The last couple of years, I carved away the VMworld content catalog to 50 sessions I recommend to my customers. This year, there are 658 session
available at VMworld 2015, which is an overwhelming amount of sessions! My recommendations are from past experience of
seeing the presenters at VMworld, VMUGs, and interacting with them at work. Moreover, I try to make sure I have all our major product lines included, and a mix
of technical and business tracks.
Going along with the VMworld 2015 theme. You can be ready. Ready for VMworld 2015 and the brave new model of IT.
Ready for Any.
50 Recommended Sessions:
MGT6525 - Automation for Service/Catalog Item
Provisioning and Management with Naomi Sullivan
Presenter: Naomi Sullivan
Group
Discussions are a good way to join together with peers, guided by a VMware
expert, and discuss a VMware key topic as selected by the group. Come to this
session prepared to dive-in, engage, and share best practices
EUC5052 - Beyond the Marketing: Horizon 6
Technical Deep Dive
Presenters:
Ray Heffer and Jim Yanik
Horizon 6
continues to evolve with new features and functions that increase the breadth
of use cases and enhance the end user experience. This session will provide a
technical look at each feature and how it works. We will provide examples of
how these features are used in real-world use cases. We will cover topics
including vGPU, Virtual SAN, Virtual Volumes and end use experience
enhancements driven by client and agent functionality. This session will focus
on the new features and functionalities of the latest versions of Horizon 6.
EUC4827 - VDI Sizing Deep Dive - The Horizon
Sizing Tool
Presenter:
Ray Heffer
Direct from
the EUC Technical Marketing and Enablement team, we reveal the Horizon Sizing
Tool. We will show you best practices and sizing techniques using our latest
sizing tool aimed at consultants and architects. Learn how to avoid common
pitfalls when sizing for large scale deployments. We will show you sizing
methods for linked clones, full clones, RDS sessions, including Horizon server
components. We will answer the most commonly asked questions around sizing for
Horizon, including when or when not to use TPS (Transparent Page Sharing), SE (Space
Efficient) Sparse disks, Virtual SAN and all flash arrays. To finish, we will
show you a demo of the Horizon Sizing Tool and walk you through a large scale
Horizon sizing exercise.
INF5211 - Automating Everything VMware with
PowerCLI – Deep Dive
Presenters:
Alan Renouf and Luc Dekens
PowerCLI is
the number 1 automation product from VMware, in previous years you have seen
how to get the most out of your infrastructure using PowerCLI. This year we
will take it further than ever including new product automation never seen
before, automating your public cloud instances and showing migration and
reporting for your cloud workloads. This session will demonstrate how to bring
DevOps working practices into your vSphere automation with PowerCLI and Desired
State Configuration (DSC).
INF4448 - Design Advice for Small and Midsize
Business
Presenters:
Brian Atkinson, Sean Crookston, Jason Langer, Harley Stagner, and Jason
Gaudreau
Join
several industry experts to talk about the considerations that come into play for
small and midsize organizations. IT administrators at small and midsize
businesses wear many hats, which requires a breadth and depth of knowledge of
not just the technology, but the business as well. In this interactive design
workshop, we'll go through some of the most common challenges we see customers
facing when moving towards the next generation of virtualization.
Considerations will be made including management, backups, storage, &
networking.
INF4529 - VMware Certificate Management for Mere
Mortals
Presenters:
Adam Eckerle and Ryan Johnson
SSL
certificates have become essential in securing access to our data centers and
infrastructure. As vSphere has evolved so to have the processes, application,
and management of SSL certificates. Gone are the days of simply relying on
self-signed certificates and never having to validate, renew or really manage
those certificates. In this session we will discuss and demonstrate the new
VMCA to show how to deploy & manage SSL certificates in vSphere 6. We'll also
discuss upgrade considerations and how to evaluate the different deployment
models for the VMCA in order to decide which is best for the user's
organization.
