The first morning was like any other morning I guess...except that I'm in San Francisco and not Phoenix. So this morning was nothing like I figured it was going to be. First off...there was the rush to get some sort of breakfast. I know lots of folks that have been here over the years choose not to eat the conference food and that's not necessarily a bad thing sometimes. The first mean of the day brought fruit squares on a stick and breakfast quiche as well as croissants and the typical juices and coffee that you'd expect. Decided to stick with what I knew and chose the fruit and ONE croissant and hit the coffee because I knew I'd need that for sure on the first day.
Off to the first general session. We start off with Robin Matlock, Vice President, Corporate Marketing at VMware.
She talked about our many diamond sponsors and thanking them for their support.
Then she plugged VMUG (VMware User Group), it's all about the community and that's what drives the company.
Next was the VMworld elite - all ten years. These guys have come to every U.S. VMworld. There are others that I'm aware of, but these guys are not speakers that I'm aware of and seem to be down to earth funny. You know, part of the people!
On with a bit more...
We are on a Journey
Phase I CapEx Saving
Consolidation - IT Production
Phase II
improvements Reliability - Business Production
Phase III Agility
Automation - IT-as-a-Service
Is this where we're headed? The SDDC? What is what all about? Need to spend some time here for sure!
A bit of history. What came out when.
VMWorkstation 1999
ESX 2001
vMotion 2003? That long ago?
DRS in 2006
Storage vMotion 2007
vDS - 2009
Storage DRS 2011
Pat Gelsinger - CEO of VMware takes the stage. (The crowd must be a bit sleepy, because the response was not great-he even had to say good morning twice.)
Social Mobile Cloud
Big Data shaping IT today
We have to liberate resources
from the Client - Server World >>> Build the Mobile-Cloud World
Reduce the
infrastructure
What do we feel like at work or while we're attacking some of these issue that face us?
Do we feel like we're master of the
universe, gods, martyrs, ninjas, dragon slayers, champions?
There are 3 imperatives for IT
infrastructure: 1) extending virtualization 2) automation 3) compatible
The SDDC - (Again with the SDDC)
Software defined
data Center
Expand virtual
compute to all apps
Transform storage by
aligning it with app demands
Virtualize the
network speed and latency
Management tools
give way to automation
First Big announcement
Announcing vSphere
5.5 and vCloud Suite 5.5 (I think some were hoping for version 6 based on the response)
Mission Critical
Apps
App-Aware High
Availability
Big Data Extensions
Apps 3> vSphere (As in APPS Love vSphere)
vSAN Beta now available GA should be around Q1
2014
Martin Casado CTO -
Networking Vmware
Network
Hypervisor -NSX is virtual networking (more on that later)
2010 Was when we
crossed the 50% line with more virtual machine vs physical
VMWare vCloud Hybrid
Service - GA today!
After this first general session, I moved on to a few of my sessions during the day. I had no idea that the Marriott hotel was a few blocks away. This is a bit concerning since I have set up back to back sessions in both the Marriott meeting area and Moscone West. I'll be fixing that as soon as possible.
Lunch was....well lunch. Wasn't the worst I've had, but then again when you need to feed thousands (23,000 estimated), you have to cook in mass quantities and not everyone will be happy with the food provided.
Afternoon session was a bust, huge room, couldn't hear well and left early to meet up with some friends and started to meet vendors. Looking forward to the @CXI party tonight! I hear it's legendary for meeting people.
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