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BrownBag Follow-Up – VCP5 Objective 3: Storage

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Video Slides ProfessionalVMware BrownBag VCP5 Section3: Storage View more presentations from ProfessionalVMware Notes Thin on Thin? Where should you do Thin Provisioning ñ vSphere 4.0 or Array-Level? http://virtualgeek.typepad.com/virtual_geek/2009/04/thin-on-thin-where-should-you-do-thin-provisioning-vsphere-40-or-array-level.html Calculating Capacity of a VSA Cluster with RAID10 Configuration http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/topic/com.vmware.vsa.doc_10/GUID-8941D7EA-A876-4630-A165-80C46D81E219.html http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2011/02/18/blocksize-impact/ vStorage APIs for Array Integration FAQ http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1021976

BrownBag Follow-Up – Storage Smackdown 2011

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This time around, it’s audio only, so either view/listen below, or pick us up on iTunes. Recording Follow-Up Questions There is one round of questions that made it’s way on to the web:http://virtualistmanifesto.com/2011/12/06/storage-smackdown-brownbag-127-a-call-for-questions/ There may yet be more. If anyone feels like transcribing, drop me a line.

Useful Links – vSphere Storage Appliance (VSA)

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To be honest, I’ve not poked at the vSphere Storage Appliance since the vSphere 5.x Beta. That said, the technology itself looks promising, and as will be discussed on the BrownBag this week, it will become part of some of your vSphere designs. To help prep for the BrownBag or to learn overall about the
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BrownBag – Design & vSphere Storage Appliance

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Per Damian’s blog, this week’s BrownBag technical deep dive will center around vSphere design and the vSphere Storage Appliance (VSA). Damian will be joined by Sean Crookston, Chris Wahl, and Bill Hill to deep dive into designing vSphere environments with the VSA. BrownBag – Desigh & vSphere Storage Appliance Register: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/945190048 Date/Time: 10/5 @ 7:30PM
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BrownBag Follow-up – Storage, Virtualization, and NetApp

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The Summary! No, it’s not that I was too lazy to fill out the template for the post, really. In fact, it was an excellent call with Julian Cates from NetApp. All in all a pretty good discussion. Video ProfessionalVMware BrownBags – NetApp & Virtualization Storage from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo. Summary So there we go,
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BrownBag – Storage, Virtualization & NetApp

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This week’s BrownBag (the one on 7/6 that is) we will be talking all about storage and virtualization with NetApp’s Julian Cates. “Julian Cates is a 14 year IT pro who has spent the last half of his career at NetApp as a consultant, engineer, and architect.  He is currently focused on NetApp storage solutions
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BrownBag Follow-Up: VDI & Storage Impacts

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IOPS? No, it’s not where you go to get pancakes. Last night we were joined by two all-stars in VDI sizing and had an awesome audience conversation around VDI and it’s potential impact on storage. What follows is the video and some selected bits from the chat. The Video ProfessionalVMware BrownBags – VDI & Storage
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BrownBag – VDI & Storage!

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Woot! We’ve touched on storage before (here) but we have not yet scratched the surface of VDI let alone how it effects storage. More than that, we’ll have some VDI experts from around the community to talk to us. First, the critical details: Critical Details: Date/Time: 6/22 @ 7PM CSTRegister: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/351927521 Speaker Bios: Michael Letschin
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EMC World Day 2 & 3 Wrap-Up

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One post, two parts. Not because they’re short, but because the days were so intense I only had a chance to jot down notes & start to expand on them now. TL;DR – For those at the show, you’ll understand. For those that couldn’t make it… you’ll want to stay tuned to EMC & VMware…
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VMworld 2010 – “Storage Super-Heavyweight Challenge”

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I’m reposting the Vid of our VMworld 2010 session from Chad Sakac’s Virtual Geek. As Tom Howarth could not make VMworld US, Mike Laverick stepped in to drive the panel. On the panel we had: Adam Carter @ HP Eric Schott @ Dell (formerly EqualLogic) Chad Sakac @ EMC Vaughn Stewart @ NetApp Now the
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Small, Sleek, and Sexxy – New EMC Celerra VSA

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Nick Weaver, posted an update to the EMC Celerra VSA, or Virtual Storage Appliance. The build has rightfully been dubbed the -Uber edition. Here are a summary of his changes: 1. Completely automated install: On first boot a configuration wizard will ask a few questions and automatically reboot. On second boot everything is configured and
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Safe and Natural VMFS Enlargement! – Extend or Grow VMFS and Why You Should Care

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Now that I have you at attention, let us take this time to talk of things. Important things. The things your parents never told you about VMFS. First let us start with some definitions, each of these will be taken in the context of VMware Virtualization using ESX/vSphere, and VMFS, but you knew that, didn’t
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Holy sVmotion Fail Batman!

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I thought I had covered failed sVmotion in a past post, or at least some of the symptoms. Alas, I can not find the post (either I fail at Google, or they fail at indexing my content… likely the first). During a recent sVmotion fail I came across a wonderful cleanup KB from vmware.com. From
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