MGT5973 - Starbucks Case Study: Self Service
Provisioning of VMs with NSX Micro-Segmentation
Presenters:
Justin Jones and Jason Horn
Over a 9
month period, Starbucks and VMware collaborated on the design and deployment of
a self-service provisioning platform. The platform offers user-controlled
application micro-segmentation and self-service provisioned virtual machines,
using a wide range of technology and software including vRealize Automation,
vRealize Orchestrator, and VMware NSX. We will recap the capabilities of the
system and summarize the realized benefits as well as challenges and lessons learned.
INF4790 - A ROBO Technical Deep Dive,
Understanding Remote and Branch Office (ROBO) Best Practices
Presenters:
Brian Graf and Rick Terlep
In this
session we will explore best practices of implementing vSphere in Remote Office
/ Branch Office deployments. We will perform a technical deep dive into
subjects such as planning and architecting the initial deployment of hosts and
virtual machines, discussing what we see our customers doing as well as design
decisions that should be considered carefully. We will jump into ESX and VM
lifecycle management for remote deployments and discuss best practices for
upgrading and patching these environments as well as ways to maintain
configuration consistency across sites and avoid forms of configuration drift.
Join us for a great informative and technical session.
HBC6562-GD - vCloud Air with Massimo re Ferre
and David Hill
Presenters:
Massimo Re Ferre’ and David Hill
Group
Discussions are a good way to join together with peers, guided by a VMware
expert, and discuss a VMware key topic as selected by the group. Come to this
session prepared to dive-in, engage, and share best practices.
HBC4849 - vCloud Air 2015 - Getting Started with
Hybrid Cloud
Presenters:
Jenny Fong and Greg Herzog
vCloud Air
is VMware’s public cloud platform, designed to be hybrid-first and compatible
with your existing vSphere workloads. This year has seen many exciting
developments including OnDemand, Disaster Recovery and Advanced Networking. In
this session we will cover the basics of vCloud Air, what it is, what's new,
and the flexible options for purchasing it. We'll also provide a live demo of
the simple steps to get you started on your hybrid cloud journey.
MGT5318 - Becoming a vRealize Automagician: Why
Automation isn’t Automatic
Presenters:
Steve Kaplan, Jad El-Zein, Alan Keeler, and Trent TeSelle
As any IT
professional knows, being able to provision systems in a consistent manner,
reliably, is the holy grail. Most organizations have tasks they are performing
during various stages of provisioning, but these things are, in many instances,
manual. While that can be a great starting point, this approach does not scale
and routinely falls victim to things like "Oh, I forgot about that” or
"I didn't know about that!". The longer the list, the more likely
there is for discrepencies between systems being provisioned, regardless of if
it's the same person or multiple people performing the same steps. What if
there was a way to reduce the possibilities for human error? To do that, you
have to become an “Automagician". For vRealize Automation (vRA) managed
environments, becoming an Automagician means leveraging vRealize Orchestrator
(vRO) to extend native automation. Applying custom properties effectively in
vRA to invoke workflows included in the vRA plugin for vRO, the Automagician
gains the ability to incorporate automation and transcend the need for manual
processes while removing the error-prone human factor in much of the decision
process. This session will delve into the symbiotic relationship between vRA
and vRO, and how custom property attributes in vRA can be used to power
workflows within vRO for enterprise-scale automation.
INF5116 - A Practical Introduction to DevOps for
VMware Administrators
Presenters:
Josh Atwell, Trevor Roberts Jr, Yvo van Doorn, Egle Sigler, and Chris Sexsmith
You’ve
heard of DevOps, but you may not be 100% clear on what benefits it can bring to
your IT organization. Join this session
to see, and possibly participate in, live demonstrations of popular DevOps
tools like Puppt, Chef, Ansible, PowerShell DSC, Razor, Jenkins, Docker, and
more. DevOps experts will be on-hand to present information on DevOps tools and
practices and to answer your questions about how these solutions integrate with
VMware technologies. In this session,
you will also learn how to keep your developers happy whilst maintaining
control of the infrastructure you know and love.
SDDC5094 - A Technical Deep Dive into VMware
Integrated OpenStack
Presenter:
Trevor Roberts Jr
You may
have tried deploying OpenStack either from Operating System package managers or
from OpenStack distribution vendors. You
heard that VMware has a formal offering in this space, and you want to find out
more. This session will begin with an architecture review of the latest
OpenStack release and then progress into a deep-dive of VMware Integrated
OpenStack internals. We will round out our discussion by covering how VMware’s
solution simplifies “Day 2” OpenStack operations.
