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On Route To The MVP Summit 2012

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So here I go. I’m off the United States of America, Washington State, Seattle, Bellevue/Redmond. I’m travelling there to attend the MVP Summit 2012. I mentioned this already in a previous post I’m Attending The MVP Summit 2012

That means I’ll be rather quiet the next week. For one I’ll be very busy, both during the day as well as at night with all the meet ups and networking opportunities that are planned. On top of that all of the content & such is subject to a Non Disclosure Agreement (NDA). So no blogs, no tweets, nothing. If I see the Space Needle or visit any other interesting venues I might let you know Winking smile.

It’s great to see so many friends & colleagues converging to the Summit. I’ll be happy to meet up again and talk shop. A good number of them I have never met in person before and it will be fun to finally do so.

Right now I’ve parked myself in LHR waiting for my connecting flight to SEA. Sunny, day mild weather and I got a very friendly lift to the airport. Thanks! Time to grab a drink and spend some time looking at the airplanes landing & taking off. We’re an industrious little lot us humans, judged by the amount of travelling we do.

I hope I can grab some sleep on the flight over the big pond & I’m not to weary after that long haul. If not I have some books, music & movies to help pass the time. But it’s all good. I’m very fortunate to be able to attend the MVP Summit and I have every intention to make the most of this opportunity.

I’m Attending The MVP Summit 2012

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I’ll be attending the MVP Summit 2012 in Redmond from the 27th of February to the 2nd of March. I consider myself very lucky to be able to do so and I’m grateful that my employer is helping me make use of this opportunity. I appreciate that enormously.

So my hotel is booked, my flights are scheduled. It’s a long flight with a lengthy stopover in Heathrow. I actually spend a day travelling to and from the event. But I’m told it’s very much worth the effort Smile and I got some great tips from some veteran MVPs in the community. For newbies who can use some information on the MVP summit take a look at What to expect at your first MVP Summit by Pat Richard.

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I also look forward to meeting so many peers in person and attending all the briefings where we’ll learn a lot of valuable new things about Hyper-V. I cannot talk about them as they are under NDA but there will be many opportunities to provide feedback to the product teams in my expertise “Virtual Machine’” (i.e. Hyper-V). I have a bunch of questions & feedback for the product teams.

From my colleagues I have learned it’s also a good way to help pass feedback from others on to Microsoft. So this is your chance. Take it! What do you like or need in the virtualization products. What should be enhanced and what is hurting you? What works and what doesn’t?  What is missing?

With Windows 8 going into beta by next month don’t expect immediate actions and changes based on your feedback. But if you want to have your opinions taken into consideration you have to let them be heard. So don’t be shy now! Let me know. Sincere & real concerns, along with problems, challenges and feedback on your experiences with the product are very much appreciated.

So, if you have any remarks, feedback, feature requests you’d like to share with the virtualization product teams let me know. Just post them in the comments, send me a e-mail via the contact form or message me via @workinghardinit on twitter. My colleagues tell me the program managers in the virtualization area are a very communicative and responsive bunch. I think that’s true from my experiences with them in the past.

My Recommendations For Our IT Pro at TechDays 2012 Belgium

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I’m very busy with storage at the moment and as I’m already doing some other conferences this year we’re giving some other members of our IT the opportunity to attend TechDays 2012. That doesn’t stop me from giving some hints to the junior but very smart & fast learning IT Pro that’s in our delegation (4 developers & 1 IT Pro) and I might as well share those hints with you. The idea of sending him to TechDays is to expose him to a variety of subjects that are related to current and future needs/trends in the industry and in our line of business. It’s not just focused on training. I want him to look at the bigger picture of all parts in the puzzle. It’s about getting some context and tasting the possibilities. It’s also good to see some of our local IT talent (like Mike Resseler and Kurt Roggen) in action. Naturally I leave it up to him to make his own choices, and I hope he does. So here are, in chronological order, my recommendations:

February 14th

10:45-12:00
Monitoring and Operating a Private Cloud with System Center 2012

12:00-13:00 (If you want to lunch & learn)
Manage VM’s and Services across Private Clouds and Windows Azure with System …

13:00-14:15
Take the Spaghetti out of Windows Azure – an insight for IT Pro Techies Part 1 (John Craddock)

14:30-15:45
Take the Spaghetti out of Windows Azure – an insight for IT Pro Techies Part 2 (John Craddock)

16:15-17:30
System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012, Fabric Management, creation and consumption of the cloud (Vijay Tewari)

17:45-19:00
Windows 8 Dynamic Access Control (John Craddock)

February 15th

09:00-10:15
Windows 8 Hyper: Availability (Bryon Surace)

10:45-12:00
Discover what’s new in Windows 8 Active Directory (Paul Loonen)

13:00-14:15
The Private Cloud, Principles, Patterns and Concepts (Tom Shinder)

14:30-15:45
Toolmaking for Administrators using Windows PowerShell (Jason Helmick)

16:15-17:30
Windows 8 Disk Dedupe (Speaker: Mike Resseler)

17:45-18:45
What’s new in PowerShell V3! (Jason Helmick)

February 16th

09:00-10:15
Private Cloud Day Session 1- Building your Private Cloud Infrastructure (Kurt Roggen)

10:45-12:00
Private Cloud Day Session 2- Creating & Configure your Private Cloud (Kurt Roggen)

13:00-14:15
Private Cloud Day Session 3- Monitor & Operate your Private Cloud (Mike Resseler)

14:30-15:45
Private Cloud Day Session 4- Automating & Delivering Services in your Private Cloud (Mike Resseler & Kurt Roggen)

16:15-17:30
Private Cloud Day Session 5- A Solution for Private Cloud Security (Tom Shinder)

Group Video Interview: What is your favorite Hyper-V feature in Windows 8?

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In 2012 the next version of Windows is one of the upcoming releases by Microsoft we all have our eyes on. We’re all about to start investigating Windows 8, a lot more than today, when the first beta version is released. Hyper-V 3.0 is going to be big especially in combination with other features in Windows 8. Together with System Center 2012  this all makes a very rich & powerful (private) cloud infrastructure.

At the Experts2Experts Virtualization Conference in London (November 2011) I not only presented on High Performance & High Availability networking for Hyper-V clusters (10Gbps goodness) but I also met a lot of peers from the industry like Aidan Finn, Jeff Wouters, Carsten Rachfahl & Ronnie Isherwood.

Carsten Rachfahl is a MVP who’s very much into Private/Public Cloud and is enthusiastic about the new features in Windows 8 like many of us are. He took the opportunity to make a video with all the above suspects on the subject of our most favorite feature in Windows 8. This was released today for all to see and enjoy.

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We had a great time making it.  Luckily for us he’s a good interviewer and we didn’t encounter too many bloopers. Enjoy! And as always, if you have any feedback or questions we’re happy to hear them.