At first I thought the idea of using handwriting to search google was a bit silly (Palm Pilot anyone) but now tht I have been using it for a full day I really love it. It isn't that it's faster than typing (with on me hand) but I find it way more accurate.
Check out Google Handwrite at:
http://www.google.com/insidesearch/features/search/handwritinginput/index.html
The one caveat is you have to be on googles homepage for this to work, just using the google search bar of chrome or safari won't do this for you (yet hopefully).... ! :)
Friday, August 17, 2012
Can’t make it to VMworld this year? Sign-up for VMware NOW - Eric Sloof
Do you want to hear breaking VMware news as it happens? , a digital experience where you can watch a live stream of the Keynotes and then dive into the new demos and details. Live on August 27. Sign up >
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Please join VMware on August 27 for important announcements about VMware's cloud strategy and solutions. VMware NOW is THE digital experience that helps you explore how to transform your cloud infrastructure, with on-demand access to keynotes, new product overviews, demos and more.
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Thursday, August 16, 2012
The five hottest IT trends of 2012, so far
Takeaway: The IT world continues to sprint forward at an unrelenting pace and these are its five hottest trends so far in 2012, according to TechRepublic's Jason Hiner.
[Credit: iStockphoto/kizilkayaphotos]
Credit: iStockphoto/kizilkayaphotos
As part of what we do at TechRepublic we talk to a lot of CIOs who are planning budgets, IT professionals who are planning projects, and IT vendors who are selling products. That gives us a lot of valuable insights into which way the winds are blowing in IT. With that in mind, it's time to take a look at the IT trends that have the most momentum behind them so far in 2012.
Let's count them down.
5. The projectization of IT
Projects have always been a major part of IT, but in the past there was also a lot of IT resources dedicated to keeping the lights on and keeping the world running. Companies now take those operational aspects of IT for granted and want that existing infrastructure automated as much as possible and for as cheaply as possible. There's little glory or job security in keeping the company's existing systems on life support.
That's why outsourcing and the cloud are such hot commodities. They allow companies to offload IT operational costs and focus their IT staff on the next project to upgrade systems, streamline business processes, and launch new IT projects to transform the business. More than ever, IT is all about the projects. It's about the vendors that can help support IT projects (and there are infrastructure jobs for IT pros there). It's about the business analysts and project managers who can organize people and resources to pull off projects on time and on budget. It's about the CIOs who now base their budget and staffing decisions largely on projects rather than just the cost of keeping the server room running.
4. PC/Mobile convergence
Employees are more mobile than ever. There are a lot of factors driving that, from increased telecommuting to work/life balance where people leave early to pick up their kids and then work the rest of the afternoon from a cafe or the stands at the soccer field. There are also industries such as transportation and health care that have always had lots of non-desk employees and have had to shoe-horn computing solutions into their work environments.
The growing capabilities of smartphones and tablets are filling many of these needs as these mobile devices become more able to do the tasks of a full PC. Still, there are times when workers can be even more productive when working with a full keyboard and mouse. That's why we're beginning to see the rise of products like Motorola Webtop<http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57417863-94/meet-googles-secret-weapon-for-fighting-apple-and-microsoft/> (a smartphone docking solution), Ubuntu for Android<http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57424335-94/androids-new-ally-against-the-iphone-ubuntu/> (desktop OS embedded in a smartphone), and Microsoft Surface<http://www.microsoft.com/surface> (a tablet with a kickstand and keyboard cover). The lines between traditional PCs and mobile devices continue to blur.
3. Desktop thinning
Let's be honest. The proliferation of mobile devices and the Bring Your Own Device trend has created a lot of headaches and nightmare scenarios for the IT department. For companies that need stronger security and more control over the employee environment, one of the easiest answers to the problem is to move to solutions like desktop virtualization or terminal services from vendors like VMware, Citrix, and Microsoft.
That allows the IT department to create a standard environment with all the company apps that employees can access from a company PC, their home PC or laptop (over VPN), or even a tablet or smartphone. The environment looks and feels like a traditional PC but the apps and all the data remain on the company servers which is more secure and easier for the IT department to manage and troubleshoot. This technology has been around for years, as "thin clients." But there are three factors driving it forward in 2012: 1.) BYOD, 2.) mobile devices, and 3.) it lets companies delay PC upgrades since it pushes all of the heavy lifting to the servers. So companies still aren't going to thin clients in large numbers, but their desktop environments are getting a lot thinner.
