Phil's TOP 5 VMworld Recommendations

Sep 14, 2020

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

Phil Snowdon

Phil is the Technical Operations Manager at vBridge. Loves all things infrastructure. Network/Security/Storage/Compute and Virtualization.