The VMworld Sessions have been announced and as always I wanted to list a couple which I felt are worth calling out. In the past I’ve heard people complaining that sessions were not technical enough or not exciting. I have listed all sessions which I will add to my schedule as soon as I can as I know they will solid technical sessions and they are hosted by great presenters! Note that any sessions containing “futures” are not showing up yet. As soon as they will show up I will update this list.
**EDIT: 3/August, added 1 new session**
Must See!
- BCO2479 – Understanding vSphere Stretched Clusters, Disaster Recovery, and Planned Workload Mobility – Chad Sakac (EMC) and Lee Dilworth (VMware)
- BCO2874 – vSphere HA 5.0 and SMP Fault Tolerance – Keith Farkas (VMware Engineering) and Jim Chow (VMware Engineering)
- CIM1264 – Private vCloud Architecture Technical Deepdive – David Hill (VMware)
- CIM1302 – Active Directory considerations in a multi-tenant cloud infrastructure – Deji Akomolafe (VMware)
- CIM1600 – vCloud Networking Finally Explained – Mike DiPetrillo (VMware)
- CIM2452 – vCenter Operations Tech Deepdive – Kit Colbert (VMware Engineering)
- EUC1547 – ThinApp, So You Think You Know Everything There Is? – Peter Bjork (VMware)
- EUC2866 – View Troubleshooting – Matt Coppinger (VMware) and John Dodge (VMware)
- TEX1928 – Implementation of Application Awareness within the Web Client – Tom Stephens (VMware)
- VSP1700 – vSphere 5.0 Storage Features – Cormac Hogan (VMware)
- VSP1883 – PowerCLI Best Practices – Alan Renouf (VMware) and Luc Dekens (Eurocontrol)
- VSP1882 – Manage ESXi with PowerCLI – Alan Renouf (VMware) and Luc Dekens (Eurocontrol)
- VSP1933 – Storage IO Control for NAS – Ajay Gulati (VMware Engineering)
- VSP1999 – Esxtop for Advanced Users – Krishna Raja (VMware Performance Engineering)
- VSP2376 – Performance and scalability enhancements in VMFS-5 – Mostafa Khalil (VMware)
- VSP2447 – Understanding Virtualization Memory Management Concepts – Kit Colbert (VMware Engineering) and YP Chien (Kingston)
- VSP3067 – Mythbusters Goes Virtual – Eric Sloof (NTPro) and Mattias Sundling (Quest Software)
- VSP3205 – Technology Overview: vStorage APIs for VM and Application Granular Data Management – Satyam Vaghani (VMware Engineering) and vijay ramachandran (VMware) **NEW**
- VSP3255 – Storage vMotion Deep Dive and Best Practices – Min Cai (VMware Engineering) and Ali Mashtizadeh (VMware Engineering)
- VSP3116 – vSphere Resource Management Deep Dive – Frank Denneman (VMware) and Valentin Hamburger (VMware)
- VSP3305 – Upgrading to ESXi – Kyle Gleed (VMware)
- VSP1823 – Storage DRS – Manish Lohani (VMware Product Management)
- VSP1926 – Getting Started in vSphere Design – Scott Lowe (EMC)
- VSP2757 – A deepdive on vDS and Nexus 1Kv – Jason Nash
- VSP3307 – Deployment Considerations for ESXi – Charu Chaubal (VMware) and David Day (VMware)
My Sessions:
- VSP1682 – vSphere Cluster – Q&A, Frank Denneman and Duncan Epping
- VSP1425 – Ask the Expert vBloggers with Chad Sakac, Scott Lowe, Frank Denneman and I. Moderated by Rick Scherer.
- VSP1956 – The ESXi Quiz with John Troyer, Pablo Roesch and Duncan Epping **NEW**
K s k Prasad says
Hi Duncan,
I am frequent visitor of your blog.. your HA & DRS deepdive are very useful Topics.
Can you tell how to view all these VMworld Sessions.
Duncan Epping says
visit vmworld or buy a vmworld subscription.
Calvin Zito (@HPStorageGuy) says
Hey Duncan – heard you won’t be heads down in the lab this year so hopefully I’ll finally meet you.
Aboubacar Diare, a virtualization architect in our HP storage R&D team, has a session with a VMware technologists to talk about VAAI. The session # and title are VSP2774: Supercharge Your VMware Deployment with VAAI and VAAI-enabled Storage Arrays. Aboubacar is the guy who answered an EVA question you had some time back on your blog.
Mattias Popp, another architect in our lab has a session BCO2913: DR Troubleshooting and Configuration Tips for Multi-site Storage Replication with Site Recovery Manager.
These are the two deeply technical guys I go to when I have questions about storage and VMware so I think these should be good sessions.
Hope to finally meet!
Jonas says
Hi Duncan – are these only the US sessions or are some of these also going to be shown in the VMworld Europe 2011 conference?
As a VMworld virgin (going first time in October for VMworld Europe!), could you shed some light as to what the abbreviations mean in the beginning of the sessions?
BCO
CIM
EUC
TEX
VSP
-Jonas, Denmark
Duncan Epping says
Some of these will be in Denmark.. will do an article like this for denmark as well.
Anyway:
BCO = Business Continuity
CIM = Cloud Infrastructure and Monitoring
EUC = End User Computing
TEX = Technology Exchange for Alliance Partners
VSP = vSphere
Check for more details : http://vmworld2011.wingateweb.com/published/vmworld2011/global_files/VMworld_2011_Track_Descriptions.pdf
Celia says
So many great sessions but few days 🙁 My Schedule is full already! hahaha