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VMware Extends Unified Hybrid Cloud Platform

by Shawn Cannon September 1, 2015

written by Shawn Cannon

VMware announced many updates to extend their Unified Hybrid Cloud Platform on Monday. A copy of the press release is below. (content from This Press Release)

New Public Cloud Services and Software-Defined Data Center Solutions Enable Organizations to Securely Build, Run and Deliver Any Application

SAN FRANCISCO, CA–(Marketwired – August 31, 2015) – Today at VMworld® 2015, VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW) announced new innovations for the company’s unified hybrid cloud platform. These new public cloud services and software-defined solutions will enable customers to build applications faster, improve IT security, rapidly recover from disasters and drive meaningful business value.

“Digital business transformation is creating new opportunities and new risks across every industry,” said Raghu Raghuram, executive vice president and general manager, Software-Defined Data Center Division, VMware. “Applications are the fuel of this digital business transformation. With our One Cloud, Any Application, Any Device™ strategy and our unified hybrid cloud platform, VMware is empowering the next wave of industry leaders to deliver applications with the stability, security and reliability of an enterprise, while allowing organizations to innovate with the agility of a startup.”

VMware’s unified hybrid cloud platform enables customers to create one consistent environment based on VMware vSphere® across the private and public cloud to securely build, run and deliver any traditional or cloud-native application. VMware’s unified hybrid cloud platform is built on a software-defined data center architecture, and offers customers openness and choice in how to build and manage applications and cloud environments based on their needs.

VMware’s Expanding Portfolio of Public Cloud Services

VMware vCloud® Air™, the public cloud component of VMware’s unified platform, allows the data center and cloud to remain connected so that all resources are accessible and shared across the hybrid cloud. VMware vCloud Air streamlines the digital processes required to realize the value of applications while maintaining the security and performance organizations demand. New or expanded vCloud Air services include:

VMware vCloud Air Disaster Recovery Services – VMware offers a unique approach to cloud disaster recovery, which includes a single cloud-based orchestration console and cloud services that deliver unified protection of all resources on-premises and off-premises. Key new enhancements to be delivered include:

Disaster Recovery OnDemand™: VMware will add a pay-for-what-you-consume pricing option to VMware vCloud Air Disaster Recovery. Customers will pay a flat fee for each VM protected and the amount of storage consumed by the VMs. When a DR test is run or a DR event occurs, customers will only pay for the compute consumed when VMs are running.

Site Recovery Manager Air™: Site Recovery Manager Air is a software as a service offering that will provide VMware vCloud Air Disaster Recovery customers with a comprehensive management solution for designing, testing, executing and orchestrating centralized business continuity and disaster recovery plans. VMware Site Recovery Manager Air will enable fast, reliable and orchestrated recovery of multi-VM applications and data centers protected in VMware vCloud Air.

VMware vCloud Air Object Storage – VMware vCloud Air Object Storage is a portfolio of highly scalable, reliable and cost effective storage services for unstructured data. VMware vCloud Air Object Storage powered by Google Cloud Platform is based on Google Cloud Storage and integrated into vCloud Air OnDemand. VMware vCloud Air Object Storage powered by EMC is based on EMC ViPR, offered by EMC Cloud Services and integrated into vCloud Air OnDemand. VMware vCloud Air Object Storage will be easy to setup and exceptionally durable and available, and will reduce the need for data protection with built-in redundancy. It will support global access use cases with easy access from any device, anywhere, anytime.

VMware vCloud Air SQL – VMware vCloud Air SQL is a new database as a service offering that will provide easy access to scalable, cloud-hosted relational databases. Delivered in a cost-efficient pay-as-you-go model, and built on the trusted foundation of vSphere, vCloud Air SQL will support hybrid data solutions that seamlessly and securely extend on-premises databases to the cloud. VMware vCloud Air SQL will support Microsoft SQL Server, with a variety of memory, compute and storage options, and plans to support other relational databases in the future.

Software-Defined Data Center – The Foundation for a Unified Hybrid Cloud Strategy

Research indicates the software-defined data center is going mainstream, as customers move from virtualizing compute resources to implementing storage and network virtualization. A new report by Research and Markets notes that the software-defined data center market will hit $77.18 billion by the year 2020, which is up from the $21.78 billion it’s expected to rake in for 2015.

VMware announced new product releases for the software-defined data center that include:

VMware NSX™ 6.2 – VMware NSX 6.2 enables organizations to achieve application continuity through disaster recovery and metro-pooling for more efficient use of resources throughout a single data center and across data centers. With VMware NSX, customers can reduce recovery time objectives by as much as 80 percent1. VMware NSX 6.2 also adds better integration with physical infrastructure, enabling simplified and consistent operations for the entire data center network and the extension of micro-segmentation to physical servers. Finally, new capabilities such as Traceflow and Central CLI further simplify operations and visibility. Read this blog to learn more about VMware NSX 6.2.

VMware vRealize™ Operations™ 6.1 – VMware vRealize Operations 6.1 will deliver a consistent management framework as organizations evolve from the private cloud and adopt technologies for the hybrid cloud. With the new Intelligent Workload Placement capability, VMware vRealize Operations will match the workload to a customer’s specific IT and business needs, and recommend the best placement location. Proactive Rebalancing enables customers to continually meet those needs. Operating system and application monitoring will be available natively in VMware vRealize Operations and predictive analytics help IT proactively identify and avoid potential issues across infrastructure and application stacks from a unified self-learning management solution. For more information, read VMworld 2015: Intelligent Workload Management with vRealize Operations 6.1.

vRealize Log Insight™ 3 – New features in vRealize Log Insight 3 will include double the scale and performance to 15,000 messages per second, improvements in fault tolerance around clustering, analytics improvements with new charting options and query snapshots, improved integration with vRealize Operations, and improvements in Big Data style query execution.

VMware Integrated OpenStack 2 – VMware Integrated OpenStack 2 will be based on OpenStack Kilo, making it current with upstream OpenStack code, and will include an industry-first seamless upgrade capability that will address one of the largest deployment and operational challenges for OpenStack clouds. VMware Integrated OpenStack will also include enhancements such as load-balancing as a service, Ceilometer and Heat Auto Scaling to make VMware-based OpenStack clouds more scalable, performant and resilient. VMware also announced VMware Integrated OpenStack will be available to service providers through the VMware vCloud Air Network program. Read this blog to learn more about VMware Integrated OpenStack 2.

