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VMworld 2015 Recap

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Another summer is past and another VMworld US is behind us.  Thankfully this year we didn’t experience any shaking or broken bricks like during VMworld 2014! Here is a copy of my annual VMworld summary that I share directly with my clients.

Playback of the VMworld 2015 General Sessions from Monday and Tuesday are already available on the VMworld site (Thursday general session is for attendees only).  Recordings of the 2015 Sessions will be hitting the VMworld site within the next week and be available to all registered attendees.  The archive of break out sessions from the past 5 VMworlds is also available to the general public.

What has to be the hottest set of topics from VMworld 2015 is everything and anything DevOps and Cloud-Native Application related.  The CNA Team has a great summary of all their announcements.

General Trivia

  • Registered Attendees: 23,700
  • Attendees to DevOps Sessions: 12,470
    • How are you planning on treating developers as first class citizens in your data center?
  • Breakout Sessions: 450+
  • Ecosystem Companies Represented: 240
  • Hands-on Labs Completed: 9,000+
  • VMworld Social Media Impressions: 276+ Million

VMworld Product Announcements

1VMworld2015Run

2VMworld2015Build

3VMworld2015Deliver

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Recent VMware Releases

And now are we Ready For Vegas?

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vCenter Operations Blog Series

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I recently came across the blog series that David Davis, of VirtualizationSoftware.com, guest wrote for VMware on VCOPS which I though was a great resource for those ramping up or looking to dive deeper into VCOPS.  I couldn’t find a list of all the articles in  the series, so I created one (14 posts at time of writing):

  1. Why Do You Need More Tools?
  2. How to Select a Virtualization Management Tool
  3. Evaluating VMware vCenter Operations Management Suite
  4. Understanding VMware Center Operations Management Suite Editions
  5. vCenter Operations Manager Architecture
  6. Installing vCenter Operations Manager
  7. Adding Your License in vCenter Operations Manager
  8. Understanding vCenter Operations Badges
  9. Right-Sizing Virtual Machines with vC Ops
  10. Configuring Policies and Groups
  11. Understanding and Configuring Alerts
  12. Introduction to Capacity Planning From the World View
  13. Capacity Analysis of Your vSphere Hosts
  14. Capacity Analysis of Virtual Machines

 

Temper Your New Release Excitement & Protect Yourself

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With all the new releases that have spun out of VMware in the past few months it’s great to see all the excitement from my clients wanting to upgrade (and with good reason).  There is an exciting set of new features and capabilities to add value to your environment in these releases.

However, make sure you temper your new release excitement by checking and double checking your planned upgrades to ensure everything in the infrastructure is compatabile with the new releases.  A great place to start is the Release Notes for each product’s new version.  Then check the VMware Product Interoperability Matrixes and the VMware Compatibility Guide.  The Matrixes help you understand which versions of VMware products have been tested and support working with each other (did you know that SRM 5.5 won’t work with ESXi 5.0 U3?). And the Guide helps you understand all the partner ecosystem dependancies for different aspects of the VMware solution set (did you know that SRM 5.5 doesn’t yet have an EMC SRDF SRA available?)

I use the SRM examples above as I’ve had clients in the past who rushed to upgrade SRM without checking these two resources…and broke their deployment.  When dealing with infrastructure components that are the foundation for your entire enterprise make sure you upgrade the systems from the bottom up as well as measure twice and cut once…