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My VMworld San Francisco session recommendations

Duncan Epping · Jul 11, 2013 ·

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:

  1. VSVC5511 – Deploying vSphere with OpenStack: What It Means to Your Cloud Environment by Scott Lowe and Dan Wendlandt
  2. VSVC5364 – Storage IO Control: Concepts, Configuration and Best Practices to Tame Different Storage Architectures by Sachin Manpathak and Ajay Gulati
  3. VSVC5280 – DRS: New Features, Best Practices and Future Directions by Aashish Parikh and Ajay Gulati
  4. VSVC4966 – vSphere Distributed Switch – Technical Deep Dive by Jason Nash
  5. VSVC4944 – PowerCLI Best Practices – A Deep Dive by Luc Dekens and Alan Renouf
  6. VSVC4886 – Innovations in vMotion: A Technical Preview by Jennifu Wu, Gabe Tarasuk-Levin, Sreekanth Setty and Min Cai
  7. VSVC4830 – vCenter Deep Dive by Ameet Jani and Justin King
  8. VCM5477 – Integration Deep Dive: Cloud Service Automation with NSX and vCloud Automation Center by Somik Behera and Thomas Kraus
  9. VCM5008 – vCenter Operations and the Quest for the Missing Metrics by Eric Sloof and Duco Jaspars
  10. VAPP4683 – Maximize Database Performance in Your Software-Defined Datacenter by Mark Achtemichuk and Michael Webster
  11. 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
  12. STO5638 – Best Practices with Software Defined Storage by Vaughn Stewart and Chad Sakac
  13. STO5636 – Storage DRS: Deep Dive and Best Practices to Suit Your Storage Environments by Mustafa Uysal and Sachin Manpathak
  14. STO5559 – Storage Industry Trends by Alex Jauch and Vijay Ramachandran
  15. STO5027 – VMware Virtual SAN Technical Best Practices by Cormac Hogan and Kiran Madnani
  16. STO4798 – Software-Defined Storage: The VCDX Way by Wade Holmes and Rawlinson Rivera
  17. STO4791 – Just Because You Could, Doesn’t Mean You Should: Lessons Learned in Storage Best Practices (v2.0) by Patrick Carmichael
  18. 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
  19. SEC5828 – Datacenter Transformation with Network Virtualization: Today and Tomorrow by Martin Casado
  20. SEC5582 – Multi-site Deployments with Network Virtualization by Pepe Garcia and Kamau Wanguhu
  21. PHC5640 – The Story Behind Designing and Building a Distributed Automation Framework for vCloud Hybrid Services by Nick Weaver
  22. PHC4750 – How to Build a Hybrid Cloud in Less than a Day by David Hill
  23. NET5716 – Advanced NSX Architecture by Bruce Davie
  24. NET5521 – vSphere Distributed Switch – Design and Best Practices by Ray Budavari and Venky Deshpande
  25. NET5184 – Designing Your Next Generation Datacenter for Network Virtualization by Ray Budavari and Ben Basler
  26. EUC5291 – Horizon View Troubleshooting: Looking under the Hood by Matt Coppinger and Pat Lee
  27. EUC5238 – Horizon Workspace: Data Deep Dive by Rasmus Jensen and Marcello Golfieri
  28. EUC4546 – Architecting VMware Horizon Workspace for Scale and Performance by Kit Colbert, Jared Cook and Andrew Johnson
  29. BCO4977 – VMware vSphere Replication: Technical Walk-Through with Engineering by Aleksey Pershin and Ken Werneburg
  30. BCO4756 – VMware vSphere Data Protection (VDP) Technical Deep Dive And Troubleshooting Session by Jacy Townsend and Darryl Hing

 

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  1. Dov Brajtman says

    26 July, 2013 at 15:52

    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.

  2. Andrew Mitchell says

    6 August, 2013 at 05:50

    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.

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Duncan Epping is a Chief Technologist in the Office of CTO of the Cloud Platform BU at VMware. He is a VCDX (# 007), the author of the "vSAN Deep Dive", the “vSphere Clustering Technical Deep Dive” series, and the host of the "Unexplored Territory" podcast.

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