The Virtually Speaking Podcast is a weekly technical podcast dedicated to discussing VMware topics related to storage and availability. Each week Pete Flecha and John Nicholson bring in various subject matter experts from VMware and within the industry to discuss their respective areas of expertise.
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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 7 days 16 hours 9 minutes
Its Career Day
Trying to explain what I do for a living is always fun. If I say I work in IT the response usually is “Oh can you fix my computer”? If the person is more tech savvy and knows what VMware is, I usually get the response “Oh so you’re a programmer” News Flash: of the 20,000+ employees at VMware we are not all “programmers” Its actually quite surprising how many different roles there are behind each software product regardless of the company...
Virtual Volumes is Pure Genius
Virtual Volumes (VVols) was designed to solve a lot of the pain points VMware and/or storage admins face today. VMware partners with various storage partners to provide the management component of VVols, the VASA Provider. Recently Pure Storage introduced VVols support for their FlashArray All-Flash-Array with its Purity 5.0.0 operating environment...
vSAN from a Storage Admin's Perspective
As more and more companies look for ways to make their IT infrastructure more agile and efficient, hyper converged infrastructure (HCI) has become a top consideration. Initially it seemed infrastructure vendors were dismissive of this shift toward hyper convergence but now as top industry analysts like Gartner are increasingly recognizing HCI more and more vendors are moving into the space...
The (r)evolution of vSAN
vSAN is VMware’s software-defined storage solution, built from the ground up for vSphere virtual machines. It abstracts and aggregates locally attached disks in a vSphere cluster to create a storage solution that can be provisioned and managed from vCenter and the vSphere Web Client.
This week on the Virtually Speaking podcast we are pleased to welcome VMware CTO of the Storage and Availability Business Unit, Christos Karamanolis...
Episode 66: vSAN Support Insight
Next-generation analytics of health, config, and performance telemetry
Episode 64: VMUG Confessionals
CEO Brad Tompkins explains VMUG. Pete, John and Duncan add commentary
Episode 63: Site Recovery for VMware Cloud on AWS
VMware Site Recovery Delivers DRaaS for VMware Cloud on AWS