As a follow up to my post yesterday (this morning, whatever…) about disk sizing, we came across some interesting data I wanted to share.
I want to preface this post with an admission: I am crazy about data. The bigger the pile the better. I love digging through a mountain of seemingly unrelated information [...]
Continue Reading →My company offers a number of different "enterprise cloud" product for our customers, and one of them is a Hosted VM offering. Customers can choose the level of availability and SLA they want (from 99%, Non-HA to 100%, FT-protected), they get an included amount of VPU, RAM and production storage and then they can build [...]
Continue Reading →I've written a lot about the process we went through in the lab, and some of the challenges we faced from a business standpoint, but I wanted to try and give a straight technical review of the UCS platform. Regardless of your business model or focus, there's a lot to like there, and there are [...]
Continue Reading →If Wednesday was spent finding all of the questions, Thursday was where we started looking for the answers. Thank goodness for the team I have here with me, because I don't know what we'd do without their patience and creativity.
The network is still complex, and there are still things that need to be ironed [...]
Continue Reading →Today was brutal, and my head hurts.
"We choose to [do these] things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we [...]
Continue Reading →My team has been invited into the Cisco labs in RTP to build out a type 1 vBlock and see what sort of value it provides for us as a multi-tenant cloud provider. The process of the evaluation should be interesting, and I'll detail what we do here. If you have any questions, please let [...]
Continue Reading →Sometimes I get an idea in my head as to how something should look, how something should turn out or how a project should go, and while that vision can be helpful to keeping things on track I need to do a better job of managing my expectations. The reality is that it's technology, and [...]
Continue Reading →The next two weeks are going to be exciting for us, as we join both the EMC vSpecialist team (Chad's Army) and the EMC lab team in a green-field of a type 1 vBlock, complete with Cisco Nexus 7000-series 10GE switches and a pre-release version of the EMC Ionix UIM software.
This is a critically [...]
Continue Reading →From both a personal and professional standpoint I'm a big fan of VMware as a company and a partner. My company enjoys a significant partnership with Microsoft as well (which I think most hosting/service providers almost have to have these days, don't they?) but VMware has managed to stay ahead of the curve on the [...]
Continue Reading →I finally got one of my senior executives out to a VMware event, and we had a fantastic week. I've spent the last few hours working on an Executive Briefing for my employer for Monday, so I thought I'd jump over here and give my impressions of the event.
First off, you just can't beat Vegas [...]
Continue Reading →A quick introduction to me:
I’m Jeramiah Dooley, I’m 35 years old and I’m a Solutions vArchitect with Acadia/VCE.
I’ve worked in IT for over 17 years including the service provider, telecommunications, legal, medical and sales industries. For the last six years I helped build a Managed Services practice inside an existing data center provider, [...]
Continue Reading →Being my wife can’t be easy (keep the jokes to a minimum, please). I am your classic workaholic, and with two young kids at home (ages 1 and 3) and a household to run, my wife easily works as much if not more than I do. Broken servers, problem customer, internal politics and long hours [...]
Continue Reading →Hello World! My name is Jeramiah Dooley, and I'm frustrated. Isn't that the perfect way to start a blog? I work for a regional infrastructure-services company in the South East, and as the Director of Managed Services I'm frustrated at the lack of information and dialog around virtualization from a Service Provider standpoint. [...]
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