What do you want to hear about?

Every few months, in the VMware/EMC webcast series (every Thursday, 11am-noon ET) I pop on for a “Chad’s Choice” – these are fun for me, as it can be any topic that’s front and center on partner’s/customer’s minds.  There’s so much going on the challenge is what to pick, rather than what to say.

We’ve got one coming up on Sept 30th (you can register here).

Topic that I hear about people wanting to know more about

• VMware/EMC plans around embedded encryption
• That “geo tagging thing” we showed at VMworld (physical locations of VMs globally) – what’s the scoop and could I do it now?
• DRS for storage – if SIOC/FAST are the early implementations, what’s the longer term plan?
• Changes in core best practices based on latest VMware/EMC stuff (aka, how do VAAI and the FLARE 30/DART 6.0 features change traditional best practices)
• UIM – plans, what’s next, how are we integrating with with vCloud Director today and tomorrow.
• The enigmatic slide used in SP9820 (below for reference) what EXACTLY are we talking about (interesting one to me)

I want to hear from YOU!  Please comment on what you would like to see discussed!

Comments

[David Pasek]

I'm really interested in VMware/EMC plans around embedded encryption and UIM plans. Would be nice to have more info. Thanks, David.

[Steven Nekava]

I'd like to hear more about these two topics:
# DRS for storage – if SIOC/FAST are the early implementations, what’s the longer term plan?
# Changes in core best practices based on latest VMware/EMC stuff (aka, how do VAAI and the FLARE 30/DART 6.0 features change traditional best practices)

[oly]

In the era of Cloud Computing security is a hot topic, so the "VMware/EMC plans around embedded encryption" is really a big challenge. Is there any plan to use VAAI for encryption ? Is there any plan to enable to change the encryption algorithm included in the storage array (as the encryption algorithm is country dependent)?

[Mike Sims]

I would be interested in hearing more about EMC plugins for vSphere Clients. I know it is simple, but you have expressed surprise that more customers are not using them, even though they're free.

Many of us are reliant on storage admins to help with getting this working. It might be easier to convince them if we had some neat info about how easy it is to do!

Thanks,
Mike

[daniel]

What I'd like to hear more about:
- Storage Virtualization
- Host Based Replication for SRM
- next steps Mirror View SRM/SRA for CLARiiON
- vCloud Director Integration
- FAST II Integration

Thanks in advance!

Cheers

daniel