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Book review: vCenter Troubleshooting

23 June 2015
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Reading Time: 4 minutes VMware vCenter Server is a critical component in a vSphere environment, because is needed to provide some cluster functionality. A good design and deployment (that are different from version 5.x and 6.0) are important to avoid possible issues. And, of couse, a good availability of this kind of service. Troubleshoot this component is not always simple and there are a lot of VMware KB articles, but not a good single resource from where start in this kind of tasks. The purpose of this book is really clear from the title itself (vCenter troubleshooting) and the […]

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VMware PEX will be replaced by Partner Business Summit

22 June 2015
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Reading Time: 3 minutes VMware Partner Exchange (PEX) was a big event (usually in February) for all VMware partners: like a VMworld, but smallest and for several aspects better (see VMware PEX 2013: Why attend). I’ve attend at PEX 2010 (where I had also my VCDX defense) and PEX 2013 and I consider this event really valuable for VMware’s partners with good technical sessions (better than in VMworld, in my opinion). But seems that this year’s VMware Partner Exchange conference will be the last. Going forward, VMware will morph PEX into VMWorld and add the Partner Business Summit 2016 […]

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E2EVC 2015 Berlin: event report

15 June 2015
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Reading Time: 14 minutes The 2014 spring (EMEA) edition of E2EVC is now over and it’s time to archive it and take some considerations. E2EVC Virtualization Conference is an independent, non-commercial, virtualization community event build from experts to experts. This edition was from Fri 12 to Sun 14th June 2015 in in Novotel Berlin Mitte Hotel, Fischerinsel 12, 10179, Berlin, Germany. This was my third E2EVC event (I’ve attend at the E2EVC XX Rome and E2EVC 2014 Brussels) and I can confirm the reason to attend at this kind of event (see E2EVC 2014 Brussels: Why attend).

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Nutanix .NEXT – The show begins

Reading Time: 2 minutes Nutanix is a well know hyper-converged company founded in 2009 with the vision of bringing the benefits of web-scale IT to the masses. They have changed the rules of traditional storage (on 2009 mostly SAN based) and become the pioneer of concepts like no-SAN and no-LUNs, hyper-converged and web-scale storage. Recently they have also reach five years of history, were they have made significant progress in their products and solution (and also partnership). And now they are handling their first ever user conference (the .NEXT Conference) at the Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami Beach in 8-10, June […]

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Free VMworld 2015 conference pass opportunities

Reading Time: 4 minutes You want to go to VMworld 2015 US or Europe, but you don’t have the budget for the conference pass and/or the travel expenses? Then try your luck with one of the existing contents. Some have already expired, but other are still open. There are some opportunity to win a VMworld 2015 pass and/or travel expenses.

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June 2015 IT events

Reading Time: < 1 minute Interesting European IT events: Gartner IT Infrastructure & Operations Management Summit – London (Jun, 1-2) Datacloud Europe – Monaco (Jun, 3-4) VeeamON Forums – Paris (Jun, 4), Frankfurt (Jun, 9), London (Jun, 11) Dell Enterprise Forum – Copenhagen (Jun, 9-10) Gartner Customer Strategies & Technologies Summit – London (Jun, 10-11) E2EVC – Berlin (Jun, 12-14) HP Enterprise Technology & Solutions Summit – Dublin (Jun, 15-19) Truth in Backup – London (Jun, 16) Interop London: Internet World 2015 – London (Jun, 16-18) Cloud World Forum & Enterprise Apps World – London (Jun, 24-25)

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#DFD1 More about data or storage?

Reading Time: 5 minutes Some days ago I was invited to as a delegate at the first edition of Data Field Day (#DFD1) event, scheduled in May 13–15, 2015 in California (Silicon Valley and San Francisco). Data Field Day event purpose was to cover different topics from others Technical Field Day events: from big data to analytics to hyperscale architecture and cloud security, and all waves of innovations that are transforming the IT. A new format for some growing trends, including micro-services, mobile and the Internet-connected world. But if you have seens some of the presentation video you may have some doubts if […]

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