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Re: vChassis Vision from VMware at VMworld – Does L2-L7 go Virtual?

rodos — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 14:00:28 -0000

No mention of vFabric? :)

Re: First week as a vSpecialist

rodos — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 13:57:09 -0000

Enjoy the new job. KEEP POSTING the interesting stuff and share the love.

Rodos

Re: Crossing the Finish Line

rodos — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 13:44:53 -0000

Mike congrats to you an all your team. I an attest to the fact that they are all amazing at what they do. If you have the skills, go apply for one of those jobs!

Rodos

Re: A Plea to VMWorld Attendees

rodos — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 09:36:11 -0000

Kevin great idea. Lucky you did not think of it last year as all the pull tags broke off within a few days and you would have had a bunch of school kids raging on VMware, hoping that the product was not as bad as the bag. Maybe that would have been smart and did what I did which was repair with some cable ties!

See you there!

Rodos

Re: [Gestalt] vBlock, great product, just not for you

rodos — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 17:18:53 -0000

Tell me if I am wrong but this what a lot of people don't realise about the vBlock, and I have read the complete architecture guides and am sort of undergoing certification for a vBlock2 at the moment, is that a LOT of it, and most importantly the VMware side is left as an exercise for the reader. I commented on this back on Feb 5th at the end of this post http://rodos.haywood.org/20..., will copy the text here.

"My thoughts on the VCE vBlock guides themselves. I have skimmed through them all, initial impressions. Of course I will send some notes to those inside the VCE organisation through channels but I figured people would be interested. Reading the VCN (Netapps) document is on my list too, will be interesting to compare.

1. Don't think these will do your work for you. They leave more as an "exercise for the reader" than you might think. Its not a design of your system and you are going to have to do some significant work to create a solution. I know, I have just done it.

2. There is a lot of detailed information in the deployment guide about UCS and UCSM, very detailed. There is a bit about the EMC storage and a token amount on VMware. Sure it is not a very fare comparison because its easy to describe and detail how to build up the UCS system, whereas in contrast its not like you can describe laying out a VMax in 20 pages. Also the VMax design and implementation service comes with the hardware anyway. The VMware component consists of how to install ESX, not a mention of vCenter Server. Nothing about setting up N1K and its VSMs or PowerPath/VE etc even though they are a requirement of the architecture. Not saying that should be there in detail, but you are not deployed without it and its not even mentioned. Contrast this to the UCS blade details which has every screenshot on how to check the boot from SAN has been assigned correctly in the BIOS.

3. My gut feeling is that no one from VMware really contributed to this, it was a Cisco person who did the VMware bits and EMC did theirs."

Don't know if this has changed, but I think people are making a lot of assumptions.

Rodos

Re: HP StorageWorks Tech Day 2010

rodos — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 05:44:34 -0000

Devang, really looking forward to catching up next week. I see your points but "leading players in storage"? Revenue or mindshare? Donatelli has been handcuffed until recently. They have to have a vision and target for where they want to win in the industry. Looking forward to hearing it all in plain English.

Rodos

Re: VIRTUMANIA Episode 3: High Availability For Virtual Machines

rodos — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 01:29:58 -0000

Great podcast again guys. Glad to see more mention of us wonderful Australians. We are taking over the world. Love the stuff on OTV and the new EMC magic that Scott was just itching to talk about but could not.

Re: The Enterprise Cloud Buyers Council (ECBC)

rodos — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:43:39 -0000

Mike, VMware is not a member. Are there plans for that to change?

Re: Telling social media stories: what I’m trying to do here

rodos — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 17:40:53 -0000

Dr Troyer, I don't think you should be too concerned with the "secret" getting out that their is strategy behind what you do for the "community" around VMware. Just like you understand that there is a strategy behind what we do from our end (some more than others). Given though, the strategy from our end is probably a lot more loose and fluid, we don't have managers measuring outcomes.

I think its great you are sharing some of your insights, you have build up a very successful social media community so you do have some great "stories to tell".

Rodos

Re: Is Storage Tiering ILM or a subset of ILM, but where is ILM

rodos — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:53:46 -0000

Devang, in thinking about the differences between Storage Tiering and ILM I would also be looking at the object awareness of each. For ILM you are going to want application awareness. That invoice data is now 7 years old and we can go and remove it, or its 3 years old we can move it to the archive area. ILM is about application data aging.

Storage Teiring is about turing the performance of an application. Things like automated tiering (like EMC FAST2 and others) can move pieces of data around the storage tiers but with no application awareness its very limited in dealing with the lifecycle of the data.

If course with more data moving to being un-structured data on standard file systems storage can start to become data aware (say at the file level) and do some more interesting things.

Lastly, ILM was but of a flavor a while ago but agree that it has started to slow. Why? We can deliver a lot of storage space now (compared to a few years ago) and people want more and more of their data online for longer. With de-dupe and compressing getting better, larger disks and faster systems the return on investment of resources (people, process and hardware) is not as good as it used to be.

Just some thoughts.

Rodos

Re: Google Wave – Working together

rodos — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 08:44:04 -0000

Screenshots?

Re: UCS Bootcamp Series – Cisco UCS for Dummies

rodos — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 22:59:23 -0000

In particular the dictionary of UCS terms is really handy as there are so many new acronyms.

http://rodos.haywood.org/20...

Re: UCS Bootcamp Series – Cisco UCS for Dummies

rodos — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 22:27:09 -0000

Enjoy the bootcamp. I did it a while ago, just after Scott.

You can see all my posts on UCS via the a tag http://rodos.haywood.org/se...

There is also the UCS resources page at http://haywood.org/UCS/

Really keen to hear of your experiences