My old technical marketing team of VMware is looking for someone to cover resource management. If you have a passion for resource management of virtual infrastructures and like to help VMware’s field personnel, partners and customers understand the technology then this job might be something for you.
A large part of my role was bridging between engineering, product management, product marketing and the field / customers. Provide information to the R&D side of VMware how the products are used and what features customers are requesting. You create collateral in every way or form to help the customer and field personnel understand and adopt the features.
I always enjoyed working with the different teams at VMware. The cloud resource management and vMotion team are an awesome group to work with. Be prepared to deep dive with these guys Marianas trench style. Having a customer facing background helps you provide the team valuable information to align the features to the customer wishes.
In this role you assist product marketing and product management in achieving their tactical and strategic plans.
Besides working with the responsible engineering and product marketing teams you collaborate with your technical marketing colleagues. You have the ability to interact with guys such as Ken Werneberg, Cormac Hogan, Mike Foley, William Lam, Alan Renouf or Rawlinson Rivera on a daily basis.
If you have thorough understanding of the vMotion features, DRS, Storage DRS, SIOC and DPM and love to help customers adopt these features, then apply now!
http://jobs.vmware.com/job/Palo-Alto-Sr_-Technical-Marketing-Manager-Resource-Management-Job-CA-94301/2593496/
Please note
Be aware that this is my former role and that I no longer work for VMware. Therefor I cannot answer any further inquiries. Please contact the VMware career team.

Tonight I will join Erik Haus and Krishna Raj Raja of CloudPhysics to talk about Datastore space management in a virtual infrastructure.
During the webinar Krishna will show you how the new CloudPhysics “Datastore Space” card and “Snapshots Gone Wild” card help you to identify and resolve space problems.
Join us!
The event will start at 6:00 pm Amsterdam Time on May 9, 2013. (9:00 AM PDT)
Go to the CloudPhysics site to register!

In the article “Migrating datastore clusters by changing storage profiles in a vCloud“ I closed with the remark that vCD is not providing an option to migrate virtual machines between compute clusters that are part of an elastic vDC. Fortunately my statement was not correct. Tomas Fojta pointed out that vCD does provide this functionality. Unfortunately this feature is not exposed in the vCloud organization portal but in the system portal of the vCloud infrastructure itself. In other words, to be able to use this functionality you need to have system administrator privileges.
In the previous article, I created the scenario where you want to move virtual machines between two sites. Site 1 contains compute cluster “vCloud-Cluster1” and datastore cluster “ DSC-Site-1”. Site 2 contains “vCloud-Cluster2” and datastore cluster “DSC-Site-2” . By changing the VM storage profile from Site-1 to Site-2, we have vCD instruct vSphere to storage vMotion the virtual machine disk files from one datastore cluster to another. Now at this point we need to migrate the compute state of the virtual machine.

Migrate virtual machine between clusters
Please note that vCD refers to clusters as resource pools. To migrate the virtual machine between clusters, log into the vCloud director and select the system tab. Go to the vSphere resources and select Resource Pools menu option.

The UI displays the clusters that are a part of the Provide vDC. Select the cluster a.k.a. resource pool in which the virtual machine resides. Select the virtual machine to migrate, right click the virtual machine to have vCD display the submenu and select the option “Migrate to…”

The user interface allows you to choose how you want to select the destination resource pool for the virtual machine: Either automatic and let vCD select the resource pool for you, or select the appropriate resource pool manually. When selecting automatic vCD selects the cluster with the most unreserved resources available. If the virtual machine happens to be in the cluster with the most unreserved resources available vCD might not move the virtual machine. In this case we want to place the virtual machine in site 2 so that means we need to select the appropriate cluster. We select vCloud-Cluster2 and click on OK to start the migration process.

vCD instructs vSphere to migrate the virtual machine between clusters with the use of vMotion. In order to use vMotion, both clusters need to have access to the datastore on which the virtual machine files reside. vCD does not use “enhanced’ vMotion where it can live migrate between host without being connected shared storage. Hopefully we see this enhancement in the future. When we log into vSphere we can verify if the life migration of the virtual machine was completed.
Select the destination cluster, in this case that would be vCloud-Cluster2, go to menu option Monitor, select tasks and click on the entry “Migrate virtual machine”

In the lower part of the screen, you get more detailed information of the Migrate-virtua-machine entry. As you can seem the virtual machine W2K8_RS_SP1 is migrated between servers 10.27.51.155 and 10.27.51.152. As we do not change anything to the storage configuration, the virtual machine files remains untouched and stay on the same datastore.
To determine if vCD has updated the current location of the virtual machine, log into vCD again, go to the menu option “Resource Pools” and select the cluster chosen as destination as the previously org cluster.

During my holiday, frankdenneman.nl got some unwanted attention.
I’m currently in the process of rebuilding the site.
Stay tuned for new updates!

After posting the Network I/O Control primer I received a couple of questions about the vSAN traffic system network resource pool, such as:

What’s the “vSphere Storage Area Network Traffic” system network resource pool for?
I tried to further investigate by searching practically everywhere, but I didn’t manage to find any detailed description…

The vSphere Storage Area Network Traffic is a system network pool designed for a future vSphere storage feature that is not released yet. Unfortunately Network I/O Control exposes this system network resource pool in vSphere 5.1 already.

Although it is defined as system network resource pool, the vSphere client lists the network pool as user-defined, providing the impression that this pool can be assigned to other streams of traffic. Unfortunately this is not possible. The pool is a system network resource pool and therefor only available to traffic that is specifically tagged by the VMkernel.
I received the question if this network pool could be assigned to a third party NIC or an FCoE card. As mentioned, network pools only manage traffic that is assigned with the appropriate tag. Tagging of traffic is only done by the VMkernel and this functionality is not exposed to the user.
Although its exposed in the user-interface, this system network pool has no function and it will not have any affect on other network streams. It can be happily ignored.