VMworld 2014 US Session Picks

VMworld 2014 call for papers public session voting opened earlier this week. This is a rare opportunity for the public to have some influence over the sessions available at one of the major tech conferences. Based on where I'm at, I've zeroed in on certain sessions. Sessions that focus on home and test labs, Oracle workloads and (continuous) provisioning. I'm also keeping my eye out for VCDX/VCAP boot camps. I'm looking at VCAP certification plus it meets VMware's new recertify criteria.

It'll be interesting to see how many sessions mention Docker this year, much like Puppet last year. Docker doesn't have the same business connections with VMware as Puppet, but the timing just seems right. If not Docker, expect containerization in general to have a noticeable presence.

Here's the list of sessions I've voted for, captured here for my reference for when it's time to build my VMworld agenda. Maybe, just maybe, someone else will find this useful too.

My VMworld 2014 Session Picks

VMworld 2014 Session Picks

ID	Title
2758	"100% Database Virtualization? Yes, You Can"
2639	"3 Things You Should Know About vSphere Storage"
1729	"47 Things to Know About Database Virtualization"
1529	"A Day in the Life of Vagrant: DevOps and VMware, Together at Last"
2277	"A New Way of Evaluating VMware Products and Solutions - VMware Hands-on Labs"
2456	"Achieving Effective IT Outcomes with the vCloud Suite"
2307	"Advanced Security Optimized for Your Virtual and Cloud Environments"
2768	"Appliance all the Things!"
1368	"Architecting SAP for Software Defined Data Center - Journey"
1865	"Architecting Your vSphere Platform Today, and Future-Proof Your Datacenter for Tomorrow"
1662	"Are You Lost in the Cloud? Technology may be the Easy Part – it’s the People Issues that are More Difficult"
1610	"Art of IT Infrastructure Design: The Way of the VCDX - Breakout"
1600	"Art of IT Infrastructure Design: The Way of the VCDX - Panel"
1174	"Ask the Expert VCDX's"
1176	"Ask the Expert vBloggers"
1195	"Ask the Experts : A Deep Dive into Nested Virtualization"
1500	"Auto Deploy Deep Dive"
1609	"Automate DevOps Continuous Delivery of Quality Assurance Testing Platforms, Using vCloud Automation Center 6.x, vCenter Orchestrator, Puppet&Jenkins"
2273	"Automating SharePoint Provisioning"
1334	"Avoiding the Biggest VMware vSphere Configuration Mistakes"
1707	"Bigfoot, The Yeti, A Real DevOps Strategy - We'll Demystify One of These Things"
2491	"Blacklisting and Whitelisting – A Holistic Approach to Security for Virtualized Environments"
1848	"Build Your Own vCAC-Powered Hands-On Labs: Backstage Pass"
1669	"Building a Continuous Delivery System with vCloud Automation Center"
2522	"Certification Day VCAP/VCDX Boot Camp"
2652	"Converting your Physical Microsoft Exchange 2013 into a Highly Available and Performing Application in your Newly Virtualized Environment"
2070	"Correlation is not Causation: Developing a Predictive & Assistive Virtual Machine Protection Architecture"
1838	"Creating an Effective VM as a Service: Understand the Process"
1999	"Creating and Managing Reproducible Development Environments on your Local Desktop and Cloud"
2582	"DPM: Best Practices, New Features and Future Directions"
2755	"Deep Dive Oracle RAC 12c cluster on vSphere 5.5"
1305	"Delivering Oracle Fusion Middleware as a Service"
1787	"DevOps for VMware Administrators: Systems Deployment & Management at the Speed of Cloud"
1839	"Five Traits of Tomorrow's Cloud Architect"
2049	"How to Turn a vSphere Administrator into a Goat"
2550	"IT Infrastructure Design Workshop"
2626	"Innovative Storage Technology Panel Discussion"
1677	"Making the Journey to VMware Certified Design Expert (VCDX)"
2690	"Managing Microsoft Active Directory and Exchange with vCenter Orchestrator"
1810	"Managing VMware Workloads Running on NetApp Using vCOps"
1905	"Mobile Financial Enterprise - A Customer's Journey to Modernize and Mobilize their Workforce"
1262	"NOW!!! Bring your own physical computer (BYOPC) becomes a reality with integration of VMware Player plus & Horizon Mirage"
1530	"Pack your Stuff, Vagrant! A DevOps Approach to Template Creation"
2137	"Puppet Enterprise and vCloud Automation Center: Build, Deploy and Manage Applications in the Enterprise"
1571	"Run IT Like a Business: 10 Steps to ITaaS Transformation"
2574	"Running Your Home ESXi Lab on AWS for as Little as $0.5/Hour"
1440	"Site Recovery Manager - A DR Tool Includes a Free DC-2-DC Migration Plug-in"
2650	"Streamline Infrastructure Management with VMware and Puppet Labs"
1749	"The Oracle VM Matrix Reloaded"
2300	"The Secret World of Certification Success"
1371	"The Software Defined Panel"
2631	"The Way of the VCDX, Testing Architects on IT Infrastructure Design"
1995	"vDocker: Achieving Multi-Cloud Mobility with VMware and Docker Linux Containers"
2346	"vExpert Panel - The Software Defined Debate"