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Re: The long goodbye

jtroyer — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 15:29:19 -0000

Congrats and welcome. I just moved 7 mi up the coast in Montara. I'm smiling every day, even when I'm trapped behind a big truck going over the hill. Hope we run into each other.

Re: VmWare P2V

jtroyer — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 14:57:39 -0000

Glad you had good results. It sounds like you have already virtualized your current targets, but in the future, take a look at VMware Converter (currently in beta). The starter version will be free, although the enterprise version will be more capable.

Re: Why VMWare remains a great tool - you need to use it as you see fit

jtroyer — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 17:23:29 -0000

This study actually had many problems and wasn't apples to apples. VMware has responded here: http://load-testing.blogspo...

Just check on the VMTN Forums -- people are running databases and other mission critical apps in production on VI3. People might be surprised at how wide their pool is of good virtualization candidates these days.

Re: Why VMWare remains a great tool - you need to use it as you see fit

jtroyer — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 17:27:31 -0000

This study actually had many problems and wasnâ€™t apples to apples. VMware has responded here: http://blogs.vmware.com/vmt...

Just check on the VMTN Forums â€” people are running databases and other mission critical apps in production on VI3. People might be surprised at how wide their pool is of good virtualization candidates these days.

Re: Dear Gear Diary…

jtroyer — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 19:42:17 -0000

Christopher, nice article. You do need a beefy machine, but today's default machines are plenty powerful enough to be running OS X and Windows side by side.

Everbody, but especially Mitchell and Christopher, come on by and give VMware Fusion a try: http://www.vmware.com/mac. Even though it's still in beta, it's stable and should be well worth your time. It has Boot Camp support and now has Unity, where the Windows windows are better integrated into the Mac desktop than Coherence.

You can also check out how others are doing with Fusion in the VMTN Community Forum: http://www.vmware.com/commu...

John
VMware Technology Network

Re: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: my trip to San Francisco

jtroyer — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 01:31:00 -0000

You'll be coming over the Bay Bridge, not the Golden Gate. It could take you over an hour from Hayward, depending on traffic. You actually might want to go to the Hayward BART station instead of driving, depending on your tolerance for sitting in traffic. BART ends up on Market street just a block or two from Moscone.

Thanks for the great blogging -- please drop by the communities lounge on the exhibit floor to say hi!

Re: Is Citrix XenServer cheaper than VMware ESX Server?

jtroyer — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 10:01:37 -0000

Don't forget that VMware allows you to overcommit memory through page sharing and balloon memory, so you can achieve higher consolidation ratios. That changes the math considerably and VMware can actually be cheaper.

Re: UPDATE : VMWorld Europe 2008 – Will Cost Be A Factor?

jtroyer — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 22:02:34 -0000

Unfortunately VMware did not review this report prior to publication, and it contains a number of inaccuracies, in particular around pricing and comparison of dissimilar products. The graph is not accurate.

Corrections are available here:
http://blogs.vmware.com/vir...

Re: Catching up with VMWorld Europe in a single afternoon

jtroyer — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 15:20:00 -0000

Thanks, glad it was useful. I've seen some pictures come out from the party, but didn't see much else posted. I suspect that means people had a good time and/or hangovers were involved. VMworld.com will have at least another video, and they are hard at work getting the presentations up, but give them a week or two.

Re: What VMware products support which VM OS?

jtroyer — Mon, 05 May 2008 16:59:34 -0000

Note that you can be informed of updates to this doc here (and of course can subscribe to the RSS feed as well):
http://blogs.vmware.com/gue...

Re: How I Photosynth’d my family room

jtroyer — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:46:52 -0000

You can use VMware Fusion 2.0 beta 2 to run Photosynth on a Mac: http://blogs.vmware.com/tea...

Re: VM /ETC’s Birthday Party is VMworld 2008 in Vegas!

jtroyer — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 20:18:37 -0000

Rich,

Congrats & Happy Blog Birthday.

I had no idea I raised your stress level last year. You obviously were already a natural at this.

To everybody else, I will once again try to link to all the good stuff at VMworld. I am almost -- but not quite -- omniscient, so drop me a line (jtroyer at vmware) if you're blogging in Vegas.

Re: The Missing Link of Virtualization- Training Your Users

jtroyer — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 18:02:10 -0000

A commenter over on VMTN asks if this kind of training material exists.
http://blogs.vmware.com/vmt...

There are some training videos, Arrasjid's short book... others?
http://blogs.vmware.com/vmt...

Re: VMware Virtual Infrastructure to be renamed vSphere

jtroyer — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 22:21:58 -0000

1. It wasn't as simple as a straight vote.

2. VDC-OS is a class of software platforms; vSphere is the product. Same reason to change VDI.

3. See my thoughts on my tweet http://twitter.com/jtroyer/... "I like vSphere: it's a container like cloud/pool, it can grow into a whole world/ecosystem, it's more dynamic than platform/framework."

