Vmworld

VMware Explore 2022 - Session Breakdown and Analysis

Ok, here we are... it's been three years since VMworld 2019 and we are back next week in San Francisco at the Mascone Centre. But we are not attending VMworl...

Veeam @VMworld 2021 Virtual Edition..still!

VMworld 2021 is today! This year, once again we will all be experiencing the conference remotely and a little more delayed than is usual for VMworld (US). Wi...

VMworld 2021 - Session Breakdown and Analysis

VMworld 2021 is different again this year a month later than usual, we are now only five days away from kicking off Virtually. The content catalog for the Vi...

VMworld 2020 - Top Session Picks

VMworld 2020 is happening today! And as I have banged on about over the past week, this is a very very different VMworld. No one will be lining up for overfl...

VMworld 2020 - Tech, Career and Community with the vTrail Map

VMworld has been leveraged by a lot of people to help advance their careers with a lot of advancement seeded by personal interactions at the conference. Soci...

Veeam @VMworld 2020 Virtual Edition!

VMworld 2020 is now only a couple of days away, and this year we will all be experiencing the conference remotely. Without question this will be a different ...

VMworld 2020 - Session Breakdown and Analysis

VMworld 2020 is different this year... but in this COVID year, we are only five days away from kicking off Virtually. The content catalog for the Virtual eve...

vCloud Director is no more... Long Live vCD! [VMware Cloud Director Service for VMC]

There was a very significant announcement at VMworld Barcelona overnight, with the unveiling of a new service targeted at Managed Service Providers. VMware C...

The Separation of Dev and Ops is Upon Us!

Apart from the K word, there was one other enduring message that I think a lot of people took home from VMworld 2019 . That is, that Dev and Ops should be co...

VMworld 2019 Veeam Wrap Up - Supportability Announcements and Session Recaps

VMworld 2019 is almost a distant memory, and with the focus now shifting to VMworld Europe happening later in the year I wanted to round out the US event wit...

VMworld 2019 Review - Project Pacific is a Stroke of Kubernetes Genius... but not without a catch!

Kubernetes Kubernetes, Kubernetes... say Kubernetes one more time... I dare you! If it wasn't clear what the key take away from VMworld 2019 was last week in...

VMworld 2019 - Top Session Picks

VMworld 2019 is happening tomorrow (It is already Saturday here) and as I am just about to embark on the 20+ hour journey from PER to SFO I thought it was be...

Veeam @VMworld 2019 Edition...

VMworld 2019 is now only a couple of days away, and I can't wait to return to San Francisco for what will be my seventh VMworld and third one with Veeam. It ...

VMworld 2019 - Session Breakdown and Analysis

Everything to do with VMworld this year feels like it's arrived at lightning speed. I actually thought the event was two weeks away as the start of the week....

VMworld 2019 - Still Time To Go for FREE*!

VMworld is rapidly approaching, and for those that have not secured their place at the event in San Francisco, and for whatever reason have been hindered in ...

Veeam on the VMware Cloud Marketplace Protecting VMware Cloud on AWS Workloads

At VMworld 2018, myself and Michael Cade gave a session on automating and orchestrating Veeam on VMware Cloud on AWS . The premise of the session was to show...

VMworld 2018 Recap Part 2 - Community and Veeam Recap

VMworld 2018 has come and gone and after a couple of days recovery from the week that was, i’ve had time to reflect on what was a great week and an another g...

VMworld 2018 Recap Part 1 - Major Announcement Breakdown!

VMworld 2018 has come and gone and after a couple of days recovery from the week that was, i've had time to reflect on what was a great week and an another g...

Veeam @VMworld 2018 Edition...

VMworld 2018 is less than a week away, and I can't wait to fly into Las Vegas for my sixth VMworld and second with Veeam. It's been an interesting year or so...

Creating a Single Host SDDC for VMware Cloud on AWS

While preparing for my VMworld session with Michael Cade on automating and orchestrating the deployment of Veeam into VMware Cloud on AWS, we have been testi...

VMworld 2018 - #vGolf Las Vegas

#vGolf is back! Bigger and better than last years event. This is the third year of the event having had the inaugural #vGolf at VMworld 2016. Last year we ha...

vBrownBag TechTalks at VMworld 2018 - The Power to Catapult!

