What it takes to get an iPhone through a 10hour day at a conference ... lots of extra battery packs

My room

Wall of shame - the only Fortune 1000 companies not using VMware

Networking goodness, 2 Nexus 7000 switches, and 2 MDS switches

Networking goodness

More server porn, part of a $2 million dollar lab setup to run 37,000 virtual machines on 776 physical servers

The entire $2 million dollar lab setup, a fully complaint Tier I data center. It would have cost $92 million dollars if it were physical. 776 ESX servers hosting 37,200 Virtual Machines

This $1 million dollar Tier II data center ran the self paced labs.

The specs for the self-paced labs

View from the morning keynote

View inside of the self-paced labs

lots of terminals

I managed to get in 7 self paced labs over the 4 days.