VMware’s US mega conference, VMworld kicks off in San Francisco in just over 2 weeks time. 19000 people attended in Las Vegas last year (we will have to see whether the choice of venue affects the numbers for this year!)
This will be my first time attending VMworld US as living in London I have attended VMworld Europe previously so am excited to see the differences, enjoy the bigger conference and meet some more fellow vExperts and other community members.
There’s obviously a huge amount that goes on at the conference from the keynote speaches, breakout sessions, panel discussions, labs, formal and informal meetings, and general networking so working out what to actually see with so much going on is harder than many people would assume.
VMware also use the conference as an opportunity to accounce new products or updated versions of products but these are generally not announced beforehand as VMware wants to keep the wraps on and use the exposure of the conference to highlight what they are up to.
Many of the conference sessions however include information on what may be coming up in future versions of existing products from VMware and its partners. These may not be the headline items announced at the keynotes but a glimpse of future strategy and product development which are important if you work with the product.
We all love finding out about new stuff so I’ve been going through the VMworld Content Catalogue to find out all the sessions that may tease us with a sneak peak at the future so you can get ahead of the game!
Happy session hunting!
Hover over the links to see a description of the session. End User Computing EUC has been a major focus area for VMware over the past few years with many aquisitions and product enhancements. There are quite a few products that have already been announced but not released so VMworld is a great opportunity to find out more about the new offerings. [EUC1351 - Directions in End-user Computing: The Post-PC Era](https://vmworld2012.activeevents.com/connect/sessionDetail.ww?SESSION_ID=1351 “This session will feature VMware’s CTO for End User Computing discussing VMware’s vision for the future and the myriad of industry developments informing it. Multiple devices and application platforms, mobile devices, Bring Your Own Device initiatives, Cloud computing, and next generation applications are combining to profound effect. In this talk expect to hear about the latest EUC products including View and the upcoming Horizon Suite, DaaS, and other surprises including sneak peeks and demos of technologies percolating in VMware’s labs.
Scott Davis - CTO, End User Computing, VMware, Inc.") [SPO1325 - Strategies for Creating Tomorrow’s Workplace, Today](https://vmworld2012.activeevents.com/connect/sessionDetail.ww?SESSION_ID=1325 "Can anyone really define “the workplace” anymore? We know it’s no longer a single device on a desk at the office. For over 60% of users, the workplace is any number of mobile devices being used at home or at the airport... anyplace but the office. Keeping those workers productive and driving innovation requires new approaches to the workplace. The new normal is anywhere full access to the same applications, data, and communications and collaboration tools they use on their desktop. Now add in the complexity of global. But how, and at what cost? And can your current IT infrastructure support a sea change in technology to keep pace with new workplace expectations? How can you successfully transcend the tug-of-war between IT and End User needs? Join this panel to hear three different perspectives on the workplace of the future: -Workplace Champion representing worker and business leader stakeholders -IT Infrastructure and Cloud Leader responsible for meeting business and security requirements -Workplace Technologist championing forward-looking innovations We’ll review changing end-user expectations, strategies for meeting mobile needs, and ways to reduce complexity and manage costs in transforming your infrastructure for the workplace of tomorrow. We’ll discuss new requirements for network connectivity and more agile platforms, and offer practical tips and best practices for creating tomorrow’s workplace, today... quickly, safely and cost-effectively. Nimesh Shah - Vice President, CSC Vittorio Viarengo - VP, Desktop Products, VMware, Inc. Yogesh Khanna - VP, Chief Technology Officer, CSC Bruce Scheer - President, Future Sight Consulting")Octopus Octopus is secure Dropbox for the Enterprise and is a product that has been in Beta for a while and may be one of the official VMworld announcements. [EUC2128 - Project Octopus: Personal Cloud / Team Cloud — Next Generation File Sharing from VMware](https://vmworld2012.activeevents.com/connect/sessionDetail.ww?SESSION_ID=2128 “Influenced by what they experience in the consumer market, end users expect to be able to collaborate seamlessly with integrated applications that can be accessed from any device, anywhere at any time. Increasingly, users are going outside of the organization to find solutions, creating difficulties for IT organizations chartered with providing security and compliance. Whether deployed on-premises or through a service provider, VMware’s Project Octopus improves the way people work in this post-PC era with a new data sharing application that advances our vision for combining end-user freedom with IT control. Octopus will enable users to access files from any device and share them with people both inside (other colleagues) and outside (vendors, customers, partners) their companies in a completely safe and secure way. Additionally, policies and provisioning are centrally managed via VMware Horizon Application Manager™, a centralized policy and entitlement engine that will broker user access to applications, virtual desktops and data resources. The result is a simple, seamless end-user experience when accessing work resources across private and public clouds on whatever device the user chooses. Octopus addresses the challenges that IT has today…users need a way to easily and quickly access their files on their tablets, smart phones, laptops and home desktops and do this in a way that’s safe and secure.
