Eric Sloof - NTPRO.NL

This course enables storage administrators to better plan and manage their storage systems to support a VMware vSphere™ environment. The course uses lecture, hands-on labs, and case studies to demonstrate vSphere interaction and operation with storage rather than to teach vSphere administration skills.

Objectives   

•  Explain basic concepts related to virtual computing, including vSphere server and storage virtualization
•  Be cooperative partners with vSphere administrators to design, configure, manage, and troubleshoot storage in a vSphere environment
•  Identify and employ tools and utilities that can be used to inspect and modify storage configuration, from a virtual machine disk to a specific datastore 
 
Course Datasheet

VMware Attracts More Than 17,000 Registered Attendees to VMworld 2010 and Unveils Strategy for Next Era of Information Technology. New and Emerging Products Announced to Provide Customers a Clear Path to the New World of IT as a Service, the VMworld Europe 2010 Scheduled for October 12-14 in Copenhagen.

VMware announced the conclusion of its seventh annual VMworld 2010 conference, which was held from Aug. 30 through Sept. 2 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. VMworld 2010 attracted a record number of more than 17,000 customers, partners, press and analysts, and 233 sponsors and exhibitors signifying a major shift in the IT industry towards cloud computing.

VMworld 2010 featured more than 170 unique breakout sessions across 10 tracks from companies and customers driving innovation in the virtualization and cloud industry. VMware President and CEO Paul Maritz and Steve Herrod, VMware CTO and Senior Vice President of R&D, outlined the company's vision for IT as a Service and demonstrating new virtualization and cloud computing technologies in Tuesday's keynote.

VMware is doing a great job with recording interviews during the VMworld 2010 and broadcasting them through their YouTube VMworldTV Channel. In a recent interview VMware’s Senior Director, Mobile Solutions; Srinivas Krishnamurti showed a real cool app on the iPad which is able to manage virtual machines and ESX servers. Take a good look at the ESX version number, it’s showing the future ESX 5.0

 

Yes, we at VMworldTV try to hunt down all the good stuff that is going on here at VMworld. Including this exclusive cool new iPad App to manage your entire vSphere environment. So 'soon' you can use your iPad besides your win32 vSphere client to manage your servers, including possible features like vmotion and SRM interaction. How cool is that!!

One of my virtualization friends is attending the VMworld 2010 in San Francisco and has sent me some pictures of an early beta storage troubleshooting tool. VMware Storage Tester is an virtual appliance solution for performance and diagnostics. VMware Storage Tester automates the traditional storage performance analysis cycle to reduce the diagnosis time from days to hours. It provides an automated framework for configuring and launching storage diagnostic test in large-scale virtual deployments. In future releases it will feature a rule-based diagnostic engine running a decision tree algorithm to provide diagnostic information based on a knowledge base and the stored performance database.

If you’re attending the VMworld make sure you save some time to walk through the performance lab and stay till the end :-) This lab covers performance monitoring, troubleshooting, and optimization in VMware vSphere.  Key concepts of performance will be presented via hands-on activities that will demonstrate the concepts.  The lab will explore Storage bottlenecks, CPU contention, and Memory over commitment issues. Participants will learn how to identify these common performance issues using VMware vCenter charts and performance metrics. Participants will also learn basic tuning recommendations for how to address these issues and optimize their virtual environment.

Lab 24: VMware vSphere Performance & Tuning