Today was the official first day for VMworld US 2018. For me it started with the keynote from the press seats in the keynote arena. This was a first time for me since previous years I had decided on viewing it from the community areas. With VMware being almost old enough to grab a beer with it’s 20 years it was all about looking back at the past but also looking forward to the future. The message that I really agree on is that everything has to do with the community. A video of Mercy Ships was shown with their hospital ships that run on VMware products.
Finally it's day 1 of #VMworld and the socks of the day are @vmwarecode vmug socks #vCommunity #vExpert pic.twitter.com/l8DrWUBZ3H
— Wouter Kursten (@Magneet_nl) August 27, 2018
Announcing Amazon RDS for you on prem #VMware environment #vmworld #vExpert pic.twitter.com/37Z5UNXXPd
— Wouter Kursten (@Magneet_nl) August 27, 2018
New announcements (and yes I might have missed some)
- Platinum License leven (vSphere + App Defence)
- vSphere 6.7 U1
- vSAN EBS with bulk live migration
- Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for On-Prem
- Project DImension
- Pulse 2.0
- Acquirement of Cloudhealth
- Coud Automation formerly known as Project Tango
- Dell Provisioning for Workspace One
- ESXi on arm64 for edge solutions
Esxi on arm64 for the edge #vmworld #vExpert #vCommunity pic.twitter.com/eSJx4LQrf7
— Wouter Kursten (@Magneet_nl) August 27, 2018
After this I went on the exhibition floor for a bit to wander around and look at new products. The floor was mostly about Cloud & monitoring this year where for me Uila and EG Innovations. Rather quickly the vmtn area became THE place to be again for vExperts and everyone in the community.
Don’t tell stroopwafels, but I may love pink cookies even more. #vmworld #vcommunity #thankyou @Magneet_nl @peerke pic.twitter.com/XxAaVT2zCS
— Amy Lewis (@CommsNinja) August 27, 2018
After lunch I went to the first of my two regular breakouts I visited this week: EUC Champions panel with Brian Madden as moderator. This was a fun panel where we even managed to heckle them from the first row.
Almost time for the euc Champions panel. #vmworld #vExpert #vCommunity #EUCChampion pic.twitter.com/90IinRZ3sc
— Wouter Kursten (@Magneet_nl) August 27, 2018
Later in the afternoon it was time for the EUC Keynote where some of the newly announced things included Industry baselines for WIndows 10 Modern Management and a demo was shown for Horizon Cloud management.
VMware Horizon cloud control across multiple clouds and on prem #vCommunity #vmworld #vExpert #EUCChampion pic.twitter.com/Lq4XKplLZj
— Wouter Kursten (@Magneet_nl) August 28, 2018
Horizon cloud control demo #vmworld #EUCChampion #vExpert #vCommunity pic.twitter.com/nJBrCiyhr7
— Wouter Kursten (@Magneet_nl) August 28, 2018
Three (up to ten) person session collaboration in Horizon #vCommunity #vmworld #vExpert #EUCChampion pic.twitter.com/mN4EhNnsu6
— Wouter Kursten (@Magneet_nl) August 28, 2018
The day ended with the VMworld hackathon. This kicked of with a short Kyle Ruddy Hecklethon where he introduced the audience into what can be done with PowerCLI.
The @kmruddy heckleton is starting #vmworld #vCommunity @vmwarecode #hackathon pic.twitter.com/B7biJ7sexn
— Wouter Kursten (@Magneet_nl) August 28, 2018
The Hackathon itself wasn’t that successful for our team since I wasted most of the times with laptop issues. We had applied 1 fix though for the vmware.hv.helper and started work on vDocumentation for Horizon view. It was lots of fun though and that was the most important part for me.
I ended up with a step count of 16.240 for the day.