Andrew Hawthorn - Sr. Product Marketing Manager, VMware, Inc. Arvind Soni - Product Manager, VMware, Inc.") [EUC2406 - Project Octopus: Technical Deep-dive and Beta Learnings](https://vmworld2012.activeevents.com/connect/sessionDetail.ww?SESSION_ID=2406 "Now in Beta, VMware Project Octopus enables effortless file access and sharing from any device, and can be consumed on-premise or through a VMware service provider. This ... View More JJ Zhuang - Architect, Director of R&D, VMware, Inc. Charles Windom - Solutions Architect, VMware, Inc") [GD52 - Octopus with Andrew Hawthorn](https://vmworld2012.activeevents.com/connect/sessionDetail.ww?SESSION_ID=3516 "Join Andrew Hawthorn who will host this best practices group discussion on Octopus.") [EUC1526 - VMware Horizon: Upcoming Attractions and Roadmap](https://vmworld2012.activeevents.com/connect/sessionDetail.ww?SESSION_ID=1526 "In this session you will get insights into future directions for VMware Horizon™ in terms of Horizon end-user and administration capabilities as well as integration with VMware View™, Octopus, AppBlast and other upcoming end-user computing solutions. This session will also include a product demonstration to give you an early preview of upcoming functionality. Ashish Jain - Director, Product Management, VMware, Inc. Mehul Patel - Director, Product Management, VMware, Inc.")Horizon Application Manager Horizon Application Manager is a new product. It’s an Application Store front where you can centrally present all your SaaS, Web and Windows Applications and Desktops to your users in a simple to manage interface. [EUC1453 - Managing from the Middle with Horizon](https://vmworld2012.activeevents.com/connect/sessionDetail.ww?SESSION_ID=1453 “In the post-PC era, it’s essential to centralize application management. Now IT can simplify and unify management of software-as-a-service, Web and Windows applications through the VMware Horizon™ application catalog. Securely deliver applications to end users on their choice of device, increasing their flexibility while reducing the cost of complexity.
Liam Yu - Sr. Product Marketing Manager, VMware, Inc. mason uyeda - director, marketing, VMware, Inc. Ben Goodman - Lead Evangelist, VMware Horizon, VMware, Inc.") [EUC1455 - VMware Horizon Deep Dive and Best Practices](https://vmworld2012.activeevents.com/connect/sessionDetail.ww?SESSION_ID=1455 "This session will discuss best practices for VMware Horizon™. Topics will include example reference architecture, scalability, workflows and Horizon APIs. Andrew Johnson - Staff EUC Architect, Global CoE, VMware Jared Cook - Staff Architect, Advanced Development, VMware, Inc.") [EUC1526 - VMware Horizon: Upcoming Attractions and Roadmap](https://vmworld2012.activeevents.com/connect/sessionDetail.ww?SESSION_ID=1526 "In this session you will get insights into future directions for VMware Horizon™ in terms of Horizon end-user and administration capabilities as well as integration with VMware View™, Octopus, AppBlast and other upcoming end-user computing solutions. This session will also include a product demonstration to give you an early preview of upcoming functionality. Ashish Jain - Director, Product Management, VMware, Inc. Mehul Patel - Director, Product Management, VMware, Inc.") [GD53 - Horizon Application Manager with Andrew Johnson](https://vmworld2012.activeevents.com/connect/sessionDetail.ww?SESSION_ID=3515 "Join Andrew Johnson who will host this best practices group discussion on Horizon Application Manager. Andrew Johnson - Staff EUC Architect, Global CoE, VMware")Horizon Mobile and VMware Mobile Virtualization Platform (MVP) MVP is another new product to allow you to run multiple virtual instances of an Android phone on a single physical smartphone so you can for example have a secure work phone operating virtually on your unsecure personal phone. [GD54 - Horizon Mobile with Craig Newell](https://vmworld2012.activeevents.com/connect/sessionDetail.ww?SESSION_ID=3518 “Join Craig Newell who will host this best practices group discussion on Horizon Mobile.
