As the VMware CTO Ambassadors program is made off just over 140 of the top VMware field talents, sessions submitted by this group are usually top notch and of great interest to our customers/partners. I wanted to collect all of these sessions in one spot to allows others in the community to recognize them and make sure my readers get a chance to review them and vote for them. Please take time to review them and vote for the ones you like!
Below is the list of the different sessions submitted by CTO Ambassadors ordered in the way received and not in anyway related to it’s greatness. There is a total of almost 50 sessions, so I am sure you will find at least few you like in the list below. Please be kind and vote for the ones you like.
Rate at least 5 of the below sessions, and leave your name in the comments area for a chance to win one of two $50 Amazon gift cards sponsored by the VirtualizationTeam.com blog. Please note VMworld website now allow you to rate submissions and not just vote for it, so you can qualify by just rating submissions even if you don’t rate them highly, although I am sure you will find at least 5 sessions below that worth your 5 stars votes. Either way, I am giving you the incentive to just review them.
- Two VCDXs Deep Dive into VVD Network Stack. (2269) (Breakout Session), by Eiad AlAqqad
- VMware Validated Design The Why? Who? What? Why? & How? (2258) (Breakout Session), by Eiad AlAqqad
- Addressing the Most Common VMware Validated Design Decisions Deviations (2232)(Breakout Session), by Eiad AlAqqad
- VMware Validated Design Experts Panel (2062) (Panel Discussion), by Eiad AlAqqad
- Software Defined Networking (SDN) vs Network Function Virtualization (NFV) (2242) (Breakout Session), by Eiad AlAqqad
- Question the VVD Network Stack Decisions (2277) (Panel Discussion), by Eiad AlAqqad
- Healthcare Ransomware: Civil War (1239) (Breakout Session), by Aaron Dumbrow
- Dr. Sheldon Coopers Fun with vSAN (1241) (Breakout Session), by Aaron Dumbrow
- We can build the Healthcare IoT better stronger faster (2220) (Breakout Session), by Aaron Dumbrow
- Architecting vGPU Powered Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS) for Service Providers (2272) (Group Discussion) , by Ray Heffer
- Architecting NSX for EUC Solutions: A Technical Deep Dive for Service Providers (1991) (Breakout Session), by Ray Heffer
- Architecting a software-defined storage solution for your business – the VCDX way (1557) (Breakout Session), by Ray Heffer
- How to become a VCDX – ask the panelists (1564) (Panel), by Ray Heffer
- Ask the vCloud Air Network Cloud Experts (1566) (Panel), by Ray Heffer
- Ask the Cloud Experts (1561) (Panel), by Ray Heffer
- Ask the vCAN Cloud Solution Architects (2169) (Panel), by Ray Heffer
- The Race to Zero Trust – Your Critical First Steps (2873) (Panel Discussion) by Joe Chenevey
- Automation Deployed – Now What? Four Different Perspectives of Day Two Operations in an Automated Environment. (2867) Panel Session by Joe DePasquale
- 2560 End to end lifecycle of an Oracle Database from Provisioning to Decommissioning using vRealize Automation 7, by Sudhir Balasubramanian
- 2552 Complete lifecycle of an Oracle Database from Provisioning to Decommissioning using vRealize Automation 7 , by Sudhir Balasubramanian
- 1187 VMware Virtual Volumes (VVOLS) & Business Critical Databases – a Perfect Match , by Sudhir Balasubramanian
- 1083 VMware Virtual Volumes (VVOLS) and Business Critical Databases – a Perfect Match , by Sudhir Balasubramanian
- 1183 Accelerating Availability and Performance of Mission Critical Oracle Workloads with VMware’s Paravirtualized RDMA Device , by Sudhir Balasubramanian
- 1186 Accelerating Availability & Performance of Mission Critical Oracle Workloads with VMware’s Paravirtualized RDMA Device, by Sudhir Balasubramanian
- 1574 Architecting HA , Workload Balancing and DR to Mission Critical Oracle workloads using Extended Oracle RAC , vMSC , VMware vSAN and NSX , by Sudhir Balasubramanian
- 1625 Streamlining Oracle on the SDDC, by Sudhir Balasubramanian
- 1167 Oracle on HCI Steroids – A complete end to end solution for Business-Critical Oracle workloads on VMware vSAN , by Sudhir Balasubramanian
