Speaker: Chad Sakac, Vaughn StewartThis was a really great session! Had two of the best sessions on the last day of VMworld. Each protocol has different configuration considerations Majority of customers use block protocols (iSCSI, FC, FCoE) NetApp: NFS 50% usage, block the other 50% from autosupport data Best flexibility...
Speakers: Michael Cory, Jeff SzastakThis session was by far the best this week! 160 slides in 60 minutes, packed to the gills with actionable information on properly virtualizing your SQL server. In short, there's no reason why you can't virtualize SQL and have it meet business performance requirements. 80% of SQL performance...
This was a panel discussion going over the history of the vSphere hardening guides, current state, some common issues, and future direction for ensuring compliance with regulations such as HIPPA, PCI, DoD STIGs, etc. Upshot is that VMware really listened to customers with there vSphere 5.0 hardening guide and it's...
This session was extremely technical and went over the inner workflows of HA. For a better and more in-depth details, I would strongly suggest getting the VMware vSphere 5.1 Clustering Deepdive book. HA protects against three failure modes: Host/VM failures; host network isolated and datastore PDL; Guest OS hangs and...
Speakers: Davi Ottenheimer, Matthew Wallace. Book: Securing your Virtual EnvironmentThis session was an overview of security considerations you need to keep in mind when virtualizing your environment. In fact, most of the recommendations apply to physical IT systems as well. The speaker went through the 10 chapters of their book...
Speaker: Pete BooneThis session covered various aspects of a virtualized infrastructure that need to be looked at when optimizing performance. The basic four food groups are memory, CPU, network, and storage. Benchmarking and Tools Consistent and reproducible results Important to have a baseline of acceptable performance Determine baseline of performance...
Speakers: Josh Gray, Jeff HunterThis was a great session for real-world HA tips and tricks of the trade. Everyone should be using vSphere HA, so theh tips apply to everyone. For more information check out the most excellent vSphere 5.1 Clustering Deepdive book by Duncan and Frank. Recent Enhancements in...
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...