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I shared this list and demo of each to the PDX VMUG on 11/2/2010.  These are my favorites - what are yours?

 

 

#1 - Twitter

http://www.twitter.com

 

#2 - VMware VMTN Forums

http://communities.vmware.com

 

#3 - The VESI

http://vcommunity.vizioncore.com/administration/vecoshell/default.aspx

 

#4 - RVTools

http://www.robware.net

 

#5 - VMA (vSphere Management Assistant)

http://blogs.vmware.com/kbtv/2010/03/what-is-the-vsphere-management-assistant-vma.html

 

#6 - William Lam's free vGhetto Script

http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-9852

 

#7 - Veeam Monitor

http://www.veeam.com/vmware-esx-monitoring.html

 

#8 - ESXPLOT

http://labs.vmware.com/flings/esxplot

 

#9 - VMTurbo

http://www.vmturbo.com

 

#10 - vSphere-Land

http://vsphere-land.com

 

Other Tools:

Zenoss and ESXTop

http://www.zenoss.com/about/news/Zenoss_Announces_Free_Tool_for_VMware_Power_Users_with_Esxtop.html

 

Kendrick Coleman’s Free VM Tools ISO:

http://www.kendrickcoleman.com/index.php?/Tech-Blog/vm-advanced-iso-free-tools-for-advanced-tasks.html

 

Planet-V12N Blog Aggregator

http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/planet/v12n/

 

VMM for Microsoft SCOM

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2008.10.vmm.aspx

 

VIOPS Proven Practices

http://communities.vmware.com/community/viops

 

PDX VMUG Group on LinkedIn

http://www.linkedin.com/groups?mostPopular=&gid=2033493

 

Lunches with your fellow virtualization geeks

http://www.foodcartsportland.com/

 

 

 

 

 

 

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If you want to sit in the middle aisle,  you better be a blogger, press, analyst, ceo, or other VIP

 

First topic - what the hell is cloud?

 

This video is disturbing

 

Cloud is a mystery?

 

How many "aaS" are there?

 

The "cloud" is the "matrix" is the "cloud"

 

Your mind is a dumb terminal

 

85 countries represented

 

7th vmworld

 

2004 - 1400 guests

 

12500 guests in 2009

 

2010 - goal is 14K, attendance is 17021!

 

Compellent is platinum sponsor

 

Vmworld is running on n.america hybrid cloud

 

100K vms deployed, released during vmworld 2010

 

VMUG gets some props!

 

3 stage journey of virtualization

 

    1. IT production virtualization (benefit is cost savings)

    2. Business production (achieve reliability with tier 1 apps - oracle, exchange, sharepoint)

    3. IT agility (lends itself to business agility) - IT as a service, via cloud both public and private.

 

Most customers are stage 2.

 

Interop - standards based model is key

 

OVF is now an ANSI standard for portable VMs

 

vCloud API standard is gaining momentum (distributed mgmt taskforce)

 

IT as a service = optimizing it production for business consumption

 

Optimization is key

 

Optimizing business consumption of IT services is where Vmware is focused right now.

 

PM - has dropped the white shirts for the more mainstream blue oxford

 

Sleeves still rolled up

 

This is a decade-long journey

 

In 2009, apps deployed on virtualized infrastructure passed number of apps deployed on physical infrastructure (IDC)

 

2010 - 10 million virtual machines deployed

28% growth of number of deployed VMs per year

190K customers,

50K VCPs

25K partners

 

"Then New Infrastructure"

 

MS powerpoint with smartart 2007 being used as part of the vmworld keynote

 

Security is enhanced in virtual infrastructure

 

Integrated security model that addresses logical boundaries and not physical boundarries

 

For every dollar spent on hardware, 6 to 8 spent on ops

 

Virtual data center (collection of apps and services that share common set of policies)

 

The new 4 elements

Compute

Storage

Network

Security

 

We now have a choice in how infrastructure is purchased (and blending is possible).

 

It is important to be able to "get out" of the cloud

 

Secure hybrid cloud will happen with or without vmware

 

Application architecture has to change/evolve along with the infrastructure on which it runs

 

Real Time

Scalable

Agility

 

And we've arrived at the springsource message

 

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In no particular order, I'm looking forward to:

 

  • Customer presentations (love to hear about customer deployments, case-studies, etc)

  • The 2nd VMWorld fun run (though I'll miss running across the bridge)

  • The chance to win an iPad, since I can't afford one

  • The possible release of View 4.5 (better management interfaces)

  • The chance to learn more about new things from vendors I know and love (Veeam, Quest, HP, NetApp, Wyse)

  • The chance to learn about "other" products that I'm not familiar with

  • The chance to connect with other virtualization geeks

  • The 2VCPs In-N-Out burger expedition on Tuesday night

  • Theopportunity to visit with all the other Oregon virtualization geeks

 

 

I was initially disappointed to NOT be going back to Vegas, but the more I think about it, the more I'm happy to be going back to SFO.  For some reason, 24 hours after landing in Vegas I feel like I need a bleach bath.  Not so in SFO.  Also, I think the food is better.

 

 

Look forward to seeing you there!

 

 

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VI Update 2

Posted by TristanT Aug 6, 2008

 

We have been running VI update 2 for a week now and I have to say that we are loving the VC stablity improvements.

 

 

Prior to the upgrade, we were experiencing VI client issues where you couldn't easily navigate between datacenters.  You would jump from datacenter to datacenter and often objects like hosts and clusters would disappear.  That has all gone away with the new version.

 

 

The hot cloning feature is very cool.  Hot extend is nice, but doesn't solve the sys volume issue where you must bring up the volume on another VM in safe mode and then use diskpar to extend.

 

 

We loaded the new HP 8.01 SIM agents yesterday and are waiting to see how stable things are.  Overall - update 2 seems to really rock!

 

 

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New Production Cluster

Posted by TristanT May 7, 2008

I'm pretty excited to be putting a new production cluster online next week. I'm putting up a 4 node production cluster with the following hardware:

 

  • 4 x HP BL680C with 4 quad-core Xeon CPUs

  • 40GB of RAM

  • Dual Emulex LP1150 HBAs

  • 4TB of Hitachi USP-V SAN Storage

 

New VC server and vRanger VCB Proxy server - BL460C with 2xdual-core Xeon and 4GB

 

All of this going in to complement our existing non-prod 6-node cluster of 6 x BL25P G2 blades with dual-core Xeons and 16GB of RAM

 

 

This work should keep me entertained and out of trouble for the next couple of weeks...

 

 

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Passed VCP Exam

Posted by TristanT Nov 4, 2007

 

Sat for and passed (with an 89) the VCP 310 exam on October 30th. 

 

 

Wow - what a challenge!  I work with VI3 every day and I'm in the middle of a massive implementation.  However, I still found it necessary to study for about 40 hours in preparation for the exam.

 

 

I studied all of the recommended manuals (resource, sysadmin, install, install), the configuration maximums, and the available vcp quiz questions from the VMTN community.  I also found it helpful to prepare detailed study notes using the VM install and configure class guide. 

 

 

Good, challenging exam with lots of questions that really got me thinking.

 

 

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