The floor is still open, so take your chance and ask a question. We’ve already got some great questions about current designs and new designs but we, Rick Scherer, Tom Howarth, Scott Lowe, Chad Sakac and myself, are up for the challenge. Ask anything you like as long as it is virtualization related of course. Don’t limit yourself, if you would like to send us a Visio diagram to explain a situation that’s even possible. Also make sure to add TA2259 to your schedule builder as soon as it comes online!
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Run it with VMware Contest…
There are still a couple of days left to enter the “Run It With VMware” contest. I just noticed a tweet which had a link to a video of one of the contestants. I thought it was funny, especially the last bit were the woman does the vSphere rap. Anyway, $ 5000,- grand prize and four $ 1000,- second prizes should be more than worth the effort. For more info check this website.
You can find more videos on Youtube.com.
VMworld, just be there!
Usually 1.5 month before VMworld all the “VMworld, why you should attend” posts start appearing. My title says it all, Just be there! But if you are still not sure why, here are a bunch of arguments you can use to convince yourself and your manager…
As most of you know Rick Scherer, Scott Lowe, Chad Sakac, Tom Howarth and myself will be hosting the Ask the Experts Panel Session(TA2259). This session will be a round-table alike session. You get the chance to ask questions regarding virtualization and designing virtual infrastructures or as we like to call it these days (internal) clouds. If you’ve got a question you can already ask them here, you can even provide us diagrams if you feel that would help better understanding your environment!
Now of course this is not the only reason why you should attend VMworld 2009 in San Francisco. Besides the fact that San Francisco is one of the coolest cities in the US these are the reasons why I think you should visit VMworld 2009 in no particular order:
- VMworld Party. Do I even need to explain this? The reputation this party has says enough. It’s more than worth it. Not only the VMworld party also companies like Veeam, Vizioncore etc will organize parties which are excellent to meet people! And what about the Warm Up Party? Be there!
- VMware Technology Exchange Developer Day
Something different for a change, a whole day based on developing tools, scripts etc! Make sure you attend this extra day it will be worth it! - Networking. No better place to do networking than VMworld. I’ve met so many great people at VMworld, heck I even had job interviews at VMworld. (Don’t tell your manager this :-))
- Knowledge. The amount of info to be gathered at VMworld is just insane. I know the sessions will be available online but this will not give you the chance to discuss your experiences and ask your questions(Genius Booth, visit it!). Isn’t it awesome that all the top virtualization experts are walking around and you can actually walk up to them and ask them that one thing you always wanted to know!?! I highly recommend the following sessions:
- BC1500 – Lee Dilworth – vCenter Site Recovery Manager “Up and Running” – Best Practices & Avoiding the Pitfalls
- BC3197 – Marc Sevigny – High Availability – Internals and Best Practices
- TA1394 – Mostafa Khalil – vSphere 4.0 Advanced Storage Log Analysis
- TA2525 – Srinivas Neginhal – vShpere 4 Networking Deep Dive
- TA2627 – Kit Colbert – Understanding “Host” and “Guest” Memory Usage and Other Memory Management Concepts
- TA2963 – Krishna Raj Raja – esxtop for advanced users
- TA4341 – Boon Seong Ang – Virtual Network Performance
- TA2942 – Bhavjit Walha – Performance Best Practices
- TA2650 – Hal Rottenberg/Luc Dekens – Take PowerCLI to the Next Level
- TA2647 – Chad Sakac – Best Practices to Increase Availability and Throughput for the Future of VMware
- VM2241 – Carter Shanklin/Scott Herold – Managing vSphere with VMware PowerCLI
Drop your manager an email and ask for his approval and start booking! Don’t forget to visit the VMTN/Community Booth. Most of the bloggers, including myself, can be found there. Come by and say hi!
VMworld 2009 – Ask the Experts – Question Submission
I’m proud to announce that the session is locked and speakers are confirmed. Rick Scherer, Tom Howarth, Scott Lowe, Chad Sakac and myself will be running an Ask the Experts panel session at VMworld 2009 – and this is your chance to submit a question to be reviewed during the panel session!
Simply fill out the form below and your submission will be sent for review, around the beginning of August we will be notifying the submission owners if we will be using their submission or not.
So, here is your chance to have that hard hitting Virtualization/Design question answered by the best in the world!
One question that came up was if we were still going to have an open floor portion, and the answer is YES! The majority of the session will be open floor, but we do want to have a handful of good questions to help spin off the session and also for those quiet moments.
VMworld 2009 – TA2259 Ask the Experts Panel Session
We are proud to officially announce the VMworld 2009 – Ask the Experts Panel Session. This session will feature virtualization experts Rick Scherer, Scott Lowe, Duncan Epping, Chad Sakac and Tom Howarth answering your questions on virtual infrastructure design. In the next week or so we will be posting sections on our blog sites for you to submit questions for review during the session, so stay tuned!
Session ID: TA2259
Session Title: Ask the Experts – Virtualization Design
Track: Technology and Architecture
Abstract: Are you running a virtual environment and experiencing some problems? Are you planning an upgrade from VI3 to vSphere 4 and have some questions about the infrastructure architecture changes required? Do you have a virtual infrastructure design and want it blessed by the experts? Come join us for a one hour panel session where your questions are the topic of discussion! Join the Virtualization Experts; Rick Scherer from VMwareTips.com, Scott Lowe author of Mastering vSphere 4, Duncan Epping from VMware, Chad Sakac from EMC and Tom Howarth from planetVM.net as they answer your questions on virtualization design.
I shamelessly copied this from vmwaretips.com… But I don’t think Rick will mind the extra promotion for this session!