New poll at Poll – what do you use in your Virtual environment? http://www.vbrainstorm.com/2010/10/poll-what-do-you-use-in-your-virtual.html
I am putting a call out to all blogger’s, I’m looking for anyone who wants to put up discussions, share view’s, etc at http://www.vbrainstorm.com/
If you haven’t check the site out yet, do so, and think about blogging.
I have also added subscribe via e-mail to both blogs.
Roger L.
It is 2010, almost 2011. This year at VMworld the message was as much or more cloud that it was in 09. But I often find my self, am I thinking virtual?
Let’s back up, what is it to think virtual, by looking at the term as it is defined.
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The term virtual is a concept applied in many fields with somewhat differing connotations, and also, differing denotations.
The term has been defined in philosophy as “that which is not real” but may display the salient qualities of the real. Colloquially, ‘virtual’ is used to mean almost, particularly when used in the adverbial form e.g. “That’s virtually [almost] impossible””
Well, that is no help at all, what I mean in this case, is when looking at a project, or a problem, do I think phyiscal in the sense, of application, desktop, server, or am I thinking about current methods? ( virtual )
Today, I am running Physical desktop’s, when my anti virus needs a subscription update, do I think about the fact that if I deploy view, in the future, I might need to reevaluate my anti virus? When I talk to a vendor about firewall’s, do I ask if they have a plans to make a VMware appliance? When I talk to a Security vendor about IPS / IDS , do I ask how it works if my servers are virtualized, or even desktop’s?
Are the software devloper’s thinking virtual? Are the people making insurance software thinking virtual, banking software? What about Healthcare, are the EMR, EHR developer’s thinking virtual?
Without them on board, what kind of challenges does something like vCD in the future?
Maybe, no one else stuggles to shake the troditional Physical world, who knows?
My thoughts are, that to move forward in 2010, and move into 2011, we need to align our thinking, as we align disks in the storage world.
I would like people’s commends and views please.
Roger L.
I am thinking about a possible VMware View 4.5 design consideration.
As some of you may know, we run a NetApp 3140, and a shelf 14 FC drives on each filer. One filer has 14 drives of Sata.
How are those of you running view now meeting your I/O Requirements? How did you build your cluster? Did you choose , blade or standard rack servers? Or maybe a scale up model?
I want to know what you are using. Please comment!
Hello all, I am dedicating this site to both Creative thinking, and thoughts, of technology, as well as direct brain storming with a virtualization focus. I want your your idea’s as well as my crazy ones.
Thanks!
Roger L.
I am thinking about a possible VMware View 4.5 design consideration’s. As some of you may know….
See entire post on www.vbrainstorm.com
Hey all!
Today I launch a new website, one focused on Brainstorming; I wanted to blog more on thoughts, idea’s, reactions etc. These are going to be based on and around IT and Virutalization as a whole.
http://www.vbrainstorm.com/ is going to allow me to put out more random, short blogs to my viewer’s, on thoughts and views, on technology around IT and virtualization, while keeping my main page focused on larger posts. You’ll see http://www.vbrainstorm.com/ evolve as it matures, and as I find way’s to get idea’s , share idea’s, and get your idea’s all in one place.
I have made adjustments to the comment system, to help users comment easier. I am also looking for a way to white board and share idea’s so keep a eye on the blog for things like that.
I am also looking for anyone willing to produce content based on thoughts, and or views on or around IT and or Virtualization.
Hit me up at [email protected] or rogerlund via twitter.
Roger L.
Tomorrow I am hosting, a Unofficial VMware User Group ( UVMUG ?) from 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM @ Saint Cloud Library – Bremer Room1300 W. St. Germain St Saint Cloud.
My Self and four others have been putting these groups on for two years now. Here is our http://centralmnit.com/ website. See below for this event’s info. I have also updated my WIKI, with a vSphere 4.1 page, in preparation for tomorrows event. As always my WIKI is linked on the right side of my blog.
Tomorrow’s event is titled : VMware vSphere ESX 4.1 / VMware vSphere Hypervisor ESXi 4.1 & VMware View Architecture Overview.
This event is Sponsored by Midwave.
Midwave is an Enterprise VMware Partner with the following specializations as a example.
Topics included:
- What is new in this release
- ESX
- ESXi
- vCenter
- Other
- ESX or ESXi?
- VMware View Architecture overview
- General News / VMWorld Discussion
- Open Discussion
Agenda:
1:00 – 2:30 VMware vSphere ESX 4.1 / VMware vSphere Hypervisor ESXi 4.1
- What is new in this release.
- ESX
- ESXi
- vCenter
- Is the future ESX or ESXi?
2:30 – 3:00 Break / Open Discussion
3:00 – 4:00 VMware View Architecture Overview (Presented by Midwave)
4:00 – 5:00 VMWorld News / Open Discussion
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I will be speaking on vSphere 4.1, ESX, ESXi, vCenter etc.
And I will have some discussion around this year’s VMworld.
If you are within driving distance, attend!
Roger L.
