Atlanta VMUG – EMC Keynote (VMware/Storage Best Practices)

Thanks everyone for attending the Atlanta VMUG – was great to see so many customers, friends, and colleagues.  THANK YOU.

A suggestion to all vendors: the EMC HoL was a HIT.   Customers loved to be able to actually TRY all the stuff we all talk about.  It’s obviously much harder to pull off than a little table with marketing whitepapers, but man, it’s a lot of value for the customers.  Here’s a shot before it even got rolling.

For the EMC keynote - the topic was "Next generation VMware/Storage best practices".  The intent was not to be an EMC commercial (I don’t think that’s the purpose of VMUGs) but rather focus on cross-vendor considerations, best practices, and how to detect and react to issues and considerations.

I got loads of requests for the presentation – so, here it is!

Like always, I’m posting in PPT format, so people can use how they see fit (click on the slide to download).  

Yup, that means that competitors and everyone can use/repurpose for positive and nefarious reasons.  Hey, I don’t worry about “the other guy” – I’m more focused on us doing the right thing for EMC customers, partners, VMware, EMC ourselves, and everyone I can think of.

Here’s a shaky-cam recording of the session (thanks Scott!)

Atlanta-VMUG-EMC Keynote from Chad Sakac on Vimeo.

Comments

[Rolltidega]

Oh yeah! I made it into the lab picture and on Chad's blog!! Woohoo!!

[Harold]

Great presentation! There was alot of good information.

[Brendan]

Thanks for another blog full of great information. I am interested in your comment on slide 38 of the Powerpoint presentation regarding making the datastores big. From what I understand, you are suggesting the underlying LUNS should be presented at the maximum size (i.e ~1.9TB) to VMWare, however in the Using EMC Clariion Storage with VMWare vSphere document (pages 156 - 159), the suggestion is to use smaller LUNS spanned to create a large VMFS and even using metaLUNS at the array level to improve performance by increasing the spindle count. Just wondering what your thoughts are behind using the larger LUNs?

[Mark Vaughn]

Chad, this is why you rock. No marketing, no mess, just providing great insight on amazing products and letting the chips fall where they may.

We need one of these in Dallas, gotta work on that with out local VMUG. If they won't do it, maybe INX will sponsor.

[The_sboss]

I made the photo also. It proves that I was at the VMug and not off somewhere slacking off. :) And of course Chad's presentation was over the top.