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Even YET MORE free stuff! (This time OpenStack goodies for EMC customers) (Virtual Geek)
Folks – a barrage of free goodies… This latest one is OpenStack related. Back in mid december, EMC joined the Openstack Foundation. Chuck did a post on it here that’s worth a read. I knew that there would be some...
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Yet MORE stuff–FREE! EMC Storage Integrator (Virtual Geek)
EMC Storage Integrator (ESI) does for the Microsoft world what VSI does for vSphere (completely native integration, and across the EMC portfolio). LIke VSI, it’s free. Version 2.1 is out and adds platforms, but also adds full blown Powershell support...
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More, and still free to play, learn, try! Prosphere 1.7 is out…. (Virtual Geek)
Pure heads up – EMC Prosphere 1.7 is now GA… We’ve updated the “Learn, Play, Try” page on the community (click on the below to get right there), and my friend and colleague Tommy Trogden (the always awesome vTexan) has...
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vCloud 5.1 Suite Home Lab–circa 2013 (Virtual Geek)
Those of you that know me know that my deepest, darkest fear is becoming a talking head, a bureaucrat, or that most evil of corporate types – the politician. In my work life as I move into more and more...
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Goodbye 2012, Welcome 2013–Happy New Year! (Virtual Geek)
(Jan 2nd, 9:05am ET: edited after break) Dear readers – thank you for all your contributions through 2012, and I wish you a happy New Year for your family! In the spirit of transparency to the world – if you’re...
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My Crystal Ball for 2013. (Virtual Geek)
Warning. These “top forecasts for the next year” from all sources, are always a load of hoo-haa – and mine is no exception :-) If any of us truly had a crystal ball – we’d likely be doing something else...
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VMAX and vSphere VAAI XCOPY update! (Virtual Geek)
All – as everyone is realizing, while “VAAI support” is a tickbox for storage vendors – vendor implementations vary wildly, and that means different things all over the place. I’ve done a series of webcasts that dive deep into the...
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December Webcast Series! (Virtual Geek)
Every week, Thursday is “EMC/VMware webcast Thursday!” (same bat time – 11-12ET + same bat channel – EMC Live) December has 3 sessions coming up. The first on the 6th is how we engineer VSPEX stacks with our partners. VSPEX...
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vSphere 5.x Space Reclaim and EMC Symmetrix (Virtual Geek)
While there’s a TON of stuff going on (in the middle-to-final parts of EMC 2013 planning), I haven’t done a post in a while. There’s plenty of great stuff, and I still haven’t been able to get everyone into the...
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A quick note on VNX VAAI NFS plugin for vSphere 5.1 (Virtual Geek)
From an internal EMC vSpecialist thread (I’m trying to push people to ALWAYS post to the “Everything VMware at EMC” community or some other “google crawled place” (like a blog, including this one) – but there’s no escaping “quick and...
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“Righting a wrong…” Wassup with VSI/SDRS/VASA? (Virtual Geek)
At VMworld during session STO2980 (joint session with Vaughn from NetApp) there is a regular spot where we ask the audience for: Do you use the vendor vCenter plugins (EMC’s Virtual Storage Integrator or NetApp’s VSC, or other)?; Do you...
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vSphere SRM 5.1 – Recoverpoint SRA passes the cert (Virtual Geek)
Just got the internal word – was pushing for this hard when I was in Israel a week back, and glad to see it out… (thank you to the Recoverpoint team!) “Just got the word from VMware that the SRM...
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Thinking of stretching your vSphere cluster? Now–2x further, 2x lower entry cost! (Virtual Geek)
The topic of stretched clusters is HOT. While a few years back, this was not for the faint of heart (unclear support model), mutually exclusive with VMware SRM, and relatively rare – fast-forward to today: Clear support model in VMware’s...
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VNXe Powershell and Performance Stats… Impressive! (Virtual Geek)
I love the impact of the community (and ultimately the individual). One internal warpath I’m on is to open up more of the APIs and datastructures of the things we build at EMC, and this is an example of why…...
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Chad’s World 15–Flash, Flash, FLASH! (Virtual Geek)
Post VMworld Barcelona episode – all about flash, flash, flashity flash flash! This episode has us showing both the physical and the UI of VFcache 1.5 and demonstrating XtremIO. An interesting “behind the scenes” – the XtremIO hardware I have...
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SAP HANA Real Time Race–The Cisco/EMC team (Virtual Geek)
I think these sort of fun competitions are always a gas… (think the Diamond Sponsor “Hunger Games” at VMworld 2012)… What’s this one? It’s a competition between two SAP consulting companies (Bluefin Solutions and Optimal Solutions) who specialize in SAP...
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Transparency. EMC Partner–Q4 “Backstage Pass!” (Virtual Geek)
As always, I think there should be no air gap between EMC and our partners. I’ve said it before, but it’s worth repeating (IMO) don’t spend much time thinking about EMC competitors. It’s not a matter of a lack of...
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VMworld 2012 – Psst… Want to see the future of storage with VMware and EMC? (Virtual Geek)
At VMworld 2012, covers started to come off the idea of Virtual Volumes or “vVols”. This is something that has been in the works since before this same time last year – but is getting closer to real. To be...
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Chad’s Choice Webcast Sept 27th, presentation and recording (Virtual Geek)
All – my VMworld 2012 SF recap (with loads of links) and VMworld 2012 Barcelona preview webcast from last week is now up! You can download the recording of the webcast here, and click on the presentation below for the...
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I’m in.. Are YOU in? (Virtual Geek)
www.humanfaceofbigdata.com Download the IOS/Android app today, participate in a global human experiment through Oct 2nd. Really. Frickin. Cool. Learn. Compare. Find. Will be very cool to see how this turns out :-)
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PP/VE and vSphere 5.1 fixes out. (Virtual Geek)
For those who follow in RSS feeds – FYI, the vSphere 5.1 + PP/VE patch is out – and the blog post is updated with the fix details here. AFAIK – I’m not aware of outstanding “major” blocks to upgrade...
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Chad’s World 14–Episode 14 and VMworld Barcelona Preview! (Virtual Geek)
Want to see what two exhausted EMCers look like after a weeklong tradeshow? Phoning it in? Click on the below to watch Episode 12, a VMworld 2012 wrap, a VDP demo with a partner – and a VMworld 2012 Barcelona...
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Really. Frickin’ Cool. High Performance Computing. (Virtual Geek)
So… I got exposed to this when we started more and more HPC work at EMC. Isilon is a fit for some workloads, Lustre/VNX is popular for others, and then we did some amazing stuff with Los Alamos Labs regarding...
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Heads up! Cisco UCS and vSphere 5.1 (Virtual Geek)
BTW – anytime there is a major new release of software like vSphere 5.1, in spite of the unbelievable efforts of many to catch everything, update support matrices, some things always miss the cutoff. Usually, the time gap to fill...
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Really Freakin’ Cool. Human Face of Big Data (Virtual Geek)
There are some things that are just cool. This is (IMO) one of them. Big Data is transforming business – but has the power to change the world – as much as the Internet changed the way we all live....
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