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The combination of the excitement surrounding the vSphere Launch event and the reality of getting back to business after being out of town kept me from posting the various pictures I took during the VMware Partner Exchange 2009 conference (PE09) in Orlando, FL. Most of the photos were already tweeted as Twitpics during the event, but I’ve finally found some time to share what I’ve got as one collection.

I put together this grid collage from the photos taken with my Blackberry Curve. The photography is not too good, but the memories are great!

Click the collage for a larger view.
Doug Hazelman of Veeam made a quick video of his trip to Orlando for PE09 and posted it on his The Virtual Traveller blog. At the end is some brief footage Read the rest of this entry »

For some great additional coverage of VMware Partner Exchange 2009 (PE09) check out fellow vExpert Brian Knudtson’s knudt blog. He has been posting a day by day summary of his PE09 experience. I first met Brian on Monday during the VMware Partner Technical Advisory Board (PTAB) and have since had the pleasure of bumping in to him during the conference sessions and at a few tweetups. BTW, you can also follow Brian on Twitter.

Here is a listing of Brian’s posts on PE09 so far, a few quotes, and some of my own comments. Read the rest of this entry »

Although I am at Partner Exchange 2009 (PE09) in Orlando, FL this week, most of the conference content is VMware partner specific or still restricted under non disclosure agreement (NDA). So, I have not put much of an effort in posting. This will change soon, however!

In the meantime, here are some summary links and some quick thoughts about what has been discussed publicly so far at the conference.

Dave Lawrence has summarized the first 2 Keynote/General Sessions on his VMguy Blog:

• First day of keynotes at Partner Exchange
• Day 2 Keynotes at Partner Exchange

Seemingly related to the PE09 Keynotes but not confirmed (by VMware or myself), Read the rest of this entry »

I am in Orlando, FL this week attending the Citrix Summit 2008 Partner Conference. Although I will not be live blogging, I will try to write summary posts of some of the sessions I get to attend. Much of the material from this conference is subject to the Citrix Partner NDA, so I will be limited to what I can report. I’m looking forward to technical sessions and labs on XenServer 5.0, XenDesktop, and learning more about how XenApp Server can be hosted as a VM on XenServer. I’m sure I’ll also get to hear a lot about how XenApp can publish applications for virtual desktop solutions as well.

I will tag all posts from this event as citrixsummit2008 for future reference.

The conference is being held at the Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin Hotel. It’s a location in right in the middle of the Disney properties and parks. This morning after breakfast I was able to enjoy a great walk to the Disney Boardwalk, and then I followed a paved trail around the hotel’s central lake which took me past the neighboring Beach Club and Yacht Club Hotels as I worked my way back to the Dolphin building again.

I’m not sure of the cost of a family vacation at the Swan and Dolphin or one of the properties I walked past, but if you get the opportunity I would highly recommend staying here. I’ve seen a lot of families here so it must be reasonable. There are free water taxis to Epcot Center, and free buses to everywhere else. Click on the resort map image to the right for a larger view of the location.

As I am writing this I can hear fireworks, so I assume it must be Epcot’s nightly show. I’ll be sure to catch that tomorrow!

Dan Anderson – Consulting Architect

Tim Myers – Senior Consultant

This is my third 2 hr sesion today. I had to get coffee and refuel. I’ve sat in the same seat in the same room since 10:15 …. except for lunch.

Dan Anderson is the drill sargeant of VCB. If you’ve attended one of his sessions you know what I mean. He should keep me awake.

VMConverter 3.01 can now be used to restore from VCB images – that is huge!! You can restore to ESX, VMServer, workstation. This is the first “ton of bricks” concept that has hit me this week. Makes the restore process for full VM backups much more feasible.

Notes and questions from session:

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Steven Kishi – Product Manager – VLA

What is VLA? Questions and notes from session

Shared VM library

• stores vm configurations in state as a unit
• uses a fraction of the storage normally required – 16 mb files called differencing disks
• runs identical copies of vms simultaneously on the same network
• leverages central pool of virtualization resources

Does VLA need VC2? – not today, but next version will use VC2

Rapid provisioning

• deploy as needed
• web based

transient configured infrastructure Read the rest of this entry »

Session discussion questions: 

Replicate using EMC SRDF

manually change ip addresses of replicated machines?

Use F5, dynamic dns to self update or auto update ip addresses.

Host based replication

Replistor

Double take

Must have vm or host at both the primary and the secondary site for HBR. Must also pre-setup the networing, etc.

VMware is doing more with the SAN based relication

Site Recovery Manager will be able to interface with the replication product’s manager server 

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