At VMworld for the last 3 years, the Hands-on-Labs are a huge highlight, and insanely popular (for good reason).
If you want to hear about something, go to the session.
If you’re the type to want to TRY something (before or after hearing about it), go to the HoL.
It’s a super-human effort to pull off – and done by a surprisingly core set of folks at VMware (the “Integration Engineering” team – led by Mornay, and with Dan, Curtis, Tim and others. Here are some “behind the scene” shots.
Trust me – check them out when they open. It will be some of the most useful time you spend at VMworld.
The first shot has their hours (starts on Sunday 2-8)….
We ran into a funky problems with the VNX VSA used in many of the labs getting borked via vCloud Director (to be clear, we’re hypersensitive to the metadata). @lynxbat (all round super-freak) worked it out with some PERL magic (and found and fixed some other stuff at the same time)
Likewise – we wanted to “amp up” the stats tracking for our small piece (the backend storage parts that EMC supports) vs. 2010 (the awesome 7.6 Billion IO’s served post here)… So, why not whip up an awesome VMware Hyperic / vCenter Ops / EMC storage mashup? (that’s what we’re looking at here – a Clint Kitson creation – and yes, those are the one and only Alex Tanner and Clint Kitson – vSpecialists extraordinaire):
This year – the labs are an example of the ever-advancing VMware capabilities. Not only a hybrid cloud – here it’s a geodistributed public cloud model – and at larger scale.
VMware’s partners (EMC of course but others too) work hard to help Mornay’s team make it happen…
… and the view from “mission control” in the center….
Still LOADS to do, but getting there! Would love your feedback thru the week – post comments, or tweet with the #vmworld hashtag…
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