It’s that joyous time of year again! VMworld is fast approaching and Public Voting is NOW OPEN.  This year I’ve submitted three different Ask the Expert sessions with focus on different topics, so there should be an Ask the Expert session for you! I’ve also submitted a great session on integrating two great technologies, vSphere Metro Cluster and VMware Horizon View, you should definitely vote for it if you’re planning on building a geo-clustered View environment. These sessions won’t be picked up unless you vote for them, I’d love to see you all in these sessions so please, vote early and vote often :)

• **4569 – Ask the Expert vBloggers — Duncan Epping, **William Lam, Scott Lowe, Rick Scherer, Vaughn Stewart **

** One of the highest rated sessions at VMworld is back for it’s sixth year! We got the top Virtualization Bloggers in the industry and put them on stage answering your questions in a wide array of topics.

• **4570 – Ask the Expert VCDX’s — Chris Colotti, Matt Cowger, Jason Nash, Rick Scherer, Chris Wahl

** Come get interactive with a panel of five VMware Certified Design Experts, they’ll answer your questions live.

Experts in Cloud, Application Modernization and End User Computing are here to help.
  
Working on becoming a VCDX? Ask you questions about our panel members journey to becoming a VMware Certified Design Expert.   * **4571 **– Ask the Experts &#8211; Storage Leaders &#8212; <a href="https://twitter.com/jasonboche" target="_blank">Jason Boche</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/sakacc" target="_blank">Chad Sakac</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/rick_vmwaretips" target="_blank">Rick Scherer</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/ericsiebert" target="_blank">Eric Siebert</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/vstewed" target="_blank">Vaughn Stewart</a>

** Come get interactive with four huge names in the storage industry. Ask your questions to leaders from EMC, NetApp, Dell and HP. How do you build a scalable storage infrastructure to match your vSphere compute deployment? What’s the best storage protocol for your Private Cloud deployment? Should I be using Round Robin or Fixed pathing? What is a SATP or PSP? Come find out!

• 4572 – Building a vSphere Metro Cluster for VMware Horizon View — Rick Scherer

** Learn how you can leverage the vSphere Metro Storage Cluster (vMSC) reference architecture to stretch a cluster used for End User Computing. Say Hello to Always-On Follow-Me Computing.

Remember, the Ask the Expert sessions are driven by the audience… no script, no presentation, just a panel of experts hungry to answer your questions live! Please be sure to vote for these great sessions to ensure they’re scheduled at VMworld 2013!

Thanks for taking the time to vote, but please don’t stop once you’ve voted for my sessions. There are a number of other excellent sessions from people like Duncan Epping, Frank Denneman, Chad Sakac, Scott Lowe, Chris Colotti, Kendrick Coleman, Jeremiah Dooley, a number of them from the EMC vSpecialists as well as a  joint session between Chad Sakac (EMC) and Vaughn Stewart (NetApp) which shouldn’t be missed!

Thanks again and I hope to see you at VMworld US and Europe!