VMware TAM Source 7.35

Each month, we share the top VMware Global Support Services (GSS) news, alerts, and announcements from our sister blog, VMware Support Insider . Read on to find out what you might have missed. Disk is already managed by View Check out this post highlighting a Knowledge Base (KB) article that trou...

Sep 4, 2015 3:00:06 PM

Wednesday Sept 2 By Andy Troup Kevin Lees, our principal architect in our Operations Transformation Services practice, spoke today about Best Practice Approaches to Transformation with the Software Defined Data Center. Kevin speaks from experience, spending most of his time with customers on-site...

Sep 3, 2015 1:20:25 AM

It’s tough to believe that VMworld US 2015 has nearly come to a close. Tonight, we’ll celebrate our experience with our customers at AT&T Park during the Customer Appreciation Event. Throughout the conference, we’ve had some great sessions and Wednesday was no exception. Today we heard from exper...

Sep 2, 2015 11:39:07 PM

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Sep 2, 2015 9:50:14 PM

At VMworld 2015 there has been a lot of excitement around the newly announced VMware Validated Designs – those prescriptive Software-Defined Data Center architectures & designs being created and validated by VMware experts and made available to you. Included as part of the VMware Validated Design...

Sep 2, 2015 3:00:56 PM

Many of you have been patiently waiting to hear the results of the VMware Certified Professional 6 (VCP6) beta exam you participated in earlier this summer. We just received the anticipated beta rescore dates: You will receive your exam score via email as usual, and shortly thereafter you will be...

Sep 2, 2015 11:21:35 AM

Everything You Wanted to Know About VMware + Openstack A TAM Deep Dive session titled “Everything You Wanted to Know About VMware + Openstack” was delivered today to a TAM audience of about 30 attendees. Arvind Soni, VMware Product Line Manager, presented this session to show how aligning the des...

Sep 2, 2015 6:28:30 AM

Tuesday Sept 1 By Andy Troup It was another highly rewarding day in the Operations Transformation track at VMworld today. If you missed Ed Hoppitt speaking about DevOps Transformation, be sure to find the recording (With your conference pass you have access to recordings to any sessions you might...

Sep 2, 2015 2:21:01 AM

Let’s face it. Designing and implementing a Software-Defined Data Center from scratch isn’t easy. While there are thousands of ways for you to stitch the fundamental elements of compute, storage, network, security, automation and operations together, not all of them will produce the best outcome....

Sep 1, 2015 5:30:32 PM

In my last post I gave an introduction to the VMware Validated Design PODs – Management POD, Edge POD and Compute POD. In this post I’d like to go over each of these PODs in a more detail. Management POD Every IT infrastructure has a basic set of infrastructure components needed to instantiate th...

Sep 1, 2015 3:00:57 PM

Here is our Top 20 KB list for August 2015. This list is ranked by the number of times a VMware Support Request was resolved by following the steps in a published Knowledge Base article. Upgrading to... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Sep 1, 2015 2:57:05 PM

Even though VMworld kicked off Sunday, for many TAM Customers at TAM Day , Monday ushered in the start of the conference. Once again we saw President and COO Carl Eschenbach take to the stage and energize the audience to restate VMware’s vision of our “One Cloud, Any Application, Any Device” stra...

Sep 1, 2015 7:57:01 AM

Monday, August 31 From an Operations Transformation Services perspective, the first full day of VMworld was a cracker! (I’m British – that means very good!) By Andy Troup Our presenters had a number of insights to share ( remember, with your VMworld conference pass you have access to recordings o...

Sep 1, 2015 3:31:12 AM

I’m back at VMworld 2015. Amongst the keynotes, breakout sessions, and Hands-on Lab, as I look around VMworld, I see a buzzing ecosystem of VMware customers, partners, employees and fans. This morning, when I walked into Gen Session to hear Yanbing Li, I saw that Destination Give Back has returne...