2. Big Data
If "Cloud Computing" has been the overhyped and overused IT term of the last several years, the new buzz phrase of 2012 is "Big Data." Like Cloud, Big Data gets abused by marketers. The main thing you need to understand when it comes to Big Data is that it's about bringing together the "structured" internal data that your company has always used for its reports and mixing it with public "unstructured" data like social media streams and freely available government data (on traffic, agriculture, crime, etc.).
The act of combining these two types of data can give you new insights into how your customers feel about your products versus your competitors (from the social media streams), it can help you anticipate changes in product demand, it can help you use government trending data to anticipate the growth or decline of markets, and more. That's why Big Data is such a big deal. But, don't be fooled. It's still in its infancy. There aren't a ton of great commercial tools yet that can help you harness Big Data. It takes the right IT pros who know how to work some data magic, and they are in high demand.
1. Cloud, cloud, and cloud
There are essentially three types of clouds — the full Internet cloud (some call it the "public cloud"), the private cloud (which looks a lot like a traditional data center, but with lots of virtualization), and the hybrid cloud (an integrated mix of public and private clouds). Make no mistake, all three types of clouds are thriving in 2012. The public cloud is the one that most people think of when they hear "cloud" and it's mostly about hosted apps like Salesforce.com<http://Salesforce.com> and Workday.com<http://Workday.com> as well as Internet-hosted infrastructure like Rackspace and Amazon AWS. But, we're increasingly seeing traditional IT players like Microsoft, IBM, and HP quietly become big players in the cloud as well.
The private cloud and the hybrid cloud are for larger companies and organizations that need stronger security or have legacy apps that are not easily moved or migrated to the cloud. Both of these types of cloud solutions are picking up steam, especially in companies that have already moved their easy stuff to the cloud and are now digging in and dealing with some of the big, expensive, entrenched stuff.
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Original Page: http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/hiner/the-five-hottest-it-trends-of-2012-so-far/10751
[Credit: iStockphoto/kizilkayaphotos]
Credit: iStockphoto/kizilkayaphotos
As part of what we do at TechRepublic we talk to a lot of CIOs who are planning budgets, IT professionals who are planning projects, and IT vendors who are selling products. That gives us a lot of valuable insights into which way the winds are blowing in IT. With that in mind, it's time to take a look at the IT trends that have the most momentum behind them so far in 2012.
Let's count them down.
5. The projectization of IT
Projects have always been a major part of IT, but in the past there was also a lot of IT resources dedicated to keeping the lights on and keeping the world running. Companies now take those operational aspects of IT for granted and want that existing infrastructure automated as much as possible and for as cheaply as possible. There's little glory or job security in keeping the company's existing systems on life support.
That's why outsourcing and the cloud are such hot commodities. They allow companies to offload IT operational costs and focus their IT staff on the next project to upgrade systems, streamline business processes, and launch new IT projects to transform the business. More than ever, IT is all about the projects. It's about the vendors that can help support IT projects (and there are infrastructure jobs for IT pros there). It's about the business analysts and project managers who can organize people and resources to pull off projects on time and on budget. It's about the CIOs who now base their budget and staffing decisions largely on projects rather than just the cost of keeping the server room running.
4. PC/Mobile convergence
Employees are more mobile than ever. There are a lot of factors driving that, from increased telecommuting to work/life balance where people leave early to pick up their kids and then work the rest of the afternoon from a cafe or the stands at the soccer field. There are also industries such as transportation and health care that have always had lots of non-desk employees and have had to shoe-horn computing solutions into their work environments.
The growing capabilities of smartphones and tablets are filling many of these needs as these mobile devices become more able to do the tasks of a full PC. Still, there are times when workers can be even more productive when working with a full keyboard and mouse. That's why we're beginning to see the rise of products like Motorola Webtop<http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57417863-94/meet-googles-secret-weapon-for-fighting-apple-and-microsoft/> (a smartphone docking solution), Ubuntu for Android<http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57424335-94/androids-new-ally-against-the-iphone-ubuntu/> (desktop OS embedded in a smartphone), and Microsoft Surface<http://www.microsoft.com/surface> (a tablet with a kickstand and keyboard cover). The lines between traditional PCs and mobile devices continue to blur.