VMware Site Recovery Manager 6.1 – VMware Site Recovery Manager 6.1 will integrate with VMware NSX 6.2, enabling IT to use network virtualization to simplify disaster recovery management and accelerate recovery in the software-defined data center. VMware Site Recovery Manager will orchestrate the live migration of VMs at scale between sites by automating cross-vCenter vMotion operations, enabling zero downtime disaster avoidance and data center migrations. VMware Site Recovery Manager will interoperate with VMware vSphere Storage Policy-Based Management to enable automatic, policy-based disaster protection for VMs. VMware Site Recovery Manager will now add support for stretched cluster solutions including EMC VPLEX, Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform and IBM San Volume Controller. Read this blog to learn more about Site Recovery Manager 6.1.

VMware vSphere APIs for IO Filtering – VMware vSphere APIs for IO Filtering will enable ecosystem partners including Asigra, EMC, Infinio, PrimaryIO, Samsung, SanDisk and StorageCraft to offer third party software-based data services such as replication and caching. These data services will be fully integrated in vSphere and managed through vSphere Storage Policy-Based Management, which is the same framework used to manage all the software-defined storage services in vSphere. Hear what our partners are saying about vSphere APIs for IO Filtering.

Technology Preview – Project Skyscraper

Today at VMworld 2015, VMware revealed a technology preview of Project Skyscraper, a new set of innovative hybrid cloud capabilities for vSphere. These new capabilities will enable customers to extend their data center to the public cloud and seamlessly operate across boundaries while providing enterprise-level security and business continuity. At VMworld, the company will demonstrate live workload migration through Cross-Cloud vMotion and Content Sync across a private cloud and vCloud Air. Read more about Project Skyscraper in this blog.

Analyst and Customer Commentary

“As a result of the success and comfort level IT organizations are having with software-defined data center strategies and the increasing simplicity of cloud solutions fueled by core virtualization, we are witnessing an IT infrastructure and information security sea-change taking place. VMware is one of the companies that is driving this IT transformation. VMware’s strategy to combine a platform for achieving a unified hybrid cloud with business mobility solutions that enable organizations to extend secure access to applications and information to any device or user is resonating with customers, and increasingly making them a more strategic IT partner.” – Mark Bowker, senior analyst at ESG

“The growth of virtualization and the mainstream adoption of the software defined data center has really enabled our IT strategy. It’s all about delivering agility and flexibility and exploiting software defined technologies to tailor environments to meet our business challenges. Through VMware’s unified hybrid cloud approach, we estimate the time it takes to deliver value through IT to the business has improved by close to 75 percent, with better security controls and in full compliance with Sarbanes Oxley and other regulations by which we are governed.” – Bryan Thompson, executive vice president and CTO at Heartland Payment Systems

“Our developers need us to move fast. Our business needs us to be secure and compliant. Our management needs us to help drive revenue and capture market opportunities. With VMware we have access to a unified platform that spans both the public and private cloud to support this wide range of business requirements. The vRealize suite really is at the heart of it for us. With vRealize we get a robust set of management tools that can operate across our heterogeneous infrastructure to help us drive down inefficiency and cost. The NSX platform gives us a new model for securing our hybrid cloud environment. And vCloud Air will provide us with a simple and cost effective way to improve our approach to disaster recovery.” – Michael Conroy, director, TechOps at Rent-A-Center

Pricing and Availability

VMware vCloud Air Object Storage powered by Google Cloud Platform is generally available.

VMware vCloud Air SQL is available now as part of an early access program.

VMware vCloud Air Object Storage powered by EMC is expected to be available as part of an early access program in Q3 2015.

VMware vCloud Air Disaster Recovery OnDemand and Site Recovery Manager Air are expected to be available as part of early access programs in Q4 2015.

VMware NSX 6.2 is generally available and can be purchased with either a perpetual or term license. List pricing for a perpetual license starts at USD $4,995 per CPU and list price for a term license starts at USD $34 per VM per month, with volume discounts available.

VMware Integrated OpenStack 2, Virtual SAN 6.1, vRealize Operations 6.1, vRealize Log Insight 3, Site Recovery Manager 6.1 and VMware vSphere APIs for IO Filtering are all expected to be generally available in Q3 2015.

September 1, 2015 0 comments

Datacenter Storage

HP introduces new 3PAR StoreServ 8000 series arrays for the midrange

by Philip Sellers August 27, 2015

written by Philip Sellers

HP 3PAR 8000 Series After almost a 3 year run, HP is replacing the 3PAR StoreServ 7000 series with all new 3PAR StoreSev 8000 series arrays. This news comes while HP is celebrating how well its mid-range 3PAR arrays have been selling versus competitors. The new arrays features upgraded hardware including 16-gigabit fibre channel and 12-gigabit SAS connectivity for its drives and will feature the same fifth-generation ASIC that were introduced in the 20000 series arrays earlier this year. The 8000 series also increases the density of storage possible across the board in the 3PAR arrays, reducing the footprint and increasing the top-end capacities.

In terms of portfolio, HP touts a single architecture, single OS and single management across a wide range of solutions with the HP 3PAR. With the 8000 series introduction, the difference between 3PAR models comes down to the number of controller nodes and associated ports, the types of drives in the array and the number of ASICs in the controllers. The 8000 series features a single ASIC per controller node and the 20000 series features 2 ASICs per controller node along with more CPU capacity and more RAM for caching.

Both the 8000 and 20000 series arrays feature the 3PAR Gen5 ASIC, which is the latest generation introduced earlier in 2015. If history repeats, additional capabilities of the Gen5 ASIC will get unlocked by future software upgrades on these two new series of arrays, but out of the gate, the new platforms are already touting density and performance gains in the new platforms. HP says that they have increased density by 4x, performance 30 to 40 percent and decreased latency by 40 percent between the 7000 and 8000 series arrays. HP says the 8000 series can provide up to 1 million IOPS at 0.387 ms latency.

HP also announced a new 20450 all-flash starter kit. This model scales to a maximum of 4 controller nodes as opposed to 8 controller nodes in the 20800 and 20850 models. The 20000 series are the high-end storage arrays HP introduced earlier this year to replace the 10000 series arrays, and are typically targeted at large enterprise and service providers.