Craig Newell - Sr. Staff Engineer, VMware, Inc.") [EUC1822 - VMware Horizon Mobile: Mobility Management within the Enterprise](https://vmworld2012.activeevents.com/connect/sessionDetail.ww?SESSION_ID=1822 "VMware Horizon Mobile™ enables enterprises to securely customize and manage an employee’s corporate workspace in isolation from the employee’s personal environment on Android ... View More Courtney Skay - Senior Product Marketing Manager, VMware, Inc. Thirumalesh Reddy - Director of Technology Labs & Applications Architecture, VMware, Inc. Arturo Fagundo - Sr. R & D Manager, VMware, Inc. Hoofar Razavi - Director, Product Management, VMware, Inc.") [EUC1823 - What Makes a Mobile Workspace Better? Security and Technical Details for VMware Horizon Mobile](https://vmworld2012.activeevents.com/connect/sessionDetail.ww?SESSION_ID=1823 "VMware Horizon Mobile™ enables enterprises to securely customize and manage an employee’s corporate workspace in isolation from the employee’s personal environment on Android smartphones. In this session, attendees will learn what makes VMware Horizon Mobile more secure than other mobile enterprise solutions. Technical details on device security, workspace management and certificate administration will be covered, in addition to information enterprise deployment. Srinivas Krishnamurti - Sr, Director, Mobile Solutions, VMware, Inc. Craig Newell - Sr. Staff Engineer, VMware, Inc.")AppBlast AppBlast is a remote display protocol which hasn’t been released yet to allow you to use Windows apps on any device. [EUC1526 - VMware Horizon: Upcoming Attractions and Roadmap](https://vmworld2012.activeevents.com/connect/sessionDetail.ww?SESSION_ID=1526 “In this session you will get insights into future directions for VMware Horizon™ in terms of Horizon end-user and administration capabilities as well as integration with VMware View™, Octopus, AppBlast and other upcoming end-user computing solutions. This session will also include a product demonstration to give you an early preview of upcoming functionality.
Ashish Jain - Director, Product Management, VMware, Inc. Mehul Patel - Director, Product Management, VMware, Inc.")ThinApp ThinApp is an existing application virtualisation product. [EUC2671 - VMware ThinApp Technology Review and Evolution](https://vmworld2012.activeevents.com/connect/sessionDetail.ww?SESSION_ID=2671 “This session will be provide a broad background of ThinApp technology and then showcase some of the newest capabilities and direction. ThinApp technology has expanded to provide value to VMware View and the Horizon solutions. Additionally, ThinApp Factory is now available for customers to automate the packaging and distribution of virtualized Windows applications. We will review these capabilities and discuss considerations for customers to design and implement with ThinApp with success.
Aaron Black - Product Manager, EUC, VMware, Inc. Peter Bjork - EMEA Horizon and ThinApp Specialist Systems Engineer, VMware") [TEX1937 - End User Computing and Horizon Roadmap (TAP only)](https://vmworld2012.activeevents.com/connect/sessionDetail.ww?SESSION_ID=1937 "This is the End User Computing and Horizon Roadmap session, exclusively for Technology Alliance Program (TAP) partners. In this session, you'll learn about View, View Clients, vCOPs for View, Horizon and more. Learn about the most critical upcoming View features and enhancements, and understand how the new View Clients take advantage of the changes in View to deliver an even better user experience for both desktop and mobile users. Vijay Pawar - Staff Product Manager, VMware, Inc. Robert Baesman - Director of Product Management, VMware, Inc.")Socialcast Socialcast is an Enterprise Social Network [EUC2909 - Using Socialcast to Build a Successful Internal Social Collaboration Community](https://vmworld2012.activeevents.com/connect/sessionDetail.ww?SESSION_ID=2909 “While a majority of employees participate in at least one social network outside of work, not all companies use the power of social networks internally to their own advantage. In this presentation, learn how the Fortune 100 company Humana Inc. went from zero to a dynamic internal community with 20,000 users and 1,000 groups in a two-year period using the Socialcast® platform. Learn from the things it did well and from its mistakes. Companies won’t succeed with a “build it and they will come” attitude when it comes to internal social platforms. It takes a strategy, sound online community principles, resources and constant effort to grow in quantity and quality, break down internal silos and foster a sense of community that transcends geographical and functional boundaries. This session will provide substantive detail of one company’s successful implementation so that your current or future implementation can succeed as well.
Jeff Ross - Community Manager, Humana Inc.") [EUC2592 - Gain Competitive Advantage with Enterprise Social: Best Practices from Leading Companies on the Front Lines](https://vmworld2012.activeevents.com/connect/sessionDetail.ww?SESSION_ID=2592 "Section 1 – Building the case for Enterprise Social Networks Provide a general overview of Social Technologies and their impact on organizations. • The Social World – The world is being transformed by social technologies and new ways of working • The Social Enterprise – An enterprise becomes social when it develops the skills and a strategy to apply mass collaboration to business challenges and opportunities • The Promise of Socialcast – What we were hoping to gain by implementing an Enterprise Social Network (ESN) – Vision, strategy, features and benefits Section 2 – Evaluating and Implementing a Successful Enterprise Social Network Highlight key elements and best practices of the implementation process including business system integrations and governance. Section 3 – Driving Adoption, Engagement and Business Value Showcase key statistics, use cases and business value outcomes of a successful ESN journey. Marc Fenner - Sr. Business Analyst, VMware, Inc. Jeff Ross - Community Manager, Humana Inc. Becky Graebe - Corporate Communications Manager, SAS Joan Bodensteiner - VP Marketing, Socialcast, VMware, Inc.")SlideRocket SlideRocket is web based PowerPoint but no VMworld sessions talk about it although there is a lab.
