Today is day two of VMworld 2014 in San Francisco, and to kick off the day is another keynote. Today should be a bit more technical in nature, if they follow the patterns from past years. First up today is Ben Fathi, office of the CTO of VMware Starts off...
Session: BCO2410 43% of data center outages are due to power, 31% by IT hardware failure A comprehensive portfolio for cost-effective IT resilience: Ranges from Oracle RAC, Microsoft MSCS, replication and backup The hypervisor opens up new opportunities: Knows the needs of all apps in real time, sits directly in...
Session MGT2310S Evolving customer needs: Do more with less, competing priorities, converged silos, unified management vRealize Brand - Cloud platform (automation, operations, business) VMware vRealize Suite: Mobile, social, big data, web-scale: Heterogeneous and hybrid infrastructure Integrates with git, JUnit, Jenkins, Puppet, Chef, Yum, Saltstack, SeleniumHQ, Artifactory vCenter operations management suite...
Session: STO1853S The software defined datacenter: Expand virtual compute to all applications; virtualize the network for speed and efficiency; transform storage by aligning it with app demands; management tools give way to automation. Between 2014 and 2016: 41% Y-over-Y storage capacity increase. Most pressing challenges are meeting SLA, troubleshooting, data...
This is the first general session of the week at VMworld 2014 in San Francisco. We expect several announcements to be made. Robin Matlock, Chief Marketing Officer, comes on stage. She states that over 22,000 people are at VMworld from 85 countries. Change is either a barrier or opportunity, and which...
This was a panel discussion hosted by vBrownBag and VMUnderground. Panelists: Chris Wahl, Scott Lowe, and several others that I didn't catch. Sorry! These are real-time notes so forgive any typos. 1. SDN was defined because networks are too complex and slow to change. 2. The networking industry is long...
This is not an official VMware session, but one put together by vBrownBag and VMUnderground. This is a panel on storage. Panel: Wade Holmes (VMware), Michael Webster (Nutanix), Matt Vogt (Simplivity), Matt Cowger (EMC), Keith Norbie, J Metz 1. What are vVols? Storage policy management vision allows you to manage...
On rare occasions you may need to downgrade your ESXi host. In my case I was working on a VMware certification test and my host was using a newer build than what was called for. Or, maybe you run into a situation like the NFS bug earlier this year and needed to...
This weekend I did a minor update to my VMware vSphere 5.5 SSL Toolkit script. It's now at v1.59. I updated the OpenSSL download to use 0.9.8.zb, and also added a primitive PowerShell 3.0 check. PowerShell 3.0 and higher has always been required, but now I try and check for...
A few days ago VMware released a minor update to vCenter to bring it up to vCenter Server 5.5 Update 1c. The update applies to both the Windows and vCenter Server appliance deployment models. If you are using vCloud Automation Center (vCAC), then you will want this update. Update 1c...