VMworld Content Catalog live, here are my recommendations!

First of all, some shameless self-promotion. Make sure to add the following to sessions to your schedule builder:

• BCO1159 – Architecting and Operating a vSphere Metro Storage Cluster with Lee Dilworth and Duncan Epping
• VSP1504 – Ask the Expert vBloggers with Rick Scherer, Frank Denneman, Chad Sakac, Scott Lowe and Duncan Epping
• VSP1168 – Architecting a Cloud Infrastructure with Aidan Dalgleish, Chris Colotti, David Hill and Duncan Epping

Traditionally I always do a list of sessions, when the content catalog goes live, that I recommend attending. I tried to make a top 10, and then I figured that would never work. I ended up with 3o sessions. This list is in completely random order and I am sure I missed out on a few really cool and deepdive sessions but here are the ones I recommend. Note that I tend to recommend technical sessions, if you are looking for high level overviews you probably can skip most of these. If you are like me and love to see technical deep subject matter experts… add them!

1. INF-SEC1840 – vSphere Hardening to Achieve Regulatory Compliance: Better, Faster, Stronger with Charu Chaubal, Davi Ottenheimer, Ben Thomas and James Sullivan
2. APP-CAP2956 – Inside the Hadoop Machine with Richard McDougall
3. TEX2158 – Scalable Virtual Networks with VMware’ VXLAN – Customer Deployment Scenarios with T Sridhar and Ravindra Neelakant
4. INF-SEC1282 – Automating Security and Compliance with Disaster Recovery Using VCM, vCOps, vShield, VIN and SRM with Michael Webster and Shubha Bheemarao
5. APP-BCA1516 – Virtualizing SQL High Availability with Jeff Szastak and Michael Corey
6. INF-BCO2155 – vCloud DR for Oxford University Computing Services – Real World Example with Aidan Dalgleish and Gary Blake
7. INF-VSP2164 – Automation of vCloud Director Disaster Recovery with Alan Renouf and Aidan Dalgleish
8. EUC2620 – PCoIP – Tuning, Tactics, and Tools with Chuck Hirstius, Banit Agrawal and Lawrence Spracklen
9. INF-VSP2448 – Automating Bare Metal to the Cloud and Beyond with Alan Renouf, Jake Robinson and Eric Williams
10. OPS-CSM1167 – Architecting for vCloud Allocation Models with Frank Denneman and Chris Colotti
11. EUC1357 – Dispelling the Myths of Desktops as a Service (DaaS) with VMware View with Andre Leibovi and David Stafford
12. OPS-CIM1775 – VMware vCenter Operations Customers Come Forward to “Tell Their Story” with Ben Scheerer
13. INF-SEC1840 – vSphere Hardening to Achieve Regulatory Compliance: Better, Faster, Stronger with Charu Chaubal, David Ottenheimer, James Sullivan and Ben Thomas
14. EUC2021 – A View of Hertz: Real World Lessons Learned Designing, Deploying and Managing View in Hertz with Graham Gordon and Simon Long
15. INF-BCO2982 – Stretched Clusters & SRM; How and When to Choose One, the Other, or Both with Chad Sakac and Vaughn Steward
16. INF-VSP1353 – vCenter 5.1: A Technical Deep Dive with Justin King, Ameet Jani and Ratnadeep Bhattacharjee
17. INF-VSP1365 – Understanding VMware ESXi Security with Kyle Gleed and Yatin Patil
18. INF-VSP1423 – esxtop for Advanced Users with Krishna Raj Raja
19. INF-BCO1505 – vSphere Replication: Technical Walk-through with Ken Werneburg and Aleksey Pershin
20. INF-VSP1168 – Architecting a Cloud Infrastructure with David Hill, Chris Colotti and Aidan Dalgleish
21. INF-NET2162 – VXLAN Deep Dive with Arun Goel and Kenneth Duda
22. EUC2005 – Troubleshooting View: Looking under the Hood with John Dodge and Matt Coppinger
23. INF-VSP1683 – vSphere Cluster Resource Pools Best Practices with Frank Denneman and Rawlinson Riverra
24. INF-NET2207 – vSphere Distributed Switch – Technical Deep Dive with Jason Nash
25. INF-VSP1196 – vCloud Director Networking Deep Dive with Kamau Wanguhu
26. INF-VSP3221 – VM Scare? Heterogeneous Virtualization’s Impact with Chris Wolf
27. INF-VSP1475 – vSphere 5 Design Discussions with Scott Lowe and Forbes Guthrie
28. INF-VSP3046 – Cloud Infrastructure Suite: From Management Application to Integrated Applications and Extensible Platform with Ben Verghese
29. INF-STO1545 – Architecting Storage DRS Datastore Clusters with Frank Denneman and Valentin Hamburger
30. OPS-CIM1564 – Troubleshooting Using vCenter Operations Manager with Kit Colbert and Praveen Kannan