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VMworld 2018 US Recap

09.10.201809.10.2018/VMworld

VMworld 2018VMworld 2018 US is in the books!  I thought it might be useful to share a recap of the announcements and a link to view a replay of the sessions.

  • Day 1 General Session – Technology Superpowers (Monday, 8/27) 
  • Day 2 General Session – Pioneers of the Possible (Tuesday, 8/28) 

You can review the full list of VMworld 2018 US announcements at VMworld.com.   You can also listen to the Virtually Speaking podcast – Episode 89.  They just published a nice recap.  

A few highlights for you: 

  • vSphere 6.7 Update 1 and vSphere Platinum Edition: 
    • vSphere Platinum Edition – This is a new edition of vSphere, adding in AppDefense to go along with all current capabilities in the Enterprise Plus license. Also included in this edition is a vCenter plug-in that tightly integrates AppDefense and vCenter Services for ease of administration and enhanced visibility for vSphere administrators.
    • vSphere 6.7 Update 1
      • Fully featured HTML5 client
      • Upgrade path from vSphere 6.5 Update 2
      • Enhanced support for NVIDIA Quattro VMs
      • vCenter Server Convergence Tool
      • Enhanced content libraries

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Making Your Case for VMworld

09.05.201605.25.2018/Professional Development, VMworld

VMworld 2016VMworld 2016 was last week.  It was my first time attending.  I worked in a VMware booth in the Solutions Exchange.  I had never been able to go when I was on the customer side.  That fact was not lost on me during the week.  As I flew home, I wrote down some thoughts about the week.  It was a new experience for me.  There was a fair amount of hard work, a good bit of fun; but most importantly I was able to observe interactions and discussions between people. That was by far the most interesting and important part.

Connecting the Dots

About mid way through the week, I was able to meet up with one of my customers that had attended.  I am relatively new to the account so I had not had a lot of face time with them yet.  It was good to get a chance to talk with them outside of their workplace.  During our conversation, it came out that they had recently begun looking to leverage vSAN as a way to increase their High Availability potential.

Utilizing a stretched vSAN cluster, they could extend their High Availability capabilities outside of a single building.  Their manager was not quite yet sold on the idea.  He was hoping to validate this use case for the technology and was wary of being the first to try something new.  I introduced them to a vSAN subject matter expert who was also at VMworld.   As I watched the conversation, the SME started to draw a diagram on a whiteboard, Continue reading “Making Your Case for VMworld”

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