About a month ago I moved to Texas to take on a new exciting opportunity and work on cloud computing with Rackspace. While I will no longer be working on VMware products as a part of my day to day, the virtualization concepts are largely the same. With such a large personal and professional change, a rebooting of Virtual Andy is necessary. Virtual Andy’s new direction can be summarized with a paraphrased interview with Paul Maritz:...
It’s been months since I’ve updated. It’s been a busy summer but I’m delivering some new posts: iSCSI SAN performance woes in ESX 3.5 ESX 3.5 -> ESX 3.5 U4 and Virtual Center 2.5 -> vCenter 2.5 U4 ESX 3.5 U4 Kickstart for IBM xSeries and QLA4050 While the big boys are at VMworld the small shops are back to getting things done.
Welcome to Virtual Andy, a weblog that will discuss challenges with implementing virtualization. I’ll discuss the technical and business challenges that our organization has run into with virtualization. There will be a good mixture of ROI and Excel Spreadsheets with some technical diagrams and scripts. I am relatively new to the virtual world, as I have only been working with VMware products since 05/2008. VCP4 in May 2010.