Guy’s, I hope you enjoy this video, I cover exploring vSphere ESXi 5.0
More to come, vCenter
Roger Lund
1:30pm – Updated with revised judging panel.
When I think of a reality show, I think of people competing for prizes, being judged and getting voted out of the house, off the stage or off of the island. Take that concept and apply it directly to tech bloggers and what would it be? It would be a very cool contest that I’m going to be taking part it starting the first week in August.
Thomas Jones of NikeTown588.com is hosting a blogger reality show for up and coming tech bloggers. I was lucky enough to meet Thomas during my recent trip to HP Discover and I was really excited when he announced the Blogger Reality Show contest. I was even more stoked when I got the email that said I had made it INTO the contest.
keithnorbie , wrote a blog post titled. vForum 2011 – Minneapolis & beyond…
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Well another VMware Forum is in the books. This was the 1st Forum since the launch of the vSphere 5, SRM 5, vCloud 1.5, etc. Ironically it’s the last Forum of the year and now we march on site for info and the mother-load; vmworld 2011!!
Here’s a video review form vExperts @rogerlund and @mtellin”
Here you have my self, and mike, giving you a overview of vForum 2011 – Minneapolis
Thanks Keith!
Roger Lund
John Mark Troyer, has a Birthday. Happy Birthday John! I also wanted to take the time to thank John for all the work and personal time he has put into the Blog sphere. In case your don’t know John, Below are a couple links of who he is.
https://twitter.com/#!/jtroyer
http://www.linkedin.com/in/johnmarktroyer
http://www.facebook.com/john.troyer
I wanted to thank John for taking the time to give a darn about us bloggers that have spent their own time and finger tips, blogging about VMware technology. John has always set a example of good behaver, and honesty for us to shoot for.
He also takes the time to get to know us, read our work, and give us feed back when it comes to marking, or just blog style / writing.
I couldn’t imagine, where I would be today, without John. I want to personally thank him, and tell him to thank his wife, ( for letitng him spend the time) to do what he does, on a daily basis. John, here’s to you! Never doubt that you work has a larger impact than think, for, it does, and I’m here to say to you. Thanks, for both being you, and putting your self into your work, and what you do.
Roger Lund
I am honered to be a Delegate for Gestalt IT’s Tech Field Day 7 ,
This event focus on Datacenter IT Infrastructure.
“Our Field Day events bring together innovative IT product vendors and independent thought leaders to share information and opinions in a presentation and discussion format. Independent bloggers, freelance writers, and podcasters have a public presence that has immense influence on the ways that products and companies are perceived and by the general public”
You can read more about the Tech Field Day Here.
I am looking forward to being one of the delegates. Below is the list of other delegates.
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Theron Conrey
Conrey.org
VMunderground
@TheronConrey
Scott Lowe
TechRepublic
VirtualizationAdmin
@OtherScottLowe
Roger Lund
vRoger
vBrainstorm
@RogerLund
Frank Owen
TechVirtuoso
@fowen
Bob Plankers
The Lone Sysadmin
@Plankers
Fabio Rapposelli
Juku
P2V It!
@FabioRapposelli
Brandon Riley
virtual insanity
@BrandonJRiley
Derek Schauland
Technically Speaking
@WebJunkie
Matt Simmons
Standalone Sysadmin
@standaloneSA
Matt Vogt
Virtualization, Storage, Community
@MattVogt
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Quoted content and images are From http://techfieldday.com/2011/tfd7/
Presenters and Schedule
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Thursday, August 11
08:00-10:00
SolarWinds
@SolarWinds_Inc
Friday, August 12
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“Tech Field Day web page is being updated as news is released. It’s at http://techfieldday.com/2011/tfd7/ (or http://bit.ly/TFDAUS) and http://techfieldday.com/2011/tfd7-links/ will contain links to our presenters and delegates, as well as news, twitter updates, and more. Take a look now to see the names, blogs, and twitter accounts! There’s also a Twitter list at http://twitter.com/techfieldday/tfd7-delegates.”
Make sure to follow the event on Twitter.
The @TechFieldDay Twitter account and #TechFieldDay Twitter hashtag will be used. They also have a Twitter list of TFD delegates you can follow and reference.
Thanks to both Stephen Fosket and Matt Simmons for this event and to the vendors for their sponsorship. Additionally, thanks for letting me be a delegate, and having a opportunity to participate in this event.
Those that know me, know that I love to talk design, play with technology, and talk about what possible, today, tomorrow, and far future. I believe this event, will be right up my ally. You can guarantee, I will take this chance to take every opportunity to discuss technology in every form I can; even if it means little sleep.
Roger L.
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Additionally, the following delegates have written these blogs:
Matt Vogt
Virtualization, Storage, Community
@MattVogt
I wanted to formally extend my congratulations to Blake Loring, the winner of the Tech Talk Giveway – a HP Proliant Microserver. Blake was selected from 33 entries submitted on my blog. The selection process was completely random. I wrote a MySQL view with a seeded rand() statement to select the winner a week before I posted the contest, so I tried to be as fair and unbiased as I could with the selection.
I am pretty happy with the response for my first giveaway and I want to extend my thanks to all who promoted and participated with the contest. It gave me ideas for future contests and giveaways, so stay tuned!
One of the additional questions I have had about the introduction of vSphere 5 is how I would update my VMware Certification to the vSphere 5 level, VCP5. Fortunately, the answer is really simple. Existing VCP4 holders will be able to take the VCP5 exam and upgrade their certification without any additional course requirements until February 29, 2012.
