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Episode 8 of the VIRTUMANIA Podcast was great! Marc and I team up again with Rick Vanover for a conversation with Vaughn Stewart of  NetApp. The following is the podcast summary:

VIRTUMANIA Podcast Episode 8 – Barbecue SMT Architecture Plate. Hosted by Rich Brambley (@rbrambley) of VMETC. Marc Farley (@3parfarley) of 3Par and StorageRap.com co hosts with guests Rick Vanover (@rickvanover www.rickvanover.com) and Vaughn Stewart (@vstewed http://blogs.netapp.com/virtualstorageguy/) of NetApp. After some general fun about Infosmack’s activities at SNW last week and the upcoming NetApp vs EMC debate scheduled for this year’s Charlotte VMUG in June, the conversation segues from the different types of regional barbecue in the Southeastern U.S. to Secure Multi Tennancy Architecture. Various technologies that make up SMT from VMware, Cisco, NetApp, and even other storage company’s solutions that can create similar multi tennancy scenarios are touched upon. An example is developed of an IT department responsible for various barbecue “departments” on a secure, isolated, but consolidated virtual infrastructure. This episode is sure to leave you hungry for more! Thanks to Greg Knieriemen (@knieriemen) for this Infosmack Production.

Farley gets Greg Knieriemen to laugh again and wins 1,000 VIRTUMANIA Bucks. Rick needs help securing the Rickatron.com domain, and the whole crew doubts my reference to Alabama BBQ styles.

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VIRTUMANIA  Episode 7 features a VDI discussion with J. Tyler Rohrer. Greg substitutes for Marc as my co host again, and the Prince of Pella, Sean Clark, returns for more of the mayhem. The following is the podcast summary:

VIRTUMANIA Podcast Episode 7 – VDI Plumber Crack. Hosted by Rich Brambley (@rbrambley) of VMETC. Greg Knieriemen (@knieriemen) of Chi Corporation replaces Marc Farley (@3parfarley) of 3Par and StorageRap.com as this week’s episode Co Host. Our “other regular” guest Sean Clark (@vseanclark) of www.vmunderground.com is back to talk VDI with special guest Tyler Rohrer (@t_rex_vdi), COO of Liquidware Labs. The focus of this epsiode is virtual desktop assessment, design, planning, implementation, and migration. The topics range from Liquidware Labs’ Stratusphere tool, generic thoughts on what is VDI, ideas about factors impacting mass adoption, discussion about Microsoft’s recent licensing changes, to details about I/O performance based on types of disks and storage protocols. We even throw in some talk about the iPad just to be trendy! Thanks to Greg Knieriemen for this Infosmack Production.

Join us for some great laughs while discussing the serious topic of virtual desktop infrastructure.

Disclaimer: All references to plumbers, plumbing, hot dogs, fanny packs, and Budweiser are virtual.

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In VIRTUMANIA Episode 6 we take on the topic of virtualization backups once again, but this time we focus on full image virtual machine backups in a more detail with the guys from Veeam. The following is the podcast summary:

VIRTUMANIA Podcast Episode 6 - The Mean Green Veeam Team. Hosted by Rich Brambley (@rbrambley) of VMETC. Marc Farley (@3parfarley) of 3Par and StorageRap.com co hosts and guests are Doug Hazelman (@vmdoug) and David Siles (@dsiles) of Veeam. Veeam’s blog can be found at www.veeammeup.com. The discussion starts with Veeam’s Surebackup technology details and then moves on to several VM backup topics such as using VSS in full VM image backups, tips about designing virtual infrastructure for VM backups, options when backing up VMs hosted on blade servers, whether there is still a need for backup agents in a VM, and general information about being a virtualization ISV. Thanks to Greg Knieriemen (@knieriemen) for this Infosmack Production.

Help us out and be sure to ask @VMDoug when the on location podcasts in St. Petersburg, Russia will happen.  For Veeam customers, listen for the new licensing announcement to get the new Surebackup feature at no additional cost!

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GestaltIT LLC Acquires Infosmack and Virtumania Podcasts

This evening during a press conference at the Holiday Inn Select Cleveland-Cty Ctr in Cleveland, OH,  Stephen Foskett of GestaltIT.com made some exciting announcements I’d like to pass along.

Foskett first introduced that starting in 2011 the first ever GestaltIT Tech Spring Break Conference will be held in Panama City, FL at the world famous Holiday Inn Resort. Although Specific Conference dates are not yet available, Foskett suggested watching both GestaltIT.com and the Holiday Inn Resort’s web page for future notices about conference sponsors, vendors and attendee registration information.