STO6407-BC - vSAN Workshop
Presenters:
Noel Nguyen, Bo Bolander, Mostafa Khalil, and Greg Mulholland
Software-Defined
Storage represents the critical next phase to realize the Software-Defined Data
Center vision and journey. VMware Virtual SAN is VMware's Software-Defined
Storage approach and solution to managing storage for virtual environments.
This Technical Sales Workshop will provide training on how to use Virtual SAN
(VSAN) to address the customer's storage pain points around management and
provisioning, performance, and costs. Including, i.e., what the product does,
benefits, use cases, when and where to position, objection handling. The
Workshop will also feature How to Sell VMware Virtual SAN from a Partner
perspective, technical deep dive, sizing and design, and troubleshooting.
PLEASE NOTE: If you are staying in San
Francisco, Shuttle service will be provided to and from Palo Alto for this
workshop.
INF5177 - VMworld 2015 - vSphere Security - Fact
.vs. Fiction
Presenters:
Mike Foley and Yuecel Karabulut
VMware
vSphere has been developed from the ground up to run virtual machines in a
secure manner. vSphere addresses the security concerns of the most demanding
datacenter environments for enterprises and government organizations. Get a
better understanding of exactly how!
SDDC6121 - VMware and the 'Internet-of-Things
Presenters:
Greg Bollella, Matthias Schorer, and Chris Wolf
Join us for
a session on VMware in the ‘Internet-of-Things’ (IoT). We’ll share insights and
feedback from some of our customers, discuss internal IoT projects and
highlight innovative solutions for building elastic IoT infrastructure; for
connecting, managing and securing devices; and for using hardware
virtualization for application execution in IoT gateways. We’ll also discuss
why we think IT is the right internal organization to own the management,
provisioning, configuration, and maintenance of IoT gateways as well as
operating tools that perform behavioral analysis on telemetry streams for real-time
alerting of anomalous patterns in the values of the metrics. (Hint: Like most
things IoT, a big part of the answer is about scale, scope, and existing
expertise.) Attend this session and learn: How application of AirWatch,
vRealize Operations Manager, LogInsight, and other datacenter management tools,
appropriately tweaked, gives you a jump start on the management, application
provisioning, and configuration control for IoT gateways. More about our
special project (Helix), a vRealize Operations Manager adapter specifically
tailored for IoT and an agent for the Intel IoT Solutions Gateway as a
telemetry acquisition, behavior analysis, and real-time alerting IoT solution.
Why many technologists think an application execution model based on hardware virtualization
for IoT gateways makes a lot of sense.VMware can excel in the
Internet-of-Things (IoT) Agenda: Customer use cases and application of
traditional datacenter management tools to IoT.
A deep dive into project Helix.Body: Application of AirWatch and other
datacenter management tools, appropriately tweaked, can be used for managing
IoT gateways and applications. Our special project (Helix), a vRealize
Operations Manager adapter specifically tailored for IoT and an agent for the
Intel IoT Solutions Gateway as a telemetry acquisition, behavior analysis is
real-time alerting IoT solution. An application execution model based on
hardware virtualization for IoT gateways solves some very difficult problems in
IoT. Summary: Application of traditional datacenter management tools to IoT
Project Helix Hardware virtualization for IoT gateways Conclusion: VMware and
IoT, a great match.
NET4976 - vSphere Distributed Switch 6.0 –
Technical Deep Dive
Presenters:
Jason Nash and Chris Wahl
VMware’s
latest 6.0 version of the vSphere Distributed Switch (VDS) provides
unparalleled networking features, control mechanisms, and new ways to construct
a LAN topology. In this year’s version of one of the highest rated VMworld
sessions, you’ll get front row seats to a deep dive on the VDS in a variety of
real world use cases. Gain new knowledge for building multi-tenant capable
configurations with NIOC version 3 and CoS marking, learn how to protect
critical vSphere management workloads consuming the VDS, and follow along as we
review the steps necessary to leverage the TCP/IP stack for routed vMotion.