VMware offered the same path for existing VCP3’s when vSphere 4 was introduced in 2009. The course exemption is again a time limited offer. After February 29, those who attain or hold a VCP4 will be required to attend the $1495 “VMware vSphere: What’s New [V5]” class. The class is a 2-day class and can be attended in a classroom offering or an online offering.
For individuals who do not currently hold a VMware certification, the “VMware vSphere: Install, Manage and Configure [V5]” class is required before testing. People holding a VCP2 or VCP3 certification are treated the same as someone without a certification.
For more info, see the Certification section of the VMware website.
Did you install SQL express and need to later upgrade the database and had trouble?
I am limited in the realm of SQL knowledge. therefore, I just ran the installer of SQL 2008 R2, and didn’t see my instance listed.
I was following this blog post.
At this screen, I didn’t see the instance I wanted to upgrade. (note, taken from the above blog post)
After, some creative googleing, I found the following.
sql 2005 express -> express 2008 r2 ?
I found if I went into options. And selected x86, and re followed the above blog link.
And that worked!
Now, remember, that since you didn’t have full SQL, vCenter couldn’t install support for it, on first install. You’ll need to remove vCenter, and reinstall.
I hope that helps some of you.
Roger Lund
I just finished Watching the presentation on Cloud Infrastructure LaunchvSphere Licensing Overview Your Cloud. Intelligent Virtual Infrastructure. Delivered Your Way. PDF Here
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Video Below.
I made my own video, but need to slice it, as it is to long for you tube.
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My questions are more around per proc cost and higher dense servers.
In the example, I have I will use a blade system. Let’s assume these are two Socket Blades.
If I have eight blades in a chassis, with 256GB per blade . Totaling 2048GB of memory. And today, via vSphere 4.x , I could use this memory.
Now, I could max my memory in this example configuration for 512GB per blade. Totaling 4096. And today, via vSphere 4.x , I could only use half of this memory.
Today, I need 16 Enterprise Plus Licenses, at the VMware store price of Only $4,369.00. Totaling $69,904.
Using the vSphere 5 licensing, if I want to use 2048GB of memory ( now, you could subtract memory required to support HA)
We are talking about 2048 / 48 = 42.66 licenses. Therefore, I will round up. 43 * $4369.00 = $187,867.00 . This is a difference of $117,963 More to use the same memory.
Using the vSphere 5 licensing, if I want to use 4096GB of memory ( now, you could subtract memory required to support HA) And, currently, this is not possible with vSphere 4.
We are talking about 4096 / 48 = 85.333 licenses. Therefore, I will round down.85 * $4369.00 = $371,365.00
Now, in a four socket configuration, you get more CPU, but the cost stay’s the same.
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We are talking about a huge price difference, now, I am not saying I agree or disagree, but I think at that cost, it will be hard to move customers into the vSphere 5, market.
And as a VMware vExpert, and VMUG leader, what I don’t want is to see people shy away from VMware and towards a competitive product.
What is everyone thoughts?
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Officially, I have no opinion as cost is just cost. but this subject is one that a customer brought to my attention almost as soon as the product launched.
Roger Lund
UPDATE: VMware has announced an increase, effectively doubling the vRAM entitlements that were originally announced. This post is dated, and you should refer to VMware‘s site for official information on pricing…
VMware previewed vSphere 5.0 today via a live webcast with CEO Paul Martiz and CTO Steve Herrod. The vSphere 5 releases should be available in the third quarter of 2011, according to a press release from VMware. Along with many enhancements, a new licensing model was also announced which removes the physical processor and RAM limits which were previously imposed on vSphere licenses. The new model uses vRAM, or RAM allocated to virtual machines, in a pool for your entitlement. VMware says that the change is to allow for more robust hardware deployments for the cloud without restrictive hardware based entitlements. It offers the same pay-for-consumption model as cloud services.
As a current vSphere customer, I was immediately wondering what does this mean for my licenses and how will my existing licenses under maintenance be converted to vSphere 5.0. The answers to that an all the licensing changes can be found in this PDF from VMware – http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/vsphere_pricing.pdf.
In short, here are the changes:
Processor restrictions from vSphere 4 are removed. vSphere 4 Standard & Enterprise were limited to 6 cores per processor (socket). vSphere 4 Advanced and Enterprise Plus were limited to 12 cores per processor. vSphere 5 has no cores per processor restriction.
Physical RAM restrictions were removed. vSphere 4 Standard, Advanced, & Enterprise editions were limited to 256GB of RAM per host. vSphere 5 has no physical RAM restriction.
vSphere 5 introduces the vRAM per processor entitlement. vSphere Essentials, Essentials Plus & Standard liceses receive 24GB of vRAM (RAM allocated to VMs) per processor license. vSphere Enterprise receives 32GB of vRAM per processor and vSphere Enterprise Plus receives 48GB of vRAM per processor. vRAM consumption is based on the amount of allocated virtual RAM to virtual machines.
vRAM can be pooled and consumed by all hosts managed by a vCenter instance.
vSphere Advanced licensing level no longer exists in vSphere 5. Users of this level are entitled to Enterprise licensing.
The licensing guide states that vRAM entitlement should be purchased in advance of use and is based on a “high watermark” usage, however, the licensing guide says that a hard stop will not be imposed should you consume more than your license, except with vCenter Server for Essentials.
vRAM consumption is measured by the amount of virtual RAM configured to all powered on virtual machines in a vCenter instance (or multiple instances, if linked)