I met with Cisco briefly to get a preview of what is coming tomorrow, see below.
Roger l
PS. pardon any typo’s, I posted the first post from my phone.
I had the opportunity to meet with Vkernel today and and had them Demo the product live, Before the show.
Enjoy.
Roger L
Some media I have gathered from Exhibit Hall this morning. More to Come..
Scott L
Some video from today.
Thanks to
Virtual Geek – Chad Sakac
More video clips later.
Roger L.
I found a good budget restaurant tonight, and I wanted to share it!
The Little Whale Seafood Restaurant
My wife and I found this via yelp. We started with the white clam chowder, and I ordered the Calamari supreme. The meal also came with Warm bread with a pesto olive oil. My wife had a seafood pasta. We ended with the cheese cake.
The Chowder was good, with a homemade taste and texture. I really enjoyed the Calamari supreme, it had a nice white sauce. My wife’s pasta had a red sauce, with shrimp and Calamari, it had a nice flavor.
The cheese cake was very good, with a soft texture.
The staff brought extra bread, and water.
atmosphere was nice, low light, perfect for a couple wanting to relax.
Both of our items where under $20, and even with cheese cake it was under $45, making it a nice place for a couple.
My Yelp review , it also has directions.
http://www.yelp.com/biz/the-little-whale-seafood-restaurant-millbrae#hrid:Oe23ctgDGyAlkMrRkHtLhA
Check it out, I would recommend it! it is also great place to grab supper after flying in to the San Francisco airport.
Roger L.
Check out my blog to see the new count down timer.
I thought it would be a fun addition to my site.
Roger L.
Press relations for rPath contacted me, and I thought I would share the information they had on the latest Self-Service cloud solution.
I believe this is a example of the first integrated solutions surfacing with automated features for private and hybrid clouds.
I am sure I am on the first on this, but I’ll take the opportunity to share what I have.
“Inside the Enterprise Cloud
Interest in self-service private and hybrid cloud computing is surging as enterprise business units press their IT departments to deliver the kinds of simple, on-demand infrastructure services readily available from public clouds like Rackspace or Amazon EC2. Many IT organizations, however, are not ready to make the transition from interest to action. They do not have the infrastructure or process maturity to provide the dynamic elasticity found in the public cloud.
The agility benefits of private and hybrid clouds, however, are compelling. With controlled, consistent services and compute capacity available on-demand for project leads and application development and testing groups, IT can step out of the way and focus on higher-value tasks—freeing up resources and budget for faster product delivery and new innovation.
The integrated solution offered by newScale, rPath and Eucalyptus Systems and delivered by MomentumSI creates an on-ramp to self-service private and hybrid cloud computing and can help organizations quickly maximize business agility. The platform comprises the following:
· newScale, a pioneer of the self-service IT storefront for the enterprise, provides an e-commerce ordering experience for both private and public cloud services. With newScale’s software, IT can enable on-demand provisioning, enforce policy-based controls, manage the lifecycle for workloads, and track usage for billing.
· rPath, an innovator in automating system deployment and maintenance, controls and promotes reuse of standardized software infrastructure and automates system construction, maintenance, and on-demand image generation for deployment across any physical, virtual and cloud environment.
· Eucalyptus Systems, creator of the leading open source private cloud software, provides infrastructure software that enables organizations to deploy massively scalable private and hybrid cloud computing environments within a secure IT infrastructure.
· MomentumSI, a pioneer in cloud and service oriented architecture, integration, and application development, provides implementation services, best practices and the adoption model for making the transition to self-service, private and hybrid clouds.”
For more on the press release, or about the company’s.
White Paper
Achieving IT Agility with Self-Service, Automation and Cloud
Q&A
CTO Q&A: Self-Service Private/Hybrid Cloud Coalition
The New Tool Chain for IT Agility
Thoughts and over all impressions on the product? Any beta users out there?
Roger L.
viridity reached out to my to see if I would do a write up on their product. They indicated they will be at VMworld, and Wanted to share the product they have. I found it very interesting, and think it applies to a lot of us out there.
“Viridity EnergyCenter energy resource management software gives IT and facilities managers a deep understanding of their power consumption and equipment utilization to increase data center energy productivity and efficiency. EnergyCenter’s patented optimization engine provides actionable information to improve data center energy efficiency and space utilization while increasing savings on capital and operating costs.
Key features of the Viridity EnergyCenter software are:
Discover
Within hours, you’ll discover:
- Data center power draw
- Events triggering jobs
- Average server utilization
- Number of underutilized servers
Organize
Determine the best placement for hardware with:
- Simple, visual data center layout
- Physical characteristics of your data center
- Server placement tool
Monitor
Dynamically monitors data center power status on:
- Power draw of your assets
- Utilization and power consumption
Analyze
Gathers information and generates reports for:
- Inventory management
- Server utilization
- Top power consumers
- Underutilized servers
- Power distribution units
Optimize Data Center Energy Productivity & Efficiency
Use Cases
Tech Refresh – Determine whether to pull up a tech refresh or extend a 3-year or 5-year amortization to 6+ years.
