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VMworld 2012 Session (OPS-CIM1274)

Looks like I will be speaking at VMworld on a panel session with Thomas Corfmat, Igor Stoyanov, Sean Harrison, and Vivienne Cleveland:

In this session you will find out why vCenter Orchestrator is no longer VMware’s ‘best kept secret’. This session will walk you through the capabilities of vCenter Orchestrator and show how you can leverage this fundamental and powerful capability to integrate the VMware Cloud Infrastructure Suite with the rest of your systems management portfolio. This session will include a content rich demonstration of how the capabilities and features of VCO greatly simplify the installation, development and execution of workflows. Finally we highlight a range of use cases and the broad and ever growing portfolio of VCO plug-ins that allow you to quickly and easily build comprehensive cloud service offerings.
It is definitely an honor to have been asked to sit on the panel for something that I feel so strongly about.  I hope that everyone will be able to take some time out of their busy schedules to come join us at the session!  Hope to see everyone there!

Go to VMworld 2012 for Free from vDestination!

Last year Greg Stuart over at vDestination.com gave away a free trip to VMworld 2011.  It looks like he has done it again with the aid of Veeam, TrainSignal, and Symantec.  Some quick info:

    • VMworld 2012 Full Conference Pass
    • Air fare to SFO up to $500 USD
    • 5 nights hotel accomodations (Sun-Thurs)

Also, it seems that Drobo has donated a Drobo B800i iSCSI Storage Array as well for the winner.  Here is a short snip of the requirements:

 This trip contest is based on need and need alone. If you can’t afford to go to VMworld, if your company won’t send you then this is your chance. In order to enter to win you will need to make a comment on this blog post and include the following three points in your comment:
(1)Describe to me and my sponsors why you need to go to VMworld 2012, (2)What you are most looking forward to (it’s okay if it’s Bon Jovi, it may be what I’m most looking forward to!) and (3)How you plan on paying it forward.
This shouldn’t take more than one paragraph really, you won’t have a better chance if you write a novel, keep it short and concise. You will be chosen by a panel of vExperts based on your answers to the questions above.

For more information and all the goods, please visit vDestination.com (http://vdestination.com/2012/06/26/go-to-vmworld-2012-for-free/)

VMworld 2012 Session Voting

So this year I have a couple of topics that I and a couple of others (Cody Bunch, Joerg Lew) have turned into for the Call for Papers.  User voting for the topics has opened (here) and we would appreciate your help in getting these sessions selected.  Here are the sessions:

1347 – vCenter Orchestrator for the Everyday Administrator – Join Cody Bunch, author of “Automating vSphere with vCenter Orchestrator,” along with James Bowling as they take you through the basics of orchestrating your vSphere infrastructure with vSphere vCenter Orchestrator.
1638 – Building a Self-Service Portal for Your IT-Services with vCenter Orchestrator & Wavemaker – This session shows you how to build a web-based self-service portal for your users / customers, based on VMware vCenter Orchestrator. You will learn how to customize workflows and present them via a Web-UI to the users.  Joerg and James will also share stories from acutal projects in the field with a lot of best-practices and lessons learned.  NO CODING REQUIRED! (Both Orchestrator and Wavemaker allow drag-and-drop styled implementation…)

I know that I would definitely appreciate your vote for the above sessions!  Also, don’t forget to vote for the many other great sessions that have been turned in.  There are way too many to list but you can go see for yourself!

VMworld 2012 Call For Papers Open

Much to my surprise, VMworld 2012 CFP is now open (http://www.vmworld.com/thread/5311).  I will be submitting a few topics with a couple of my vCO buds.  I won’t go into too much detail because I don’t want to give it away but we have some sessions that I believe people will want to attend.  There will be quite a bit of information and most of it will be useful, hahaha!  Just kidding, it will be 100% useful.  So keep an eye out for a post later in the next few weeks regarding any sessions that I will hopefully be presenting along side some other great guys involved.

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