FREE VMware e-learning course on VSAN

Around the office and with customers, I have had a lot of questions about VMware VSAN. VMware Education just released a free online e-learning class for VSAN:

VMware Virtual SAN Fundamentals [V 5.5] – https://mylearn.vmware.com/mgrreg/courses.cfm?ui=www_edu&a=one&id_subject=55806

VMware Virtual SAN Fundamentals [V 5.5] is available to customers free of charge.

After completing this course, you should be able to:

* Introduce concepts related to the architecture and features of VMware virtualized storage.

* Articulate Virtual SAN benefits

* Identify the primary issues associated with Virtual SAN configuration and management

* Understand the primary use cases and customer situations when Virtual SAN is best used, including high level technical qualification criteria.

* Identify VSAN elements

* Enlist the prerequisites needed to configure Virtual SAN.

This training would be valuable for any engineers, salespeople or anyone else who wants a solid foundation for understanding VMware VSAN.

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April 23, 2014

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vSphere: What’s New [V4.x to V5.5] supplemental weblinks

Various weblinks from the vSphere: What’s New [V4.x toV5.5] course-

http://packetlife.net/blog/2008/oct/18/cheat-sheets-tcpdump-and-wireshark/

Click to access tcpdump.pdf

Enabling vSphere Distributed Switch health check in the vSphere Web Client
Enhanced LACP Support on a vSphere 5.5 Distributed Switch

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetFlow

http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2011/08/vsphere-5-new-networking-features-netflow.html

http://v-reality.info/2012/02/setting-up-netflow-on-vsphere-distributed-switch/

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2032878

https://communities.intel.com/community/wired/blog/2010/09/07/sr-iov-explained

http://blog.scottlowe.org/2009/12/02/what-is-sr-iov/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4l6T7bHNKeo – Flash Read Cache

Click to access VMware-vSphere-Flash-Read-Cache-FAQ.pdf

vSphere tags – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQnSzP7kj7E

VDP Direct to Host restore – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TF7TnFncsgk

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vExpert 2014!

Earlier this month, I received notification from Corey Romero and the VMware Social Media Team that I have been selected as a vExpert for 2014. I am honored to be included among the 754 vExperts that were announced here.

Congratulations to everyone who was selected, particularly my fellow ENS, Inc. employee Jason Kaplan-Coleman!

I am looking forward to being engaged within the vExpert and wider VMware community and see this as further motivation to take my participation to a higher level.