Server Consolidation – Provide data center energy consumption intelligence to server virtualization/consolidation projects.
Server Placement – Increase rack density, optimize space.
Underutilized Servers – Identify non-productive assets and put them to better use or retire them.
Eliminate “Power Over-Provisioning” - Find the power, cooling, and space capacity you never knew you had”
August 19th, Viridity Announced $8 Million in Series B funding from current investors. See full link here.
Ok Ok, so what does it look like?
Let me show you, Here are a couple video’s of the product.
I have included a couple white paper’s provided by the vendor.
Intelligent, Dynamic De-rating:
The Only Way to Energy Management
A Viridity Software Brief
Written by Michael Rowan, Chief Technology Officer & Co-Founder
January 2010
The Importance of Monitoring Utilization
A Viridity White Paper
August 2010
And a Case Study.
Museum of Modern Art Case Study | April 12, 2010
To those of you out there with larger data centers, is this a product that you would be interested in? Who already uses this or a product like this?
Roger L.
Today NetEx and Veeam are set to announce a new Partnership. This is a important move for existing customer’s. I am embedding a video of both products.
Here is Veeam ‘s backup and replication product.
Here is NetEx ‘s Hyper IP’s product, or some basic info on it.
“
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. and COLUMBUS, Ohio – August 24, 2010 – NetEx, the leader in
WAN optimization software, and Veeam Software, innovative provider of data protection,
disaster recovery and systems management solutions for VMware virtual datacenter
environments, announced today they will partner to supply free HyperIP® software to customers
who license Veeam Backup & Replication for VMware.
This exclusive agreement entitles Veeam users to a free one-year subscription to the 2Mb/s
HyperIP (VM edition), a virtual appliance that improves the performance of moving large
amounts of data across a WAN. Solution provider partners will be given the opportunity to
deploy HyperIP with Veeam Backup & Replication beginning immediately. New customers who
license Veeam Backup & Replication after July 1, 2010 are eligible for two complimentary
2Mb/s one-year subscriptions of HyperIP. The program will be available through July 2011.
The partnership addresses the challenges of varying network configurations and conditions that
can be common in virtualization and cloud computing environments, including packet loss, latency, and jitter.”
“Veeam Backup & Replication is the first enterprise-ready solution that combines backup and
replication in a single product for fast recovery in VMware ESX and ESXi environments,
delivering near continuous data protection (CDP) at a cost that is 80 percent lower than
traditional CDP. Veeam Backup & Replication combines the power of virtualization and the
innovation of Veeam to provide Virtualized-Powered Data Protection, or vPower. Veeam’s
patent-pending technology enables instant VM recovery, universal application-item recovery and
automated recovery verification.
NetEx’s award-winning HyperIP is a software-only, virtualization-ready WAN optimization
solution, ideal for moving large data sets across WANs securely, swiftly and seamlessly. Patent-
pending technology accelerates and optimizes industry-leading data replication and file transfer
applications by aggregating multiple data replication applications over a shared connection while
mitigating the inherent network latency and network disruption for long-distance remote TCP
data transmissions. The full version of HyperIP supports long-distance data transfers at up to 800
Mb/s, the highest performance of any WAN optimization solution on the market, and 25 to more
than 100 percent faster than competitive products. Transfer speed is optimized for the full range
of data management applications, including backup & remote replication and business
continuance/disaster recovery (BC/DR). NetEx offers HyperIP for cloud infrastructures as a
software-only configuration, enabling customers to quickly deploy the acceleration software into
their existing VMware infrastructures.”
Case Study
“
The Business Challenge
Members of the IT team at Veeam Software experience many of the same challenges
as their counterparts in other virtualization and cloud computing environments.
One of these challenges is backing up and replicating data over a wide-area network
(WAN) that spans a great distance. In this case, the WAN covers roughly 5,000 miles,
linking Veeam offices in the United States with offices in Europe.
Since the network latency between the offices is roughly 150 to 250 milliseconds,
resulting in unnecessarily long full backups, the IT team conducted an experiment.
Veeam team members had less than 50 hours (from late Friday evening to early
Monday morning so they wouldn’t interfere with employees’ work) to back up a
20-gigabyte virtual machine from one office to the other. Obviously, they used
Veeam Backup & Replication.
After 47 hours, only 16 gigabytes had transferred (at an average speed of 100
kilobytes per second). Since that was not an acceptable timeframe, Veeam team
members decided to optimize the WAN using NetEx’s HyperIP for VMware WAN
optimization software.
The NetEx/Veeam Solution
Veeam’s IT team experienced significant success. A full backup of that same virtual
machine took 30 hours (at an average speed of 193 kilobytes per second). That’s
almost two times faster, thanks to HyperIP. An incremental backup conducted the
next day lasted only 54 minutes.
