How To Install EMC ProSphere

<Update May 21st ProSphere was updated to 2.0, the install is still the same) <Updated Jan 14th to include links to setting up VMware with ProSphere, and Cisco Switches – links at the bottom> In December, the Storage Resource Management Suite was updated and with that came ProSphere 1.7. If you are not familiar with […]

How to setup Solutions Enabler with SMI-S for Windows

From time to time I’ve needed to get Solutions Enabler setup for various different reasons, on various different lab environments, as well as helping customers get this setup for things like VASA and ProSphere. I figured I might as well document it and publish it so that in another 3 months, when I need […]

Storage Resource Management Suite

Hopefully you read my blog post around IT Transformation. If you recall, the whole movement around IT Transformation is the understanding that various companies’ differentiated value is coming more and more from their customer facing Applications. Because of this, more and more attention needs to be focused on these applications. This is driving the […]

Introducing EMC Elect

One of the things that drove me to social media (Twitter+Blogging+Facebook+Linkedin etc) was a desire to share with the community, good, bad or indifferent, but sharing none-the less. It’s probably a lot of the same reasons others gravitated towards this medium. It’s not for everyone, but for those that embrace it, they can certainly […]

IT Transformation

Lead, follow or get the hell out of the way. This is pretty true when describing trends in IT over the last few years. Every week, IT groups battle for relevancy within the organization they support. Ever heard the running joke that IT puts the “NO” in innovation? Being able to respond quickly to […]

VSI Install Guide – Path Management Plugin

The final installment of my VSI Install Guide Series is our Path Management Plugin. This is another free plugin that allows you to set, or change global multiplathing settings in your VMware vSphere environment as it relates to connecting to EMC storage solutions. If you’ve kept up with my other guides I took you […]

Sizing EMC VNX Series for VDI Workloads

HOT off the presses !! EMC just released today a new whitepaper called “Sizing EMC VNX Series for VDI Workloads” <Click here to download if you don’t have a Powerlink Account> that goes into some GREAT detail on how to properly understand some of the metrics you need to pay attention to when designing Virtual […]

The Legendary VMworld 2012 Hands On Labs list

<Updated Aug 22> Hot off the presses – in the immortal words of Barney Stinson ! This years VMword HoL is indeed going to be legendary !! For those of you that have been to VMworlds in the past, you understand the value of the VMware HoL. In most cases, you schedule your sessions […]

VMworld 2012 Tips Tricks and General FYIs

I recently published “EMC Guide to VMworld 2012” with lots of information focused on EMC customers, partners and employees that might be at VMworld I’ll probably publish one more later this week with a consolidate list of “Tweetups” that you might find interesting. In the mean time, I thought I would follow that blog […]

EMC Guide to Sessions at VMworld 2012

I totally stole this document from Kyle Keller (@latency) – EMC Cloud Director for our Federal team and former vSpecialist, because I’m getting asked a lot about EMC’s presence at VMworld I figured I’d toss this up on my blog site for others to view. With that said – here is your EMC Guide to […]