2013 Resolution Complete: Social Media Partitioning

As an unabashed lover of list-making, New Year’s resolutions are something that I love making and yet often lack the discipline to follow through on.  This year, I’m working on defining tasks at the point where technology intersects with the people in my life, finding ways to interact in ways that are more secure, safer [...]

Cloud Infrastructure Might be Boring, but Data Center Infrastructure Is Hard

I love to point at “converged” infrastructure and call it boring.  I even have a slide that I use to kick off some presentations that says it in 66-point font.  But you know what isn’t boring?  Data center construction and operation.  In fact it’s damn hard, and we’ve seen that fact brought front [...]

2012 vExpert Group, By the Numbers

In case you didn’t know it, I’m a stats nerd.  I love spreadsheets, I love pivot tables, I love statistics, I love data mining.  When I worked at Peak 10, my team would roll their eyes every time I’d pull up another Excel sheet to walk through a problem, and our vendors would scowl knowing [...]

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What I Learned from the OpenStack Summit

On April 20, 2013 By

Man, where to start with this one.  Let’s do a personal level-set first.  I freely admit, I’ve never been a software guy.  I can script, I can hack, I can handle web design with simplistic data-driven back-ends.  I can write SQL queries like a champ.  I’ve been working in and around VMware for half a [...]

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Corporate Communities, Large and Small

On December 19, 2012 By

Over the last few weeks I’ve been thinking a lot about communities, and the different kinds of communities that are needed in a corporate environment today.  Working through this in my head helped me put some recent discussions and announcements in context, so I’m hoping by sharing we can start a discussion on how to [...]

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vSphere 5.1 and VCE Vblock Systems: Right Here, Right Now

On August 27, 2012 By

The big news this morning is VMware’s announcement of the upgraded vSphere 5.1 and the introduction of the new vCloud Suite licensing model.  As the world’s most advanced converged infrastructure, Vblock Systems are going to naturally take the lead in support and availability for this powerful new technology and simplified licensing model.

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Vblock 300: Flexibility Without Risk

On May 21, 2012 By

One of the core value propositions of the Vblock is the reduction of risk and increase in speed-to-market for our customers as they build out their own private cloud or consuming it from one of our service provider partners. This reduction of risk comes as part of a process that is incorrectly labeled as a [...]

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A “How To” Series, Converged Infrastructure Style

On January 18, 2012 By

For the next three weeks VCE is starting off 2012, and celebrating a pretty impressive 2011, by holding a series of sales/technical kickoff meetings in Dallas, Boston and London.  These three day gatherings include a number of breakout sessions for the different teams, and include all new collateral, presentations and a first look at some [...]

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VMworld 2011: Recap Day 2

On August 31, 2011 By

And the hits just keep on coming from VMworld.

Day two kicked off with Steve Herrod’s keynote, and he introduced a couple new VMware projects.  Appblast, which allows you to start a Windows App on any HTML 5 client, ThinApp Factory, which scans your local device and lets you ThinApp the applications that [...]

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VMworld 2011: Recap Day 1

On August 30, 2011 By

The first day of VMware is always a tone-setter for me.  Sunday is a way to ease in, get your bearings, try and sync up your body clock and get ready, but Monday really determines what kind of conference it’s going to be.  If today is any indication, we have a great week [...]

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VMware vCloud on Vblock

On August 4, 2011 By

More and more of the discussions I have with service providers revolve around how to tackle the challenges being placed on the operations side of the house.  Fortunately, VCE and the Vblock have lots of tools and features that we can bring to bear on that issue, and one key piece of that story is [...]

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VSPP for vSphere 5: An Offer that Service Providers Can’t Refuse

On July 28, 2011 By

With the announcement of vSphere 5, and more importantly it seems, with the change in the way that enterprise licenses are sold and managed, there has been a lot of talk (here and elsewhere) about how the cost of virtualizing, especially in a dense fashion got more expensive.  I won’t bore you with [...]

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vSphere 5 – vCenter Web Client Comparison, Part 1: Hosts and Clusters

On July 23, 2011 By

If you haven’t seen it yet, the new vCenter Web Client is beautiful.  Seriously, it looks great.  There seems to be a good bit of Flash used which can be painful at times, but it’s definitely the best looking GUI that VMware has ever created IMO.  Is it a replacement for the full vCenter client? [...]

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vSphere 5: System Logging Not Configured By Default

On July 22, 2011 By

Playing around in the lab this week, I noticed something interesting.  I’m not sure if it’s a bug, or by design, but it’s new with vSphere 5 so I wanted to share.

I have one lab that has vSphere 5 installed on internal hard drives, and everything looks just like it should.  When I look [...]

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vSphere 5 Licensing: Tempest in a Teapot

On July 18, 2011 By

So right up front, I’ll tell you there’s no way I’m offering an opinion on this topic. There’s no upside, and I’ve learned my lesson the hard way. For all of you who have sent me a DM, e-mail, etc.. asking if I was going to put up a blog post with my [...]

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PCs and Home Labs and Data Centers, Oh My… (Part 2)

On July 3, 2011 By

With part one of my whole home computing make-over complete, it’s time to get finish up on the lab!  There are tons of other great blogs out there that talk about home labs (like this one, and this one, and this one, and this one, and Continue Reading →

They Made WHO a VMware vExpert?

On July 1, 2011 By

Me! Ha! I know, right? Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies!  Rivers and seas boiling!  Forty years of darkness!  Earthquakes, volcanoes…  The dead rising from the grave!  Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together… mass hysteria! (What movie is that from?)

All kidding aside, this feels like a weight off my shoulders and [...]

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Infrastructure is Boring: The Next Phase

On May 25, 2011 By

The VMware keynote at EMC World 2011 focused on defining the move into a "post-PC" world. It's been a fairly common refrain for VMware for the last couple years, but in this particular keynote I got the impression that we seem to be preparing for a world where the hypervisor isn't front and [...]

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How To: Clean Up Removed NICs in Windows 2008 VMs

On May 21, 2011 By

It's possible (probable?) that this is common knowledge for those of you who have to deal with this every day, but I'm going to post it in hopes it's useful, and so I can document it for myself!

I've been working in the lab, trying to get all of the pieces I'll need to be able [...]

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