This session was on the topic of what are the 2nd and 3rd order effects on backup and storage architectures that VMware is driving.
I was frankly a little shocked at how many people came to the session (401) – hope you all found it interesting!
It discussed both the near term (state of the art VADP, CBT and other backup topics – and also state of the art on VAAI, VASA, and other storage topics), but more interestingly the long term – discussing questions like:
- What will be the effect of cloud and multitenancy on backup – and what’s needed for “Backup-as-a-service”
- What is the state of the art around VMware-integration in storage, and VM-awareness? What’s next? (think beyond the current “integrate UIs” and “vCenter plugins” a-la Tintri or what EMC VNX/VMAX do today) – this is all about the topic in VSP3205 (which I’ll be doing a blog post on after VMworld Copenhagen)
- What is the effect on “traditional storage clusters” (think VNX, NetApp FAS, HP EVA, Nexenta, etc) vs. “scale out models” (think VMAX, 3PAR for block and things like Isilon for NAS).
- What are the latency challenges inherent in “loosely coupled” distributed storage systems (both file and object) – and what are we doing about it?
- What are the challenges with NAS scale-out models with VMware (ergo the NFSv3 limitations) – how will this change over time
- What’s next re host-side Flash – and how will that change things?
- What’s next re: storage/server hybrid models?
Thanks all who attended and gave feedback. While CLEARLY an EMC session, as always I try to be as balanced as I can be – though on this one, since I’m so close to the VMware/EMC efforts, I think it’s probably a little more biased than others.
Read on for a copy of the deck, and the recording of the session!
Click on the link below to download the deck (warning it’s a big one – 80MB)
Here’s the session recording…
And here is the feedback:
| *1.. How would you rate this session? | |||||||||
| Poor | 2.38 % (1) | ||||||||
| Fair | 0% (0) | ||||||||
| Neutral | 11.9 % (5) | ||||||||
| Good | 26.19 % (11) | ||||||||
| Excellent | 59.52 % (25) | ||||||||
| Average: | 4.4 | ||||||||
| Total Responses: | 42 | ||||||||
| *2.. When compared to the session abstract, this session | |||||||||
| Needed more technical content | 9.52 % (4) | ||||||||
| Had the right amount of technical content | 88.1 % (37) | ||||||||
| Had too much technical content | 2.38 % (1) | ||||||||
| Average: | 1.93 | ||||||||
| Total Responses: | 42 | ||||||||
| *3.. How would you rate the speaker(s) overall effectiveness? | |||||||||
| Poor speaker(s) | 0% (0) | ||||||||
| Below average speaker(s) | 2.38 % (1) | ||||||||
| Average speaker(s) | 7.14 % (3) | ||||||||
| Good speaker(s) | 19.05 % (8) | ||||||||
| Great speaker(s) | 71.43 % (30) | ||||||||
| Average: | 4.6 | ||||||||
| Total Responses: | 42 | ||||||||
| *4.. How likely are you to implement what you learned in this session? | |||||||||
| Extremely Unlikely | 2.38 % (1) | ||||||||
| Unlikely | 4.76 % (2) | ||||||||
| Neither Likely nor Unlikely | 16.67 % (7) | ||||||||
| Likely | 35.71 % (15) | ||||||||
| Extremely Likely | 40.48 % (17) | ||||||||
| Average: | 4.07 | ||||||||
| Total Responses: | 42 | ||||||||
| *5.. How likely are you to recommend this session to a friend or colleague ? | |||||||||
| 0 – Not at all likely to recommend | 2.38 % (1) | ||||||||
| 1 | 2.38 % (1) | ||||||||
| 2 | 0% (0) | ||||||||
| 3 | 0% (0) | ||||||||
| 4 | 2.38 % (1) | ||||||||
| 5 | 2.38 % (1) | ||||||||
| 6 | 4.76 % (2) | ||||||||
| 7 | 11.9 % (5) | ||||||||
| 8 | 23.81 % (10) | ||||||||
| 9 | 9.52 % (4) | ||||||||
| 10 - Extremely likely to recommend | 40.48 % (17) | ||||||||
| Average: | 8.37 | ||||||||
| Total Responses: | 42 | ||||||||
- Awesome. At last, long waited integration of EMC products: SAN and VMware. Move over 3PARs of the world!
- can the presentation be downloaded?
- Can we have Chad come and speak with our mgmt team?
- Chad!
- Fantastic session!
- Great job Chad.
- Great speaker!!
- Need to run additional session
- To much emc employes taking seats fr.o.m. Customers.
- Too EMC specific
- Typical Chad...a bit salesy toward Avamar, but overall great preso
Hi Chad,
The powerpoint presentation was removed from the FTP server. Do you have it somewhere still?
Posted by: Michel | October 11, 2011 at 05:24 AM
Hey Chad,
Thanks for this blog post. I tried to download the preso, but the link was dead. Can you please take a look at it?
Thanks,
Trevor
Posted by: VMTrooper | October 13, 2011 at 10:32 AM