I was selected for the seventh time. I am fortunate to be apart of a community that has helped me tremendously in my career. For example, receiving a blogger pass for Explore made it much easier to be able attend the event. I am wondering if we’ll see Broadcom in the next vExpert logo and what changes will happen during this pivotal year.
We are only 2 months away from VMware Explore and I am pumped! Go register before the price goes up again. Looks like many people are excited the event is back in Las Vegas. Details about the event have been trickling in and I am sure more details will be released about the event very soon.
I will be arriving on Sunday to get settled down before the bulk of the event kicks off and pick up my badge. The broad agenda is the same from last year. With Monday having some smaller activities and the welcome reception. Then the general session on Tuesday kicks off the first full day. In other years, the event was one day longer. The hall crawl on Tuesday night and VMware’s big party on Wednesday. It will be exciting to see what they have in store for that one. The event ends on Thursday with a half day.
I always came away with a tremendous amount of new knowledge every time I went to VMworld or Explore. Yes, you can watch some of the sessions at home. However, there’s something electric in the air when you are there in person interacting with everyone. Also, there’s exclusive TAM sessions that are not recorded, meet the expert sessions, and networking in person is unmatched to any other media.
I came across a few parties so far. On the Monday, the Elevate Technology User Group (formerly named the CONVERGED User Group) is having a party at Yardbird. All are welcome to register and attend. I went to their party last year and it was great. The VMUG party is on Tuesday at the Pinball Hall of Fame. I cannot yet find a website for registration for this event. Rubrik is having an event Tuesday night at the Wakuda Lounge. I will make another post later when I come across more parties and other details related to the event.
The Content Catalog currently has over 600 sessions. You can favorite them, but you cannot yet add them to your schedule or see when a session is occurring. Scheduling will open on July 11th. Make sure you do your homework ahead of time to be ready to schedule the sessions you’re interested in. Some sessions fill up quickly. Also, only a fraction of the stand by line could be accommodated during one of the sessions I was trying to get into last year so no guarantee if it’s not on your schedule.
I took a preliminarily look and added the following sessions to my favorites. I am sure more sessions will be added so I will update my list later or create another article on the topic. I am looking forward to see what VMware code sessions are being planned. They always have cool, interactive sessions, such as with Raspberry Pis or NUC like devices.
10 Big New Benefits of vSphere That You Absolutely Need to Know
Best Practices for Hardening Your VMware Infrastructure
NSX Operations and Troubleshooting: Best Practices
CLI Troubleshooting Nuggets
Scripting Inside the vSphere Client
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Here are a couple great sources that have a lot of parties listed.
Russell Hamker Explore party list
VMblog’s Explore party list
I was selected as a vExpert this year, which is my sixth year in a row. I need to step up my game to get ready for next year. I will get back to my roots with writing articles about issues I have faced.
VMware Explore was announced. It will be at the Venetian in Las Vegas on August 21-24 and then Barcelona on November 6-9. I am really looking forward to this year’s Explore. I think it’s going to blow up with being back in Las Vegas and with how COVID is nowadays. I really hope I can make it.
That time of the year again for this article. I am now a vExpert for five years in a row. After two years of only online events, VMworld is back in person and will have some sort of virtual option. Will be interesting to see how the king of hybrid cloud will handle a hybrid event. Starting August 29 – September 1 in San Fran and then November 7-10 in Barcelona. I imagine proposals should be starting soon and then more details to get everyone pumped up.
Saying the end of this year has been busy is the understatement of the year. The log4j vulnerbilities hit an extreme amount of products from various vendors across most enterprises. I have applied workarounds to nine VMware products to remediate Log4Shell. It has seemed almost neverending with new vulnerabilities related to log4j being discovered as the past couple of weeks have unfolded. It was nice when VMware offered scripts to do most of the work. I am happy that ESXi was not affected.
Make sure to apply the workaround to your NSX Intelligence Appliance. I think it’s an easy one to forget about. Also, KB87150 for this workaround has a small typo in step 6. Easy to miss it when copying and pasting. Will get an error message; command not found. Below is the correct syntax. I reported the typo so, hopefully, it will be fixed soon.
Step 6: dpkg -i zip_3.0-12_amd64.deb
I am glad to be a part of the vExpert program for the past four years. I have gotten a lot out of it from discussions on the private vExpert Slack to licenses for nearly every VMware product. The program has expanded every year I have been a part of it and I am excited to see what’s in store for next year.
I earned vExpert status for the forth year in a row. I was selected for my blog and contributions on the VMTN forums. I will continue my mission, which is writing articles that will assist someone that is facing the same issue I had.
VMworld will be only online again this year. It will be October 5-7, 2021. Not much has been announced so far for this event. I hope it is more interactive than last year’s online event. I definitely miss attending in person VMUGs and VMworld.
I am proud to announce I was selected for the vExpert program for the second year. I was selected for my blog and contributions on the VMTN forums. My goal with this blog was to make an impact with issues I resolved. Can be frustrating to come across a problem that seems to be unsolvable. Perhaps, something I managed to figure out and wrote about will help out someone.
I have another announcement. I am going to VMworld for the first time. VMworld in San Francisco is only a few weeks away and I am very excited to go. I was able to register for most of the sessions I wanted and double booked for most nights.
I have two personal announcements that I am excited to share. I was selected as a VMware vExpert for 2018. One of my goals with this blog was it to assist in being recognized as a vExpert. I am happy I reached that my first year. There’s other contributions I made to the community that helped, such as the VMTN forums and VCAP Google+ community. Hopefully, I can be more active and achieve this status two years in a row.
I passed the AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate exam. One challenging aspect of AWS exams is the passing score changes without warning and the passing score to reach. I took the exam the last day the specific version was available and fortunately passed with a 91%.
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