Sadly, I won't be able to attend EMC World 2011 in Vegas this year. But I have been in the loop on emails floating around about all the cool stuff that will be a part of this great event. Over 10,000 attendees will be at EMC World this year and the vSpecialist have quite a massive vLab they have been building to allow people to test out products. I would encourage anyone that is attending EMC World to venture into the Lab to see all the great work some of the brightest minds in the industry have put together, it's quite impressive.
For 2011 the vSpecialist team has decided to kick it up a notch and leverage our private cloud support a 200 seat hands on lab pavilion during EMCWorld! The lab topics are:
• VMware Storage Optimization Solutions - EMC VMAX, VNX, VNXe, Isilon, Atmos
• VMware Storage Management Optimization - Virtual Storage Integrator plug-in for vCenter (VSI)
• VMware Storage Performance Optimization - vStorage API for Array Integration (VAAI)
• VMware Data Protection - EMC RecoverPoint, VPLEX
• VMware Backup & Recovery - Avamar
• VMware Datawarehouse Solutions - Greenplum
• Vblock automated Provisioning - Ionix Unified Infrastructure Manager (UIM)
• VMWare Security - RSA Archer, RSA enVision
The vSpecialist vLab will be open:
• Monday 9:30 – 11:30, 12:30 – 18:00
• Tuesday 9:30 – 18:00
• Wednesday 8:00 – 17:15
• Thursday 8:00 – 14:00
The vSpecialist cloud is powered by a VCE Vblock 1u. Inside that Vblock are 16 Cisco UCS servers. Those servers each have 16 Intel processor cores and 256GB of memory. The servers are powered by VMware vSpehere 4.1 U1. Providing storage for the vSpecialist cloud is a fully loaded EMC NS-960 Unified Storage array. The only hardware being shipped to EMCWorld are 200 thin client machines each with two monitors. This solution allows us to support more HOL users. These labs will be fully tested and the vSpecialist cloud has been through several stress tests already with more scheduled. These vSpecialist labs will also be offered at several more events this year including the Upstate NY field briefings scheduled for late May.