That rounds out the HP 3PAR portfolio with the following models:

HP 3PAR StoreServ 8200 is the low-end dual-controller model that scales up to 750TB of raw capacity

HP 3PAR StoreServ 8400 scales up to 4 controller nodes and is capable of scaling out to 2.4PB of raw capacity
HP 3PAR StoreServ 8440 is the converged flash array that provides similiar high performance to an 8450 array, but with the ability to also have spinning disks. It scales up to 4 controller nodes and includes an increased amount of cache on the controller pairs, comparable to the cache on node with an all-flash array.
HP 3PAR StoreServ 8450 is the all-flash storage array scales up to 4 controller nodes and up to 1.8PB of raw capacity and a usable capacity over 5.5PB. This is the model HP talks about when it says 1 million IOPS at under 1 ms of latency.

HP 3PAR StoreServ 20450, a quad-controller, all-flash configuration with larger scale than the 3PAR 8450
HP 3PAR StoreServ 20800, the workhorse array with up to 8 controller nodes and a mix of hard disk and solid state drives.
HP 3PAR StoreServ 20850, the all-flash configuration of the 20000 series.

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HP announced the new 8450 all-flash array is available in 2U starter kit priced at just $19,000 for 6TB of usable storage. When HP talks about usable storage and the all-flash array, it assumes a 4 to 1 compaction using its thin-provisioning and thin-deduplication – both native, realtime capabilities powered by the ASIC. The same array can also be configured with up to 280TB of usable capacity in just 2U of space.

All this news comes just in time for VMworld, where HP is going to be showing the new arrays publicly for the first time. I look forward to checking them out on the show floor and talking with some HP folks to find out more.

August 27, 2015 0 comments

Datacenter Storage VMware VMworld

Early peak at the #vBrownBag TechTalks Schedule at VMworld US 2015

by Shawn Cannon August 26, 2015

written by Shawn Cannon

The professionalvmware.com site, the home of the #vBrownBag goodness, has posted an early look at the schedule for the #vBrownBag TechTalks in the hang space at VMworld US 2015. I wanted to re-post the schedule here to increase awareness of these talks. If you are going to hang out in the hang space, please come and support this individuals!
(Note: Info shared from http://professionalvmware.com/2015/08/vbrownbag-techtalks-schedule-vmworld-usa-2015/)

Time	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday
10:30	vExpert Daily	vExpert Daily	vExpert Daily	vExpert Daily
11:00	Edward Haletky @Texiwill 6-Step Program for Hybrid Cloud	Edward Haletky @Texiwill Let’s Throw in Some Security: A hybrid Cloud Security Model	Virtualization Practise Panel	Chris Wahl -Scripting and Versioning with PowerShell ISE and Git Shell
11:15	Irfan Ahmad – CloudPhysics – The Unofficial VCDX Toolchest	Irfan Ahmad – CloudPhysics – Help! My Dashboards Suck!	continued	Vaughn Stewart – Run 20% – 40% more VMs per host with Flash Storage
11:30	Michael White – Spotlight on Your Data	Kenneth Hui -The Easy Button For Turning Your vSphere Environment Into A Private Cloud	Gabriel Chapman – Solidfire – Infrastructure Agility in the Software Defined Data Center	Josh Atwell – DevOps with PowerCLI and PowerShell DSC
11:45	Andy Warfield – Coho Data	Andy Warfield – Coho Data	continued	Cody Hosterman – Space Reclamation in vSphere 6
12:00	VMUG LATAM Panel (Spanish)	Anthony Spiteri – NSX – An Unexpected Journey	VMware Communities Podcast	Eric Wright – Getting to the Core with CoreOS
12:15	continued	Ken Thomas -One Solution for All: Deploy to VMs and Physical using MDT	continued	James Brown -Virtual Design Master
12:30	Dave LeClair – Unitrends – Recover Simplicity!	Dave LeClair – Unitrends – Is your data protection and DR solution built for a cloud-driven world?	continued	continued
12:45	Joseph Griffiths – Reference Architecture for Automation	Luis Concistre – Horizon View & VMware NSX	continued	Tim Carr – Versioning deployments with Puppet, R10K, and Git
13:00	Kevin Moats – GPU virtualization in the home lab	HP Blogger Briefing	Dave Frederick – The Advantages of a Tiered Approach to VM Storage	Steve Flanders – The importance of customer experience
13:15	Gina Rosenthal (Minks) – Why you need to #BackThatSaaSUp	continued	Gabriel Maciel – VMware NSX Architecture and Components Interaction
13:30	Scott Davis – Infinio – Disruptive Storage Innovations and the Impact on Virtual Desktop Solutions	continued	vBrownBag LATAM Panel (Spanish)
13:45	Scott Davis – cont	continued	continued
14:00	Jaison Bailley and the vBrisket community	continued	Paul Braren – Home Virtualization Lab Productivity Tips	Hang Space Closed
14:15	Luke Brown – Dinosaurs Didn’t Do DR	continued	Anthony Chow – Micro-Segmentation – a perfect fit for microservices security
14:30	Craig Waters – Anatomy of an SSD	Craig Waters – How to start a user group (BYOUG)	Shruti Bhat – Liuve demo – Running your ESXi workloads in AWS
14:45	Jonathan Frappier and Tim Jabaut – Stop being an “Admin” and learn to embrace “DevOps”	Edward Haletky @Texiwill – Proper Use of RBAC to Secure your Virtual Environment	John Arrasjid – IT Architect: Foundation in the Art of IT Infrastructure Design
15:00	In Tech We Trust Podcast	Speaking in Tech Podcast	Geek Whisperers Podcast
15:15	continued	continued	continued
15:30	continued	continued	continued
15:45	continued	continued	continued
16:00	Dennis Bray and Chip Copper – Brocade – NSX based Advanced Network Architecture in SDDC to deploy highly automated IT Service Delivery	Elver Sena Sosa and Anuj Dewangan – Brocade -Scaling your cloud network: Building a massively scalable cloud infrastructure with VMware NSX & advanced physical network architectures	Tony Foster – Sizing for GPU Workloads
16:15	David Siles – Proactive Data-Awareness Inside Your VMs	David Klebanov – SDDC Gone Global with Software Defined WAN	Brian Trainor – Automatic” remediation with vRealize Operations
16:30	Michaell Rice – Rackspace – Stop testing scripts in production; Meet vCenter Simulator	Luke Huckaba – Rackspace – A distilled version of the SRM talk	David Klee – SQL Server Virtualization Gotchya’s
16:45	Michael Rice – Introduction to pyVmomi	Michael Rice – YAVIJAVA an alternative Java SDK for vSphere	Michael Rice – vCenter Simulator For Functional Testing
17:00	Hersey Cartwright – Using PowerCLI to manage SSH on ESXi	Hersey Cartwright – Managing vCenter Roles and Permissions with PowerCLI	Hang Space closed
17:15	Eric Wright – Abstract all the things! Simplifying the whole stack	James Green, Emad Younis – ”Batman” is Not A Career Strategy
17:30	Cisco Panel	Nigel Hickey – The #vExpertSpotlight
17:45	continued	Steve Flanders – Quality log messages and how to write them

