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Archive for March, 2011

This week I have been attending GeekWeek with Team5, a mix of vSpecialists and vArchitects. We totally rocked it! Tomorrow is the “grande finale”, hopefully we’ll pass. I think we can all agree that it has been a wonderful experience, both fun and educating in one way or another.

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People are talking SO much about VMware View sizing these days. Everyone seems to have their own view on how much IOPS a vDesktop (virtual desktop) really uses. When you’re off by a few IOPS times a thousand desktops things can get pretty ugly. Everyone hammers on optimizing the templates, making sure the vDesktops do not swap themselves to death etc. But everyone seems to forget a very important aspect…

Where to look

People are measuring all the time. Looking, checking, seeing it fail in the field, go back to the drawing board, size things up, try again. This could happen in an environment where storage does not a 1-on-1 relation with disk drives (like when you use SSDs for caching etc). But even in straight RAID5/RAID10 configs I see it happen all the time. Read the rest of this entry »

This year another EMC world is surely going to rock the house once again. It’s party time again from May 9th to 12th in Las Vegas!

When will the fun EVER stop? 2011 is going to be a rocking year for EMC, full of groundbreaking records and very cool products. Ranging from security through backup to disaster recovery – All within EMCs balanced portfolio.

There will be a lot of very interesting things to do at EMC world 2011. Take a look at the session catalog here (requires login): EMC world 2011 Session Catalog. Read the rest of this entry »