VMworld 2015 information

The largest VMware conference, VMworld is again having two conferences in 2015. As usual the first will be in San Francisco US and the second will be in Barcelona, exactly like previous year. Both conferences have a vast session catalog, but before a session even makes it to be hosted at the conference (US, Europe or both) there is a public voting possibility. This public voting gives you the opportunity to have some influence on what sessions will be hosted, it also gives a preview on what kind of sessions are being submitted.

So give it a try and vote for the sessions you find interesting, a VMworld account is needed to vote, if you do not have one you can register and create a VMworld account.

Voting Catalog

The closer we get to the actual conference dates, more and more information is published. Currently there already is some information regarding the key dates related to both of the conferences.

Conference key dates:

VMworld 2015 US (San Francisco): 

• Conference is 30 August - 3 September
• Registration opened 5th of May
• Content Catalog is live 9th of June
• Schedule Builder is live 21st of July

VMworld 2015 Europe (Barcelona):

• Conference is 12 - 15 October
• Registration opens 9th of June
• Content Catalog is live 23rd of June
• Schedule Builder is live 18th of August

But the most important is that registration for VMworld US is already open! So go and register !! 

Hope to see you at VMworld !

My take on interesting sessions @VMworld Europe

Like most VMworld attendees I also have been busy building my session schedule. This can be a rather time consuming task. There are so many sessions to choose from, there is also the Solution Exchange, Hands On Labs (HOL), Certification possibilities and meeting up with peers at the Hang Space.
You can fill up your entire schedule with sessions, but that would leave you very limited time to engage any (or all) of the activities mentioned above. There are numerous blogs where the writer has presented it's "must see" sessions list for VMworld, although most of those lists refer to the US edition a lot of the sessions will also be presented in Europe. I suggest you look at some of those "must see" lists, mine is at the bottom of this post and make a selection out of the "must see" lists and the complete VMworld catalog taking in account your interests / work field.
After I would make a selection of session the you want to see live (sessions like "ask the experts" or "The vExpert Storage Game Show" you have see live because of the interactive nature of these sessions) and which you could optionally see later online.
When you make this selection it will free up time you can use to attend to the other activities as mentioned above.

My selection of "must see" sessions:

NET1743 - VMware NSX - A Technical Deep Dive

INF1601 - Taking Reporting and Command Line Automation to the Next Level with PowerCLI

NET1592 - Under the Hood: Network Virtualization with OpenStack Neutron and VMware NSX

NET2745 - vSphere Distributed Switch: Technical Deep Dive

STO2197 - Storage DRS: Deep Dive and Best Practices

STO2554-SPO - Zooming In: How VMware Virtual Volumes (vVols) Will Provide Shared Storage with X-ray Vision

SDDC2095 - Overview of EVO: RAIL: The Radically New Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Appliance 100% Powered by VMware

TEX1991 - vCenter Orchestrator - What's Next?

SEC2238 - Security and Microsegmentation for the Software Defined Data Center

TEX1492 - IO Filters: Adding Data Services to ESXi

NET1468 - A Tale of Two Perspectives: IT Operations with VMware NSX

INF1864-SPO - Software Defined Storage - What’s Next?

BCO2629 - Site Recovery Manager and vSphere Replication: What’s New Technical Deep Dive

STO2997-SPO - The vExpert Storage Game Show EMEA

STO1965 - Virtual Volumes Technical Deep Dive

INF2311 - vCenter Server Architecture and Deployment Deep Dive

SDDC1337 - Technical Deep Dive on EVO: RAIL, the new VMware Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Appliance

STO2480 - Software Defined Storage - The VCDX Way Part II : The Empire Strikes Back

INF2427 - DRS : Advanced Concepts, Best Practices and Future Directions

SDDC2370 - Introduction to OpenStack for VMware Administrators

STO3098 - Virtual SAN Best Practices for Monitoring and Troubleshooting

I hope you will enjoy this year's VMworld Europe edition, I know I will for sure !!