Category Archives: VMunderground

Reflections on VMworld #12

As I spend the weekend after VMworld reconnecting with the family I haven’t seen in a full week, I can’t help but occasionally think about the week away and the community I’ve immersed myself in.  I think it’s fair to say that this community is as strong as it has ever been. Most of us …

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VMunderground Ticket Release

Today is the day folks!  At 6pm CDT (that’s covers Chicago, Dallas & Kansas City, as well as Omaha, Des Moines and Bloomington, IL) the VMunderground crew will release 225 tickets for our Mother of All vBeers event at VMWorld 2011 in Las Vegas.  Those of you who have been to one of the previous …

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Partner Exchange 2011 – Days 4 & 5

Thursday was another day of meetings, including a great meeting with part of our VMware partner team where we got into a deep discussion about our cloud strategy.  There was also a great deal of work completed toward the VMWorld 2011 VMUnderground party.  It is going to be a great party!  More to come on …

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Partner Exchange 2011 – Day 1

I started my first full day at Partner Exchange in the HP Partner Bootcamp.  I’ll save you some of the more salesy/marketing information.  They started by covering some details of the infrastructure they helped build for the new Cowboys stadium.  It involves a multisite 100TB EVA, 16 BL480 blades supporting 747 POS terminals and is …

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VMUndergound PEX 2011 WuPaaS – Epcot Beer Tour

Anyone interested in a Warm-up Party before Partner Exchange this year?  If so, we might have you covered. We had pretty much decided not to do a VMUnderground party at PEX, but one innocent tweet about beer at Epcot by Theron led us into a mad rush of planning and has resulted in this: Date: …

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VMWorld Day 1: Sunday

Had my second Partner Technology Advisory Board (PTAB) meeting all day today. Great conversation around vCloud: what does it mean, do customers care, how to make it work for customers, where does it fit.  Very lively discussion and great input provided to VMware. Next up is VM availability discussion, including FT, HA and SRM.  Could VMware completely remove MSCS from …

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