Before VMworld, I laid out a few of my predictions of what I thought we’d see at the conference. Let’s see how I did… vRAM is dead. The rumors were true. This was kind of a gimme but I’ll take it. So long vRAM licensing! vCloud 2.0. Got this one too though its vCloud 5.1 to line up the numbering scheme with vSphere. We have snapshots and multiple disk levels supported within the provider vDCs.

Last day of VMworld! Its been a good conference for me. Solid sessions and the labs that I’ve done have been good. Its my second year here so things are a bit different than they were last year. In Vegas in 2011, I loaded up my schedule with sessions upon sessions. This year, no where near as many sessions as they are all online and available after the fact. This year I tried to get into the labs more, but honestly, the labs had some issues.

No keynote planned for today. Just sessions, labs and the solutions exchange. Some of the cool tech that is out there that you should check out are: PuppetLabs: Can’t say enough good things about what these guys are doing. Automate your infrastructure with Puppet! Its damn impressive. Raidundant 1 Million IOPs in 3 U. This guy has some very cool tech, wicked smart and oh…has a patent on this tech. Well worth checking out.

Day 2 and everyone is a little more tired but ready to get their learn on. Today was the day that Steve Herrod gets to take the full spotlight and show some of the cool tech that is happening at VMware. Much like last year, the day 2 keynote was focused on the end user with both the desktop and mobile device. The View + Mirage technology was slick, no doubt about it.

I’m a little behind on this one so I’ll give the high levels of what I saw. The keynote was the official handing off ceremony from Paul Maritz to Pat Gelsinger. Paul has done some great things in his past 4 years at the helm of the company with one exception, vRam. On his way out, they made sure to clean that up as well. It was a debate who would get the bigger applause, Paul for his leadership, or vRam going away.