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Re: How-to Setup AMQP with vCloud Director

Mike DiPetrillo — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 16:16:04 -0000

Wow. BSON. That's interesting. I think I'll stick with JSON or XML.

Re: Update on Blog

Mike DiPetrillo — Tue, 17 May 2011 10:32:17 -0000

Update. Having a heck of a time getting the redirect to work from the old blog URIs to the new ones. Still working on that. In the mean time I think this is the article you were referring to I hope. If not let me know what the old link was and I'll get it moved over.

http://www.mikedipetrillo.c...

Re: Update on Blog

Mike DiPetrillo — Mon, 16 May 2011 14:07:33 -0000

I absolutely don't think SQL Server on VMware is an issue. I had an issue with my blog and haven't been able to retrieve and restore all of my old posts. If you can find the post on Google cache then the content is still very valid. I'm combing though Google cache now to try and put old posts back up. It's going to take some time. I'll add this one to the top of the list since you've mentioned it. It should be back up on the site at the original link tomorrow. Thanks for your patience.

Re: What The?

Mike DiPetrillo — Mon, 16 May 2011 09:12:09 -0000

Test comment as I clean up the site.

Re: VMware is Building Clouds?

Mike DiPetrillo — Wed, 04 May 2011 20:00:39 -0000

Well, I guess everyone is entitled to their rants. I'm sorry you're having such a poor experience with a combination of your purchasing department and VMware licensing. Apparently the product is still of value since you're complaining about features you don't have licenses for but obviously need. If you'd like to contact me off-line I can make our team supporting you aware that we need to be more proactive on the correct bundling of product features to make sure you don't get stuck in the middle of another project.

Re: Promises, Promises

Mike DiPetrillo — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 09:43:14 -0000

Well you're right in that VMware's OpenCloud Bridge isn't real - there is no such product in the portfolio. As for OpenCloud Access I think Project Horizon should take care of that nicely. Now we just need Microsoft to work on improving all of their cloud based licensing for desktops and applications alike. That would benefit everyone in the industry.

Re: Promises, Promises

Mike DiPetrillo — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 09:35:25 -0000

Thanks for the comment, Colin. I do mention that Citrix isn't the only one to blame here, "But seriously, stop with the cloud washing. Yes, Citrix isn’t the only one to blame here." Cloud washing is happening all over the place just as virtualization washing happened before. It's the new cool thing that gets you a sales meeting so people call anything cloud these days. I even saw a cloud enabled washing machine the other day - no joke. Gotta love marketing folks.

Re: The Risks of Cloud: Lessons from Wikileaks

Mike DiPetrillo — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 17:28:21 -0000

Warrant Canary doesn't help you against the Patriot Act. The world changed after 9/11 for hosters. Time to go read the 700 pages of hell as I call it.

Re: virtualization.info | Details about System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 emerge

Mike DiPetrillo — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 07:55:16 -0000

I see they read the VMware release notes from 2006. Good for them to finally plan to catch up with 2006 in 2012. I'm sure some people will be fooled by this news though...

Re: cloudcomputing.info | VMware to announce vCloud API 1.0

Mike DiPetrillo — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 09:11:04 -0000

Just to make this clear, the vCloud API lab is using v1.0 of the API. Just like the labs that I've previously put together around the API that doesn't mean it will be backed by any product. For example, the v0.8 API that is currently public is more of a spec and an implementation guide versus an API attached to any product.

Whether VMware has or announces a cloud product is anyone's speculation.

Re: Do You Trust Your Admin?

Mike DiPetrillo — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 08:06:13 -0000

Thanks for the excellent comments, Rob.

Re: Do You Trust Your Admin?

Mike DiPetrillo — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 10:28:46 -0000

That is a good idea - sort of a direct to user feedback of exactly what's going on with their data and where it is at all times. I'm sitting here using Dropbox right now and every time one of my co-workers updates something in the Dropbox I get a notification on my screen. Could be a really good thing. But is it foolproof and tamper proof? Goes back to someone actually owns and maintains that system that is doing the notification.

