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Some Pics from VMworld Day 3
The labs were packed and my sessions I wanted to hit weren’t until this afternoon so I decided to get out and try and get some pictures of VMworld before it was too late. All of the labs were in Moscone West building, the lines were pretty long already at 9am: This is a shot [...]
VMworld 2010 Keynote
The keynote was Tuesday morning and started out with a video asking “what is cloud” highlighting the fact that there isn’t a real definition of a cloud. The video made a reference to a cloud being like a pizza place – if you don’t have a kitchen at home you can use a dumb device [...]
NetApp
ONTAP 8.0.1 RC1 Available
The NOW site shows ONTAP 8.0.1 RC1 available for download as of today: https://now.netapp.com/NOW/download/software/ontap/8.0.1RC1/ At the time of this post all the links for release notes show a page not found, hopefully more information will be available shortly.
Adding Native NetApp Storage to V-Series
One thing to be aware of if you are adding NetApp storage to the V-Series controller – you need to check the environment settings for fc-non-array-adapter. The value for this setting is the port name that connects to locally attached (eg NetApp disk) storage. If you don’t do this you risk panicking BOTH filers (if [...]
NetApp Flash Cache and 64 bit Aggregates
I was talking with a local NetApp SE the other day and the subject came up about the Flash Cache (formerly Performance Acceleration Module, or PAM) card and 64 bit aggregates in ONTAP 8.0 The issue, he told me, is that currently the Flash Cache cards are not compatible with 64 bit aggregates in ONTAP [...]
VMware
VMworld 2010 Recap
Now that it’s Monday night and I’ve had a chance to catch up on my sleep, I started catching up on a lot of my RSS feeds that were not getting much attention last week. I have to say, the VMware community has a TON of great bloggers out there – if you didn’t make [...]
ALT 2004 – Building the VMworld Lab Cloud Infrastructure
Dan Anderson, a Principal Architect for VMware, spoke about the infrastructure behind VMworld 2010. This was a very entertaining session and Dan was fun to listen to. There are 3 datacenter locations used to power VMworld, one is here at Moscone, another at Terremark in Miami, FL and the third is at Verizon in Ashburn, [...]
BC8449 – Using VMware Site Recovery Manager with NetApp
Larry Touchette from NetApp and Arturo Fagundo from VMware presented this session on using SRM with NetApp. Overview of VMware Site Recovery Manager SRM allows you to do non-disruptive DR testing. In order to do this you group VMs you want into protection groups. Protection groups are the minimum level you can failover. Once you [...]
Apple
Replacing Optical Drive with Second Hard Drive on MacBook Pro
Previously I had blogged about replacing my 7200 RPM SATA drive in my MBP with an Intel X25M-G2 80GB SSD. So far it’s been great and I have no doubt it’s extended the lifespan of my laptop (MacBook Pro 2,2). Being a digital pack-rat the hardest thing has been going from a 500GB drive to [...]
How I’ve Used My iPad
I’ve had my iPad now since April 30th, and I have to say – I’m using it a lot more then I thought I would be. It’s hardly out of my hands when I’m at home. I had both a Kindle 2 and a Kindle DX but returned both as I wasn’t satisfied with the [...]
Adding SSD to MacBook Pro – before and after
I have an older MacBook Pro (Model 2,2 or about 3 years old now, I had upgraded the hard drive awhile back from the stock 120gb drive to a Samsung 500gb drive. The drive was nice for being able to keep my iTunes library as well as my pictures (I have a SLR camera so [...]
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