Yellow Bricks

by Duncan Epping

2012

MyVMworld report

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VMworld has always been the craziest week of the year for me personally and 2012 was no exception. Being closely involved with the vCloud Suite launch I had an idea around what to expect, but I would not have expected the week to be this intense.

It is going to take me a couple of weeks to properly recover, but it was worth it. This report gives an idea of all that was going on in “my world” at VMworld 2012 in San Francisco.

Day 0

My VMworld started on Sunday at TAM day with the Birds of a Feather (BoF) lunch. These lunches are particularly interesting as you get to talk to customers in an informal setting. I was part of the BC/DR table and most of the discussions were around stretched VLANs, application discovery and re-ip’ing. I guess common operational and architectural problems people face…

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VMworld Barcelona, start scheduling now…

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VMworld San Francisco just ended and now we are already prepping for Barcelona. I was just checking the Schedule Builder and noticed my sessions are up there. Make sure you schedule asap as I expect these to fill up quickly again just like the US.

New session added for PEX

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A couple of weeks back I posted my session details for PEX. I just had a session added to my schedule which I wanted to inform you about. This session was originally hosted by no one less than Mike DiPetrillo. Chris Colotti and I have been asked to take over the session.

Session 1262 (Wednesday 2/12 @ 12:30pm): DR of the Cloud and to the Cloud

This session will look at DR and the cloud. Two different DR scenarios will be presented in depth – DR of the cloud and DR to the cloud. DR to the cloud is how end consumers fail over resources to a cloud provider. DR of the cloud is how you fail over cloud resources from one site to another. This session will go in depth on the consumer and provider side of the architecture. We’ll look at how to replicate the data, what applications are primary targets, how to size environments, how to maintain multi-tenancy, and what to avoid when architecting these solutions. This session is a must for anyone considering tier 1 applications for the cloud.

Presenters: Chris Colotti and Duncan Epping

Don’t forget to add it to your schedule, it is going to be a really cool session!