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Category Archives: vmworld

Get to VMworld Europe at an EMC discounted price

  You can register for VMworld EMEA at the early bird discount price now using the link in this article https://community.emc.com/community/connect/everything_vmware/blog/2011/09/14/get-the-early-bird-discount-for-vmworld-europe–even-at-the-last-minute You can still get this ticket at a discounted price courtesy of EMC… travel isn’t too bad at present either, there still seems to be good availability of both official and non-conference hotels in [...]

Register for VMworld sessions ASAP or miss out

This year VMware are enforcing session registration for VMworld, my understanding is that if you don’t register and a session is full, you wont get in!! this is a good thing IMHO, in previous years there have been long queues (although I hope they have better badge-scanners than in the past, otherwise there are mad [...]

vTARDIS wins Best of Show at VMworld Europe 2010

  Wow, what can I say, my vTARDIS project has won 2 awards at VMworld Europe 2010 in the following user categories; Best home office/remote office virtualisation project Best of Show There is some good coverage of the VMworld event on the the searchVirtualDataCentre.co.uk site here I’d like to thank <#insert <paltro/gwenneth.h>.. But seriously I [...]

vApp sprawl in the cloud

  This question came up in a session at VMworld, if vApps are being used to deploy entire self-contained and silo’d application stacks won’t that lead to massive VM sprawl. Because cloud deployments are less considered and are a result of quick instant gratification provisioning in the private/public cloud by business units who don’t necessarily [...]

vApps moving centre-stage

  vApps were introduced as part of the vSphere 4 release but were largely a forgotten area of functionality until now. The concept of a vApp is as a bar-code for an IT service, where that service consists of a number of inter-dependent virtual machines containing applications that provide a service – for example a [...]

VMworld 2010 SF – Day 1

  I took a different approach to VMworld this year, usually I try to cram in as many sessions as possible and don’t usually spend much time on the hands-on labs. – this year I am planning to do a 60/40 mix of labs and sessions. Because the sessions are audio recorded I can review [...]

Come see the vTARDIS at VMworld on Monday

  I am presenting a joint session on affordable lab/SMB environments with Eric Siebert and Simon Seagrave on Monday at 12:00pm, Moscone West room 2007 (V18328: Building an affordable vSphere environment for a lab or small business). I am covering nested ESX functionality, whilst I haven’t physically transported the vTARDIS all the way to the [...]

VMworld 2010 Hands-on Labs

  Along with a number of other bloggers I was lucky enough to get a sneak preview of the VMworld 2010 labs setup today. Wow, the setup is impressive, there is a massive self-paced labs room in Moscone West, offering 480 multi-lab seats, unlike previous years there are no specific areas for each lab, each [...]

Want to see the Uber vT.A.R.D.I.S at VMworld?

This year VMware have changed the way they are planning the VMworld sessions, this year there is a list of sessions that are open to a public vote, Mark has a great post on the selection process here – I think it’s a great way to get the most wanted content at the event. I [...]

Getting access to VMworld content if you couldn’t make it in person

  Now the noise around VMworld has calmed down I thought I would let you know that the vast amount of excellent technical content that was presented at the event itself is available to stream online or as an MP3 (audio only) or slide download (audio only). As you’d expect, the catch is it’s not [...]

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