Every year I do this blog post with recommendations, I hadn’t yet this year and several people started asking for it so I figured it was about time. People always complain sessions aren’t technical enough, and my answer typically is: then you have been attending the wrong sessions… So if you were one of those folks last year, make sure to include some of the sessions below in to your schedule as I will personally guarantee you will get something out of each of these. These are not the average marketing sessions, but rather sessions by deep technical people, or just plain awesome presenters. Note that I tried to limit myself to just 20 / 30 sessions, so some awesome sessions might be missing, don’t shoot me for that as when going through the list I figured I could easily get to 50… but then I might as well just link the content catalog.
This is my top 30, in no particular order:
- VSVC5511 – Deploying vSphere with OpenStack: What It Means to Your Cloud Environment by Scott Lowe and Dan Wendlandt
- VSVC5364 – Storage IO Control: Concepts, Configuration and Best Practices to Tame Different Storage Architectures by Sachin Manpathak and Ajay Gulati
- VSVC5280 – DRS: New Features, Best Practices and Future Directions by Aashish Parikh and Ajay Gulati
- VSVC4966 – vSphere Distributed Switch – Technical Deep Dive by Jason Nash
- VSVC4944 – PowerCLI Best Practices – A Deep Dive by Luc Dekens and Alan Renouf
- VSVC4886 – Innovations in vMotion: A Technical Preview by Jennifu Wu, Gabe Tarasuk-Levin, Sreekanth Setty and Min Cai
- VSVC4830 – vCenter Deep Dive by Ameet Jani and Justin King
- VCM5477 – Integration Deep Dive: Cloud Service Automation with NSX and vCloud Automation Center by Somik Behera and Thomas Kraus
- VCM5008 – vCenter Operations and the Quest for the Missing Metrics by Eric Sloof and Duco Jaspars
- VAPP4683 – Maximize Database Performance in Your Software-Defined Datacenter by Mark Achtemichuk and Michael Webster
- VAPP4679 – Software-Defined Datacenter Design Panel for Monster VM’s: Taking the Technology to the Limits for High Utilisation, High Performance Workloads by Andrew Mitchell, Mark Achtemichuk, Mostafa Khalil and Michael Webster
- STO5638 – Best Practices with Software Defined Storage by Vaughn Stewart and Chad Sakac
- STO5636 – Storage DRS: Deep Dive and Best Practices to Suit Your Storage Environments by Mustafa Uysal and Sachin Manpathak
- STO5559 – Storage Industry Trends by Alex Jauch and Vijay Ramachandran
- STO5027 – VMware Virtual SAN Technical Best Practices by Cormac Hogan and Kiran Madnani
- STO4798 – Software-Defined Storage: The VCDX Way by Wade Holmes and Rawlinson Rivera
- STO4791 – Just Because You Could, Doesn’t Mean You Should: Lessons Learned in Storage Best Practices (v2.0) by Patrick Carmichael
- SEC5891 – Technical Deep Dive: Build a Collapsed DMZ Architecture for Optimal Scale and Performance Based on NSX Firewall Services by Ranga Maddipudi and Shubha Bheemarao
- SEC5828 – Datacenter Transformation with Network Virtualization: Today and Tomorrow by Martin Casado
- SEC5582 – Multi-site Deployments with Network Virtualization by Pepe Garcia and Kamau Wanguhu
- PHC5640 – The Story Behind Designing and Building a Distributed Automation Framework for vCloud Hybrid Services by Nick Weaver
- PHC4750 – How to Build a Hybrid Cloud in Less than a Day by David Hill
- NET5716 – Advanced NSX Architecture by Bruce Davie
- NET5521 – vSphere Distributed Switch – Design and Best Practices by Ray Budavari and Venky Deshpande
- NET5184 – Designing Your Next Generation Datacenter for Network Virtualization by Ray Budavari and Ben Basler
- EUC5291 – Horizon View Troubleshooting: Looking under the Hood by Matt Coppinger and Pat Lee
- EUC5238 – Horizon Workspace: Data Deep Dive by Rasmus Jensen and Marcello Golfieri
- EUC4546 – Architecting VMware Horizon Workspace for Scale and Performance by Kit Colbert, Jared Cook and Andrew Johnson
- BCO4977 – VMware vSphere Replication: Technical Walk-Through with Engineering by Aleksey Pershin and Ken Werneburg
- BCO4756 – VMware vSphere Data Protection (VDP) Technical Deep Dive And Troubleshooting Session by Jacy Townsend and Darryl Hing
Great suggestions, thanks.
It’s a shame that some some of these overlap. I would have liked to attend most of them.
Looks to be a great number of sessions.
An update on session VAPP4679 (Monster VMs)
We’re happy to announce that we will also have Frank Denneman (VCDX #29) on the panel, so even more knowledge and experience to share with attendees.