There are a few different ways in which you can connect data stored on an iSCSI storage array to VMware, to give access to the guest virtual machines that run on the hypervisor. VMDK In guest iSCSI RDM Zerto is a replication solution that integrates with VMware, shadowing the writes that VMware sees made by guest VMs and based on your configuration, replicating these to a remote target - with an RPO typically within seconds (depending on bandwidth etc).

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2014 year in review

Professionally, 2014 was a year in which technology became more complex with the number of solutions available to meet similar business requirements, principally due to the number of startup companies continuously innovating. This required a change in approach which saw me attend VMworld in Barcelona, and seek out IT supply companies that were engineering as opposed sales led. Both were successful endeavours, especially through being able to speak to subject matter experts of all the various solutions available.

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Product Description: The newest JACK RYAN thriller from Tom Clancy, following on from Command Authority, sees the return of the best loved series character from the world’s favourite international thriller writer. North Korean ICBM crashes into the Sea of Japan. A veteran CIA officer is murdered in Ho Chi Minh City, and a package of forged documents goes missing. The pieces are there, but assembling the puzzle will cost Jack Ryan, Jr.

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Travel: From the airport - if you arrive at the airport when the VMworld shuttles are in operation (check the www.vmworld.com website) if you head towards the exit there will be someone standing there (usually with a VMworld placard) who will tell you directions to a chain of people who will point you to the free shuttle to bring you to the conference centre. If you are flying on a connecting flight to get to Barcelona and have a choice between London Heathrow, Paris CDG or Amsterdam Schiphol - the latter is the best choice - less busy, friendly staff & modern clean airport.

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Focus on devops, automation & hybrid cloud: SDDC2556 – Customer Panel: Journey to Software Defined Datacenter HBC1533 – How to Build a Hybrid Cloud - Steps to Extend Your Datacenter HBC2371 – Stick a Knife in IT! Chef + vCloud Hybrid Service = A Well Done Cloud SDDC1767 – SDDC at Scale with EVO: RACK Technology Preview, a VMware Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI) Solution HBC2577 – Hybrid Sandboxing – Create the Ultimate On and Off Premises Test/Dev Factory HBC2068 – vCloud Hybrid Service Networking Technical Deep Dive OPT1983 – Case Study: Implementing Operations Transformation Using vCenter Operations and vCloud Automation Center EUC2321 – When Mobile Met Desktop: AirWatch and Horizon Vision and Integration Strategy STO1965 – Virtual Volumes Technical Deep Dive SDDC1337 – Technical Deep Dive on EVO: RAIL, the new VMware Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Appliance STO2480 – Software Defined Storage - The VCDX Way Part II : The Empire Strikes Back One session that really wanted to go to but won’t be able to attend due to timing is:

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Ian Noble

Terraform & Ansible | VMware SDDC, AWS & Azure | Win2019 & Linux | Microsoft 365 & MEM

Scotland, UK