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Technical Marketing Update 2012 – Week 17

By Duncan Epping, Principal Architect.

Technical Marketing Update 2012 – Week 17

Great white paper by Cormac Hogan on Storage Protocols. I know many of you have asked for this in the past, so I am sure you will appreciate this paper that explains the various protocols and how they interoperate with VMware. Excellent work Cormac!

Blog posts: 

  • vSphere Security Hardening Report Script for vSphere 5 (William Lam) http://bit.ly/Ju91uU 
  • Cool tool update: RVTools 3.3 released! (Duncan Epping) bit.ly/INHvor
  • Removing Previous Local Datastore Label for Reinstall in ESXi 5 (William Lam) http://bit.ly/IfhmSN 
  • Does VMware Support Shared/Switched SAS? (Cormac Hogan) bit.ly/JD50lT
  • What is das.maskCleanShutdownEnabled about? (Duncan Epping) http://bit.ly/JnkKKd 
  • Demystifying Configuration Maximums for VSS and VDS (Venky Deshpande) bit.ly/JzZ7YC
  • VAAI Thin Provisioning Block Reclaim/UNMAP In Action (Cormac Hogan) bit.ly/JpTkB2
  • Aggregating datastores from multiple storage arrays into one Storage DRS datastore cluster (Frank Denneman) bit.ly/I3Bx2z
  • Preparing the hosts in Provider VDCs with PowerCLI (Alan Renouf) bit.ly/IhJ00B 
  • SRM 5.0.1 Upgrade with vSphere Replication (Ken Werneburg) bit.ly/I8yIgD
  • Using the vSphere ESXi Image Builder CLI (Kyle Gleed) bit.ly/IhAznV
  • Retrieving Information from VMware VDS + Cisco Nexus 1000v (William Lam) bit.ly/Ixeaxu