Datacenter and Cloud Infrastructure These are the traditional infrastructure products which currently make up the majority of VMware’s offering.
Datacenter of the future [INF-VSP2203 - Datacenter of the Future](https://vmworld2012.activeevents.com/connect/sessionDetail.ww?SESSION_ID=2203 “The session will focus on the market trends and technology opportunities that inform the long-term VMware roadmap for cloud infrastructure and management. Attendees will learn how the VMware product team envisions the datacenter of the future, what the most significant areas of VMware® product investment are and how VMware will collaborate with the ecosystem. This long-term roadmap will help customers understand the most significant areas of VMware impact on their datacenter in the future.
Bogomil Balkansky - SVP, Products, VMware, Inc.")DynamicOps VMware has announced it has signed an agreement to purchase DynamicOps which is a cloud automation product. Interestingly it allows you to manage VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V and Citrix XenServer as hypervisors, HP, Dell & Cisco physical hardware and VMware, Amazon and Windows Azure clouds. My thinking is VMware’s plans are to create a vCloud Director lite product for SMBs and Enterprises that don’t require the advanced networking of vCD but would like the automation. Book to see this session to find out their plans. [OPS-CIM2179 - Transforming Your Cloud with VMware: Day One – Building Your Cloud](https://vmworld2012.activeevents.com/connect/sessionDetail.ww?SESSION_ID=2179 “This session will highlight how you can leverage VMware Infrastructure and Management technologies to stand up a dynamic and heterogeneous cloud computing environment – private, public or hybrid – from the infrastructure components through the application stack. Onstage demos will examine how you can effectively employ VMware solutions to create a full compute service stack. We will walk through a complete service provisioning lifecycle including creating resource pools and Virtual Data Centers; provisioning both the infrastructure and application components; and rolling out self-service processes that can be leveraged across heterogeneous Clouds. VMware technologies covered will include vCloud Director, vCenter Operations Management Suite, vFabric Application Director and the newest member of the VMware Management family, DynamicOps.
Banjot Chanana - Director, Product Management, VMware, Inc. Mark Leake - Director, Virtualization and Cloud Management, VMware, Inc.")Nicira VMware has recently purchased Nicira a Software Defined Networking (SDN) company. This is VMware’s most serious network portfolio expansion to date. [INF-NET3457 - Nicira and the Future of Software Defined Networking](https://vmworld2012.activeevents.com/connect/sessionDetail.ww?SESSION_ID=3457 “Come hear what all the buzz is about! What VMware did for compute, Nicira is doing for networking. Software defined networking revolutionizes communications, just as virtualization did for serving applications. Martin Casado, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer, will explain how Nicira is revolutionizing networking by creating open, scalable software-based solutions. He will also discuss possible synergies created by the expected integration of Nicira into VMware.
Martin Casado - Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Nicira")Networking [INF-NET2313 - Software-Defined Networking and Security](https://vmworld2012.activeevents.com/connect/sessionDetail.ww?SESSION_ID=2313 “Software-defined networking has attracted the interest of the industry. Allwyn Sequeira, vice president and chief technology officer for networking and security will provide insights into the VMware Software Defined Networking & Security architecture and products as part of the overall SDD vision. This session will include feedback from early customers and industry partners who have been working with VMware to realize this architecture, and will delve into use cases that are compelling to modern virtualized datacenters.