August 26, 2015 0 comments

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VMunderground 2015

by Roger Lund August 24, 2015

written by Roger Lund

This is a shout out to the VMnderground team, the dedication and the sponsors for VMunderground 2015. Below you will see re posts of the content they have put together.

The below content is done by them, and reposed by me to help spread the word , show their efforts, and thank the sponsors. Off we go!

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Who We Are

Brian Knudtson

Brian self describes as a “community guy” and believes that the power of a passionate bunch of people is something to behold. He currently works at SimpliVity Corp and likes to point out that “Technical” comes before “Marketing” in his title. Being the most consistent VMware conference attendee of the group, Brian has become the de facto leader of this circus. God help us all. Blogs at http://www.knudt.net/vblog. Tweets at @bknudtson. More bio on ourFounders page (because…you know…deduplication).

Jim Millard

Jim is the team’s newest addition, proving himself as ticketing maven and content jockey during his 2013 rookie year. In his day job, he delivers enterprise solutions and support to a variety of clients—often based on one of Brian’s designs. Jim has been a member of the leadership team for the Kansas City VMUG chapter since early 2007; like Brian, he is also a six-time vExpert, and also holds multiple VCP and VCAP certifications (albeit not as many). You can find his sometime-virtualization-related blogs at http://blog.millard.org and can follow him on Twitter @millardjk

The Bettering of VMunderground

POSTED ON AUGUST 18, 2015 UPDATED ON AUGUST 17, 2015

Every year, we try to put together something new to improve the VMunderground experience. In the past, it’s mostly been based around increasing the number of people we can accommodate, which has required ticketing and venue changes over the years. Last year, we feel we found the proper venue to enable us to bring in the right number of people, with room to still grow. To that end, we were able to eliminate the need for tickets this year.

Last year, we worked with the vBrownBag crew to add an educational component to what we provide. Already having a large venue we simply added additional hours to the venue rental and were able to introduce Opening Acts. This proved to be such a huge success that I ended the event realizing that we couldn’t NOT bring Opening Acts back. Fortunately, the level of success didn’t necessitate too much improvement, so you’ll see some minor tweaks, but they’ll be minor.

A common criticism of the traditional conference circuit is the overemphasis on alcohol consumption. While most of the VMunderground crew are perfectly happy to network over a variety of alcoholic beverages, by no means is that a requirement for any of us. I have great conversations all week at VMworld over coffee, soda and even water, so I am by no means pushing off the fun conversations for when the beer flows. To provide better options to those who prefer (or simply cannot) partake in the “adult beverages” we have added a full smoothie bar to the menu at VMunderground.

This year, we also wanted to improve the ability for community events at both VMworld conferences to obtain sponsors, so we gathered with the teams that put on vBrownBag TechTalks, Spousetivities and vRockStar to put together a series of packages to make it easy for vendors to sponsor multiple of these events in one shot. The feedback (and signup rate) have been very positive. I’m proud to announce the following sponsors have chosen to take advantage of these packages and will be the first to take advantage of this opportunity:

We’d like to give special thanks to these companies for truly getting and appreciating our little community. VMworld simply would not be the same without companies like these. Give them (and all our sponsors) a special thank you before VMworld, then stop into their booths during the show to let them scan your badge and give your appreciation in person!

2015 Sponsors

Based on a crazy-committed platform of engagement, experience and excellence,Unitrends is the fastest-rising cost/value provider in the IT protection and disaster recovery industry. Our unique multi-environment arsenal of backup, archiving and disaster recovery solutions gives you the industry-leading technology you need to protect and preserve your physical, virtual, and cloud environments at the most affordable pricing available.

Infinio Infinio offers downloadable storage performance for virtual environments. Our software-only solution uses existing server resources to deliver the IOPS your virtualized applications and desktops demand — all with no new hardware, no reboots and no downtime. Learn more at www.infinio.com.

Next-generation IT requires a new way of thinking about infrastructure. To be ready for the next set of application demands and the expectations of its uses, the unification of networking, computing, management, security, and storage is a must, all while focusing on the application and what the application requires of the infrastructure. Cisco Data Center and Application-Centric Infrastructure solutions are poised to increase operating efficiencies, simplify IT operations, and enable business agility. Cisco solutions for business applications, cloud, big data, desktop virtualization, and data center mobility help ensure that your business data is transported securely, efficiently, and flexibly across a set of optimized data center resources. To learn more, visit www.cisco.com/go/dc

OneCloud Software simply and cost effectively unlocks the power of the cloud as a secure extension of your enterprise data center. Through its patented Automated Cloud Engine™ (ACE), OneCloud auto-discovery quickly and simply sets up a cost optimized replica of your data center in the cloud. The policy capability then allows you to set business driven protection guidelines for all your applications and data. The result is the automation, scalability and efficiency necessary to use a hybrid cloud for applications such as disaster recovery and business continuity. OneCloud Software, Simplifying the Cloud.

Analytics is changing the nature of IT operations, enabling companies to shift from reactive to preemptive management of their environments. CloudPhysics makes it possible for vSphere users to use data-driven analytics to preempt and eliminate operational hazards that threaten disrupt infrastructure and applications. Check out our Free Edition atwww.cloudphysics.com/get-cloudphysics.

