Last week I spent the day at the New England VMUG in Maine, and I was asked to be one of the keynote presenters. However, I was also asked to come up with a brand new shiny out of the box presentation that was not the usual vCloud Director stuff. …
Read More »Cloud Infrastructure Suite Feedback Needed
Friends, Romans, Countrymen….Lend me your Ear! Wait, that was something completely different, BUT the premise is the same. As part of my role at VMware I will be attending an internal summit in Palo Alto later this month. Being a “Cloud Guy” I have been asked to gather some candid, …
Read More »My Official VMworld 2012 Sessions
Well as many of us saw the E-Mails went out last night for the VMworld Sessions that were accepted. Looks like I will have two total and one I am moderating….for now. You never know what else I will get pulled into like the VMworld Expert 1:1 and the VMworld …
Read More »[INFO] vCloud Director Fast Provisioned Catalog Virtual Machines
A while back I was messing around with Fast Provisioning in vCloud Director and I noticed something I wanted to dig a little deeper into. My Co-Worker Cormac Hogan (@VMwarestorage) also wrote a little about this as well which does a great job showing the linked clone aspect. Also William …
Read More »Building Your Cloud With vCloud Director
Below is a recording of the session I did in January 2012 at Gillette Stadium with Paul Lembo called “Building your cloud with vCloud Director”. I finally got a copy of the session and wanted to share it for those that did not make that event. It was well received and thanks …
Read More »How To Handle Some vCloud Director Challenges
The other day I was sent a link to a 9-slide deck titled “Life before and after vCloud Director”, put together by someone I do not know that takes time to point out some specific challenges with vCloud Director, mostly with networking and vShield Edge. From what I have learned this …
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