Yellow Bricks

by Duncan Epping

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VMware HA Survey

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The Product Management Team reached out to me this week and asked me if I could help getting some real world data around HA by posting some information about a survey. These surveys are generally used to priorities features or even add functionality. So if you want to contribute please take the survey. It will roughly take 4 minutes to complete.

We have observed some of our customers have not virtualized the clustered workloads and thus we want to understand their reasons for not doing so. Also, for the clustered workloads that have been virtualized we want to learn of some of the factors that are preventing our customers from replacing the existing clustering software with VMware HA. Thus, we seek some information about your clustered setup to better understand some of your challenges. This would help us improve VMware HA in areas important to you. Kindly take a few minutes to complete this survey.

 

http://tinyurl.com/3pca8wn

Virtual Machine Storage and Snapshots Survey

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It seems to be survey month…. Nevertheless this survey will take you a couple of minutes and is about Virtual Machine Storage and Snapshots. Most of our PMs are currently revising / updating and prioritizing the roadmap and real customer data and opinions are always welcome to define these. We would appreciate it if you could take 5 minutes of your time to complete this one, it is 12 questions.

Virtual Machine Storage and Snapshots Survey

vCenter Availability Survey!

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Last week there was a discussion on vCenter availability on twitter. The main outcome was that vCenter is an important component of your infrastructure and needs to be highly available. Coincidentally I received the request to repost this Survey about vCenter Availability and your thoughts on it. This is your chance to define the future around vCenter availability, take the survey today!

VMware vCenter is the critical management platform for virtualization and cloud management.  Ensuring vCenter is highly available during planned and unplanned outages is essential to make sure there is a minimal impact to your business productivity and you continue to meet your service level agreements.

This survey is about understanding your vCenter’s availability needs. We would like to understand your current needs, feedback on vCenter Server Heartbeat and your future needs.

There are total 17 questions in this survey.  This survey should not take more than 5-7 minutes.  We appreciate your time in taking this survey.  Your feedback is very important to us!

VMworld Labs Survey

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I was just asked if I could promote the VMworld Labs Survey. The survey has been created to get an idea of which Labs will be popular for lab proctor training purposes. As there are 30 Labs this year it will be impossible for a proctor to know all of these inside out, this survey will give an idea how many people we will need to train on each lab. Thanks for helping out!

VMworld 2010 Attendees,

In preparation for the event, we would like to find out which of our labs are going to be the most popular.  We will use this information to train our lab proctor staff so they can effectively answer your questions and guide you through any problems you have.

Please take a quick survey letting us know which of our labs you think is in the “Top 10”

http://www.surveymethods.com/EndUser.aspx?EACEA2B8EAA0B9BFE9

We look forward to seeing you at VMWorld 2010 and having a great event!

Regards,

Curtis Pope
VMworld Labs Architect

VMware SRM Customer Survey!

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I just received an email from Hari Krishnan who is a Senior Product Manager at VMware. Hari has created a survey and is looking for feedback from our customers. Not only will you be helping VMware out, you will also help out a charity organisation which will receive $ 10 for every response for the first 1000 respondents. So please donate 15 minutes of your time!

Hello SRM users,

The VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager (SRM) product team is looking for product feedback on SRM deployments. If you have purchased SRM, we would like to hear from you. Your participation will be very valuable to us and the information you provide will be used to improve the SRM product going forward.

You can provide your feedback by completing the survey

The survey should take no longer than 15 minutes and will expire on June 10, 2010. Please note that this survey is for SRM customers only.

Upon completion of the survey, if you are among the 1st 1000 respondents, VMware will donate $10 per response to charity. You will also receive a link to download the electronic copy of Mike Laverick’s book “Administering VMware Site Recovery Manager 4.0” upon completion of the survey.

We appreciate you taking the time to provide us with your valuable feedback.

Thank you,
The VMware SRM Team