Introduction
When I worked for Snow, I once a year visited the BSD Conferences and went to BSDCan one time. There are equal kind of conferences for VMware related groups, like the VMware User Group (VMUG).
This year the VMUG-NL Conference had been hosted in Den Bosch, in the 1391 venu.
How was it?
It was good to see fellow colleague’s heading over there, you talk about different things then at work and in general you have fun together.
The venue is more then large enough, with enough stands and facilities including food and beverages. The food was partially processed locally as we were told by one of the hostess.
Also, somewhere I saw an old colleague from my time at a government manicupality walking around.
I found several good presentations, the opening was interesting, the talk from Pure Storage was interesting:
- Pure Storage Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery of VMware Private Cloud
Several sessions from VMware regarding the future of VCF and vSAN were not that great. The midday keynote was a bit over the top. I think the content itself was great but the showplay around it was just not needed. We even left early because of that. That included the following:
- VMware’s vision for storage and data protection in vSAN and VCF 9
- vSAN in VCF Operations: monitoring and performance troubleshooting
- Disaster Recovery in the Broadcom world: Setup, Configure & Manage
The best presentation of the day was
- Big Game Hunting: Ransomware’s High-Stakes War on Enterprises
Overall it was a nice day to see and meet fellow minded people. The organisation did a great job in getting people together, sometimes things do not entirely come out as expected, but that could be more a pointer to the presenters.
Who, admittedly stood there, and I was not, so they have a point ahead :-)