Daily Life: Vmware Technology Day 2012 in KL

Since company is having a shutdown on May 7 and my colleagues are going for the Vmware Technology Day 2012 in May 17, i decided to go for the first one which is in KL on May 8. I took a coach up on May 7 and already it was a eventful one.
For starters, it was raining in the morning for 5 mins so i have to bring my umbrella all the way to KL and back, second one of my vm host went offline taking with it the HR guest server. HR was back to office on Monday despite the shutdown to clear the CPF issues n some salary items.Luckily the problem is due to a power shutdown of the vm host; after my colleague went and on the server no more issues. so need to monitor the issue.I book the same hotel i am going to stay in KL coming June, Lotus Hotel Kuala Lumpur. Its just a stone throw from Citin hotel and closer to Masjid Jamek MRT.

The Vmware event itself was very good with good speakers. Its more of a technical sharing day where vmware has its chief trainer Denny to guide on the new sexy tools available in vsphere 5.0. The technical depth is there and though i have experience with setting vmware, i think my colleagues will still get to learn much from the event. The 2 letdowns are the 2 partner speakers from EMC n netapp who spend time on marketing their product and me sitting with a bunch of indian supposed IT professionals who keep talking for the whole duration of the event from morning to end.  I wanted to ask them to stop but decided not to as i am in Malaysia and not in SG. Its their local area and the last thing i want is to get screwed.

The event is at InterContinental hotel, next to Citbank KL where my brother used to work at and was a short distance to KLCC. After the event ended, i went to grab my dinner and had a movie (lockout) before coming back to hotel to key in this blog posting.