VMUG VMUG is the largest independent customer-led VMware user group in the world, offering all the resources you need to maximize your use of VMware. Visit http://www.vmug.com and follow us on Twitter @MyVMUG to discover all that VMUG has to offer. And don’t forget to visit our booth while you’re at VMworld!

Datto is an innovative provider of comprehensive backup, recovery and business continuity solutions used by thousands of managed service providers worldwide. Datto’s 140+ PB purpose-built cloud and family of software and hardware devices provide Total Data Protection everywhere business data lives. Whether your data is on-prem in a physical or virtual server, or in the cloud via SaaS applications, only Datto offers end-to-end recoverability and single-vendor accountability. Datto’s innovative technologies include Instant Virtualization, Screenshot Backup Verification™, Inverse Chain Technology™, Backup Insights™, and end-to-end encryption. All Datto solutions are supported by 24/7/365 in-house technical support and selected products offer time-based cloud data retention, for predictable billing and budget management. The Datto product line consists of the Datto SIRIS Family, Datto ALTO Family, Datto Backupify Family, Datto DNA Router, and Datto NAS.

At Rackspace, we’ll design, build, and run the best cloud for your unique needs—backed by the results-obsessed service that we call Fanatical Support®. It’s what the commodity cloud providers can’t deliver. Our managed cloud experts remove the hidden costs and headaches, so you can run your business.

The Virtualization Technology User Group (VTUG) is an IT professional user group with thousands of members and is growing every day. VTUG is the only virtualization user group of its size that is platform independent providing information content and education for ESX, Hyper-V, KVM and Xen. VTUG topics cover a wide range of technologies and solutions including server virtualization, storage, cloud computing, VDI, back up and data protection, security, networking and much more. VTUG looks to its community for peer to peer education and sharing of best practices and solutions. Join for free atwww.vtug.com.

Only SolidFire’s all-flash array is capable of powering the VMware Software Defined Data Center. VMware’s vision to drive increased VM-awareness and management granularity at the storage system layer pairs extremely well with SolidFire’s Quality of Service architecture and guaranteed performance to each VM. SolidFire is purpose-built for the Software Defined Data Center and key benefits include simplified management, end-to-end Quality of Service, and deep integration with VAAI, SIOC, VVols and VASA. Guaranteed storage performance to every application.www.solidfire.com

Founded in 2004, Pluralsight is the global leader in online learning for serious software developers, IT specialists and creative technologists. As the world’s largest curated e-learning library for professionals, the company offers instant access to more than 3,000 courses authored by top experts. With customers in more than 150 countries, Pluralsight serves as a career catalyst, delivering hands-on, practical training for the most in-demand and understaffed jobs of today. For more information visit www.pluralsight.com.

EMC Elect 2014 EMC Elect is a community-driven recognition and thank you for individual’s engagement with EMC as a brand over the last calendar year. Members of this peer nominated and peer reviewed group demonstrate outstanding Engagement, Commitment, and Leadership within the online community. Find out more about the EMC Elect and the EMC Community Network at community.emc.com.

Brocade® networking solutions help the world’s leading organizations transition smoothly to a world where applications and information reside anywhere. Today, Brocade is extending its proven data center expertise across the entire network with future-proofed solutions built for critical initiatives such as consolidation, virtualization, and cloud computing.

Before You Go, 2015 Edition

POSTED ON AUGUST 24, 2015 UPDATED ON AUGUST 24, 2015

Here we go: the home stretch before VMworld 2015 US opens in San Francisco, CA— and that means it’s also the kick-off for Opening Acts II and VMunderground. In the short few days before, we thought we’d pass along a few items of note…

Where we’ll be

City View at the Metreon
Top Floor
135 Fourth Street, San Francisco

You can enter from either the Fourth Street or Yerba Buena Park entrances. Take the elevators or escalators up to the top floor.

VMunderground

This is an adults-only party. We will be serving alcohol, and whether you plan to consume or not, it’s the law of the land that attendees have aged 21 years. You will need to provide proof of your age with a government-issued photo ID; driver’s license or passport are acceptable examples.

Wear your name tag! It’s a great way to reconnect with friends old and new.

Doors open at 8pm. Those holding VIP passes will be admitted at 7:30pm, but if we reach capacity after the doors open, your pass won’t guarantee admittance. Fire Marshall’s rules won’t be bent, period.

Opening Acts 2015 — Panelists and Moderators

POSTED ON AUGUST 20, 2015 UPDATED ON AUGUST 24, 2015 by VMware Underground

With just over a week to go, the members of our panel sessions are being finalized; here’s who we’ve got on board…

Storage (SDS & traditional) (1pm): Renée Lawrence, HDS (@reneehlawrence) moderator
Jase McCarty, VMware (@jasemccarty)
Gabriel Chapman, SolidFire (@bacon_is_king)
Stephen Foskett, Tech Field Day (@sfoskett)
Phoummala Schmitt, Blogger & cohost of Current Status podcast (@exchangegoddess)
Matt Cowger, EMC (@mcowger)
Calvin Zito, HP (@calvinzito)

Infrastructure (1pm): Keith Norbie, SolidFire (@keithnorbie) moderator
J Metz, Cisco (@drjmetz)
Leah Schoeb, Intel (@vleahschoeb)
James Bowling, General Datatech (@vsential)
Eric Wright, VMturbo (@discoposse)
Hugo Phan, Atlantis Computing (@hugophan)
Stu Miniman, Wikibon (@stu)

Networking (SDN & traditional) (2pm): Lauren Malhoit, Cisco (@malhoit) moderator
Tom Hollingsworth, Tech Field Day (@networkingnerd)
Lisa Caywood, Brocade (@realLisaC)
Ryan Hughes, Presidio (@angryjesters)
Scott Lowe, VMware (@scott_lowe)
Josh Coen, Sirius (@joshcoen)

Automation (2pm): Tim Jabaut, BB&T (@vmcutlip) moderator
Al Renouf, VMware (@alanrenouf)
Josh Atwell, SolidFire (@josh_atwell)
Luc Dekens, Eurocontrol (@lucd22)
Jon Hildebrand, LightEdge Solutions (@snoopj123)
Smiti Sharma, EMC (@smiti_sharma)

Careers (3pm): Damian Karlson, EMC (@sixfootdad) moderator
John Troyer, TechReckoning (@jtroyer)
Emad Younis, Tintri (@emad_younis)
Lauren Cooney, Cisco (@lcooney)
Keith Neighbors, Neighbors & Associates (@datastoragejobs)
Andy Tullo, ABS Technology Architects (@tulloat)

Data Protection (3pm): Jim Millard, OneNeck IT Solutions (@millardjk) moderator
Chris Wahl, Rubrik (@chriswahl)
Gina Minks, Spanning (@gminks)
GS Khalsa, VMware (@gurusimran)
Tim Antonowicz, #vDB (@timantz)
Nick Howell, Cohesity (@datacenterdude)
Shannon Snowden, Zerto (@shannonsnowden)

Final Thoughts

Don’t forget our sponsors! Not only will they be present during the events, but they’ll be around all week at the conference. Let them know how much you enjoyed the events of the day: the more positive feedback they receive, the more likely they’ll be willing to continue supporting us.

