Ok, strike another thing off of my wishlist. As a followup to my IPTV thoughts post, I have purchased one of the new Mac Mini’s with an HDMI port over the weekend. I even got the pleasure of buying it, atwhat I believe is the original Apple Store, in Tysons Corner,Virginia while visiting my in-laws.
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.
I had a chance for a private meeting with Xangati on Thursday of last week. With the push for Cloud, and Virtual Desktop’s in today’s market, it can be challenging to trouble shot issues without something that allows viability into area’s that Virtual Center cannot report / Chart on. On a basic note, Xangati allows use of advanced metric’s and gives you visibility to the protocol level, allowing you to find your bottleneck, or problems, if present.
Why Xangati ?
Well Kendrick Coleman has recently released a blog post: titled Xangati Releases a Top 10 Free Tool and it qualified Xangati for his Top 10 Free Tools list
Plus, Xangati made a finalist for the Best of VMworld 2010 Awards
Therefore, I decided to do a Personal Interview, see below.
A Overview from the Xangati Website.
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Xangati for ESX is a line of virtual appliances providing real-time, continuous visibility into the otherwise invisible activity of a VMware ESX/ESXi host, its virtual machines (VMs) and the infrastructure resources they use. Xangati for ESX products uniquely display the relationships between your VMs and other resources on your infrastructure in a continuous manner to answer questions including:
- What is a VM doing?
- What application is it running and how much CPU and memory is it using?
- What storage is being accessed and what is the latency?
- Which end users are accessing the VM?
Xangati for ESX comes in two versions, both providing real-time, continuous visibility into the complex interactions between a VM and everything it interacts with:
Xangati for ESX: Free tool designed for smaller scale environments with only a few ESX/ESXi hosts providing:
- Auto discovery and naming of ESX/ESXi’s VMs and applications
- Continuous, real-time visibility into over 100 metrics on an ESX/ESXi host and its VMs activity including communications, CPU, memory, disk and storage latency
- DVR recording and replaying of activity with scroll-bar
- Visibility into vSwitch communications
- 12 weeks of historical reporting on named identities
Watch a Quick 2-minute Video of Xangati for ESX UI Overview
Xangati for ESX Pro: Extends the visibility offered by Xangati for ESX with integration to VMware vCenter so alarms/alerts will automatically trigger DVR recordings. Xangati for ESX Pro also supports more named identities and offers integration to Xangati Management Dashboards for visibility across ESX/ESXi hosts and physical infrastructure. Additional features licensable for $299 an ESX/ESXi processor include:
- DVR recordings triggered by vCenter alerts
- Additional named identities for reporting
- Integration with Xangati Management Dashboards for enterprise-wide visibility across multiple ESX/ESXi hosts and physical infrastructure”
Sure sure, but Admin’s like my self, want something you can use in a useful manner. So I found a video of the dashboard.
Xangati Management Dashboard Introduction
Dashboard Navigation
I hope that gives you a view into the Xangati world, and also help’s you manager & trouble shoot your VMware environment.
See It Now
Xangati for ESX: The best free VMware visibility and troubleshooting tool!
Roger L.
I grabbed a couple of fellow bloggers / twitter users and did video interviews on them.
See below.
Roger L.
CXI and I had a chance to meet with PHD Virtual. We had them give us a overview of the Booth here at VMworld 2010. Enjoy.
Roger L.
I saw Joe present a a VMware User Group (VMUG) on Ontrack Data Recovery. I thought it was interesting that there IS is viable way to recover deleted or corrupted data in a VMware environment. When I saw Joe at the Ontrack booth, I coudn’t wait to get permission to have him tell the Ontrack story. See below, as he discusses how the process works, and what is recoverable. www.ontrackdatarecovery.com
Roger L.
I spent some time in dell booth this week. Here is a few video’s of the booth.
I would also like to thank dell, as I won a dell streak at the dell tech center event.
Also a huge thanks to @DellServerGeek @KongY_Dell
Roger L.
I did a co Interview with Hytrust’s Eric Chiu, President & CEO and Christopher Kusek ( his blog )
Thanks to Hytrust and Christopher.
Roger L.
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