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Speakers: Jeroen van de Kamp, CTO at Login Consultants and Ruben Spruijt, Solutions Architect at PQR.

More and more people ask advice about the hardware virtualization solutions, particularly in a Terminal Server and Virtual Desktop Infrastructure context. PQR and Login Consultants have decided to compare the various hardware virtualization platforms in relationship to the end-user performance experience using the freely available benchmarking methodology of Login Consultants, VSI. Jointly they will deliver the outcome of the investigations and benchmarks to a broader audience, as part of the joint venture “Project: Virtual Reality Check (VRC)”. Running Terminal Server workloads on virtual hardware is generally not recommended, but recent developments give grounds to a re-evaluation of current best practices. By bench¬marking these and the Virtual Desktop workloads on physical servers and various virtualization solutions, Ruben Spruijt and Jeroen van de Kamp will give you valuable and most importantly unbiased experience and insights.

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As Steve and Duncan just posted, the full list of VMTN Experts that will join the VMTN Experts Panel / Meet and greet at VMworld Europe has just been announced:

Jason Boche - Boche.net + VMTN Moderator
Thomas Bryant - VMTN Moderator
Steve Beaver - thevirtualblackhole.com + VMTN Moderator
Eric Sloof - NTPRO.NL + VMTN/VMUG Contributor
Scott Herold - VMGuru.com + VMTN Contributor and author of VMware ESX Server: ATDG
Wil van Antwerpen - vi-toolkit.com + VMTN Contributor
Gabrie van Zanten - gabesvirtualworld.com + VMTN Contributor
Alan Renouf - teckinfo.blogspot.com + VMTN Contributor
Tom Howarth - PlanetVM.net + VMTN Moderator
Duncan Epping - Yellow-Bricks.com + VMTN Moderator

Tom Howarth already spread the word. Richard Garsthagen has confirmed, the VMworld Europe VMTN Panel gets green light. It’s not going to be a break-out session, VMware choose another format for this year’s VMTN Panel. It will be more like a meet and greet. Richard is working out the details. In the picture you can get a glimpse of the VMworld Europe Community Lounge. Looks cool, doesn't it. The attendees so far are:


Duncan Epping of Yellow Bricks fame
Alan Renouf of powershell fame
Steve Beaver of Tripwire
Eric Sloof of NTPRO.NL
Tom Howarth The community King and the driving force behind PlanetVM.

This morning I finally received an email from the VMworld Content team.

Thank you for submitting your session for VMworld Europe 2009!

Your submission: VMware Lab at Home

How to VMotion from your kitchen to you bathroom? This session is filled with tips and trick about building a VMware lab environment at your own home. The average VMware fan doesn’t have enough money to buy hardware that’s on the Hardware Compatibility List. In this session you will learn how to Install VMware ESX on cheap hardware and still get the performance you want. I also will be looking at installing VMware ESX in workstation. There’s also a special focus on SATA and IP storage. These storage techniques can be used to setup shared NFS or ISCSI servers. Like in a production environment, the home lab’s power consumption, noise and heat are most important otherwise you partner may be the one who will pull the plug.

Your submission: VMware PowerShell tools integration

This presentation focuses on the tools that are currently available for PowerShell. It also gives you an insight at the VMware PowerShell extensions and presents a short induction to PowerShell as a scripting language. We are going to take a look at PowerShell integration in the vClient and a lot of other tools like AdminScriptEditor, PrimalForms, PowerGUI, PowerShellPlus and PowerGadgets

We received over 400 submission, but can only select 100 sessions and I am sorry to say that your session(s) did not make the selection. While your session(s) cannot be presented at VMworld Europe, you can still post your content to VMworld.com to share with the VMworld community and virtualization industry as a whole.