Author: Derek Seaman

Speakers: Frank Denneman, Valetin HamburgerThis was a great session covering the ins and outs of storage DRS. SRDS is a great feature of vSphere 5.0, with a couple of minor tweaks for vSphere 5.1. But understanding how it works, when to use it, and when not to are very important....

This session focused on VMware's concept of software defined everything, and in particular for this session, software defined storage. The session wasn't all just vaporware PointPoint slides. They had a pre-recorded video of configuring their "distributed storage" and showing how storage profiles worked. For example, I could set the SLA on...

This session recapped how vMotion currently works, enhancements in vSphere 5.1, and a "future" version. The biggest news for vSphere 5.1 is Unified vMotion, which requires no shared storage. Now on-par with Hyper-V 3.0. Future vMotion capabilities are very cool....in short, live vMotion any VM anywhere around the globe. Session...

This session was an overview of where VMware sees the direction of storage for virtualized datacenters. To keep with the theme of 'software defined' everything, they also have a vision for software defined storage. It is a radical departure from how we view storage today, and the concepts of LUNs...

This session covered the best new features in vCenter 5.1. For a point release, vCenter has undergone some major change, and as VMware releases more of their roadmap, you see how features coming out next month will be leveraged for way cool features in the future such as global live...

Day two of VMworld 2012 in San Francisco kicked off with a key note speech. Steve Harrod, CTO, kicked off the day. Today his focus was end user computing, be it mobile, tablet, or PC. VMware is trying to bring together management of VDI, mobile devices, and deliver applications to...

Jason Nash, VarrowThis was a great session that delved into the depths of the VMware VDS that ships with vSphere 5.0 and 5.1. VMware has put a lot of new features in to the 5.1 VDS. Development on the standard vSwitch has pretty much ceased, so you will need to...

Greg Shields, Concentrated Technology partner. This session focused on the main HA/DRS mistakes that people make when virtualizing their infrastructure. Greg is a great speaker and also has presented sessions at TechEd and other conferences. HA/DRS settings are so easy to set and forget, or forget to set, that everyone...

Krishna Raj Raja, VMware. This session was a super deep dive on ESXtop stats, and how to read them. In short, unless you are vSphere guru and understand how the hypervisor really works, then using ESXtop is NOT for you. Use more friendly tools like vCenter Operations manager, which takes...

Speaker: Michael Adams, VMware ([email protected]) vCloud Suite Launches very soon - Free upgrade for Enterprise Plus Customers. Should be in Q3, meaning Sept 2012. Jump upgrades possible in the future, or VMware may recommend customers can skip a release VMware plans on yearly vSphere Suite upgrades for customers vCloud Suite...

Today if the first full day of VMworld 2012 in San Francisco. To kick the week off they started off with a general session with some announcements, but nothing that wasn't already rumored. The biggest announcement was the removal of the vRAM vTAX for vSphere. vSphere will now just be...