VMworld 2014 recap

Sitting at airport on way back from a very successful VMworld week and thought i would put some my thoughts into a quick post.  I am just going to briefly mention my highlights.  Some of these are existing products and nothing new to most people and then a few new things too.

vCAC

• It is like they say the future and the future is looking good.
• vCloud director only available as service provide offering in near future...

Application director 

• If you ever get a chance then watch this session:
• https://vmworld2014.activeevents.com/connect/sessionDetail.ww?SESSION_ID=2609

RaaS (Recovery as a service) 

• Cloud based disaster recovery with very good RPO & RTO
• http://www.vmware.com/products/vcloud-hybrid-service/

vCloud Air everything

• vRealize Air Automation

EVO:RAIL

• hyper-converged infrastructure appliance.  This is Nutanix territory but excited to see what EVO:RAIL will bring in future.
• http://www.vmware.com/products/evorail

NSX

• Virtualize the network and all the new features including 3de party integration, but the most exciting is the micro-segmentation from a security perspective.

Hands on Lab

• This was amazing and a great success.  Look forward to running though all those lab sessions in the future.

AirWatch

• 8th most taken lab at VMworld and received a lot of attention!