After skipping VMword Las Vegas, I’m very much looking forward to VMworld Copenhagen. Today I created my schedule and boy it was hard to choose between the many good sessions. A good start to build your schedule is this list provided by Duncan Epping which holds a number of deep technical sessions. But you’ll soon discover that there are many conflicts, so you’ll have to make some hard decisions.
I copied Duncan’s list and added the time slots to make it easier to select a session and I also added the “Attend” column to show you what my choices are. As I said, some tough choices because I would have loved to see Frank, Eric and Luc and “He Who Shall Be Named PowerCLI Man” on stage, but I hope reading their blogs and of course read the “VMware vSphere 5 Clustering technical deepdive” book will make up a little for not seeing the sessions.
| Attend | Session-ID | Schedule | Title | Speaker(s) |
| YES | BCO2874 | Tue 09:00 | vSphere High Availability 5.0 and SMP Fault Tolerance – Technical Overview and Roadmap | Keith Farkas, Jim Chow |
| VSP1882 | Tue 09:00 | Managing VMware ESXi with VMware vSphere PowerCLI | Luc Dekens, Alan Renouf | |
| BCO2479 | Tue 10:30 | Understanding VMware vSphere Stretched Clusters, Disaster Recovery and Planned Workload Mobility | Lee Dilworth, Chad Sakac | |
| YES | EUC2866 | Tue 10:30 | View Troubleshooting: Looking Under the Hood | John Dodge, Matt Coppinger |
| VSP1999 | Tue 10:30 | esxtop for Advanced Users | Krishna Raj Raja | |
| VSP3067 | Tue 10:30 | Myth Busters | Eric Sloof, Mattias Sundling | |
| VSP3116 | Tue 10:30 | VMware vSphere 5.0 Resource Management Deep Dive | Frank Denneman, Valentin Hamburger | |
| BCO3334 | Tue 12:00 | Site Recovery Manager Future Product Directions: Cloud-Based Disaster Recovery | Nestor Dusko, Ashwin Kotian | |
| YES | CIM1264 | Tue 12:00 | Private VMware vCloud Architecture Technical Deep Dive | Chris Colotti, David Hill |
| CIM2452 | Tue 13:30 | VMware vCenter Operations Technical Deepdive | Kit Colbert | |
| YES | VSP1883 | Tue 13:30 | VMware vSphere PowerCLI Best Practices | Luc Dekens, Alan Renouf |
| YES | VSP1933 | Wed 10:30 | Storage I/O Control for Network-Attached Storage Datastores | Ajay Gulati |
| YES | VSP3205 | Wed 12:00 | Technology Preview: VMware vStorage APIs for VM and Application Granular Data Management | Satyam Vaghani, Vijay Ramachandran |
| YES | VSP2447 | Wed 13:30 | Understanding Virtualized Memory Performance Management | YP Chien, Kit Colbert |
| YES | VSP1682 | wed 15:00 | vSphere Clustering Q&A | Frank Denneman, Chris Colotti, Duncan Epping |
| VSP2894 | Wed 15:00 | Virtual Distributed Switch Best Practices | Vyenkatesh Deshpande | |
| CIM1600 | Wed 16:30 | VMware vCloud Networking Finally Explained | Kamau Wanguhu | |
| VSP2122 | Wed 16:30 | VMware vMotion in VMware vSphere 5.0: Architecture, Performance and Best Practices | Sreekanth Setty, Gabriel Tarasuk-Levin | |
| YES | VSP3255 | Wed 16:30 | VMware Storage vMotion Deep Dive and Best Practices | Min Cai, Ali Mashtizadeh |
| YES | VSP1700 | Thu 12:30 | VMware vSphere 5.0 Storage Features | Cormac Hogan |
| YES | EUC2846 | Thu 14:00 | VMware View Enterprise Architecture Design and Implementation Best Practices | Tommy Walker, John Dodge |
| VSP1823 | Thu 14:00 | VMware Storage Distributed Resource Scheduler | Manish Lohani, Mustafa Uysal | |
| VSP2376 | Thu 14:00 | Performance and Scalability Enhancements in VMware vStorage VMFS 5 | Mostafa Khalil |
Except for the sessions recommended by Duncan, I also added:
| Attend | Session-ID | Schedule | Title | Speaker(s) |
| YES | PAR2368 | Mon 13:00 | What’s new with vSphere Licensing and Pricing | Rory Choudhuri |
| YES | PAR2377 | Mon 14:30 | Accelerate Desktop Virtualization Sales | |
| YES | PAR2496 | Mon 16:00 | Success in Virtualizing Business Critical Applications | Iain Buchan |
Dude, “VSP3205” is probably one of the coolest sessions of the show! It will show what we will be doing with Storage in the next version! You must attend, believe me :)
Ok, ok.. :-) Added it.