VMworld 2009 – My Schedule

After much work, I think I have a finalized schedule for VMworld 2009!

To all the vendors who contacted me requesting meetings, please forgive me for being unable to meet but after you see my schedule, perhaps you will understand.

I would still like to meet with as many vendors as I can at VMworld. In fact, I would like to do some video interviews with vendors and record them. Still, I don’t think that I have room to schedule any so hopefully we can do some adhoc interviews as I walk around the show floor while doing the SearchServerVirtualization.com Best of VMworld judging.

Taking a cue from Scott Lowe when he published his VMworld schedule, I thought it was a good idea and I will publish mine as well. Without further delay, here is my VMworld 2009 Schedule:

Or, here it is in text format:

Print Date: Aug 28, 2009

Sunday
2:00 PM-2:15 PM	Personal Meeting	Arrive in SFO
7:45 PM-8:00 PM	Extravaganza	Extravaganza

Monday
11:00 AM-1:00 PM	VCP4 Exam	VCP4 Exam
3:00 PM-4:00 PM	V12644 Room 304	Designing a Virtualization Infrastructure for the Small Environment
4:00 PM-4:45 PM	Personal Meeting	vKernel CEO
6:00 PM-7:30 PM	10K RUN	10K RUN
7:30 PM-8:00 PM	Personal Meeting	TWEETUP

Tuesday
8:00 AM-9:15 AM	KEYNOTE	KEYNOTE
9:30 AM-10:00 AM	JUDGING KICKOFF	JUDGING KICKOFF
10:45 AM-11:45 AM	Paul Maritz	Paul Maritz
1:00 PM-3:00 PM	LAB02 Salon 8	VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager – Advanced Operations
3:00 PM-4:00 PM	BC4840 Room 124	Exploring vStorage API’s and how Veeam and Dell partner for Success
4:00 PM-5:30 PM	JUDGING	JUDGING
5:30 PM-7:00 PM	VM2241 Room 305	Managing vSphere with VMware PowerCLI
7:00 PM-8:00 PM	ROE: Dell/VMware Reception	ROE: Dell/VMware Reception

Wednesday
8:00 AM-9:15 AM	KEYNOTE	KEYNOTE
9:30 AM-11:30 AM	LAB06 Salon 10	VMware vCenter Server Heartbeat
12:00 PM-1:00 PM	Book Signing at Bookstore	Book Signing at Bookstore
1:00 PM-2:00 PM	SS5241 Room 134	Question and Answer Session with Paul
2:30 PM-3:30 PM	TT Videocasts	TT Videocasts
4:00 PM-5:00 PM	BC3189 Room 121	How Storage Enhances Business Continuance: From Backup to Fault Tolerance
5:30 PM-6:00 PM	vExpert Session on Blogging	vExpert Session on Blogging
6:00 PM-7:00 PM	ROE – VMware Customer Appr – VMUG	ROE – VMware Customer Appr – VMUG
7:00 PM-8:00 PM	VMworld PARTY	VMworld PARTY

Thursday
10:00 AM-11:00 AM	TA2262 Room 306	vSphere Enterprise Stability – It’s all in the Design
11:30 AM-1:00 PM	VM2409 Room 104	Virtual Center: Troubleshooting Unleashed
1:00 PM-2:00 PM	TA2259 Room 303	Ask the Experts – Virtualization Design
2:00 PM-3:00 PM	Personal Meeting	TA3521 – Networking Live Demo
3:00 PM-4:00 PM	TA2650 Room 304	Take PowerCLI to the Next Level
4:00 PM-5:30 PM	FULL – TA2525- Networking Deep Dive	FULL – TA2525- Networking Deep Dive