The Cloud Platform Business Unit is making our final preparations for VMworld US 2017, and we are coming to Vegas with so much to share with you. We’re especially excited to talk with you about the importance of upgrading to vSphere 6.5, and the technical possibilities that are opened up with this version of vSphere.
This post is an attempt to pull together information about all the activities we have planned for VMworld US into one location. We’ll see you soon!
Here are our last-minute session suggestions for you:
Tuesday, 1:00 PM:
Session number: SER1361BU
Title: Security Operations for VMware vSphere with VMware vRealize Log Insight
Presenters: Mike Foley, Edward Haletky
Why attend? You need to understand configuration drift, service and user access. See how vSphere 6.5 logging helps make this possible.
Tuesday, 2:30 PM:
Session number: SER2413BU
Title: NVMe: What Is It? An Interface? A Protocol? A New Drive Technology? An Industry Revolution?
Presenters: Sudhanshu (Suds) Jain, Sudhanshu Jain, Adrian Marinescu
Why attend? You need to understand NVMe, and what VMware has been doing from the beginning to help you take advantage of it in your environment.
Tuesday, 5:30 PM
Session number: SER1912BU
Title: VMware Open-Source SDKs: From Getting Started to Web App in One Hour
Presenters: Alan Renouf, Steve Trefethen
Why attend? You want to know more about VMware software development kits (SDKs), and want to walk out of the session knowing how to use SDKs to build a web app!
Kick off VMworld with an upgrade to 6.5 technical workshop
On Sunday, August 27, we are offering two 3-hour deep dive workshops to help answer your questions about upgrading to vSphere 6.5. The first session is from 9AM – 12PM. Bring your upgrade scenario, and Emad Younis and Adam Eckerle will walk you through the recommended upgrade path that you should take.
The second session is from 1PM – 4PM. VMware Solutions Architects and System Engineers will answer your questions about upgrading to vSphere 6.5.
You must register to attend, and there is still space left! Sign up here.
Come see us in the VMworld US 2017 booth!
We’ll have experts in our booth to talk about all things vSphere. Have a question? Here are the times we’ll be in the booth:
Sun Aug 27: 5:00PM – 7:30PM
Mon Aug 28: 11:00AM – 6:00PM
Tue Aug 29: 11:00AM – 6:00PM
Wed Aug 30: 10:00AM – 5:00PM
Here are some of the things we’ll be talking about:
Simplified vSphere Administration
vCenter Server Appliance and HA
vSphere Lifecycle Management
REST-based APIs
HTML 5 vSphere Client
vSphere Upgrades
Comprehensive vSphere Security at Scale
At-Rest and In-Motion Encryption
Secure Chain of Trust
Audit Quality Loggig
Proactive Data Center Management
Proactive HA
DRS / Intelligent Workload Placement
Predictive DRS
New Workloads
vSphere Scale-Out
Tech Preview: Persistent Memory
Tech Preview: vGPU
Tech Preview: RDMA
vSphere Upgrades
How to Upgrade
VCSA Migration Tool
Topology Planning Tool
Help us design the VMware Cloud on AWS experience
Have you ever wanted to help VMware design how a product works? You can do that at VMworld! The VMware Cloud on AWS User Experience team is looking for design partner. Get the chance to have your voice heard on how this new product works. You’ll be required to sign an NDA. Details and sign-up information in this blog post.
Get a free evaluation of your environment in the SDDC lounge
Need personalized guidance about your VMware implantation? We’ve brought back the SDDC Lounge for VMworld US 2017. Head over to the lounge and our experts will help you analyze your environment to understand what steps you can take to make it even better. The lounge will be in the Four Seasons Hotel, Desert Willow Room. It will be open Sunday from 1 -5, and Monday and Tuesday from 11 – 5.
Bring your hardest questions to our experts
Our experts will be in the Meet the Expert area. If you have a particularly hard question, make sure to plan to visit them.
Day
Table
Time
Session
Expert
Sun
4
1:00 – 2:00
MTE4728-SER
Abhijith Prabhudev
Sun
4
2:00 – 3:00
MTE4717-SER
Mark Achtemichuk
Sun
4
3:00 -4:00
MTE4719-SER
Adam Eckerle
Mon
4
11:15 – 12:00
MTE4717-SER
Mark Achtemichuk
Mon
4
12:15 – 1:00
MTE4720-SER
Frank Denneman
Mon
4
1:15 – 2:00
MTE4729-SER
Emad Younis
Mon
4
2:15 – 3:00
MTE4724-SER
William Lam
Mon
4
3:15 – 4:00
MTE4716-SER
Mike Foley
Mon
7
3:15 – 4:00
MTE4726-SER
Vishwa Srikaanth
Mon
4
4:15 – 4:00
MTE4718-SER
Eric Gray
Mon
4
5:15 – 6:00
MTE4722-SER
Kyle Ruddy
Tues
4
11:15 – 12:00
MTE4716-SER
Mike Foley
Tues
4
12:15 – 1:00
MTE4721-SER
Kyle Ruddy
Tues
4
1:15 – 2:00
MTE4718-SER
Eric Gray
Tues
4
2:15 – 3:00
MTE4723-SER
Alan Renouf
Tues
4
3:15 – 4:00
MTE4719-SER
Adam Eckerle
Wed
7
9:15 – 4:00
MTE4729-SER
Emad Younis
Wed
4
9:15 – 10:00
MTE4719-SER
Adam Eckerle
Wed
4
10:15 – 11:00
MTE4720-SER
Frank Denneman
Wed
4
11:15 – 12:00
MTE4724-SER
William Lam
Wed
4
12:15 – 1:00
MTE4725-SER
Ravi Soundararajan
Wed
4
1:15 – 2:00
MTE4723-SER
Alan Renouf
Wed
4
2:15 – 3:00
MTE4721-SER
Kyle Ruddy
Wed
4
3:15 – 4:00
MTE4727-SER
Dennis Lu
Wed
4
4:15 – 4:00
MTE4716-SER
Mike Foley
Thurs
7
10:45 – 11:30
MTE4729-SER
Emad Younis
Thurs
4
10:45 – 11:30
MTE4718-SER
Eric Gray
Thurs
4
11:45 – 12:30
MTE4721-SER
Kyle Ruddy
Thurs
4
12:45 – 1:30
MTE4720-SER
Frank Denneman
Thurs
4
1:45 – 2:30
MTE4723-SER
Alan Renouf
Get your hands dirty in a hands-on lab
Try out the new features of vSphere 6.5 in a hands-on lab. Here are the HOLs that are specific to vSphere:
HOL-1804-01-SDC: [vSphere 6.5] Performance Diagnostics and Benchmarking
HOL-1804-02-CHG: [vSphere 6.5] Challenge Lab
HOL-1811-01-SDC: [vSphere v6.5] What’s New
HOL-1811-02-SDC: [vSphere with Operations Management] Getting Started
HOL-1811-03-SDC: [vSphere with Operations Management] Advanced Topics
HOL-1811-04-SDC: [vSphere Security] Getting Started
HOL-1811-05-SDC: [vSphere Automation] PowerCLI
HOL-1811-06-SDC: [vSphere Automation and Development] API and SDK
HOL-1811-07-SDC: [vSphere HTML Client SDK] Build a Plugin
HOL-1830-01-CAN: [PhotonOS and Container Basics] Getting Started
HOL-1830-02-CAN: [vSphere Integrated Containers] Getting Started
Hack with others to build new ways to use VMware solutions! This is available in Las Vegas and Barcelona, and you must sign up via the session builder. This blog post has all the details on signing up and preparing for the hackathon.
