I have been revisiting my work towards some advanced datacenter certifications and decided to journal some of the thoughts I have during the process. After a 3 year break I decided it was time to start pushing toward some of these goals. This may sound eerily similar to something I have said before. It is […]
Category Archives: cloud
Book Review: Automating vSphere with VMware vCenter Orchestrator
So to be 100% honest I have had this book on my desk for several months. Just staring at me. Calling my name. VMware press provided this copy to me along with Mike Laverick’s SRM book and so I am finally going to review the first one. Cody Bunch does an amazing job of breaking […]
Leadership in the Cloud (And everywhere else)
This is really a post about leadership in general, but I like to apply it to our industry. I am totally cool if you take these concepts and apply them elsewhere. In any work environment there is constant posturing, politicing, conflicting, that has nothing to do with the actual cause of the workplace. I am […]
Some Reality for us Infrastructure Peeps or Apps are cool too
Don’t’ you just love double titles? For many years I have been an infrastructure guy. I really liked how the cables, and processors and Memory and blinking lights worked. Applications were often the necessary evil tolerated so that I can play with cool technology. During my own journey toward learning about the cloud it becomes […]
Its About the Apps – The Need for Application Modernization Webcast
As we migrate to Cloud models for Enterprise IT one big need that gets overlooked is how the applications are architected. Modernizing existing apps can be a very scary but a necessary step to taking advantage of what the cloud can offer. Just look at this crazy puzzle. As a VMware/Network/Storage geek I spend so […]
vSphere Metro Stretched Clusters – Some Info/Links
A lot of questions lately about vSphere Clusters across distance. I really need to learn for myself so I collected some good links. Make sure you understand what “Only Non-uniform host access configuration is supported” means. Someone correct me if I have this wrong but your device that enables the distributed virtual storage needs to […]
An Idea for vCloud Director and View
Sometimes I am sitting up late at night and I have a thought of something I think would be cool, like if x and y worked together to get z. This time I thought this was good enough to blog about. Now I want to stress that I do not have any special insight into […]
First Three Months and the Cloud
This is the post where people start accusing me of working for EMC. Guess what? I do. Now that Geek Week and onboarding are finished and I got my really cool shirt I wanted to spend a few minutes reflecting on the things I learned in the last few months. This post will introduce a […]
VMware View and Xsigo
*Disclaimer – I work for a Xsigo and VMware partner. I was in the VMware View Design and Best practices class a couple weeks ago. Much of the class is built on the VMware View Reference Architecture. The picture below is from that PDF. It really struck me how many IO connections (Network or Storage) […]
The Philosophy of Cloud
With several great posts recently about the cloud and its definitions I decided to jump in from maybe a new perspective.So check out these links:The Cloud is Kicking my Butt – Mike DiPetrillo Is Virtualization Required for the Cloud to Work? – Mike DiPetrillo Cloud Butt Kicking – Jason Boche So to relate Cloud Computing […]