I first met Jay Rogers at the Charlotte User Summit (North Carolina) a couple of years ago, and we’ve buddies ever since. He regularly drops me emails which are about real-world VMware Customer experiences. I find these invaluable as I increasingly find myself living in the ratified world of blogging and writing – and have no idea what the real world looks like anymore!

He works for a large health care provider in the USA, where he is there VMware Virtualization Architect, with 10 years experience using VMware ESX in production. He’s have been blogging about virtualization and in particular VMware solutions since 2006. He’s also a VMware Certified Professional(VCP) on VI 2, VI 3, and the new vSphere 4 platforms. Jay’s been with health care sector for 20 years now. He was invited by VMware to be a featured speaker at the first annual NC/SC VMware Summit Event in 2008. He’s also been a speaker at several VMUG events in Charlotte and Greensboro, NC. And also participated in a online Webex Virtualization related event with Acronis in 2008, which exceeded the max capacity of single webex event!

If you want to visit Jay’s blog he’s over here – http://virtual-jay.blogspot.com/

If you want the MP3 version of the chinwag it’s here – but to be honest it’s much easier to subscribe to the podcast RSS feed which means the podcast will be download when ever I do them.

In this episode we discuss Jay’s experiences with IBM Blades and why he’s looking at virtualization IO vendor XSIGO. Additionally, we discuss Jay’s plans for upgrading to vSphere4; the use of thin virtual disks and he’s plans to use VMware Site Recovery Manager. We got so carried away – we wound up chatting for 50 mins. Opps! What I need is a mighty big timer on my desk so I can keep track of time. But Jay had so many great things to share I couldn’t resist asking for more. Those extra minutes at better quality than my previous chinwag certainly leads to a bigger files and longer time to buffer up the thing. So please be patient – I’m not made of bandwidth! This video/podcast thang is new to me, and I did some upfront research beforehand, but like anything you learn more by doing it for real. So I see a blogpost all about how I do this – and the best methods and pitfalls and so on. Anyway, without further delay here’s Jay. Thanks Jay!

There was a couple links discussed on the video/podcast – and Jay’s sent them through for your delectation:

IBM Firmware Whitepaper: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg2MIGR-5079769

Thin Virtual Disk Performance: http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsp_4_thinprov_perf.pdf

CISCO UCS implementation: Moses Cone Memorial Hospital (Greensboro, NC): http://healthitguy.wordpress.com/

Manage XSIGO 3 real-world scenarios simulator: http://www.xsigo.com/_flash/demo/xsigo_demo_web_01_intro.swf

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