Allwyn Sequeira - VP and Chief Technology Officer, Networking and Security, VMware, Inc.") [INF-NET1927 - vCloud Networking: an Extensible and Open Platform](https://vmworld2012.activeevents.com/connect/sessionDetail.ww?SESSION_ID=1927 "Networking infrastructure in the physical world relies on known products from trusted vendors. Organizations depend on the ability to add specialized application delivery controllers, WAN optimizers, intrusion detection systems, and so on into their networked infrastructure. IaaS environments must offer the same functional capabilities. vCloud Ecosystem Framework lets you include the wealth of offerings from known vendors in the virtual data center realm, with easy provisioning, flexible insertion points, and automated lifecycle. Adina Simu - Sr. Product Manager, VMware, Inc. Anirban Sengupta - Director, R&D, VMware, Inc.") [INF-NET2161 - VMware Networking 2012: Enabling the Software Defined Network](https://vmworld2012.activeevents.com/connect/sessionDetail.ww?SESSION_ID=2161 "This session will focus on providing an overview of the networking functionality in the 2012 release across the vSphere platform, VDS, VXLAN, Edge and vCloud networking. This session will include product demos and will also highlight a real world use case of the full VMware stack. Milin Desai - Group Product Manager, Networking, VMware, Inc. Sachin Thakkar - Manager, Networking & Security R&D, VMware") [INF-NET2166 - Leaders Series: "How I Built My SDN-based Cloud"](https://vmworld2012.activeevents.com/connect/sessionDetail.ww?SESSION_ID=2166 "Several cloud providers have already implemented SDN-based clouds with on-demand, self-service Load Balancing,Firewalling, Disaster Recovery. Adina Simu will lead a conversation with three VMware customers (Jesse Morgan from Peak 10, Omar Torres from Veristor, and Justin Giardina from iLand), who will share their experiences of large cloud building using vCloud software components for networking and security. Adina Simu - Sr. Product Manager, VMware, Inc. Jesse Morgan - Architectural Engineer, Peak 10 Omar Torres - Director, Virtualization & Cloud Solutions, VeriStor Systems Justin Giardina - CTO, iland") [INF-NET2162 - VXLAN Deep Dive](https://vmworld2012.activeevents.com/connect/sessionDetail.ww?SESSION_ID=2162 "VXLAN (Virtual eXtensible Local Area Network) is a multivendor Layer 2 over Layer 3 overlay technology driven by VMware and its partners. It provides the ability to deploy virtual workloads anywhere within or outside the datacenter without being limited by the network. The benefits of VXLAN for overlay networking, pod expansion and alleviating problems related to multi-tenancy (such as duplicate IP or Layer 2 addresses) are described in the VXLAN draft submitted to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) by VMware and its partners. In this session, we will dig deep into VXLAN use cases with packet walk-throughs. We will also demonstrate a VXLAN use case using either VMware or partner technology. Arun Goel - Sr Product Manager, VMware, Inc. Kenneth Duda - CTO/SVP of Engineering, Arista Networks")Storage [INF-STO2143 - Software-Defined Storage - VMware’s Storage Vision & Strategy](https://vmworld2012.activeevents.com/connect/sessionDetail.ww?SESSION_ID=2143 “This session will explain VMware’s software-driven approach to addressing storage challenges in the virtual world. We will provide a sneak preview of four exciting new storage technologies from VMware that are on the roadmap for increasing storage efficiencies in virtual environments. We will also discuss VMware’s new policy-driven approach to storage for managing end-to-end SLAs per virtual machine.
Alberto Farronato - Group Manager - Product Marketing, VMware, Inc. Shruti Bhat - Senior Product Marketing Manager, VMware, Inc.") [INF-STO2223 - Tech Preview: vSphere Integration with Existing Storage Infrastructure](https://vmworld2012.activeevents.com/connect/sessionDetail.ww?SESSION_ID=2223 "In this session we will preview VMware's technology direction in integrating vSphere tightly with existing storage infrastructure. We discuss VMware's direction to enable VM and application granular data management natively on networked storage systems, as well as VM-granular vSphere-based data services. We'll present the use cases and benefits of this approach to virtualized environments. Thomas Phelan - Sr. Staff Engr, VMware, Inc. Vijay Ramachandran - Group Manager, Product Management, VMware, Inc.") [INF-STO2192 - Tech Preview of a Software-defined Storage Technology](https://vmworld2012.activeevents.com/connect/sessionDetail.ww?SESSION_ID=2192 "In this session, we will preview a new storage technology from VMware. This technology will leverage a new policy-driven storage management paradigm to automate VM data lifecycle management at cloud scale. With this technology, administrators will be able to virtualize and manage storage the same way they do that today for CPU and memory. We will discuss the use cases and benefits of this technology in virtualized environments. Christos Karamanolis - Sr. Staff