Well, today was the big day that all of us with VMware NDAs plastered all over our cube walls have been waiting for: The official launch of VMware vSphere 4 (and the lifting of a heavy gag order). There has been much going on today between the regular line up of expected blog posts and …
Monthly Archives: April 2009
Partner Exchange Days 4 & 5: Wrap-up
Embarrassingly late, but here’s my final update from VMware’s Partner Exchange 2009 The last full day started with Steve Herrod’s keynote, where he went over some of the details of vSphere, including the packages and pricing. If you like choices you’ll have plenty of them real soon. Unfortunately most of the information wasn’t terribly new, but Dr. Herrod always …
Partner Exchange Day 3: The vSphere Experience
Yesterday’s keynote started with Carl Eschenbach, VMware’s VP for Global Sales, who presented a series of improvements to the Partner Program. Being a recent addition to the Partner community, I have felt some of the pains with the online access to Partner information, but have had little introduction to the program itself. I have to admit to being very …
Partner Exchange Day 2: The Conference Begins
Day two started off with the typical keynotes, this time featuring VMware COO Tod Nielsen and Intel General Manager for Server Platforms Boyd Davis. Mr. Nielsen gave a great presentation showing the partner perspective of the typical VMware keynote talking points, which included a lot of market facts. Mr. Davis discussed Intel’s contributions to VMware’s …
Partner Exchange Day 1: PTAB
Yesterday was the first day of VMware Partner Exchange, and was lucking enough to be invited to join in on the Partner Technical Advisory Board (PTAB). Obviously I can’t go into too much detail, but I can tell you that there were about 30 or so of us in a room together for about 13 hours straight. I left with …
Interpreting HP Serial Number
Ever wonder how they come up with serial numbers for HP servers? Take this for instance serial number (made this up on my own, so any match to a real serial number is completely coincidental): USE8441234. Here’s what each piece means: US = Country Code, in this case, obviously the United States E = Site …
Updating SRM Server IP Address
I had to update the IP address of a VMware SRM server recently, but after the update, the SRM service wouldn’t start. Of course…why should that be that simple?! Symptoms: From %AppData%\VMware\VMware Site Recovery Manager\Logs\vmware-dr-x.log: [2009-03-25 15:50:20.800 ‘MainVcConnection’ 2024 info] VC Connection: Logging in as user ‘srm.service’ [2009-03-25 15:50:21.050 ‘MainVcConnection’ 2024 info] VC Connection: Logged …
Registered for Partner Exchange and PTAB
Just registered for my sessions at VMware’s Partner Exchange conference in April. This is kind of a mini-VMWorld for VMware partners…or so I assume, since I’ve never been to one. The main reason I’ll be going is so I can attend the invitation-only Partner Technical Advisory Board (PTAB). It’s an additional whole day of content before Partner Exchange. I’m excited …