VMworld 2018 is fast approaching and in the last 24 hours, notifications where sent out to those lucky enough to have their session submissions accepted. Hav...

Setting up vSAN iSCSI and using it as a Veeam Repository

Probably one of the least talked about features of vSAN is it's ability to serve out iSCSI volumes. The feature was released with vSAN 6.5 and was primarily ...

VMworld 2017 Veeam Recap - Breakouts, TechTalks and Final Thoughts.

Both VMworld US and Europe have come and gone in quick time this year and while I only attended VMworld US my team and other Veeam staff featured at Europe a...

What's in a name? VSPP to vCAN to VCPP

Prior to VMworld there where rumours floating around that the vCloud Air Network was going to undergo a name change and sure enough at VMworld 2017 in the US...

VMware Cloud on AWS: Thoughts One Year On

Last week at VMworld 2017 in the US, VMware announced the initial availability of VMware Cloud on AWS . It was the focal point for VMware at the event and pr...

VMware Cloud on AWS Availability with Veeam

It’s been exactly a year since VMware announced their partnership with AWS and it’s no surprise that at this year’s VMworld the solution is front and center ...

Veeam Vault #8: VMworld 2017 Edition...Still Best Of!

I'm sitting in the airport lounge waiting to board the first leg of my 26 hour journey to Las Vegas for VMworld 2017 and I thought it was no better time to w...

VMworld 2017: vCloud Air Network Again Out in Force

Last year saw a resurgence in vCloud related sessions at VMworld and the trend has continued this year at the 2017 event. Looking through the sessions at Par...

VMworld 2017: Don't Take it for Granted!

This time next week VMworld 2017 will be kicking off with the Sunday evening Welcome Reception among other sponsor and community events and for me, it will m...

Updated: VMworld 2017 - #vGolf Las Vegas

To say that #vGolf is back bigger and better than the inaugural #vGolf held last year at VMworld 2016 is an understatement! This year's event has been very p...

NestedESXi - Network Performance Improvements with Learnswitch

I've been running my NestedESXi homelab for about eight months now but in all that time I had not installed or enabled the ESXi MAC Learning dvFilter . As a ...

VMworld 2017 - Session Breakdown and Analysis

Everything to do with VMworld this year feels like it's earlier than in previous years. The call for papers opened in Feburary with session voting happening ...

VMworld 2017 - #vGolf Las Vegas

[ Please head to this page for updated information ] #vGolf is back! Bigger and better than the inaugural #vGolf held last year at VMworld 2016! Last year we...

VMworld 2017 : Session Analysis and Voting Open...Already!

Well this has crept up on us quickly this year! It's time to vote for the VMworld Sessions that will be part of the US and Europe VMworld's held later in the...

VMware on AWS: vCloud Director and What Needs to be Done to Empower the vCAN

Last week VMware and Amazon Web Services officially announced their new joint venture whereby VMware technology will be available to run as a service on AWS ...

VMworld Europe 2016: vCloud Air Network Out in Force!

VMworld Europe is a little over a week away and while I won't be attending the even in Barcelona in looking through the session catalog for Partner Exchange ...

Cross Cloud: Why The VM Shouldn't Be The Base Unit of Measurement

I’ve been sitting on this topic since the VMworld 2016 US Keynote where VMware announced the Cross Cloud Architecture. I posted some raw thoughts the day aft...

VMworld 2016: Top Session Pick Videos Right Here!

VMworld 2016 US is done and dusted and for those that didn't attend or attended but missed out on sessions due to "scheduling conflicts", VMware has been awe...

VMworld 2016: Cross Cloud Platform - Raw Thoughts

I'm still trying to process the VMworld 2016 Day 1 Keynote in my mind...trying to make sense of the mixed messages that myself and others took away from the ...

VMworld 2016 - #vGolf Las Vegas - Final Details + Sponsors

[UPDATE] - WE HAVE REACHED CAPACITY - APOLOGIES TO THOSE THAT MISSED OUT With VMworld now a week away, I am pleased to announce that #vGolf 2016 has a venue ...

