Hi folks,
arrived on Sunday via plane in Barcelona with about a hour delay due to high load at Barca airport. Check in at SB Plaza Europe around 11 pm. The location of the hotel is very nice. The Fira Grand Via (the fair where the VMWorld takes place) is in walking distance.
Next day I was very excited to take part at VMWorld for the first time. Got up very early and did a small workout in the fitness center at the hotel. Went for breakfast and again the coffee was the game changer. In addition the weather was awesome. Therefore I used the remaining time to go to the roof and shoot a picture that makes you jealous.
tldr? -> go for the pictures
DAY 1 – Overview and Breakout Sessions
Overview:
After check in I fetched my ID badge and the way was paved. I headed around and I have to say the fair area was extremely large. As a result you easily walk 10 Minutes from one to the other end. Therefore some impressions:
VMWare Village:
Hall 8 – where the breakout sessions take place:
Attended breakout sessions:
If you will attend the VMWorld in the future I recommend the VMWorld App . One feature is that you can review and change your registration for the sessions. Although it features a map to quickly find the place the action takes place. Furthermore you can directly contact, if enabled in the privacy settings, other participants.
- Virtualizing Big Data
AI – data science – machine learning – deep learning – self driving cars
training and testing – neural networks – image recognition – fraud detection
YARN – SPARK – or both
HDFS – design decisions – alternatives to HDFS: vSAN – S3 or even NFS
Performance gain through virtualization
- An Intro to How VMware Products and Solutions Transform IT Security
the old world vs the new complex world – smart home technology run from cloud services
identity management is a must have – refrigerator hacking
every IP device is a security risk
security is part of every IT project
Airwatch – NSX – App defense
security team – CISO – top down
- The Business Value of Upgrading to vSphere 6.5
aqueducts didn’t last forever too
vSphere is core
uptime, availability and performance – CAPEX and OPEX savings
workload portability
VM encryption
Predictive HA/DRS
OSIS and ACI case study
- Strategies Design and Best Practices for Delivering DevOps
Devops infinite loop
the best keeps getting better
hundreds of changes at peak usage
what is not Devops
DAY 2 – General Session, Breakout Sessions and Showcase Keynote
General Session: Good Technologists Solve Problems. Great Innovators Create Opportunities
This day started with an awesome general session, a very nice place in the middle front!
Pat Gelsinger is a genius
VMWare strategy
Cloud – mobility – networking and security
Breakout Sessions:
- Monster VMs (Database Virtualization) with vSphere 6.5 Doing IT Right
Michael Corey impressive and funny guy
Definiton of Monster VMs: >255 Gbyte RAM >8Cores
Project Capstone
Size NUMA Node 40 – 60 % Performance increase
VMware Tools Up to date
Hotplug CPU and Hotadd Memory disabled
Bloating SGA
Predictive HA/DRS
Oracle audits incoming
Baseline – whats the vm doing when its running well
Consolidation AVG – Performance PEAK
one instance per VM vs multiple instances
latency > IOPs
no thin except on All Flash – business processes must fit
2:1 CPU overprov
oracle hyperthreading tax – dont use it in the cloud
CPU ready – CPU costop – right number of CPU – demand vs entitlement
- Extreme Performance Series: Optimize and Increase Performance Mission/Business Critical Architectures Using VMWare NSX and vRealize Network Insight
micro segmentation – workload isolation – security
eliminating hair pinning traffic flow scenarios
NSX components – logical switches – distributed logical routers
all in the kernel not external
latency sensitive workloads use case
2x faster with NSX than conventional fire-walling
- VMWare Cloud on AWS: Storage Deep Dive
vSAN on AWS – operational modell
any dev, any app, any cloud
boat device EBS – Cache + Capacity = NVME
2 Data-groups with 1 (Cache) + 3 (Capacity) Drives
smaller impact if failure occurs
NVME self encrypting – vSAN encryption, dedupe and compression not supported yet
customer only has access to customer datastore – vSAN as a service
VM networks are managed by customer – vSAN networks operated by VMWare – patching – updates – upgrades
creating storage policies – I/Os vs costs (RAID1 / RAID5 / erasure coding)
if failure occurs new host automatically provisioned and old host evacuated and returned to AWS
pay as you go 1h / 30day billing
slack space recommended – 25% free for reorg
use case – disaster recovery
several clusters – licensing reasons
EUC Showcase Keynote: Delivering New User Experiences with Digital Workspaces
A really great presentation about empowering the employees.
Increasing worker productivity and device independence – Windows / MAC / Chrome
Workspace One – revolutionizing client management
no relay needed peer to peer distribution of software – seamless integration – really unified solution
Horizon + Workspace one
use case Lufthansa – electronic flight back
business and private usage of ipads
use case DB – replacement of 90000 clients
Samsung DEX integration
we must archive automation – rollback of bad performing apps
timeouts or checkout time
Workspace one mobile flows
boxer mail client
Day 3 and Day 4 will follow 🙂
BR, Nicolas Frey