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My VMworld 2016 Experience Dan Barr, Penn State Applied Research Lab [email protected] | @vDanBarr 9/22/2016 PENN STATE VMWARE USER GROUP 1

PSU VMUG 2016-09-22 VMworld Experience

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My VMworld 2016 ExperienceDan Barr, Penn State Applied Research Lab

[email protected] | @vDanBarr

9/22/2016 PENN STATE VMWARE USER GROUP 1

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ThemesCloud, Cloud, IoT, Cloud

◦ Cloud Foundation – packaged vSphere/VSAN/NSX stack

◦ Cross-Cloud Architecture

Developers – VMware{code} – code.vmware.com

VVols and VSAN are huge

◦ Packed technical sessions, lots of buzz

◦ VSAN Beta – vmware.com/go/virtual-san-beta

The rumors of Workstation & Fusion’s demise are greatly exaggerated

◦ Workstation 12.5 and Fusion 8.5 released 9/13

◦ Keynote mention, free license given to all attendees

◦ Session EUC8521 – The Future of VMware Fusion and Workstation

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My FocusGroup Discussions

◦ Small, interactive sessions, usually no slides

◦ Gathering feedback, listening to customer use cases

◦ Attendees sharing knowledge, getting questions answered

TAM Day & Customer Central sessions

◦ NDA content, discussion of future plans

◦ Developers in the room, gathering direct feedback

Public Sector meetings

◦ Series of private meetings for public sector (SLED, Federal) customers

◦ Focused on public sector use cases and needs

Community & Networking

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No New vSphere?No new vSphere version announced…

◦ But there’s been a Beta program going on since April, and LOTS of Tech Preview content...

◦ VMworld Europe is October 17-20…

◦ (disclaimer: I have no actual idea if or when a new version will be announced)

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Tech PreviewsVM-level encryption (storage agnostic) – INF8856

DRS Enhancements, Proactive HA – INF7827, INF8045

Enhanced vSphere Logging – INF8845

VSAN Management – STO7904

HTML5 Client Fling – labs.vmware.com/flings

◦ C# desktop client will be fully retired in the next major version

Lots more throughout session recordings

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What wasn’t in the Keynotes?PowerCLI for Linux & Mac!

◦ Based off Microsoft’s work to open source PowerShell and bring it to Linux/MacOS

◦ Tech Preview of PowerCLI to be released “sometime after VMworld”

vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) Migration Tool – released 9/15

◦ Currently for Win 5.5 -> VCSA 6.0 U2 upgrade/migration

◦ 6.0 -> 6.0 coming later

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Community

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ResourcesSession Recordings

◦ Open to non-attendees for the first time!

◦ http://www.vmworld.com/en/sessions/2016.html

◦ https://github.com/lamw/vmworld2016-session-urls

Hands-On Labs – Updated with new VMworld 2016 labs

◦ http://labs.hol.vmware.com

vBrownBag Opening Acts and TechTalks

◦ http://vbrownbag.com

◦ YouTube: vBrownBag Channel

◦ Playlists: 2016 #vBrownBag TechTalks & 2016 VMworld Opening Acts

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