Category: Advocacy

Workload Mobility and Disaster Recovery to…
Workload Mobility and Disaster Recovery to VMware vCloud Air Network IaaS Provider Workload Mobility and Disaster Recovery to… The VMware vCloud Air Network is an ecosystem of over 4,000 service providers located in more than 100 countries offering VMware based cloud services. Local providers ensure data sovereignty while providing a wide range of cloud services ...

A Deep Dive Into VSAN 6.2 — Virtualization Review
A Deep Dive Into VSAN 6.2 — Virtualization Review A Deep Dive Into VSAN 6.2 — Virtualization Review Going through the most important features one-by-one. VMware Advocacy

A Deep Dive Into VSAN 6.2 — Virtualization Review
A Deep Dive Into VSAN 6.2 — Virtualization Review A Deep Dive Into VSAN 6.2 — Virtualization Review Going through the most important features one-by-one. VMware Advocacy

A Deep Dive Into VSAN 6.2 — Virtualization Review
A Deep Dive Into VSAN 6.2 — Virtualization Review A Deep Dive Into VSAN 6.2 — Virtualization Review Going through the most important features one-by-one. VMware Advocacy

An Exciting Time in the World of Network…
An exciting time in the world of network virtualization, VMware’s @martin_casado discusses An Exciting Time in the World of Network… VMware SVP and GM Martin Casado discusses network virtualization, including three primary use cases and the current state of NSX. VMware Advocacy

Whats been happening…
Well its been 7 months since my last post here. Since then the family and I have moved back to Windy Wellington in NZ and I am now working for Computer Concepts Limited as a Technical Consultant. Things have been very busy and the first gig I had was to design and deploy an active-active ...

A good lesson learnt on my 3PAR
(Posted LinkedIn July 2013) We have a couple of 3PAR P10400 SANs with Synchronous Replication (Remote Copy) of volumes between our DCs. All of our Remote Copy volumes sit on the same disk tier on both sides, with AO moving hot spots up and down as required. I tuned some volumes a few weeks back ...

HP 3PAR Adaptive Optimization – auto tiering
(Posted LinkedIn July 2013) Turned on AO today for the first time. Really surprised at what it moved around between cpg/tiers. Data that I would have expected to be low I/O moved up tiers, and vice-versa for data that I would have considered higher I/O moved down. Good to see it is idenitfying the hot/cold ...

Converting 3PAR 3.1.2 Full/Thick Volumes to Thin Volumes – online
(Posted LinkedIn April 2013) From the InForm 3.1.2 GUI I wanted to tune many volumes that we had initially provisioned as Thick to Thin. I did not want to take the volumes offline. There is no option for this in the GUI that I can see, it needs to be done from the CLi. The ...