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I am a little late on posting about it, but the VMworld 2008 Schedule Builder is live. At the end of this post I am including my schedule which I think I have finalized. Here’s some of the announcement email I received:

A quick, easy way to plan your VMworld experience
Schedule Builder lets you search sessions by topic, speakers, and other key parameters, so you can customize your VMworld experience to suit your specific needs and interests.

To guarantee your spot in the sessions of your choice, we strongly encourage you to build your schedule prior to arriving onsite. Sessions and labs fill up quickly and space is limited, so build your schedule today!

To sign into Schedule Builder, you will need your VMworld 2008 registration username and password.

This year’s builder takes a little longer to complete, but the end result is definitely worth it. Take the time to go through the Content Catalog and determine your preferred sessions. You can then use the automatic builder to systematically populate time slots for the whole week. I had too many sessions marked as preferred the first time I tried it, so I was told the automated builder can only work with 30 sessions – just a heads up! There are instructions for the whole process once you log in. Click the “Sign in Now” button above. I also like that the online builder let’s you print out a badge holder format of your schedule, and lets you export it to an iCal or vCal file for your Blackberry, PDA, or mobile calendar.

My schedule strategy this year was to try to sprinkle in content on future trends and technologies as well as sessions that I thought were a little outside of the normal, popular content. I get enough of the mainstream best practices design, install, configure, and monitor information as a VAC partner, so from both a blogging and knowledge perspective I hope my schedule content will be a bit unique.

Here’s my schedule in normal format:

VMworld 2008

Monday
8:00 AM-10:00 AM		Lab05	VMware® Infrastructure – Security Hardening & Best Practices (VMware VirtualCenter – VMware ESX™ & VMware ESXi™)
10:30 AM-12:30 PM		Lab03	VMware® Site Recovery Manager – Installing, Configuring and Troubleshooting
1:30 PM-2:15 PM		PDT5502	VMware VDI Product and Competitive Deep Dive
3:30 PM-4:15 PM		PDT5503	Sneak Peak Into Future Virtual Infrastructure Products / Releases
4:30 PM-5:15 PM		PDT5504	Desktop and Application Virtualization Through the Implementation of ThinApp and VDI
5:30 PM-7:30 PM (Conference Event)		SE Reception	Solutions Exchange Welcome Reception

Tuesday
6:30 AM-8:00 AM (Conference Event)	Breakfast	Breakfast
8:00 AM-9:15 AM	GS	General Session
9:30 AM-10:30 AM	KN VMware	VMware Keynote
10:30 AM-11:30 AM	BOF102	High Availability
11:30 AM-12:30 PM	TA3807	VirtualCenter Directions
1:30 PM-2:30 PM	TA2784	Joint VMware and NetApp Best Practices for Running VI3 on IP Based Storage
2:30 PM-3:30 PM	BC1693	Architecting DR Solutions with VMware Site Recovery Manager
4:00 PM-5:00 PM	BC3819	Re-architecting Data Protection Processes with Data Deduplication and Virtualization Technologies

Wednesday
6:30 AM-8:00 AM (Conference Event)	Breakfast	Breakfast
8:00 AM-9:15 AM (Conference Event)	GS	General Session
9:30 AM-10:30 AM	EA3022	Deploying Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Mailbox Roles on VMware Infrastructure 3
11:00 AM-12:00 PM	KN EMC	Designing the Next-Generation Datacenter
1:30 PM-2:30 PM	VD2207	Benefits of Image Composer to VDM Deployments
3:00 PM-4:00 PM	BOF121	Cloud Computing
4:00 PM-5:00 PM (Waiting List)	AD2365	Best Practices in Managing Virtual Infrastructure
7:00 PM-11:00 PM (Conference Event)	VMParty	VMworld2008 Party

Thursday
7:30 AM-9:00 AM (Conference Event)	Breakfast	Breakfast
9:30 AM-11:30 AM	Lab09	Scripting VMware® Infrastructure: Automating, Integrating, and Extending VI
1:00 PM-3:00 PM	Lab08	VMware® Lifecycle Manager
3:30 PM-5:30 PM	Lab A	VMware® Datacenter Tech Preview

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