The session I submitted for VMworld 2012 has made it into the top 10. Massive thank you to Chris Colotti, Aidan Dalgleish and Rawlinson Riveria for presenting this session, and Duncan Epping for standing in for me in my absence. You guys rock. The presentation an be viewed below:
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Paying my own way to VMworld US
I need your help For anyone who follows my blog, or twitter you probably know that I recently had major surgery on my ear. Due to this operation I didn’t believe I would be able to attend VMworld US, so I informed the powers that be, I would not be able to travel or participate, so my place got cancelled. I have now received the excellent news yesterday from my consultant that my ear is healing nicely and I can fly again. Unfortunately due to the short notice, I am not able to get the internal approval needed to be a speaker. However because of how awesome VMworld US is, and all the great people I meet and know, I have decided to pay my own way there. This is where the difficulty lies, I do not have a pass for the conference, and need someone’s help or sponsorship to […]
Suggested vCloud VMworld sessions
I have been looking through the VMworld content catalogue today. There are over 250 sessions this year, covering a variety of topics. Something for everyone as they say. For me working in the vCloud space, I thought it would be good to create a list of sessions that I think will be beneficial to people wanting to learn more about the vCloud products, and how they can further enhance there current vCloud environments. Lets start with the most important session, mine 🙂 INF-VSP1168 – Architecting a Cloud Infrastructure This session will discuss the various design considerations when architecting the foundation for every solid cloud environment: vSphere 5.0. We will start with sizing and scaling and end with some operational guidance. Different examples will be used to show the impact design considerations can have on the availability of your services. Presenters: David Hill, Chris Colotti and Aidan Dalgleish INF-VSP2448 – Automating Bare […]
vCloud Director 1.5 Performance and Best practices guide
I regularly get questions from people asking where the link to this document is. I thought I would include it on my blog so that people can find it easily. Click here to open the Performance and Best Practice guide. For those of you who are unsure what this guide is about, here is an excerpt from the webpage. VMware vCloud Director gives enterprise organizations the ability to build secure private clouds that dramatically increase datacenter efficiency and business agility. Lots of new features have been added to vCloud Director 1.5 to accelerate application delivery in the cloud. In this paper, we discuss some of the features of the vCloud Director 1.5 release, performance characterizations including latency trends, resource consumptions, sizing guidelines and hardware requirements, and performance tuning tips. Some highlights of vCloud Director performance and best practices include: When using fast provisioning (linked clones) and a VMFS datastore, do […]
VIDEO: Upgrade to ESXi 5.0 using Update Manager
While upgrading two of my ESXi hosts today I found this really helpful howto video on the VMware KB website. It shows you a step by step walkthrough of how to upgrade your ESXi 4.1 host to ESXi 5.0. There is a lot more information on different ways to upgrade to ESXi 5.0 in this VMware KB.