3. Desktop thinning
Let's be honest. The proliferation of mobile devices and the Bring Your Own Device trend has created a lot of headaches and nightmare scenarios for the IT department. For companies that need stronger security and more control over the employee environment, one of the easiest answers to the problem is to move to solutions like desktop virtualization or terminal services from vendors like VMware, Citrix, and Microsoft.
That allows the IT department to create a standard environment with all the company apps that employees can access from a company PC, their home PC or laptop (over VPN), or even a tablet or smartphone. The environment looks and feels like a traditional PC but the apps and all the data remain on the company servers which is more secure and easier for the IT department to manage and troubleshoot. This technology has been around for years, as "thin clients." But there are three factors driving it forward in 2012: 1.) BYOD, 2.) mobile devices, and 3.) it lets companies delay PC upgrades since it pushes all of the heavy lifting to the servers. So companies still aren't going to thin clients in large numbers, but their desktop environments are getting a lot thinner.
2. Big Data
If "Cloud Computing" has been the overhyped and overused IT term of the last several years, the new buzz phrase of 2012 is "Big Data." Like Cloud, Big Data gets abused by marketers. The main thing you need to understand when it comes to Big Data is that it's about bringing together the "structured" internal data that your company has always used for its reports and mixing it with public "unstructured" data like social media streams and freely available government data (on traffic, agriculture, crime, etc.).
The act of combining these two types of data can give you new insights into how your customers feel about your products versus your competitors (from the social media streams), it can help you anticipate changes in product demand, it can help you use government trending data to anticipate the growth or decline of markets, and more. That's why Big Data is such a big deal. But, don't be fooled. It's still in its infancy. There aren't a ton of great commercial tools yet that can help you harness Big Data. It takes the right IT pros who know how to work some data magic, and they are in high demand.
1. Cloud, cloud, and cloud
There are essentially three types of clouds — the full Internet cloud (some call it the "public cloud"), the private cloud (which looks a lot like a traditional data center, but with lots of virtualization), and the hybrid cloud (an integrated mix of public and private clouds). Make no mistake, all three types of clouds are thriving in 2012. The public cloud is the one that most people think of when they hear "cloud" and it's mostly about hosted apps like Salesforce.com<http://Salesforce.com> and Workday.com<http://Workday.com> as well as Internet-hosted infrastructure like Rackspace and Amazon AWS. But, we're increasingly seeing traditional IT players like Microsoft, IBM, and HP quietly become big players in the cloud as well.
The private cloud and the hybrid cloud are for larger companies and organizations that need stronger security or have legacy apps that are not easily moved or migrated to the cloud. Both of these types of cloud solutions are picking up steam, especially in companies that have already moved their easy stuff to the cloud and are now digging in and dealing with some of the big, expensive, entrenched stuff.
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Original Page: http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/hiner/the-five-hottest-it-trends-of-2012-so-far/10751
Tuesday, August 14, 2012
Cool Tool - USB Network Gate
USB Network Gate<http://www.net-usb.com/> is a solution which allows sharing any number of USB ports and devices on your computer over LAN/WAN/VLAN/VPN/Internet. Remote virtual machines can connect to your computer (server) and communicate with USB devices, plugged into shared remote ports, as if those devices were connected directly to virtual machines. All applications that work with remote USB devices won't see the difference and will treat them as local ones.As USB Network Gate for Windows/Linux shares USB ports, not devices themselves, you can plug any USB device into shared USB port, then unplug this device and plug in another one, and it will automatically appear at the remote virtual machine without any additional configuration.
Currently, 3 versions of the product are available: for Windows, Linux and Mac. Different combinations of server-client model can be applied, for example, client may have USB Network Gate installed on Linux, and server - on Windows, or vice versa.
