Varrow Madness, 2000 nickels or a Kindle Touch…
Look, every great marketing ploy has a gimmick. This is no different. Although the difference here...
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Week in Vegas
Last week I had the great opportunity to attend VMware Partner Exchange 2012 in Las Vegas. I was joined by a number of other Varrow employees from management, pre-sales, and post-sales. I signed up for sessions before the conference but did not have any scheduled activities or boot camps on Monday the 13th so I [...]
Session Notes Compendium – VMware Partner Exchange
Just a wrap-up post given I posted a lot while at Partner Exchange — bootcamps, sessions as well as both keynotes. Believe it or not, I was in more sessions than this but on some didn’t take notes or ducked out when realized I didn’t think the session was worth the time (not inherently that [...]
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Closing Thoughts – VMware Partner Exchange
So I’m now on a plane headed home from being at VMware Partner Exchange in Las Vegas; suffice it to say a couple months ago I didn’t expect to have been in Vegas twice — VMworld in September 2011 and now Partner Exchange in February 2012. You can see my schedule in an earlier post [...]
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CIM1269 Session Notes – Upgrading vCloud Director Solution Stack – VMware Partner Exchange
Presented by Chris Colotti, Consulting Architect with VMware (blog, twitter) and David Hill, Senior Consultant with VMware. Got into this session partway through so apologies for the incomplete notes. Summary = vCD 1.0 to 1.5 is not for the faint of heart, can involve a good bit of downtime, and was a serious effort even for [...]
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Protected: TEX1535 Session Notes – VMware View, Horizon, and End-User Computing Roadmap – VMware Partner Exchange (ask on Twitter for password)
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EMC VNXe Replication Wizard issue and workaround
A quick note about setting up replication on an EMC VNXe: The VNXe replication wizard allows you to set up the replication destination as part of the wizard, but I’m seeing some cases with the most recent release, Version 2.1.3.16008 (2.1 Service Pack 3.1), where that will crash the management services. Storage functionality isn’t affected, [...]
CIM1314 Session Notes – vSphere Distributed Switch Deployments – VMware Partner Exchange
Presented by Venky Deshpande, Sr. Technical Marketing Manager with VMware Summary = Venky really knows his stuff….great walkthrough on vDS and different scenarios with it. Some good audience questions at the end too. Now the standard disclaimer….but there’s nothing new here so who cares? Looks like most people in the room are generally familiar with [...]
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CIM1331 Session Notes – Design and Deploy Optimized SQL Server on vSphere – VMware Partner Exchange
Wendy He presenting, worked with MS products for 15 years or so. Summary = very good content, tendency to read from the slides but hard to argue with that given it was good stuff on the slides (getting the slide deck would be recommended). More after the jump… Tier 1 Workloads on vSphere – SQL [...]
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Second Keynote – VMware Partner Exchange
Eschenbach speaking today for 2nd keynote of Partner Exchange 2012. These notes are more what stands out to me today. Asking Partners to consider where to invest your development dollars — believe that the best option is VMware. VMware’s growth outpaced the industry by 8-10%. Part of this is Net Promoter Score — VMware’s is [...]
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UCS C-Series + ESXi 5 = Bug?
I recently finished working a case for a new customer with VMware support and Cisco TAC. One of their hosts became totally unresponsive (VMs were still up, but host was disconnected in vCenter and you could not even console directly into the host). This also happened to a second host about a week prior. Both [...]
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EMC Bootcamp Notes – Solution Based Selling – VMware Partner Exchange
Summary = lots of integration/work/blood/sweat/tears from EMC into anything and everything VMware – highlighted across all my different posts on the EMC Bootcamp. Note: as always, these are my notes from what was on the screen, what was said, and my own thoughts. Session with Tommy Trogden – Solutions-based selling. Random notes basically… Consultative selling [...]
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EMC Bootcamp Notes – General Avamar & vCloud Director+Avamar – VMware Partner Exchange
Summary = good core Avamar info and some interesting details/thoughts around how to protect vCD with Avamar. Love Avamar’s dedup rates as always. Phil George (EMC BRS) – Core Avamar with VMware Walkthrough Core Avamar value stuff with VMware (big stuff but core) – VADP+CBT integration, vSphere 5, Image-level/Guest-level, etc. Proxy VMs to handle backup [...]
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EMC Bootcamp Notes – vCenter Operations & EMC – VMware Partner Exchange
Summary = I’m already very excited about vCOPs and have multiple customers using it. Seeing the mass of additional data points we can now pull in from the storage array excites me even more. Matt Cowger – vCenter Operations and EMC Stuff VMAX Adapter It works! Go to config tab and add adapter. See front [...]
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