Here I go, I am off and installing the RTM of VMware vSphere 5.0. Enjoy.
Thanks all!
Roger Lund
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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Presenting Sponsors
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
Tech Field Day 7 – Austin, TX
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.
Upgrading SQL Server Express to 2008 R2 Standard and Adding Features to the Upgraded Instance
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?
EDIT:
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
There are a ton of resources available on the show floor. Here are a few.
Demo :New compelling storage features in VMware vSphere 5
Demo: Enhanced accessibility to VMware vCenter Server with new VMware vSphere Web Client
Demo: Installing and Configuring VMware vSphere Storage Appliance
Demo: Simplifying storage management with VMware vSphere Storage DRS
Demo: Using Auto Deploy to dynamically provision a new host to an existing cluster
VMware vSphere 5 What’s New: Availability Whitepaper
VMware vSphere 5 What’s New: Data Recovery Whitepaper
VMware vSphere 5 What’s New: Networking Whitepaper
VMware vSphere 5 What’s New: Performance Whitepaper
VMware vSphere 5 What’s New: Platform Whitepaper
VMware vSphere 5 What’s New: Storage Whitepaper
Lots of good resources.
Roger Lund
VMware Announced the next step in Cloud Infrastructure.
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Starting today: Virtualize any application. Respond to business faster. Trust your cloud.
Leveraging the proven vSphere virtualization technologies, VMware introduces intelligent cloud infrastructure with built-in automation and resource elasticity to free IT from manual processes and enable it to meet business requirements on-demand.
Only VMware lets you achieve the levels of efficiency and agility characterized by the cloud benchmarks without throwing away your existing investments in applications, hardware and knowhow. https://event.on24.com/eventRegistration/EventLobbyServlet?target=registration.jsp&needuserinfo=y&eventid=319982&sessionid=1&key=82E09EE9B6FB6F29E31FB41998C23C79&sourcepage=register “
New releases include.
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- VMware vSphere 5.0 – New HA architecture for expanded scalability
- VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager 5.0 – vSphere replication,automated failback, planned migration
- VMware vSphere Storage Appliance 1.0 – Benefit from share storage (HA, vMotion) without storage hardware
- VMware vCenter Heartbeat 6.4 – Improved integration with vCenter Server”
Now, I am not going to go and try to link everything out , but I want to put a few of the documents you care about in once place.
VMwarevSphere™ 5.0Licensing, Pricing and Packaging
What’s New in VMwarevSphere™ 5.0 Platform
Compare vSphere 5.0 Editions
Entitlement Mapping
Also new
EDIT
What’s New in vSphere 5 and Heartbeat 6.4 Presentation!
Now, I am still digesting this, so more to come!
Roger Lund
VMware has a been planning something. What is it? Th next cloud infrastructure? A new product release? Make sure to check out the live event on July 12th. Below is a expert from VMTN Blog – Register now for “Raising the Bar, Part V” — online event.
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July 12, 2011
9am-Noon Pacific Time
VMware CEO Paul Maritz and CTO Steve Herrod will be presenting on the next generation of cloud infrastructure. Join us and experience how the virtualization journey is helping transform IT and ushering in the era of Cloud Computing.
9:00-9:45 Paul and Steve present – live online streaming10:00-12:00 three tracks of deep dive breakout sessions10:00-12:00 live Q&A with VMware cloud and virtualization experts
The event is free — if you sign up today you’ll get an email reminder. This is a not-to-miss event!
These vExperts will be on-site at the event in San Francisco and will be covering the event live! (Also watch for live-tweeting from @VMwareEvents and @jtroyer with the #vmwarecloud hashtag)
- Eric Siebert (@ericsiebert, vSphere-land)
- David Davis (@davidmdavis, VMware Videos)
- Bob Plankers (@plankers, The Lone Sysadmin)
- Bill Hill (@virtual_bill, Virtual Bill)
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I for one, can’t wait to see what new and up coming technology VMware has in store for the public.
It’s Official, I am a 2011 vExpert. I want to Thank everyone for voting. I believe most of you know my story, and why I lead both a unofficial VMUG, and recently, a Official ( Minneapolis MN, with Rick @VMRICK ) VMUG.
From the first time I played with Virtualization, I was excited , as I knew then of the possible impact in the Datacenter. Since then I have not only been speaking about Virtualization, but living message as well.
Thanks to John, and VMware for looking to the community , and embracing what we have to say.
Roger Lund
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