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Re: Stop logging me out vCOPS! WHY DO YOU HATE ME?! – Modifying vCOPS Timeout!

ThatFridgeGuy — Mon, 27 Jan 2014 08:25:16 -0000

Thanks Christopher, the timing was perfect as I was really starting to get annoyed with this as I am using vCOPS more and more.

Re: Happy New Sphere is back!!! Win a copy of Designing VMware Infrastructure by @TrainSignal and @Scott_lowe

ThatFridgeGuy — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 17:28:03 -0000

Trainsignal training rocks! I'll second Gabriel's motion that they throw in some bacon. ;)

Re: The vSoup VMworld 2011 Poll

ThatFridgeGuy — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:28:21 -0000

I really wish I could get that image out of my mind!!!!!!

Re: VMware changes vRAM licensing on vSphere 5 after customer feedback on vTAX

ThatFridgeGuy — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 14:04:14 -0000

Gabe, I do know there has been an enormous about of discussion within VMware regarding the pricing change announcement and the feedback they have received. If this or something similar turns out to be accurate then a lot of the credit needs to go to those in the community who were willing to take the time to understand the announced pricing, run the numbers for their environment and provide rational, reasonable feedback that VMware could use in their internal discussions.

Thanks will also need to go to VMware for taking the time and resources to listen to their customers, evaluate the feedback and to make adjustments.

Re: http://www.vtesseract.com/post/7557543715

ThatFridgeGuy — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 13:38:04 -0000

Note, your one time costs that you mention are NOT one time costs for most people. Most people have maintenance on their vSphere licenses. The more licenses or the higher the level that each license is the more your annual maintenance renewal will be.

Re: Roger Lund ' s IT and VMware / Virtualization Blog: VMware vSphere 5 Licensing – Customer take? Your saying I pay what!?

ThatFridgeGuy — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 17:43:16 -0000

As a fellow VMUG Leader and vExpert I also don't want to see people move away from VMware. More importantly I don't want my current environment to move away from VMware. On the other hand for the exact reason you show above (#'s are different but same issue) this new pricing casts serious doubt on the future at VMware at the company I work for. While VMware is technically a superior product to it's competitors I'm not sure that I can show the value of what VMware provides versus it's competitor's for what the now greatly increased cost differential is. Not only that, even if I can show it, I'm not sure it will still fit in the budget. If it does fit in the budget it will certainly have a negative impact on at least some of the following that are/were close to happening:
- adding 1 or 2 additional employees
- VDI project
- vCenter Operations
- vShield
- RSA enVision
- Cisco UCS upgrades (memory expansion)
- Cisco UCS purchase for DR site
- VMware Zimbra
- VMware Social Cast

It's not just the licensing costs alone, but that it reduces the viability of continuing with the dual proc, large memory footprint Cisco UCS as our platform of choice. It also has people here wondering about what might happen to our licensing down the road for the above mentioned VMware products along with the SRM and vCenter Configuration Manager we already own.

This is going to make it much harder for me to internally sell any VMware products to my management.

Already been told to stop spending time on any VMware related projects and start the process of looking closer at Hyper-V and other options. Yesterday I loved my job, today and in the near future I'm not so sure...........

Re: Fistful of Cloud : Interactive Cloud Demo

ThatFridgeGuy — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 19:20:43 -0000

Nick, That was awesome. Keep this up and you'll find yourself part of the keynote w/ Herrod at VMworld 2011 showing some of the stuff you do in your "spare time".

Re: VMware vSphere design - the book | Technodrone

ThatFridgeGuy — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 09:10:34 -0000

Maish,
Congrats on the book. Looking forward to picking up a copy of it. It definitely looks like it fills a gap that is not thoroughly covered by any other book that I am aware of.
Thanks for this and all of your contributions to the virtualization community.

Re: vBrainstorm by Roger Lund: Thinking Virtual , moving from 2010 to 2011.

ThatFridgeGuy — Sat, 02 Oct 2010 15:49:13 -0000

Roger,
I like the idea for your new blog. As for this post I agree. While we are nearly 100% virtualized for servers, like you mentioned we don't always think virtualization for everything. I have had discussions with people internally recently regarding some of the things you have mentioned such as AV, IDS, IPS, etc.. and I need to keep reminding people to try and look at it from a virtual perspective as much or more than they do from a physical perspective.

Good luck with the new blog, I'm looking forward to see how it goes.
Rod

Re: Hats off to Gestalt & sponsors

ThatFridgeGuy — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 23:12:45 -0000

Luigi,
Good luck with the Gestalt contest, hopefully I'll see you in SF.
Rod

Re: Logo evolution

ThatFridgeGuy — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 23:07:52 -0000

Luigi,
I agree with Bas, I also like the logo you are using and it does look better being less shiny on the edges.

Re: Does VCE vBlock Really Mean Cookie Cutter Architecture For The Cloud?

ThatFridgeGuy — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:46:10 -0000

Looking forward to the reference architecture docs. I am already well on my way to building my own Vblock1 with CX4 already in house and UCS, 1000v & MDS about to be ordered. Puts us in position to look at being able to offer cloud type options to our customers down the road.

Re: Real Thin Provsioning And Over Allocation – The VI Admin

ThatFridgeGuy — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:40:06 -0000

Rich,
Great shirt and great timing. My wife just reminded me last night that I need to give her and the kids a list of what I want for Christmas. Got my "Virtually Insane" sweatshirt for Christmas from them last year.

1 primary admin (me) with 1 backup if I'm not around for 8 hosts and 125 guests in production.

Re: Cisco UCS for Dummies – UCS Overview

ThatFridgeGuy — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 21:50:27 -0000

Going to a TelePresence UCS Virtual Briefing tomorrow after the Wisconsin VMUG meeting. I will have a chance to provide more feedback after that.

Re: Cisco UCS for Dummies – UCS Overview

ThatFridgeGuy — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 09:20:14 -0000

I am having a call with some people on our Cisco team to get the numbers and go over a config for a small UCS deployment we are considering. I have no idea what to expect yet but it will be interesting to see if this is in the ballpark of the non-Cisco configurations I have looked at.

Looking at 8 blades with 96GB. Not sure yet if it would be more cost effective to go with the full size blades using 4GB DIMM or 1/2 size blades with 8GB DIMM.

Would you consider the UCS to be fully redundant w/o a single point of failure or would you say someone needs to spread the hosts across 2+ chassis for redundancy?

Re: The Cloud is Kicking My Butt

ThatFridgeGuy — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 22:14:42 -0000

Mike,
Great post and I am looking forward to reading more from you on VMware and The Cloud.

I can't even begin to imagine the Cloud whirlwind you are going through these days. I'm having a hard time trying to figure it out in my spare time. The wheels are constantly turning as I try to see where it will fit into what we do and where it will be able to take us in the near future.

I am currently getting a nice high level overview right now as I listen to Paul Maritz's talk at EMC Corp's Strategic Forum for Institutional Investors.

Michael Hubbard from VMware is presenting on "Evolving from VI3 to VDCOS to Cloud" at my VMUG meeting on 4/1.

Keep up the great work.

Rod