Comments on: Win A Free VMworld Pass From boche.net

By: VMworld 2010: A Trip to Remember – Gestalt IT

VMworld 2010: A Trip to Remember – Gestalt IT — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 12:25:40 +0000

[...] on VMware I came across a blog post by Jason Boche promoting a “Get Away to VMworld” contest. Jason donated a free registration to the person who won his contest, and Gestalt IT agreed to cover the airfare. I thought, why not, [...]

By: gcballard

gcballard — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 22:58:07 +0000

I’m not sure you mixed them up enough before you had your daughter draw one

good show w/ the little ones. What was for dinner anyway?

By: Eiad Al-Aqqad

Eiad Al-Aqqad — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 12:22:32 +0000

Hi Jason,

Are you running anything similar for VMworld Europe in Copenhagen?

Enjoy,
Eiad

By: Announcing the Gestalt IT “Get Away to VMworld” Contest! – Gestalt IT

Fri, 13 Aug 2010 18:22:37 +0000

[...] want to help deserving folks get to this conference. We already paid for airfare for the winner of the Boche.net pass giveaway, but we can do more. So we contacted some of our favorite technology companies about sponsoring a [...]

By: Congratulations, Greg Stuart, You’re Going To VMworld! – Gestalt IT

Congratulations, Greg Stuart, You’re Going To VMworld! – Gestalt IT — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 18:49:24 +0000

[...] Earlier this month, we posted about an awesome idea that our friend, Jason Boche, had. He was giving away a pass for VMworld 2010 to help more people get to the event. We at Gestalt IT decided to help out by offering to pay for [...]

By: jason

jason — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 02:32:19 +0000

Hi James. I’m sorry, the contest is over. The drawing was held last Thursday evening. Please visit http://run-virtual.com/ for more ideas on how to attend VMworld on the cheap.

By: James Jelinek

James Jelinek — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 17:14:51 +0000

My name is James Jelinek. I’ve been in the IT field for over 10 years. My core competencies are in networking, infrastructure, and system administration.

I work for a non-profit EMS agency that houses 911 dispatch, Ambulance service, and logistical operations. So needless to say it’s crucial that we have a 24/7 operation that runs efficiently.

I currently use VMWare ESXi 4 in both a production and disaster recovery environment. For our production side I’ve eliminated the need to spend excess funds on hardware by virtualizing most of our key and ancillary services. There are some services that are not practical to virtualize due to heavy I/O etc but I’ve went ahead and set them up on the ESXi server in the event that the standalone server fails we can resume operations within minutes. This is critical when lives are on the line.

Because we reside in the gulf coast and hurricanes are a very real threat, we’ve implemented ESXi to mirror our infrastructure in multiple locations to ensure business continuity in the event of a disaster. There are still some “switches to be thrown” when things occur but it’s better than nothing.

I’m really excited about going to VMWorld for the sheer fact that I want to interact with other users like myself and advanced alike. Learning more about the products, its capabilities, and coming up with creative ways to solve a lot of our painpoints.

While we are not 100% virtual I realize the need to go that route and after 6 months of running with VMWare I can say it has not only been a life saver, but it also contributes to saving lives!

By: PiroNet

PiroNet — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 18:48:59 +0000

Congratulations to the winner! Perhaps we will meet up in San Francisco

Cheers,
Didier

By: David Davis

David Davis — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 17:46:33 +0000

Congrats Greg! I’ll be seeing you at VMworld!

Jason – this contest was a really excellent idea and I really like how you did it! The kids were so cute choosing the winner (I watched the whole video). I’ll see you at VMworld too!

Great work,
David

By: All things virtual XII « TheSaffaGeek

All things virtual XII « TheSaffaGeek — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 14:03:42 +0000

[...] Boche has posted up how to win yourself a free pass to this years VMworld.I’m sure a staggering amount of people are going to be entering as most companies are still weary [...]

By: Kyle McMaster

Kyle McMaster — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 16:36:58 +0000

Hello, I’m a Technical Engineer working within the Technical Engineering function of a global top ten Information Technology services company. I have been using VMware ESX since version 2.5 and during my time working with VMware products I have obtained both VCP3 and VCP4 status.

At the moment most VMware ESX deployments I have been involved with, have focused on and around consolidation of server estates. Given more exposure to other products from VMware such as View and SRM I would like to change this.

VMworld is something that has come around and grabbed my attention for the last few years, but unfortunately I have never had the chance to attend. If given the chance this year, the top three things I would like to gain from attending are (in no particluar order):

1. Exposure to unfamiliar VMware products through the VMworld labs.

2. Meet and engage with industry knowledge experts to enhance and increase my existing knowledge.

3.Network with VMware partners and understand how complimentary products can enhance and simplify existing and new projects.

By: David Strebel

David Strebel — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 16:31:47 +0000

I have been working for a large enterprise for the last 6 months. We have about 375 ESX host currently and constantly growing. We leverage multiple VMware products such as View and Lab Manager. This could be the first VMworld that I’ve missed in the last three years, which could be heart breaking. I would love to attend VMworld this year so I could 1)learn more about cloud solutions, 2)learn more about the upcoming virtualization products and 3)network with other experts in the field. Thanks Boche.net and Gestalt IT for helping someone reach their dreams of attending VMworld 2010!

By: Matt Brauchler

Matt Brauchler — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 16:20:35 +0000

I am a system administrator and we recently moved our datacenter and we went with VMware. We are currently running ~95% of our systems in VMware. We are also implementing Lab Manager for a dev staging environment.

Reasons:
I have never been there
Networking with others
Learning massive amounts of VMware information.

By: Jase McCarty

Jase McCarty — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 16:19:33 +0000

I’m a System Engineer/Architect from Baton Rouge with a 40% virtualized environment. I have been using VMware products for about 10 years. About 5 years ago, I became the VMware lead for my previous employer.

My company was purchased in April, which appears to be a very good turn of events. With an environment that is 40% virtualized, over the past 5 years funds/equipment/resources were limited. Now, our new owners better see the value of VMware and current plans are to go to 100% virtual for production systems.

To do that, we are upgrading to the Enterprise+ and Cisco Nexus 1000v. If things go well, maybe we can migrate to UCS at some point.

The big reasons I would like to attend are:
1. Learn more about how vSphere & the Cisco Nexus configurations go together
2. Network with others for the purpose of sharing my knowledge and learning from theirs

I am a vExpert for 2010, which shows my desire to spread knowledge. Attendance to VMworld 2010 would be an excellent way to spread the word.

Good luck to everyone who submitted an entry to the contest.

Cheers,
Jase

By: Cameron Rowe

Cameron Rowe — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 14:42:22 +0000

I have been operating a small IT support company for the last 10 years. Our clients are fairly small (5-50 workstations typical) and virtualization is becoming something used at this level as well as the enterprise level. I want to learn best practices for P2V, how to contend with Microsoft OEM license issues, and about implementing high availability since we live in a hurricane prone area. Can’t wait to see you all there!