Engineer, VMware, Inc. Kiran Madnani - Senior Product Manager, VMware, Inc.") [SPO3338 - The Latest in IT Transformation with EMC and VMware](https://vmworld2012.activeevents.com/connect/sessionDetail.ww?SESSION_ID=3338 "Cloud computing transforms IT, delivering the maximum possible IT efficiency and flexibility. Together, EMC and VMware enable the most efficient and flexible infrastructure and management solutions for virtualization and hybrid cloud environments. This is a must-see session for anyone wanting to hear and experience the latest integrated technologies from EMC and VMware and also what future innovations are being developed, such as stretched active/active clustering. This session will cover the latest technologies including the updates to VAAI, VASA, vSphere 5.1, vCloud Director 5.1, View 5.1, intelligent virtual storage with vCenter Operations, and a service-driven management “mash-up” tool for better visibility and control in cloud environments. It will unveil major EMC platform updates that deliver non-stop reliability and simplicity at unlimited scale for hybrid clouds, Big Data, and virtualized mission-critical applications. EMC will announce its newest, scalable VSPEX reference architecture for VMware View. Likewise, EMC is transforming VMware backups, enabling VMs to be backed up 3x faster with 30x quicker recovery. End user computing in the post-PC era is very different from an accessibility, application, and security perspective. Learn how you can build, centrally manage and secure any SaaS, Web and Windows application to deliver them to end users on the device of their choice – and do it with incredible performance, experience and cost-effectiveness. The session will include real-world customer examples, updates to best practices and fun demonstrations of the latest cutting-edge technologies. Chad Sakac - Vice President, VMware Technology Alliance, EMC Corporation")vCloud Director [INF-NET1927 - vCloud Networking: an Extensible and Open Platform](https://vmworld2012.activeevents.com/connect/sessionDetail.ww?SESSION_ID=1927 “Networking infrastructure in the physical world relies on known products from trusted vendors. Organizations depend on the ability to add specialized application delivery controllers, WAN optimizers, intrusion detection systems, and so on into their networked infrastructure. IaaS environments must offer the same functional capabilities. vCloud Ecosystem Framework lets you include the wealth of offerings from known vendors in the virtual data center realm, with easy provisioning, flexible insertion points, and automated lifecycle.
Adina Simu - Sr. Product Manager, VMware, Inc. Anirban Sengupta - Director, R&D, VMware, Inc.") [OPS-CSM1449 - Tech Preview of the Next Generation of vCloud Connector](https://vmworld2012.activeevents.com/connect/sessionDetail.ww?SESSION_ID=1449 "vCloud Connector has been helping customers realize their hybrid cloud vision since early 2011. Get a sneak preview of the next version of vCloud Connector and all the exciting new features that will make it even easier for you to adopt hybrid cloud, move workloads to public clouds and allow teams to collaborate across clouds. Patrick Chang - Staff Product manager, VMware, Inc.") [INF-VSP2164 - Automation of vCloud Director Disaster Recovery](https://vmworld2012.activeevents.com/connect/sessionDetail.ww?SESSION_ID=2164 "Resiliency is a key aspect of any infrastructure—it is even more important in infrastructure-as-a-service solutions. This session will include guidance, examples and demonstrations of the use of VMware vSphereTM PowerCLI (PowerCLI) to automate the recovery of a vCloud Director–based infrastructure. In particular the session will focus on the automation of the recovery steps for vCloud Director managed vApp workloads, that cannot be recovered with vSphere Site Recovery Manager (SRM). This session will offer a perfect complimentary follow on from the whitepaper regarding the high-level process released by Duncan Epping and Chris Colotti. The paper discussed the process and this session will describe the automation. Alan Renouf - Sr. Technical Marketing Architect, VMware, Inc. Aidan Dalgheish - Consulting Architect, VMware, Inc.")Yes, there’s still more to come from the recently rewritten HA component of vSphere along with new bits for vMotion, DRS & FT. HA [INF-BCO2382 - VMware vSphere HA Recommendations to Maximize Virtual Machine Uptime](https://vmworld2012.activeevents.com/connect/sessionDetail.ww?SESSION_ID=2382 “This session will cover recommendations for using VMware vSphere High Availability (vSphere HA) to create a resilient software defined data center. We will start with an update on recent enhancements to vSphere HA. From there, we will move on to the recommendations for networking, storage, heartbeat datastores, isolation response, and admission control. Additional topics include: vSphere HA advanced settings, VM guest OS monitoring, options for protecting applications, and vSphere HA in Auto Deploy and Metro Cluster environments. The session will conclude with a sneak peak at the future of vSphere HA.
