Well this has crept up on us quickly this year! It’s time to vote for the VMworld Sessions that will be part of the US and Europe VMworld’s held later in the year. The Session Voting is more Session liking as you have the ability to mark multiple sessions as ones that you would like to see. There are 1574 sessions that where submitted and are listed in the Online Catalog.

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As with the last couple of years I have submitted a session. This year I have decided to focus on a Real World Look at how we here at Zettagrid implemented NSX into our Service Offering. Have a read of the description below and if you want to hear more about NSX (with a little vCloud Director thrown in) in the real world and the lessons I’ve learnt over the past couple of years please consider Session #8808 for a vote.

NSX in Service Provider Land – Lessons Learnt from the Real World [8808]

VMware NSX has been out for two years and in that time has already gone through some significant updates and feature addons. The power of the NSX platform and what that offers Service Providers meant that getting NSX into Zettagrid become priority number 1 leading up to the end of 2015. Come and hear how Zettagrid successfully retrofitted NSX into an existing vCloud Platform that spans three Hosting Zones across Australia. In this session I will take you through how we brought NSX from Lab to limited BETA release to full production productization and deployment. You will hear about how working on the bleeding edge of network virtualization had its challenges and how NSX as an overlay network fit into our existing physical layer as well as the operational and architecture challenges we ran into before being able to offer our NSX Advanced Networking Product as part of our vCloud Director Virtual DC portfolio extending our Hybridity capabilities.

Track:  Software-Defined Data Center
Product and Topic:  Customer Story
Session Type:  Breakout Session
Audience:  IT – All, IT – Network, IT – Operations, IT – Telecom, Research and Development, Technical Support
Sub track:  Networking and Security

There is a lot of competition around the NSX space with 302 sessions listed that contain NSX in the title or the description but I’m hoping my experiences are interesting enough to get some votes and then make it through the internal voting process. On a separate note it was also pleasing to see an increase in the number of vCloud Director sessions this year.

As per the VMworld Session Voting FAQ Session Voting is open May 12 – May 26 at 11:59 pm PDT.

References:

https://download3.vmware.com/vmworld/2015/downloads/cfp-voting-faq.pdf