I am very pleased to announce that Coraid have joined our illustrious sponsor list. Friends of the podcast will recall that I have spoken to ChipBrodhum from Coraid a couple of times and find their etherdrive storage technology very interesting.
Coraid are making sure that the vStandby crowd are at least able to get a drink, these tickets are rapidly going, there may be a party outside the party!
Head over to the event page to register http://vmdownunderground.eventbrite.com/
As I write this there are only five places left for the VMDownUnderground party on Tuesday night next week.
To make sure nobody misses out I’ve put up additional tickets for vStandby, I hope to be able to get these people up to the main party if any of the vAttendees can’t make it. I’m now working on getting a sponsored bar tab in the main bar of the Pumphouse for the vStandy people so they can relax and chat.
Register for the last few vAttendee or the new vStandby tickets at http://vmdownunderground.eventbrite.com/
Join us for a look at what to expect from vForum 2011 Sydney as well as forward to the Australian VMUG User Summits in December. The usual crew will be joined by VMUG leaders along with the sponsors of the VMdownunderground community party, Alex Hooper from Veeam and John Martin from NetApp. There are still a few places available, head over and register if you haven’t already.
Start Time: 12 October 2011 9:00pm Sydney
Duration (minutes): 45
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I’m delighted to announce that NetApp has agreed to sponsor the party before vForum Sydney, joining Veeam in supporting the virtualisation community.
NetApp are well known as a vendor of multi-protocol storage solutions and long time champion of NFS as storage for VMs.
I also associate NetApp with a different philosophy for backups where tape has a minor role and block level and deduplicated storage array snapshots are replicated for off site recovery. That philosophy plays very well into VMware’s Site Recovery Manager product.
Please join me in welcoming NetApp to the party and take a moment to follow @NetApp or like their FaceBook page.
If you haven’t yet registered do so now, there are only 120 tickets (unless sponsorship doubles again) and they’re going to sell out.
If you’ve worked with VMware View you will know that moving hundreds of desktops into your datacentre has a large storage requirement. If you haven’t seen it yet you need to look at View Composer (also this more official pdf link) and look at the way it stores each desktops changes in a delta file for that VM. I wanted to look at how the delta file grows over time as for a large pool this is the dominant storage consumer.
Join us for this week’s podcast, it should be a lively discussion with a few guests and the regulars.
Visit http://apacvirtual.com for the details.
I’m delighted to announce the first sponsor for the party, Veeam have again shown that they care for the people who install and operate their products.
I doubt Veeam needs any introduction to those who’ve been in the Virtualisation industry for a while, they have a range of products that enhance the manageability and enable backup and recovery of virtualised environments as well as bridging the gap between vSphere and other management products.
If you are a VCP then Veeam have a special offer for you, a free two socket NFR license for their leading products that you can deploy for your lab. Request your license keys at the web site http://www.veeam.com/nfr/free-nfr-license
The party now has it’s own page on the APAC Virtualisation podcast blog where you will find sponsor information.
Registration is still available at http://vmdownunderground.eventbrite.com/
Inspired by the VMUnderground party and the vBeers movement I am organising a community party the evening before vForum Sydney.
The aim of the event is to allow people who are involved in virtualisation to meet up with like minded souls. I know I have met a lot of talented and interesting people though the courses I teach and the conferences I’ve been to and I’d like to extend the opportunity to others in the industry.
At this stage the event is vBeers format, that is turn up and chat, pay for your own drinks. I am still hoping to get some sponsorship to take the whole thing towards the VMUnderground level of awesome.
Please register for the event at the web site as I need to know numbers and may have to cap them if we get too large, also if we do get sponsorship it will be registered guests only.
Hope to see lots of you there, I’ll be the tall guy with very little hair on his head (or at least one will be me).
Join me along with Rodney Haywood and Simon Sharwood to discuss VMworld and the announcements that were made.
All of the details are on the podcast blog at it’s spiffy new .com domain of http://apacvirtual.com
While I was hanging out at VMworld I did a couple of group discussions.
One was organised by Cody Bunch of Professional VMware where I was joined on the panel by Greg Shulz, Gina Rosenthal and Jay Cuthrell to talk about VMworld and how we were going to do thing differently after what we’d seen. The video is on VMware Community TV
The big surprise for me was when Gina said before the show that she recognised me from my voice on the APAC Virtualisation podcast. Online communities are funny, your face isn’t necessarily what people know you by. Now I understand why people put their twitter handle & blog web site on their shirts at conferences. How do I put my voice on a shirt? I’m not sure I want to know.
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