VMworld 2016: Top Session Picks

VMworld 2016 is just around the corner (10 days and counting) and the theme this year is be_Tomorrow …which looks to build on the Ready for Any and Brave IT ...

VMworld 2016: vCloud Air Network Out in Force!

VMworld is a little over three weeks away and from the looking through the sessions at Partner Exchange and VMworld proper the refocus on the vCloud Air Netw...

VMworld 2016 - #vGolf Las Vegas

Last year at VMworld 2015 in San Francisco a couple of us headed out on the Sunday morning for a walk up start of 9 holes of Golf at the Golden Gate Golf Clu...

VMworld 2016 : Session Voting #8808

Well this has crept up on us quickly this year! It's time to vote for the VMworld Sessions that will be part of the US and Europe VMworld's held later in the...

VMworld 2016 : VMTurbo Pass Giveaway

It's that time of year again! VMworld is about 100 days away and VMTurbo are giving away three full passes to VMworld being held in Las Vegas. There are thre...

#vBrownBag TechTalk - NSX...An Unexpected Journey

While at VMworld a couple of weeks ago I presented a short talk around my journey working with NSX-v and how it has shifted ( pivoted ) the direction of what...

vExpert VMworld Reception and Program Thoughts

Last week at VMworld we had the annual vExpert Reception…this year the party was held at the very swanky Julia Morgan Ballroom in the Merchants Exchange buil...

#VMworld: First Look - CloudPhysics New Release

Over the past year the guys at CloudPhysics have been relatively quiet compared to the proceeding 3 years since they burst onto the Scene at VMworld 2012. Th...

VMworld: #vBrownBag TechTalks

The vBrownbag Tech Talks are back on again this year at VMworld and it gives those who might have missed out on getting an official session accepted at this ...

Follow-Up: vCloud Director SP: The Need for UI Improvement!

Its been a couple of weeks since I wrote this post on the need for improvement with the vCloud Director UI and the response I've had to the article through t...

VMware Labs: Top 5 Flings

For those that are not aware, VMware has had their Lab Flings going for a number of years now and on the back of the latest release ( ESXi Embedded Host Clie...

VMworld 2015: Top 5 Sessions

VMworld 2015 is just around the corner (5 weeks and counting) and the theme this year is Ready for Any …and it looks like there will be some carryover of the...

VMworld 2015: Registration and Session 'Liking' Open

There are only 101 Days to go till VMworld 2015 with Registrations now Open and Session voting for this years event going live last week. Skimming through th...

EVO:RAIL - Who are VMware Really Targeting?

Probably the biggest announcement from last week’s VMworld was the unveiling of the Project Marvin/Mystic as EVO:RAIL. Most of the focus on VMware releasing ...

VCAP-DCA – Experience

I couple of months ago I wouldn't have seen myself writing up one of these blog posts which seems to be customary for any blogger who has taken a VCAP. Havin...

VMworld: Community Tech Talk - Differentiate or Die?

As mentioned in a previous post I was lucky enough to be able to present a #vBrownBag Tech Talk at this years VMworld. Even though the timing meant a smallis...

VMworld: VCAP5-DCA Book Giveaway

Those that have been following my Twitter over the past month or so would know that I took up the challenge to sit and pass my VCAP-DCA at VMworld 2014. Afte...

vCHS vs vCloud: vCloud Air Network...VMware Solidifies Partner Relationship

I must admit…I didn’t see this coming! One of my more recent posts a couple weeks ago was related to how VMware would engage with it’s Service Provider Partn...

VMworld 2014: #vBrownBag Tech Talk's

Like a few others out there I was unsuccessful in my session submission for VMworld 2014...With vCloud Director not being flavour of the month at the moment ...

VMWorld 2014: Session Voting

Voting is Open for VMWorld 2014 and I have submitted three sessions for your consideration. The first session is a VMUG User Conference Presentation I Co-Pre...

VMWorld: YouTube Channel

VMworld - The EUC Revolution is Here

A few years ago there was a theory put forward by a certain Apple CEO that we were entering the Post PC Era…while I have never subscribed to that theory (w...

VMworld - Where is the Zephyr?

There where some pretty big announcements and reveals at VMworld 2012, but unless I missed something (which was totally possible had any accouncement been ma...