#vBrownBag Supermicro Build Day Live on Aug 2 2018 at 12:00 ET features a BigTwin vSAN Cluster

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Alastair Cooke @DemitasseNZ is a consultant, writer, trainer, producer of the popular #vBrownBag TechTalks at VMworld, and famed creator of AutoLab, with AutoLab 3.0 just released featuring vSphere 6.7 support! He's also a New Zealander who has apparently flown to the bay area, presumably to Supermicro in San Jose, for quite the unboxing and vSAN configuration event! I just learned of this yesterday, and found the details moments ago. I figured my audience might want to check this out, published just in time to be included in my TinkerTry Weekly subscribers who get their digest at 11pm ET on Wednesdays.

Having just worked with a customer on configuring the BOM (Build Of Materials) for just such a 2U/4 node system last week for my day job, this nice surprise event couldn't be more timely. I work with customers on the hardware configs for many different brands, and the more I know about the variety of HCI solutions out there, the better! The only thing is that I'm in a NYC hotel overnight: good thing I just talked the front desk into a late checkout, we'll have to see see how long I can watch until housekeeping kicks me out.

Alastair is apparently with new-to-VMware industry veteran Keith Townsend @CTOAdvisor, which should make this an extra interesting, informative, and entertaining event.

Here's Alastair's tweet, with here's the rest of the event details found here:

builddaylive.com/supermicro

Here's the YouTube description:

Our next challenge to Build Day Live is at Supermicro. We will be doing a datacenter install, looking at the product lines they offer, and configure VMWare VSAN on a BigTwin 2u chassis.

August 2nd, @9 AM PST

The CTO Advisor Keith Townsend will be on-hand with executive Q&A http://thectoadvisor.com

The Gorilla Guide will be creating an ebook for you on this experience. http://www.gorilla.guide/

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Build Day Live with Supermicro
Jul 16 2018

... As a minimum, we will deploy VSAN onto a BigTwin. BigTwin is the four servers in a 2U appliance that we often see as a HyperConverged Infrastructure (HCI) appliance. I am very interested in how simple discrete servers and VSAN are to deploy compared with integrated HCI. Hopefully, we will have some Intel Optane drives for ridiculous performance. Maybe we will also be able to show off one of Supermicro's new storage servers that can hold 32 NVMe drives, for even more storage performance. The third product that we may be able to play with is a GPU loaded server for Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML) workloads. With all the AI/ML noise I would like to see a problem solved without months of work by Data Scientists.
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