It is an exciting month at VMware with VMworld starting on Sunday in San Francisco. If you care about vCenter Server in any way, we have lined up several compelling sessions at VMworld. Many teams have spent countless hours preparing for these deep dive sessions in several key areas. We have many breakout sessions in key areas such as performance, architecture, deployment, availability, lifecycle management and distributed resource management.
In addition to the breakout sessions, we have also organized deep dives as part of TAM Customer Central. These sessions are led by Product Managers with the help of Engineering, and present a great opportunity to ask hard questions in a more intimate setting. Note that the TAM sessions are protected by a mutual NDA, and are available on a first come, first serve basis.
Make sure you add these sessions to your schedule. Look forward to meeting you at some of these sessions!
Breakout Sessions
| Title | Speaker | Date & Time, Location |
| INF2705 - Datacenter and vCenter Availability Best Practices | Anil Kapur, Justin King | Monday, Aug 25, 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM – Marriott, Yerba Buena Level, Salon 15 Tuesday, Aug 26, 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM – Marriott, Yerba Buena Level, Salon 9 |
| SDDC3327 - The Software-defined Datacenter, VMs, and Containers: A “Better Together” Story | Kit Colbert | Tuesday, Aug 26, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM– Marriott, Yerba Buena Level, Salon 6 |
| INF1720 - Getting the Most out of vMotion - Architecture, Features, Debugging | Gabriel Tarasuk-Levin, Sreekanth Setty | Tuesday, Aug 26, 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM – Moscone West, Room 2002 Wednesday, Aug 27, 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM – Moscone West, Room 2003 |
| INF2311 - vCenter Server Architecture and Deployment Deep Dive | Justin King, Bob Perugini, Harish Niddagatta | Tuesday, Aug 26, 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM – Moscone West, Room 3022 Wednesday, Aug 27, 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM – Moscone West, Room 2020 |
| SDDC3281 - A DevOps Story: Unlocking the Power of Docker with the VMware platform and its ecosystem. | George Hicken, Aaron Sweemer | Tuesday, Aug 26, 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM– Moscone West, Room 3007 |
| INF1972 - Managing Database Size Growth for vCenter Server | Raju Angani, Jignesh Shah | Wednesday, Aug 27, 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM – Moscone West, Room 3011 |
| INF1506 - Extreme Performance Series: vCenter Performance | Ravi Soundarrajan, Ameet Jani | Wednesday, Aug 27, 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM – Marriott, Yerba Buena Level, Salon 11 Thursday, Aug 28, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM – Moscone West, Room 2020 |
| INF2427 - DRS : Advanced Concepts, Best Practices and Future Directions | Jeevitha, Puneet | Wednesday, Aug 27, 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM – Marriott, Yerba Buena Level, Salon 8 Thursday, Aug 28, 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM – Moscone West, Room 3003 |
TAM Central Deep Dives
| Title | Speaker | Date & Time | Room |
| vCenter Server Roadmap | Narayan Bharadwaj | Monday August 25, 11:00am – 12:00pm | Foothill E, Marriott Marquis |
| vCenter Install & Upgrade | Harish Niddagatta | Monday, August 25, 12:15pm – 1:15pm | Foothill F, Marriott Marquis |
| vSphere User Interface enhancements | Matt Dreyer | Tuesday, August 26, 12:15pm – 1:15pm | Foothill E, Marriott Marquis |
| vCenter Policy Based Management and Intelligent Placement | Madhup Gulati | Tuesday, August 26, 2:45pm – 3:45pm | Foothill E, Marriott Marquis |
| vCenter Workload Management [vMotion, VMFork, Content Library] | Mahdi Ben Hamida, Uma Chingunde | Wednesday, August 27, 10:30am – 11:30am | Foothill E, Marriott Marquis |
| SLA-Driven Automated Scaling of Database Resources | Anil Kapur, Xiaoyun Zhu, Lei Lu | Wednesday, August 27, 10:30 - 11:30 | Foothill H, Marriott Marquis |
| Multi Hypervisor Management | Matt Dreyer | Wednesday, August 27, 2:15pm – 3:15pm | Foothill E, Marriott Marquis |
| Hybrid DRS: Managing virtual infrastructure spanning private data center and hybrid cloud | Anil Kapur, Anne Holler, | Wednesday, August 27, 2:15pm – 3:15pm | Foothill H, Marriott Marquis |
| vCenter Customer Q&A | Narayan Bharadwaj, with vCenter Engineering | Wednesday, August 27, 3:30 – 4:30 | Foothill E, Marriott Marquis |
| Data Center Facilities Management Through Virtualization : Technical Deep Dive | Anil Kapur, Anne Holler, Maarten Wiggers | Wednesday, August 27, 3:30 - 4:30 | Foothill F, Marriott Marquis |