Aug 31, 2015 8:12:24 PM

Project Photon OS, the small-footprint container runtime from VMware that was first announced back in April , is making great progress. Several new enhancements to this open source initiative are especially interesting to vSphere administrators and those responsible for deployment and administrat...

Aug 31, 2015 4:30:41 PM

Cloud-native applications are gaining mindshare, especially containerized apps that align well with the requirements of DevOps workflows, microservices, and immutable infrastructure trends. Developers and infrastructure experts must soon identify the platform for their next-generation workloads. ...

Aug 31, 2015 4:30:11 PM

If you’ve spent anytime looking into the VMware Validate Designs, then you’ve surely noticed the designs are built around what VMware is calling PODs. The use of the term POD can be a bit tricky, at least it was for me. I think that most of us would readily associate a “POD” with some kind of mod...

Aug 31, 2015 3:00:57 PM

  Today VMware is revealing a Technology Preview of Project SkyScraper , a new set of hybrid cloud capabilities for VMware vSphere that will enable customers to confidently extend their data center to the public cloud and vice-a-versa by seamlessly operating across boundaries while providing ente...

Aug 31, 2015 12:01:26 PM

Customers and Senior VMware Leaders Set the Stage for TAM DAY 2015 TAM Day is an invitation-only event held on the Sunday prior to the VMworld conference. This year Andy Nederveld, Director, Americas TAM Services and Bret Connor, Americas Vice President of Professional Services took the stage to ...

Aug 31, 2015 5:31:04 AM

In case you missed it, VMware recently announced the VMware Validated Designs. What exactly is a VMware Validated Design? Well, think of it as a blueprint for implementing a Software-Defined Data Center. Here’s a link to a recent post on the VMware CTO Blog that introduces the VMware Validated De...

Aug 31, 2015 4:50:16 AM

Sunday, August 30th By Andy Troup As one of the solution architects on the Operations Transformation Services team, it is my pleasure to share our breakout session schedule with you and make sure you can easily find transformation sessions of relevance and interest. Why Operations Transformation,...

Aug 30, 2015 10:17:16 PM

By Adam Eckerle It is amazing that we are less than a few hours away from VMworld US 2015! Time has flown by and now it’s crunch time to make final plans for the event. Whether this is your first VMworld, you’re a VMworld veteran, or this is your first VMworld as a TAM Customer, there are always ...

Aug 30, 2015 9:21:53 PM

Mike Brown is a Senior Technical Marketing Architect in the Integrated Systems Business Unit. Mike’s focus is on reference architectures for the VMware vCloud Suite and the Software-Defined Data Center. He has multiple industry certifications, including VMware Certified Design Expert (VCDX), VMwa...

Aug 30, 2015 11:00:04 AM

What’s vForum, you ask? It’s a series of free, one-day events that provide an opportunity to gain insight for your business, network with other IT pros, and test drive the latest technologies at VMware Hands-on Labs. The next events are coming to Toronto on September 10 , Boston on September 15 ,...

Sep 4, 2015 5:06:30 PM

By Joanna Guan and Davide Bergamasco In a prior post we assessed the performance of VMware vSphere Content Library, focusing on the instantiation of a virtual machine from an existing library. We considered various scenarios and provided virtual infrastructure administrators with some guidelines ...

Sep 3, 2015 6:32:19 PM

We held a “best practices session” on Log Insight and vRealize Operations recently, at VMWorld. We’ve already posted some of the comments from our friends at ACI. Best Practices from Wisconsin Peter Boguszewski, a virtual infrastructure administrator at the University of Wisconsin (AKA Greatest U...

Sep 3, 2015 1:00:28 PM

Editor’s Note: Ryan Fay shared his thoughts with us on his journey using vRealize Operations and related VMware software. He talked about some of these today during a panel at VMworld. By Ryan Fay, CIO at ACI Specialty Benefits Tell us about your organization and how you are using VMware software...

Sep 2, 2015 5:31:18 PM

By: Bryan Graven, CEO, National Physician Services Physicians are increasingly dependent on technology to deliver patient care. However, most healthcare practitioners don’t want to spend time focusing on technology. Their passion is the patient and positive outcomes and that’s where National Phys...

