Session: BRK2485 What is SDS? Cloud-inspired infrastructure and design - Commodity HW, cost efficiencies Evolving technologies - Flash, network performance, VMs and containers Data explosion - Device proliferation, modern apps Scale out with simplicity - Integrated solutions, rapid time to solution, policy-based management Storage Customer choice: Private cloud with traditional...
Earlier this year I had the distinct pleasure of working with Luca Dell'oca (@Dellock6) from Veeam on a Nutanix + Veeam Backup and Replication + VMware vSphere whitepaper. You can check out that post and whitepaper here. Now, just a few months later, we've collaborated on a Nutanix + Veeam + Hyper-V...
Since joining Nutanix I've had the opportunity to get exposed to Microsoft Hyper-V 2012 R2, as our platform supports the three most common hypervisors: VMware vSphere, Hyper-V, and KVM. I'm now embarking on writing some Hyper-V guides for Nutanix, and wanted a way to leverage my existing ESXi 5.5 Nutanix...
Session DCIM-B386: Mark Russinovich and Mark Minasi on Cloud Computing. Mark and Mark are probably easily the top two speakers each year at TechEd. Between their delivery style and technical content, you can't beat them. This session had zero slides, and was more of a Q&A format. Minasi asked Russinovich...
Session: DCIM-B349. Software defined storage with Windows Server 2012 R2 and System Center 2012 R2. This was a jam packed session with tons of content on each slide. Great in-depth talk about what's new in the 2012 R2 wave which came out last year. I only captured 25% of the...
Session: DCIM-B344, Network Turning for Specific Workloads. This was a great session, with a ton of Q&A during and after the main presentation was over. I'd highly encourage you to watch the full video on Channel 9 when it is uploaded to get all of the goodies. The session notes...
Breakout Session DCIM-B412: Effortless Migration from VMware to Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V If there was any session at TechEd that could initiate the self-destruction sequence for my VCDX certification, I think this session would be at the top of the list. That being said, it was a good session...
Breakout session: DCIM-B378 This was a great session which covered a multitude of NIC features (VMQ, RSS, SR-IOV, etc.), when to use them (or not), which features are compatible with each other, and other Hyper-V networking topics. Historical topology for Hyper-V was discreet NICs for different traffic types (management, storage,...
Session: DCIM-B317 The Cloud OS is transforming IT to address new questions: Mobility, apps, big data, cloud. Provide a cloud platform regardless of the datacenter that it is deployed on (Azure, partner, on-prem). Cloud OS enables nodern business apps, empower people centric IT, unlock insights on any data, and transform...
This was Part 2 of a two part series on comparing VMware and Microsoft virtualization/Cloud offerings. Part 1 was focused on the hypervisor and how Hyper-V and ESXi compare. I had a schedule conflict with part 1, so I didn't attend it. This is part 2, focusing on the private cloud...