VMworld 2014/Ask the vBloggers
Ask the vBloggers
Blogs:
- yellow-bricks.com
- virtuallyghetto.com
vmwaretips.com - ask the vBloggers
Good question: EMC ate my first born child, do do you sleep at night?
Presenters:
- Rick Scherer - modeterator - vmwaretips.com
- Duncan Epping @duncanYB - chief technologiest evo real
- William Lam - @lamw
- Scott Lowe @scott_lowe
Ched Sakec @sakacc - "virtual geek" author
"Automation - you should never have to do anything more than once"
Topics:
- NSX
- EVO Rail
- VCX Certification
- ESXi HA
- Automation
- vCloud Air
- Small business place
ESXi HA - "component protection" enclosuers zombies (?? APD? EPD? ATPDS? ??)
EVO Rail Appliance - comes from OEMS
- VMware only provided a build recipe
- Not that complex of a product
- Screams Neutanics competitor
- VMware is not a hardware vendor! Only provided the recipe
- Phoenix server is reference server
- 2U, 4 nodes, flash, SAS, 10GBe
- looks like a vBlocks competitor
NSX and Cisco ACI - compeitors?
- NSX handles 'elephant flows" and "mice flows" well
- we believe it belongs a the edge
- being used more for security on small business deployments
vCO - uses javascript for workflows, would be nice it it supported powershell code
vGhetto Backups - small businesses
On prem or on air - should we move them? Do the cost analysis
How do you handle life with such busy schedules?
- buy wife lots of gifts
- play is work and work is play
- turn your phone off when on date
on demand cloud option might be perfect for testing and preping for VCAP
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joke: How many software engineers does it take to screw in a light bulb? Can't be done - it's a hardware issue