HyperIP software is a virtualization-ready WAN solution, ideal for moving large
data sets securely, swiftly, and seamlessly. It accelerates and optimizes backup and
replication applications while mitigating network latency, packet loss, and network
disruptions for long-distance transmission control protocol (TCP) data transmissions.
HyperIP supports long-distance data transfers at up to 800 megabytes per second,
which is 25 to more than 100 percent faster than competing products. Transfer
speed is optimized for the full range of data management applications, including
backup & remote replication and business continuance/disaster recovery.
The Results
Doubles speed of full backup – When data or virtual systems must be transferred
over a WAN, Veeam finds that HyperIP delivers a significant performance boost.
The company’s IT team discovered that a full backup of a 20-gigabyte virtual
machine was two times faster when HyperIP was in place.
Boosts Performance Significantly – HyperIP aggregates multiple data replication
applications over a shared WAN connection, shielding against packet loss, jitter,
congestion, and other network disruptions. It also reduces the impact of high-latency
networks for remote TCP/IP data transmissions.”
I would like to thank Veeam for providing me with the information, I quoted.
Who of you is using either product?
Roger L.
I have offered to assist as needed, ( one guy can only do so much) , I am willing to ask question’s on behalf, and will have video / camera eq on site. I have a quest for knowledge my self, and love to help in turn.
“Ask the vExpert’s Call For Questions! (Please submit questions you’d like asked of the Experts!)
by Christopher Kusek (PKGuild)
Next week is VMworld 2010 in San Francisco! (oh my!) Yes that is indeed correct! And as part of a community service (and because I want to do it, damnit!)
I’m going to go around and find as many vExperts (and other experts as applicable) and ask them questions! Your Questions! (My questions) so on and so forth!
I’m not looking to go into a single half hour diatribe response from each person on each question.. but I know there are some hard hitting good questions you have for the vExperts out there, as well as some ridiculous questions you may have … And I’m going to get it all on Video (and sum up all of the responses in txt form as well as applicable when I ask recurring/repeating questions to multiple vExperts)
The vExpert community is filled with some absolute champions of industry – I typically reference thisVMware vExpert 2010 Directory as it seems to be the most complete compared to the other instances I can find out there.
So, please provide the types of questions you’d like to get answered! And if there are specific questions you want asked of specific vExperts (or VMware folks who are not vExperts) or perhaps even if you want me to convince them to sing a song or do some karaoke.. You just say the word… and as a champion vExpert myself I shall tackle this!
Special.. if you want me to ask the SPOUSES of vExperts questions as well (which may help your own spouselife know what the life of vExpert Wives is like… that too ;))
See you at VMworld!”
You can either comment, or e-mail me at [email protected] , i’ll make sure CXI get’s a copy of the question / questions.
And please, this is CXI’s idea, I am just offering to help. ( I love good idea’s )
Roger L
I found my self talking with Xangati today, and I was told I can release this information. I am looking forward to seeing this product in action at a later date.
“Xangati, the emerging leader in infrastructure performance management, today introduced a new and completely free Xangati for ESX management tool, giving virtualization administrators unprecedented situational awareness into the dynamic environment they are responsible for managing – at absolutely no cost. In addition, Xangati concurrently announced sweeping product enhancements across the Xangati Management Dashboard line, while achieving 10 industry firsts in the process (see related release).
The two announcements further solidify Xangati’s position as an innovator to watch in the IPM market, providing administrators with the most comprehensive solution available today for managing their entire virtualized infrastructures, as well as a 100% free mechanism for trial. To get started and see for yourself, download Xangati for ESX free-of-charge
Xangati for ESX: Features and Functionality
Xangati for ESX is the most fully-featured free VMware tool available today, giving virtualization administrators the ability to actually solve problems in real-time for both server virtualization and Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) environments. Providing ESX host level visibility, Xangati for ESX offers an unparalleled user interface (UI) presentation with live, continuous “scroll bar” views, DVR recordings and reports – surpassing all other free solutions in terms of its sheer usability. Xangati for ESX expands the number of data sources typically covered and includes breakthrough functionality not found in other free offerings. Features include:
multiple data sources, including: traffic traversing vSwitches and VMware API;
optimized for visibility and troubleshooting;
superior UI with live navigational drill-down and streaming views with full details for VMs and the ESX;
DVR recordings triggered by VMware alerts; and,
20+ top 10 real-time views.
With a rich feature set available right after install, Xangati leads the market in terms of the turnkey nature of the download and the immediacy of the value it provides. Xangati for ESX installs as an .OVF virtual appliance in less than 10 minutes, giving administrators a much smoother installation process than many of the other free options on the market today, which require pre-existing operating systems be set-up for install. “
I will post a full link once they have the info on the website.
I am glad to see more companies offering a free product, and expanding existing product lines like this.
I am looking forward to many more product announcements for the up coming VMworld.
Thanks to Xangati for this information.
Roger L.