Sep 2, 2015 12:00:10 PM

VMware vCenter Server 6.0 brings many performance improvements over previous vCenter versions, including: Extensive improvements in throughput and latency. vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) parity with vCenter Server on Windows, for both inventory size and performance. A new white paper, “ VMware v...

Sep 1, 2015 7:12:15 PM

By: Michael Cincinatus, Senior Director of Product Marketing, Cloud Services, VMware Enterprise interest in cloud data services is growing at an exponential rate. I’ve spoken to countless IT leaders who see database-as-a-service as potential way to accelerate their application development, optimi...

Sep 1, 2015 12:00:56 PM

By: Angelos Kottas, Senior Director of Product Marketing, Cloud Services, VMware Disaster recovery and business continuity are all about the trade-off between risk and cost. Traditional disaster recovery options have been expensive and complicated to manage. With VMware vCloud Air Disaster Recove...

Sep 1, 2015 12:00:24 PM

VMware’s vRealize Operations Manager (vROps) has traditionally required a fair amount of horsepower and some time to deploy into vSphere infrastructure (which isn’t surprising as it’s such a powerful performance and capacity management tool). What this meant is that if you wanted to get some hand...

Sep 1, 2015 10:01:08 AM

VMware vCenter Server 6.0 brings significant improvements over previous vCenter server versions with respect to cluster size and performance. vCenter Server 6.0 supports up to 64 ESXi Hosts and 8000 VMs in a single cluster. A new white paper, ” VMware vCenter Server 6.0 Cluster Performance “, des...

Sep 1, 2015 7:27:58 AM

By TJ Vatsa Introduction Over the last few years, End User Computing (EUC) and the associated workspace mobility space have emerged to be transformational enterprise initiatives . Today’s workforce expects anytime and anywhere access to their applications, be it enterprise applications or user-in...

Sep 1, 2015 3:49:45 AM

Project Capstone was put together a few weeks before VMworld 2015 with the goal of being able to show what is possible with Monster VMs today. VMware worked with HP and IBM to put together an impressive setup using vSphere 6.0, HP Superdome X and an IBM FlashSystem array that was able to support ...

Aug 31, 2015 9:28:59 PM

NSX 6.2 was released on August 20, 2015. One of the key features in NSX 6.2 is Cross vCenter Networking and Security. This new capability scales NSX vSphere across vCenter boundaries. Now, one can span logical networking and security constructs across vCenter boundaries irrespective of whether th...

Aug 31, 2015 7:00:00 PM

The basis of competition has shifted from individual products and technologies to platforms, Best-In-Class Partners but with everyone aspiring to be a platform the bar is set high. A platform must be a value-creation entity, underpinned by a robust architecture that includes a set of well-integra...

Aug 31, 2015 4:30:11 PM

At this year’s VMworld, a number of new products are being launched, including vRealize Operations 6.1. Intelligent Workload Management is at the top of a list of new capabilities in the latest iteration of vRealize Operations. Intelligent Workload Management The latest 6.1 release is all about I...

Aug 31, 2015 12:00:56 PM

Cloud is the next platform shift in IT. We are looking to take a place of market leadership similar to how we approached virtualization. VMware’s Mathew Lodge, Vice President of Product Marketing for Cloud Services discusses the new battleground for cloud. The new battleground is the middle groun...

Aug 31, 2015 12:00:38 PM

The chance to lead a genuine business revolution doesn’t come along often, and yet that’s precisely what is happening for VMware customers with the cloud. VMware’s Ajay Patel, Senior Vice President of Product Development for Cloud Services discusses what he is seeing and how organizations can emb...

Aug 31, 2015 12:00:20 PM

VMworld 2015 in San Francisco marks the two-year anniversary of the launch of VMware NSX . Since we originally launched, we have taken the promise of NSX and turned it into a platform that customers around the world are using to transform the operations of their data center networks and security ...

