My Wishlist for vSphere
In my travels, I see a lot of vSphere installs. I do a lot of vSphere upgrades. I’ve seen the issues that bite and confuse customers. I figured I’d create a wishlist for the fine folks at VMware. I have no idea what’s in the next version of vSphere. This is just a personal wish […]
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Citrix Synergy 2013 Keynote
The keynote kicked off this morning in Anaheim, CA at 10:08 local time. (My comments are in parenthesis) First up is Mark Templeton, CEO (while “Going Mobile” by The Who was played in the background). Mark kicks off by welcoming everyone to Synergy. He starts by reviewing Citrix Cloud Platform. The largest of which is [...]
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Avamar Redirect Restores Permission Issue
I ran into a issue in the past where an Avamar user was configured at a Domain level and they were not able to perform the redirected SQL restore. Today I ran into the same issue and after searching some old notes, I found the fix and thought it might be useful to add […]
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vNook Book Review: In Defense of Food
As a way to collect my thoughts after finishing a book, I’ll post a review here. I’ll do two reviews: an ADD review, and a regular review. ADD Review Author: Michael Pollan Source/Cost: Amazon.com/Kindle Cost: $9.99 Book Shelf: Lifestyle, Health … Continue reading →
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VPlex Non-Uniform and Uniform Configurations
I had a recent conversation with my friend, Joe (@virtacit), and my ValCo Labs brother, Josh (@joshcoen), about the different access methods for EMC’s VPlex. Now, if you aren’t familiar with VPlex, EMC is doing some amazing things with storage virtualization. VPlex allows you to take one (or many) storage arrays (EMC or otherwise) and [...]
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The Angel’s Share
If you know a few things about good, aged whiskey, the Angel’s Share is the amount of product that evaporates during the maturation process. Distillers assume an appropriate amount of Angel’s Share in their bottling calculations because they know if … Continue reading →
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Office365 SAML SSO w/ AppController 2.6
Somewhat recently Citrix released a patch for AppController 2.6 which reintroduced the Office365 SAML SSO connector. We were pretty excited because we use CloudGateway and Office365 in house and the SSO functionality is really handy. Unfortunately setu...
EMC World 2013 – Blog Posts Reference
Just a wrap-up post given I wrote 10+ blog posts at EMC World 2013 – general sessions, keynotes, breakout sessions, and SE Conference sessions. Please note that the SE Conference session notes are password protected due to NDA material – please email me (amiller @ varrow . com) or catch me on Twitter or LinkedIn [...]
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Protected: EMC World – SE Conference – VNX Futures
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Protected: EMC World – SE Conference – Leading Your Transformation with ESD (VMAX, RecoverPoint, VPLEX)
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Protected: EMC World – SE Conference – Isilon Roadmap
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Protected: EMC World – SE Conference – Hyper-V for the VMware Pro
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Protected: EMC World – SE Conference – Flash: Today and Tomorrow
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Creating Space – For Health (By Juicing)
How I Got to Juicing As I mentioned in my last post, I’ve decided one way I’m going to attempt to improve my health is by juicing fruits and vegetables. This is, admittedly, a shortcut to where I want to … Continue reading →
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Citrix Summit / Synergy Update #1