Personally I go for the hands-on labs and of course industry discussion.  I do like the Vendor area but sometimes it gets a little old competing for face time for vendor discussion fighting those who are just there for swag (did I just say swag?). 

Overall it is pretty overwhelming conference.  There is a ton of paths to take which makes it great...i just wish someone else from my company would go with me, that way I could essentially be in two places at once.  I know they offer the labs and power points online, but getting away from work forces you to focus and reading powerpoints on my free time never seems to happen.

I have to say I am really excited to come to Vegas.  We are running a production ESX 3.5 environment, but I REALLY need to know more about how to harness the power of VMWare to benefit our school.  I work at a local private university and money is always an issue.  VMWare has enabled us to save quite a bit on equipment cost and cooling cost. But we want more out of it.  I am hoping this will show me the way to better utilize what we have.

We just got into virtualization where I work, and I'm definitely interested in the hands-on labs and just learning as much as I can. We're also always interested in the possiblity of virtualizing the desktop. We looked at Citrix a couple years ago, and it did not work out for our environment. I haven't really seen VMWare's solution yet, and am looking forward to it.

It also doesn't hurt that it's going to be in Vegas, so it should be an all-around good time!

My job is to bring new Technologies to my company to keep competitive and effecient.  I am coming to VMworld for the first time.  I am very pumped.  I am looking forward to seeing what the best of the best have to offer.  What is new and hot for the next 12 months.

My company is pretty young (12 months) to VMware.   We have things in production and all is working well.  I want to see who is monitoring what in their VM environment and how they are backing things up.  I also what to see what people used to get their physical environment P2V'ed.

See ya all there!

Why am I coming? Well certainly not because it is an all expenses paid trip to Las Vegas.

I am coming to enhance my knowledge and exposure to the VMware implemenation of server virtualization.

That is my story and I am sticking to it. See y'all there.

Mr E