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Server, Storage & Application Virtualisation!

VMware have just announced the 10 highest rated sessions that will be repeated this afternoon (Thursday).  Here’s the list in order:
#1 – TA01 – Managing VMware With PowerShell
#2 – DV02 – VDI versus Terminal Services
#3 – AP02 – Best Practices for Deploying Sharepoint/MOSS 2007 on VMware Infrastructure
#4 – AP11 – Performance Best Practices
#5 – DC21 [...]

You can now view the full keynote of Dr. Stephen Herrod on the VMworld website here.
Some excellent stuff, particularly the demos from Bruce & jerry Chen.

The key focus here was the future of VMware virtualisation, Dr. Herrod went on to point out that this area is particular exciting at VMworld Europe as so much of the development is being done in the VMware EMEA sites
vCompute
Stephen outlined that in the upcoming version of VMware – vSphere – a single VM has [...]

As someone that implements Brocades SANs on a semi-regular basis, I thought I’d stop by their stand and see if they had anything interesting on show and it turns out they did.
The project I am currently working on has a number of Brocade fabrics (4) after adding 3 new ones and managing them would have [...]

My, my I am excited.  I know that I do get excited about virtualisation related stuff regularly, but the same can certainly not be said about backup technology.  I have made an exception to my no excitement about backup rule after attending the hands-on lab for vCenter Data Recovery, outstanding!!
The best things often are the [...]

I have to be honest, I thought that I stopped being excited by hardware, but it turns out I haven’t.
Check out the picture I took today of all the equipment being used to power the hands-on labs.
I must say I got a little tingle.