Aug 31, 2015 11:55:40 AM

By: Angelos Kottas, Senior Director of Product Marketing, Cloud Services, VMware and Matthew Kwok, Product Marketing Manager, Cloud Services, VMware “How do I ensure that the public cloud is as secure as my on-premises environment?” “Why do I have to re-architect my applications before they can w...

Aug 31, 2015 11:50:19 AM

This week in the top enterprise mobility headlines, VMware hosted 23,000 attendees at VMworld, VDC Research results highlighted the top EMM market trends and VMware and Microsoft announced a new partnership. I’m Maddie Cook and this is your weekly recap of the AirWatch Blog. VMworld 2015 kicked o...

Sep 4, 2015 9:57:15 PM

Calling IT professionals! Registration is now open for VMware’s vForum conference. What’s vForum, you ask? It’s a series of free, one-day events that provide an opportunity to gain insight for your business, network with other IT pros, and test drive the latest technologies at VMware Hands-on Lab...

Sep 4, 2015 9:20:30 PM

By Kevin Strohmeyer, senior director, product marketing, Workspace Services, VMware In June, VMware introduced VMware Identity Manager, an Identity as a Service (IDaaS) offering that we began including in premium versions of AirWatch Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM). Today, we announced VMwar...

Sep 3, 2015 5:42:12 PM

The VMware Professional Services team had been asked by a German Fortune 500 Global engineering customer to assist with a data migration and integration project. Hundreds of gigabytes of application data were to be transferred from a local, on-premise data center into a cloud deployment. Moving a...

Sep 2, 2015 7:39:13 PM

By Tony Paikeday, Sr. Product Line Manager, EUC, VMware With VMworld in full swing, it’s already been a busy week full of announcements offering proof points of how VMware Horizon 6 continues to lead in the mobile cloud era, with a clear focus on apps, while delivering an unbeatable user experien...

Sep 2, 2015 2:00:42 PM

End-user computing stole the show during VMworld Day 2, thanks to a superb keynote delivery from Sanjay Poonen, complete with an exciting new partnership announcement, product updates and integration demos. Read on below for a recap of today’s General Session highlights, interspersed with some re...

Sep 2, 2015 1:40:43 AM

End-user computing stole the show during VMworld Day 2, thanks to a superb keynote delivery from Sanjay Poonen, complete with an exciting new partnership announcement, product updates and integration demos. Read on below for a recap of today’s General Session highlights, interspersed with some re...

Sep 2, 2015 12:43:23 AM

By Kevin Strohmeyer, senior director, product marketing, Workspace Services, VMware In June, VMware introduced VMware Identity Manager, an Identity as a Service (IDaaS) offering that we began including in premium versions of AirWatch Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM). Today, we announced VMwar...

Sep 1, 2015 12:00:50 PM

By Shankar Iyer, vice president of product management, End-User Computing, VMware I’m excited to be at VMworld once again and as always, it’s a thrill to meet the VMware community of customers, partners and end-users. VMware End-User Computing made several product announcements today and I’d like...

Sep 1, 2015 12:00:48 PM

By Sumit Dhawan, senior vice president and general manager, Desktop Products, End-User Computing, VMware Welcome to day 2 of VMworld U.S. 2015! We have already had some great starts at VMworld with announcements around hybrid cloud, cloud native apps, EVO:SDDC and more. We will kick off today wit...

Sep 1, 2015 12:00:42 PM

By Mike Hulme, senior director, marketing, End-User Computing, VMware An important shift is happening in the end-user computing market as the value of creating more productive employees is giving way to the larger value of making entire businesses more competitive, more successful. At the core of...

Sep 1, 2015 12:00:29 PM

More than 23,000 people have flooded the Moscone Center and the streets of San Francisco as VMworld 2015 has taken over the city. The first General Session of the week set the tone for an event focused on fast-paced innovation and transformational technology. Read on below for a recap of highligh...

