Voting for VMworld 2013 Sessions is now open to all. Do you believe it’s that time of year already?
There are tons of sessions to choose from, and it’s all up to you to decide on what will make it. You will be required to log in to your vmworld.com account to vote. If you do not have a vmworld.com account, you can set one up for free at http://www.vmworld.com Once you have registered your account, just follow this link: http://www.vmworld.com/cfp.jspa
You will get a list of all of the session proposals, all with a small icon of a white thumb in front of the sessions. You can vote on as many sessions as you’d like. To vote, just click on the thumb. You’ll receive a confirmation window that you voted, and the thumb will turn green. Voting is open April 23 – May 6 until 5:00pm PDT.
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A plug for VMware Global Services
The following are sessions submitted for voting by our very own Global Services employees from our offices around the globe. If you see something of interest to you here, be sure to give them your vote!
| Title | Track/Number | Submitter |
| Architecting a software defined datacenter | 4529 | David Hill |
| Deploying a Private Cloud with vCloud Automation Center and vSphere | 4517 | David Hill & Raman Veeramraju |
| Monitoring your vCloud Infrastructure with VCenter Operations | 4667 | David Hill & Aidan Dalgeish |
| How to deploy a Hybrid Cloud in less than a day | 4750 | David Hill |
| The Good, The Bad and the Troubleshooting | 4551 – VSA | Simon Todd |
| EUC Application Strategy Best Practices | 4610 | Ray Dusseault |
| Mirage 101 | 4609 | Ray Dusseault |
| Mirage 201 | 4608 | Ray Dusseault |
| Horizon Mirage Implementation and Design Best Practices | 4587 | Ray Dusseault |
| ThinApp Implementation and Design Best Practices | 4586 | Ray Dusseault |
| Managed Packaging Services Best Practices | 4611 | Ray Dusseault |
| How to Optimally Architect and Implement the VMware Single Sign On | 6228 | Deji Akomolafe & Deep Bhattacharjee |
| Demystifying vSphere SSL Certificates Use and Replacement | 6229 | Deji Akomolafe & Josh Gray |
| How to Peacefully coexist with Your VMware Infrastructure | 4883 | Josh Gray |
| vSphere 5.1 Install and Upgrade Best Practices | 4884 | Josh Gray |
| vSphere Identity & SSL Management: Past, Present, and Future | 4882 | Josh Gray |
| What Could Possibly Go Wrong?!?!? [vCloud Director] | 4495 | Jon Hemming |
| Best Practices for Virtualizing Tier1 Oracle on vSphere, SDDC Platform | 5598 | Kannan Mani & Matt Scott |
| Disaster Recovery solution with Oracle Data Guard and Site Recovery Manager | 4905 | Kannan Mani & Brad Pinkston |
| Demystifying VMware Mirage – Tips and Tricks for Success | 4815 | Justin Venezia & Simon Long |
| Best Practices for Load Balancing and High Availability for the Horizon Suite | 4782 | Justin Venezia |
| EUC Design Double Check – Validating Your EUC Solutions | 4810 | Justin Venezia |
| Locking Down the Horizon Suite with vCNS/NSX | 4825 | Justin Venezia & Rob Randall |
| An Architect’s View of the Horizon Suite – Best Practices for Putting the Pieces Together | 4781 | Justin Venezia & Stephane Asselin |
| Ready, set, go! – The race to Operational Readiness for EUC | 4591 | Kris Boyd |
| EUC Experts Panel — Successful Implementations | 6045 | Kris Boyd, Simon Long, Stephane Asselin, Ray Dusseault & Justin Venezia (Panel) |
| Getting started with Horizon Workspace – Use Cases and configuration | 6044 | Kris Boyd & Stephane Asselin |
| College wins student over with EUC | 4634 | Stephane Asselin & Yves Bourgeois |
| Load-Balancing and High-Availability for EUC solutions | 4624 | Stephane Asselin & Justin Venezia |
| EUC – Putting the Pieces Together | 4592 | Stephane Asselin & Jared Cook |
| vCenter Stats for Developers | 4840 | Melori Arellano & Marcelo Rodriguez |
| The world in my Postgres : Integrating PostGIS with vFabric Postgres | 4829 | Marcelo Rodriguez |
