Phil's TOP 5 VMworld Recommendations
Following on from Corey’s post: https://blog.vbridge.co.nz/vmworld-2020/ here are my top 5 ‘not to be missed’ sessions
We won't be in Vegas, but Cody Hosterman from Pure and Anthony Spiteri from Veeam are always worth listening to
#vmworld #vmware #cloudian #pure #storage #veeam
Core Storage Best Practice Deep Dive: Configuring the New Storage Features [HCI1691]
Cody Hosterman, Technical Director, Pure Storage -
Jason Massae, Sr. Technical Marketing Architect, VMware -
With all the numerous storage arrays and connectivity protocols available today, it’s important to know configuration best practices. New core storage features were released with VMware vSphere 7, and setting them up correctly is critical to optimum performance and resilience. We will review the new and some common features, and the best configuration practices.
Session Type: Breakout Session
Track and Subtrack: Multi-Cloud: Hybrid Cloud
Product: Virtual Volumes, vSphere
Pass Type: General & Premier Passes
Level: Technical 300
Primary Audience: Storage Specialist
vSphere Cloud Native Storage with Virtual Volumes and SPBM: Better Together [HCI2089]
Cody Hosterman, Technical Director, Pure Storage -
Naveen Krishnamurthy, Sr. Product Manager CPBU, VMware
With VMware joining the Kubernetes bandwagon with a cloud native storage solution, there has been a steady focus on extending the support for external storage with VMware vSphere Virtual Volumes and software policy-based management (SPBM), along with continued support for VMware vSAN. In this session, we will focus on explaining the need for external storage with vSphere cloud native storage and also talk about the vSphere container storage interface features that can be used with external storage (primarily vSphere Virtual Volumes). We will also show a few demos to make it more interesting.
Session Type: Breakout Session
Track and Subtrack: Multi-Cloud: Hybrid Cloud
Product: HCI Powered by VMware vSan, Virtual Volumes, VMware Cloud Foundation with Kubernetes
Pass Type: General & Premier Passes
Level: Technical 300
Primary Audience: Storage Specialist
Sneak Peek to what’s new in Veeam Backup & Replication [HCP1936S]
Andy Sturniolo, Solutions Architect, VMware/Dell EMC - Product Management, Alliances, Veeam Software
Anthony Spiteri, Senior Global Technologist, Product Strategy, Veeam Software
Veeam Backup & Replication v10 introduced many new capabilities but there is always more innovation on the horizon for VMware vSphere users. We will be showing off new core features and enhancements in v11 with a number of demos around new Cloud Director Capabilities, vSAN and vSphere Tags, as well as deep diving into how v11 Object Storage enhancements extend the use case for On Demand Recovery and Migration to VMware Cloud SDDCs.
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Sponsor: Veeam Software
Session Type: Breakout Session
Track and Subtrack: Multi-Cloud: Hybrid Cloud
Product: VMware Cloud on AWS, vSAN, vSphere Hypervisor
Pass Type: General & Premier Passes
Level: Business 200
Primary Audience: VP, Infrastructure & Operations
Update on NSX-T Switching: NSX on VDS (vSphere Distributed Switch) [VCNC1197]
Francois Tallet, Senior Technical Product Manager, VMware -
VMware NSX-T 3.0 offers the option of running VMware NSX directly on the top of a VMware vSphere Distributed Switch (VDS). This session will show how this new model: • Provides better compatibility with third-party applications • Simplifies the migration of existing customers to NSX • Preserves the existing N-VDS feature set To benefit from this session, it is better that you have a basic understanding of NSX-T switching.
Session Type: Breakout Session
Track and Subtrack: Virtual Cloud Network: Cloud-Scale Networking
Product: vCenter Server, NSX, vSphere Hypervisor
Pass Type: General & Premier Passes
Level: Technical 300
Primary Audience: Network Architect
Maximize the Power of Modern Databases and Stateful Services [HCI1979]
Lee Caswell, Vice President, Products, Cloud Platform Business Unit, VMware
Sanjay Jagad, Sr. Director, Products and Alliances, Cloudian
Ed Anuff, Chief Product Officer, DataStax
John Shirley, VP of Product Management , Dell
Anand Babu Periasamy, CEO, MinIO, Inc.
Join this panel discussion with a VMware customer and VMware partners in modern databases and stateful services to learn how you can run modern stateful applications with simplified operations and lower TCO on the VMware platform. We will discuss infrastructure requirements for modern databases and stateful services and optimization that VMware has done to make it easy for customers to deploy, manage and monitor these applications with TCO savings.
Session Type: Breakout Session
Track and Subtrack: Multi-Cloud: Hybrid Cloud
Product: Tanzu Kubernetes Grid, VMware Cloud Foundation, vSAN, vSphere
Pass Type: General & Premier Passes
Level: Business 200
Primary Audience: DevOps Manager