Would it kill you not to be so funny all the time? That’s all I’m askin’. This woman thinks I’m very funny and now you’re gonna be funny, so what am I gonna be? I’m gonna be a short bald guy with glasses who suddenly doesn’t seem so funny. – George Costanza
VMworld is over – vSphere 6.5 is near
With VMworld EMEA sweeping up the remains of the solutions exchange the dawn of vSphere 6.5 is here! And with that comes a multitude – and I mean a crap load of multitudes of blogs talking about all of their favourite features of the release to come! With that said I can’t possible link to all of them that I have read – but what I will link to is to the linkmaster himself Eric Siebert! He’s got a great roundup post here of all of the features within vSphere 6.5. Now this post doesn’t have links, just quickly lists the features – but if you want to go deeper on a certain feature be sure to check out his ‘vSphere 6.5 Link-O-Rama’ page as well!
Renting vSphere on AWS
VMware and AWS announced a partnership – one which would allow vSphere to run on the Amazon cloud! What this means for customers is that they will get the familiarity of vSphere and all it has to offer, but on a cloud-like scale, running on bare-metal within Amazon’s datacenters. What’s in it for VMware – well, they get that global cloud they have been looking for, without having to actually build the datacenters behind it! And Amazon – well, who knows where they will take it but I can’t see them complaining too much about being able to pitch certain services and products to those who chose to run VMware on AWS! Anyways, Frank Denneman has a great article here taking a deeper look into everything – as well, a little bit of a preview on how the new service enables one pretty cool new feature – Elastic DRS.
Alastair teaches us to read!
Although this post is a couple months old I’m just getting around to sharing it now! I wanted to be sure as I’m always interested in how everyone in this community stays current with so much going on all the time! The amount of content getting created for and by the tech community is huge, and keeping track of it all is certainly becoming a skill! I read a lot, a lot of blogs so any way of figuring out ways to streamline my content consumption always sparks my interest! Alastair has already taken us through is process of creating content, but with this post he takes us through his process of consuming content! This is a great post with excellent tips on how to stay current!
More than simply writing a file
There’s a guest blog post on Michael White’s blog written by Michael Cade outlining the various backup methods used within Veeam Backup & Replication and how each one of them affects the capacity and performance on your backup repositories. If you are using VBR and you haven’t had an in-depth look at these backup methods I would suggest starting with this post – it does a great job at outlining just how each backup method works, what is actually contained within each VBR backup file type. It’s not just simply copying data here 🙂
#VDM30in30 30 posts, 30 days!
Think you have what it takes to pump out 30 posts in 30 days – I can say that I certainly thought I did at one point in time, but quickly realized after just a few days that I most certainly did not! But hey, kudos for trying right – and even though I have a lot going on this November I will most likely try again! Don’t have a clue what I’m talking about – well, the folks from the Virtual Design Master competition are once again challenging the blogging community to crank out 30 posts in 30 days throughout the month of November! Have a look at Eric Wright’s blog for a great description of what this is like! Now I know some people may think that the quality of posts may not be there, or that the content won’t be relevant, but honestly, my blogging isn’t about perfecting every single thing I do (I’m sure that’s apparent). It’s about sharing things I do, problems I run into, opinions I have – sometimes it may be relevant, sometimes it won’t – sometimes you may agree, sometimes you won’t – sometimes you may just not even understand why a post ends up on this blog! To me writing is about passion, and whether that passion be virtualization, technology, canadian folk music, maple syrup, hunting, whatever, it doesn’t matter! The point here is that when I write, I think – and when I think I learn – and nobody can argue that learning is invaluable! So heads up, you might see some odd posts here come this November!