[image]With USB Network Gate for Windows/Linux you can:
* Share USB devices on the local PC (server) so that they become available for usage on the remote PC (client)
* Share any number of USB devices
* Freely unplug USB device and plug in another one into shared USB port on the server - the device will automatically appear on the client
* Give custom names to your USB devices (label them) to let clients easily identify them
* Create callback connection (connection with a client initiated from the server side) - OEM License
* Set authorization password and enable traffic encryption
* Change traffic encryption, authorization settings and custom names on the go for already shared devices (Linux version)
* Disable current connection from the server side
* Access remote shared USB devices from virtual machine, remote desktop or blade server
* Access remote shared USB devices via Wi-Fi
* Two types of connection with remote devices are available: "Connect" and "Connect once", the latter allowing client to establish one-time connection without attempts to restore it if broken
* See who currently occupies shared USB device from other clients' side
Features list:
* USB devices can be shared on the server and subsequently accessed remotely by clients over LAN/WAN/VLAN/VPN/Internet
* Any number of clients can connect to remote shared USB devices
* Server and Client are handy combined into a single application
* No need to change existing network configuration to share and access USB devices
* No system reboot is required after USB ports sharing/unsharing
* Possibility to specify TCP port which will be used in connection
* All actions performed by the program are monitored and logged into Activity log
* Special icons assigned to USB devices let you know their statuses (shared, authorization is used)
* USB v1.1 and v2.0 compatible. USB v3.0 support
* OHCI, UHCI and EHCI standards for USB are supported
* Fully compatible with Hyper-Threading Technology and multiprocessor platforms
* Works on virtual machines (VMware, VMware ESX Server, Citrix XenServer and Microsoft Hyper-V support)
* Works in RDP session
http://www.net-usb.com/
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Currently, 3 versions of the product are available: for Windows, Linux and Mac. Different combinations of server-client model can be applied, for example, client may have USB Network Gate installed on Linux, and server - on Windows, or vice versa.
[image]With USB Network Gate for Windows/Linux you can:
* Share USB devices on the local PC (server) so that they become available for usage on the remote PC (client)
* Share any number of USB devices
* Freely unplug USB device and plug in another one into shared USB port on the server - the device will automatically appear on the client
* Give custom names to your USB devices (label them) to let clients easily identify them
* Create callback connection (connection with a client initiated from the server side) - OEM License
* Set authorization password and enable traffic encryption
* Change traffic encryption, authorization settings and custom names on the go for already shared devices (Linux version)
* Disable current connection from the server side
* Access remote shared USB devices from virtual machine, remote desktop or blade server
* Access remote shared USB devices via Wi-Fi
* Two types of connection with remote devices are available: "Connect" and "Connect once", the latter allowing client to establish one-time connection without attempts to restore it if broken
* See who currently occupies shared USB device from other clients' side
Features list:
* USB devices can be shared on the server and subsequently accessed remotely by clients over LAN/WAN/VLAN/VPN/Internet
* Any number of clients can connect to remote shared USB devices
* Server and Client are handy combined into a single application
* No need to change existing network configuration to share and access USB devices
* No system reboot is required after USB ports sharing/unsharing
* Possibility to specify TCP port which will be used in connection
* All actions performed by the program are monitored and logged into Activity log
* Special icons assigned to USB devices let you know their statuses (shared, authorization is used)
* USB v1.1 and v2.0 compatible. USB v3.0 support
* OHCI, UHCI and EHCI standards for USB are supported
* Fully compatible with Hyper-Threading Technology and multiprocessor platforms
* Works on virtual machines (VMware, VMware ESX Server, Citrix XenServer and Microsoft Hyper-V support)
* Works in RDP session
http://www.net-usb.com/
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Sunday, August 12, 2012
VMware vSphere Design 101 with VCDX Scott Lowe - Eric Sloof
VMware vSphere Design 101 with VCDX Scott Lowe<http://www.ntpro.nl/blog/archives/2104-VMware-vSphere-Design-101-with-VCDX-Scott-Lowe.html>
In this on-demand webinar Scott provides you with an overview of the VMware vSphere design process and the complex decisions it involves. Scott also helps you get started with mastering design concepts by presenting a list of design resources for virtualization professionals. This free webinar covers:
* What is design and why you need it
* VMware vSphere design basics
* Common design misconceptions
* Is the VCAP-DCD certification right for you
http://www.trainsignal.com/Designing-VMware-Infrastructure.aspx
In this on-demand webinar Scott provides you with an overview of the VMware vSphere design process and the complex decisions it involves. Scott also helps you get started with mastering design concepts by presenting a list of design resources for virtualization professionals. This free webinar covers:
* What is design and why you need it
* VMware vSphere design basics
* Common design misconceptions
* Is the VCAP-DCD certification right for you
http://www.trainsignal.com/Designing-VMware-Infrastructure.aspx
Tuesday, August 7, 2012
Cool Tool - Free vOPS Server Explorer 5.1
vOPS Server Explorer 5.1<http://www.vkernel.com/products/server-explorer/overview> (VKernel's free tool suite) introduces improvements to existing utilities, and a new utility, Environment Explorer, which uses the same analytics and advisory engine from the paid vOPS Server Standard product to provide virtual administrators with a rapid assessment of the state of their environment. Specifically, Environment Explorer allows system administrators to:
* Identify critical VM configuration errors such as memory limits and old snapshots that will severely affect performance and can be especially hard to track down and solve
* Recognize performance bottlenecks from high CPU ready, memory swapping, device latency and other causes
* Detect inefficiency/waste created by VMs with CPU, memory and storage over allocation
* Find available capacity expressed as the number of VMs that can be deployed without causing performance bottlenecks
* Pinpoint oversubscription of CPU, memory and storage resources and whether the over-allocation is impacting performance
Created with flickr badge<http://www.flickrbadge.com>.