Sep 1, 2015 4:53:25 AM

More than 23,000 people have flooded the Moscone Center and the streets of San Francisco as VMworld 2015 has taken over the city. The first General Session of the week set the tone for an event focused on fast-paced innovation and transformational technology. Read on below for a recap of highligh...

Sep 1, 2015 1:46:06 AM

VMworld 2015 is taking place this week and the event offers a great opportunity to learn about Socialcast. Find us at the Enterprise Collaboration booth to make sure you are ready to kick off a social initiative at your organization as soon as you’re back from the show. This is your chance to get...

Aug 31, 2015 8:35:22 PM

In the recent report, “The Global Market for Enterprise Mobility Management” VDC research firm analyzes EMM vendors that are paving the way for the future of the EMM marketplace. As one of the VDC-defined Tier 1 vendors on the list, the report ranks AirWatch by VMware as a top performer in the ma...

Aug 31, 2015 3:41:01 PM

By Ray Heffer, Senior End-User-Computing Architect, VMware For three years, I have been maintaining a diagram detailing all of the network ports used by VMware Horizon 6 (the VMware End-User-Computing product set that includes View), and I am pleased to share the third version for the latest rele...

Aug 31, 2015 3:11:08 PM

By Cindy Heyer, Technical Writer, Technical Marketing, End-User Computing at VMware We hear the requests for an easy way to identify which of the many application-delivery options supported by VMware Horizon 6 works best for a particular use case. It is a good problem to have. And now the Horizon...

Aug 31, 2015 3:10:21 PM

VMworld 2015 is officially underway, and the EUC team is already off to a great start. While the bulk of sessions start tomorrow, today’s EUC sessions had strong turnouts and set the groundwork for a week focused on the future of the mobile cloud era. This morning, Noah Wasmer presented on VMware...

Aug 31, 2015 5:32:25 AM

View the nomination criteria for the Partner Innovation Awards , previously known as the Global Partner Awards. Each year, VMware recognizes its partner ecosystem for their demonstrated excellence and achievements at both the global and the regional level. Submit your nomination by 31 October, 20...

Sep 4, 2015 4:38:17 PM

In our last post , we mentioned that Pat Gelsinger, VMware CEO, gave his perspective on our journey and the ways in which VMware is uniquely positioned to help partners be successful as they help their customer’s transition from the client-server era to the mobile-cloud era. He reiterated VMware’...

Sep 3, 2015 8:00:02 PM

Consumer-grade simplicity, platform heterogeneity, and accelerated application delivery are the cornerstones of VMware’s unified endpoint management solutions for the Mobile-Cloud. Our strategy aims to free businesses from more than a decade of client-server focused IT – which enabled mobile acce...

Sep 3, 2015 3:57:15 PM

Research indicates that the Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) is going mainstream, as customers move from virtualizing compute to implementing storage and network virtualization. Last week VMware announced new enhancements to its Unified Platform for the Hybrid Cloud that will help customers su...

Sep 2, 2015 2:42:07 PM

This year’s theme, Ready for Any , made its way through the weekend as over 1,300 of you attended Partner Exchange @ VMworld 2015, and received the training and insight necessary to hold valuable conversation with the greater VMware customer community throughout the week. The event kicked off on ...

Sep 1, 2015 1:29:38 AM

In this post, I’m going to show you how to use the Git command-line to check out GitHub pull requests locally. I take absolutely no credit for this trick! I picked this up from this GitHub Gist , and merely wanted to share it here so that others would benefit. The GitHub gist shows you how to mod...

Sep 4, 2015 8:40:00 PM

EUC5404 Deliver High Performance Desktops with VMware Horizon and NVIDIA GRID vGPU EUC5020 The “Snappy” Virtual Desktop User Experience EUC6807 The Future of End User Computing HBC4849 vCloud Air 2015 - Getting Started with Hybrid Cloud HBC6629 No App is an Island INF4528 vCenter Server Appliance...

