The VMTN/PlanetV12n Podcast 80 was an open topic. You can find the download here or subscribe to the podcast via iTunes here.
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Podcast 79 – Building your homelab
The VMTN/PlanetV12n Podcast 79 was all about homelabs. You can download the MP3 here, subscribe to the podcast via iTunes here, or listen in live here every wednesday. As always I tried to capture most links that have been posted. The link by the way also contains a summary of what has been discussed. Have fun:
- Simon S. – VMware ESX(i) Home Lab – Why, What and How? Considerations when building your own home lab
- Duncan – My Homelab
- Gabe – White box ESX home lab
- Jason Boche – EMC Celerra NS-120
- Bouke – v-Water: ESXi overclocked, watercooled
- Simon – vT.A.R.D.I.S – 10 ESXi node cluster on a trolley as demonstrated at London VMUG
- Dave – Whitebox HCL
- Eric’s articles on whiteboxes
- Maish – Install ESX on your Laptop – I had a Crazy Idea
- Ultimate ESX whitebox
- Iomega IX4-200D
VMTN Podcast number 73, VMworld Booth Rack at Gestalt IT Tech Field Day
Kind of a weird topic for a Podcast but this week the discussions was around the “VMworld Booth Rack at Gestalt IT Tech Field Day”. As always you can download this episode here and I have gathered the following links which were posted during in the chat window:
- VMETC – MDS and Xsigo Power VMware GETO Mobile Demo and VMworld Booth Rack
- Gestalt IT – Techfield day 1
- Storage Nerve – GestaltIT Techfieldday 2009: Post 8 (Day 1)
- Xsigo – Xsigo home page (includes video with explanation)
- NTPro – How to protect against a bare metal worker node failure
- NTPro – A True Nehalem Whitebox for ESX4
- Rodos – Gestalt IT Field Days 2009 Day 1
- Rodos – Gestalt IT Field Days 2009 Day 2
- Rodos – Gestalt IT Field Days 2009
- Rick Vanover – Gestalt IT Field Day – Looking back on the event
VMTN Podcast number 71, vStorage API
This weeks topic of the VMware Communities Roundtable was the vStorage API. It was most likely one of the most technical roundtables in months. Especially the part about the Virtual Disk Development Kit (aka VDDK) was educational! If you missed the episode you can download it here or subscribe to the podcast with iTunes here!
Here are the links that were dropped in the chat window for those who are interested:
- VMware – vStorage API for dataprotection
- Anton Gostev – What is VMware vStorage API?
- Chad Sakac – So, what does vStorage really mean?
- VMware – Virtual Disk Development Kit Documentation
- VMware – VDDK FAQ
- VMTN – Install VDDK on vMA
- SNIA.org – Hypervisor Storage Interfaces for Storage Optimization White Paper DRAFT rev 0.5a
VMTN Podcast number 70, Storage…
As John Troyer is extremely busy and has a huge backlog of Podcast notes to publish and I don’t have a life I thought I would throw all links in a blog post so that you have something to read. The Topic of Podcast Number 70 was Storage and to be more specific Thin Provisioning. If you missed the episode you can download it here or subscribe to the podcast with iTunes here!
- vSphere Blog – Details on blogging contest
- vSphere Blog – Winning Blogging Contest Cycle 1
- vSphere Blog – Winning Blogging Contest Cycle 2
- vSphere Blog – Winning Blogging Contest Cycle 3
- VMware.com – What’s new in VMware vSphere Storage
- Vroom Blog – Storage performance improvements
- Virtual Geek – Thin on Thin?
- NetApp on YouTube – The finer points of dedupe
- Yellow-Bricks – 8MB Block size
- vCritical – PowerShell Prevents Datastore Emergencies
- Virtu-Al – VI Toolkit One-Liner: VM Guest Disk Sizes
- VirtualInsanity – Get Thin Provisioning working for you in vSphere
- Yellow-Bricks – Storage VMotion and moving to a Thin Provisioned disk
- NetApp on Youtube – vStorage APIs for Array integration