Re: License Mobility in the Cloud

Mike DiPetrillo — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 01:02:05 -0000

@joe,

I hope a lot of other people pick up on this and really force ISV's hands on this front. All ISVs are at fault on this one (including mine). There are quite a few who are trying to change. Microsoft's recent announcement with Amazon shows that. IBM has also done a really good job of changing their licensing policies. I'm sure you'll see others that come forward soon. We just need all the help from customers that we can get otherwise none of the ISVs will have the incentive to go through the rather painful process of adjusting licensing policies.

Re: Skills Needed for Building Clouds

Mike DiPetrillo — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 20:09:36 -0000

That's a really good question on what resources to go look at. I would start with the usual certifications - CCNP, Whatever your vendor storage cert, and VMware VCP. Throw in someone doing a security track through the CISSP certification and you'll be really well off. About the only thing I'd stay away from is someone really heavy in ITIL. I don't have anything against ITIL at all. It's just my first step to building a cloud - forget everything you know about enterprise architecture. More on that in a later post though.

Re: virtualization.info | VMware and Red Hat CEOs on cloud computing

Mike DiPetrillo — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 22:26:08 -0000

I also don't understand how they are saying an API is a cloud. Huh?

Re: Calling All Smart People – New Cloud Jobs

Mike DiPetrillo — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 07:45:20 -0000

Scroll down and you'll find plenty of jobs for EMEA (Europe) as well.

Re: VMware ESXi Scripting Contest

Mike DiPetrillo — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 13:50:15 -0000

Ts & Cs are on the bottom of the site linked to in the article. Specifically it says, "Products to be used: vSphere PowerCLI, vCLI or other vSphere API bindings, and VMware solutions. Please remember our target users are administrators". The VI Java API falls under the other vSphere API bindings part. Of course it also says that VMware employees are ineligible. Sorry, Steve.

Re: HOWTO: PXE Boot ESXi

Mike DiPetrillo — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 20:05:39 -0000

Experimental support is all that's there right now. I hear something is targeted for later this year at this point. :(

Re: Using Perfmon in a Windows VM

Mike DiPetrillo — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 15:08:15 -0000

Sweet. Nice addition, Scott.

Re: VMware Workstation and VMware Fusion – 50% Off

Mike DiPetrillo — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 14:35:23 -0000

This was actually from last year (2008). No code this year, sorry. :(

Re: Building a $500 VMware ESXi Host

Mike DiPetrillo — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 23:04:53 -0000

Probably not. You're welcome to comment though. Parts have gotten even
cheaper now-adays so it's probably $300 or less now.

Re: HOWTO: PXE Boot ESXi

Mike DiPetrillo — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 11:43:28 -0000

Lots of things have changed with ESX 4 for doing this. There's a new technote coming out around VMworld timeframe I believe on how to set all of this up as well as an appliance that's already setup with everything to do this. I'm not the one working on that project but I would just wait for that technote if you can. Sorry I can't be any more help right now.

Re: God Speed, Ed Freeman

Mike DiPetrillo — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 12:57:04 -0000

You know, you're right. Snopes has the best layout of the events.
http://www.snopes.com/polit...

Re: The Cloud is Kicking My Butt

Mike DiPetrillo — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 00:05:22 -0000

Networking will work different ways for different clouds. There's a
lot of clouds being built up with private links right now. This helps
solve some of the SLA issues as well as security concerns. That's the
most logical way for enterprises to start getting into the cloud. A
lot of the telcos and providers that terminate a lot of links see this
as a real chance to expand on what they already offer with customers.
Of course that doesn't prohibit customers from using cloud services
over the Internet. Amazon and others have already shown that to be
quite popular. Some of the same people offering private link access
are also offering public link access (Verizon, Terremark, etc).

Re: Django+Eclipse with Code Complete Screencast

Mike DiPetrillo — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:56:55 -0000

This is really great. How do I get Django to stop running once I initiate it? Right now I have to open Activity Monitor and forcefully kill it.