Foskett also announced the acquisition of the Infosmack Productions family of podcasts by GestaltIT LLC. Infosmack and Virtumania are independent podcasts addressing the news and technologies of IT decision makers and administrators on the topics of storage, networking, and server and desktop virtualization. Foskett explained that both the Infosmack and Virtumania podcast will be features of future GestaltIT Tech Day Events as well as the Tech Spring Break Conference.

GestaltIT LLC will now partner with Greg Knieriemen, Marc Farley, and me to deliver Tech Field Day and Tech Spring Break audio and video content along with other GestaltIT.com storage and virtualization-related site content. Marc and I will both maintain our current blogs. Farley’s blog is storagerap.com and, of course my blog is vmetc.com.

“We are excited to add these Infosmack guys permanently to the GestaltIT event lineup.  They crack us up each week with their antics, and their podcast content ain’t too bad either” said Foskett.  When asked about Infosmack being acquired Marc Farley commented “Hey Now”. Virtumania regular Rick Vanover added during the press conference “I can’t wait for the Tech Spring Break Conference Party at Club La Vela.” Sean Clark wondered “why not have the Conference in Iowa?”

What are my thoughts about permanently joining the GestaltIT event family as a podcaster and blogger? “Here Goes Nothing!”

GestaltIT has a started a new web page for the Tech Spring Break Conference. Check here for more info both now and in the future.

Tuesday afternoon before we all returned home from HP StorageWorks Tech Day in Houston vExpert Rodney Haywood (@rodos) interviewed me on camera about the Virtumania podcast. We talked about how we came up with Virtumania for the name, what’s the theme of the show, and what to look forward to in future episodes.

I’m embedding the video here, but be sure to check out Rodney’s blog, Musings of Rodos, and the rest of his videos on his Rodos Vimeo Page.

Episode 5 brings you more VIRTUMANIA from the usual VIRTUMANIACS! Rick Vanover again joins Marc and I along with special guests Devang Panchigar and Chris Evans  for a great talk about storage virtualization. Devang, Chris, Rick and I were all in Houston, TX for the HP StorageWorks Tech Day listening and learning about HP’s storage virtualization solutions so we decided to extend the conversation! The following is the podcast summary:

VIRTUMANIA Podcast Episode 5 – Sir Mix-A-Lot Storage Virtualization. Rich Brambley (@rbrambley) of VMETC and Marc Farley (@3parfarley) of 3Par and StorageRap.com co host along with regular Rick Vanover (@rickvanover) of RickVanover.com. Devang Panchigar (@storagenerve) of storagenerve.com and Chris Evans (@chrismevans) of thestoragearchitect.com join as special guests. This week’s episode wanders through various storage virtualization options, references several vendors’ storage virtualization solutions, explores different storage design considerations in virtual environments, and expands on current and future storage integration with hypervisor management. Thanks to Greg Knieriemen (@knieriemen) of Chi Corporation for this Infosmack Production.

I’ll point out that Episode 5 was extremely challenging to record. With 4 of the 6 participants on the podcast sharing the same wifi from the HPStorageDay hotel, along with all the other bloggers and geeks online too, we had to stop and restart the conversation numerous times. Greg Knieriemen makes it all better with his post editing magic, however! You’ll still hear some audio quality issues throughout the episode, but you have no idea really what it was like – thanks to Greg!!

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In Episode 4 Greg substitutes for Marc as my Co Host and Rick Vanover returns for a great discussion with Mr. VMware at EMC Chad Sakac. The following is the episode summary:

VIRTUMANIA Podcast Episode 4 - The Coolness: Virtualization, Storage, and Cloud Futures. Rich Brambley (@rbrambley) of VMETC. Greg Knieriemen (@knieriemen) of Chi Corporation replaces Marc Farley (@3parfarley) of 3Par and StorageRap.com as this week’s episode co-host. Guest Host Rick Vanover (@rickvanover) of RickVanover.comreturns for more, and special guest Chad Sakac, VP of all things VMware at EMC, (@sakacc) of virtualgeek.typepad.com joins us to discuss some general virtualization “coolness”. The discussion ranges from information about Chad’s mass hirings of vSpecialists to candid information about future storage technologies for virtualization and the Cloud. Thanks to Greg Knieriemen for this Infosmack Production.

I want to thank Chad again for “tap dancing around” the stuff coming in the “next release” of VMware, EMC, and virtualization and storage in general.

Listen to the podcast with the embedded player or subscribe to get a weekly copy so you can listen when convenient.

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 “coolness” mentioned in VIRTUMANIA Episode 4:

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