And again a good opening session by Carl Eschenbach, about how well we, as a partner community, have done in 2011. VMware after all is a channel-led company. Carl was followed by William Taylor, the writer of “Practically Radical“. He told some interesting stories about how to differentiate your company from others and the importance that every employee knows that message.
After the keynote I attended the EMEA Regional session and did two great sessions, troubleshooting VMware View and Architecting a Cloud Infrastructure, which practically was a 2 hour wrap up of the vSphere Design course. Even though we ran out of time with another 30 slides to go, this was a nice recap of best practices (old, no longer valid ones and current ones) and timely for the VCAP-DCD beat exam I’ll sit the 2nd of March. After these sessions I got sidetracked by the My VMware demo. Try to sign up for the beta if you do anything with licensing now and again. My VMware is a huge improvement. Finally I spend some time at the Solution Exchange, talking to VMware employees about the new Competencies (IaaS and Management) and Specializations and Accreditations. Unfortunately the latter ones are not yet applicable for EMEA.
In the evening I went to the Partner Appreciation Party and enjoyed the Bare Naked Ladies (www.youtube.com/watch?v=U26RXiHsQfE, www.youtube.com/watch?v=rITym6G71kw, www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3wqWSlsbfU).
I didn’t stay till the end because I still wanted to do attend a couple of sessions and Hands on Labs on Thursday.
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