Cisco at VMworld 2009
Pretty much any major trade show is an exercise in barely controlled chaos and VMworld 2009 is no exception, but all the pieces are falling into place and I am looking forward to a good show next week. Last year, with the announcement of the Cisco Nexus 1000V we focused on what was possible. This year, with both the Nexus 1000V shipping and Cisco UCS shipping, we will be talking more about what is doable. The common theme across our demos, sessions and labs is practical solutions you can take home today. So, in terms of the must see list:
- Register for the Nexus 1000V Self-Paced lab and get hands on experience with basic set up and more advanced things like troubleshooting and security features.
- We have a number of demos in the booth covering UCS, Unified Fabric, Nexus 1000V, Accelerating VMware View, and one that I will be writing more about next week: inter-data center VMotion
- You should also go check out the big honking UCS deployment 16 racks, 512 blades, humming along—I’ll be writing more about that too next week pretty impressive stuff
In addition, we have a strong collection of speaking sessions:
| Cisco and VMware: Delivering Innovation for Virtualization | ID: SS5082 |
| Engineering Developments enabling the Virtual Datacenter - VMware, Cisco and EMC | ID: SS5240 |
| Designing the Next Generation Data Center with Unified Computing & VN-Link | ID: TA2266 Tech Level: beginner |
| VMware View Performance and Scalability on Cisco UCS | ID: DV3498 |
| Leveraging VMWare View and Cisco WAAS in a ROBO deployment | ID: DV1460 |
| Deploying Nexus 1000V in a VMW vSphere environment | ID: TA2384 Tech Level: intermediate, Cisco |
| Integrating Virtualization with Capacity Management | ID: VM3041 |
| Securing the Virtual Data Center in Enterprises and Clouds Track: Technology and Architecture | ID: TA4242 |
| Long Distance VMotion - Cisco/VMware Validated Design | ID: TA3105 |
If nothing else, swing by the booth (#2118) to say hello, ask questions and let us know what you liked at the show and what we could be doing better. For full details of the various Cisco activities, go here
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Posted by Omar Sultan at 12:32PM PST
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