VMworld 2012 Barcelona – My Schedule

Posted on by Craig

I feel really fortunate to be able to go to VMworld 2012 Barcelona, it’s my first time, so looking forward to breaking my VMworld virginity.

I finally put aside some time to compile my draft schedule, I have to say so many amazing sessions I want to see, but as I’m not fault tolerant (yet) I can’t be in two places at once.

The schedule seems quite full, I’m wondering how I’m going to be able to spend anytime with vendors such as Cisco, EMC, HP and Veeam to see what they have going on.

You can see that I’m heavily focused on the design and performance in vSphere, which reflects on my day to day work activities.

I’m looking forward to meeting some great people during VMworld, if you see me come say hi.

VMworld 2012 – Barcelona

Posted on by Craig

I’m pretty pleased to say that I will be attending my first VMworld this year at Barcelona between 9th and 11th October 2012.

Can’t wait to check out the latest, greatest and also best practice seminars.  Plus spend some time meeting fellow VMware enthuasiasts.

Hopefully, I should get some time this week to sit down and use the VMworld Schedule Builder

A particular area of interest for me is vCloud Director, I haven’t used this product before, however it is something that I’m really keen to understand and progress onto the VCP-IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service).

Look forward to seeing you there 🙂

London VMUG Meeting – Thursday 19th July 2012

Posted on by Craig

The next London VMware User Group meeting is on Thursday 19th July 2012.

Meeting Highlights

  • Centrix Software Presentation
  • Fusion-IO Presentation
  • Whiptail Presentation
  • EMC Labs Throughout the Day
  • Lee Dilworth – VMware Availability Update: vSphere Replication, Stretched Clusters and BCDR
  • Darren Woollard and Gregg Robertson – vSphere Nerdknobs
  • Chris Evans – The Storage Architect’s View
  • Chris Gale – Fusion-IO More Desktops. More Virtual Machines. More Data-Intensive Applications. Faster. Cheaper. Simpler.
  • Matt Northam and Simon Hansford – Government Can Run vCloud, How Skyscape Did It
  • Martyn Storey – VMware NDA Roadmap Session

For registration and further details click me

VTSP 5

Posted on by Craig

Bit of a strange one really, I was all prepared to crack on and go over the VMware Technical Sales Professional 5 training in VMware Partner University.

Logged in and added the VTSP 5 to ‘my Plan’.  Much to my surprise it then said I had met all the pre requisites and I’m now a VTSP 5.

Slightly easier than I imagined!