Jeff Hunter , VMware, Inc. Josh Gray , VMware, Inc.") [INF-BCO2807 - vSphere HA and Datastore Access Outages – Current-Capabilities Deep-Dive and Tech Preview](https://vmworld2012.activeevents.com/connect/sessionDetail.ww?SESSION_ID=2807 "Have you wondered how vSphere HA uses datastores and what protection it provides to VMs when datastores becoming inaccessible? Are you curious about how VMware plans to extend this protection in the future? Come to this session and find out. We begin with a technical deep dive into HA’s use of datastores covering the files HA creates, how management operations impact this use, and how All Path Down (APD) and Permanent Device Loss (PDL) conditions are tolerated. Then, we shift focus to VMs and discuss the support added in 5.0U1 for VMs impacted by PDL conditions. In this part, learn how to configure vSphere HA to restart VMs after a PDL and about the underlying mechanism. Finally, we present a technical preview of a significant new vSphere HA feature that will significantly expand the support for PDL and add support for APD. Learn how this feature will increase application uptimes and see a demo of it in action. Smitri Desai - Sr. Manager, R&D, VMware, Inc. Keith Farkas - Sr. Staff Engineer, vSphere HA Tech Lead, VMware, Inc.")vMotion [INF-VSP1549 - Insight Into vMotion: Architectures, Performance, Best Practices, and Futures](https://vmworld2012.activeevents.com/connect/sessionDetail.ww?SESSION_ID=1549 “vMotion and storage vMotion are key, widely adopted technologies which enable the live migration of virtual machines on the vSphere platform. These features enable critical datacenter workflows, including automated load-balancing with DRS and Storage DRS, hardware maintenance, and the permanent migration of workloads. Each vSphere release introduces new vMotion functionality, increased reliability and significant performance improvements. In this session we will present a deep dive into the latest vMotion and Storage vMotion technologies, including architecture overviews, best practices, and detailed performance studies. We will also present proposed vMotion future technologies, focusing on reference architectures and the enablement of VMware partner ecosystem technologies.
Haripriya Rajagopal - Sr. Manager, VMware, Inc. Gabriel Tarasuk-Levin - Staff Engineer, VMware, Inc. Min Cai - Staff Engineer, VMware, Inc. Jennifer Wu - Sr. Product Manager, Cloud Infrastructure, VMware, Inc.")DRS [INF-VSP2825 - DRS: Advanced Concepts, Best Practices and Future Directions](https://vmworld2012.activeevents.com/connect/sessionDetail.ww?SESSION_ID=2825 “VMware DRS is one of the flagship features of VMware vSphere that provides efficient and zero-touch management of resources in virtual environments. It helps users with the automatic initial placement and load-balancing of VMs on ESX hosts based on VM demands and host capacities while respecting user-specified constraints and resource controls. In this session, Aashish Parikh and Ajay Gulati from the DRS engineering team will present an insider’s view of key concepts, specific use cases and advanced options. Learn about important resource pool recipes and become a power-user; keep your VMs happy by discovering the importance of VM resource entitlements; learn to avoid common pitfalls and effectively load-balance your clusters with new, advanced features and more. Finally, this session will give you a sneak peek into DRS labs to check out some bleeding-edge features under consideration that add new functionality and address customer pain-points. Have your say in future product development by providing feedback!
Ajay Gulati - Staff Engineer, VMware, Inc. Aashish Parikh - Senior Member of Technical Staff, VMware, Inc.")FT [INF-BCO2655 - VMware vSphere Fault Tolerance for Multiprocessor Virtual Machines—Technical Preview and Best Practices](https://vmworld2012.activeevents.com/connect/sessionDetail.ww?SESSION_ID=2655 “This session will describe exciting new developments in implementing VMware vSphere® Fault Tolerance (VMware FT) for multiprocessor virtual machines. This new technology allows continuous availability of multiprocessor virtual machines with literally zero downtime and zero data loss, even surviving server failures, while staying completely transparent to the guest software stack, requiring absolutely no configuration of in-guest software. In this technical preview, we will outline the virtues of VMware FT, provide a detailed look at the new technology enabling VMware FT for multiprocessor virtual machines, offer guidance on how to plan and configure your environments to best deploy these capabilities, examine performance data and showcase a live demo of the technology in action.
Shrinand Javadekar - Sr MTS, VMware, Inc. Srinivas Kotamraju - Product Manager, VMware Jim Chow - Staff Engineer, VMware, Inc.")vShield Should give some information on what VMware’s partners have up their sleaves for vShield Endpoint. [INF-SEC2042 - Winning with vShield Endpoint - Success Stories From Our Partner Ecosystem](https://vmworld2012.activeevents.com/connect/sessionDetail.ww?SESSION_ID=2042 “This will be panel discussion between the VMware PM and Engineering teams for vShield Endpoint and three of our largest enterprise partners in endpoint security - Trend Micro, McAfee, and Symantec. Our partners will talk about their experiences with vShield Endpoint - what they’ve achieved, and what their plans for the future look like. The VMware team will talk about the vShield Endpoint roadmap, and handle any technical questions that come up during the discussion.
