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VMware Communities Roundtable Podcast – Show Notes #197 – @seancrookston & @hstagner’s new book #VMunderground @Spousetivities

Hosts
John Troyer, @jtroyer
Alex Maier, @vmwarecommunity

Guests
Sean Crookston @seancrookston
Theron Conrey #VMunderground, @theronconrey
Brian Knudtson #VMunderground, @bknudtson
Sean Clark #VMunderground, @vseanclark

Link to Audio Recording
@seancrookston & @hstagner's new book #VMunderground @Spousetivities

Virtualization News (VMTN Blog) 
VMware to Acquire Nicira, a pioneer in software-defined networking space
The VMware View team announced today that their View Client 1.5 now works with Mac OS X Mountain Lion
Team Fusion has also announced that VMware Fusion 4.1.3 now works with Mountain Lion
The VMworld schedule builder is now live for the conference in San Francisco
VMworld team has been busy putting teaser videos for different sessions up in their YouTube channel

Show
VMworld 2012 – The Solutions Exchange features more than 250 companies

#vmunderground website - VMunderground was established to provide a more open, community focused venue for the VMware community.  It’s proven to be a great way to start talking with others about what they’re doing with the technology and relax after a long day of travel.

#vmunderground is looking to host 700 people – WOW

2012 vmunderground Warm-up Party as a Service (WuPaaS) - Registration Link

VMworld 2012 Gatherings, Tweetups, Parties and Activitiessomething for everyone!

#vmundergound is making a donation to  "Save The Bay"

Spousetivities.com, the home of spouse activities for technology conferences!

Spousetivities – Registration Link

Spousetivities.com, Event highlights 

  • Get to Know You Breakfast
  • Walking Tour – City Walk
  • Sonoma Wine and Dine
  • Redwoods/Sausalito 
  • Ferry Building Tour and Tasting 
  • Half Moon Bay/ Filoli 
  • Napa Pizza and Wine
  • SF City Tour

New Book from VMware Press – Managing and Optimizing VMware vSphere Deployments 

Book Coverage includes

  • Building a strong foundation for virtual infrastructure: design considerations and  best practices
  • Smoothly integrating vSphere 5 into current environments and considerations
  • Establishing a more stable infrastructure
  • Choosing hardware and making optimal configuration decisions
  • Transforming your VMware design from  blueprint to completion
  • Operating vSphere solutions more efficiently  on a day-to-day basis    
  • Automating tasks and maximizing availability
  • Streamlining the installation of updates, patches, and upgrades
  • Forecasting and planning capacity on an ongoing basis to support growth
  • Overcoming roadblocks on the journey to  100% virtualization
  • Monitoring vSphere 5 with tools provided by VMware and its community
  • Discovering the most valuable and current online VMware resources
  • Examples using Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) are provided throughout the book 

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