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Category Archives: vmworld
VMworld 2009 Link Round-up at Yellow-Bricks
Posted by on September 8, 2009
Duncan (VCDX007) has a great list of all the links for VMworld 2009 SF on this post – check it out, especially useful if you weren’t able to make it in person. He also has a list of posts from around the Internet for the European VMworld earlier this year here and on this [...]
VMworld SF 2009 Coverage
Posted by on August 28, 2009
Unfortunately I won’t be at VMworld in San Francisco in person this year as I am about to become a father again. I could probably have just squeezed it in but the prospect of an emergency flight back across the atlantic was a bit too much of a risk if proceedings started early so I [...]
Hands-On Lab 01 – vSphere Features Overview
Posted by on February 26, 2009
I decided to venture into some hands-on labs today, after hearing about all the new features over the last couple of days it was nice to finally get my hands on them! The lab was set to cover the following areas of potential new functionality* in vSphere; vStorage plug-in – pluggable drivers from storage [...]
VMWorld Europe Day 2: Wrap-up, a good day despite the curious lack of forks..
Posted by on February 25, 2009
All in a very good and busy day today – excellent keynote and some very interesting sessions; so-far I’ve only managed to write up a couple of them (links below) once I’ve clarified a few points I’ll write up the remainder. How VMware IT use VMware internally vExpert Award for vinf.net Cisco Nexus Switch [...]
VMworld Europe Day 2: Keynote
Posted by on February 25, 2009
Well day 2 got underway with the much anticipated keynote session from Steve Herrod who is CTO and VP of R&D or “technical stuff”. He covered some of the previous announcements and did manage to clarify that vSphere is the implementation of VDC-OS (so it’s the new name for Virtual Infrastructure). Steve Herrod let [...]
VMware Client Hypervisor (CVP) – Grid Application Thoughts
Posted by on February 24, 2009
Today VMware announced the client hypervisor they are producing and a collaboration with Intel on the hardware support (VT) and management (vPro), Citrix made a similar announcement last month (some analysis from the trusty Brian Madden here). If the client side device is now running a hypervisor this would presumably extend the same encapsulation principles [...]
VMworld Europe Day 1: Wrap-Up
Posted by on February 24, 2009
The first official day kicked off at VMworld, I covered the keynote this morning and have written up the more interesting sessions that I attended now that I have access to power again Crowding isn’t as bad as I’d anticipated and getting about is pretty easy, the aircon could do with being a bit [...]
DC14 – Overview of 2009 VMware Datacenter Products (VMworld Europe 2009)
Posted by on February 24, 2009
This session was discussing new features in vSphere, or is it VDC-OS, I’m a bit confused about that one – vSphere is the new name for “Virtual Infrastructure”? that would make sense for me. As usual this session is prefixed with a slide that all material presented is not final, and is not a [...]
DC02 – Best Practices for Lab Manager (VMworld Europe 2009)
Posted by on February 24, 2009
This was an interesting session; I’ve played a bit with Lab Manager but definitely intend to invest more time in it this year, key things for me were; There are approx 1000 deployments of Lab Manager at customers, a large percentage in Europe. You need to bear in mind VMFS constraints on the number of [...]
VMworld Partner Day wrap-up
Posted by on February 24, 2009
I take back what I said earlier about lack of technical track & content – whilst it wasn’t quite up to the list of previously announced sessions there was enough good stuff with information that is relevant to VMware partners with both a technical & competitive slant. I still have my concerns that tomorrow [...]