Sep 4, 2015 11:22:00 AM

Sep 4, 2015 11:20:00 AM

Advertise here with BSA Unfortunately I haven’t been able to attend too many sessions, only 2 so far. This is one I didn’t want to miss as it was all about what VMware is working on for VSAN and layers that could sit on top of VSAN. Rawlinson and Christos spoke about where VSAN is today first. Ma...

Sep 3, 2015 5:22:55 PM

Sep 3, 2015 6:57:00 AM

The day 2 keynote kicks off with another Cloud Academy presentation… After the video wraps up, Sanjay Poonen takes the stage. Poonen briefly recaps yesterday’s messaging, and then moves into the focus of today’s keynote—focusing on the “any application and any device” part of the “Ready for Any” ...

Sep 1, 2015 7:17:55 PM

One of the announcements at VMworld this week is the upcoming release of vSphere 6.0 Update 1 (GA sometime in Q3 2015) and in addition to bug fixes there are also several new enhancements that have been added. Here are some of the new capabilities specifically for the vCenter Server Appliance (VC...

Sep 1, 2015 2:53:36 PM

Advertise here with BSA This week Site Recovery Manager 6.1 was announced. There are many enhancements in SRM 6.1 like the integration with NSX for instance and policy driven protection, but personally I feel that support for stretched storage is huge. When I say stretched storage I am referring ...

Sep 1, 2015 2:47:00 PM

Q: What is the Federation Enterprise Hybrid Cloud? A: Simple. It is the “industrialization” at the highest level of the Federation stack of our PaaS/IaaS stack. If you want to be even more specific, it’s our “Brownfield” stack (built on the VMware Unified Hybrid Cloud stack and technologies) - me...

Sep 1, 2015 10:50:00 AM

NSX 6.2 with vSphere 6.0 supports Cross vCenter NSX where logical switches (LS), distributed logical routers (DLR) and distributed firewalls (DFW) can be deployed across multiple vCenters, thereby enabling logical networking and security for applications with workloads (VMs) that span multiple vC...

Sep 1, 2015 10:43:00 AM

There’s lots that can be debated, many topics that can be debated. One thing that cannot be debated is that people are trying to make parts of IT that they view as important but low “ differentiation ” (for their business) SIMPLER. This is the really basic observation that is behind the success o...

Sep 1, 2015 10:26:00 AM

VMware has expanded the capabilities of  Site Recovery Manager with the new version 6.1 release , which delivers unprecedented levels of protection and functionality as well as new use cases through the addition of capabilities such as storage policy based protection groups, support for stretched...

Sep 1, 2015 9:00:00 AM

Advertise here with BSA Something I am personally very excited about is the fact that there is a beta coming up soon for an upcoming release of Virtual SAN . This beta is all about space efficiency and in particular will contain two new great features which I am sure all of you will appreciate te...

Aug 31, 2015 10:51:57 PM

Before Virtual SAN was generally available last year, the preceding VSAN beta program was one of the largest beta programs ever to take place at VMware. Today, a new beta program for VSAN was announced for 2015! This week, we’ve already announced a bunch of enhancements in VSAN 6.1 at VMworld 201...

Aug 31, 2015 10:10:45 PM

With the announcements just made at VMworld 2015, the embargo on Virtual SAN 6.1 has now been lifted, so we can now discuss publicly some of the new features and functionality. Virtual SAN is VMware’s software-defined solution for Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI). For the last number of month...

Aug 31, 2015 8:00:13 PM

Clusters in VMware vCenter Server are an important way to group ESXi hosts. When a host is added to a cluster, the host's resources become part of the cluster's resources. Within a cluster, resource management elements can be defined; for example, a resource pool, reservation, or limit. vCenter S...

Aug 31, 2015 7:43:00 PM

VMware vCenter Server 6.0 substantially improves performance over previous vCenter Server versions. This paper demonstrates the improved performance in vCenter Server 6.0 compared to vCenter Server 5.5, and shows that vCenter Server with the embedded vPostgres database now performs as well as vCe...

