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Remon Lam over at virtualclouds.info has created an awesome and very complete list of all the news, interviews, videos and blog articles related to the VMworld 2010 in Copenhagen.  He’s maintaining the links in four separate days at the following links and Remon is still working on updates.

• VMworld 2010 Copenhagen Day 0
• VMworld 2010 Copenhagen Day 1 (Partner Day)
• VMworld 2010 Copenhagen Day 2 - Linkage
• VMworld 2010 Copenhagen Day 3 - Linkage
• VMworld 2010 Copenhagen Day 4 - Linkage
• VMworld 2010 Copenhagen - Round-up

Over 150 Links - Kudos to Remon – Keep up the good work!!!

So I just got back from the VMworld in Copenhagen and it’s time to start unpacking the gadgets. The first gadget comes from the nice people over at nComputing who gave me an L300 for free. In return I had to write a blog article. Gadget number two is also demoed, as I’m wearing a cool official orange VMware 2010 LAB STAFF shirt :-)

With the L300, watching DVD-quality video on up to a 1920x1080 display comes standard for most common media formats. The game-changing access device comes packaged in a sleek low-power package that can be easily mounted on a monitor or secured to a desk. Powered by a new NComputing Numo System on a Chip (SoC), the L300 uses patent-pending hardware technology to decode and scale multimedia locally, eliminating network strain. The L300 access device costs less any other thin- or zero-client options and a quarter of the cost of desktop PCs. In combination with the NComputing vSpace software, it enables VDI solutions at one-third the price of traditional offerings.

Planning and Designing an HA Cluster that Maximizes VM Uptime - The kick-off

A High Availability setup is only as good as its weakest link. In this session, learn more details about the inner workings of VMware HA and best practices for setting up and managing a robust production environment.

VMware High Availability – Futures (part of BC7803)

PowerCLI Is For Administrators! - The kick-off

In larger organisations administrating a vSphere environment can cause headaches. Some of the burning questions you surely recognize:  Who gave that VM 4 CPU's ? Who connected the NIC to the DMZ PortGroup and when ?  In this session, Luc Dekens and Alan Renouf will show you how to automate the answers to these questions with the help of PowerCLI.

Last Tuesday was awesome. All the vExperts were invited to meet and greet with VMware’s Steve Herrod, Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President of R&D. I’ve recorded a video which will show VMware’s community manager John Troyer and Steve Herrod giving a speech. Finally I had the chance to shake hands with Steve and talk about Lego, what else is there to talk about when you’re chatting with such a cool guy. There were also a lot of other awesome people. I bumped into members of the Office of the CTO and Principal Engineers.



Kudos to professional photographer @viktoriousss Continue reading "VMworld 2010 Copenhagen - Meet and greet with..." »

In this video you will see David Messina at the VMworld Europe labs control room. VMware used Xangati to help design and manage VMworld’s VDI vCloud supporting the main stage presentations and all hands-on labs for over 6000 attendees at the VMworld in Copenhagen. With over 75000 man-hours invested developing 30 hands-on lab topics -  the VDI vCloud running VMware View 4.5 software had to support 480 concurrent users running any lab, at any time and in any order.



Kudos to stage director @viktoriousss