It’s that time of year again! Actually…we’re doing it a little earlier this year…but anyway, it’s time for the VMware Summit in Charlotte! This has been a really great event over the last couple of years and I have to say, it’s gotten even better this year. Did we frighten them with Varrow Madness? I don’t know….but either way this year will be bigger and stronger than any previous Summit.
Come join us on May 5th at the Charlotte Convention Center.
The list of sponsors and partners has gotten even larger. This year that includes:
- Varrow (of course)
- EMC
- Symantec
- Brocade
- Cisco
- F5
- Trend Micro
- Veeam
- Xsigo
- NetApp
- HP
- Wyse
- Quest
- Acronis
- AMD
- And more…
As with the VMware Summits in the past we’ll have vendor booths, keynotes by VMware and NetApp, break-out sessions, labs, and a panel discussion. Breakout sessions have expanded this year and should be very interesting with presentations on Ethernet Fabrics, securing remove View deployments, performance lessons, securing virtualization, I/O virtualization, vCenter Operations, View architectures, and more and more. Once again the awesome Mike Laverick will be there and he’ll be doing a session on Site Recovery Manager. If you’ve never seen Mike speak on SRM you really should attend his session.
This year there will be two sets of labs running all day. Our buddies over at eGroup will be hosting an EMC and VMware View lab and we (Varrow) will be hosting the vCloud Director lab. These will run throughout the day and should be well worth your time to attend. But Jason, you ask, what will you be doing? This year I will be doing two things. First, at 2:30pm I will be sitting on the panel discussion along with Scott Lowe, MIke Laverick, Mike Dipetrillo, and Rich Brambley. Why they asked me I’ll never know…but I’m really looking forward to it! Right after that at 3:45pm (who needs a buffer?!) I’ll be doing a session on distributed virtual networking in vSphere. This will be a mix of the standard vDS and the Nexus 1000v. A lot of people come to me with questions on which is right for their environment, why, and how they compare in day-to-day management. This session should help there and I plan to do a live installation and basic configuration of the Nexus 1000v virtual switch at the end. Come see if I can pull that off. 
You should be there! To register for the event and see the full agenda just click this link here. It’s free, it’s great, and it’s well worth your time to attend.
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