VMworld 2012 Recap

Introduction Christopher Kusek – Blog: Twitter

Agenda What was announced Some things you should know… What was mentioned A LOT Q/A – Open Discussion

What was announced vSphere 5.1 Over 100 new features And…

vSphere 5.1 Support for 64 vCPUs with 1TB of Memory

vSphere 5.1 Zero Downtime Upgrade for VMware Tools*

vSphere 5.1 Enhanced vMotion without shared storage* Transported over network using vMotion vmkernel Hosts must be managed by same vCenter Server Hosts must be part of same Datacenter Hosts must be on the same layer-2 network (and same switch if VDS is used) Hosts must have the same CPU or have the same EVC baseline (like for the vMotion across clusters) Enhanced vMotion is a manual process DRS and SDRS do not leverage enhanced vMotion

vSphere 5.1 All new vSphere Web Client

All New Bundle Pricing!

vCloud Upgrade Promotion! Available from September 10, 2012, through 11:59PM PT on December 15, 2012

What you should know Top 10 Sessions at VMworld VMware vSphere HA Recommendations to Maximize Virtual Machine Uptime VMware vSphere Distributed Switch—Technical Deep Dive vSphere 5 Storage Best Practices Architecting a Cloud Infrastructure vSphere Performance Best Practices DRS: Advanced Concepts, Best Practices and Future Directions VMware vSphere Cluster Resource Pools Best Practices Tracking Down Storage Performance Issues: A Customer’s Perspective What's New and What's Next for VMware View Avoiding the 19 Biggest HA & DRS Configuration Mistakes Edition

VMUG Advantage now with… VMUG Advantage includes access to all VMworld Session content and labs!* *Until Dec

Everything is all about the SDDC The Software Defined Data Center

Announcing the vCAT 3.0!!!

New API Extensions vCloud Director 5.1

Horizon is ON the Horizon!

Running AWS workloads on vCD Using jClouds.org and Cinderella.io vBlob VM storage Cinderella EC2 to vCloud Credential Mapping Table vCloud API S3 API EC2 API

What was mentioned a LOT Nicira and SW-Defined Network Virtualization VXLAN has gone GA!!!! Dynamic Ops and the Cloud Automation Suite vCenter Operations (vCOPS) Storage Preview and Yellow Bricks *Cloud was almost not mentioned at all!*

Wrap-Up

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