vOPS Server Explorer 5.1 is available for download now: http://www.vkernel.com/download/server-explorer
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* Identify critical VM configuration errors such as memory limits and old snapshots that will severely affect performance and can be especially hard to track down and solve
* Recognize performance bottlenecks from high CPU ready, memory swapping, device latency and other causes
* Detect inefficiency/waste created by VMs with CPU, memory and storage over allocation
* Find available capacity expressed as the number of VMs that can be deployed without causing performance bottlenecks
* Pinpoint oversubscription of CPU, memory and storage resources and whether the over-allocation is impacting performance
Created with flickr badge<http://www.flickrbadge.com>.
vOPS Server Explorer 5.1 is available for download now: http://www.vkernel.com/download/server-explorer
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Thursday, August 2, 2012
VMware: VMware vSphere Blog: VMware Employee DR Sessions at VMworld
As we're approaching VMworld I thought I'd write a quick post about the disaster recovery sessions being delivered by the VMware team this year.
Keep in mind, these are just the sessions being delivered by VMware staff, and just the DR sessions. There is a lot more out there under the business continuity umbrella, including great sessions by our customers and partners, and exploring various topics such as data protection and high availability.
First, I'll get my sessions on the board. I love doing the technical talks, so these should be a lot of fun:
INF-BCO1505 - VMware vSphere Replication: Technical Walk-Through with Engineering<https://vmworld2012.activeevents.com/connect/sessionDetail.ww?SESSION_ID=1505>
VMware vSphere Replication is a feature of data replication used by both the vSphere platform to protect virtual machines and VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager to orchestrate the recovery of entire sites. In this session, VMware Engineering will take you through the full details of how vSphere Replication works: the identification and scheduling of data for replication, built-in fail-safes, networking aspects of vSphere Replication and ultimately how it is used by both vSphere and SRM. Follow along as we walk through the life cycle of protecting a virtual machine with vSphere Replication.
INF-BCO2147 - What's New: VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager Technical Overview<https://vmworld2012.activeevents.com/connect/sessionDetail.ww?SESSION_ID=2147>
Learn about features in VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager, including Enterprise enhancements to vSphere Replication. Get details on how SRM can be used to address Disaster Recovery needs in your virtualized data center.
The other DR sessions by VMware folks are listed below, and I'm hopeful I'll get a chance to attend a few of them, myself!
INF-BCO1159 - Architecting and Operating a VMware vSphere Metro Storage Cluster<https://vmworld2012.activeevents.com/connect/sessionDetail.ww?SESSION_ID=1159>
In this session, Lee Dilworth and Duncan Epping will discuss the design and operational considerations for VMware vSphere Metro Storage Cluster environments, also commonly referred to as stretched cluster environments. Best practices for implementation and design will be shared. Various failure scenarios that can occur in a stretched storage environment will also be discussed in depth, including how vSphere 5.x responds to these failures. We will cover the implications for your vSphere High Availability, VMware vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler™ and VMware vSphere Storage DRS configuration and provide recommendations on increasing availability and simplifying operations.
