Demitasse

It’s time to start voting for VMworld sessions.

Head on over to VMworld.com and vote for the sessions you’d like to see presented, naturally I’d like some of my sessions approved.

The Filter option is a great way to find the sessions by presenters you know, here are a few suggested filters:

Alastair Cooke

• 1496 vSphere AutoLab. Build Your Personal Training and Test Lab Using the PC You Already Have Without All the Hard work
• 1497 Secrets of the vSphere AutoLab: How and When to Build Automation Into Your vSphere Deployment
• 1498 Certification Preparation with the Community Lab Guide to vSphere 5
• 2356 The vBrownBag Panel: Certification Preparation By the Community for the Community

Michael Webster

• 1221 Designing and Building for Business Critical Applications
• 1282 Automating Security and Compliance with Disaster Recovery Using VCM, vCOps, vShield, VIN and SRM
• 1382 Oracle on vSphere 5 Technical Case Study – Deep Dive
• 1464 Enterprise Firewall Replacement Using vShield Suite for a PCI Environment
• 1594 Oracle on vSphere 5 Technical Customer Case Study Deep Dive
• 1852 Large, Mission-Critical Workloads: Architect Panel

While you’re there I have a few more suggestions of people who are presenting sessions that you should vote for, you probably know their names:

Cody Bunch

Josh Atwell

Damian Karlson

Andre Leibovic

Aboubacar Diare

A discussion about physical provisioning in a virtual world.

All the details here at the podcast blog

 Most companies have and average of 2.4 online copies of their data plus backups. Could this be done more efficiently?

All the details on the Podcast Blog at http://apacvirtual.com

As you will know from my past blog posts I have hooked up with HP’s social media people and been invited to a couple of blogger briefings.  These are a great way to get access to the inside information on some of HPs products and initiatives. 

As an HP customer or partner a great way to access a massive amount of HP’s information is through the HP Discover conference.  HP Discover runs June 4th to 7th in Las Vegas. There are quite a few tracks since HP is a truly massive company.  The track I’d be most interested in is the Converged Infrastructure track and it’s Virtualization Solutions sub track, which has over sixty sessions by itself.

If you’re going to HP Discover and haven’t yet registered then you can use this link to register and the Registration Code “BLOG” to get a $300 discount on the fee.

If you do go to HP Discover and learn something great then please share, maybe join me on the APAC Virtualization podcast to help others who can’t make it to Las Vegas.

Disclosure: I won’t be at HP Discover in Las Vegas this year, but if enough of my readers use the link above to register then I might get costs covered to go to another HP public event.  Also HP are giving some prizes to bloggers who participate in this promotion.  The opinions expressed here are (as always) my own.

The next vBeers in Auckland is scheduled for 16 May from 6pm at the Bluestore Room. Come along and talk with other virtualization people.

All details at vBeers.org

It is published, the project I have been working on for the last month or two is live. 

What is the AutoLab?

The AutoLab is a quick easy way to build a vSphere environment for testing and learning using a single desktop or laptop PC and VMware Workstation, Fusion or ESXi. The whole lab runs in VMs on that one PC, even ESXi runs in a VM and can then run it’s own VMs.

Take a look over at ProfessionalVMware for details of how to get started with building your own vSphere 5 AutoLab.

I have taken up an offer from Cody Bunch at ProfessionalVMware to start publishing my technical articles on his site. 

In the future this blog will be much more focussed on things that are relevant to the APAC region, vBeers, VMUG, local upcoming virtualisation events and the like.  

The technical articles that have an audience beyond the region will be on ProfessionalVMware.

As I start to publish on ProfessionalVMware I will put notices up here, but I’d suggest that if you don’t already have the feed in your RSS reader that you add it today.

This week’s session of the podcast will be all about the topic of building a lab for familiarizing yourself with vSphere and related products.

All the details on the APAC Virtual blog

I’m looking forward to a return to Wellington at the end of this month.  I’m scheduled to teach a vSphere 5.0 Install Configure Manage course which looks to have a few friends on it so should be fun.

While I’m in Wellington it’s definitely time to meet with other vFriends and have vBeers.  The announcement is up on the vBeers.org web site. We will be at the Malthouse on Courtney place from 6pm on Tuesday May 1st.

Tell your friends. This is a great place to meet and chat with people who work in virtualisation.

I am honoured to have been returned to VMware’s vExpert program this year.  The program recognises and rewards people who promote and evangelise VMware products above and beyond what is their day job.  For me it is my blogging and podcasting activities, Michael probably the same. For my friends Mark and Craig it is for leading VMUG organisations in their cities. For others it’s participation in the VMware communities discussions.

For me the biggest benefit of vExpert membership is just that, being a member of a community of people who are passionate about virtualisation.  I find these people interesting and fun to be around, that’s why I take part in the wider virtualization community.  Hopefully this year I will be able to be as involved in the big and little community events as I was last year.

The full list of vExerts is at http://blogs.vmware.com/vmtn/2012/04/announcing-vexpert-2012-title-holders.html and I’m expecting a lot of twitter chat and blog posts from those who are in.