SDDC4595 - Ask the Expert Industry Titans
Presenters:
Kit Colbert, Rick Scherer, Nicholas Weaver, Vaughn Stewart, and Chad Sakac
Back for
it's 8th year at VMworld, Ask the Experts is back with an awesome panel of the
industries top experts. In this session there are no powerpoints, no sales
pitches and no rules! Experts in the industry are here to answer your questions
while having some fun in the process. Bring your topic, anything from
Software-Defined Data Center, to End-User Computing to Hybrid Cloud... Storage,
Networking, Security. No questions are off limits.
NET5422 - Using VMware NSX in Your Open Source
Environment
Presenter:
Scott Lowe
You're
building out your next-generation cloud infrastructure, using open source
projects and technologies like OpenStack, Open vSwitch, Open Virtual Network,
and containers. Can VMware NSX offer value in such an open source environment?
Absolutely! This discussion will look back on the rich history that VMware NSX
has in the open source world, reviewing some of the innovation that NSX's
development has driven into various open source communities. We'll provide a
comprehensive review of the various ways in which VMware NSX can be used and
integrated into environments that are heavily based on open source projects and
technologies, and discuss the value that VMware NSX brings to such
environments. If you are involved in building environments that will heavily
leverage open source projects and technologies, this is a session you won't
want to miss.
VAPP5483 - Virtualize Active Directory, the
Right Way!
Presenters:
Deji Akomolafe and Matt Liebowitz
Active
Directory Domain Services (ADDS) allows organizations to deploy a scalable and
secure directory service for managing users, resources and applications.
Virtualization of ADDS has been supported for many years now, however has
required careful management to avoid pitfalls around replication, time
management, and access. Windows Server 2012 provides greater support for
virtualization by including virtualization-safe features and support for rapid
domain controller deployment.
SDDC5260 - Active-Active-Active Borderless &
Always-On Virtual Data Center
Presenter:
Scott Carpenter
Case study
of how VMware's Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) enabled a leading
Healthcare organization to meet ever increasing demands for high availability
while facing IT budget cuts. Learn how VMware Virtual SAN (VSAN) and NSX enable
vSphere automation, such as vMotion & High Availability (HA), across three
data centers in this active-active-active design.
STO6137 - Site Recovery Manager and Policy Based
DR: Deep dive with Engineering
Presenters: GS Khalsa and Aleksey Pershin
Policy based
management greatly simplifies the work of IT Administrators making it easy to
ensure that applications and VMs receive the resources, protection and
functionality required. Learn about the latest enhancements of Site Recovery
Manager in this space, which represent a huge step towards providing policy
based DR. In this session we'll dive deep into how this approach works and how
to work with them.
STO5333 - Building a Stretched Cluster with
Virtual SAN
Presenter:
Rawlinson Rivera
In this
session we will present how to build a stretched cluster configuration on
VMware Virtual SAN, in order to expand your enterprise capabilities. A
stretched cluster on Virtual SAN can provide zero recovery point objective and
close to zero recovery time objective for applications even in case of site
failures and enable planned maintenance, disaster avoidance, and automated
recovery.
CNA5379 - Panel: Enterprise architecture for
Cloud-Native Applications
Preseners:
Martijin Baecke, Joe Baguley, Robbie Jerrom, Aaron Seemer, and Andy Jenkins
There are
tectonic shifts happening in the enterprise, particularly in how applications
are developed and operated (e.g. DevOps), how they’re architected (e.g. micro
services and 12-factor apps), and how they’re deployed (e.g. Docker and
containers). We call these applications “cloud-native” as they’re designed for
the mobile-cloud era. VMware launched Cloud-Native Apps at the beginning of the
year to address the shift that is currently taking place how applications are
developed today. This session will provide you with a dive into that world of
Cloud-Native Apps. In this panel discussion, lead by VMware CTO for EMEA Joe
Baguley, we will discuss all the topics surrounding Cloud-Native Apps and walk
you through the vision that VMware has for next generation application
development and hosting. The panel will include VMware subject matter experts
that will provide insight into what can be achieved with containerization,
micro services and DevOps. They will provide you with examples and real-world
scenarios from field experience. And of course we encourage everybody to come
and join in the conversation. This session is meant to be interactive and open
discussion around the topic of Cloud-Native Apps. We welcome everyone’s input
and questions to learn and share with one another.
