At VMworld I attended the excellent “Networking Deep Dive” (TA2525) by Srinivas Neginhal.  Here are just a few things he discussed that jumped out me as either new information (not in the standard documentation) or something that expanded on my current understanding.

ESX hosts keep a local cache of the vDS and DVPort information, to [...]

I also hit “vSphere4 Storage Troubleshooting and Log Analysis” (TA1394) which was presented by Mostafa Khalil at VMworld this year.  Wow, he was a wealth of information.  Unfortunately he was pushed for time, and I had to leave this one early to get to my next session.  If a video of this ever popped up [...]

Since coming back from VMworld this year, I have been hunting around for the dates for next year.  I had a lot of fun, met some really interesting people and of course improved my knowledge of the products.  However simple google searches weren’t turning up the actual dates, just that it would be sometime in [...]

On Wednesday I attended the VMFS3 session entitled “VMware vStorage VMFS-3: Architectural Advances since ESX 3.0″.  It was a very interesting little session discussing some of the under-the-covers work through the evolution of VMFS3.

However, why am I blogging about it now?  Well one thing jumped out at me during the presentation.  The speaker (I [...]