VMworld #NotSupported lightning talk slides – Hacking SRM

18 October, 2012 By 1 Comment

I presented this 15 minute talk at VMworld about hacking SRM or actually hacking the Storage Replication Adapter which is part of SRM. I noticed William Lam shared his slides so I figured I would do the same. This slidedeck was based on two articles I did a while back around hacking the SRA, you might want to read them as well. ( 1 , 2 )

I hope they are useful. Once again, thanks to Randy Keener for coming up with this excellent idea and thanks to the brownbag guys for helping hosting this great initiative. Lets hope we will see more of this next year at VMworld,

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The first rule of #NotSupported is…..

20 August, 2012 By 1 Comment

You might have seen Alan Renouf’s blog post on this… for the very first time we will have #notsupported sessions at VMworld. This is the brainchild of Randy Keener aka @vmrandy.

These lightning sessions (15 minute max) are all about the fun stuff you can do with vSphere / vCloud / SRM, note that almost everything discussed at these sessions is totally unsupported… but nevertheless very cool to try out or mess around with right. What can you expect?

  • Nested ESXi to the extreme!
  • (ab)using the Site Recovery Manager storage replication adaptors (SRA)
  • Affinity Rules on Site Recovery Manager shadow VMs..

Where is it?

Check out the Community Lounge at VMworld, the sessions will be hosted from 1pm – 3pm each day, for a schedule of the sessions visit this link below – make sure you add them to your calendars as you wont want to miss them, believe me! – More information will be added with the run up to VMworld. For those who can’t wait… here is the list for all the sessions: #NotSupported Session List

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