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2014 top VMware & virtualization blog voting results
Eric Siebert of vSphere-land! comments: So the voting has ended, the results have been tabulated and here they are. There were almost 80 new blogs on the ballot this year and 5 new blogs to make the...
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Wet your VMworld whistle with this SDDC symposium
Keith Townsend of Virtualized Geek writes: I’m headed to Tech Field Day’s Storage Field Day 5 (SFD) next month as a delegate. I know what you are thinking, hey Keith you aren’t a storage guy. No, I’m...
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vSwitch to pSwitch Inconsistency
Paul Meehan comments on his blog: Switch Port Mismatch Recently while rigging up a network config in vSphere, we ran into a strange scenario. It was not a greenfield site from a networking or vSphere...
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Join the Next Generation SDDC Leaders
Arjan Timmerman of vCloud.nl writes: I was invited by the Tech Field Day team to join the Storage Field Day 5 delegates. This will be my 5th Storage Field Day and I’m very honored to be on this awesome...
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FirmwareGate and FCoEgate two months later
Robert Novak of rsts11 comments: I was surprised last week at Interop to hear people still talking about both FCoEgate and HP FirmwareGate. It seems that in the absence of any clarity or resolution,...
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The Eternal Wait For Vendor Software Updates
Bob Plankers of The Lone Sysadmin comments: There’s been a fair amount of commentary & impatience from IT staff as we wait for vendors to patch their products for the OpenSSL Heartbleed...
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No More Data Plane Administrators
Eric Shanks of the IT Hollow comments: There are two terms used in IT that are often used in conjunction when learning about how technologies are built. These two terms are “Control Plane” and “Data...
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Is RedHat thinking about Openstack hyper convergence?
Enrico Signoretti of Juku comments: You probably already know the news: Redhat is acquiring InkTank. InkTank is a small startup that is developing around the opensource file/block/object storage system...
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Is SDDC a Product or a Mindset?
Edward Haletky of The Virtualization Practice writes: My response to Stephen Foskett’s tweet of a post about the Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) Symposium led to an interesting conversation about...
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Nutanix and Scale: Two ends of the hyper-converged market
Keith Townsend of Virtualized Geek comments: The hyper-converged infrastructure has two completely different ends of the spectrum when it comes to potential end-users. An example of two different...
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Hyper convergence for the rest of us? Scale Computing
Enrico Signoretti of Juku writes: This is not the first time I write about Scale Computing but I met them again a couple of weeks ago (at #SFD5) and I think there are some updates about their...
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My VSAN journey – all done!
Vladan Seget of ESX Virtualization comments: Another VSAN homelab is born! After waiting some time for more SSDs, Infiniband cables and Perc H310 storage controller cards from eBay, now when all the...
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Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
Michael Stump of The #eager0 comments: You’d have undoubtably discovered the phrase “post hoc ergo propter hoc.” And you’d use those words every day in your IT career. It means, “after this, therefore...
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Could VSAN replace VSA?
Andrea Mauro of the vInfrastructure Blog comments: VMware vSphere Storage Appliance was a software-based shared storage solution that enables high availability and automation in vSphere without shared...
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Nutanix Networking – Quick Tip
Seb Hakiel of vWired.co.uk gives a quick tip on the Nutanix network resiliency: This seems to be resilient, however I discovered (whilst reading documentation, not through hardware failure) that the 2...
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Atlantis Updates ILIO for VMware VSAN
Eric Wright of DiscoPosse writes: The Atlantis ILIO in-memory storage management, with its ability to aggregate disparate storage back-ends, provides a very interesting technical marriage of underlying...
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Docker essentials – Images and Containers
Jon Langemak of Das Blinken Lichten comments: I’ll admit, I jumped into docker pretty quickly and found that I was getting a little ahead of myself. After much googling and discussion, I’ve come to...
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In defense of pizza boxes
Jeff Wilson of Agnostic Computing comments: Lately on the Twitters there has been much praise among my friends and colleagues for what I like to think of as datacenters on dollies: Cisco’s UCS,...
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Docker essentials – More work with images
Jon Langemak of Das Blinken Lichten comments: So we’ve had some time to digest what containers and images are. Now let’s talk in a little greater detail about images and how they layer. A key piece...
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Who the top virtualization bloggers work for
Eric Siebert of Welcome to vSphere-land! comments: When you are recognized as a top blogger you often get noticed by companies looking to hire the best people. Years ago there were many independent top...
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