INF-BCO1436 - NEW vSphere Replication Enhancements & Best Practices<https://vmworld2012.activeevents.com/connect/sessionDetail.ww?SESSION_ID=1436>
In this session you will learn about our upcoming vSphere Replication enhancements. These enhancements make it attractive for customers of any size to utilize vSphere Replication for a variety of virtual machine replication use-cases. We will explain how this solution will work, the value proposition to you - the customer. We will also go into details around what your options are in terms of deployment and how the solution can be adapted and upgraded as your needs grow along with best practices learned from real customer deployments.
INF-BCO2155 - vCloud DR for Oxford University Computing Services - Real World Example<https://vmworld2012.activeevents.com/connect/sessionDetail.ww?SESSION_ID=2155>
Resiliency is a key aspect of any infrastructure—it is even more important in infrastructure-as-a-service solutions. This session will include a tour of a real world vCloud DR solution deployed at Oxford University Computing Services (OUCS). Throughout the session there will be detailed guidance on how both the management and resource clusters were designed, deployed and automated. Furthermore the details of how SRM in conjunction with VMware vSphereTM PowerCLI (PowerCLI) was used to automate the end-to-end recovery of a vCloud Director–based infrastructure. This session will offer a perfect complimentary follow on from the whitepaper regarding the high-level process produced by Duncan Epping and Chris Colotti and the Automation session by Alan Renouf and Aidan Dalgleish. The paper combined with the Automation session will describe the process and the automation principles whereas this session will describe a complete real world implementation.
INF-BCO2159 - What's New: Site Recovery Manager – Simple and Reliable Disaster Recovery for All Virtualized Applications<https://vmworld2012.activeevents.com/connect/sessionDetail.ww?SESSION_ID=2159>
vCenter Site Recovery Manager and vSphere Replication ensure the simplest and most reliable disaster protection for all virtualized applications. In this session, we will present an overview of Site Recovery Manager and its key capabilities including Non-Disruptive Testing, Automated Failback and Planned Migration. SRM has become a great tool to manage not just unplanned failovers, but also planned site migrations. Together with vSphere Replication, Site Recovery Manager provides a manageable, affordable and reliable disaster recovery solution enabling organizations to expand disaster protection to all their applications and smaller sites. Finally, we will discuss using SRM to recover in public cloud environments, further reducing the cost of disaster recovery protection for smaller organizations.
INF-BCO2167 - DR to the Cloud with SRM and vSphere Replication - Discussion with VMware and Sungard<https://vmworld2012.activeevents.com/connect/sessionDetail.ww?SESSION_ID=2167>
Many organizations today do not have adequate disaster recovery protection for their applications. In most cases, disaster recovery is perceived as too expensive and complex. DR is a natural fit for the cloud, and VMware's Disaster Recovery to the Cloud Services make disaster recovery broadly accessible for all applications and sites by providing simple, cost-efficient and automated disaster protection using SRM 5 and vSphere Replication. In this session, VMware and Sungard will present new services that are delivered using vCenter Site Recovery Manager and vSphere Replication. We will also discuss the future evolution of these services.
I haven't filtered these by type of session, so make sure if you're looking for a business level discussion or technical that you get the right one for your needs.
Hope to see you there.
Posted byKen WerneburgTech Marketing
Twitter @vmKen
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Original Page: http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2012/08/dr-at-vmworld.html
Keep in mind, these are just the sessions being delivered by VMware staff, and just the DR sessions. There is a lot more out there under the business continuity umbrella, including great sessions by our customers and partners, and exploring various topics such as data protection and high availability.
First, I'll get my sessions on the board. I love doing the technical talks, so these should be a lot of fun:
INF-BCO1505 - VMware vSphere Replication: Technical Walk-Through with Engineering<https://vmworld2012.activeevents.com/connect/sessionDetail.ww?SESSION_ID=1505>
VMware vSphere Replication is a feature of data replication used by both the vSphere platform to protect virtual machines and VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager to orchestrate the recovery of entire sites. In this session, VMware Engineering will take you through the full details of how vSphere Replication works: the identification and scheduling of data for replication, built-in fail-safes, networking aspects of vSphere Replication and ultimately how it is used by both vSphere and SRM. Follow along as we walk through the life cycle of protecting a virtual machine with vSphere Replication.
INF-BCO2147 - What's New: VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager Technical Overview<https://vmworld2012.activeevents.com/connect/sessionDetail.ww?SESSION_ID=2147>
Learn about features in VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager, including Enterprise enhancements to vSphere Replication. Get details on how SRM can be used to address Disaster Recovery needs in your virtualized data center.
