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From it’s initial launch VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) has been an all VMware software-defined stack powered by vSAN for both the management and workload storage domains. The FAQ states that both NFS & iSCSI storage are supported with VCF in 3.5, the difference between the support of those protocols is that NFS storage supports automatic provisioning of storage as opposed to iSCSI storage which must be manually provisioned. As far as I know VMware has not made any announcement around this new support, I found out through meetings with the VCF product manager at VMware who said it was OK for partners to make announcements about it. You can learn more about VMware Cloud Foundation on the VMware website and I suspect at some point VMware will publish acknowledge of the new FC support somewhere.

The annual call for content for VMworld is now open through April 16th, however this year VMware has changed the submission process and is basically only looking for customer case studies. Instead of the old form where you did an abstract, outline and key takeaways on whatever topic you wanted, now you fill out a simple speaker interest form where you enter your name, title and how many case studies you want to submit (2 max) and then you fill in the following: * VMware has made this change to “lighten the submission load”, if you read into that it sounds like VMware wants to limit the submissions to be only case studies which will greatly reduce the amount of sessions they need to review (and ultimately reject). Below are the types of speaking opportunities available this year: I may try and submit one on VVols as case studies are sorely needed to promote it, but finding customers able and willing to participate is always a challenge.

I also did a post on it last year and laid out some evidence that it may have not been a permanent tattoo which is what I had suspected. I have never heard him confirm or deny that it was a permanent tattoo, but recently in an interview with CRN he confirmed it was a long term temporary tattoo: So I’m giving the keynote that it was fun and there was great energy in the room. After the keynote, I’m running around like crazy.

Join myself along with special guests Eric Wright, Angelo Luciani and John Troyer as we countdown the top 25 bloggers based on the results from my annual VMware/virtualization blog survey. This event will be broadcast via a live webinar at 8:30am PST on Thursday March 21st and also saved to YouTube for later viewing. So don’t miss out on the fun and go sign up for a great event where we will be covering: • State of blogging today (Why, value, how to be successful at it, vExpert program) What’s new with Top vBlog and scoring process •