Tech Futures – what is interesting
Gareth Edwards
@GarethEdwards86
www.openhomelab.org (Unofficial HCL)
Host Resources Deep Dive
NSX – Network virtualisation
P.Gelsinger – “It’s the secret sauce”
Speakers recommendation – “Learn network virtualisation. It will be the next big thing.”
IOT…
Who has a Hive / Nest / Echo /…
Rapid adoption (Happy for home but would you have them in the DC?)
Big concept – Getting data from devices to the centre
Edge Computing
Micro – Looks like a ‘normal’ PC but has multiple smaller PCs inside.
Nano – Maybe NUC’s, hyper converged network & data
(Robot cars could collect 1 PiB of data per day!)
Jack of all trades…
Cloud (Which)
Hypervisors (Which)
Containers / Serverless
Keep Learning —> Migration to Architect
IT Architect Series, The Journey
A wiki was born – Home Labs
Scale of labs. From large HP server, to 5 NUC cluster and now cloud based.
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure combines the elasticity and utility of public cloud with the granular control, security, and predictability of on-premises infrastructure to deliver high-performance, high availability and cost-effective infrastructure services.
What is you lab used for?
Questions to solve and solutions given on openhomelab.org
“With great power, comes great electricity bill”
Cooling and noise problems
Networking – Beware the license
Storage – More IOPs helps
Buy labs license ‘pack’
labs.hol.vmware.com/HOL/catalogs/
VR Next?
Demo