Musings of Rodos

The awards were announcend for vExpert yesterday. Many people received a nice email from John Troyer with these words.

Congratulations! On behalf of VMware, we would like to thank you for all the work you’ve done giving back to the virtualization community and sharing your expertise with others. We are pleased to present you with the VMware vExpert Award for 2009. VMware is giving this award to individuals who have contributed significantly to the community of VMware users over the past year.

More details are available on the vExpert landing page.

Pleased as punch to say that I was one of the recipients, hence you see the nice logo on the left hand side of the page now. What pleases me even more is that this award is for activities in 2008, before anyone had any idea that the award would exist. You know that all those people who received an award this first year earned it based on their efforts being purely for the good of the community and not for any recognition.

What do you do to get a reward, or what did I do in particular? Well I don't think it was this little blog. The main reason? That will continue to remain a quietly kept secret. VMware don't tell you anyway, so its a guess, unless of course you are only active in one area.

Congratulations to all of who are vExperts, especially all of those I have got to know over the last year through the various VMware community activities.

Rodos

The first keynote, by Paul Maritz, from VMworld Europe in Cannes is now online. Its 99 minutes long.

If you are lucky enough to be at VMworld at the moment you have a chance to get yet another free T-Shirt.

Now I want to see a full packed booth tomorrow at 13:00 - the Community Booth(next to the Dell Booth). So as a incentive we will give a free t-shirt to everyone that comes and drops a question to the Experts or even starts a discussion!

If you’re scared to asks question just head over and vote for the best of the VMworld show poll, we will also be giving away shirts for that during the day. Just come and visit the booth during the day or during the VMTN Experts Session / Meet and Greet… who doesn’t want to have a cool looking VMworld Community shirt? I know I want one so I might just ask the famous Tom Howarth a question!

To all you bloggers out there, please re-post. And just so you know these guys are on the panel:

 Gabrie van Zanten, - Owner of gabesvirtualworld
 Jason Boche, - VMTN Moderator, Minneapolis Area VMUG president, and owner of Boche.net
 Alan Renouf, - Owner of Virtu-Al, Powershell Enthusiast 
 Steve Beaver, - Tripwire, VMTN Moderator, and contributor to Virtual Black Hole
 Scott Herold, - Quest, owner of VMGuru.com and accomplished Author
 Thomas Bryant, - VizionCore and VMTN Moderator
 Wil van Antwerpen, - Owner of vi-toolkit.com
 Eric Sloof, - VMware trainer and owner of ntpro.nl
 Tom Howarth, - VMTN Moderator and owner of PlanetVM
 Duncan Epping, - VMware Senior Consultant and owner of Yellow-Bricks

I know most of these guys and they are the type of people I would love to have a natter with on all things Virtualisation. In fact the only person I don't know is Wil, so I would talk to him first! So do yourself a favor and get a long, you may even get a free T-Shirt.

Rodos

VMware Europe is in full swing. Twitter is getting some good traffic and you can pick most things up from Planet V12N. 

VMware View: Complete Roll-Out in 2009:

Management

• Centralized template-based management
  
• App virtualization
  
• Thin provisioning
  

WAN

• Hi latency
  
• Low bandwidth
  
• Productive Desktop
  

LAN

• HD video
  
• Flash
  
• 3D graphics
  

Local

• Use local resources
  
• Optimal media experience
  
• Rich portable desktop

Interesting that it mentions hi latency on the WAN, are VMware partnering with some of the WAN acceleration companies or putting elements into a new protocol? One would not think that the Teradici works are not going to play in the WAN, that would be something new.

Many people have been talking about VI:OPS lately and I have just posted my first Proven Practice on "Migration Methodology".

The document details the migration strategy and plan to undertake moving the existing workloads from their current physical and virtual environments to the new virtual environment.

The steps required within this migration are identified as:

• Initial server scan for exclusions and candidates
  
• Detailed Server Audit
  
• Planning phase
  
• Preparation of the VMware Environment
  
• Migration process development
  
• Specific case testing and POC
  
• Migrations
  
• Decommissioning
  
• Documentation and review