The other DR sessions by VMware folks are listed below, and I'm hopeful I'll get a chance to attend a few of them, myself!
INF-BCO1159 - Architecting and Operating a VMware vSphere Metro Storage Cluster<https://vmworld2012.activeevents.com/connect/sessionDetail.ww?SESSION_ID=1159>
In this session, Lee Dilworth and Duncan Epping will discuss the design and operational considerations for VMware vSphere Metro Storage Cluster environments, also commonly referred to as stretched cluster environments. Best practices for implementation and design will be shared. Various failure scenarios that can occur in a stretched storage environment will also be discussed in depth, including how vSphere 5.x responds to these failures. We will cover the implications for your vSphere High Availability, VMware vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler™ and VMware vSphere Storage DRS configuration and provide recommendations on increasing availability and simplifying operations.
INF-BCO1436 - NEW vSphere Replication Enhancements & Best Practices<https://vmworld2012.activeevents.com/connect/sessionDetail.ww?SESSION_ID=1436>
In this session you will learn about our upcoming vSphere Replication enhancements. These enhancements make it attractive for customers of any size to utilize vSphere Replication for a variety of virtual machine replication use-cases. We will explain how this solution will work, the value proposition to you - the customer. We will also go into details around what your options are in terms of deployment and how the solution can be adapted and upgraded as your needs grow along with best practices learned from real customer deployments.
INF-BCO2155 - vCloud DR for Oxford University Computing Services - Real World Example<https://vmworld2012.activeevents.com/connect/sessionDetail.ww?SESSION_ID=2155>
Resiliency is a key aspect of any infrastructure—it is even more important in infrastructure-as-a-service solutions. This session will include a tour of a real world vCloud DR solution deployed at Oxford University Computing Services (OUCS). Throughout the session there will be detailed guidance on how both the management and resource clusters were designed, deployed and automated. Furthermore the details of how SRM in conjunction with VMware vSphereTM PowerCLI (PowerCLI) was used to automate the end-to-end recovery of a vCloud Director–based infrastructure. This session will offer a perfect complimentary follow on from the whitepaper regarding the high-level process produced by Duncan Epping and Chris Colotti and the Automation session by Alan Renouf and Aidan Dalgleish. The paper combined with the Automation session will describe the process and the automation principles whereas this session will describe a complete real world implementation.
INF-BCO2159 - What's New: Site Recovery Manager – Simple and Reliable Disaster Recovery for All Virtualized Applications<https://vmworld2012.activeevents.com/connect/sessionDetail.ww?SESSION_ID=2159>
vCenter Site Recovery Manager and vSphere Replication ensure the simplest and most reliable disaster protection for all virtualized applications. In this session, we will present an overview of Site Recovery Manager and its key capabilities including Non-Disruptive Testing, Automated Failback and Planned Migration. SRM has become a great tool to manage not just unplanned failovers, but also planned site migrations. Together with vSphere Replication, Site Recovery Manager provides a manageable, affordable and reliable disaster recovery solution enabling organizations to expand disaster protection to all their applications and smaller sites. Finally, we will discuss using SRM to recover in public cloud environments, further reducing the cost of disaster recovery protection for smaller organizations.
INF-BCO2167 - DR to the Cloud with SRM and vSphere Replication - Discussion with VMware and Sungard<https://vmworld2012.activeevents.com/connect/sessionDetail.ww?SESSION_ID=2167>
Many organizations today do not have adequate disaster recovery protection for their applications. In most cases, disaster recovery is perceived as too expensive and complex. DR is a natural fit for the cloud, and VMware's Disaster Recovery to the Cloud Services make disaster recovery broadly accessible for all applications and sites by providing simple, cost-efficient and automated disaster protection using SRM 5 and vSphere Replication. In this session, VMware and Sungard will present new services that are delivered using vCenter Site Recovery Manager and vSphere Replication. We will also discuss the future evolution of these services.
I haven't filtered these by type of session, so make sure if you're looking for a business level discussion or technical that you get the right one for your needs.
Hope to see you there.
Posted byKen WerneburgTech Marketing
Twitter @vmKen
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Original Page: http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2012/08/dr-at-vmworld.html
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