- 1574 Architecting HA , Workload Balancing and DR to Mission Critical Oracle workloads using Extended Oracle RAC , vMSC , VMware vSAN and NSX, by Sudhir Balasubramanian
- 1149 Transforming the Availability Strategy for your Mission critical database workloads Using VMware NSX, by Sudhir Balasubramanian
- Operate Clouds at Least Privilege (2226) by Clive Wenman
- Enabling DevOps and Continious Delivery across the SDDC, AWS and Azure (1508) by Chris Slater
- Containers 101 for the vSphere Admin (1466) by Ryan Kelly
- Setting up vRealize Automation for your Developers (1475) by Ryan Kelly
- NFV Infrastructure with VMware in production – Operational considerations and real-world experience (2922) (Breakout Session) by Bjoern Brundert
- Deep Dive on Container Cluster Management – a practical guide to running Docker Swarm, Mesos or Kubernetes (1701) (Breakout Session) by Bjoern Brundert
- Distributed Systems for the masses with Kubernetes on VMware Photon Platform (1717) (Breakout Session) by Bjoern Brundert
- NSX, API, Automation and Unicorns (2949) (Breakout) by Romain Decker
- Securing VDI with NSX (2247) (Breakout) by Romain Decker
- Top Configuration Guidelines for Virtualizing SAP HANA (3078) by Lars Fiechtner
- Defending from undetected Cyber-Attacks by “Internet separation” with VMware NSX Micro-Segmentation (2110)(Breakout Session) by Junnosuke Nakajima
- 1620:Using Developer Tools as Infra Admins: Network as Code with Unit Testing by Justin Jones
- 1517:DevOps Bootcamp by Mitesh Pancholy
- 1519:Real world DevOps Customer Panel by Mitesh Pancholy
- 1805:Digital Transformation of enterprise Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS) using VMware’s Hybrid Cloud Management Platform by TJ Vatsa
- Successful Role-based Desktop Delivery using SDDC (1619) by TJ Vatsa
- Deep dive on Office 2016 and Windows 10 Reference Architecture (RA) using Horizon 7 (desktops and applications) on enterprise all-flash array (1710) by TJ Vasta
- Enterprise Mobility and Identity Transformation with VMware Workspace ONE and Hybrid Cloud (1458) by TJ Vasta
- 2866:Learn from challenging but successful NSX Deployment Journey with VMware SDDC at large Pharmaceutical Company. by Chirag Patel
- 2982: Tech Teardown: vRealize Automation by Randy Stanley
- Tesco : Building a Retail Store of the Future [2392] by Ed Hoppitt
- UnPanel : Open Source – Best thing since sliced bread, or Root of all Evil ? [1144] by Ed Hoppitt
- “The Day after Tomorrow” – The Day 2 Operations Challenge [1141]by Ed Hoppitt
- Customer Panel – Getting to Cloud Native [1142] by Ed Hoppitt
- Un:Panel – Surviving the DevOps Transition [2353] by Ed Hoppitt
- The ‘Shift to the Left’: The Changing Role of Operations as Developers in a DevOps World [2858] by Ed Hoppitt
- How do you like your Private Cloud prepared? A VMware vRealize cookbook for Automation engineers. [1640] (Breakout Session) by Kim Ranyard
- Deploying Hybrid Applications combining vSphere & Photon Platform [1725] (Breakout Session) by Kim Ranyard
- How ITV is using vRealize Automation and NSX to deliver “Infrastructure as Code” [2915] (Breakout Session) by Kim Ranyard
- How are customers applying DevOps principles to their IT Infrastructure configuration – Using Houdini [2918] (Panel Session) by Kim Ranyard
- Automating Benchmarks for Cloud Infrastructures with VMware Weathervane and VMware vRealize Automation [2861] by Mandy Botsko-Wilson
- HCI Alone Does Not Constitute a Private Cloud [2872] (Breakout Session) by Jeff Whitman
- SDDC Abstraction, Pooling & Automation Panel – 4 SDDC experts from VMware’s Office of the CTO, America’s Field will discuss Data Center Modernization. [2750] (Panel) by Jeff Whitman
Honorable mention, While the owners of the following four posts are not a part of the CTO Ambassadors, they are few of the most knowledgeable in their field. Please take a look at their sessions as well.
- 1962:Container Management Case study: City of New York Self-Provisioning Gateway 2.2 by Stefan Andrieux
- 2458:Semi-Trucks over the Rockies to Daily Code Push – SecureWorks DevOps Transformation by Brian Martinez
- 2704:Infrastructure as Code by Peg Eaton