Celerra VSA v3.1

If you have ever used Nick Weaver's Uber VSA for EMC Celerra, you might think that this is a great way to get your own personal Celerra to start playing around with. You know what I would agree with you :). Nick released  version 3 a little while ago ... I had some issues with adding disks to the OVA and then I check his blog today and guess what. Nick found the issue and fixed it. Also there was an SRM bug that was fixed. The 'discoverluns' command seems to have had an issue with iSCSI replicated sessions.

Grab it over here at NICK's blog.

This version also includes DART 6 with Unisphere ... cool stuff.

Long time :).

So updates have been sparse at best!!

I'll be working on fixing that in the next few weeks. Things have changed for me as far as the job and a bunch of other stuff.

I just took the nerd test V2 ....






Awesome!!! I <3 my geekdom.

VCAP-DCD and vSphere4 training.

I got a pleasant email today from my company asking me to schedule my vSphere4 : Design workshop and to prep for my VCAP-DCD.

Since the test hasn't been released just yet (expected soon). I will have to take it probably in Sept. Either way I will let you know what both the training and the test is like.

Talk to you guys soon.

Not aware ESX was going the way of the dodo?

Check out Phil's Mental leftovers HERE.

VMware has been trying to make the move to COSless for a bit now. As Phil points out VMware made it official.

Interesting stuff for sure.

vSphere 4.1 ... You know.

vSphere 4.1 is out and in the wild now.

No need to regurgitate the new features. When I get it up in the lab I'll let you guys know.

RTFM ...

If you came here from RTFM or if you think I am mad at Mike L. Please be assured that I was not trying to berate him. Mike is an AWESOME guy and I have used RTFM and it has pulled me out of jams a couple of times. So I am appreciative of his contributions to the VMware community.

tldr ; Mike is a good dude. I will not send ninjas to his house. If that's not clear enough ... sorry :).

More vLAB stuff.

So it has been slow going for the moment due to some personal challenges that I have had. So it is my fault and my fault only for not following up as fast or pushing this harder.

Darryl and I have been working over the weekend to make sure that we have a working web presence that can handle the outward facing collaboration and stuff.

This vLAB would be free for people to use and since one of the goals is to encourage community involvement, we are working on a points-based system that rewards individuals for contribution of both content and solutions for real world scenarios.

Another exciting feature is that vThought would provide high-quality "no-cost" consulting to clients provided that the clients donate to the vLAB in order for us to keep this moving forward.

I have finished some of the last DNS changes and we should be live here in the next 24 hours.