With less than a week until the big show and only three days before I hop into the big tin can to get there I thought a post in regards to my “planned” VMworld experience is in order! I say planned since VMworld is always a crazy experience and things can change quickly with so much to do and learn. That said I do know of a few items in my calendar that are set in stone!
Opening Acts
This is a great idea for a conference primer that is taking place this year! The VMunderground team, along with the vBrownbag crew have set the stage for some great knowledge dropping fun Sunday before VMworld. I’m happy to say that I will be taking a spot on the last panel of the day, dealing with Architecture and Infrastructure. Needless to say I’m excited to be taking part but what I’m most excited about is the other rockstars I’ll be sitting next to – Melissa Palmer (@vmiss), Phoummaia Schmitt (@exchangegoddess), Maish Saidel-Keesing (@maishsk) and John Arrasjid (@vcdx001) and moderated by Matt Liebowitz (@mattliebowitz). Umm, yeah, you read that right – the FIRST VCDX! I’ll certainly be sitting on the shoulders of giants during this one and hopefully have a little to contribute, but am mostly looking forwarded to learning from the best!. Opening acts kicks off at 1PM at City View at Metreon with our panel starting at 3pm.
Book Signing
Yeah, so not only do I get to partake in a panel session with some of the brightest virtualization minds in the world, I get to also sit down and sign books for a half an hour – Each and every VMworld experience seems to be topping the previous ever since I’ve been attending. Anyways, I’ll be at the VMworld bookstore from 1:00PM to 1:30PM on Tuesday if you want to have your copy of Troubleshooting vSphere Storage signed. Honestly, this is a first for me so I have no idea what to write in a book and Google hasn’t been much of a help with this one! Either way, if you want the book signed, any other book signed 
, or just want to chat come on by and I’ll be there!
Other Stuff
Hey, I’ll also have a dozen or so copies of Troubleshooting vSphere Storage to give away so if you are looking for one come and find me – I may have one on me at the time and if I do it’s yours! Where might you find me? Well, you can bet your a$$ that I will be at VMunderground on Sunday! Monday, probably the VMUG leader reception and vFlipcup. Tuesday, VMUG leader lunch, the vExpert reception, CTO party, Veeam – ugh! Exhausted just thinking about all of this! Wednesday I will be sure to hit up the VMware Canada reception eh! Then move on to of course, the VMworld party!!! Also you can find me in the hang space and blogger tables periodically throughout the conference.
On another note, I have a ton of these mwpreston dot net stickers to hand out as well (Don’t worry, I’ll cut them) – I’ll probably just scatter them throughout the place but if you can’t find one and really really want one for some odd reason, just ask! It’s my crazy shameless self promotion plug of a way of saying thank you to all of you for making this blog what it is today!
Anyways, there’s lots to do and lots to pack so I’ll leave it at this! Can’t wait to see everyone again – the community really makes the VMworld experience for me – if not for community, it’d just be another conference!
