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@DuncanYB’s recommended reads part 5

18 September, 2016 Leave a Comment

What a crazy week, VMworld. Many announcements by many different vendors and of course a kazillion blog posts. I picked a few which stood out to me and which are worth reading.

VMworld VMare Code hackathon to hit Barcelona 2016 by Alan Renouf
The US version of the hackathon was a big success, and I expect nothing less in EMEA to be honest. Read Alan’s article to get a feeling / idea around what it was like and make sure to sign up if you have a good idea, or want to join an existing team!
VMware Virtual SAN 6.2 All NVMe Flash Array with Intel® SSD P3520 Sets New Record
I just like reading these types of posts, what can a config like this lead to. Sometimes people say ‘well how realistic is the config?’ I actually have a customer deploying this exact configuration today.
Dell Technologies = Facemeltingly Awesome, but shall we talk frankly? by Chad Sakac
A lengthy post on the Dell/EMC merger by Chad. He is in the middle of it and I always enjoy reading his thoughts.
VMware PowerCLI for Mac OS X, Linux & More? Yes, please! by William Lam
Quick post on something very interesting, availability of PowerCLI on other operating systems then Microsoft. Leave a comment on his post if you are interested…
VMware ESXi Claimrules Unleashed by Guido Hagemann
Want to know what a claimrule is all about? Guido broke it down in a nice way. Some good stuff in there.
Have got a couple of spare hours and want to watch some VMworld sessions, William Lam dumped everything in a long list, makes your life easier!
Julian Wood’s VMworld Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, Day 4 series.
One of the best “personal takes” on VMworld US if you ask me. I know how much work it is to keep articles like these up to date. Some interesting thoughts, and I like how Julian included the parties, receptions but also a chat he had with PernixData’s Satyam Vaghani.
VSAN Availability series part 1, part 2 and part 3 by Jeff Hunter
If you want to know more about VSAN and the availability aspects, this is a great series to read…

vSpeaking Podcast: VMworld Debrief

12 September, 2016 2 Comments

Pete and John asked me if I wanted to join the podcast again, this week we did a VMworld US debrief. I figured I would share it with you folks as well. Hope you enjoy it as much as we did.

VMworld Europe, sign up now and register for sessions!

12 September, 2016 Leave a Comment

VMworld US is over, I’ve watched various sessions and now am starting to prep for VMworld EMEA, which will be in a month. (17-20 Oct) If you haven’t registered yet then now is the time to do so, the longer you will wait, the more expensive flights will become. If you have registered and are starting to look at the agenda then here are my 2 sessions I have scheduled this year:

18/10/16 (Tuesday) 15:30 – Software-Defined Storage at VMware Primer – STO7650 – Lee Dilworth / Duncan Epping
19/10/16 (Wednesday) 15:30 – A day in the life of a VSAN I/O – STO7875 – John Nicholson / Duncan Epping

And based on the sessions I have seen so far, I would also like to recommend to add the following to your schedule:

VMware Chief Technology Officer Panel – Trends and Futures [CTO9943] Joe Baguley, Paul Strong, Shawn Bass, Ray O’Farrell
vSphere 6.x Host Resource Deep Dive [INF8430] Frank Denneman / Niels Hagoort
Extreme Performance Series: vCenter Performance Deep Dive [INF8108] Ravi Soundararajan, Sameh Zakhary
Tech Preview: Enhanced VM Availability Leveraging vCenter and Partner Hardware Integration [INF8020] Maarten Wiggers
vSphere DRS Deep Dive: Understanding the Best Practices, Advanced Concepts, and Future Direction of DRS [INF7827] Naveen Nagaraj
An Industry Roadmap: From storage to data management [STO7903] Christos Karamanolis
The Power Hour: Deep Dive, DevOps, and New Features of PowerCLI [INF8092] Alan Renouf
Virtual Volumes Technical Deep Dive [STO7645] Pete Flecha / Patrick Dirks
Virtual SAN: Introducing the Best HCI Platform for Containers and Cloud-Native Applications [STO8256] Christian Dickmann / Rawlinson Rivera
Cloud Native Buzzwords (Demystified) for Dummies [CTO7964] Massimo Re Ferre’

Want to print your own VVol or VSAN shirts/stickers?

9 September, 2016 3 Comments

I’ve been getting more and more questions from folks who want to print their own VSAN shirts and stickers. I cannot share all designs, but some of them I can so I figured I would. For each design there is a small thumbnail and the vector file (EPS) and a PNG as well, you can get it printed any size or use it as a background / wallpaper. Note that the VVol and the Captain VSAN logo was designed by my colleague Rawlinson Rivera, thanks for that Rolo…

By the way, if you do print stickers, print them “die cut”, believe me… that looks 10x better than anything else 🙂

Note, I created a page dedicated to this, I also added some Cloud Native designs to that one. Check it out!

Virtual SAN:

Virtual SAN badge Logo
Vector File (EPS)
PNG Download

Virtual SAN lettering classic
Vector File (EPS)
PNG Download

Virtual SAN lettering
Generic Vector File (EPS)
PNG Download

Captain VSAN logo
Vector File (EPS)

Virtual Volumes:

VVols logo – Vector File (AI)
PNG Download

Want to watch a VMworld 2016 session?

6 September, 2016 10 Comments

I had a long discussion with the VMworld team about this the past editions and I am happy to say that ALL sessions have been made available to the public straight after the event. VMware made all VMworld 2016 session available to the public. You can find them here: http://www.vmworld.com/en/sessions/2016.html. And also, if you want a more “limited” list, you can go for the top ranked sessions. You can find the top-10 session of each VMworld day here: http://www.vmworld.com/en/sessions/top-10-us.html.

There is one session I want to call out, I wasn’t able to do a live blog on it, mainly because it went deep, and it went deep fast. Ravi R. is one of the best deep tech speakers I have seen: INF8108 – Extreme Performance Series: vCenter Performance Deep Dive.

Thanks VMworld team for doing this. Time for some binge watching 🙂