A small but nice set of recommendations to optimize SAN performance under ESX.
July 2008 Archives
If you can get past the first few minutes and the rather downbeat portrayal of the techs involved, this lengthy video does an absolutely brilliant job of exploring dozens of the of the absurd situations that almost all sysadmins find themselves in at one point or another.
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When companies deploy virtualization, they're not just making a technical decision but investing heavily in particular implementation, community, and/or company.
For a long time now, VMware has been the undisputed technical leader in the x86 virtualization space. So much so, that despite major qualms about depending on a single small company in a rapidly growing space, CTO's everywhere have essentially writing blank checks annually to get the piece of mind from knowing they're deploying the most production-ready/datacenter-ready virtualization products which VMware has.
The back and forth conversations between CTO's and VMware before signing the checks can be illuminating. Last year, at VMworld 2007 in SF, the CEO of VMware publicly discussed the impact of a EMC's purchase of VMware and subsequent IPO of a portion of the companies shares. Mrs. Greene had to balance the honesty that VMware's founders were no longer in control of the company with the hope that as long as VMware delivered strong financial performance the company would essentially be left alone to deliver products as they saw fit. The undertone of the discussion being that regardless of who owned what, as long Mrs. Greene and others at VMware were kept on board, customers were going to be taken care of hell or high water.
So, it was a little poignant today when I heard that Mrs. Greene was leaving and that a former Microsoft exec would be taking her place.
Good news, not. Pay attention CTO's.
