Author: Paul Meehan

Automation 101 – I’m not a developer. What now?

How can anyone ever end up in Automation projects and discussions without being a developer ? Hitachi Enterprise Cloud Well, it can easily happen 🙂 and it started for me when I worked on the creation of the Hitachi Enterprise Cloud (HEC) offering four/five years ago. This is a bundling of: Hitachi Converged and Hyperconverged […]

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#VCDX Post: Attributes of a successful defender

There are some key attributes I have seen in mentoring and being involved in VCDX mock defences that usually lead to successful defence outcomes. This does not mean exposing anything about VMware’s VCDX Rubrik (scoring model) which only panelists and VCDX Committee members have access to. In this post, I want to focus on candidate […]

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Vote for session 9057: vRA and VVol Perfect together

For anyone interested in VMware VVol technology you need to get ready for the takeoff of this technology in 2017. I have submitted a breakout session for how to use this awesome technology as part of your vRealize Automation deployment. It makes so much sense to put this at the centre of a Cloud deployment […]

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VMware VVol Part 4: How is a VVol instantiated ?

VVol Series Part 1: Introduction Part 2: With and Without VVols Part 3: New Storage Constructs Part 4: How are VVols instantiated Part 5: Storage Containers & Capability Profiles Part 6: The Mythical Protocol Endpoint To address this question let’s go back to one of the core tenets of VMware technology. And that is the […]

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VMware VVol Part 3: New Storage Constructs

VVol Series Part 1: Introduction Part 2: With and Without VVols Part 3: New Storage Constructs Part 4: How are VVols instantiated Part 5: Storage Containers & Capability Profiles Part 6: The Mythical Protocol Endpoint Before we can architect VM Storage Profiles which are the point of consumption for VMs and applications, we need to […]

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VMware VVol Part 2: With & Without VVols

VVol Series Part 1: Introduction Part 2: With and Without VVols Part 3: New Storage Constructs Part 4: How are VVols instantiated Part 5: Storage Containers & Capability Profiles Part 6: The Mythical Protocol Endpoint Bye Bye VMFS At its simplest, VVol removes the layer of abstraction that exists between a virtual machine and it’s […]

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