Like last year, two thirds of the vSoup chefs are present at VMworld Europe. And, unfortunately Christian is still the odd one out, missing VMworld yet again.
Anyway, on with the live recording which, by popular demand, features Ed Grigson who still blogs at vexperienced.co.uk.
And yes, we know Christian was the silent minority here. After all, he´s in Norway.
That´s pretty far away.
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As far as topics go there is no way around New- vs Old-school storage, and as the title reflects, should “server huggers” be afraid of the Software Defined Datacenter?
Other topics covered in this episode:
Enjoy! Look for us live from VMworld Europe, and since Christian is not attending this year either, who know what he´ll be represented by this time around…
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We´re back, and so is Mike Laverick and this time he brings along his book writing buddy Barry Coombs!
Of course, their new book Building End-User Computing Solutions with VMware View is the hot topic of the day.
We do get into other topics as well, check out the list:
And a few other little things as well, please leave a comment if you figure out where the title for this one comes from and, No, neither Mike nor Barry are weird, at least not in the vSoup sense.
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We´ve been graced with the presence of Mr. Joe Onisick, Cloud and Datacenter Guru and all around nice guy (If you agree with him, that is).
So, topics? We had a few:
Also, wow, no delay this time! We´re on fire.
Oh wait, it´s holiday season, so who knows when we will be back next.
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Finally a new episode, that is way overdue because of Ed´s Asian Adventures. This weeks guest is PowerShell and PowerCLI Guru Hal Rottenberg, and in no particular order we get into:
As you can see, it´s quite the list and we throughly enjoyed finally being able to have Hal on.
Enjoy the vSoup!
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In this special edition of vSoup we welcome Bas Raayman to have a little chat regarding the new VCDX Wannabe website.
Naturally we talk VCDX certification, including defenses, the VCAP certifications and Bas spills the beans on the VCAP-DCA beta exam.
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Guess what? We have a guest this time too! Michael Poore, yet another englishman who´s recently visited the US of A, finally graces us with his presence!
Now, tell us, how large is your shower head? Seemingly a random question, but hey, this is vSoup after all.
Is it possible to work towards the VCDX in a distributed fashion? And yes, there will be a VCDXWannabe website, but that´s not quite ready for release yet. It will be soon though, I promise. Really. For now, have a look at VCDX Defence Practice Event – London
Other than that, the new WSX feature/service in the VMware Workstation 2012 Tech Preview gets some well deserved attention, weird P2V scenarios and we get all wet eyed talking about old Compaq servers.
That should cover it, as usual, enjoy!
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Once again we bring you David Owen. For some reason he seems to be a returning guest, we only wish that the listener numbers would reflect it!
David was recently one of the Virtualization Field Day 2 – Silicon Valley delegates, and finally gets a chance to tell the world what it feels like to be a member of a very prestigious club. How often does that happen to a fisherman from Sunderland?
Of course, as some of the hosts like to stick their neck out, we get into VCP upgrade certification time limits, the VCDX certification and when Godwin’s law takes effect this over 1 hour edition is officially over.
We hope you can bear with us for that long, we barely managed it ourselves.
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Philip Buckley-Mellor, a video on demand infrastructure consultant is our guest. Since he, unlike the hosts, is used to tackling big things we get into scalabiliy, Splunk, vCOPS 5.
For some reason, augmented reality also makes an appearance, and traffic in Vietnam. And, can anyone guess which series of movies would be the best de-duplication candidate? We know.
Christian gets to plug Mike Laverick’s new SRM book that both he and Ed got a free copy of.
Have fun, we did while recording!
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Welcome to a guest-less episode of vSoup, where the hosts find themselves left all alone in the big world pondering what hit them in 2011 and what’s going to hit them in 2012.
We get into all sorts of topics like Christian’s new job, Volkswagen shutting off off hours email, Ed’s Hyper-V to vSphere experience, Chris job stuff (Shameless Veeam Plugs aka B&R v6 and NFR licenses for just about everyone), SOPA, and how Eric Sloof ambushed Christian and got him on video.
Also, can you have moral qualms about globalization in software companies (offshoring)? Whats the deal with The Norwegian butter crisis and 2012: Will the world go under, or what? Will we see new vSphere Features? Is the future one the Multi- hypervisor datacenter?
Listen now, and some of that might just get answered. Or if not answered, it will get mention. A bit. Sort of.
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