Aug 31, 2015 7:36:00 PM

This is a liveblog for the Day 1 general session at VMworld 2015 in San Francisco. For many people, VMworld started yesterday with the Welcome Reception in the Solutions Exchange, but today marks the official kick-off to the event. I’ll have to end this liveblog shortly before the general session...

Aug 31, 2015 7:10:00 PM

Advertise here with BSA It is VMworld, and of course there are many announcements being doing one of which is Virtual SAN 6.1 which will come as part of vSphere 6.0 Update 1. Many new features have been added, but there are a couple which stand out if you ask me. In this post I am going to talk a...

Aug 31, 2015 6:08:35 PM

Just in time for VMworld 2015, the guys over at Nexenta have given me a heads up on a new promotion that they are doing for Virtual SAN (VSAN) customers. Nexenta are giving away complimentary licenses for their NexentaStor product, which will allow Virtual SAN customers to do file services on top...

Aug 31, 2015 5:15:43 PM

Advertise here with BSA I suspect that the majority of blogs this week will all be about Virtual SAN, Cloud Native Apps and EVO. If you ask me then the vSphere APIs for IO Filtering announcements are just as important. I’ve written about VAIO before, in a way, and it was first released in vSphere...

Aug 31, 2015 2:49:48 PM

First things first - what the heck is a “Cloud Native App”, great a new buzzword… and we yet another buzzword (YAB ;-) like we need a punch in the face :-) It is a real idea, but an idea that lacks a discrete authoritative definition, but you know it when you see it. Let me throw out some of my t...

Aug 31, 2015 12:28:00 PM

Advertise here with BSA It is VMworld again, and just like last year VMware decided to give back to the community. No I am not talking about the virtualization community, but I am talking about charity, the great thing is that just like last year you can get VMware to give away an X amount to a c...

Aug 30, 2015 5:33:45 PM

There are more VMware customers that use VNX for their underlying storage than any other platform. Period. It is the Toyota Corolla or Honda Civic of storage :-) It may not get all the noise, all the attention it deserves as the AFA battles play out and people evaluate Hyper-Converged Appliances ...

Aug 30, 2015 5:29:45 PM

RecoverPoint for VMs is awesome. I think it’s one of the most understated, unknown super-awesome things in the EMC kit bag for VMware customers. Why? It does brings one of the industries best, most incredible disaster recovery and replication technologies to the masses. It’s really simple. It can...

Aug 30, 2015 5:27:22 PM

I talked specifically about the vVNX with VVols here , and the VMAX here . What’s the overall picture across all of EMC? [UPDATE 9/3/15 - 2:12pm PT] It no surprise, but of course competitors are all using this to say “look, we’re quicker to VVOLs support than EMC!” Look, as the industry leader, e...

Aug 30, 2015 5:14:10 PM

All the attention goes to the biggest, baddest thing on the block. People can overlook powerful things in small packages - and as I keep reminding people, they do that at their peril ;-) It is as “beastly” to launch the EMC VNXe1600 - an entry-level block storage solution that brings the proven e...

Aug 30, 2015 5:12:36 PM

What’s new? XtremIO just keeps on trucking! Lots of updated vSphere 6.0 and Horizon (including App Volumes) content - demos, reference architectures and more. We’re presenting a lot of that at VMworld with VMware - and you can ALWAYS go to my friend and colleague Itzik Reich’s blog here for a TON...

Aug 30, 2015 5:12:19 PM

VMAX3 is uniquely well suited for VVol support with it’s core SLO-based provisioning method. This is something people are starting to get their heads wrapped around - and often it’s people that have worked the longest with VMAX that have the most to re-learn :-) So - what’s the scoop on VVols and...

Aug 30, 2015 5:09:31 PM

Virtual volumes has been discussed a lot at VMworld over the last few years, and this year EMC is making VVols (the capitalization police are frustrating here) functionality generally available for the first time from us in the form of a VVols Tech Preview release. The VVols Tech Preview is a fre...

Aug 30, 2015 5:09:18 PM