VIDEO: David’s VMword 2010 Preview

Here’s a short video I put together as a quick preview of VMworld 2010. In it, I discuss the VMworld sessions that I “must attend”, the parties that are happening that week, and the session I’ll be speaking at. Here’s the video and the links are below:

Saturday

• vBeers

Sunday night

• VMworld Run along the bay
• WUPaaS – Theron Conry & Sean Clark (invite only)

Monday

• 130PM – MA8339 – David Davis – Top 10 free vSphere Tools
• 7-10pm Solutions exchange opens / reception Get your Train Signal vSphere 4.1 video giveaway!
• Tweetup 9-11pm – John Troyer sponsored by Train Signal and Xangati

Tuesday

• 530 – In N Out burger meetup
• EMC Party at the Temple (invite ONLY)
• Veeam Party at Thirsty Bear (invite ONLY)
• NetApp Community Party
• Press / Analyst Cocktail Reception at the Four Seasons

Wednesday

• 1pm Meet the guys from Virtumania at the Veeam Booth
• 130PM – MA8339 – David Davis – Top 10 free vSphere Tools
• 530pm vExpert Meeting with Dr Steven Herrod (invite ONLY)
• VMworld party with INXS

Thursday

• Recording vChat LIVE!
• VMworld vd0dgeball deathmatch

Sessions not to miss-

• TA7962 – Nick Weaver – my man from TX – modern networking in virtual env
• V18328 – Eric Siebert, Simon Gallager, Simon Seagrave covering affordable vSphere home labs
• TA8623 – Storage super-heavyweight challenge – Vaughn Stewart and Chad Sakac
• BC7773 – Mike Laverick on Site Recovery Manager
• TA8188 – Chris Wolf – what server hosted virtual desktop vendors aren;t telling you Wednesday morning
• V18268 – Eric Siebert – deep dive on virtualization – how stuff works
• BC7803 – Duncan Epping – Planning and DSesigning an HA Cluster that maximizes uptime
• MA8092 – Chris Wolf – Cloud Futures – the infrastructure authority
• TA8101 – Scott Lowe – virtual storage and vmware vsphere – best practices
• SS8222 – Charu – Transitioning to ESXi