Session: SER2849BU Case 1: VMs performance can suffer due to resource constraints/surges Case 2: Inefficient usage of resources due to reserving capacity for peak loads. Reactive -Move VMs after contention occurs Proactive -Statically reserve more resource -Learn workload pattern, and move before VMs spike What is the best solution? Predictive...
Pat Gelsinger walks on stage and welcomes Michael Dell to the stage. Pat and Michael are doing a prepared Q&A. First question is regarding lackluster support, such as quality of people and hold times. Pat says he is disappointed in hearing such feedback, as he thinks they have good NPS...
Session: SER2342BU Mike Adams vSphere 6.5 Updates: Simplified experience - One appliance, modern APIs, simplified architecture Built-in security- Secure data, secure infrastructure, secure access, better logging, trusted boot chain Universal app platform - Any application, anywhere, VMware core technology Proactive data center mgt - Predictive DRS, proactive HA, integration of...
Session: FUT3040BU, Richard Brunner Speed analysis is dependent on storage and database access latency. A key component is local storage latency - nothing can compete with DRAM What if you can move storage closer to the processing? You can with byte-addressable persistent memory (PMEM) Future vSphere will bring PMEM support...
Session: STO1980BU, Ben Meadocroft, Matt Amdur Any Cloud, Any Application, Any Device VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC running on AWS bare-metal Sold, operated and supported by VMware Support for containers and VMs Global AWS footprint and availability Physical host config: Based on i3p.16xlarge 2 sockets 512GB RAM 8x 1.788 NVMe...
Session: SAI3237SU, Tom Corn, Sr. VP Security Products Network exploitation is easier today due to the distributed nature of applications and components. Hack one layer, and you can move across boundaries via application firewall holes. We need to shrink the attack surface area. Least privilege. Align controls to applications. Microsegmentation...
Note: This week I'll be live blogging from VMworld 2017. As always, this will be live, and so please excuse my typos and grammar issues. Pat Gelsigner walks on stage. This is Pat's 6th VMworld and he became CEO 5 years ago. Pat mentions the disaster in Houston and sends...
Hot off the press is the community edition of Nutanix AOS 5.1.1.1, Community Edition (CE) 2017.07.20. For what's new in AOS 5.1.1.1, see my post here. You can find all the direct download links at the end of this post in the Next community. As always, you can perform a...
Hot off the press is Nutanix AFS 2.1.1 (Nutanix File Services). In case you don't know, AFS is a web-scale "NAS" that runs in a highly available configuration on Nutanix clusters. This has several important new features, plus a number of resolved issues. New features include: AFS Sizing workflow at...
Today I am glad to announce the general availability of Nutanix AOS 5.1.1.1. This is a patch release, but it also has a few new features. Of interest to you will be the security patches (11 total), and a good sized list of resolved issues. You can find the full...
Normally I don't blog about home PC topics, but I haven't blogged for a bit and came across something today that I thought was worth mentioning. Basically, this is a quick review of Acronis True Image 2017. About 18 months ago I wanted to backup my PC to the cloud,...
If you are a Nutanix customer and using AHV (Acropolis Hypervisor), I have some great news for you. We have released VirtIO 1.1 drivers, and the big deal is that they are now Microsoft WHQL signed. I know the lack of signing was holding back some customers for production workloads....