See you on Sunday!!!

This entry was posted in Informational and tagged 2015, Opening Acts, VMunderground.

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I have offered my services (I’m at least scary looking) to help out at VMunderground this year, thus you’ll see me in a VMunderground Tshirt.

See you at the event.

Roger L

August 24, 2015 0 comments

Datacenter News Storage Tech Field Day

I’m a Delegate at Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2015

by Roger Lund August 24, 2015

written by Roger Lund

I’m excited to announce that I am a Delegate for Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2015

I will be on Monday’s Delegate Panel.

What is Tech Field Day?

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http://techfieldday.com/about/

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, speakers, freelance writers, and podcasters have a public presence that has immense influence on the ways that products and companies are perceived and by IT practitioners. The world of media has changed, with social media and blogging gaining special importance. Our Field Day is an opportunity for tech companies and independent writers to meet, update and discuss products and form new communications.

We provide a valuable forum for engagement, education, hands-on experience, and feedback for vendors. And the attendees get access to the best information, high quality resources that lead to informed, more nuanced discussion about the marketplace.

I have been lucky to been a part of Tech Field Day for a couple years, and find it an increasingly valuable event to be part of.

Below is the Agenda for Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2015

Below Content is from http://techfieldday.com/event/evmwu15/

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Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2015	August 31–3, 2015
Who: Virtualization What: Extra	When: Future Where: San Francisco

“For Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2015, we will have three different delegate panels, one per day.

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday
Presenting Companies Cirba DataGravity Platform9 Velostrata Delegate Panel Amit Panchal Enrico Signoretti Larry Smith Marco Broeken Mark May Matthew Leib Roger Lund Scott D. Lowe	Presenting Companies Primary Data Reduxio SanDisk Secret Company Delegate Panel David Davis Howard Marks Joep Piscaer Justin Warren Phoummala Schmitt Shane Williford Stephen Beaver Theresa Miller	Presenting Companies Datto Violin Memory Delegate Panel Alastair Cooke Andrew Mauro Chris Evans Christopher Kusek Enrico Signoretti Keith Townsend Marco Broeken Theresa Miller

Delegates

Delegates are selected by the Field Day Delegate community. For more information on our selection process, please see our page about becoming a Field Day Delegate.

	Alastair Cooke	@DemitasseNZ
	Trainer, Writer, Consultant, Geek. From New Zealand.
	Amit Panchal	@AmitPanchal76
	Technical IT Manager and blogger at apanchal.com.
	Amy Manley	@WyrdGirl
	12 years in IT, vExpert and an automation junkie
	Andrew Mauro	@Andrea_Mauro
	IT Architect with focus on virtualization, cloud and storage
	Chris M Evans	@ChrisMEvans
	Chris is a UK-based consultant with an interest in all technologies, focusing on storage, virtualisation and cloud.
	Christopher Kusek	@cxi
	CTO at @Xiologix – EVP of Engineering, Technology Evangelist, vExpert, EMC Elect, BDA, CISSP, MCT, Cloud, Ninja, Vegan, Single, Father, Cat, Humorist, Author
	David Davis	@DavidMDavis
	David Davis is a well-known author, speaker, and trainer covering datacenter technologies.
	Enrico Signoretti	@ESignoretti
	An IT consultant, entrepreneur and passionate blogger at juku.it (not necessarily in that order).
	Eric Shanks	@Eric_Shanks
	Independent Blogger for theITHollow.com, technical consultant, and Chicago VMUG Leader.
	Howard Marks	@DeepStorageNet
	Storage Analyst Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
	Joep Piscaer	@JPiscaer
	Joep Piscaer is an IT architect at OGD ict-diensten, VMware VCDX #101, vExpert 2009, 2011 – 2013, member of the NL VMUG Customer Council and actively involved in the international VMware community. He writes on his blog, VirtualLifestyle.nl.
	Keith Townsend	@CTOAdvisor
	Keith Townsend is the founder of Virtualizedgeek.com and is an IT management consultant with more than 15 years of related experience.
	Larry Smith	@MrLESmithJr
	19 yrs. in IT \| 11 yrs. VMware virtualization \| VMware NSX Nut
	Marco Broeken	@MBroeken
	Dutch Virtualization Admirer and DaaS Lover, Blogger at www.vClouds.nl
	Mark May	@CincyStorage
	Storage expert, unix curmudgeon, IT nerd, and sporadic blogger
	Matthew Leib	@MBLeib

	Phoummala Schmitt	@PhoummalaSchmit
	Just trying to survive in IT as a (woman) Sr. Systems Engineer with a focus on Messaging , Virtualization, Storage.
	Roger Lund	@RogerLund
	Roger evangelizes virtualization by night, and is a Sr. System Administration for a call center in the day.
	Scott D. Lowe	@OtherScottLowe
	Scott D. Lowe is an independent consultant, blogger, and author focusing on issues that affect the CIO and on the virtualization and storage markets.
	Shane Williford	@coolsport00

	Stephen Beaver	@SBeaver
	Stephen Beaver is the co-author of VMware ESX Essentials in the Virtual Data Center and Scripting VMware Power Tools: Automating Virtual Infrastructure Administration.
	Theresa Miller	@24x7ITConnect
	Citrix Technology Professional (CTP), MBA and Microsoft Exchange geek. Enjoying blogging and technical speaking.

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That’s an impressive list of delegates!

