Show Logistics

A quick comment on the show logistics

Posted by adam baum on September 16, 2007 -

Day Three

Day ThreeI only did a half day today since I had to get to checkout of the hotel and get to the airport.  I did manage to attend two troubleshooting sessions.  I've noticed a pattern with these sessions:  they are either too short or too complicated for the time allotted.  Both of the sessions quickly reviewed the ESX boot process and diverged from there.  The first session focused on where to find info.  The presenter threw in various tasty tidbits of info, but...

Posted by adam baum on September 14, 2007 -

Looking back over VMworld 2007

Looking back over the VMworld 2007, I have to say I found this to be a great event. I've had to reevaluate my perception and adjust my expectations--but in no way for the worse. This being my first time at VMworld Ii have to admit that what I expected going in was deep technical sessions, sharp sales oriented sessions and a circus of sales people in a large hall.

Posted by Rene Vester on September 13, 2007 -

ESX Server 3I

As Adam also mentioned in his general session overview earlier, vmware announced the release of ESX Server 3i, for those who havn't looked much into it i just wanted to summarize what i learned so far.

Posted by Rene Vester on September 13, 2007 -

My life in Day Two

Day twoMy first session of the day was on the topic of VM in gov't and education.  The big takeway on this one is collaboration.  The panel members' project were very successful because they collaborated with other gov't (or educational) entities.  A great example is DR.  Two counties got together to act as each other's DR site.  Vm is a great enabler of this since the hardware outlay is small compared to the cost of a full data center.  There is a...

Posted by adam baum on September 13, 2007 -

Cisco's Datacenter 3.0 integration with VMware

 Cisco announced this week that it would be integrating it's VFrame Data Center appliance with VMware's Virtual Infrastructure product.  This combination of products is slated to bring virtualized server, network and storage all together.  It will allow people to create fully encapsulated environments that can be moved from one environment to another with ease.  This would include switches, load balancers, firewalls, etc. to be configured from a centralized interface.

Posted by Beav on September 13, 2007 -

VMwares purchase of Dunes

Just wanted to comment on the purchase of Dunes software.

Posted by Rene Vester on September 12, 2007 -

Final Day One thoughts

Here's the last of my Day One: I only attended one afternoon session.  It was "AMD- One year later".  I was impressed by what they did, and did not, say.  First of all, the group at AMD doing VM is not as big as I thought.  I've attended one of Intel's Premier IT shows and they talk about how they have 50K servers and are growing.  Here's AMD talking 500 servers.  Turns out these guys are in global ops.  They manage systems such...

Posted by adam baum on September 12, 2007 -

VMworld - Enivronmentalism

 One of the items that has been emphasized is a "green" theme to the conference.  The conference is being held in the Moscone Center which has been touted as being environmentally friendly.  This is through the use of recycling and various energy conservation efforts.  The VMware conference has also emphasized utilizing refillable water canisters vs bottled water, using electronic surveys vs paper (although I am given a paper survey in every session), and Wyse has a...

Posted by Beav on September 11, 2007 -

Tuesday - Sessions and keynotes (oh my!)

 The sessions have had tremendous turnout for the attendees.  In many of the supersessions that I have attended there has been an extremely long waiting line for people that were not able to schedule them.  These sessions have ranged from top 10 issues with VirtualCenter to implementing Active Directory in a virtualized environment.  As with all conferences the quality of the sessions varies with each presenter and topic.  I have had some very good level 3 courses...

Posted by Beav on September 11, 2007 -