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I rented a Chevrolet HHR for week at VMWorld. I wasn’t expecting to rent a car at all so thank goodness National had cars available Sunday when I arrived at SFO.

The car was fun to drive and it had a lot of pep for a 4 cylinder engine. Although I never had more than three adults in the car, the HR had plenty of room for passengers.

It’s compact design was both a positive and a negative. I was thankful for the ability to maneuver easily in downtown traffic and park in tight spaces, but the cockpit area was cramped. I kept rubbing my leg on the center console just using the accelerator. The windshield was small and very close, and my field of view was at roof level inside the car. I felt like I had to bend down to see.

If Alcatraz is called “The Rock” then Treasure Island was “The Roll” for Wednesday’s VMWorld 2007 party.

First on stage was the Wonderbread 5. I believe this band was once a Jackson 5 tribute band that has now evolved into 5 white guys wearing afros that definitely know how to start the party!

Associatedentertainment.com describes this local San Francisco band best:

“With their tongue planted firmly in cheek, the Wonder Bread 5 posse fuses hip-hop, country-fied white-trash anthems, disco and hair metal, resulting in a high energy spectacle of fun, grooves and all the songs you love to sing…and sing loudly.”

Smash Mouth topped the evening off with all of their hits as well as some amazing Van Halen covers! The band started a multi song encore with a version of “Running with the Devil” that would have made even David Lee Roth jealous!

According to their web site Smash Mouth has a new album in stores and is also currently working on songs for an upcoming movie soundtrack. I will definitely be adding their newest CD to my collection.

Notes from the General Session:

John Chambers – CEO – Cisco

John talked about his vision of networking / Internet / business strategy changes for IT infrastructure and business unit decision making.

How do we enable employee productivity and customer satisfaction using virtualization / collaboration?

Internet Phase 1 – unprecedented productivity in 1990s

• orders over internet
• customer self service

Internet Phase 2 – Web 2.0 – we are here now

• New services /support
• new sales model
• internal wikis / i-zone
• aquisition model = 8 days vs 45 days
• command / control / collaboration / teamwork enabled by virtualization

Collaboration will be driver for Web 2.0 and second wave of productivity and Innovation
web services will provide replay of technology growth of the ’90s – using technology like

• wikis
• forums
• facebooks
• u tube

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VMWorld 2007 Party tonight! The following is from the “What’s Happening at VMWorld” email I recieved this morning:

VMworld 2007 Party

We have a great party planned for Wednesday night that you don’t
want to miss. Indulge in all that San Francisco has to offer as
you experience the Streets of San Francisco Party on Treasure
Island. We’ve recreated San Francisco neighborhoods for you to
enjoy. Whether you are in the mood for comedy, karaoke,
sports, gaming, jazz and blues or want to hear headliner
“Smash Mouth”, we have something for everyone to do.

I rode the world famous San Francisco cable cars to Pier 39 tonight. I walked around with a friend from work and took several pics that are now posted on the Photo page. Alcatraz, The Golden Gate Bridge and the sea lions are all viewable at Pier 39. The cable car ride takes you through China Town.

For dinner I had a great New York Strip at the Fog Harbor Fish House. Yeah, I had steak at a seafood restaurant on the Bay. I don’t like seafood too much. We got a great table with a window view of the Bay.

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The treesum VMWorld 2007 Blog was mentioned on VMTN this morning!

I’m surprised my server is not a molten mass of metal by now!

Storage VMotion – move VM disks without downtime!

Site Recovery Manager

DR Pain points

• lack of reliable plan
• can’t meet RTO or RPO reqs
• expenses for hardware at DR site

VI3 improves DR

• RTO / Cost / Reliability
• Failover / Planning / testing
  • isolate network for live testing
• Hdw independence / encapsulation / boot from san / drs and resource pools / snap shots & vlans
• instant repurposing

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