Wednesday, April 24, 2013

VMworld 2013 - Call for Papers Voting is Now Open. Cast your vote to see your favorite sessions!!

Time of the year when VMware has opened the flood gates for votes on sessions you would like to see at VMworld - The flagship industry event by VMware. Its been 10 long years that VMware has been running the show and this year its gonna be as big as always.

It is a great opportunity for customers, partners and industry experts to get together and share how they have made a difference in their workplace and industry verticals by using the solutions available today with VMware and the partner ecosystem. To read more about the event and the dates you can see this link.

A few weeks back, VMware requested the industry experts to share their experiences and technical know-how by delivering sessions at VMworld through its Call for Papers Program. I feel it is a great initiative as this allows collaborative learning to play a big role at the event. Given an opportunity, I would love to present at this AWESOME event and I have done my bit by submitting for a couple of sessions.

As the title of my post suggests, these sessions need support from the VMworld audience, who can vote for the sessions which they want to see during the event. The most popular and in demand sessions would make it to the final rounds of presentation sessions, demos or panel discussions.

Here are the sessions which I have submitted. Have a look, and if you think they will help the larger audience and would address the issues I am trying to solve, then vote for them. Of-course I would also encourage you to vote for other great sessions which are listed out there.

SESSION 1 


 Breakout Session

 vSphere performance best practices are the key for a successful operation of a VMware vSphere Environment. Although it is easy to build an environment keeping Best Practices in mind, it is difficult to sustain them as the environment grows. This session would not only help you learn about the top 10 best practices, but also help you understand how you can leverage vCenter Operations Manager to ensure that these Best Practices are being followed at all the times in your VMware Virtual Infrastructure.

This session would be in a discussion and presentation mode between a Professional Services Consultant who ensures that vSphere Best Practices are applied in every infrastructure designed by him. At the same time, he urges VMware customers to maintain these best practices as the infrastructure grows. On the other hand with each best practice being discussed and explained by the Consultant, the VMware vCOps Subject Matter Expert would talk about how these best practices can be monitored using Out of the Box and Custom features of vCenter Operations Manager.

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Top 10 vSphere Best Practices which would help you maintain the health of your vSphere Environment. This would range around the key technology areas of CPU, Memory, Disk & Network
Making it easy to ensure the application and monitoring of vSphere Best Practices in your virtual infrastructure using vCenter Operations Manager.
Creating Customer Reports and Dashboards on vCenter Operations Manager and understanding how they can help.
Technical
Management



SESSION 2







Session Type:  Breakout Session

 This session gives a deep dive into the nuts and bolts of vSphere Replication. It further discusses on how vSphere Replication can be leveraged with VMware Site Recovery Manager to Protect and Recover workloads in case of a disaster. The session would also have a demo on how to configure vSphere Replication and Site Recovery Manager. Lastly, it will list down the considerations and use cases where vSphere Replication has helped VMware customers for Disaster Recovery enablement using SRM.

This would be a deep dive technical presentation discussing how vSphere Replication works behind the scenes. Then the presentation would talk about integration of vSphere Replication with VMware Site Recovery Manager. The session would conclude with a quick demo, use cases and best practices around using vSphere Replication for Site Recovery Manager.
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Learn to leverage vSphere Replication as your DR replication Technology
Best Practices and Caveats of using vSphere Replication with Site Recovery Manager

Learning about Nuts & Bolts of vSphere Replication and integration with SRM, through a Demonstration
Advanced Technical

Infrastructure

Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery


Here is the process to vote:-

1- Open the following webpage - http://www.vmworld.com/cfp.jspa
2- Login with an existing VMworld account or create a new one (Takes only a minute).
3- Go through the sessions listed. (If you wanna vote for me, the session numbers are 5235 and 5239)
4- Click on the  button next to the session title to vote.

Please vote and also share this with others :-)

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