2013 San Diego User Conference Follow Up Survey

Thank you for attending the San Diego VMUG User Conference. We hope you enjoyed the event and found value in the opportunity to meet with your peers to discuss virtualization trends, best practices, and the latest technology!

THIS SURVEY SHOULD ONLY TAKE 3-4 MINUTES, PLEASE ONLY ANSWER QUESTIONS THAT APPLY

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* 1. Please rate the overall quality of your experience at the San Diego VMUG User Conference:

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* 2. Please rate the quality of the morning keynote if you attended: (9:15 am-10:15 am):

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The Power of Server-Side Virtual Caching - Rory Bolt, Proximal Data	The Power of Server-Side Virtual Caching - Rory Bolt, Proximal Data Excellent	The Power of Server-Side Virtual Caching - Rory Bolt, Proximal Data Good	The Power of Server-Side Virtual Caching - Rory Bolt, Proximal Data Fair	The Power of Server-Side Virtual Caching - Rory Bolt, Proximal Data Poor

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* 3. Please rate the quality of the session you ATTENDED in Breakout #1 (10:30 am-11:15 am):

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Tales From the Field: Don’t Let This Happen to Your VMs - Veeam	Tales From the Field: Don’t Let This Happen to Your VMs - Veeam Excellent	Tales From the Field: Don’t Let This Happen to Your VMs - Veeam Good	Tales From the Field: Don’t Let This Happen to Your VMs - Veeam Fair	Tales From the Field: Don’t Let This Happen to Your VMs - Veeam Poor
The Emerging Role of Software Defined Acceleration (SDA) - Silver Peak	The Emerging Role of Software Defined Acceleration (SDA) - Silver Peak Excellent	The Emerging Role of Software Defined Acceleration (SDA) - Silver Peak Good	The Emerging Role of Software Defined Acceleration (SDA) - Silver Peak Fair	The Emerging Role of Software Defined Acceleration (SDA) - Silver Peak Poor
Build a Dynamic and Agile Cloud Computing Infrastructure Using NetApp Clustered Data ONTAP - NetApp	Build a Dynamic and Agile Cloud Computing Infrastructure Using NetApp Clustered Data ONTAP - NetApp Excellent	Build a Dynamic and Agile Cloud Computing Infrastructure Using NetApp Clustered Data ONTAP - NetApp Good	Build a Dynamic and Agile Cloud Computing Infrastructure Using NetApp Clustered Data ONTAP - NetApp Fair	Build a Dynamic and Agile Cloud Computing Infrastructure Using NetApp Clustered Data ONTAP - NetApp Poor
Evolve Your Virtual Data Center with Nimble Storage - Nimble Storage	Evolve Your Virtual Data Center with Nimble Storage - Nimble Storage Excellent	Evolve Your Virtual Data Center with Nimble Storage - Nimble Storage Good	Evolve Your Virtual Data Center with Nimble Storage - Nimble Storage Fair	Evolve Your Virtual Data Center with Nimble Storage - Nimble Storage Poor

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* 4. Please rate the quality of the session you ATTENDED in Breakout #2 (11:30 am-12:15 pm):

	Excellent	Good	Fair	Poor
Software Defined Datacenter - Noah Johnson, VMware	Software Defined Datacenter - Noah Johnson, VMware Excellent	Software Defined Datacenter - Noah Johnson, VMware Good	Software Defined Datacenter - Noah Johnson, VMware Fair	Software Defined Datacenter - Noah Johnson, VMware Poor
Cloud Best Practices - Spencer Cuffe, VMware	Cloud Best Practices - Spencer Cuffe, VMware Excellent	Cloud Best Practices - Spencer Cuffe, VMware Good	Cloud Best Practices - Spencer Cuffe, VMware Fair	Cloud Best Practices - Spencer Cuffe, VMware Poor
Troubleshooting Storage Performance - Dante Carbone, VMware	Troubleshooting Storage Performance - Dante Carbone, VMware Excellent	Troubleshooting Storage Performance - Dante Carbone, VMware Good	Troubleshooting Storage Performance - Dante Carbone, VMware Fair	Troubleshooting Storage Performance - Dante Carbone, VMware Poor
What's New in vCenter Operations 5.6: Technical Deep-Dive - Gregg Parsons, VMware	What's New in vCenter Operations 5.6: Technical Deep-Dive - Gregg Parsons, VMware Excellent	What's New in vCenter Operations 5.6: Technical Deep-Dive - Gregg Parsons, VMware Good	What's New in vCenter Operations 5.6: Technical Deep-Dive - Gregg Parsons, VMware Fair	What's New in vCenter Operations 5.6: Technical Deep-Dive - Gregg Parsons, VMware Poor

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* 5. Please rate the quality of the afternoon keynote if you attended: (12:45 pm-1:45 pm):

