Each year Eric Siebert over at vSphere-land.com spends an enormous amount of time setting up the top blogger voting. This recognizes the very hard work that the top bloggers do, and the support they give to the community. Recognition is always fun, but shouldn't be the primary purpose to blog....
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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 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...
So almost two weeks after voting was closed for the 2014 Top Blogger voting, the results are out! The live web cast was running concurrently with a meeting I was attending virtually, so I had one ear in the meeting and one on the web cast. Eric and his crew...
Tonight VMware released vCenter 5.1.0 U1a, which is a bugfix re-release of U1. A day or two after vSphere 5.1 U1 was out there was a warning regarding multi-domain authentication when a user was in a lot of groups. You can check out important information about the 5.1 U1a release here....
Today at the San Diego VMUG Michael Ibarra, Office of the CTO (VMware), gave us a very quick brief on what is the Software Defined Datacenter. Here are a few highlights of his quick session: Software is taking over the world The shifting landscape: Delivery methods (cloud), devices (tablets), applications,...
Due to human error on my part, per-post redirection from my old BlogSpot blog was just sending people to the homepage of my new site, not the correct post. I fixed the problem, so now permalinks to any old posts will send you to the same post on my new...
A few minutes ago I flipped the DNS records and setup redirection so the Derek Seaman blog is now at new domain with a fresh coat of paint. Any traffic to derek858.blogspot.com will now be redirected to www.derekseaman.com. This site is based on WordPress, which I'm really loving. I still have many tweaks to...
Back in January 2009 I started my own blog, after blogging for a former employer as one of our quarterly professional development goals. Since then I've managed to write over 400 articles, and got over 1200 comments. I was also awarded VMware vExpert status in 2012 for my blogging efforts. With the...