Here's to seeing YOU at VMworld 2008

As we get in to the final stretch of preparation - I'm really hoping to see you there.

Here's a hint at the EMC contest (come by the EMC booth for more info - we're booth 502):

I really hope you'll come to all our sessions, we're trying our best make them pertinent, technical, filled with demonstrations, disclose current and future capabilities, and share customer deployment experiences. 

In the booth, we'll be distributing best practices and virtual appliances you can use, demonstrating solutions from VDI to SRM, Management integration, powershell scripting, VMware integrated VM-consistent array replication that simple and easy to use, and loads of other fun stuff, some of which I can't talk about until Wednesday.

My session is KN-EMC, on Wednesday at 11am.   It's a technical panel discussion on overall Next Generation Datacenter design and best practices, and I'm joined by Scott Davis from VMware (Chief Datacenter Architect, CTO Office), and Ed Bugnion from Cisco (VP/CTO, Server Access and Virtualization Business Unit)

If you haven't yet registered, it's getting close, but you can still squeak in - click on the graphic below.

FYI - I've posted my current calendar (I arrive on Saturday and leave Friday), hope to see you in some of the sessions!   if you want to see my schedule, read on!

Monday

8:00 AM-10:00 AM, Lab B - VMware® Desktop Tech Preview

5:30 PM-7:30 PM (Conference Event) , SE Reception, Solutions Exchange Welcome Reception

Tuesday

6:30 AM-8:00 AM - (Conference Event)

8:00 AM-9:15 AM - (Conference Event)

9:30 AM-10:30 AM TA3721  - Optimized Virtual Desktop Delivery for Higher Performance, Robust Security,  Availability, Scalability and End-to-End Manageability

1:30 PM-2:30 PM TA2784 - Joint VMware and NetApp Best Practices for Running VI3 on IP Based Storage

3:00 PM-4:00 PM PO3824 - Storage Solutions for Enterprise Consolidation with VMware

Wednesday

6:30 AM-8:00 AM - (Conference Event)

8:00 AM-9:15 AM - (Conference Event)

9:30 AM-10:30 AM EA1961- Virtualization of Oracle Production Environments

11:00 AM-12:00 PM KN EMC - Designing the Next-Generation Datacenter

1:30 PM-2:30 PM BC3096 - Site Recovery Manager In Concert with Storage Replication – Protecting Your Mission Critical Apps

4:30 PM-5:30 PM PO3078 - Optimizing the Network and Management Architecture for Virtual Environments

7:00 PM-11:00 PM - (Conference Event)

VMParty - VMworld2008 Party

Thursday

7:30 AM-9:00 AM - (Conference Event)

9:30 AM-10:30 AM - VD2387 Storage for VDI: 1000s of Desktops for the Price of One

1:00 AM-12:00 PM - AD3500 - VMware Management Essentials: Virtual Dependency Mapping, Automated Root Cause, and Compliance Analytics for VMware-enabled Data Centers

1:00 PM-3:00 PM - Lab A VMware® Datacenter Tech Preview

Comments

[Jay Weinshenker]

Thanks for the post - I changed my vmworld schedule to include your presentation - looks much more useful then the BOF I had scheduled. It also looks like we have most of the same sessions on Wed.

Your blog rocks. Thanks much for the posts.

[Chad Sakac]

Jay - thanks, we'll do our best to make it worth your while, and introduce yourself after the session!