Day 3 kicked off again with another early start at 7am, yawn 🙂

Again, it was a very intense day, with lots of presentations and then ending with video interviews of each attendee:

• Dean Bolton from VLSS, talked to us about “License Fortress from VLSS”
  • Very interesting product, where VLSS can advise you how to run your Oracle on VMware, then protect you from Oracle with the License Fortress guarantee, that has lawyers ready to defend you in case of license compliance backed by an insurance policy if required.  So the customer is never at risk when they take out the “License Fortress from VLSS”.
  • Plug for my current employer who also offer License Audit Consulting.
• Chris Rohan from VMware, talked to us about “VMware vSphere Core & SDDC – Networking – NSX & VCNS”
• Marcus Thordal from Brocade, talked to us about “Brocade and VMware Technology and the VMware Solutions Lab”
  • Interestingly Brocade have worked out a way to tag network packets, so you can identify which VM guest is causing network traffic
  • Also had a good example of how NVMe is causing need to higher network bandwidth
• Simon Guyennet from VMware, talked to us about “Emerging Products” & “VMware Integrated Containers and Oracle”
  • Lot of NDA stuff, so those interested in this area, keep a look out, some interesting stuff coming soon 🙂
• Mike Adams from VMware, talked to us about “The CPBU, vSphere and Friends, and the Experts Program”
  • Key take away that was not NDA, is VMware on AWS that is currently available to select customers and will be Generally Available soon 🙂
• Somu Rajarathinam and Ron Ekins from Pure Storage gave a Technical Session
• Feidhlim O’Leary from VMware, talked to us about “High Availability and Disaster Recovery in the SDDC”
• Alain Geenrits from Blue Medora, talked to us about “Management & Monitoring – Blue Medora and Oracle on vSphere”
• Daniel Hesselink from License Consulting, talked to us about “License Audit with License Consulting”
• The duo Sudhir Balasubramanian and Mohan Potheri, talked to us about “vSphere HA or Oracle RAC, SRM or Data Guard, they are all complimentary when Oracle is run in the SDDC”
  • I enjoyed the labs from this duo, with their “good cop, bad cop” style 🙂

The workshop ended with a short video interview, where we were each asked to introduce ourselves, answer a few questions about the workshop and Pure Storage.  I’m not the best at this sort of things, so I don’t think I’ll end up in the marketing video of the event, but time will tell 🙂

My OCM buddy Yvonne Murphy, then gave a few of us an extended tour of the Global Support Services (GSS) whilst we waited for the shuttle back to the hotel.

Then it was a quick chauffeured ride to the airport and a short flight back home to Manchester.

Another great day that concluded the workshop, it increased my knowledge of VMware and gave me a great opportunity to network with Oracle Database Experts from around Europe 🙂

Many thanks to VMware and Pure Storage for organising this workshop and allowing me to be a part of it 🙂

My tweets for the day can be seen here.

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Zed DBA (Zahid Anwar)