Archive for the ‘Video’ Category

In this short video that I’ve done for TechTarget and NetApp – I show how you configure SnapMirror for SRM. I start from the very basics of creating a volume, setting the NFS permissions, mounting the volume to the ESX hosts – and then I head to show how to configure NetApp SnapMirror – not content with that I show you install the NetApp SRA and configure the “Array Manager” ready to run a recovery plan with VMware Site Recovery Manager – you can watch the whole thing here.

Tip: I recommend you watch in full screen!

http://searchvmware.bitpipe.com/detail/RES/1271184800_706.html

Well, I’ve had some more time in the mountains since getting back from the User Summit in Charlotte, North Carolina. Actually, one of these videos was taken the day I arrived but didn’t get time to pull the video of my camcorder and re-encoded it until yesterday. So there’s one video where I show you where I am staying, and the other two videos are of me taking a break from the booky wook and playing my guitar.

Yesterday I took a walk in the dem der hills. Got a little lost in the forest… Walked about 6 miles in the mid-day sun in away that only mad dogs and Englishmen do! After doing this blog post I’m going to carry on to Gatlinberg which is in the Smokey Mountains, but technically not even in the same state as where I’m staying. I’m in Bryson City, NC but Gatlinberg is in TN. Main reason to drive there is to see some scenary and get some good driving in – but also because Gatlinberg is mentioned in the Johnny Cash song “A boy named Sue”. I want it to have as a claim to fame that I’ve actually been there. 

Anyway, the videos:

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Well, this week I’m North Carolina. I arrived on Monday, and picked up Hertz rental and drove from Charlotte to Bryson City, and from there checked into my cabin in the mountains. On Tuesday I did some work on my book, and took the car back into Bryson City – where I checked my email at local cafe, and then dropped into Grandpas Mountain Music where I got myself a new guitar. Single-cone resonator guitar which look pretty good against my tricone back in the UK. Anyway, I did two videos to show explain why I’m here, but mainly to show of my new guitar!

Sorry, that the second video isn’t loud as the first. Don’t know why that happened!

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This is a short 25 min video I did recently for the Virtualization User Group – Ireland (VUGIE). I couldn’t attend the event because I was in Olso teaching for Global Knowledge. The video is quick round up of Virtualization News surrounding Microsoft, VMware and Citrix. Videos are something I want to do more off on the site. I’m still wrapped up in the finishing of the vSphere4 book I just don’t have time for them right now. But I want vNews to become a regular addition to RTFM Education, perhaps on a bi-weekly or monthly basis. Additionally, I want to do a whole series of How to do… style videos that show how easy it is to setup and configure vSphere4. 

Sorry, to the iPOD users hear. I know the powerpoint bullets are way too small for an IPOD screen. I will know better next time. I case of trying to keep things short and sweet, whilst overloading the powerpoint slide! Anyway, I’ve uploaded a MP4 file for your IPOD, and the original PPT file if you want the links.

vNews – May 2009 – PPT
vNews – May 2009 – IPOD

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For years, I’ve been meaning to get some business cards sorted for these VMworld Events, I always feel a bit of muppet when someone hands me there’s and scribble my name down on a napkin! Anyone our friends at vInternals have beaten me to the coolest business cards… just check out these images!

http://twitpic.com/1o9xy

Now, that’s a man after my own heart! Keep it Up!

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Well, I’m down at the bookshop with my book. Got an hour or so to go. The book has been discounted now at €25. So come on down and grab a signed copy whilst stocks last!

This session was about VC Heartbeat Service. It’s not free (its actually quite expensive!) and I believe its a licensed version of NeverFail for VirtualCenter. It looks like you cannot VMware FT vCenter (don’t quote me on that – this still bleeding edge stuff which hardly anyone has tried!) which would be the natural thing to do. So basically, VMware create single-point of failure for MANAGEMENT (I know VC is not single point of failure for VMs)… upon which ALL the high-level management layers (SRM, LCM, LM, View, etc) depend – so not only I have to pay for vCenter, I pay again if it fails… Yikes!

I’ve got customers who have had VC up for 18 months without a problem (they clearly do no upgrades then, Mike?) so you gotta wonder whether its worth the spend…

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In this session we were bored rigid for a bit about what ESX currently does – things picked up a gear when the guys talked about future developments… Yes, the Service Console will have a virtual disk… that’s if you still using ESX Classic, as opposed to ESXi

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My book is in the book store on SRM – Tommorow I will be doing a signing of the book from 12noon to about 2pm…

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