treesum continues to cover his conference sessions in depth — good notes — although he’s having trouble getting into all the sessions. The lines do move once the previous session clears out, and you will get in, but a few hallways in the conference center are pretty congested.
- General Session 09.12.07 – Cisco VFrame
- Ah, quality time on a black beanbag
- VAC Partner Support
- MS Server 2008 and VMM
- New Trends for Disaster recovery – BC31
Site recovery Manager – DR workflow automation product
How it works > plugs in to VC2
Technical Objectives > Setup: integrate with storage replication to determine wich VMs are replicated; Failover: auto promote LUNs at DR site; test: auto LUN snap shots; compatible: FC or iSCSI modules for OEMs - 09.11.07 – ESX 3i Demo / Intel / AMD
Thomas Bishop at Scale The Mind is taking notes as well:
- VMWorld 2007 Session: Technical Preview – VDM (Virtual Desktop Manager)
Some of the topics included the architecture, security configurations,
and common deployment scenarios. This product is tightly integrated
with VirtualCenter and heavily leverages Active Directory (for not only
authentication, but also configuration). As of now, the product release
date is Q4 2007. If you are (or will be) in the market for a VDI
connection broker, I highly recommend you give this product a glance. - IT Service Management – A Technical Overview
From what I could tell, it is similar to their Lab Manager product and
runs on top of VI3. Stage Manager leverages many of the features of Lab
Manager including (but not limited to): differencing disks and network
fencing. The general idea is that Stage Manager is a tool which can
automate and ease the service delivery life cycle. Keep an eye on
VMware’s site for more information regarding this product. - Technology Preview – VIrtual Hardware Platform
One demo was of remotely mapping a USB webcam with VMware
Workstation. Another demo was displaying beta support for 3d gaming in
Workstation (the demo was of Unreal Tournament, I think).
mainesysadmin on the exhibit floor:
Lots is going on this week at VMworld 2007. I watched a video at the AMD
booth of a server being upgraded from dual proc dual core to dual proc
quad cores featuring their new “Barcelona” F series cpu. The only
change required is a bios upgrade which they actually replaced with a
new physical bios chip. …I’m seeing a lot more companies adapting a de-duplication technology to their product. Netapp and Data Domain are a couple of vendors that I spoke to about this. Data Domain was interesting to me because they supply you with an entry level HW appliance with redundant disk storage at RAID 6.
In my mind, two recent events have defined just
how big virtualization has become. Obviously, the first is the not
talked about enough IPO of VMware. And the second, the number of
VMworld 2007 attendees and exhibition booths. I mean, who is going to
argue with a billion dollars made from an IPO and the fact that 11,000
people all gathered around in one place to find out about one topic…
not me! Virtualization is definitely more than buzz folks. Climb aboard.
