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VMTN Podcast number 73, VMworld Booth Rack at Gestalt IT Tech Field Day

Duncan Epping · Nov 19, 2009 ·

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

Duncan Epping · Nov 4, 2009 ·

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…

Duncan Epping · Oct 28, 2009 ·

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!

VMTN Podcast, join in on the fun

Duncan Epping · Jul 29, 2009 ·

As many of you hopefully know there’s a weekly VMTN Community Podcast. VMware’s John Troyer runs the show and usually most of the active VMTN Members join in on the fun. The best shows so far, in my opinion, are the deep technical ones and especially around storage. This evening(for us Europeans at least, wednesday 21:00 GMT +1 !!) Chad Sakac will join to discuss vSphere and iSCSI. For those who don’t know Chad, read this post on VI3.5 and iSCSI and you probably know why you should join in on this podcast. You can dial in, or just listen and have fun in the chatroom. You can ask your questions in the chatroom and one of the panel members will ask them during the call.

Just be there!!!

VMTN Podcast: Join in on the fun!

Duncan Epping · Apr 1, 2009 ·

This evening(well at least for us Europeans) there will be another edition of the VMTN Podcast. More and more people are joining the weekly podcast live(Live audio stream and chat) and more people are downloading it every single week, jump on board while you still can! This week John Troyer asked VMware’s Hemant Gaidhan to join us and talk about SQL Server workloads in a virtualized environment and of course best practices.

Hemant will be our guest on the VMware Communities Roundtable podcast tomorrow, Wednesday, April 1, at noon PDT / 3pm EDT. I believe Europe and the US are now back in sync with respect to summer time, but you can always check a time zone calculator.

You can dial in, join the chat, and get streaming audio here. Your homework assignment is read Hemant’s paper and come with questions.