VMworld 2021 – My top 6 Sessions

Give us 30 minutes and we will give you an update on VMware vRealize Operations you won’t forget. The premier cloud management tool has some great things coming for ease of use, time to value, troubleshooting, capacity and cost efficiency, application monitoring, integrations, and so much more. If you have clouds and you care about management, you won’t want to miss this session.

Dell Financial Services (DFS) redefines choice and flexibility, and is VMware’s preferred payment solutions provider, funding $1.6 billion in VMware licenses globally last year. Software as a service (SaaS) is a growing trend in IT, but few finance companies provide extended payment solutions for 100 percent software deals. With the majority of IT leaders expecting budgets to decrease or stay the same, innovative financing for VMware solutions enables customers to realize the operational and cost benefits flexible payment solutions offer. DFS provides innovative choice to leverage SaaS strategies to redefine business continuity and growth. Discover how our financing expertise for VMware solutions and our commitment to payment flexibility transform imagination into reality for customers and channel partners of all sizes.

The automation landscape has always been a source of rapid innovation. Historically, the languages, whether it’s Perl, Python, vRealize Orchestrator JavaScript, or PowerCLI, may have changed, but the imperative, step-by-step workflows you’ve learned and know have not. However, a new challenger has appeared. Declarative workflows upended the usual processes and even the languages all in the name of infrastructure as code. Human readable, plain text files can be interpreted by products like HashiCorp Terraform and RedHat Ansible to do the heavy lifting of the imperative process. The key is knowing when, how, and where to use each method within your VMware environment. Join Luc and Kyle for this session where they will discuss these different styles of automation, complete with practical examples that you can use in your own environment!

Supporting secure, productive workspaces for our employees working anywhere has become a necessity. But, easier said than done as customers struggle with perimeter-based security and management constructs. Join Shankar Iyer as he brings to reality VMware Anywhere Workspace – an integrated solution featuring cloud-native endpoint management, endpoint protection, and SASE technologies. You will learn how Anywhere Workspace empowers your distributed workforce with secure, frictionless experiences; and your IT teams with the power of ruthless automation.

A DeskCon experience session. What is the most effective and efficient way to troubleshoot Windows 10 devices? This session is back by popular demand, with completely updated content! We will explore various troubleshooting tips for getting to the root of the issue quickly. From gathering logs locally on the device to remotely collecting them; using Fiddler to view all OMA-DM communications going to and coming from the device; comparing SyncML on the device to what was sent from the MDM server…and more. Don’t miss your exclusive access to our updated Troubleshooting Cheat Sheet!