Ok - we're getting into the final stretch, and I'm cramming :-)
TA17 is going to blow people's minds. DV06 has the results (good/bad/ugly) of a very neat customer Proof of Concept test. TP03 is a rolling theme - in VMworld 2008, we started sharing what we were doing together to flex out our common EMC/Cisco/VMware vision, and every VMworld/EMC World/Networkers session we can reveal more of how the technologies we are each working on are building towards that vision - the 100% Virtualized Datacenter - private clouds.
There are the home lab has grown (2 R805s, 2 PE2950s, a CX4-240) as I work to get some demos all ready - it's getting a bit ridiculous along with the other 6 home-grown ESX hosts I have... I fully expect the OPP (Ontario Provincial Police for non-Canadians out there) to knock on my door any second, assuming that I've got either a meth lab or a grow-op based on my power use!
Here's the final list of all the 7 breakout sessions that EMC is covering (some with partners) - add them to you event calendar! I think there might be one more on virtualizing Sharepoint, but don't have the final details on that yet.
TP03
Title: Engineering Developments enabling the Virtual Datacenter - VMware, Cisco and EMC
Speaker: Chad Sakac, EMC, Vice President, VMware Technical Alliance; Ed Bugnion, Cisco, VP/CTO Server Virtualization and Access; Scott Davis, VMware, Chief Datacenter Architect CTO Office
Date/Time: Tuesday, 2/24 14:00
Location: Les Ambassadors 1/3
Abstract: When you start from the initial assumption of “virtualize every possible workload”, it affects how you design your datacenter at every layer. It also changes how the vendors that support you need to design their products – building servers, storage and networking “Built for the Virtual Datacenter-OS”. The infrastructure needs to understand and respond to the Virtual Datacenter OS layer demands for dynamic performance, availability and cost. EMC, Cisco and VMware share what they are doing together to help customers virtualize any workload, for any application, at any scale – and to integrate our common developments to make the server, network and storage layers transparent.
TP04
Title: Applying Emerging Technologies to Enhance VMware environments
Speaker: Chad Sakac, EMC, Vice President, VMware Technical Alliance
Date/Time: Wednesday, 2/25 14:00
Location: Auditorium K
Abstract: Enterprise Flash Disks, Thin Provisioning, and Data deduplication technologies have emerged as a quantum leap to improve performance, reduce costs and be more efficient. With capital and operational savings as primary drivers of VMware deployments, these technologies are a natural fit. Learn how to apply these technologies in every possible place – from VMware View scaling, production and backup storage, to what the vStorage APIs bring for deduplicating I/O, to leveraging multi-vendor technologies for VMware View technologies at every scale. See how customers are leveraging these technologies today in multi-vendor environments.
DV06 (I want to quickly make a plug for this one... We recently did a joint Proof of Concept for a customer using VMware View Manager/Composer and SRM together - some stuff worked, some didn't... This session will share the findings)
Title: Desktop Disaster Recover with View and SRM
Speaker: Stephen Spellicy, VMware Specialist, Northeast EMC
Thomas Walker, Specialist Systems Engineer, VMware
Date/Time: Tuesday, 2/24 14:00 – 15:00
Location: Auditorium I
Abstract: As companies move towards virtualizing their desktops workloads with VMware View, protecting this implementation becomes critical. As the desktop environment grows, a quick and reliable recovery becomes important. Learn how VMware and EMC have tackled the issue by leveraging SRM with View to enable a “DR-aware” implementation. Included are “lessons learned”. What works/what doesn’t work, as it relates to how to enable your implementation to become a protected View deployment.
TA11
Title: Best Practices to Increase Availability and Throughput for the Future of VMware
Speaker: Chad Sakac, Vice President, VMware Technical Alliance
Date/Time: Tuesday, 2/24 15:15
Abstract: VMware enables infrastructure that is more available than a traditional physical design, but only if best practices are leveraged for critical data center infrastructure. In particular the storage network and storage configuration are critical for overall VMware cluster availability. In this session, EMC will be sharing our experiences and best practices for designing a highly available storage for iSCSI, NFS, FC and FcoE technologies to support future releases of VMware and VMware Infrastructure deployments. We will share the changes in the vStorage APIs for Multipathing, and performance data from various configurations.
Title: Optimizing SAP Production Systems on VMware
Speaker: Joakim Zetterblad, Alliance Director SAP, EMC Sweden
Norbert Günther, Director VMware Competence Center, ADDON, Germany
Date/Time: Tuesday, 2/24 15:15 – 16:15
Abstract: Customers of all sizes are virtualizing mission-critical SAP environments. Discover real world examples and best practices for implementing and managing an SAP environment virtualized on VMware Infrastructure. Find out how real customers leveraged VMware and EMC infrastructure to move quickly from proof-of-concept to production and the lessons learned. Examine the technical details of EMC and VMware-tested solutions and best practices including data protection, backup, deduplication, and disaster recovery. View live demonstrations by EMC and ADDON staff.
TA17
Title: End-to-End Disaster Recovery Approach with Automated SRM Failback
Speaker: Scott Baker, Technical Marketing Manager, VMware Affinity
Date/Time: Wednesday, 2/25 11:00 – 12:00
Breakout Session: Auditorium I
Abstract: One year after its release Site Recovery Manager has established itself as an industry leader in DR automation. At this session, lean about various array replication technologies for iSCSI, Fibre Channel, IP, or heterogeneous environments. Review real-world implementation customer case studies, discuss application consistency during DR, and demonstrate failback automation by extending SRM.
DC32
Title: Technologies Driving Next Generation of Cloud Based Services
Speaker: Ed Beauvais, Senior Product manager, EMC Cloud Infrastructure Group
Date/Time: Wednesday, 2/25 16:30 – 17:30
Location: Esterel
Abstract: EMC joins Cisco and Intel to provide an overview of next generation cloud technologies. Hear how EMC Atmmos offers the most extensive range of advanced features for cloud-based services.
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