| vFabric Postgres on vSphere: The Virtual-Aware Database | 4826 | Marcelo Rodriguez |
| Storage solutions for Microsoft Tier-1 Applications | 5432 | Alex Fontana & NetApp |
| Virtualize Active Directory, the Right Way! | 5618 | Alex Fontana |
| Successfully Virtualize Microsoft Exchange Server | 5613 | Alex Fontana |
| Data Visualization in a Cloud Environment | 4492 | Faisal Akber |
| Did you say Mango or Mongo? Best Practices for Running MongoDB on VMware vSphere | 4554 | Faisal Akber |
| My name…is NEO! Best Practices for Running Neo4J on VMware vSphere | 4573 | Faisal Akber |
| Running Hadoop in a VMware vSphere Environment | 4588 | Faisal Akber |
| Troubleshooting tips for VMware vFabric Postgres | 4589 | Faisal Akber |
| Performance Tuning VMware vFabric Postgres | 4593 | Faisal Akber |
| VMware vSphere CSI – So your host experienced a Purple Screen crash? | 4491 | Faisal Akber, Alan Castonguay & Jimmie Clinton |
| Redis in a VMware vSphere Environment | 4574 | Faisal Akber & Bill Sitchler |
| Software-Defined Storage, the VCDX Way | 4798 | Wade Holmes & Rawlinson Rivera |
| Open up the vCloud hood using PowerCLI, Hyperic, vCenter Operations Manager and vCenter Orchestrator to reveal the inner cloud | 5287 | Phil Ditzel |
| A Class on Software Defined Datacenter Integration (3-part session) | 5389 | Chris Knowles & Thomas Kraus |
| SAP on VMware Design and Performance Management Guidelines | 4926 | Vas Mitra & Mohan Potheri |
| Performance Management of Business Critical Applications using vCenter Operations Manager | 4891 | Vas Mitra & TBD |
| Single Sign on To Your Cloud! | 5344 | Jeremy Sage & Tom Ralph |
| Managing 5,000 vCloud Users, from the Tenant Point of View | 5346 | Jeremy Sage & Tom Ralph |
| 7 Design Patterns for vCenter Orchestrator Workflows | 5365 | Joerg Lew |
| vCenter Orchestrator Best-Practices | 5360 | Joerg Lew & Christophe Decanini |
| How To Build Your Hybrid Cloud and Consume the Public Cloud | 4783 | Chris Colotti |
| Technical Deep Dive: ESX Top Tips and Tricks to Keep You on Top of Your vSphere Environment! | 5268 | Mostafa Khalil & Wen Yu (Nimble Storage) |
| Deploying VMware vCloud with Amazing Scale: Tips & Tricks | 5268 | Ford Donald |
| Virtualizing Highly Available SQL Servers | 5932 | Scott Salyer |
| The Role of Overlay Networks in Network Virtualization | 4768 | Kamau Wanguhu |
| Addressing your DR IP ails without the need for ale | 4804 | Kamau Wanguhu & Aidan Dalgleish |
| Demystifying the Network on the Road to the SDDC | 4784 | Kamau Wanguhu & Chris Colotti |
| Firmware Drivers for ESX – Why, and Why Not? | 4762 | Nathan Small & Steve Sykes |
| vSphere Performance – Getting the most bang for your buck | 5111 | Peter Boone |
| vSphere Security – Protecting your environment and how to CYA | 5127 | Peter Boone |
| The Persuit of Security – The vSphere SSL Certificate Story | 4794 | Jonathan McDonald |
| vCenter Database Architecture, Performance and Troubleshooting | 4645 | Jonathan McDonald |
| Many Moving Parts – Designing Distributed vSphere 5.1+ Infrastructures | 4647 | Jonathan McDonald |
| vCenter SSO – a Panel Discussion | 4988 | Jonathan McDonald, Evelina Krumova, Deep Bhattacharjee, Justin King & Josh Gray (Panel) |
| Just because you could doesn’t mean you should – Lessons learned in designing vCenter Single Sign On environment | 4646 | Jonathan McDonald & Josh Gray |
| Building the Pyramids – A Beginner’s Guide to Demystifying Storage Architecture | 4789 | Patrick Carmichael |
| Found by the Side of the Road – Building a Low-Cost, Yet Effective, DR Site | 4792 | Patrick Carmichael |
| Just because you could doesn’t mean you should – Lessons learned in Storage Best Practices | 4791 | Patrick Carmichael |
| Flash – Architecting for a New Storage Paradigm | 5435 | Patrick Carmichael & Tee Glasgow (Violin Memory) |
| How to skin Puppet with Razor: a practical guide to vSphere automation | 5383 | Fabio Rapposelli & Massimo Re Ferrè |
