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VMworld vBrownBag Tech Talk : Nested Virtualization & Dev/Test/Home Lab Panel

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VMworld is only a couple of weeks away and I can not believe this will be my 7th VMworld! My, how time has flown by so quickly. I have been pretty busy these last couple of months finishing up some internal projects as well as starting up a couple of new ones. I had been thinking about submitting a vBrownBag Tech Talk as I have done in past years, but there has just been too much going on. Giving it some more thought, I thought it would be cool to put together a panel of community folks to discuss some of my favorite topics like Nested Virtualization as well as Development/Test and Home Labs.

I am please to announce the VMworld vBrownBag Tech Talk : Nested Virtualization & Dev/Test/Home Lab Panel which will include Sean Crookston, Doug Baer, Nick Marshall and myself as the panelists. I was originally hoping to have a few more folks from the community, but due to the late submission, we ran into scheduling conflicts. I am very excited for this session which will take place on Wednesday, August 27th from 11:45am to 12:15pm (30minutes). I wanted to give a huge shout out to Sean Massey who was originally scheduled to present right after ours but decided to offer us his time slot as 15minutes was going to be tough for a panel discussion. Much appreciated Sean!

Due to the short amount of time, we really want to make the most out of this session and most importantly, make this as interactive as possible with the audience. We would like to collect any questions or topics that folks might be interested and we will pick a couple for the panelists to answer or discuss. We will also have topics that we may raise but it would be much more interesting to hear from you! Please leave a comment if you wish to ask a question and perhaps those that get selected, may even win a prize?

We hope to see you at the Tech Talk and lastly, this is going to be a MUST attend session ... that's all I can really say 🙂

BTW - I also would like to give a shout out to Doug Baer who will be running a VMware Knowledge Expert discussion related to the HOL Lab Environment on Tuesday, August 26 at 1pm PST. Though his focus will primarily be HOL, but as many of you know the underlying technology is Nested Virtualization. A couple of us will also be attending that session, so if there are any questions you would like to ask but did not get a chance to during the Tech Talk, you can also find us there.

VMworld Barcelona #NotSupported Tips/Tricks for vSphere 5.5 Slides Posted

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I hope everyone got back home quickly and safely from VMworld Barcelona (unlike myself for those of you who follow me on Twitter, took a bit longer than I had hoped). For those of you who attended my #NotSupported Tips/Tricks for vSphere 5.5 at VMworld Barcelona earlier in the week, I have posted my Sliderocket presentation below as well as the recording thanks to the vBrown Bag team. If you could not attend the session or did not go to VMworld you can view all vBrown Bag Tech Talk recordings by checking out this link here. I highly recommend you check out the ENTIRE presentation as there was an exciting announcement that I made at the VERY END of the presentation.

Disclaimer: I think it should be pretty obvious, but things discussed in the presentation is not officially supported by VMware. Use at your own risk.

I would like to thank everyone that attended my session, really enjoyed the crowd and the questions/discussions afterwards. I know you could have been else where such as the Solution Exchange with a nice beverage, so thank you all for attending and hopefully everyone enjoyed it. I would also like to give a big shout out to vBrown Bag team Jon Harris, Kyle Murray, Damian Karlson and Gregg Robertson for putting together such an awesome event up for the VMware community and for their assistance on quickly getting the AV all setup for my presentation.

Here is the presentation:

Here is the video recording:

Here is a couple of pictures from the audience:

Presenting NotSupported vBrownBag Tech Talk at VMworld Barcelona 2013

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VMworld Barcelona 2013 is only one week away and if you are going to be attending, I would highly recommend you to check out the awesome vBrownBag Tech Talks which have been running for the second year in a row now at both VMworld US and Europe. There are a variety of topics that are covered from deep dives into new technologies to building home labs for your VMware environment, there is literally something for everyone. The structure of the talks are in the form of quick lightening talks usually taking anywhere from 20-30minutes. If you get a chance, you should definitely drop by the community lounge and check out a few of talks.

Last year I really taking part of the NotSupported themed sessions (concept by Randy Keener) and presented on vInception (Nested Virtualization) at VMworld US and vGhetto Lab at VMworld Europe. I thought both sessions were very well attended and audience seemed to have enjoyed the content. Due to a hectic schedule for VMworld US, I was not able to submit a session but for VMworld Barcelona, I will be presenting on another NotSupported session called NotSupported Tips/Tricks for vSphere 5.5 on Tuesday Oct. 15th at 16:30-17:00.

If you have attended one of my previous sessions, you know it will be technical and hopefully you will leave away with knowing even more NotSupported goodies that you can use in your vSphere environment. For those of you who attend and stay until the end, I will have a vBrownBag exclusive in which I will be showing off some super cool vAwesomness that you will not want to miss! I hope to see you all there.