Check out "vSphere 6.5 – Everything You Need To Know" by Brian Graf & "Migrate 2 VCSA (you should)" podcast featuring Emad Younis

Brian Graf, VMware Senior Product Manager - HA/DRS

You might remember Brian from this wonderful work of art, his extremely detailed technical poster called:

• PowerCLI 5.8r1 Reference Poster Now Available!

You'll also see from following him @vBrianGraf that he's quite the world traveler, and I'm so glad to have had a chance to meet him in person several times now. I'm still regretting not taking his vSAN public speaking tip. But you didn't come here to read insider jokes, you want to jump right to that new new button he's added right up at the top of his site that bring you to his many vSphere 6.5 posts with a ton of screenshots of announced-but-not-yet-available vSphere 6.5. This large library of high quality articles is very nicely organized too:

• vSphere 6.5 – Everything You Need To Know

  vCenter Server Appliance 6.5 (VCSA)
  vSphere HA
  DRS
  vSphere API & CLI
  Encrypted vMotion

For folks like me brave enough to sometimes use our ESXi as our workstation/datacenter all-in-one, see also Brian's recent post:

• Enabling Latency Sensitivity Option on VMs - Should I do it

Emad Younis, VMware Senior Technical Marketing Engineer

You may have come across another amazing poster:

• Introducing the vCenter Server Appliance 6.0 Reference Poster
  Jul 15 2016 by Emad Younis at VMware vSphere Blog

Peruse his detailed series on vSphere 6.5.

Or, you can have a listen to him talking all about VCSA. Emad clearly has a bit of fun on this particularly enjoyable podcast, where you're sure to learn a lot about the many technical benefits of moving to VCSA, and how to migrate over without loosing anything. I can safely say that in my home lab adventures with VCSA since the early 5.5 days, things have only gotten better!

Interested in Emad Younis' very informative recent podcast appearance, you might be? Here's an embedded player with speed controls, and a 30 sec. skip-back button you'll be needing:

• Virtually Speaking Podcast: 26: Migrate 2 VCSA (you should)
  overcast.fm/+GDc5IgQdQ/4:40

but don't forget to also subscribe on iTunes or Soundcloud.

See all the details about Emad's guest appearance on that special Virtually Speaking podcast episode, expertly co-hosted by Pete Flecha (@vPedroArrow) and John Nicholson (@Lost_Signal):

• Virtually Speaking Podcast Episode 26: Migrate 2 VCSA (you should)

and don't forget to also check out Emad's article:

• vCenter Server Migration Tool: vSphere 6.0 Update 2m

Nov 04 2016 Update

Sitting near the back at a recent Orlando VMUG during the kick-off keynote, suddenly a tap on the shoulder. There's Brian, smiling, despite having just come in from a red-eye flight. We agreed that Orlando Airport is a strange place to be without ones kids.

Later that day, somebody was talking to me about the SuperServer demo I had just done, and the conversation wandered over to VCSA and backup. Of course, I then introduced him to Brian, who had just written an excellent article about that very topic! Just one of those many little magic moments that only happen, in person, face to face. We later had a lively talk with a bunch of folks about Veeam installs on Windows versus NAKIVO in a preconfigured OVA. In the afternoon, Brian flew off to Boston for the next VMUG USERCON, on the very next day!

Nov 23 2016 Update

But wait, there's more! You should also check out Brian Graf's recent appearance as well, you'll thank me later!

• Virtually Speaking Podcast: Episode 30: vSphere 6.5 HA and DRS with Brian Graf

but don't forget to also subscribe on iTunes or Soundcloud.

So there you go, IT Pro, perfect entertainment to enjoy during your holiday travels!

See also at TinkerTry

• VMware vSphere 6.5 announced today, here's how to download it fast, once it becomes available in Q4 2016
  Oct 18 2016

• Check out vBrownBag's many "Focus on the expert – VMworld US 2016" video interviews, featuring Xeon D cluster demonstration
  Sep 10 2016

• My experience at the Boston VMUG USERCON Dec 8 2015, amazing speakers and 12 home lab giveaways!
  Dec 09 2015

  In walks VMware's worldly Brian Graf, of the VMware PowerCLI Blog, and visiting as a speaker

• vTagion.com "Virtualization is contagious" - a very new blog, already many good articles
  Apr 03 2013

See also

Brian

• Tinkertry… A Great Source For Virtualization, Storage, and IT Information
  May 18 2013 by Brian Graf

• vTagion.com by Brian Graf
  Brian's Virtualization Blog

• VMware PowerCLI Blog
  Brian's PowerCLI blog at VMware Blogs.
  Here's an excerpt from his bio that appears there:

  Brian Graf is a Senior Product Manager - Distributed Resource Management (DRS/HA/DPM) at VMware. Previous to Product Management, Brian worked as a Senior Technical Marketing Manager at VMware, focused on PowerCLI Automation and ESXi Lifecycle technologies. Previous roles also include: Consultant for EMC Consulting. His main focus was Data center migration methodologies and implementations.

Emad

• EmadYounis.com
  Emad Younis's personal blog

• VMware vSphere Blog
  Emad's posts at VMware Blogs.
  Here's an excerpt from his bio that appears there:

  Emad Younis is a Senior Technical Marketing Engineer working in the Cloud Platform Business Unit at VMware. He currently focuses on vCenter Server Appliance and vCenter Migrations. Previous to VMware he worked as a virtualization architect designing and implementing large enterprise vSphere environments both as a customer and partner.

• #vBrownBag Team
  Yep, that's the same Emad!