The Votes are in – Best community #vBrownBag sessions at VMworld US

This post is by Cody Bunch

Before we get into the results, a few thanks need to go out to the folks at VMware that made this happen for the second year in a row, as well as our various #vBrownBag swag sponsors. If you didn’t get in on the swag scavenger hunt, no worries, we’ll likely be at Barcelona as well.

VMworld #vBrownBag Voting Results – Top 10

1. Impact of Data Acceleration Tier on IO Performance | Chethan Kumar
2. Hypervisors and server-side flash | kaustubh patil
3. Why Flash technology is so disruptive | Todd Mace
4. Vagrant Up with VMware | Trevor Roberts Jr
5. OpenStack for VMware Admins | Colin McNamara
6. Certificates 101 | Jim Millard
7. vCAC: The power of custom properties | Jon Harris
8. Bridging the gap to Private Cloud | Eric Wright
9. SRM Lessons Learned | Mike Ellis
10. HyperConvergence – What Is It | Gabriel Chapman

Interesting too. Flash at the top, along with Vagrant and OpenStack. Good stuff.

VMworld #vBrownBag Voting Results – Raw

These are formatted in #votes | title | presenter.

25 | Impact of Data Acceleration Tier on IO Performance | Chethan Kumar
23 | Hypervisors and server-side flash | kaustubh patil
13 | Why Flash technology is so disruptive | Todd Mace
8  | Vagrant Up with VMware | Trevor Roberts Jr
6  | OpenStack for VMware Admins | Colin McNamara
6  | Certificates 101 | Jim Millard
6  | vCAC: The power of custom properties | Jon Harris
6  | Bridging the gap to Private Cloud | Eric Wright
6  | SRM Lessons Learned | Mike Ellis
4  | HyperConvergence – What Is It | Gabriel Chapman
4  | esxtop deep dive | Wen Yu
2  | vExpert Daily | vExpert Daily
2  | Extend vCenter Log Insight with Content Packs | Steve Flanders
2  | vCD Networking Made Easy! | Shane Williford
2  | Does Hardware Matter Anymore? | Jeramiah Dooley
2  | Accelerate Storage with Server Based Caching | Larry Touchette
1  | PHD Virtual | PHD Virtual
1  | Architecting an all-flash cloud infrastructure | Ashish Gupta
1  | Nutanix | Dwayne Lessner
1  | Cloud is people and process, not technology | Anton Zhbankov
1  | A physical desktop lost in a virtual world. | Tony Foster
1  | Trainsignal | David Davis
1  | SDDC: Like a Harmony Remote Control | Keith Norbie
1  | Veeam     | Rick Vanover
1  | Mac OS X guests in vCloud | Blake Garner
1  | New way of looking at the Secure Hybrid Cloud | Edward Haletky
1  | Storage Innovations for VMware Horizon | Chris Gebhardt
1  | Software Defined Storage: What, How & Why | Vaughn Stewart
1  | 10 Steps to Migrating to the Cloud | Edward Haletky
1  | Zerto | Shannon Snowden
1  | The strange case of the PSOD | David Espejo

Notes

Votes were collected from vote.professionalvmware.com over the past few week(s) or so. Using some Ruby, Sinatra, Ngnix, and other things. The voting platform itself is a variant of http://www.drurly.com/blog/2012/06/30/build-reddit-in-sinatra-2/

All code (except for fancy twitter API bits) can be found here: https://github.com/bunchc/reddit-in-sinatra/tree/2.0.x