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…