Well, I’m getting ready for the tip. Bags are packed, boarding passes printed etc. Heading of this year VMworld 2013 in Barcelona. Not sure if the event will be in Barcelona next year, but I’m hoping it will be elsewhere in Europe. That’s no slight on BCN by the way – myself and wife have had holiday there and will always cherish the time we spent in Guadi’s house and the cathedral. I’m just think of the people from outside the EU who travel to the event – I think its nice to show them the wide diversity of the continent. I’m thinking of places I have NOT been to in Europe yet (there’s still loads). So I’m voting for Lake Garda, Italy next year. 😉
Anyway, its fashionable to share one’s session selections online, and I’m one is always keen to be fashionable. THE MOST IMPORTANT session to me has to be:
PHC5752 – Data In, Data Out and Data Protected
Thursday, Oct 17, 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM
– Hall 8.0, Room B3
The reason being is its my session, so its kind of important that I’m there. Ostensibly its about vCloud Connector and how it can be used to move VMs/vApp from vSphere/vCloud Director into a private or public vSphere/vCloud Director environment. The emphasis in the session is on our own vCloud Hybrid Service – and flags up unique options from transfer such as the “Offline Data Transfer” (ODT) package. The session also looking briefly at the Data Protection – or in other words “backup” options that available in the vCloud Hybrid Service.
Of course there are loads of sessions I want to attend – mainly the ones I couldn’t get to at VMworld US. What I don’t get to see at the US/EU I will pick up on via the vmworld.com website. But this is my hitlist – note there are some overlaps – but I’m assuming I might fail to get into some of these, or miss the start….
VMworld 2013 – Event Itinerary
Tuesday…
BCO4977 – VMware vSphere Replication: Technical Walk-Through with Engineering
Tuesday, Oct 15, 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM
– Hall 8.0, Room F1
PHC5409 – vCloud Hybrid Service Jump Start Part Two of Five: vCloud Hybrid Service: Networking and Security Basics
Tuesday, Oct 15, 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM
– Hall 8.0, Room B2
Wednesday…
STO5464: “Leading Edge: Evolving To A Software-Defined Data Center”
Wednesday, Oct 16, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM
– Hall 8.0, Room D4
STO5638 – Best Practices with Software Defined Storage
Wednesday, Oct 16, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
– Hall 8.0, Room F1
PHC5488 – vCloud Hybrid Service Jump Start Part Three of Five: vCloud Hybrid Service: Advanced Networking and Security
Wednesday, Oct 16, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
– Hall 8.0, Room D1
STO7449 – Tech Preview: Accelerating data operations Using VMware VVols and Storage Profile Based Management
Wednesday, Oct 16, 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM
– Hall 8.0, Room E2
BCO5065 – VMware vSphere Fault Tolerance for Multiprocessor Virtual Machines – Technical Preview
Wednesday, Oct 16, 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM
– Hall 8.0, Room F2
PHC5045 – vCloud Hybrid Service Jump Start Part Four of Five: Identifying and Deploying Workloads in vCloud Hybrid Service
Wednesday, Oct 16, 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM
– Hall 8.0, Room B2
Thursday…
NET5716 – Advanced VMware NSX Architecture
Thursday, Oct 17, 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM
– Hall 8.0, Room E2
PHC5752 – Data In, Data Out and Data Protected
Thursday, Oct 17, 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM
– Hall 8.0, Room B3
PHC5561 – vCloud Hybrid Service Jump Start Part Five of Five: Deep Dive into Hybrid Cloud Management
Thursday, Oct 17, 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM
– Hall 8.0, Room D1
VSVC5280 – DRS: New Features, Best Practices and Future Directions
Thursday, Oct 17, 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM
– Hall 8.0, Room G3
EUC5238 – Horizon Workspace: Data Deep Dive
Thursday, Oct 17, 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM
– Hall 8.0, Room B4
EUC5238 – Horizon Workspace: Data Deep Dive (rp Tue)
Thursday, Oct 17, 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM
– Hall 8.0, Room B4