For those of you who haven’t purchased your pass to VMworld yet do I have a surprise for you!  Being an employee of EMC combined with EMC being a great partner of VMware allows me to extend some good perks to my readers.  If you use the following link (http://www.vmworld.com/registration.jspa?sponsorCode=EMC) to register for VMworld and enter in the promotion code EMC_EB_US2010 you will save $300 from the regular admission price (reg $1,795).

VMworld 2010 is going to have some great sessions, including some awesome Ask the Experts sessions as well as the opportunity to meet a good majority of the vSpecialist team. You can even pick yourself up a copy of Mastering VMware vSphere and have it signed by Scott Lowe, Chad Sakac and myself! Or even a copy of the VCP-410 study guide from McGraw-Hill.

I hope to see all of you there, be sure to visit the EMC booth to meet up and chat about all things virtualization.

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Through a sponsorship with TradePub, I’m glad to offer FREE registration to a VMware seminar dedicated to the ISV market.  This seminar is located in Boston, MA and for the first 50 attendees you’ll get a FREE copy of VMware Workstation or VMware Fusion!

When: Thu, Sep 24, 2009 8:00 AM - 4:30 PM EST
Where: Westin Copley Place Boston, 10 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02116

Attend a live seminar to learn how VMware vSphere helps you:

• Offer your customers a much improved TCO
• Deliver Proof-of-Concepts in days instead of weeks
• Simplify high availability and disaster recovery for applications
• Accelerate upgrades
• Simplify tech support and reduce costs
• Deliver your applications in an efficient SaaS model

You’ll also hear concrete examples of how embracing VMware vSphere as a go-to-market platform can directly influence an ISV’s income statement.

First 50 attendees will receive a FREE copy of VMware Workstation (for Windows or Linux) or VMware Fusion (for Mac).

GET MORE INFO & REGISTER NOW

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Nava Davuluri, one of the writers on the VMware Code Central blog wanted to reach out to my readers and invite them to VMware’s Technology Exchange Developer Day.

Technology Day is on Monday, August 31st at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, co-located within VMworld 2009. This event is dedicated to ALL developers building solutions on VMware platforms.

The event page can be found here
5 reasons to attend this event
Session schedule
For event updates(twitter) : @VMDeveloperDay

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Friday, July 24th is another San Diego VMware User Group meeting.  I strongly urge you to come join us as we discuss all things VMware, this includes a discussion of users issues and resolutions along with a presentation from Cisco on UCS and demos from Nth Generation on new vSphere features. More information, including location and schedule can be found on the San Diego VMUG website.

San Diego VMUG Meeting - July 24th, 2009

Location:
Cardinal Health
Room B1-115
3750 Torrey View Ct
San Diego, CA 92130

Directions: -Click Here-

Agenda:
08:00am - Breakfast / Networking

08:15am - Bloopers Session - User Group members relate issues they had or are having with their current VMware project with VMware SE Asif Khan acting as the expert in this area

08:30am - Sponsor Presentation - “Cisco’s Unified Computing System and VMWare’s vSphere, the industry’s first cloud operating system, will help customers maximize the promise of virtualization with reduced TCO, increased business agility, and improved energy efficiency. This transformation enables the next generation of flexible, reliable IT services to be delivered both within internal clouds as well as from external clouds.”

09:30am - Break

09:45am - Nth Generation - Live DEMO

• Distributed vSwitches to attach virtual machines to a single virtual switch that spans multiple hosts, preserving network state during a VMotion
• Fault Tolerance to protect critical workloads from downtime and hardware failures
• Host Profiles for ease of deployment for new host servers and protect against mis-configurations
• Storage VMotion via GUI to migrate storage between datastores

11:45am - Wrapup / give aways etc.

12:00pm - Close

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Join me July 27th through July 31st in my hometown of San Diego, CA for the Burton Group Catalyst Conference.  I will be speaking at two sessions, both on Thursday, July 30th.

