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VMworld 2008 came to Vegas and swept the virtualizaiton industry by storm. While the physical conference may have ended, the conference sessions, labs, blogs and discussions will live on year-round.

VMworld 2008 Sessions & Labs will be posted to VMworld.com at the end of this week and will be available to all paid attendees of VMworld 2008. For breakout sessions, this includes streaming flash presentations (audio over slides), PDF downloads of all presentations and MP3 podcasts. For labs, this includes PDF downloads of all presentation and manuals.

As an added bonus, VMworld 2008 attendees will get access to all sponsor keynotes as PDFs, MP3s and streaming flash presentations. (VMware, Cisco, Dell, EMC, HP, IBM, Intel, NEC, NetApp, Symantec)

Check VMworld.com on Friday, 10/3 for the release of this content.

Year-round participation
Be sure to participate in discussions with the community on VMworld.com to share questions, comments and documents related to any sessions and labs you view. You can also create or continue a personal blog to share your experiences or knowledge of any session topics.

Enter the Virtual Pavilion as a fun and easy way to navigate through all VMworld.com content as a year-round virtual conference. Within the pavilion, you will find virtual exhibitor booths sponsored by virtualization vendors sharing their community offerings with visitors.

Cheers,
~Tony

VMWorld 2008 est terminé mais il a laissé une impression qui va perdurer. Que ce soit l'anticipation des nouvelles fonctionnalités ou même l'imaginaire d'atteindre l'utopie informatique, nous avons vécu une expérience enrichissante. Les prochains mois sont déjà rempli du suivi à donner à toute cette information.

Les vendeurs auxquels j'ai parlé se disaient très satisfait de leur salon, que ce soit de par le nombre de participants, par un achalandage soutenu ou même par l'enthousiasme des congressistes. Les ateliers étaient remplis et plusieurs d'entre nous ont tiré profit des contacts informels et des échanges d'information. J'en sort satisfait et prêt à recommander l'expérience à quiconque.

Le plus grand défi est maintenant d'analyser toutes ces informations pour en extraire un contenu pratique. Tout ce qui a été présenté ne s'applique pas nécessairement dans les environnements de PME même si avec un peu d'ingéniosité on peu l'adapter.

J'étais venu pour obtenir de l'information sur l'évolution de VMware et étudier certains produits avec lesquels j'étais moins familier. Je voulais voir ce qu'il y avait de nouveau dans le monde du stockage, des logiciels de gestion d'un environnement virtuel et de tout ce qui pouvait intéresser le monde de l'éducation. J'en ai eu plein la vue et assez de contacts pour encombrer ma boîte de courrier électronique. Il ne reste plus qu'à analyser, structurer, synthétiser et présenter tout ça; c'est que je vais faire dans les prochains jours.

À bientôt.

I've posted all of the pictures I took during VMworld 2008 to our site. There are some great pictures including the party and hotel. Here is the link - - http://www.delltechcenter.com/album/46895/VMWorld+2008

Todd

The first session was an interesting story how a VMware infrastructure works at a casino. Very interesting was the whole infrustructe (e.g. network, storages, etc.).

The second session was about VCB. I learned there some new functions what will come in the next version of VCB in 2009. I just can say that the companies what are selling backup solution should be careful what they will do. The new generation of VCB includes all this stuff what you need to make backups in different methods (e.g. host based, VM based, etc.). Also a nice GUI will be available in this version.
But one point was very important, it is recommed to upgrada all ESX to 3.5u2, because in the current new version of VCB is VSS supported. That is needed to backup MS SQL/Exchange servers without any errors .

The third session was like the second, but with more troubleshooting informations.

One of the neatest things I saw at the VMworld 2008 conference was the Jack PC from Chip PC. I've been around for long enough to remember all the hype about thin clients, and the promise that everything would live in the cloud.

Todd is intimately familiar with it, and he'll be more than happy to share his experiences in the early days with the failed NetworkStations

I think this time around all the infrastructure is in place. 10-12 years ago we didn't have the network, nor great technology that exists from VMware and other companies. I think there is a much better chance that VDI, ThinComputing, whatever you want to call it, will take hold.

Great idea to have the Jack PC live in the wall and be powered over ethernet. That wouldn't have been possible 10 years ago. They are supposed to be sending one of their thin clients to all the lab attendees, hopefully it will arrive soon. I've got the spot in the kitchen that will work perfect !

After attending VMworld 08this past week, I was able to develop and document methods for attending the conference that are extremely effective. The intent is to avoid standing in line, avoid dull content, attend the best sessions, and know about the best after parties. Despite the fact that giving away this method may actually erode the advantage it gives me, I have outlined it below.

1. Arrive just a couple of minutes before doors open for the morning keynote. Follow the guidance of the ushers, but at the first chance you get go directly to the press / analyst area near the front and sit down. Get out notebook and begin looking as busy as possible, which usually means catching up on twitter.

2. Arrive about 5 to 10 minutes late for all breakout sessions. You won't have to stand in line and you can still get a great seatby just walking to front row. This also allows you to avoid the intro slides and get there just in time for the best content.

3. Use twitter constantly. This has lots of advantages. The biggest is that you can find out what the good sessionsare, so that when your session is a dud, you can go directly to a much better session.

4. The second benefit of twitter is that you will hear about all of the parties and dinners that people are attending AND hopefully get yourself invited. To get invited you will need to have done enough twitter posts that others know you are and are curious enough to want to see what you look like.

5. Wait until the last day to get trinkets and swag from the expo hall. None of the exhibitors want to take that stuff home and they will absolutely load you down with bouncy balls, t-shirts, and usb memory keys just to avoid having to pack it back up.

Just a having a little fun on Friday with this post! I hope that everybody enjoyed the conference as much as I did.

Todd

Don't miss out the VMware Company Store. Get souveniers from the VMworld party such as a one-of-a-kind race jacket and cap with the #5 in celebration of the 5th anniversary of VMworld.

Are you cold? If that's a yes, go get your long sleeve fleeces and vests. This year VMware is going "Green". They have some ECO items such as apparels and custom Timbuktu messenger bags made with custom liners from last year's show banners. They also have Ergonomic pens, shot glasses, Car alarm clocks, custom playing cards and stuff plush horses for the kids and so much more so don't miss out before they're gone.

Come by the store by 5pm Thursday!

After the conferences, visit the VMware Mechandise Store at:
http://www.vmware.com/company/merchandise.html