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Presentation Calendar

Most presentations are streamed live on this page, at TechFieldDay.com, and at some delegate and presenter web sites. After the event, the following pages contain video recordings of these presentations.

August 31, 2015	12:00-13:00	Data Gravity Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2015 Delegate Panel: Amit Panchal, Enrico Signoretti, Larry Smith, Marco Broeken, Mark May,Matthew Leib, Roger Lund, Scott D. Lowe
September 2, 2015	14:30-15:30	Datto Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2015 Delegate Panel: Alastair Cooke, Andrew Mauro, Chris Evans, Christopher Kusek, Enrico Signoretti, Keith Townsend, Marco Broeken, Theresa Miller
August 31, 2015	13:30-14:30	Platform9 Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2015 Delegate Panel: Amit Panchal, Enrico Signoretti, Larry Smith, Marco Broeken, Mark May,Matthew Leib, Roger Lund, Scott D. Lowe
August 31, 2015	15:00-16:00	Cirba Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2015 Delegate Panel: Amit Panchal, Enrico Signoretti, Larry Smith, Marco Broeken, Mark May,Matthew Leib, Roger Lund, Scott D. Lowe
August 31, 2015	16:30-17:30	Velostrata Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2015 Delegate Panel: Amit Panchal, Enrico Signoretti, Larry Smith, Marco Broeken, Mark May,Matthew Leib, Roger Lund, Scott D. Lowe
September 1, 2015	12:30-13:30	Primary Data Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2015 Delegate Panel: David Davis, Howard Marks, Joep Piscaer, Justin Warren, Phoummala Schmitt, Shane Williford, Stephen Beaver, Theresa Miller
September 1, 2015	15:30-16:30	SanDisk Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2015 Delegate Panel: David Davis, Howard Marks, Joep Piscaer, Justin Warren, Phoummala Schmitt, Shane Williford, Stephen Beaver, Theresa Miller
September 1, 2015	17:00-18:00	Reduxio Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2015 Delegate Panel: David Davis, Howard Marks, Joep Piscaer, Justin Warren, Phoummala Schmitt, Shane Williford, Stephen Beaver, Theresa Miller
September 2, 2015	13:00-14:00	Violin Memory Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2015 Delegate Panel: Alastair Cooke, Andrew Mauro, Chris Evans, Christopher Kusek, Enrico Signoretti, Keith Townsend, Marco Broeken, Theresa Miller

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I’m looking forward to it! And you can look forward to me having some upcoming posts from me on the presenting companies.

Roger L

August 24, 2015 0 comments

Datacenter News Storage

VMworld 2015 Sponsor – NexGen Storage

by Shawn Cannon August 23, 2015

written by Shawn Cannon

A huge shout-out to another vBrainstorm sponsor for VMworld 2015…. NexGen Storage! Some of you may be asking, who is NexGen Storage? Well they have been around for some time. NexGen was acquired by Fusion-io in 2013. Fusion-io was then acquired by SanDisk in 2014. The future of NexGen was in question. Then SanDisk decided to let NexGen go solo and here we are! I agree with Stephen Foskett in his blog post where he states that having NexGen in the mix is great for competition! So here is a bit about NexGen from their web site:

NexGen offers the only hybrid flash array with PCIe flash performance and policy-based storage QoS, allowing customers to prioritize application workloads. NexGen ensures the right data is in the right place at the right time, aligning the costs of storing, accessing, and managing data with its business value.

You can find NexGen at VMworld in booth 941. At the booth you will be able to talk to NexGen customers to see how PCIe and QoS has helped them. You can also take a turn at the Escape Velocity virtual reality stations. I don’t know exactly what that is but it sounds pretty awesome!

Look for myself (rolltidega), Roger (rogerlund) and Aaron (virtualroads) around VMworld wearing shirts like you see below. We can direct you to the NexGen booth if you need help finding it. Thanks again for sponsoring us NexGen Storage!

August 23, 2015 0 comments

Datacenter Storage VMworld

VMworld 2015 Sponsor – SolidFire

by Shawn Cannon August 23, 2015

written by Shawn Cannon

This is the first post to call out some sponsors of vBrainstorm for VMworld 2015 in San Francisco! Say hello to SolidFire! If you do not know who SolidFire is… where have you been?? SolidFire is the All-Flash Array for the Next-Generation Data Center! Their solution delivers the five core elements needed for storage agility in today’s data centers: Scale-Out, Guaranteed Performance, Automated Management, Data Assurance and Global Efficiencies. I suggest you make time to visit the SolidFire booth at VMworld, which is booth 929. What does SolidFire have in store for you at VMworld? Well I have to mention their main giveaway! SolidFire is giving away a SolidFire bike! This thing is a very cool retro looking bike in SolidFire red! There are many sessions that SolidFire will be in and don’t forget about the SolidFire party at the ThirstyBear! Check out all the details at http://www.solidfire.com/vmworld.

Thank you SolidFire for sponsoring us! Look for myself (rolltidega), Roger (rogerlund) and Aaron (virtualroads) in these cool shirts shown below around VMworld. If you need help finding SolidFire on the show floor we will be happy to help you find them!

August 23, 2015 0 comments

Datacenter Storage Virtualization

Use raw disks for StoreVirtual VSA to avoid warnings and maximize capacity

by Philip Sellers August 21, 2015

written by Philip Sellers

Last year at HP Discover, I was preparing for my first StoreVirtual VSA deployment. I spoke with a couple different folks from the StoreVirtual team. The main piece of advice I was given was to use raw disk mappings under the StoreVirtual VSA. At first, I questioned this. But there is good logic to this recommendation. Now, my source is HP staff, but this isn’t in their official guidelines anywhere that I have found…

Scenario without RDM’s

So, take the scenario if we did not use raw disk mappings with the StoreVirtual VSA. You would create local VMFS datastores on the local drives connected to the host. You would only need one VMFS and you would deploy the VSA onto this disk. Then, you would then create additional VMDK files for the data disks behind the StoreVirtual VSA on the same VMFS datastore. You could create multiple VMFS and do the same thing, if you like.

Now, when you created your VMDK data disk to use your full VMFS capacity, vSphere would throw a disk space alarm for your VMFS datastore. The alarms are not customizable to say alarm on these VMFS created in the StoreVirtual VSA (which you will want later), but do not alarm on these local disk VMFS. So, you would always have alarm conditions if you used the full size of the VMFS.

