Speakers = Clair Roberts (Sr. Product Integration Architect), Curtis Pope (Chief Global Architect) Summary at the top = fun session, Clair is very engaging and has lots of anecdotes/deep dive details about various pieces of the lab infrastructure. Great session to end VMworld on.

Got here a bit late as stayed to talk with Bryan Kuhn and Chad Sakac after the last session….discussion around NFS for VDI, etc. Speaker = Don Mann from ePlus Two Approaches Throttling - examples… vSS - throttle egress (outbound) traffic from VM vDS - throttle ingress/egress to/from VM HP FlexFabric - FlexNICs - 4 … Continue reading VSP2247 10Gb & FCoE Real World Design Considerations

Got here a bit late….panel session between Dell (Travis), HP (Mike), NetApp (Vaugn) & EMC (Chad) Dell and HP talking about how they're good at moving storage functions into server hardware when it makes technical sense b/c they sell servers too. What would you deploy today for VDI? NetApp -- Cisco + NetApp FlexPod -- … Continue reading EUC2692 Rethinking Storage for Virtual Desktops

First session of the day Thursday -- chose to go to this rather than "PAR3340 Selling VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager 5 and VMware vSphere Replication" (I need to get comfy with the new SRM 5 licensing but figure I can do that from a PowerPoint). I've double booked this with a session that starts … Continue reading BCO2874 vSphere High Availability 5.0 and SMP Fault Tolerance

Came into this session late…apologies for the rather fragmented notes. When Normal Behavior isn't good…. Probabilistic vs. absolute health model VC Ops has a domain-specific health model for vSphere Use absolute health noel until analytics' probabilistic model is ready to generate DT's 2 Goals of capacity management Efficiency -- optimization of capacity. Predictability -- availability … Continue reading CIM2452 VMware vCenter Operations Technical Deepdive

Small group discussion with Massimo re Ferre around vCloud Director, interesting use of keypads for each person to do live surveys as Massimo is leading the discussion. One attendee mentioning cloud.com vs. vCloud Director….Massimo discussing depth of integration and ecosystem. What's most important attribute for you in cloud? Self Service - 52% BRoad Network Access … Continue reading GD32 vSphere and vCloud Director with Massimo Re Ferre

Got to this one a little late as squeezed in part of a Scott Lowe session earlier... Summary at the top = nice walkthrough of a mostly functioning environment. Get the slide deck to see the futures stuff (most interesting part of the session). TIAA-CREF talking about their stretch cluster design. Network Requirements Common Layer … Continue reading BCO2395 Stretch Clustering – Now and Beyond

For those coming here from Scott Lowe, thanks for stopping by and see all my other VMworld 2011 posts (many other sessions). This conflicts with another session I already had scheduled but I wanted to hear Scott Lowe speak a bit….always like to hear good speakers (regardless of content) and see what things I might be … Continue reading VSP1926 Getting Started with VMware vSphere Design

I missed some sessions yesterday morning for a SuperNAP tour setup by Jason Nash….it was more than worth it. To get right to the point, this is the most impressive data center I've ever been in…and I'm saying that having been in the NetApp and EMC RTP data centers within the last year or so. … Continue reading SuperNAP Tour at VMworld 2011