I’ve started a new job handling some of the day to day operations and VMware Architecture at Aviat Networks (www.aviatnet.com)
Thanks to VMworld Sponsors
I wanted to reach out to the various sponsors that I have for this years VMworld conference.
First I have to thank VMUG Leadership for arranging for all VMUG leaders and co-leaders to have the ability to get a pass for VMworld this year. If that’s not a reason to get involved I really don’t know what is. Goto www.vmug.com and signup for your local chapter. Get involved. Also while there look at the VMUG Advantage subscription. It saves you on Training and Certifications with VMware and provides access to pre-recorded training for some products.
Next I need to thank 2 companies for sponsoring my wife’s VMworld Guest Pass. Yes there is such a thing and yes some spouses do go to VMworld!
Zerto and RES Software have graciously sponsored my wife’s guest pass and have sent her shirts. She plans on “blinging” these out so that they aren’t so plain jane Techie shirts. If you see someone wearing a Zerto or a RESSoftware shirt with Rhinestones on it – thats my wife!
Thanks to both Steve Thomsen of www.Zerto.com and Mat Keenan of www.ressoftware.com for arranging this.
I’m looking forward to seeing the many vendors and others at VMworld this year. There should be some major announcements from VMware about new products/versions and acquisitions. Also there will be some discussion regarding the change in VMware leadership and what role Paul Maritz will play at EMC.
Most of all I am extremely excited that I will be defending my design for the VCDX certification. This has been a major goal for the last two years.
Again I do really want to thank those involved at RES Software and at Zerto.
Blogs/Forums/Activities I use often
- I have several goto areas that I thought I’d mention.On a weekly or even daily basis I visit and participate in these groups (Note these are in no particular order):
The VMware Communities Podcast http://www.talkshoe.com/tc/19367
Dell TechCenter Weekly chat and blogshttp://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/b/techcenter/default.aspx
ProfessionalVMware Weekly Brownbags http://professionalvmware.com/brownbags/
VMware Communities – Please tell me you already know about these and visit often!!! http://communities.vmware.com/index.jspa
Twitter! Involve yourself in this medium as many of the movers and shakers of the Virtualization community are found here. You can get just about any VMware and Virtualization topic answered quickly. Beware though. You need to have researched it first or you may be made fun of!
Austin VMUG – 2012
BMC has over 13K VMs up from less than 4K VMs since 2008. They have used CLM to analyze the churn rate on their VMs. They typically allow 180 day life cycle on their VMs that can be extended through an approval process.
They are using a multi-tenant style management process along with chargeback models to proved virtualizattion on the “cheap.”
VMware liason Eddie Blackwell hints that there will be big news at VMworld. More news to come at the next VMUG post VMworld. Cloud cloud cloud? Look to more Labs at VMworld. He says to start looking at the news about Project Serengeti.
DynamicOps can be a cohesive glue between types of various cloud providers. This will eventually link in with how the Nicira acquistion may be used to provide a method to mesh these various products. There will be some overlaps in DynamicOps and vCD until the product features/code are merged.
VMworld will be huge! BIG BIG announcements!!! Plus the have this old guy Bon Jovi at some tiny little party.
Next up is EMC BC/DR product group with an Avamar product presentation.
VM level deduplication in Avamar is between 96% for image level backup and up to 99% for guest level backups. They offer bare metal recovery with all VM backups. With Image level it uses VMware Changed Block Tracking to reduce backup times. Files can be restored from either Image Level or Guest based backups for both Windows and Linux guests.
Now onto the Movie! We had the opportunity to see The Bourne Legacy. I’ll let you read those reviews elsewhere.
Entry into the Blogosphere – 1st Post
I am going to attemp to try and develop my blogging skills. This may be a interesting period as I find my voice from within. I will see if I can create enough content and techniques to make this worthwhile to you. I plan on taking this task with me to VMworld 2012 in San Francisco. While there I am going to be defending my VMware VCDX design. I’m looking forward to connecting with my fellow VMware vExperts and VMUG leaders and catching a few of the various conference speakers and topics.