So today was the first day of proper sessions and the keynote.
This is my first year at VMworld, but you can tell there is something missing slightly, and probably that is a big announcement, we already know about NSX, and most people are waiting for vSphere 6. However with the release of the delta exam on 5.5 it’s obvious that vSphere 6 will be here at some point in 2015.
Continue reading VMworld #VMworld – Day 2 – Keynote, Sessions on NSX, EUC and performance
So day one is usually for two things, partner day, and Hands on Labs.
Unfortunately the session I was most hoping to see at partner day was “delivering best in class’s desktop virt. With horizon 6 and Cisco UCS”, I missed due to it starting 20 mins after my plane landed.
The flight was good, I managed to spot the #veeamfield, bit of a pain finding the coach to the conference centre, but least after my hotel problems, it’s only 200m up the road.
So I’m off to do my first year at VMware VMworld in Barcelona next week.
Which means no posts from me for over a week.
I’m looking forward to it, I actually am excited for the technical aspects, rather than the partying, but I’m happy to be going back to Barcelona for the second time this year, doubt I will get a chance to see Barca though.
VMworld Barcelona is more towards the End-User computing part of VMwares business, which is fine by me as its the bit that interests me most. One a day to day basis I work with VMware a lot, but more infrastucture than EUC.
The hottest topic that I’m looking forward to is NSX, as a Cisco fanboy (#CiscoChampion) and qualified in that area, its a big change to the market coming, or so they say. So we’ll see how it goes, some of the technical deep dives look a bit to much for me at this stage in time, but I am booked for;
I’ll sit down and watch the recordings of the other NSX sessions when I get back from barcelona and have some time to digest the information.
The deep dives are ones not to miss if they apply to you, so I’m onto the;
So if anyone is attending but reading this first, drop me a tweet and we can grab a beer, because most of all I’m looking forward to the networking opportunities.
So on of the most valuable networking features of VMware is setting up CDP information or LLDP (if using non cisco devices). We can see exactly which VMNIC is plugged into which port.
ESXi can receive and display CDP information within the client or web client, but this doesn’t work with HP switches which use LLDP, which you will see in the below examples for both vendors.
Below the environment is plugged into a HP switch and no CDP information is being displayed into the standard switch, however we can send CDP information from VMware ESXi to the HP switch. (But from a Cisco Switch the information does show)
Continue reading Using VMware and CDP information (HP and Cisco Switches)
So first off we need to setup Jumbo frames in a few places.
As per VMware ESXi 5.0 and above, you need to also setup iSCSI Port Binding.
Continue reading VMware ESXi – Test Jumbo Packets using VMKping