This just in, I’m very proud to announce that Chad Sakac has asked me to join him in presenting TA8133 – Best Practices to Increase Availability and Throughput for VMware, at VMworld in San Francisco and Copenhagen.
Needless to say I’m honored to be asked and uber excited to present this content. In fact we’ve already begun creating and compiling content. This session will follow the them of our previous joint best practice posts on iSCSI and NFS where the content will speak to storage related challenges facing VI and cloud administrators in vendor neutral terms (well as much as we can be neutral).
This is a big win for customers as they learn about and how to address the most common storage related challenges from the two vendors with the largest install base of VMware 2.5, VI3, and vSPhere deployments!
Chad has been polling the field in order to get a sense of what they’d like us to discuss at this session. Make your thoughts heard by contributing to the survey.
Below is a snipet of the current poll results…
- Make block based storage as easy to manage as File
- VMware need to partner to help build scale. Otherwise the skills wont be avaiable for wide system adoption
- Storage management standardisation (what happened to SMI?)
- Costs, support and integrations
- more plugs wiht vcenter
- VCE support could be better and more up to date on version testing
- Release finals sooner to 3rd parties
- Actually FIX problems. Stop selling a ‘solution’, and FIX the DAMN PROBLEM!
- Apart from marketitecture / FUD, bundling cloud infrastructure as a unit of sale. It’s not about the stack, it’s about the service. That’s even speaking as a VCE guy.
- I guess I’m curious why using distributed switches is better. I could understand if your whole environment was virtual, but we still need to have a physical switching architecture for our physical stuff.
- Help us beat management over the head with a big stick
- chargeback, capacity planning
- the virtual appliance adaption rate. VMware needs to lead the way (with EMC) in providing virtual appliances of vCenter. This could be done with a linux based server version (was announced in 06, never materialized) or by handing it off to spring now to develop.
- Backup/Disaster recovery is too complex
- Dunno
- The push to virtuilze desktops. Ths should only be used in specific use cases (Nurse workstations, Call center, etc).
- EMC and Netapp stop fighting like little kids.
- More in GUI…less command line
- Too much marketing and not enough facts.
- At last – you’re finally asking: “Figuring out how much we’re GOING to use” 🙂
- Tired of Vaughn Stewart bitching
- Need tools to provide end to end view
- not sure
- BACKUP AND RECOVERY
- provide complete packages
- lack of solutions and high cost
- VMware being the leader and coming up shorter on every release, Bugs that is.
- Standards … All vendors should folow the same
- VMWqare licenses
- I think that the only major step to be addressed from a cost based perspective is proper backup for vm’s, at a decent price tagg for SMB’s. Avamar is great but lavishly expensive for SMB’s.
- For some reason, even though EMC talks about NFS as a viable protocol (as does the rest of the world) nobody really seems to want us to use file based protocols for VMWare. I can’t figure out why. There’s no question it’s easier to manage a file than it is to manage a datastore on a LUN…but why the reluctance to really embrace NFS in a hard core manner like your competitors?
- virtualization is easy, doing it right is hard
- Tie it all together. All the arrays (single or multi-vendor), fabric, vCenters, SRM, replication strategy, etc.
- Addressing the SMB space
- ESXi support
- solution tiering (small to large)
- Lack of information/support with focus on SMB’s that have the 1-guy-does-it-all. I think vBlock is a great idea, and I wish there was more SOLUTIONS provided than components.
- capacity forcasting
- Quit fuding other vendors products
- Storage performance information, should have a dashboard similar to the cpu and memory
As you can see, the request for discussion points run a W-I-D-E gamut, thus the importance for you to share your suggestions in order for us to share topics of greatest interest to the field. Hurry, poll closes this Friday!