	Excellent	Good	Fair	Poor
Customer Case Study: Liquid Grids Moves from AWS to AIS vCloud Director - Ramos Mays, Liquid Grids, and Marc Clark, AIS (American Internet Services)	Customer Case Study: Liquid Grids Moves from AWS to AIS vCloud Director - Ramos Mays, Liquid Grids, and Marc Clark, AIS (American Internet Services) Excellent	Customer Case Study: Liquid Grids Moves from AWS to AIS vCloud Director - Ramos Mays, Liquid Grids, and Marc Clark, AIS (American Internet Services) Good	Customer Case Study: Liquid Grids Moves from AWS to AIS vCloud Director - Ramos Mays, Liquid Grids, and Marc Clark, AIS (American Internet Services) Fair	Customer Case Study: Liquid Grids Moves from AWS to AIS vCloud Director - Ramos Mays, Liquid Grids, and Marc Clark, AIS (American Internet Services) Poor

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* 6. Please rate the quality of the session you ATTENDED in Breakout #3 (2:00 pm-2:45 pm):

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Overcome the Challenges to Virtualizing Tier 1 Business Critical Applications - Symantec	Overcome the Challenges to Virtualizing Tier 1 Business Critical Applications - Symantec Excellent	Overcome the Challenges to Virtualizing Tier 1 Business Critical Applications - Symantec Good	Overcome the Challenges to Virtualizing Tier 1 Business Critical Applications - Symantec Fair	Overcome the Challenges to Virtualizing Tier 1 Business Critical Applications - Symantec Poor
How to Adapt Your Data Management and Protection Methodologies to a Cloud Scale Environment - Commvault	How to Adapt Your Data Management and Protection Methodologies to a Cloud Scale Environment - Commvault Excellent	How to Adapt Your Data Management and Protection Methodologies to a Cloud Scale Environment - Commvault Good	How to Adapt Your Data Management and Protection Methodologies to a Cloud Scale Environment - Commvault Fair	How to Adapt Your Data Management and Protection Methodologies to a Cloud Scale Environment - Commvault Poor
Evolving to the Software-Defined Data Center: A Detailed Look at EMC Integrations with VMware - EMC	Evolving to the Software-Defined Data Center: A Detailed Look at EMC Integrations with VMware - EMC Excellent	Evolving to the Software-Defined Data Center: A Detailed Look at EMC Integrations with VMware - EMC Good	Evolving to the Software-Defined Data Center: A Detailed Look at EMC Integrations with VMware - EMC Fair	Evolving to the Software-Defined Data Center: A Detailed Look at EMC Integrations with VMware - EMC Poor
Software Defined Networking and Operational Manageability: "Tell Me Again Why it Takes Three Days to Provision a VLAN?" - Arista Networks	Software Defined Networking and Operational Manageability: "Tell Me Again Why it Takes Three Days to Provision a VLAN?" - Arista Networks Excellent	Software Defined Networking and Operational Manageability: "Tell Me Again Why it Takes Three Days to Provision a VLAN?" - Arista Networks Good	Software Defined Networking and Operational Manageability: "Tell Me Again Why it Takes Three Days to Provision a VLAN?" - Arista Networks Fair	Software Defined Networking and Operational Manageability: "Tell Me Again Why it Takes Three Days to Provision a VLAN?" - Arista Networks Poor

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* 7. Please rate the quality of the session you ATTENDED in Breakout #4 (3:00 pm-3:45 pm):

	Excellent	Good	Fair	Poor
Accelerate Desktop Virtualization Deployments and Embrace BYOD with Pre-Integrated Converged Dell–VMware VDI Solutions - Dell Wyse	Accelerate Desktop Virtualization Deployments and Embrace BYOD with Pre-Integrated Converged Dell–VMware VDI Solutions - Dell Wyse Excellent	Accelerate Desktop Virtualization Deployments and Embrace BYOD with Pre-Integrated Converged Dell–VMware VDI Solutions - Dell Wyse Good	Accelerate Desktop Virtualization Deployments and Embrace BYOD with Pre-Integrated Converged Dell–VMware VDI Solutions - Dell Wyse Fair	Accelerate Desktop Virtualization Deployments and Embrace BYOD with Pre-Integrated Converged Dell–VMware VDI Solutions - Dell Wyse Poor
A Perfect Fit: Converged Solution for the Software Defined Data Center - Hitatchi Data Systems	A Perfect Fit: Converged Solution for the Software Defined Data Center - Hitatchi Data Systems Excellent	A Perfect Fit: Converged Solution for the Software Defined Data Center - Hitatchi Data Systems Good	A Perfect Fit: Converged Solution for the Software Defined Data Center - Hitatchi Data Systems Fair	A Perfect Fit: Converged Solution for the Software Defined Data Center - Hitatchi Data Systems Poor
Infrastructure Convergence: Transformation, or Hyped Repackaging? How to Tell the Difference and Select the Right Solution to Optimize Your Virtual Environment - SimpliVity	Infrastructure Convergence: Transformation, or Hyped Repackaging? How to Tell the Difference and Select the Right Solution to Optimize Your Virtual Environment - SimpliVity Excellent	Infrastructure Convergence: Transformation, or Hyped Repackaging? How to Tell the Difference and Select the Right Solution to Optimize Your Virtual Environment - SimpliVity Good	Infrastructure Convergence: Transformation, or Hyped Repackaging? How to Tell the Difference and Select the Right Solution to Optimize Your Virtual Environment - SimpliVity Fair	Infrastructure Convergence: Transformation, or Hyped Repackaging? How to Tell the Difference and Select the Right Solution to Optimize Your Virtual Environment - SimpliVity Poor
Advances in VM Performance Troubleshooting with VM-aware Storage - Tintri	Advances in VM Performance Troubleshooting with VM-aware Storage - Tintri Excellent	Advances in VM Performance Troubleshooting with VM-aware Storage - Tintri Good	Advances in VM Performance Troubleshooting with VM-aware Storage - Tintri Fair	Advances in VM Performance Troubleshooting with VM-aware Storage - Tintri Poor

