My VMworld 2014 TOP Session Picks
Every year there is always something new at VMworld and this year is no exception.
Below are my TOP Picks for 2014. Enjoy!
- INF1720 – Getting the Most out of vMotion – Architecture, Features, Debugging
vMotion is a key, widely adopted technology which enables the live migration of virtual machines on the vSphere platform. It enables critical datacenter workflows, including…
Gabriel Tarasuk-Levin – Staff Engineer 2, VMware - INF3475-GD – vMotion with Sreekanth
Setty
Group Discussions are a good way to join together with peers, guided by a VMware expert, and discuss a VMware key topic as selected by the group. Come to this session… Sreekanth Setty – Staff Engineer, VMware -
BCO2629 – Site Recovery Manager and vSphere Replication: What’s New Technical Deep Dive
SRM and vSphere Replication are mature products that can be used as the bedrock of a disaster recovery plan for your virtual infrastructure. Come learn in technical detail…Jeff Hunter – Senior Technical Marketing Architect, VMware Ken Werneburg – Senior Technical Marketing Architect, VMware
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BCO1916 – Site Recovery Manager and Stretched Storage: Tech Preview of a New Approach to Active-Active Data Centers
Are you embracing an Active-Active data center strategy for continuous availability of your apps but also want an easy way to manage planned and unplanned failure events ?…Shobhan Lakkapragada – Product Line Manager, VMware
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BCO3430-GD – Local Availability – HA & FT with GS Khalsa
Group Discussions are a good way to join together with peers, guided by a VMware expert, and discuss a VMware key topic as selected by the group. Come to this session…Gurusimran Khalsa – Senior Technical Marketing Manager, VMware
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BCO3431-GD – Stretched Clusters with Lee Dilworth
Group Discussions are a good way to join together with peers, guided by a VMware expert, and discuss a VMware key topic as selected by the group. Come to this session…
Lee Dilworth – Principal Systems Engineer, vmware
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VMware vSphere High Availability (vSphere HA) is one of the most widely utilized features of vSphere. This session will focus on best practices for using vSphere HA. We will…
Gurusimran Khalsa – Senior Technical Marketing Manager, VMware
- EUC1476 – What’s New with View and PCoIP in Horizon 6
Learn about exciting new enhancements in Horizon 6 with View and PCoIP. Optimizing and tuning PCoIP with Horizon View has never been easier. With new default PCoIP settings,… Tony Huynh – Product Line Manager, VMware
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EUC3099 – Comparing GPU-accelerated high-end graphics performance of virtual desktop platforms
How good are today’s virtual desktop remoting protocols when accelerated by physical GPUs, such as NVIDIA GRID cards? CTPs Benny Tritsch and Shawn Bass developed a unique,…Shawn Bass – Blogger, Consultant, ShawnBass.com
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STO1211 – Virtual SAN Ready Node and Hardware Guidance for Hypervisor Converged Infrastructure
Are you looking to select a hardware platform for your Virtual SAN that is within your budget and is best suited for your use case? Do you have growing performance, capacity…Rakesh Radhakrishnan – Product Management – Software Defined Storage, VMware
Wade Holmes – Senior Architect, VMware
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MGT1833 – How to Perform Troubleshooting and Root Cause Analysis Using Log Insight
Environments consist of a variety of devices including compute, network, and storage as well as virtual machines. Each of these devices generates log messages. The number of…Steve Flanders – Solutions Architect, VMware
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STO1965 – Virtual Volumes Technical Deep Dive
Virtual Volumes (VVols) is VMware’s new storage paradigm for external SAN/NAS storage arrays. In this session, we will walk you through key technical concepts of Virtual…Rawlinson Rivera – Sr. Technical Marketing Architect, VMware, Inc
Suzy Visvanathan – Product Manager, VMware
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STO2496 – vSphere Storage Best Practices: Next-Gen Storage Technologies
This VMware Technical Communities Session will present a technical best practices with emerging storage technologies for vSphere. The storage industry is experiencing a high…Chad Sakac – SVP, Global Systems Engineering, EMC
Rawlinson Rivera – Sr. Technical Marketing Architect, VMware, Inc
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NET1974 – Multi-Site Data Center Solutions with VMware NSX
NSX provides a comprehensive Multi-Site networking and security solution in software that complements existing VMware products to bring Networking, Compute and Storage…Ray Budavari – Technical Product Line Manager, VMware
Program Location: Europe and USAnd Lastly… I put this one in just for fun… These guys always put on a great show, and you lean something too!
- STO2996-SPO – The vExpert Storage Game Show
Think you know storage? The vExpert Storage Game Show will pit 2 teams of vExperts in a jeopardy style game discussion the latest in storage technologies with vSphere and… Amy Lewis – Influence Marketing, Cisco
Friea Berg – Business Development, Splunk
John Troyer – CEO, TechReckoning
Cormac Hogan – Storage Architect, VMware
Duncan Epping – Principal Architect, VMware
Rawlinson Rivera – Sr. Technical Marketing Architect, VMware, Inc
Craig Chapman – Systems Engineer, Pure Storage
Cody Hosterman – Reference Architect, Pure Storage
Vaughn Stewart – Chief Technical Evangelist, Pure Storage
