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Software Defined Data Center Analytics

Bernd Harzog — Wed, 22 May 2013 12:16:47 +0000

Software Defined Data Center Analytics will play a critical role in keeping your SDDC up and running with acceptable performance. Multiple real time data feeds used across a variety of management solutions represent the only viable method to keeping up with the rate of change in the SDDC.

Software Defined Data Center Analytics|The Virtualization Practice

EMC ViPR as a Part of a SDDC

Edward Haletky — Tue, 21 May 2013 13:00:11 +0000

At EMC World 2013, EMC announced ViPR as the answer to storage within the software defined data center. ViPR presents multiple types of storage while segmenting the control plane from the data plane. In addition, ViPR is a head end, fronting traditional storage arrays as an automation and control point and does not replace any array, but, possibly, makes it easier to use those arrays as we move to the software defined data center. Yet, ViPR also raises several questions about how storage will be accessed by the software defined data center, is ViPR the future or is there more to happen?

EMC ViPR as a Part of a SDDC|The Virtualization Practice

News: VMware Announces the vCloud Hybrid Service

Bernd Harzog — Tue, 21 May 2013 11:00:43 +0000

VMware has announced the vCloud Hybrid Service. Now you can buy hybrid and public cloud services directly from VMware. This dramatically simplifies the offering and the support chain giving customers one throat to choke.

News: VMware Announces the vCloud Hybrid Service|The Virtualization Practice

Tintri OS 2.0 & ReplicateVM

Bob Plankers — Mon, 20 May 2013 12:32:45 +0000

Tintri is now shipping version 2.0 of their array software, Tintri OS, which further automates administration of their arrays and adds ReplicateVM remote replication features. ReplicateVM is an incredibly flexible asynchronous, IP-based replication technology that operates per-VM, allowing each VM to have custom RPOs.

Tintri OS 2.0 & ReplicateVM|The Virtualization Practice

Is Automation Killing The Engineering?

Steve Beaver — Fri, 17 May 2013 12:48:07 +0000

Is automation killing the engineering? When MTV first appeared on air, the first video it played was, “Video Killed the Radio Star.” Fast forward a few decades and I have to wonder if automation is killing the engineering. In the early days of virtualization the administrators were expected to be proficient via the command line and to be honest if you wanted to really understand how things worked, command line administration was an absolute must have skill. Virtualization has evolved from those early days with more and more features and services getting added to the infrastructure that the need for the vast command line skills seem to be fading as the technology continues to mature. Looking forward where cloud computing is working to achieve complete and total automation, I have to wonder how administrators will handle the stress of getting issues resolved when automation is not an option.

Is Automation Killing The Engineering?|The Virtualization Practice

Can you Pivot to Pivotal?

Edward Haletky — Thu, 16 May 2013 16:21:51 +0000

At EMCworld 2013, one of the big stories was Pivotal and it's importance to the EMC2 family and the future of computing. Pivotal is geared to provide the next generation of computing. According to EMC2 have gone past the Client-Server style to a scale-out, scale-up, big data, fast data Internet of Things form of computing. The real question however, is how can we move traditional business critical applications to this new model, or should we? Is there migration path one can take?

Can you Pivot to Pivotal?|The Virtualization Practice

Internet of Things: Expectation of Privacy

Edward Haletky — Wed, 15 May 2013 15:17:10 +0000

For years we have had an expectation of privacy while using our computers, tablets, phones, email, etc. However, with the advent of big data analysis and everything being on the internet, the internet of things, there is no longer the veil that makes up an Expectation of Privacy.

Internet of Things: Expectation of Privacy|The Virtualization Practice

VMware Delivers a New Bundle – vSphere with Operations Management (vSOM)

Bernd Harzog — Tue, 14 May 2013 13:15:32 +0000

vSphere with Operations Management lets VMware use valuable and differentiated management software like vCenter Operations to make the price of vSphere free or nearly so. One can only wonder if other such bundles are forthcoming, for example vSphere with vCloud Automation Center (vSCAC). VMware has significant product differentiation in management software over Microsoft, and it only makes sense to use this differentiation to combat the perception that vSphere is expensive.

VMware Delivers a New Bundle – vSphere with Operations Management (vSOM)|The Virtualization Practice

A Look at the Nutanix NX-3000 Virtual Computing Platform

Bob Plankers — Mon, 13 May 2013 12:55:34 +0000

A look at how the Nutanix NX-3000 stacks up against other, more traditional data center converged infrastructures, what makes them special, and why everybody is trying to copy them in some way.

A Look at the Nutanix NX-3000 Virtual Computing Platform|The Virtualization Practice

What is the Future of Virtual Storage in a Software Defined Data Center?

Steve Beaver — Fri, 10 May 2013 15:51:30 +0000

What is the future of virtual storage in a Software Defined Data Center (SDDC)? As more and more technology gets moved from hardware to software in the SDDC, I have to wonder which direction virtual storage will go. If we use networking as an example, the technology has evolved from setting up local virtual switches on each of the hosts to a virtual distributed switch (VDS) model where all the individual host-level virtual switches are abstracted into a single large VDS that spans multiple hosts at the Datacenter level. In this design, the data plane remains local to each VDS, but the management plane is centralized with VMware vCenter Server acting as the control point for all configured VDS instances.

What is the Future of Virtual Storage in a Software Defined Data Center?|The Virtualization Practice

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