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It really comes close now, what I mean is VMworld is really getting close and the expectations are growing, at least as far as I’m concerned. We landed in Las Vegas last friday after a long flight, did a walk up and down the strip, walked through several casino’s and we were overwhelmed by the shear over the topness of Las Vegas. Every thing is so out of bounds. We did a check on the Venetian, which seems larger than expected.

For everyone who is coming to the convention you can spot us through our polo’s we are wearing, mentioned in an earlier blog by Sven. We are going to hand over the prize winning shirts to Tim for his “You Never Forget your first P2V” and  Scott for his “Be Wiser, use a Hypervisor” our fellow blogger Matthijs will hand over the polo to Rob for his “Real Men use Real Hypervisors”. If you spot and approach us you might get your very own polo with the VirtualFuture logo on it (we have a few extra).

First we’d like to thank everyone for submitting their entry. It was hard to select the best 3, because they were all good.
Here are the winning slogans:

Real Men use Real Hypervisors (Rob Mokkink)
You Never Forget your first P2V (Tim)
Be Wiser, use a Hypervisor (Scott Lowe)

The winners will be informed shortly.

For everyone else who would like to get a virtualfuture.info shirt, just ask us at VMworld 2008 or the “VMworld 2008 in vogelvlucht” event. We probably will be bringing some extra shirts to those events.

My colleague and I are getting ready for VMworld and as you know we will be blogging at this event. To promote our blog, we will be wearing unique VirtualFuture.info polo-shirts. On the back of the shirts, we want to put a funny slogan and maybe you can help us out. Think of a funny slogan that has to do with virtualization and win a VirtualFuture.info polo-shirt! The best 3 slogans will win a shirt and the competition ends August 31 2008 at midnight (CET).

Here are some examples:

“I blog on virtualfuture.info and all I got was this lousy shirt”
“I got this Hypervishirt from VirtualFuture.info”
“High Available shirt”

Submit your suggestion by using the comment option. Good luck!

The rumor is spreading that ESX 4.0 will be announced at VMWorld 2008 in Las Vegas. In the VMworld forum someone noticed that Lab A (Datacenter Tech Preview) is not available on Monday but starts right after the General session on Tuesday. You might conclude that ESX 4.0 will be announced during the general session on Tuesday. If you read the description of Lab A you can pretty much guess that this is about ESX 4.0:

LAB A description:

The next generation virtual datacenter from VMware will encompass exciting new technologies that further extend the flexibility, efficiency and dynamism of IT environments. A preview of these new server, networking and storage related technologies, how they work and how they can be configured to deliver higher levels of availability, resource efficiency and simplified management in IT environments will be provided.

It is pretty cool that we can get hands-on experience with the latest beta-product. Maybe we all get a USB-key with ESXi 4.0 beta?

There are also some other session that gives away that ESX 4.0 will be announced.

VMWorld is getting in everybodies blood, everybody is getting nervous. In this case it is Vizioncore with the announcement which products will be demoed at VMWorld in Las Vegas. Here’s the mail I received from these guys:

Vizioncore will be demonstrating a number of new and updated products at VMworld next month, and also offering ‘sneak previews’ of a couple of near term products.  Read the rest of this entry »