Where In The VMworld Is Jim?
Two weeks from today the official start to VMworld 2015 begins and to say I am excited to head out is a bit of an understatement. VMworld is a great place to learn more about a different branch of virtualization, see the bleeding edge of this technology and meet new people or renew conversations with some of the brightest minds in the industry. I myself will be focusing on VDI, specifically in the case of Disaster Recovery, and looking at Hyper-Converged systems this year along with all the other fun stuff. While this is only my second year going I’ve found that one of the biggest challenges to VMworld is schedule management; if you are interested in the social/community side of things you can very well go 20 hours a day Sunday through Thursday. Even with that you are going to be challenged to hit all the things you want because there is a great deal of overlap. With a paid conference attendance you (or VMUG Advantage membership) you will be able to view the vast majority of sessions online after the fact, but that doesn’t help with the get out and meet people stuff.
Since by nature I am a schedule driven kind of guy I took some time this weekend to kind of map out the whats and the wheres to what I want to do and in hopes of getting to meet up with the 5 people who may read this blog I’ll throw a copy of it out here. The sessions are still in flux because there a few that are full that I still hope to make it into, especially a couple of the Expert Led HOL Workshops, but I think I’ve got the rest of it worked out. Hope to see you there!
Sessions (So Far:)
| 8/31 10:00-11:30 | Keynote | General Keynote |
| 9/1 10:30-12:00 | ELW-MBL-1651 | Horizon 6 Advanced Workshop |
| 9/1 12:30-1:30 | INF-4535 | 5 Functions of Software Defined Availability |
| 9/1 3:30-4:30 | INF-5211 | Automating Everything VMware with PowerCLI |
| 9/2 9:30-10:30 | STO-6552-GD | Meet the VVols Engineering Team with Patrick Dirks |
| 9/2 11:00-12:00 | INF-6396-GD | Platform Security with Mike Foley |
| 9/2 2:30-3:30 | INF-5123 | Managing vSphere 6 Deployments & Upgrades, Part 2 |
| 9/3 10:30-11:30 | EUC-5067 | NSX and Horizon Ref. Architecture |
| 9/3 12:00-1:00 | INF-4529 | VMware Certificate Management for Mere Mortals |
vBrownBag TechTalks in the VMworld Hangspace
| 8/31 1:15 | Gina Minks- Why you need to #BackThatSaaSUp |
| 8/31 2:00 | Jaison Baily and the vBrisket Community |
| 8/31 3:00 | In Tech We Trust Podcast |
Socially:
| Saturday: | Inbound | |
| Sunday: | Aug. 30 | |
| 8-11 AM | vBreakfast | Mel’s Drive-In |
| 1-4 PM | Vmunderground/vBrownBag Opening Acts | City View at Metreon |
| 4-7 PM | Welcome Reception | VMworld Solution Exchange |
| 8-11 PM | Vmunderground WUpaaS | City View at Metreon |
| Monday: | Aug. 31 | |
| 5-6 PM | SolidFire vExpert VIP Dinner | Thirsty Bear Brewing |
| 6-9 PM | SolidFire Pursuit of Hoppiness | Thirsty Bear Brewing |
| 7-11 PM | vBrisket Party | Southpaw BBQ |
| Tuesday: | Sept. 1 | |
| 2:30-4 PM | VMworld Bloggers Meetup | VMworld Hang Space |
| 4:30-6 PM | VMworld Hall Crawl | Solutions Exchange |
| 7-10 PM | vExpert Party | Julia Morgan Ballroom |
| 8 PM-12-AM | Veeam Party | City View at the Metreon |
| Wednesday | Sept. 2 | |
| 5-7 PM | Red Hat Happy Hour | Restaurant LuLu |
| 7:30-10:30 PM | VMworld Party | AT&T Park |
| Thursday: | Sept. 3 | |
| 3 PM- ? | vFootball | Pete’s Tavern |
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