Simplifying Storage for Virtualization
Time: 3:10pm
Room: Sapphire M

Reconciling Storage, Networking, and Security in a Dynamic Data Center
Time: 4:45pm
Room: Sapphire M

The Catalyst Conference is a unique event, tons of great sessions and amazing hospitality suites which are hosted by vendors - these are great places to meet and mingle with other I/T professionals.  I hope to see you there!

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Just a little note telling all of my readers to register and listen to my session on how The City of San Diego utilizes Virtualization for Consolidation and Application Deployment, tomorrow morning during the VMware Online Virtualization Forum. You can register online right now, FOR FREE, just visit this link.

Attend this free virtual event, right from your browser!

VMware virtual events are highly interactive events conducted online using only a web browser. They include all of the areas that you may find at a physical event, including an exhibit hall, auditorium, resource center and networking lounge.

Don’t miss this opportunity to learn about vSphere™ 4—The Next Generation of VMware’s market leading virtualization products!

Come see how companies within different industries like the Public Sector, Education, Healthcare and Technology are simplifying IT and increasing flexibility while cutting IT costs by 50%.

8:00am – 9:00am
Customer Spotlight: City of San Diego Uses Virtualization for Consolidation and Application Deployment

Attend the Online Virtualization Forum on June 9th and 10th. Don’t miss this opportunity to:

• Network with VMware product experts, customers, partners and other IT Professionals.
• Attend 30-minute presentations and get the latest info on VMware solutions, products and industry trends.
• Access real-time information from industry leaders without the hassle or expense of travel.
• Create a multi-media resource kit, including white papers, videos and podcasts.

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Tony Dunn and the rest of the VMworld.com team have opened up a number of breakout sessions and labs from VMworld Europe 2009 and VMworld 2008 for public access.  That’s right, you can now gain access to a number of sessions and labs for FREE!  Check it out right now, go log into your VMworld.com account.

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Most of you know that I was the featured guest on a Live TechTalk last week, NetApp has furnished me with the transcripts from the Q&A of the event - for those of you that submitted questions but were unable to get a response - the transcript below should have your answer.   I’m extremely excited to say that this transcript will only be available on VMwareTips.com and NetApp will even be sending the link to their customers, hopefully this will increase the traffic on the site.

If you have any additional questions in regards to the TechTalk event, please feel free to submit a comment to this post - or email me at rick (at) vmwaretips (dot) com.

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Just received some exciting news from VMware,  my two submissions have been approved and are scheduled for VMworld 2009!   Looks like I have some work ahead of me.  One of the sessions will actually be an Ask the Experts panel discussion.   More information to follow, but here is what I received from VMware:

Dear Rick,

Congratulations! The session proposal below has been accepted for VMworld 2009, taking place August 31- September 3 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA.

Session ID: TA2259
Session Title: Ask the Experts - Virtualization Design
Track: Technology and Architecture

Session ID: TA2262
Session Title: vSphere Enterprise Stability - It’s all in the Design
Track: Technology and Architecture

I’m planning on putting together an Expert Panel of VM-Guru’s for the Ask the Experts session — so some of you may expect to hear from me soon!

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Join me on Thursday, May 28, 2009 at 11:00am Pacific Time for a discussion on Virtualizing SQL on VMware with Confidence.

Virtualize SQL on VMware with Confidence
What You Should Know and How to Get Started

Join us for a live Webcast and hear how Rick Scherer from San Diego Data Processing Corporation overcame server sprawl by successfully implementing SQL Server® on VMware®.

> Register Now

In addition, experts from NetApp and VMware will host an interactive discussion on best practices that will help you weigh your deployment options. You’ll learn how virtualization solutions can help you:

• Gain performance advantages when virtualizing SQL.
• Optimize storage utilization without impacting performance.
• Implement centralized and cost-effective backup and disaster recovery.

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