New England VMware User's Group By Brian Ducharme published: Tuesday, June 12 2007
VSM speaks with Chris Harney, System Engineer for L.L.Bean and Head of the New England VMware User's Group (VMUG)
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Podcast Summary:
Length: 21:33
- Introduction
- Chris Harney, System engineer for LL Bean and head of VMware’s user group in New england (00:10)
- How has virtualization changed (00:30)
- New England VMware User Group has 250 members (01:15)
- Instructors and vendor go to meeting to teach (01:32)
- V-motion and VMware Converter (02:20)
- SAN sprawl (03:42)
- Storage Virtualization (04:30)
- VM world (05:03)
- Issues with SANs and performance monitoring (05:35)
- Chargeback is tough (06:22)
- Other virtualization technologies like XenSource (07:00)
- VMware’s Virtual Center needs to allow plug-ins (08:00)
- Recommended third party software includes EsxRanger, EsxMigrator and EsXpress (9:40)
- VMware still needs a better backup (10:06)
- There is a lack of funding and manpower for DR (13:12)
- There is a need for IT service providers(15:30)
- Migration to VI3 was a slam dunk, migration is more than worthwhile (17:00)
- What is next? Hot adding of hardware? (18:53)
- Link to VM User Groups (21:00)
- Closing
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Related Links:
VMware User Groups
NE Area VMware User Group Forum
New England VMUG Summer Session / Clambake
July 19th 2007 - Freeport, ME
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