I am happy to announce the return of the vSphere Storage Best Practices technical breakout session in an all-new and improved format. This is the brain child Cody Hosterman, Pure’s Sr. VMware Reference Architect. If you’ve ever had the privilege to see Cody present, then you know he an expert’s expert. I must admit, I’m…
Vote for Pure Storage Sessions at VMworld 2015
One of the more compelling aspects of VMworld is the volume of community submitted breakout sessions. These add depth and context, expand on experiences and benefits of adopting and integrating technologies from VMware and their partners like Pure Storage. Community voting for VMworld 2015 is open and I’d like to highlight a number of sessions…
Melbourne VMUG UserCon 2015: vSphere Storage Best Practices
Recently I had th fortune to join my good friend Chad Sakac in co-presenting a keynote session at the Sydney and Melbourne UserCons. We delivered a condensed version of the VMworld 2014 session, ‘vSphere Storage Best Practices: Next-Gen Storage Technologies’ (STO2496). This secheduled 50 minute session imfamously went on for nearly 90 minutes at the San Francisco event!…
Coming Soon: Support for VMware VVOLs
VMware has launched the beta for the next release of vSphere. This release includes support for virtual volumes (VVOLs), the generation of storage architecture for virtual infrastructures which will enable storage capabilities, both granular monitoring and management, on a per virtual machine basis. VVOLs will enable a number of operational and data management capabilities that…
VMworld 2012: STO2980 vSphere Storage Best Practices
This session was one of the two ‘community’ sessions I submitted for VMworld. I refer to these sessions as community because they are meant to speak to a subject in a vendor neutral perspective. I’d like to thank Chad Sakac; over the past 4 or 5 years he and I have jointly presented at VMworld…
Virtualization Changes Everything Free Copies and Book Signings at Cisco Live
A year ago Mike Slisinger and I wanted to expand upon the impact and influence server virtualization and cloud computing were having on storage and it’s support of the evolution from silo models to dynamic, flexible hosting environments. For these reasons we authored, ‘Virtualization Changes Everything: Storage Strategies for VMware vSphere & Cloud Computing’ Storage…