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* 8. Please rate the quality of the session you ATTENDED in Breakout #5 (4:00 pm-4:45 pm):

	Excellent	Good	Fair	Poor
VMware Software Defined Storage - Mark Davis, Virtso Software (acquired by VMware in February 2013)	VMware Software Defined Storage - Mark Davis, Virtso Software (acquired by VMware in February 2013) Excellent	VMware Software Defined Storage - Mark Davis, Virtso Software (acquired by VMware in February 2013) Good	VMware Software Defined Storage - Mark Davis, Virtso Software (acquired by VMware in February 2013) Fair	VMware Software Defined Storage - Mark Davis, Virtso Software (acquired by VMware in February 2013) Poor
New Storage Trends, Concepts, and Approaches for End User Computing - Dante Carbone, VMware	New Storage Trends, Concepts, and Approaches for End User Computing - Dante Carbone, VMware Excellent	New Storage Trends, Concepts, and Approaches for End User Computing - Dante Carbone, VMware Good	New Storage Trends, Concepts, and Approaches for End User Computing - Dante Carbone, VMware Fair	New Storage Trends, Concepts, and Approaches for End User Computing - Dante Carbone, VMware Poor
What's New in vCenter Operations 5.6: Technical Deep-Dive - Gregg Parsons, VMware	What's New in vCenter Operations 5.6: Technical Deep-Dive - Gregg Parsons, VMware Excellent	What's New in vCenter Operations 5.6: Technical Deep-Dive - Gregg Parsons, VMware Good	What's New in vCenter Operations 5.6: Technical Deep-Dive - Gregg Parsons, VMware Fair	What's New in vCenter Operations 5.6: Technical Deep-Dive - Gregg Parsons, VMware Poor
ESXi Operational Best Practices - Spencer Cuffe, VMware	ESXi Operational Best Practices - Spencer Cuffe, VMware Excellent	ESXi Operational Best Practices - Spencer Cuffe, VMware Good	ESXi Operational Best Practices - Spencer Cuffe, VMware Fair	ESXi Operational Best Practices - Spencer Cuffe, VMware Poor

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* 9. Please rate the quality of the VMware lab(s) you ATTENDED:

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* 10. Which of the following topics would you like to see at future VMUG events (please check all that apply).

VMware vSphere

vCloud Suite

vCloud Automation Center

vCloud Networking & Security

vSphere Storage Appliance

VMware Go Pro

vCenter Operations Management Suite

vCenter Configuration Manager

vCenter Site Recovery Manager

vCenter Protect Standard

vFabric Application Director

VMware View

VMware Mirage

ThinApp

Horizon Application Manager

Horizon Mobile

Other (please specify)

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* 11. Which of the following topics are important to your organization's business and IT initiatives?

Software-Defined Datacenter

Security & Compliance

Management

Cloud Computing

Private Cloud

Public/Hybrid Cloud

Business Process Desktop

Mobile Secure Desktop

Disaster Recovery

Server Consolidation

Business Continuity

Virtualization & Cloud

Other

Other (please specify)

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* 12. Please rate the value of this event relative to your professional challenges:

Highly Relevant

Relevant

Somewhat Relevant

Not Very Relevant

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* 13. Would you recommend this event to colleagues that use VMware?

Yes

If no, why?

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* 14. Do you plan to join us for future VMUG events?

Yes

If no, why?

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* 15. Did you find the mobile app useful?

Yes

Didn't Use It

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* 16. What was the MOST valuable aspect of the event?

Technical Sessions

Peer Networking

Vendor Exhibition/Table Top Displays

VMware Sessions

New Product Information

Mobile App

Other

Other (please specify)

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* 17. What was the LEAST valuable aspect of the event?

Technical Sessions

Peer Networking

Vendor Exhibition/Table Top Displays

VMware Sessions

New Product Information

Mobile App

Other

None

Other (please specify)

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* 18. What could VMUG do to improve these events in the future?

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* 19. Do you feel this User Conference provided a good networking opportunity?

Yes

If no, how can we improve?

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* 20. Are you interested in VMUG volunteer opportunities?

Yes

If yes, please provide your name, company title and email.

Thank you for your input, feedback is vital in the review process and is important so that we can continue to improve VMUG User Conferences! Please email memberservices@vmug.com for questions.