INF6394 - vSphere lifecycle with Brian Graf and
Salil Suri
Presenters:
Brian Graf and Salil Suri
Group
Discussions are a good way to join together with peers, guided by a VMware
expert, and discuss a VMware key topic as selected by the group. Come to this
session prepared to dive-in, engage, and share best practices.
MGT5151 - vRealize Automation or VMware
Integrated Openstack or Both?
Presenters:
Ryan Kelly and Long Wang
Which IaaS
platform is right for your organization? vRealize Automation or VMware
Integrated Openstack or combination of both? The focus of this session will be
to familiarize you with vRealize Automation and Vmware Integrated Openstack
features and concepts. We will provide customer examples of common use cases as
to when you would use one or the other. Most importantly the different
consumption models each solution provides. We will help to answers the question
"What does my end user what to see? Portal? API?" and "How
virtual networking with VMware NSX integrates into both solutions. For those
interested in operationalizing your private cloud, you will also learn how
vRealize Operations and Loginsight can assist with day 2 operations for both
vRealize Automation and VMware integrated Openstack. Experts in both vRealize
Automation and VMWare integrated Openstack will be presenting and answering
your questions throughout the session.
SDDC6541-SPO - Workload Consolidation- From
Silos to the Software Defined Data Center
Presenter:
Jeramiah Dooley
Storage has
become an anchor on the ship of progress in the modern, virtualized data
center. Up until recently it has been slow, unpredictable, inflexible, and
requires far too much operational overhead. Showing its age, storage is still
sized, deployed, and managed using methods created in the 1980s. Worst of all,
storage capacity and performance are often still locked together in fixed
ratios, making it inevitable that even the best-run storage environment will be
wasteful and inefficient. It doesn’t have to be this way. The technology and
know-how exists to have storage that is a predictable, flexible, and easily
managed part of an overall virtualized platform, designed to provide the
performance and availability that today’s end user workloads demand. Join us as
we examine a year-in-the-life of an enterprise data center. We’ll show how
migrating workloads onto a single platform can be the crucial missing step as
VMware customers transition from legacy architecture into a Software Defined
Data Center (SDDC).
STO5207 - Troubleshooting Storage Devices Using
vRealize Operations
Presenter:
Bill Roth
Storage
troubleshooting has always been a big pain-point for vSphere admins. Hear from
a customer, SalesForce.com on how they are using vRealize Operations to troubleshoot
storage issues and learn about the new native storage tools that help you to
isolate problems between VM and LUN.
STO5822 - Putting Virtual Volumes to Work --
Storage Best Practices for vSphere 6 and Beyond
Presenter:
Howard Marks
The Virtual
Volumes (VVol) feature in VMware vSphere offers tremendous operational benefits
for IT departments, including more efficient storage utilization and finer
control of hardware resources. To take full advantage of these benefits,
virtualization managers will need to adapt their systems and processes to
leverage the new management objects, mapping considerations, and performance
implications inherent in VVol. In this session, Howard Marks, NetworkComputing
Contributing Editor and Chief Scientist of DeepStorage, a leading hands-on
testing lab, will provide best practice storage considerations for vSphere He
will base this on years of research and testing around VVols and will share
findings and storage integration best practices. NexGen Storage will sponsor
this vendor-neutral, educational session.
