I am wondering what the best sessions will be this year at VMWORLD. I am thinking that the first come first serve option for the sessions is a good thing. It was kind of unfair that they stacked the schedule for us alumni folks being able to register before anyone else. The registration really doesn’t make any sense, because once you get to a session, if it really sucks, then people walk out anyway. This year I am going to try to focus on the storage performance and the deep dive into virtualization technology. Really looking forward to some of the announcements that will come out of this conference. I’m hoping that they will announce some cool management apps that can be used for tablet devices. Also, maybe, just maybe, they will announce doing something about virtual center. Perhaps a x64 bit version, and the ability to run it on different platforms. What would be really smokin’ cool is if they make it all web based, and nixing the slow performing app that only runs on windows. Not that I’m bashing windows, as I love windows 7, but there are a lot of people in the community who don’t, and I think that with this widely adopted technology, it should be able to support a far better range of OS’s than just one. XP is nearly 12 years old, and now that we are over the Vista mistake, companies are going to start running 7, probably x64 bit. Why not take advantage of better memory utilization for VC?

Anyway, back to the sessions. The labs were awesome last year. A bit of a rough start, but good grief, with that many VM’s being turned up? Those guys did a kick ass job of getting it running and keeping it running to the end. As far as VDI goes, I’m staying away from those sessions. Desktop virtualization is not ready yet, for most companies, but that is a ramble that I can’t go into right now. Too much to discuss.

There should be a lot coming from this blog during the conference, so hopefully the readers in the Kansas City Community will get a perspective on the conference from just another SA in the field, and not a hyped up sales view like we get all the time.