As VMware has just done a major announcement (vSAN 7.0 U1 and vSphere 7.0U1), additional sessions have been added to the VMworld agenda. I already did a top 15 post not too long ago, so I figured I would create a short post that contains my 5 favorite sessions that were just added to the extensive list of available sessions at VMworld. Here we go:
- Introducing VMware HCI Mesh, Powered by vSAN [HCI1405] by Peng Dai and Kris Groh
In this session Peng (lead developer) and Kris(Product Manager) will be telling you all about this cool new feature which allows you to mount vSAN datastores from another vSAN Cluster! Any more I need to say? - Deep Dive: vSAN Data Persistence Platform [HCI2529] by Gopala and Mansi
You hopefully all have seen the announcements around the vSAN Data Persistence platform by now, Gopala and Mansi will dive deep into what this platform exactly is, what it will bring to you as a customer, and how it works! - What’s New in vSphere [HCP2110] by Jared Rosoff
I am not 100% sure this session was just added, but I do expect Jared will be discussing some of the enhancements and changes VMware has introduced for vSphere with Tanzu with vSphere 7.0 Update 1. Make sure to attend! - Maximize the Power of Modern Databases and Stateful Services [HCI1979] Industry panel host by Lee Caswell
This session will be all about the new vSAN Data Persistent platform, partners like Cloudian, Datastax, Dell EMC, and MinIO will be providing details on what they bring to the table and how DPp makes life easier for you as a customer. On top of that, there’s a customer joining the panel as well! - vSphere with Tanzu Deep Dive [KUB2469] by Bo Fu and Derek Beard
In this session the newly announced VMware vSphere with Tanzu is going to be discussed. Will be an interesting session for sure!
VMworld 2020 is coming, which means I get to create a list of sessions again which I feel are worth attending. My focus will primarily be on sessions that are hosted by folks of the VMware Cloud Platform Business Unit, which means that the list will be dominated by sessions on the topic of vSAN, vSphere, VCF etc. The key reason for it being of course is that I know most of the speakers on those sessions, and I have attended many of those sessions in the past, so I know what to expect.
At VMworld US there was this really cool new initiative at the hands-on-labs. They had this competition called Odyssey where lab teams were competing against each other to complete labs successfully as fast as possible! These labs are on the topic of vSAN, vSphere, vRealize, NSX-T, Horizon and AppD. Not only was the gamification aspect of the HoL a very interesting and fun concept, but it also meant for the participant that they had to work in teams to complete the labs and had to communicate to get a good understanding of who is doing what. Adds a whole new aspect to the exercise, and at the same time made it even a bit more similar to how you manage your datacenters.
Unfortunately the rooms they allocated to my sessions filled up extremely fast. They have been able to move my sessions in to other rooms twice, but as HCI1870BER (HA best practices for vSAN) filled up again and there was no bigger room available the VMworld team decided to schedule a repeat for Thursday at 12:00, it is also filling up fast so make sure to register ASAP if you want to join the HA best practices session for vSAN. Note it is only a 30 minutes session, so it won’t be a full-on deep dive. Anyway. go to the following link to find all of my sessions and register. Before I forget, the Virtually Speaking Podcast session was a huge hit in the US, and I would also highly recommend signing up to that one!