VAPP5719 - Monitoring and Managing Applications
with vRealize Operations 6.1 and vSphere6
Presenters:
Jeff Godfrey and Ben Todd
This year
VMware vSphere 6 combined with vRealize Operations 6.1 (vR Ops 6) adds critical
features to increase technical agility in the infrastructure, and reduce Mean
time to Repair. With a new Automated remediation action framework in vR Ops,
vSphere 6’s ability to vMotion Physical Raw Device mappings (RDMs), and a
complete Management Pack Ecosystem for monitoring Infrastructure to
applications, administrators have the tools needed to get to maintain 5 9’s
uptime, shorten Mean Time to Repair (MTTR), and predict capacity requirements
as and when the business requires.. This session will be a deep technical
explanation, and live demonstration of these tools. It will give administrators
a solid understanding of how they can use these tools to monitor and manage
their application clusters, keep applications running during Infrastructure
maintenance, and get deep holistic visibility into the entire Application
ecosystem, from Storage to Networking
INF4528 - vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) Best
Practices & Tips/Tricks
Presenter:
William Lam
In this
session, I will go through some of the best practices and considerations when
deploying and managing the vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA). I will walk through
some of the changes between past releases and the new vSphere 6.0 release. In
addition, I will also provide tips and tricks on using the VCSA as well as ways
in migrating from a Windows based vCenter Server to the VCSA
INF6396 - Platform security with Mike Foley
Presenter:
Mike Foley
Group
Discussions are a good way to join together with peers, guided by a VMware
expert, and discuss a VMware key topic as selected by the group. Come to this
session prepared to dive-in, engage, and share best practices.
MGT6003 - How to Win Executives and Influence
Outcomes with vRealize Operations and vRealize Business
Presenters:
Steven Jones and Jeff Godfrey
Become a
true broker of IT services and help business units gain insight into their IT
spend using vRealize Business (vRB) and vRealize Operations Manager (vROps).
Help Business Units in the way they work and move IT into the realm of a
critical contributor to their future success. Give them the whole picture on
how IT saves money, makes money, saves time, and provides peace of mind, while
earning respect at the same time. Shadow IT is financially inefficient and
VMware is providing the solutions you need for a comprehensive cure. Join Jeff
and Steve as they plunge into the story of three powerful insights every
business needs that vRealize delivers. Walk out with a vital checklist of
concepts to deliver value to those that you serve.
SDDC5273 - Growing from EVO:RAIL to EVO: RACK –
Scale with Investment Protection
Presenters:
Jason Lochhead and Sujit Pania
What's all
the hype about with hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI)? In this session,
we'll discuss the different alternatives to building a software-defined data
center (SDDC), and how the newest option, HCI, is differentiated in terms of
simplicity, faster time to productivity, flexible scalability and lower TCO
competitive with public/private cloud offerings. Furthermore, we'll do a deep
dive into features and capabilities of the 2 members of VMware's EVO
family--EVO:RAIL and EVO:RACK--and explain how they are based on the same
foundational pieces, but also very different in terms of architecture,
capabilities, use cases and target customer. In particular, we will also
discuss how an existing investment in EVO:RAIL can be preserved by migrating to
a new EVO:RACK instance.
STO5920 - Considerations for Virtual SAN Running
Business Critical Applications
Presenters:
Vahid Fereydouny and Christian Rauber
In this
session we will be discussing the sizing, best practices, and monitoring for
architecting Microsoft Exchange and SQL on Virtual SAN. This will be a deep
dive session into Microsoft Exchange and SQL Server on VMware Virtual SAN,
touching on SharePoint. Also we will discuss how to utilize Virtual SAN for
your Oracle RAC deployments. After this session you will be able to understand
how to utilize Virtual SAN as the best hyper-converged infrastructure
architecture for Exchange, SQL, SharePoint, and Oracle RAC.
OPT5279 - Chargeback in the Department of
Defense
Presenter:
Daniel Phillippi
Is
chargeback in the DoD impossible? Ever wonder why that is? While organizations
like DISA and Cyber Command are looking to leverage a service provider model
across the DoD, many other COCOMs are left with the internal struggle of how to
handle a chargeback or showback model and often fall back to operating in the
dark in regards to the true cost of their production environments. Whats worse
is that too often the move to a private cloud is seen as unachievable. The
truth is that within the Federal space we have done a great job of building
barriers to our own success, but the failure to implement a proper cost model
for chargeback within each organization has left us paralyzed to move beyond
the basic capabilities that virtualization technology brings. Operating on the
assumption of costs based on contracting mechanisms and colors of money has
disabled the drive to move further into the future and has cost greatly in terms
of efficiency and capability; giving our enemies the chance to eclipse us in
the cyber arena. The good news is that we can change the dynamic and move into
the datacenter of tomorrow. Join us in exploring the possibilities that can
come from implementing a proper chargeback or showback cost model, and how it
can be used to advance your IT operations in the DoD.
