CIM1326 Session Notes – Oracle Databases on vSphere5 Best Practices – VMware Partner Exchange
Got here late due to an EMC interview thing….apologies for partial notes. Summary = Oracle can be annoying on vSphere but is definitely worth it. One of Varrow’s customers listed as a case study. More after the jump… Upgrade to vSphere 4-5 for 10-20% performance boost. Use Oracle recommended install guidelines – same as physical. [...]
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TEX1512 Session Notes – Backups for vSphere, vCloud Director, View – VMware Partner Exchange
Presented by Alton Yu and Laurynas Kavaliauskas Summary = Core vSphere backup concepts and some new stuff around vCD + View. Worth attending. Agenda for the session. Why Backups? 93% of companies that lost their data for more than 10 days went out of business. vSphere Backup Some Basics – used floppies and now tapes [...]
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EUC1230 Session Notes – Technical Battleground: View vs. Citrix XenDesktop – VMware Partner Exchange
Matt Lesak presenting. I’m staying somewhat general…the presenters are committed to calling out positive things about View/vSphere which I appreciate. Note: being completely upfront, I work with Citrix products as well…what I like the most right now is how VMware + Citrix is driving this space so fast….competition = good. More after the jump… View [...]
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Keynote – VMware Partner Exchange
In a large Venetian ballroom in the 5th floor of their convention area — smaller than the VMworld keynote but still a pretty large room with a couple thousand people. Kickoff videos by EMC (customer videos), NetApp (Julie Parrish talking), Dell (guy who worries about storage growth during his morning run), Cisco – partner with [...]
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Protected: Session Notes – EMC Bootcamp Keynote – VMware Partner Exchange (Ask for password given it’s NDA)
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Session Notes – VCDX Prep Session – VMware Partner Exchange
Summary = it’s doable but a long hard road. Note: as with all my session notes this is a mix of what’s on the screen, what the presenters are saying, and my own thoughts. If something doesn’t sound like what the presenters would say, assume it’s just my opinion. Or ask in the comments if [...]
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Protected: Session Notes – VCDX Prep Session (Private) – VMware Partner Exchange
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Session Notes – VMware vSphere 5 Storage Troubleshooting Boot Camp – VMware Partner Exchange
Summary = great design considerations around VDI and awesome deep dive by Mostafa — buy his book when it comes out. Presenters = Mostafa (VCDX #02) for Troubleshooting and Jeff Whitman & Jim Yanik (both Senior SE’s) for initial VDI part. Note: as with all my session notes this is a mix of what’s on [...]
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VMware Partner Exchange Schedule
So I’m currently sitting at VMware Partner Exchange in a deep-dive Storage Troubleshooting session (very good 4 hour session) and realized I never posted my schedule. While I overlap a good bit with other Varrow-ites (surprise surprise), I wanted to put out what I’m attending. Sunday and Monday I’m in pre-conference bootcamps…so no nice schedule [...]
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Nexus 1000v 1.5 Upgrade
I just upgraded our lab Nexus 1000v from 1.4 to 1.5. Before the upgrade I assumed that it be like the upgrade from 1.3 to 1.4 where you first had to upgrade the VEM modules on each ESX host and … Continue reading →
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Laying out VNX FAST VP storage pools
One of the questions I run into a lot pertains to EMC VNX FAST VP storage pools, particularly with VMware. Now that we have all these layers of abstraction (the sub-LUN tiering in FAST VP, the I/O improvements of FAST Cache, then on top of that the I/O aggregation from VMware datastores with many VMs, [...]
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New Cisco UCS Bundles! February 2012
It’s that time again! It’s become a ritual for us to wait for the new UCS bundles to hit every quarter and today we got the list. Let’s take a look and see what Cisco is up to here with their Q3 bundle offerings… The first thing you might notice is that each bundle can [...]
First Varrow Madness 2012 Commercial!
We rolled out the first Varrow Madness 2012 commercial the other day. I give our marketing department a hard time but they are really great at what they do. How many other VARs put on an event like this (hint: NONE)? Then how many try to have as much fun with it as we do [...]
Announcing the Cisco UCS Implementation Course by TrainSignal!
Yeah..well..this post is a bit late in coming out but I’ve been busy lately and haven’t had the chance to blog nearly as much as I have wanted so here we are. A little while ago TrainSignal officially released the Cisco UCS B-Series Implementation course that I have been working on for a while. I [...]
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EMC Bootcamp Notes – Stretched Cluster Discussion by Scott Lowe – VMware Partner Exchange