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WOW! 3 full VIRTUMANIA podcasts are now available from iTunes!

Special guest Scott Lowe joins us in this latest episode to discuss high availability options for virtual machines. Marc Farley co hosts the show and Sean Clark returns again as the guest host. The following is the podcast summary:

VIRTUMANIA Podcast Episode 3 - High Availability For Virtual Machines. Rich Brambley (@rbrambley) of VMETC and Marc Farley (@3parfarley) of3Par and StorageRap.com with guests Sean Clark (@vseanclark) ofwww.seanclark.us and Scott Lowe(@scott_lowe) of blog.scottlowe.org of EMC. Our discussion this week focuses on high availability (HA) options for applications running on virtual machines. Talk includes application clustering decisions as well as hypervisor features and third party solutions that enable HA. We also look to the future with Cisco OTV and Long Distance Vmotion. Thanks to Greg Knieriemen (@knieriemen) of Chi Corporation for this Infosmack Production.

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Check out the VM /ETC VIRTUMANIA Page to listen to our past episodes as well as all the episodes of Infosmack.

The following short list of links offer more information on a couple of the topics mentioned in VIRTUMANIA Episode 3 that I found extra interesting:

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The VIRTUMANIA continues with Episode 2! Rick Vanover joins Marc and I again along with very special guest Jason Boche, the Virtualization Evangelist, for a recorded discussion about DR options in virtualized environments. The following is the podcast summary:

VIRTUMANIA Podcast Episode 2 – Virtulization Makes DR Easy. Rich Brambley (@rbrambley) of VMETC and Marc Farley (@3parfarley) of 3Par and StorageRap.com with guests and Rick Vanover (@rickvanover) of RickVanover.com and Jason Boche (@jasonboche) of Boche.net/blog. This week’s episode includes discussion about how virtualization has changed disaster recovery and site failover, explores various virtual machine backup and replication products, compares storage mirroring to purely physical solutions in the past, and thinks about DR technologies in the future. Thanks to Greg Knieriemen (@knieriemen) of Chi Corporation for this Infosmack Production.

Before, between, and after the important stuff we also have some fun with Virtumania Bucks, the ongoing danger of nipples in the data center (yes, we go there again!), and a new nickname for Greg Knieriemen.

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Check out the VM /ETC VIRTUMANIA Page to listen to past episodes as well as episodes of Infosmack.

The following links offer more information on some of the VM Backup and DR products mentioned in VIRTUMANIA Episode 2:

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I am proud to announce a new podcast I will be hosting on a weekly basis – VIRTUMANIA!

VIRTUMANIA is an Infosmack Production that will try to focus on the operational and administrative viewpoints of all things virtualization, so expect a different guest list of bloggers, architects, administrators, and consultants with each recording.

VIRTUMANIA episodes will be announced as new posts here on VM /ETC. Be sure to subscribe to the VM /ETC RSS feed in your favorite RSS reader or download the show each week from the podcast’s RSS feed. Of course, you can subscribe to the VIRTUMANIA podcast on iTunes. Finally, download or listen to each episode from the embedded player on the VM /ETC VIRTUMANIA Page.

Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you the first episode of VIRTUMANIA!

VIRTUMANIA Podcast Episode 1 – Virtualbox, Type 2 Hypervisors, and Security Nipples.

Rich Brambley (@rbrambley) of VMETC and Marc Farley (@3parfarley) of 3Par and StorageRap.com with guests Sean Clark (@vseanclark) of SeanClark.us and Rick Vanover (@rickvanover) of RickVanover.com. This week’s episode includes discussion about Sun Virtulabox, Teleportation, comparing all type 2 hypervisors, and Oracle’s master virtualization plan. Thanks to Greg Knieriemen (@knieriemen) of Chi Corporation for this Infosmack Production.

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I can’t thank Greg Knieriemen and Marc Farley enough for the patience, advice, and support necessary to get this podcast off the ground. For those that don’t already know, Greg and Marc host the already widely popular Infosmack podcast covering servers, storage, and virtualization news. Tapping into their insights and experiences while planning this podcast have been, and will continue to be invaluable to me. Special thanks to Marc for the Virtumania theme music and Greg for recording and post editing each episode.

HP Blades Day ended for me with another opportunity to be a guest on an Infosmack podcast. Episode 40 was recorded mid afternoon on the last day of the event with an all-star lineup. Here’s the official podcast summary from the episode’s web page (linked above):

“Infosmack Podcast Episode 40 – HP Blades Day Wrap Up. Greg Knieriemen of Chi Corporation and Marc Farley of 3Par and StorageRap.comwith guests Rich Brambley of VM/ETC, Simon Seagrave of TechHead, Stephen Foskett of Gestalt IT, Chris M. Evans of The Storage Architect and Devang Panchigar of Storage Nerve. This week’s podcast is a special wrap up from the HP Blades Day in Houston, Texas.

Disclosure: The participants on this podcast were provided travel and accommodations by HP.”

Like when I’ve been on Infosmack before, here’s an embedded player to listen to the latest episode now.

For those wanting to know a little bit more about some of the most important topics we were discussing in Episode 40 check out the following links:

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The final day of HP Blades Day consisted of some quick morning sessions and then the Factory Express and HP Pod tour. The guided explanation of the HP server assembly process was clearly the pinnacle of 2 days that was already filled with many highlights.

Here’s a 30 second video of some of my photos from Friday.

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For more information about HP’s Factory Express program that let’s each customer “choose how your solution is built, tested, integrated, shipped and deployed” check out this video.

For more information about the HP POD “ship to order datacenter” check out this video.

If you’d like to see all my photos from Wednesday through Friday check out my full HP Blades Day photo album. I’ll eventually add the HP Blade Day photo album to my Photos page here on VM /ETC as well.

Disclosure – I toured the HP Houston, TX facilities during an all expenses paid blogging event hosted by HP.

VM /ETC readers will probably recall that I love to report on the NFL and it’s teams use of virtualization and blade centers. I must say, as a man born in Philadelphia who is a long time Atlanta Falcons season ticket holder, I had to “do what’s right” and publish this post. All rivalries aside, I find examples of popular events, teams, and venues such as Cowboys Stadium to be the most interesting real world virtualization implementations to reference.

Disclosure – I was introduced to this video during an all expenses paid blogging event at the HP Campus in Houston, TX.

HP Blades Day Day 1 was a busy day. Although there were some Internet connectivity challenges for me, I was surprised to find a good bit of conversation on twitter was available from other attendees. Today will be another day of more great content presented by HP. Look for posts with session information and opinion over the next few days.

Here’s a 30 second video of some of my photos from Day 1.

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The following is our agenda looks like for day 2:

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