Just a quick note because I see a lot of people are still looking at that post. I held off on my purchase. Waiting on moving apartments before I purchase one.
(Hoping against hope I can find a condo with an AC vent in the closet – And that the closet is just big enough for a full sized rack)
The joys of a home rack system. I can dream right?
Not sure how many of you have made the leap to vSphere but let me tell you this is my second biggest annoyance so far.
These should have better names and explanations but I will be diving into this as soon as I figure out the gameplan to resolve the issue.
#1 problem with vsphere? – Changing permissions between VC and vSphere. Didn’t see these ones coming in testing but man are they painful now.
More to follow once we get them resolved. Back into the trenches
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Sweet.
So I ended up getting my hands on an Ix2 for a pilot program with our field teams. Just doing the initial configuration now. Super simple – 5 minutes and it is available.
This week I will load some VMs on it and run it over the wire and configure it to hookup to my 360 (as well as the mundane backup duties it is meant for). Everyone should go buy one.
Ok so Chi.MP is finally letting people setup accounts.
I submitted my first support request to them yesterday. Turns out to be something simple so I can’t wait to have that discussion with them.
After a hectic day in the office (hectic but great – this new role is going to keep me on my toes) I have been fiddling with it and decided to add my .mp page to my starting tabs.
Check it out – chi.mp
Or mine – bergin.mp
See this post here and then here for details on how to sign up. This is definitely a good thing because I don’t see VMware spending the time to build a Sparc compliant VM platform anytime soon.
Having a number of Sparc boxes under my infrastructure I am dying to get my little hands on this and tweak with it to my hearts content. Will it ever rival VMware? I doubt it but for those of us who desperately need to leverage Sparc based hardware for platform testing this could be a god send.
Maybe someone in the blogosphere will take pity on me and let me in behind the velvet rope to put this through its paces. My contact info is there. Reach out and I will definitely run this stuff until it drops!
If you haven’t heard of the John J Harvey then I recommend you go visit this link
I took this while on a harbor trip this past saturday going under the Manhattan bridge. 
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Thanks to Storagezilla for finding this flickr account.
Links to the images here.
For the record these screenshots constitute significantly more than one product but it is a good overview of what the D6.5 family is going to looklike. (Webtop, CenterStage, DA, WebPublisher, etc all have pics in there)
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Just because I have had a challenging week with VMware support around this issue I needed to publicly state that it is supported. It is always bad when as a support guy you provide the support note that proves you wrong.
Apparently Pi is hot. I am very excited about the fact that Paul is going to take over VMware. I hope my colleagues (sort of EMC’ers) over there will welcome him and embrace his enthusiasm. If he can continue to bring the top notch effort that I have seen coming out of his former division than I think we have good things coming.
As always StorageZille sums it up nicely – “Have you stopped freaking out Yet” covers all the bases
