DV07 – Optimizing storage for virtual desktops
(Tony Armstrong – VMware, Mike Slisinger & M. Vaughan Stewart (NetApp)

To be honest, this was one of the session I didn’t like. I would have expected this session to be about how to work with storage in a VDI environment, but it turned out to be a [...]

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DV02 – Implementing VDI using VDM2, tips and tricks
(Puneet Chawla)
 
VDI is catching on with more and more companies. Personally I’ve not had the question yet to implement it, but I do get questions from my customers about what VDI is and if its suited for them. So, this was a must see session [...]

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LAB02: Site Recovery Manager (SRM)
(Drill Instructor Dan Anderson and Tim Meyers)
 
This Lab was great. When entering class and finding your seat, there was this huge American dude standing in front of class. When taking us through the first powerpoint slides, he was constantly walking from left to right and back again, remembering us [...]

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AP09 – Fast and easy disk workload characterization on ESX
(Richard McDougall)
 
When moving an I/O insensitive workload onto ESX, you’re always asking yourself: “Will it hold? Will it perform? Is there something I can tweak to make it perform better?”. In this session Richard showed some things to look at.
 
The key questions before moving [...]

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