EMC VNX Fast Cache and Application Performance ; It’s not all Pancakes and Banana Sandwiches.
The issue we face as storage professionals is always going to be the age old question. “What I/O demand or pattern exists in your application?” This is a question that should always be asked. Sometimes application owners just don’t know … Continue reading →
VMware Source Code Leak Details
I’m not looking to be sensational here but wanted to put up a blog post that I could point people to with questions around the recent VMware source code leak. Hat tip to Jason Nash for compiling this and sending around internally. In short, there was a source code leak and there are now new [...]
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UCS C210 M2 RAID issue
A couple weeks ago I was setting up 3 new rack-mount UCS servers (C210 M2) with the LSI 1064E mezzanine adapter. I was unable to create any RAID volumes on the server using the LSI option ROM utility, and had to instead use the Cisco server configuration CD. This is the first time I have [...]
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Mac OSX: Sleep/Wake Issue
Having trouble waking your Mac up after you put it to sleep? Fear not! I suspected hardware issues were causing my 13″ Macbook Pro’s drowsiness, but it seems Apple has a simple fix available that has worked well for me so far. Shut down your Mac and plug-in your AC adapter Press CTRL+OPTION+SHIFT and the [...]
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Announcing the vSphere Advanced Networking Training from TrainSignal
Another one down! Very proud to announce the release of my next training offering by TrainSignal. This is a course focused on the more advanced features and functions of vSphere networking. My goal was to go beyond the standard training offerings that focus primarily on the standard vSwitch and gloss over discussions on the varying [...]
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Upcoming SC/NC Citrix User Groups
For a while now Citrix has been running quarterly user groups in the Carolinas. I’ve attended several and found the content to be very good as well as have had multiple interesting conversations. Given that, I wanted to post an email that I received from Andy Whiteside (Citrix engineer) earlier this week. I do want [...]
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Disaster Recovery, Business Continuity, and Aligning IT and the Business
One of the subjects that comes up again and again in conversations I’m having with customers is around the idea of Disaster Recovery. Everyone seems to be thinking about it – whether they have a DR plan in place or … Continue reading →
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Custom ESXi 5 ISO for UCS, Nexus 1000v and PowerPath VE
With ESXi 5 VMware made it very easy to create custom installation ISOs. I have been doing a lot of upgrades from ESXi 4.1 in our customer sites that have UCS, Nexus 1000v and PowerPath VE so I decided to … Continue reading →
ESXi 4.1 to 5 Upgrades with VUM
I have been doing a lot of ESXi 4.1 to 5 upgrades of late and every time I tried using vCenter Update Manager I would get an incompatible driver warning for these 2 ESXi 4.1 driver packages oem-vmware-esx-drivers-scsi-3w-9xxx oem-vmware-esx-drivers-net-vxge The … Continue reading →
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How I became a vExpert
Well, not exactly how I became a vExpert…but at least what I submitted for the application process — details on overall VMware vExpert program here and selection criteria here…right now there are just over 400 worldwide. If you’re feeling too lazy to click through, the general details are…. The annual VMware vExpert title is given [...]
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Cisco Partner Summit – Day 2 – Cisco and the Data Center
Day 2 (Wednesday) at Partner Summit is the day where we dive deeper in to individual programs, practices, and announcements. For me the day centered primarily around data center. The theme for today (in the morning general session) was innovation. Padmasree Talking Future Trends The general session was handled by Padmasree Warrior, CTO of Cisco. Honestly, [...]
Cisco Partner Summit 2012 – Day 1 – Welcome to San Diego!
Tuesday was my first actual day at the Partner Summit since I had no meetings scheduled for Monday and there are no normal sessions. The first full day at Partner Summit is full of general sessions…basically large sessions for the general partner community in the morning and then sessions broken out by geography in the [...]
Cisco Partner Summit 2012 – Day 0
Not much to say here yet, though technically it’s probably Day 1 but since I’m on a plane flying out it’s Day 0 for me. Last year was my first Cisco Partner Summit and I talked about it here. This year the event is in San Diego, which I love but I also loved New [...]
The 2012 Carolina VMware Users Summit! Be There!
It’s that time of year again! On May 15th in Charlotte at the Convention Center is this year’s Carolina VMware Users Summit. This continues to be a REALLY great event and this year it’s going to be even bigger and better. Yeah, I know…I hype this every year but I’m not kidding. The organizers have [...]
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