HP Data Protector 8 at HP Discover (Around the Storage Block Blog articles)
The other day I had a "snippet" from our HP Discover Blogger coffee talk with David Scott and Siamak Nazari. I'll have a few more podcasts from the coffee talk and their will be more details they gave on HP 3PAR - some really interesting stuff that I'm excited to share. I also had Stephen Spellicy, Director of Product Management for HP Autonomy Enterprise Backup Solutions with ...
Two Views on the Future of Networking: Cumulus Networks and Insieme Networks (Wikibon Blog)
It is Wikibon’s belief that the trends put forth by hyperscale companies are starting to push into the enterprise to create a software-led datacenter. While SDN fits into this trend, there is an even greater opportunity to truly transform the way that the network is managed and potentially disrupt the current industry structure, which is dominated by Cisco. While customers may complain about h...
More Auto Deploy PowerCLI shortcuts (Virtu-Al.Net)
Following on from a post I created a while back which gave you a couple of new functions to use with Auto Deploy I wanted to add a few extra pieces of code which I use on a regular basis that may save people time when they are building out their image profiles or working with auto deploy:
Adding the VMware hosted software depots to your PowerCLI Session:
Add-EsxSoftwareDepot https://hostupd...
PCIe XP941 Samsung SSD – 1.4GB/second. (ESX Virtualization)
The limit of 6Gb/s of the SATA III is just surpassed with the latest technology from Samsung. The code release is XP941 and it’s a PCIe flash card which delivers impressive 1.4GB/second sequential read speed, and most importantly, it’s not a sample. The mass production has already started and it seems that it’s already shipped with the [...]Read the full post PCIe XP941 Samsu...
Netapp’s VMware Horizon View 5 Solutions Guide (The SLOG - SimonLong/Blog)
I just heard that this document was released and just wanted to bring it to your attention. VMware Horizon View 5 Solutions Guide
This solution guide outlines VMware View 5 on NetApp storage. The guide covers pool design, cloning choices, and guest optimization, as well as end-user data layout. New technologies that are available in View 5.1, such as View Storage Accelerator, are also co...
Creating Custom vSphere Reports is a Breeze with CloudPhysics (virtuallyGhetto)
Creating reports is a common task that every vSphere administrator must deal with at least once if not many more times in their career. Whether you are tasked to provide an inventory report of all your virtual machines and their configurations to your manager or to provide a compliance report for your security team to ensure that all virtual machines are hardened according to the vSphere Secur...
Hybrid, flash, converged storage, what’s next? Hybrid storage stack!? (Yellow Bricks)
I saw a tweet pass by from PernixData and although I already knew the world of datacenter/storage design was changing it just really sank in. Over the last 5 years we have seen the world of storage change significantly. We have seen new types of storage being introduced like all-flash-based storage, hybrid storage (mix of SSD and SATA) and hyper-converged solutions. Examples of these would ...
VMware to Revolutionize Operations Management with Log Insight (The Virtualization Practice)
VMware has announced its log management product - Log Insights. Log Insights is priced at $200 per monitored OS instance (per VM pricing) and is to be available in Q3 of this year. VMware's own vSphere environment is the first targeted environment, and the two first use cases are Operations Management and Security/Compliance. Right now this is clearly a 1.0 offering competing with a very mature ...
All I Did Was Add a VMkernel Interface (Routing) (Technodrone)
That was the call I got today. "All I did was add a VMkernel interface and my host lost connection to vCenter". On went my troubleshooting hat. First the environment (simplified) The physical interfaces on which the VMkernel interfaces reside were trunked with multiple VLANs. In this case VLAN(4) and VLAN(49). vmk0 was used for ESXi management - with a default gateway of x.x.4.254 When the use...
Storage news from Discover (Around the Storage Block Blog articles)
It's guaranteed to be a busy week for HP Storage at Discover and we kicked off the fun this morning with our press conference. Let me briefly tell you about what we announced and we'll dive deeper into the details over the next few weeks.
HP 3PAR StoreServ 7450
A few weeks ago I talked about the SPC-1 benchmark results we had with an all-flash based HP 3PAR S...
The color yellow – resiliency and performance with HP 3PAR (Around the Storage Block Blog articles)
I was so busy with activities at HP Discover, that the only session I had time to attend is one I co-presented with my pal and colleague Stephen Spellicy - session TB2838, Delivering data protection for your own virtualized private cloud - in case it gets posted to the HP Discover website.
The one session I really wanted to get to was the Innovation Theatre session that David Scott did t...
Book Review – VCDX Boot Camp from VMware Press (VirtualizeTips)
If you working on your VCDX design or thinking about taking a shot at it, you will want to consider reading VCDX Boot Camp from VMware Press. This is a short focused book that gives to a little bit of a look at the process leading up to and on the day of your design defense.
The whole VCDX certification and process is still a bit of a mystery to many. VMware has been working harder lately to p...
Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit 4.0 (EMET) – what’s it useful for? (ESX Virtualization)
Microsoft has released a final version of Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit 4.0 (EMET). A mitigation technology is protection against attackers, where a malicious code cannot be executed to infect Windows systems. EMET can act at different levels. At system level, at process level, or at the application level. There were always some kind of protection present in [...]Read the full post En...
Basic elements of the flash virtualization platform – Part 1 (frankdenneman.nl)
During my recent trip to the headquarters of PernixData I had the opportunity to pick the brains of Satyam and some of the key engineers. Throughout the discussions and lectures I learned a lot about the design choices engineering faced when creating the Flash Virtualization Platform. When dealing with super low (microsecond) latency devices such as flash the last thing you want to do is add lat...
Will Intel’s VMCS Shadowing Feature Benefit VMware’s Nested Virtualization? (virtuallyGhetto)
For many years now, VMware customers have been using Nested Virtualization, which is the ability to run a hypervisor such as vSphere ESXi within a virtual machine. Even though Nested Virtualization is not officially supported by VMware, customers have come to rely upon this technology for their lab environments and sometimes even production environments. VMware also heavily relies on this techno...
Discover Day 3: 3 sessions with technology deep dives on 3PAR (and more) (Around the Storage Block Blog articles)
By Melissa Saegert Elicker, social media editor, HP Storage
Discover momentum reached peak speed on Thursday (can this really be the last day already?) with a rich roster of storage-focused session. Here’s a quick snapshot of several sessions I attended -- with a business and technical focus on HP 3PAR.
The Many Faces of PaaS (The Virtualization Practice)
By now, enterprises understand the value of Software as a Service (SaaS) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), but there still is much confusion about Platform as a Service (PaaS). This confusion is one reason why enterprises have been slow to adopt PaaS. Why is there so much confusion? Because PaaS is still in its early days of maturity, but it is growing up really quickly right before our ey...
How to register a Storage Provider using the vSphere Web Client (Yellow Bricks)
I needed to register a Storage Provider for vSphere Storage APIs for Storage Awareness (VASA) today. I force myself to use the vSphere Web Client and it had me looking for this option for a couple of minutes. It actually was the second time this week I had to do this, so I figured if I need to search for it there will probably be more people hitting the same issue. So where can you register...
Here’s my "home brew" MAM-like solution for Android phone security. Tell me what’s wrong with it. (Brian Madden)
Last month I switched from iPhone to Android. I don't want to start a religious battle about why, rather, I want to share the MAM-like security scheme I've put in place and see if it might make sense in other scenarios. First a bit of background information...(read more)
vEXPERT 2013 Thoughts and Thanks (boche.net - VMware vEvangelist)
The ballots have been counted and the 2013 vEXPERTS were announced in a VMTN blog post by John Troyer. I was fortunate enough to be awarded this honorable designation for a fifth consecutive year (I’m going to link that Five Timers club skit from SNL because I still get a laugh out of it). What’s interesting about this journey for me is that for quite a while I had worked in a...
Deep dive on HP 3PAR StoreServ 7450 all-flash array (Around the Storage Block Blog articles)
I'm back home and while HP Discover was exhausting, I wish we were still there in the company of the 30+ independent bloggers we hosted. I had a great time with them and as always is the case, meeting with such a smart group of bloggers helps me to think deeper.
Blogger coffee talk
One of the things we offer for attending bloggers is the option to meet with HP executives a...
Launching VDI Calculator v2 with XenDesktop support (myvirtualcloud.net)
Approximately 10 days ago I launched the new revamped VDI calculator, now using Java Framework, and I am now introducing the Release 2.0 with full support to XenDesktop calculations for VDI environments running on atop VMware vSphere hypervizor. Why? Because most Citrix XenDesktop deployments run atop of the VMware hypervizor platform.
I would like to acknowledge the help of a number of communit...
Build Your Own “Desktop-as-a-Service” (myvirtualcloud.net)
A little while back I have published blog posts and videos describing what a Desktop-as-a-Service architecture should look like. I was wrong! Well, let me put this way – there are multiple truths to the matter.
In a previous article I said that DaaS solutions should oblige the following guidelines:
Build upon the foundation of private/public cloud
Secure Multi-Tenancy
Elastic Resources...
Now available as Rough Cut – VCP-Cloud Official Cert Guide (Eric Sloof - NTPRO.NL)
The Rough Cuts service from VMware Press gives you exclusive access to an evolving manuscript that you can read online or download as a PDF and print. A Rough Cuts book is not fully edited or completely formatted, but you'll get access to new versions as they are created.
VMware has offered the VMware Certified Professional (VCP) exam since the early 2000s but has recently expanded their...
Horizon View in a stretched cluster environment: Can I have that? No! (VMGuru.nl - voted #4 Independent VMware blog!)
Ever since VMware started selling View as a desktop solution, we’ve had these discussions with colleagues and customers. You probably are familiar with the topic: Many companies have more than one location, but they all want to manage their IT infrastructure as if it was one. So, if we can throw in a big data-line [...]
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