10 On Tech

Mat Gruen joins ActualTech Media partners David Davis and James Green to talk about Software-Defined Storage through the lens of a storage veteran. Mat is the SE Director for Hedvig - a company that offers a really interesting SDS platform. In this episode:

- SDS as a part of hyperconvergence vs. standalone-SDS

- How Mat is seeing SDS transform organizations

- Where and how to learn more about SDS

- Why Mat loves "Overworked and Overwhelmed: The Mindfulness Alternative"

Mat Gruen joins ActualTech Media partners David Davis and James Green to talk about Software-Defined Storage through the lens of a storage veteran. Mat is the SE Director for Hedvig - a company that offers a really interesting SDS platform. In this episode:

- SDS as a part of hyperconvergence vs. standalone-SDS

- How Mat is seeing SDS transform organizations

- Where and how to learn more about SDS

- Why Mat loves "Overworked and Overwhelmed: The Mindfulness Alternative"

In this exciting episode, ActualTech Media partners David Davis and James Green interview Mitchell Hashimoto of Hashicorp fame to find out how Hashicorp came to be, understand the way Mitchell sees the data center evolving, and hear about what's in the works at Hashicorp!

In this exciting episode, ActualTech Media partners David Davis and James Green interview Mitchell Hashimoto of Hashicorp fame to find out how Hashicorp came to be, understand the way Mitchell sees the data center evolving, and hear about what's in the works at Hashicorp!

A big portion of the incredible storage performance that we enjoy today and that necessitates projects like Intel's SPDK is NVMe. Being that we've lived in a SCSI world for such a long time, it's hard for many people to grasp exactly what NVMe is and begin thinking about storage access this way. To help us understand it better, I'm excited to bring to the show J Metz (@drjmetz) who is possibly the most well-dress storage guy you will ever meet. He's also an academic, researcher, and general force of nature in the office of the CTO at Cisco; his focus is on storage and storage networking. He's currently serving a term on the board of directors (called Promoters) for NVM Express, Inc, which is the organization driving development and awareness of NVMe. I would be hard pressed to find someone more appropriate to discuss NVMe with than J, so this is a very exciting episode, and I'm kicking myself for creating a show where we only got to spend 10 minutes with J. This could easily have been a 60 minute show that I think most listeners would have appreciated!

J also writes on his blog (www.jmetz.com) and shared two very important posts with me to pass along. If you find that you need to learn more about NVMe after listening to this show, J has curated (and written personally) a substantial amount of information on NVMe.

If you're looking to get up to speed and have a strong grasp of NVMe in general, use this "program of study": https://jmetz.com/2016/08/learning-nvme-a-program-of-study/

If you've got a decent grasp of NVMe but need to delve into a certain area of focus, reference this extensive bibliography: https://jmetz.com/2016/08/a-nvme-bibliography/

A big portion of the incredible storage performance that we enjoy today and that necessitates projects like Intel's SPDK is NVMe. Being that we've lived in a SCSI world for such a long time, it's hard for many people to grasp exactly what NVMe is and begin thinking about storage access this way. To help us understand it better, I'm excited to bring to the show J Metz (@drjmetz) who is possibly the most well-dress storage guy you will ever meet. He's also an academic, researcher, and general force of nature in the office of the CTO at Cisco; his focus is on storage and storage networking. He's currently serving a term on the board of directors (called Promoters) for NVM Express, Inc, which is the organization driving development and awareness of NVMe. I would be hard pressed to find someone more appropriate to discuss NVMe with than J, so this is a very exciting episode, and I'm kicking myself for creating a show where we only got to spend 10 minutes with J. This could easily have been a 60 minute show that I think most listeners would have appreciated!

J also writes on his blog (www.jmetz.com) and shared two very important posts with me to pass along. If you find that you need to learn more about NVMe after listening to this show, J has curated (and written personally) a substantial amount of information on NVMe.

If you're looking to get up to speed and have a strong grasp of NVMe in general, use this "program of study": https://jmetz.com/2016/08/learning-nvme-a-program-of-study/

If you've got a decent grasp of NVMe but need to delve into a certain area of focus, reference this extensive bibliography: https://jmetz.com/2016/08/a-nvme-bibliography/

On this episode, I had the pleasure of talking with Dennis Zimmer (@vmachine_de)- friend of the IT community and CEO of Opvisor. In his current capacity, Dennis talks to a lot of IT professionals about the monitoring and troubleshooting issues they have, particularly in vSphere environments. We talked about some common misconfigurations or issues that many users experience, as well as how Opvisor is helping users identify and rectify those issues. It was a fun chat and I enjoyed getting to reflect on some of the sillier things I encountered as a consultant in a past life.

On this episode, I had the pleasure of talking with Dennis Zimmer (@vmachine_de)- friend of the IT community and CEO of Opvisor. In his current capacity, Dennis talks to a lot of IT professionals about the monitoring and troubleshooting issues they have, particularly in vSphere environments. We talked about some common misconfigurations or issues that many users experience, as well as how Opvisor is helping users identify and rectify those issues. It was a fun chat and I enjoyed getting to reflect on some of the sillier things I encountered as a consultant in a past life.

VMware has been pushing hard for the adoption of the vCenter Server Appliance over the original Windows-based deployment model for a few major releases of the product. As of recently, the VCSA has reached feature parity with the Windows version and there are many very good reasons to adopt a VCSA-based vCenter design. Once of the many challenges with adoption has been that brownfield migration from a Windows vCenter Server to the VCSA is challenging at best.

I'm pleased to have a longer-than-normal episode with Emad Younis to discuss this important announcement: Emad blogged about a week and a half ago on the VMware blog about the release of vSphere 6.0 Update 2m « the 'm' stands for "migration." Update 2m provides a supported, GUI-based method of migrating from a Windows vCenter Server to the VCSA while everything remains intact - the basics like inventory and policies, but also historic performance and alarm data if you'd like! This is exciting for many customers, so I decided to waive the 10-minute episode regulation and dig in a little further. Please enjoy this great talk with Emad!

VMware has been pushing hard for the adoption of the vCenter Server Appliance over the original Windows-based deployment model for a few major releases of the product. As of recently, the VCSA has reached feature parity with the Windows version and there are many very good reasons to adopt a VCSA-based vCenter design. Once of the many challenges with adoption has been that brownfield migration from a Windows vCenter Server to the VCSA is challenging at best.

I'm pleased to have a longer-than-normal episode with Emad Younis to discuss this important announcement: Emad blogged about a week and a half ago on the VMware blog about the release of vSphere 6.0 Update 2m « the 'm' stands for "migration." Update 2m provides a supported, GUI-based method of migrating from a Windows vCenter Server to the VCSA while everything remains intact - the basics like inventory and policies, but also historic performance and alarm data if you'd like! This is exciting for many customers, so I decided to waive the 10-minute episode regulation and dig in a little further. Please enjoy this great talk with Emad!