Re: Week 50: New Blogs

jtroyer — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 15:09:18 -0000

One of the challenges in trying to be authoritative -- and I don't even claim to do that! -- is that Planet V12n is getting hard to keep up with. 2008 saw an explosion in really, really great virtualization blogging. Jason, you're the poster boy for that. So the best I think any of us can do is keep a list of blogs that interest us or are worth watching.

What we all count on each other to do is keep our eyes and ears open for interesting posts & thinking from people on or off our lists, and then share them on our blogs.

Re: I’m approaching the bandwidth limit for my online videos!!

jtroyer — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 20:52:22 -0000

Hany,

I actually like the Vimeo ones better, because we can them embed them on other sites, like VMTN! That will ultimately give you more visibility for your site as well.

Also consider doing a voiceover. That lets me look away a bit and still follow what's going on.

Thanks!

Re: VMware vCenter Linux Virtual Appliance Beta Available

jtroyer — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 11:21:10 -0000

I think the 'highly confidential' is left over from the previous phase. After all, it's been posted in the open on the public site. Hardly confidential at this point!

Re: A Running List of Sponsored Conversations

jtroyer — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 10:40:30 -0000

VMware sponsors bloggers to their VMworld conferences (http://www.yellow-bricks.co..., and we just started an annual award with some gifts to our most passionate advocates (http://www.vmware.com/commu...

Re: When myth busting goes wrong and becomes a myth to bust it self

jtroyer — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 17:49:08 -0000

Just a few quick points, and then I agree, let's get back to making everybody's lives better. Real world examples and working data centers trump all this bs.

4. Performance. Hyper-V performance seems to be OK with a few VMs, but how many virtual machines are you going to have per box with Nehalem and Shanghai? Hyper-V hasn't shown it can scale.

5. Footprint. It's a security/correctness thing. How many points of attack (or points of failure, or increased complexity) with bigger hypervisor + Windows-based parent partition?

7. Management. Where are Hyper-V's SRM, Lab Manager, Update Manager, maintenance mode, Lifecycle Manager?

Re: When myth busting goes wrong and becomes a myth to bust it self

jtroyer — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 17:49:08 -0000

Just a few quick points, and then I agree, let's get back to making everybody's lives better. Real world examples and working data centers trump all this bs.

4. Performance. Hyper-V performance seems to be OK with a few VMs, but how many virtual machines are you going to have per box with Nehalem and Shanghai? Hyper-V hasn't shown it can scale.

5. Footprint. It's a security/correctness thing. How many points of attack (or points of failure, or increased complexity) with bigger hypervisor + Windows-based parent partition?

7. Management. Where are Hyper-V's SRM, Lab Manager, Update Manager, maintenance mode, Lifecycle Manager?

Re: Cloud Computing in Plain English

jtroyer — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 14:07:55 -0000

I also like this one from GoGrid - similar content and style: http://www.youtube.com/watc...

Re: Saved by Westrate!

jtroyer — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 23:41:01 -0000

You could blog about (1) what made sense to your customer as you talked about cloud computing; (2) what *didn't* make sense to your customer; (3) how your customer thought he wanted Cloud but really wanted Lab Manager; (4) how your customer thought he wanted cloud but really wanted View; (5) funny or pithy observation your customer made about existing cloud services, and how they are either reusing existing apps & architecture or thinking about building from scratch; (6) regulatory or security concerns; (7) how your customer was dealing with existing external service providers, and how they are or are not thinking about changing that with burstable clouds; (8) how your customer is or is not dealing with internal chargeback and process changes that will come from providing flexible, scalable services in an internal cloud. There, I've given you 8 imaginary blog posts! (Every day -- good luck with that :-) )

Re: How Much Should We Share?

jtroyer — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 20:14:03 -0000

Somewhere I read to use the 80-20 rule on Twitter. 80% business, 20% show your personal side. That's working for the primarily business- & technology-related Twitter community I participate in.

It's also why crossposting to Twitter & Facebook doesn't work. On Facebook, my business/personal split goes the other way around. I've seen my professional contacts chastised or teased by their friends for talking about work way too much when they crosspost from Twitter.

So I vote for keeping the dog and BSG!

Re: The Impact of Social Media on Channel Marketing and Partner Marketing

jtroyer — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:46:20 -0000

VMware has a big private partner portal (with a new version just about ready to launch on Force.com), and we have a full schedule of webinars and BrainSharks for our partners (Your category #1, internal training & support).

As far as the public side, we're ramping up the content on our partner-facing blog (http://blogs.vmware.com/par... that also goes out to Twitter & Facebook. The head of channel sales Doug Smith (@smith_douglas) adds the personal touch on Twitter. (That's all Category #2 Vendor-Partner)

We're using SharedVue and RSS to syndicate product information to these channel partners' websites. (#3 Partner-Customer)

And we talk directly to our customers all the time, via our own social media channels of blogs, webinars, podcasts, etc., that often include partners. (#4)

Re: Opting for VMDK Alignment? Options for VMDK Alignment.

jtroyer — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 13:07:24 -0000

Rich -- thanks for shedding some light on this subject. This topic always seems to be somewhat mysterious, because the devil's in the details -- *and* the details are often storage vendor dependent, which makes it even a tougher topic to overview.