SDDC5440 - VMware Validated Reference Designs -
A Reference Architecture for the SDDC
Presenters:
Mike Brown and Karthik Narayan
Deploying
ESX, vCenter, vRealize Ops, vRealize Automation, and NSX together in a
production deployment takes care, thoughtfulness, and planning. Downstream
operational issues such as monitoring, capacity planning, and maintenance must
be considered. Backup, disaster recovery, high availability, and other
enterprise readiness issues must be considered. And, it's not just about
VMware's products, but also about how storage, networking, load-balancers, and
other non-VMware services integrate into the total deployment. This session will explain the VMware
Validated Reference Design, a new project designed to simplify this process for
VMware's customers.
VAPP6431-GD - Oracle Migration from Big Iron to
Virtual Machines
Presenters:
Sudhir Balasubramanian and Mukund Yadav
Migrating
large Oracle RAC database from Physical to Virtual
INF5229 - Docker and Fargo: Exploding the Linux
Container Host
Presenters:
Benjamin Corrie and George Hicken
OPT5793 - Organizational Change Management and
SDDC: Why Getting Your Organization and People Aligned Are the Key Ingredient
in Ensuring Maximum Value from You
Presenter:
Brad Wolfe
The
Software-Defined Datacenter (SDDC) delivers a compelling vision of
infrastructure transformation and a modern means to IT service delivery across
the Private, Public or Hybrid clouds. Moving your enterprise to a SDDC is a
tremendous investment in time and resources. Unfortunately many IT
organizations miss the most important factor when making that investment, its
people. Organizational Change Management (OCM) is a critical component of
moving to SDDC and overall IT Transformation. A sure way to be successful when
embracing emerging technologies, such as the SDDC, is to ensure the people who
will be responsible for architecting, deploying, and managing the solutions are
in sync with a common set of goals. OCM begins with focus on these goals to
align an organization’s vision, strategy, objectives and mindset thus ensuring
alignment between key IT services and broader business objectives. Attend this
session to learn how to address the software-defined people problem and build a
modern SDDC architecture team. Also learn how building your architecture team
is just one of the many components of OCM that are brought together to align
your people and your organization with an SDDC strategy. We will address key
SDDC and OCM questions on the minds of business and IT leaders regarding the
risks of undertaking this enterprise transformation.
OPT4707 - Integrating vRealize Automation with
ITSM and Service Catalog Tools
Presenters:
Reginald Lo and John Worthington
Many IT
organizations are grappling with the decision on which service catalog tool
they should use: the one from vRealize Automation or the one from their ITSM
tool, i.e. ServiceNow, Remedy SRM, HP Service Catalog, etc. Based on real world
experiences, this session describes different implementation options and their
pros and cons and common integration points between vRealize Automation and
your ITSM tool.
MGT6523-QT - Selling the Value of IT to Your
Business
Presenter:
Kathylynn Brunner
Many IT
organizations are grappling with the decision on which service catalog tool
they should use: the one from vRealize Automation or the one from their ITSM
tool, i.e. ServiceNow, Remedy SRM, HP Service Catalog, etc. Based on real world
experiences, this session describes different implementation options and their
pros and cons and common integration points between vRealize Automation and
your ITSM tool.
MGT6528 - Capacity Planning and Management with
Zubair Ansari
Presenter:
Zubair Ansari
Group
Discussions are a good way to join together with peers, guided by a VMware
expert, and discuss a VMware key topic as selected by the group. Come to this
session prepared to dive-in, engage, and share best practices.
SEC4488 - WestJet - Fast and Simple Security
Using NSX and VCO
Presenter:
Richard Sillito
In the fast
world of Agile development and DevOps, there are many security roadblocks in
the race to production. Businesses can't slow down, so security must speed up.
