VirtualizationAdmin.com Monthly Newsletter of September 2009 Sponsored by: UniPrintWelcome to the VirtualizationAdmin.com newsletter by David Davis, vExpert, VCP, CCIE. Each month we will bring you interesting and helpful information on the world of Virtualization. We want to know what all *you* are interested in hearing about. Please send your suggestions for future newsletter content to: ddavis@VirtualizationAdmin.com Extend the capability of your advanced Virtual Desktop Infrastructure to printing. Try UniPrint!
1. Here is to an awesome VMworld 2009!Thank you for reading issue #16 of our VirtualizationAdmin.com newsletter! Last month, we talked about what VMworld 2009 might offer. I apologize in advance to those who are only interested in Microsoft virtualization but, having just returned from the most amazing VMworld conference ever, I must take much of this month's newsletter and cover VMworld 2009! Last month my #1 prediction was that VMware would make a "big announcement". John Troyer told me that it is silly to expect there to always be a "big announcement" bottled up for a conference so I should attempt to retract that prediction. Honestly, there wasn't a big surprise announcement, one like Steve Jobs likes to make at those Apple conferences. However, I ended up getting quite a few benefits from it. I had totally forgot that I had made that prediction until I started writing this newsletter. In retrospect, I think that I would rather learn 100 smaller things than 1 large thing at a conference. The 100 smaller things are more useful and can be spread out throughout the whole conference week, making the conference seem so much more beneficial. Still, Paul Martiz and Stephen Herrod both had excellent keynotes and VMware did make many interesting announcements such as the VMware GO and vCloud Express. For more information on those, check out my following blog posts: vCloud Express or VMware GO. I enjoyed the very few sessions and labs that I was able to attend so I will have to go back and listen to or watch them over at VMworld.com over the next couple of months. It was surely interesting to see the reaction of Microsoft and Citrix to VMware, limiting them to a 10x10 booth and preventing them from talking about their virtualization solutions on the show floor. We had Microsoft saying a lot of negative things on Twitter during VMworld and Citrix advertising on taxi cabs. I do not mean to suggest that I blame VMware for doing what they did. After all, it is their show and there is no rule that you have to welcome the competition with "open arms". Still, the tiny Microsoft booth was about the same size of the display that I used to sell Windows 3.1 when it debuted, so it was certainly interesting to see. It will also be "interesting" to see how aggressive Microsoft and Citrix get in the future with VMware. Certainly Foreigner playing at the VMworld party was cool but, even cooler were the pictures posted on Twitter of Stephen Herrod sitting in the front row enjoying the concert. Of all the social networking events I want to offer HUGE THANKS TO:
If you have not already, checkout my blog post of me being interviewed by John Troyer at VMworld! In summary, the absolute best thing about VMworld was the tremendous opportunity to meet hundreds of people, first hand, who care so deeply about virtualization and who want to educate the world about it. I just cannot wait for the next VMworld in 2010! For more about VMworld, read my upcoming article "The 12 things that I learned at VMworld 2009". Note to my readers: Besides reading our newsletter, I encourage you to stay up to date on the latest in Virtualization news by subscribing to the VirtualizationAdmin.com RSS Feed so make sure you have the VirtualizationAdmin.com RSS feeds configured in your RSS reader. As always, if you have Virtualization questions, ideas for articles, or issues to cover in the newsletter, please feel free to write to me at ddavis@VirtualizationAdmin.com Thank you, 2. Train Signal VMware vSphere Video Training
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5. Virtualization Admin Tip of the MonthThe tip is... checkout the new Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 that was released on September 14, 2009. What are the new virtualization features on offer?
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7. Ask David Davis, VCP, vExpertQuestion What is IO Virtualization? Answer Everyone has heard of server virtualization and likely you have heard of network and storage virtualization as well. What about IO Virtualization? It simple terms, IO virtualization is virtualization of input and output to and from the server. In other words, let's say that you have 4 Ethernet and dual Fibre Channel (FC) connectors to one server. When you want to add a new Ethernet, you have to run a new physical cable. On the other hand, with IO Virtualization, you have a single super high speed cable (or two for redundancy) that replaces all network and Fibre Channel (FC) cables. That single cable runs at 150Gbs and allows you to have 75% fewer cables resulting in 50% less capital cost on your IO infrastructure. So, to add that new Ethernet adaptor, all you add is a virtual IO Ethernet adaptor and you are done. When I think of IO Virtualization I think Xsigo Systems. They are what VMworld used at VMworld 2009 to consolidate 52 vSphere demonstrations from 14 half-height racks to one 60" high rack. Plus Xxigo has a s very cool vSphere plugin ! Even if you are starting with a small SMB datacenter, I recommend that you take a look at how IO virtualization can help you increase performance and save money. Got a question for David Davis? Send it to ddavis@VirtualizationAdmin.com Extend the capability of your advanced Virtual Desktop Infrastructure to printing. Try UniPrint!
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