Yellow Bricks

by Duncan Epping

vmworld

Update: Meet the VMTN Experts, Dates & Time

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Okay, the dates and time have been set for the Meet the VMTN Experts session. We are still looking for an official name for the session but just write down these dates and times and be sure to be there:

Tuesday 24th – 13.00 – 14.00
Wednesday 25th – 13.00 – 14.00
Location: Community Lounge on the solution exchange

Who will be there:

Jason Boche – Boche.net + VMTN Moderator
Thomas Bryant – VMTN Moderator
Steve Beaver – thevirtualblackhole.com + VMTN Moderator
Eric Sloof – NTPro.nl + VMTN/VMUG Contributor
Scott Herold – VMGuru.com + VMTN Contributor and author of VMware ESX Server: Advanced Technical Design Guide
Wil van Antwerpen – vi-toolkit.com + VMTN Contributor
Gabrie van Zanten – gabesvirtualworld.com + VMTN Contributor
Alan Renouf – teckinfo.blogspot.com + VMTN Contributor
Tom Howarth – PlanetVM.net + VMTN Moderator
Duncan Epping – Yellow-Bricks.com + VMTN Moderator

Update: Meet the VMTN Experts

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As Steve just posted, the full list of VMTN Experts that will join the VMTN Experts Panel / Meet and greet at VMworld Europe has just been announced:

Jason Boche – Boche.net + VMTN Moderator
Thomas Bryant – VMTN Moderator
Steve Beaver – thevirtualblackhole.com + VMTN Moderator
Eric Sloof – NTPro.nl + VMTN/VMUG Contributor
Scott Herold – VMGuru.com + VMTN Contributor and author of VMware ESX Server: Advanced Technical Design Guide
Wil van Antwerpen – vi-toolkit.com + VMTN Contributor
Gabrie van Zanten – gabesvirtualworld.com + VMTN Contributor
Alan Renouf – teckinfo.blogspot.com + VMTN Contributor
Tom Howarth – PlanetVM.net + VMTN Moderator
Duncan Epping – Yellow-Bricks.com + VMTN Moderator

You will have the chance to ask questions to specific individuals on specific topics. Discuss your current or future design. Maybe you’ve got some weird problem that you just can’t seem to fix. Or well maybe you just want to shake hands… All is possible. Don’t be scared, come over and introduce yourselves!

The dates/times will be announced soon, the location already has been announced: The Community Lounge. We will try to have two sessions so everyone will be able to make it!

VMworld Sessions, which should I attend?

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With the enormous amount of sessions scheduled at VMworld Europe you are bound to miss out on some of the excellent ones. I browsed through the schedule and decided to write down 6 sessions which you should attend in my opinion, and which I will attend if I can escape the labs:

  • Chad Sakac – Sr Director VMware Strategic Alliance EMC  – Best Practices to Increase Availability and Throughput for the Future of VMware
  • Adam Young – Senior Member Technical Staff – DC08 – vCenter Server for Linux
  • Carter Shanklin – Product Manager – TA01 – Managing VMware With PowerShell
  • Kit Colbert – Senior Staff Engineer – TA07 – Understanding “Host” and “Guest” Memory Usage and Other Memory Management Concepts
  • David Friedlander – Senior Product Manager – Chosing a Solution for vCenter Server Availability(vCenter Server Heartbeat!)
  • Scott Baker – vStorage integrations – TA17 – End-to-End Disaster Recovery Approach with Automated SRM Failback

Three of these six sessions contain information on yet to be released products, vCenter on Linux, vCenter Server Availability and vStorage integration and possibly SRM Failback(Just a rumor). The other three sessions are hosted by subject matter experts which I highly respect for their level of expertise and of which I’m certain that it will be mind blowing!

Write them down and don’t miss out on them!

Meet the VMTN Experts

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Tom and Eric already broke the news… VMworld Europe will also have a “Meet the VMTN Experts” session:

Tom Howarth already spread the word. Richard Garsthagen has confirmed, the VMworld Europe VMTN Panel gets green light. It’s not going to be a break-out session, VMware choose another format for this year’s VMTN Panel. It will be more like a meet and greet. Richard is working out the details. In the picture you can get a glimpse of the VMworld Europe Community Lounge. Looks cool, doesn’t it. The attendees so far are:

Duncan Epping of Yellow Bricks fame
Alan Renouf of powershell fame
Steve Beaver of Tripwire
Eric Sloof of NTPRO.NL
Tom Howarth The community King and the driving force behind PlanetVM.

This was a shameless copy and paste from ntpro.nl. If you want to meet the VMTN Community Experts or some of the PlanetV12n bloggers keep looking here for more details soon. It will not only be a meet and greet. You will have the chance to ask questions to specific individuals on specific topics. Discuss your current or future design. Maybe you’ve got some weird problem that you just can’t seem to fix. Or well maybe you just want to shake hands… All is possible. More details soon on when, where and who. (A couple more Experts will be announced in the upcoming days.)

Well where, it will be held in the Community Lounge, which looks awesome:

VMworld Europe 2009, here I come…

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I finally received the confirmation I was really waiting for “VMworld Europe 2009: You are approved to attend“. It seems that I will be helping out at the SRM Lab. Check this “hands on lab” promotion video by the way. For those that attended the labs during VMworld Europe 2008, it’s not the same format as last year, the format has been changed completely to self-paced labs. Schedule your own lab sessions so you don’t miss out on the Deep Dive sessions, which I personally recommend. Some will really make your brain hurt! That’s the way we like it,