Hosts
John Mark Troyer, VMware @jtroyer
Mike Laverick, VMware @mike_laverick
Guests
Cormac Hogan, VMware @VMwareStorage
Link to Audio Recording
What’s New in vSphere 5.1 Storage
Virtualization News
Register NOW – for VMworld 2012 Barcelona – its going to be incredible!
#vBrownBag Call For Speakers – Barcelona
VMworld Barcelona Community Lounge and Tech Talk Theater
Mike Laverick – Chinwag with Craig Waters
Is DevOps relevant to ‘normal’ IT?
John was on the TWiT Network – This Week in Enterprise Tech
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Cornac Hogan’s Personal Blog
[PDF] What’s New in VMware vSphere 5.1 – Storage
vSphere 5.1 Storage Enhancements – Part 1: VMFS-5
vSphere 5.1, increasing this maximum number of hosts that can share a read-only file to 32.
ALERT: vSphere 5.1 is not compatible with any versions of VMware View
[Michael Webster Blog] vSphere 5.1 Generally Available – Important Upgrade Considerations
[VMware KB] vSphere 5.1 is not supported with any versions of VMware View
VOMA – vSphere On-disk Metadata Analyzer – new customer facing metadata consistency checker tool, which is run from the CLI of ESXi 5.1 hosts. It checks both the Logical Volume Manager (LVM) and VMFS for issues. It works on both VMFS-3 & VMFS-5 datastores.
[Chad Sakac Blog] Heads up! vSphere 5.1 and PowerPath/VE
[PDF] What’s New in VMware vSphere Storage Appliance 5.1
vSphere 5.1 Storage Enhancements – Part 9: Storage DRS
Additional Links
Stephen Foskett – Storage Changes in VMware vSphere 5.1