Marios Leventopoulos - Engineering Manager, VMware, Inc. Ben Andrew - Product Management, McAfee, an Intel Company Dave Lu - Sr Product Manager, Trend Micro Incorporated Chip Epps - PPM- Endpoint Security, Symantec Papi Menon - Sr. Product Manager, VMware, Inc. Alton Yu - Alliances Systems Engineer, VMware, Inc.")vSphere Replication vSphere replication is not a product by itself but a storage replication engine which can be used by Site Recovery Manager so you don’t have to have SAN replication. [INF-BCO1505 - VMware vSphere Replication: Technical Walk-Through with Engineering](https://vmworld2012.activeevents.com/connect/sessionDetail.ww?SESSION_ID=1505 “VMware vSphere® Replication is a feature of data replication used by both the vSphere platform to protect virtual machines and VMware vCenter™ Site Recovery Manager™ (SRM) to orchestrate the recovery of entire sites. In this session, VMware Engineering will take you through the full details of how vSphere Replication works: the identification and scheduling of data for replication, built-in fail-safes, networking aspects of vSphere Replication and ultimately how it is used by both vSphere and SRM. Follow along as we walk through the life cycle of protecting a virtual machine with vSphere Replication.
Ken Werneburg - Senior Technical Marketing Manager, VMware, Inc. Aleksey Pershin - Staff Engineer, VMware, Inc.")Management VMware has realised that its customers need to manage more than just VMware virtual machines and needs to strengthen its management products particularly with the push soon from Microsoft (hence its purchase of DynamicOps) but there are warnings from Gartner on how difficult this can be. [INF-VSP3221 - VM Scare? Heterogeneous Virtualization’s Impact](https://vmworld2012.activeevents.com/connect/sessionDetail.ww?SESSION_ID=3221 “Many organizations are considering augmenting their existing VMware® investments with virtualization offerings from vendors such as Microsoft, Citrix, Red Hat and Oracle. This session explores the significant technical and operational barriers that might inhibit heterogeneous virtualization environments, while also highlighting scenarios that drive multihypervisor adoption.
Chris Wolf - Research VP, Gartner")This one looks particularly interesting as it will show what VMware’s plans are to further integrate their management products around vCenter into a tighly integrated Cloud Infrastructure Suite. [INF-VSP3046 - What’s New with Cloud Infrastructure Suite: From Management Application to Integrated Applications and Extensible Platform](https://vmworld2012.activeevents.com/connect/sessionDetail.ww?SESSION_ID=3046 “vCenter, the management heart of vSphere, is primarily a closed application with a large API for integration. The application ecosystem around vCenter (from VMware and partners) is fairly loosely integrated. This situation is starting to change. Over the next few releases, the collection of management applications from VMware will transform into a fully integrated Cloud Infrastructure Suite. This talk will address how the suite will unify the aspects of Install/Uppgrade/Patch, UI, API and Operational services across the applications. We will describe the infrastructure building blocks underpinning the suite, and introduce how partners in the ecosystem will be able to create deep integration with these infrastructure blocks and so with the Cloud Infrastructure Suite.
Ben Verghese - VP, Chief Management Architect, VMware, Inc.")The future of IT automation for SMB, could this be something to do with Dynamic Ops? [SS1021 - Automate and Simplify IT for Small and Midsize Business (SMB)](https://vmworld2012.activeevents.com/connect/sessionDetail.ww?SESSION_ID=3327 “A key difference between SMBs versus Large Enterprises is the amount of IT resources available, which brings on unique solutions requirements. VMware is delivering innovative solutions to help improve how services are delivered by IT and consumed by users in a format tailored to the unique SMB requirements. This session will cover current and future solutions that automate and simplify IT operations so you can manage services with zero downtime, securely deliver solutions across various devices, adopt cloud to quickly delivery of IT services, and evolve your role from an IT manager to an IT services partner within your business.
Russell Stockdale - Vice President, VMware, Inc.")Application Platform The Application Platform is probably fairly new to many VMware customers and a very different set of skills that are required to the traditional infrastructure products. Cloud Foundry [TEX2198 - Cloud Application Platform Roadmap (TAP only)](https://vmworld2012.activeevents.com/connect/sessionDetail.ww?SESSION_ID=2198 “This is the Cloud Application Platform Roadmap session, exclusively for Technology Alliance Program (TAP) partners. In this session you can understand future plans for the Cloud Foundry, learn about the upcoming features for vFabric, and hear the PM discuss critical Data Director features. Also, learn the new approach to deploying application on cloud infrastructure that allows customers to gain maximum agility and control – VMware vFabric Application Director, an application provisioning solution in the VMware Application Management Suite, provides unmatched deployment automation and self-service provisioning. Get the details at the Roadmap session.
Killian Murphy - Director of Product Management, VMware, Inc. Gopal Ashok - Sr.Product Manager, VMware, Inc. Rajesh Khazanchi - Group Product Manager, VMware, Inc.")