A bit of a peek into the VMware Tech Summit EMC Hands-on-Lab

Here’s a quick peek into the EMC hands-on-lab at the VMware Tech Summit, where VMware SEs, PSO folks and others can play with EMC tech in the VMware context.

Some interesting things:

1. it is powered by commodity servers, and the whole thing runs on EMC Iomega and EMC AX storage.   Aka “how low can you go”
2. In shipping, everything was dropped, mangled and mashed – but we recovered (lost only one server) – hardy kit, and more importantly highlights vSpecialists adapting on the fly :-)
3. The whole lab runs on VMs – using the Celerra VSA “UBER edition – smaller, faster, geekier” – developed by Nick Weaver, EMC vSpecialist.   You can get it up and running in 2 minutes start to finish, does iSCSI and NFS, vCenter plugins galore, and of course SRM support  http://nickapedia.com/2010/05/01/celerra-vsa-uber-smaller-faster-easier-geekier/
4. To support the many labs, including ad-hoc drop-ins the whole lab is a “cloud” model – everything is deployed from a baseline package and  - basically a “baby” of what’s shown in the VMware HoL, just not VMware-centric, but rather VMware+EMC centric.
5. Yes, the vSpecialist team get those cool shirts :-)  I’m sporting one right now :-)
6. Yes, it is fun, we have tunes and beers in the back (along with Redbulls to power the vSpecialist team).
7. Yes, that is something unreleased on the last frame of the video :-)

If you’re at the Hilton at the VMware Tech Summit – you can come on by – it’s in Tower 3, 6th floor, Sutter room.

Here’s me presenting at VMware Tech Summit during the EMC Keynote – also proudly sporting the vSpecialist VMware/Cisco/EMC duds :-)   Hope my VMware brothers and sisters enjoyed the session.  EMC TCs, see you next week at EMC World, which is going to ROCK the world.

Comments

[Adrian]

I like the shirts, you can now join a bowling league. :-) Seriously nice work and exciting stuff!

-Your evil doppleganger

[Vuong Pham]

Dude.. your shirt rocks! Though I want one!!! ;-)

Thanks for the fantastic DEMO. Maybe next time I will get to meet you in person!

[Dave Schroeder]

Great session Chad, you rocked the house. Great stuff EMC is putting out there.

[Toby Phillippe]

It really was an excellent keynote and we're excited about what's around the bend. Right on!