In Episode 5 of our new vChat series, Eric Siebert, David Davis and I discuss VMworld San Francisco 2010 and the things to see and do including a few tips for VMworld first-timers.  There are a significant number of big announcements this week so it should prove to add to the buzz and excitement around the event.  We are intending to record a vChat this Thursday morning whilst we are actually all together in a single location – should be fun.

The full list of links discussed in this video can be found below…

vChat is a regular virtualization video chat covering VMware vSphere, Cloud Computing, Virtualization News, and maybe some geeky humor. Regular contributors are 3 vExperts – Simon Seagrave (TechHead.co.uk), Eric Siebert (vSphere-Land.com), and David Davis (VMwareVideos.com).

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Here are links that we discussed in this episode:

For a huge list of  VMworld 2010 conference coverage and travel tips visit vSphere-Land.com

Sunday night

    * VMworld Run along the bay
    * WUPaaS – Theron Conry & Sean Clark (invite only)

Monday

    * 130PM – MA8339 – David Davis – Top 10 free vSphere Tools
    * 7-10pm Solutions exchange opens / reception Get your Train Signal vSphere 4.1 video giveaway!
    * Tweetup 9-11pm – John Troyer sponsored by Train Signal and Xangati

Tuesday

    * 530 – In N Out burger meetup
    * EMC Party at the Temple (invite ONLY)
    * Veeam Party at Thirsty Bear (invite ONLY)
    * NetApp Community Party
    * Press / Analyst Cocktail Reception at the Four Seasons

Wednesday

    * 1pm Meet the guys from Virtumania at the Veeam Booth
    * 130PM – MA8339 – David Davis – Top 10 free vSphere Tools
    * 530pm vExpert Meeting with Dr Steven Herrod (invite ONLY)
    * VMworld party with INXS

Thursday

    * Recording vChat LIVE!
    * VMworld vd0dgeball deathmatch

Sessions not to miss:

    * TA7962 – Nick Weaver – my man from TX – modern networking in virtual environment
    * V18328 – Eric Siebert, Simon Gallager, Simon Seagrave covering affordable vSphere home labs
    * TA8623 – Storage super-heavyweight challenge – Vaughn stewart and Chad Sakac
    * BC7773 – Mike Laverick on Site Recovery Manager
    * TA8188 – Chris Wolf – what server hosted virtual desktop vendors aren;t telling you Wednesday morning
    * V18268 – Eric Siebert – deep dive on virtualization – how stuff works
    * BC7803 – Duncan Epping – Planning and DSesigning an HA Cluster that maximizes uptime
    * MA8092 – Chris Wolf – Cloud Futures – the infrastructure authority
    * TA8101 – Scott Lowe – virtual storage and vmware vsphere – best practices
    * SS8222 – Charu – Transitioning to ESXi