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Anyone down in Miami this week?

Looking for a good small silent or quiet box to use as an intelligent firewall. Want quad-core Intel and need two NICs. Would greatly prefer Intel chipset NICs, if possible. Any suggestions?

Woohoo! Got notice today that I received my VCDX-NV (Network Virtualization / NSX). Very cool. Was in the first group to go through the program.

Sitting in an Azure session at MS TechEd. :)

Sitting in the first of 3 classes on VMware NSX this week. It's the launching point for a new CCIE-like program. Just put up a post on it. http://jasonnash.com/2014/04/15/thoughts-on-vmwares-expert-level-certification-plan/

https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/info/slug/datacenter_cloud_infrastructure/vmware_vcloud_suite/5_5 Go get it.

Applications for vExpert are open. Go apply if you want to attempt. Posting and helping others on here is a good community contribution item to put on the application. http://blogs.vmware.com/vmtn/2014/02/vexpert-2014-applications-open.html

Oh yeah. :) Two 785GB FusionIO ioDrive2 cards.

Upgraded the lab a bit yesterday. Took my 3rd host up to 32GB finally. Added a 128GB Samsung 840 Pro SSD to each host and put the current build of PernixData's FVP on there. Very nice. :) Taking a lot of I/O off my Synology. Not hitting it hard yet..still testing. But so far it's great.

4th year in a row! Woohoo! BTW: If you are, Trainsignal.com is giving you a free year subscription.

Anyone else submitting?

Synology has released DSM 4.1-2647. This fixes the problems with vSphere 5.1.

My post here: http://jasonnash.com/2012/10/01/cisco-announces-nexus-1000v-v2-1-and-new-pricing-model/ Cisco split the product in to two license levels. An Essentials Edition that is free and an Advanced version that includes VSG for $695/socket. Very nice.

Heads up..a lot of people are having trouble with Synology DSM 4.1 and vSphere 5.1. Trouble as in..can't even boot a VM due to storage timeouts. Hold off until there is a fix from Synology.

Can't believe we aren't discussing the rumors here.... http://www.crn.com/news/cloud/240005840/vmware-kills-vram-licensing-will-focus-on-vsphere-cloud-bundles.htm

Just passed the VCAP5-DCD exam. Took a little over 2 hours. If you took the VCAP4-DCD then this will be very familiar...just a slightly revised version. I hate these exams...not a fan of the question types.

Thinking of playing with an appliance for Untangle. Let's say I do a D2700. Right now I'm running Untangle in a VM, which after some network tweaking, runs well given 1 vCPU on a box with an Intel X3440. My load average is real high (6 to 13) under really heavy load...pulling full 50Mb down...

Heads up that public voting is up for the VMworld sessions. My blog post here on my sessions: http://jasonnash.com/2012/05/30/vmworld-2012-session-voting/ Appreciate any support. :)

Anyone headed to EMC World in Vegas in May? EMC asked me to attend for a special thing so it looks like I'm going to go. It's my first one so it should be fun...I'm also not speaking or anything so I have no real obligations except for probably taking customers and partners to dinner/drinks...

Working in the lab on some weirdness I was seeing with vNICs on UCS and the vDS. While rolling some hosts in/out of the vDS last night vCenter crashed and now won't start. Get this in the log: 2012-02-11T11:28:27.401-05:00 [02600 error 'Default'] [VpxdMain] Failed to initialize...

Flying out to Vegas for VMware Partner Exchange this afternoon...going to be a looong week. Flying out early because I'm in the vCloud Director bootcamp over the weekend.

Hate seeing myself on video...but Trainsignal put out the first clip from the course today: http://www.vmwarevideos.com/cisco-ucs-implementation-video-by-thejasonnash-of-varrowinc

Just signed up for Partner Exchange in Vegas in February. I can't wait. I'm not presenting or really working to meet with clients that week so I plan to relax this time and just enjoy myself...

I scheduled this exam like two months ago and kept rescheduling it..I think I literally did it 7 times due to other things come up and no time to prep. We have an engineer meeting on Monday and I wanted to talk to the guys about the exam so I just went and took it cold today without any prep...

Go here: http://communities.vmware.com/thread/335123?start=0&tstart=0

Check it: http://nickapedia.com/2011/11/03/straighten-up-with-a-new-uber-tool-presenting-uberalign/

Looking to move to a virtual firewall/router and need QoS. Grabbed the latest Untangle and it appears that QoS is no longer a free feature. That right? If so what's my next option? pfSense is good, but the QoS is way above what I need and want to mess with. I really just need basic priority...

Working on a BoM (Bill of Materials) for our engineers for a home lab. We're hoping to help subsidize the cost for them. See if you can do better than me on the servers. I want them to have two physical hosts with 8GB each. No internal disks are needed. Minimum of 2 NICs, prefer 3. All...

vSphere 5 is going GA right now. If you go look you may be able to download it. If not wait a couple hours as they update things.

Just a reminder that Veeam is still doing this program for your lab. http://www.veeam.com/nfr/free-nfr-license

Spending the day on some lab work. We finally got some Cisco UCS lab gear here in Charlotte (have some in our other lab). EMC loaned me a VNXe to work with and do some blog posts on. Installing vSphere to the UCS blades right now. Just racked the VNXe.

I'm doing a series of GotoMeeting conferences with customers and others reviewing what's new in detail. If you want the slide deck I'm using to review it's here: http://jasonnash.com/2011/08/04/slide-deck-from-the-vsphere-5-srm-5-presentations/ I could do one for HFers if you guys want...

Posted some of this in the networking forum but much of it applies to virtualization as well: Day 1 - http://jasonnash.wordpress.com/2011/07/12/cisco-live-2011-day-1/ Day 2 - http://jasonnash.wordpress.com/2011/07/14/cisco-live-2011-day-2/ Day 3 -...

Stay tuned! Big announcement today/tomorrow (depends on where you are)!

Apple's service makes it hard to want to get a competing product. About two months ago I dropped my iPhone 4 in my driveway and cracked the screen. My case wasn't going to protect a drop straight face down... Anyway...phone was functional, just ugly. I finally went to the Apple store the...

Woohoo! Woke up to a nice email: We're pleased to designate you as a vExpert 2011 as recognition of your contributions to the VMware, virtualization, and cloud computing communities. You’ve done work above and beyond, and we’re delighted to communicate more closely, to share resources, and...

Most of my experience is here: http://jasonnash.wordpress.com/2011/06/16/another-thing-off-the-list-vcap-dcd-done/ Overall, good example. Long exam. Never easy to write a design test like this but I think it's a lot better than the old test I took for my VCDX3 path.

New additions to the home VMware lab. Three Cisco 2960S switches w/ 10Gb uplinks. I had the 48-port already...the two 24-port PoE+ are new. Two Qlogic QLE8242 CNAs and a Qlogic QLE3242 10Gb NIC. And the little ASA5505...

I'm updating a spreadsheet comparison of HP C7K and Cisco UCS pricing. I want to work with someone that knows HP C7Ks to make sure it's a fair comparison and I'm not slanting or skewing the numbers. I'm happy to share all my UCS information as well for their knowledge and benefit. The goal is...

Just made my travel arrangements and was curious if anyone else was going.