This requires a combination of good architecture and strong technology.
WestJet’s unique Security Architecture Made Simple (SAMS) combined with
Software Defined Security and Automation technology has transformed security
operations.
OPT5972 - 80,000 VM's and Growing! VMware's
Internal Cloud Journey Told by the People on the Frontlines
Presenters:
Ahmed Al-Buheissi, Brian Smith, and Anees Iqbal
In the fast
world of Agile development and DevOps, there are many security roadblocks in
the race to production. Businesses can't slow down, so security must speed up.
This requires a combination of good architecture and strong technology.
WestJet’s unique Security Architecture Made Simple (SAMS) combined with
Software Defined Security and Automation technology has transformed security
operations.
STO4856 - Designing for Mass Failover with Site
Recovery Manager: Lessons Learned from a Customer Deployment
Presenter:
Christopher Chua
How do you
design a system to fail over 1000 Virtual Machines? How different is it from
designing to fail over 10 Virtual Machines? VMware Site Recovery Manager allows
you to protect up to 5000 VMs using array based replication, but can you really
just set it and forget it? Explore some of the ins and outs of using Site
Recovery Manager at scale through a review of Chevron’s Global Deployment of
SRM. Review lessons learned from the design phase, implementation phase, and
operational turnover.
EUC5523 - AirWatch 101: Enterprise Mobility
Management Simplified
Presenter:
Harit Patel
Discover
AirWatch by VMware, the world’s leader in enterprise mobility management. The
AirWatch platform includes industry-leading mobile device, email, application,
content, and browser management solutions for corporate, BYO and line of
business devices. Learn how AirWatch enables end users with a digital
workspaces while empowering IT with a platform for business mobility.
EUC5921 - App Volumes Tips, Tricks and
Troubleshooting
Presenter:
Stephane Asselin
App Volumes
is a great solution for Just-In-Time application delivery to your virtual
desktops or your remote sessions (RDSH or Citrix). There are a lot of ways to
deploy and deploy it right. Come here us show you lesson learned from real-life
customer deployments, how we can save you time in your future deployments. We
will also go over troubleshooting ideas and what to look for when deploying App
Volumes in your enterprise.
EUC6051-SPO - How Florida Atlantic University
Made Their High Performance Horizon View Deployment Look Easy
Presenter:
James Mauser
When the
College of Engineering and Computer Science at Florida Atlantic University
(FAU) looked to replace their high performance physical desktops and
workstations with VMware Horizon View virtual desktops, they faced a challenge
in architecting a affordable solution that could stand up to the task of
delivering stable, non-persistent virtual desktops for high performance 3D
applications to their concurrent users. Simple, right? Attend this session to
learn how FAU’s overcame high latency, unstable virtual desktop challenges and
delivered a cost-effective, simple to manage, end-to-end solution that met the
demands of their high end VDI deployment running intensive 3D graphics
applications.
OPT5814-QT - AGILE for Infrastructure: Utilizing
Agile Methods to Drive Iterative Infrastructure Development and IT Service
Delivery
Presenter:
Josh Miller
Is your
infrastructure organization struggling to adapt to meet the ever-changing needs
of business stakeholders? Have you been trying to stimulate the cultural change
required to initiate the adoption of DevOps or IT as a service (ITaaS)? Are you
(still) under the impression that the Agile framework is only used to support
application development? The widespread adoption of VMware’s Software Defined
Data Center (SDDC) technology stack opens up a whole new world of opportunity
for infrastructure organizations. Infrastructure practitioners are no longer
bound by the proprietary compute, storage, and network siloes of legacy IT
environments and now enjoy an unprecedented level of control, flexibility, and
freedom. So now what? In this session, Josh Miller, VMware’s Accelerate
Transformation Services Agile Operations offering lead explains how your
infrastructure teams can leverage Agile frameworks and scrum practices to: •
Maximize your VMware technology investments through increased adoption and
quicker development of functionality and capabilities to support business needs
• Accelerate IT transformation initiatives by enhancing communication,
collaboration, and integration within your organization • Create the cultural
change required to speed adoption of DevOps/ITaaS as demanded by the business
