There are a lot of storage sessions this year at VMware Explore in Las Vegas. If you’re looking for suggestions on which you should attend, I’ve put together a list of the top 10 sessions I recommend. Hear from some great speakers like Pete Koehler, Duncan Epping, Cody Hosterman, and Chance Bingen. As well as VMware leaders Vijay Ramachandran and Sazzala Reddy speaking on Cyber Secure Storage. Of course, a few are my session, 😉 but there are several that have great technical and future content. There are a few sessions on vSphere Virtual Volumes (vVols) you should definitely look into. Make sure you save a seat and get these added to your schedule ASAP.
Core Storage Best Practices: Optimizing NVMeoF and vSphere Virtual Volumes [CEIB2533LV]
This session explores customers’ growing adoption of NVMe over Fabrics (NVMeoF), driven by its exceptional performance and minimal latency. We will delve into the optimal configurations and deployment considerations for NVMeoF and VMware vSphere Virtual Volumes, ensuring you are equipped to maximize the potential of your storage infrastructure. Additionally, we will address essential techniques for managing and monitoring these technologies within your environment. Take advantage of the opportunity to unlock the full potential of your storage infrastructure with NVMeoF and vSphere Virtual Volumes.
- Jason Massae, Staff Technical Marketing Architect, VMware
- Cody Hosterman, Sr. Director Product Management, Pure Storage
Customer Panel: vSphere Virtual Volumes Experiences and Insights [CEIB1976LV]
VMware and Pure Storage will have an open conversation with customers about their VMware vSphere Virtual Volumes journey and experience. We will discuss how vSphere Virtual Volumes improved their environment by enabling new capabilities that have traditionally been difficult to achieve. Hear how these customers have used vSphere Virtual Volumes to accomplish their goals and achieve storage and operational efficiency. If you are undecided about using vSphere Virtual Volumes, attend this session to understand how vSphere Virtual Volumes might fit in your environment and give you even more capabilities.
- Todd Kabella, Sr. Systems Engineer, CSG Systems International
- Naveen Krishnamurthy, Senior Product Line Manager, VMware
- Edward VanTassell, VMWare / Storage Engineer, Nationwide Insurance
- Chirs Schott, Staff Virtualization Engineer, Paylocity
- Cody Hosterman, Sr. Director Product Management, Pure Storage
Ask the Expert about vSphere Virtual Volumes, VMFS, NFS, NVMeoF [CEIM2534LV]
You can engage directly with distinguished experts in virtualization and storage technologies. Topics for discussion include vSphere Virtual Volumes (vVols), Virtual Machine File System (VMFS), Network File System (NFS), Non-Volatile Memory Express over Fabrics (NVMeoF), and related technologies. The real highlight of the session is your involvement. Audience members are encouraged to bring their challenges, questions, and insights. Whether you’re curious about transitioning to vVols, the real-world implications of implementing NVMeoF in your data center, or the benefits and drawbacks of using NFS in your specific use case, this session will provide the knowledge you seek.
- Jason Massae, Staff Technical Marketing Architect, VMware
vSphere Virtual Volumes Tech Deep Dive with Demos [TAM2633LV]
In this session, we will cover the details of how VMware vSphere Virtual Volumes work. We will go into the various technical aspects and components of vSphere Virtual Volumes. Then we will dive into how you can use vSphere Virtual Volumes in your environment with a few demos showing how vSphere Virtual Volumes can greatly simplify your environment.
- Jason Massae, Staff Technical Marketing Architect, VMware
Cloud Native Storage Deep Dive with PM [TAM2635LV]
In this session, we will dive into VMware vSphere and VMware Tanzu as well as some of the storage options you have with VMware Tanzu. We will show what various storage solutions can provide in your VMware Tanzu environment. We will also speak to some of the directions we are working toward with VMware Tanzu.
- Jason Massae, Staff Technical Marketing Architect, VMware
- Oz Basarir, Product Line Manager
Tech Deep Dive: vSAN 8 ESA–Performance and Resilience Without Compromise [CEIB1101LV]
VMware vSAN 8 Express Storage Architecture was first introduced in 2022. This HCI architecture provides customers with many performance, resilience, and operational benefits. In this breakout session, Pete and Duncan, the authors of the VMware vSAN 8.0 U1 Express Storage Architecture Deep Dive book, will review the architectural details of vSAN Express Storage Architecture and discuss how you can benefit from this new architecture. They will leave no stone unturned.
- Duncan Epping, Chief Technologist, VMware
- Pete Koehler, Staff Technical Marketing Architect, VMware
Cyber Secure Storage and Data: VMware’s Next Storage Frontier? [CEIB2594LV]
This session will explore our vision around VMware’s Storage and Data Platform and directions on delivering enterprise-class storage and data services for the multi-cloud world. We will share our vision around the platform to support a broad range of workloads by enabling multi-dimensional scaling of compute, performance, and storage services, for both traditional and modern workloads. We will share thoughts on managing all your data and its lifecycle with a uniform experience across the multi-cloud. Additionally, given the ever-increasing ransomware threat, we will share our vision around securing environments and recovering from attacks. We will also have a short tech preview illustrating the concepts.
- Sazzala Reddy, CTO, VMware
- Vijay Ramachandran, VP, Product Leader, VMware
Performance and Simplicity – NVMe & Virtual Volumes [VI2923LVS]
Sponsor Session
Are you looking to optimize VMware on NetApp? In this session, you will learn best practices on how to reduce CPU utilization and gain performance and reliability with NVMe coupled with Virtual Volumes on NetApp for scalability, simplicity, and automation.
- Jason Massae, Staff Technical Marketing Architect, VMware
- Chance Bingen, Technical Marketing Engineer, NetApp
vSphere Virtual Volumes for Scalability, BC/DR and Performance for Workloads with Pure Storage [VMTN2864LV]
VMware vSphere Virtual Volumes take advantage of native capabilities of external storage by implementing an integration and management framework, giving granular control of virtual disks through the implementation of a policy-based framework. The VMware software-defined storage vision is built on assigning policies to virtual machines and their VMDK files to appropriately meet the requirements of the most critical workloads. In this session, we will cover storage policy-based management and the vSphere Virtual Volumes architecture, and how they benefit critical workloads (e.g., Oracle) to meet business demands, SLAs, and data protection. Find out how they add capabilities to accomplish traditionally difficult tasks more quickly and easily in virtualized environments. vSphere Virtual Volumes and Pure Storage along with Oracle workloads ensure that key business needs are met along with providing all the above capabilities.
- Sudhir Balasubramanian, Senior Staff Solution Architect – Oracle Lead, VMware
Increasing Availability and Resilience with VMware vSAN Stretched Clusters [CEIB1099LV]
Availability and resilience are top of mind for everyone involved in providing a platform for business services. VMware offers a great solution to increase resilience and availability through the VMware vSAN stretched cluster functionality. Over the past few years, new features and enhancements have been introduced to vSAN stretched clusters to increase availability and resilience as well as improve operational efficiency. We will discuss a typical implementation, share best practices, and explain why vSAN Express Storage Architecture is preferred for VMware-based stretched cluster solutions.
- Duncan Epping, Chief Technologist, VMware
- Pete Koehler, Staff Technical Marketing Architect, VMware
Looking forward to seeing you at VMware Explore Aug 21st -24th at the Venetian in Las Vegas.