First point, to avoid alarms, you would need to consume 80% or less of the VMFS capacity. But, why would you ever want to leave capacity on the table, never to be used? You want to maximize the capacity you have in your local servers.

Second point, you are never going to snapshot your VSAs. You don’t need any spare capacity for snapshot delta disks. With the VSA, you have multiple copies of the data on additional StoreVirtual (VSA or physical) and that is your redundancy. In fact, snapshots at the VSA level are dangerous. You should avoid these at all cost.

Scenario with RDM’s

My recommendation would be to create two local disks on the ESXi host that will run the VSA. The first disk should be small – possibly RAID1 – and will be formatted as a VMFS datastore. The second, possibly RAID5 or RAID6 would be your storage for the VSA. It would not be a VMFS and would instead be presented to the VSA as a raw disk mapping. This allows you to use 100% of the raw capacity, with no alarms and direct access to the underlying disk.

When you deploy the VSA, do not specify any data disks during the deployment. I used the Zero To VSA toolkit for my deployments and it allows this configuration to be deployed.

The complication with the RDM plan is that vSphere does not show local disks as available storage to present as a raw disk mapping. You will need to do some work with vmkfstools to create a VMDK file, on the primary VMFS with the StoreVirtual VSA files, and point this to the physical location of the second volume. Once you create the VMDK, you may attach it to the VSA and begin your configuration.

The first step is to identify the device ID of the unformatted, data disk. To do this, open SSH or a remote shell to the ESXi host. You will want to navigate to /vmfs/devices/ or /dev/disks and run an ls -la to list the device names. Hopefully you only have two or three devices listed – possibly your boot disk, your VMFS disk and your data disk. You may identify your data disk because it will be the name without a symbolic link associated. The ID you are looking for will begin with “naa.”

The vmkfstools command to create the VMDK raw disk mapping file is:

[code]vmkfstools -z /vmfs/devices/ID /vmfs/Volumes/VMFSDatastore/SVApplianceName/SVApplianceName_2.vmdk[/code]

Change VMFSDatastore to match the name you assign to your VMFS when you created it. Change the StoreVirtual1 to be the directory/name you named your appliance on this host. And lastly, specify a name for the vmdk file.

Now, edit settings. You attach the VMDK file you just created. Browse to the location you specified in vmkfstools and select the VMDK file. Repeat this for each virtual appliance.

Lastly, boot the VSA and use the StoreVirtual Centralized Managed console and its wizards to setup the VSA and cluster the individual VSAs into a software storage array.

August 21, 2015 1 comment

Datacenter Storage

Unitrends is offering free backup virtual appliance for up to 1TB

by Philip Sellers August 6, 2015

written by Philip Sellers

So, I am a little late to the party, but I just found Unitrends new Free Backup offering. Launched in May, the new backup offering is distributed as a virtual appliance and has a 1TB protected limit, but is otherwise free and clear for you to use. This is a perfect backup for your home lab or even many small customers virtualization deployments.

Since the backup is metered by protected space, there are no limits the number of VM or CPU’s that can be protected. Backups are incremental forever, there is cloud integration with Amazon and Google, automated scheduling and instant VM recovery. As I’ve written before, the restore is what is most important in a backup strategy. The free backup is virtualization focused with support for VMware and Hyper-V.

As for system requirements, the backup appliance needs:

A minimum of 2 virtual processors (CPUs)
A minimum of 4 GB of RAM
90 GB of space for the VM’s initial disk

At least 128 GB of attached virtual disk backup storage

To find out more, head over to http://www.unitrends.com/products/unitrends-free-backup-software.

Unitrends is known for its appliance based backup technology, but with the merger with PHDVirtual a couple years ago, Unitrends has a complete lineup for virtualization to physical backup. They’ve grown a lot since being founded here in Myrtle Beach. Currently headquartered in Burlington, MA, the company has been a pioneer in disk to disk backup.

August 6, 2015 1 comment

Compute Datacenter Software Storage

HP offers a show-and-tell of OneView 2.0 features, release date unannounced

by Philip Sellers July 30, 2015

written by Philip Sellers

Back in June, HP announced that OneView 2.0 would be coming soon. There is not an exact ship date for the product, but HP did share the major new features of the new version. From the list of features, some of the highlights are the introduction of templates to server profiles, enhanced firmware and device driver deployments, deeper storage integration, and an import feature for existing BladeSystem Virtual Connect Manager domains.

The introduction of templates allows you to define a configuration that can be replicated. While HP OneView 1.x allowed you to clone a server profile, once the profile was cloned, there was no relationship between the original and clone. With template, however, the server profiles continue to stay linked to the template and this allows you to make changes and push those automatically to all the linked servers. The use case here, for me, is ESXi hosts and clusters. I can easily define the configuration and when a change is required, like adding a network uplink or VLAN, I make this on a single template and push out to all the hosts. That is a huge time saver and it keeps manual error to minimum.

Another big benefit of the templates is the ability to link HP’s Service Pack for Proliant to a template and then automatically apply the firmware and device driver updates to all the hosts built from that template. This another huge automation step for many environments and a potential time savings for environments small to large.

I had a chance to talk with folks on the show floor and the fibre channel zoning management within OneView is particularly cool. Once you attach HP OneView to your fibre channel switches and your 3PAR arrays, OneView gains visibility to the storage environment. You configure a set of provisioning definitions that include how to name zones and how to zone systems to the storage. OneView makes no changes to existing zones until you make configuration changes to the systems associated and when that occurs, HP OneView rebuilds the zoning per the definition you specified and removes the manually created zones at that time. This provides a non-disruptive transition from manually created zones to HP OneView managed zoning.

Combining the storage management with the templated server profiles provides an automated method for ensuring that all systems within a cluster are zone properly and there are not manual errors or omissions in the zoning or presentation.

Another storage enhancement promised in OneView 2.0 is the ability to monitor SAN health from within the OneView console. Instead of needing to correlate between two consoles, you are able to see a more holistic view of the entire system from inside of OneView.

Fibre channel over Ethernet (FCoE) support has also been introduced in the new release.

For a list of all the new details on HP OneView 2.0, check out the frequently asked questions document from HP.

July 30, 2015 0 comments