The 3rd annual St Louis VMUG User Conference is a week away.  There are many changes this year and new things added to entice you to attend this year.

The big change this year is that the conference will be in downtown St Louis at the Hyatt Regency St. Louis at The Arch.

If you have not attended before or are looking for reasons to attend this year, hear are some reasons to attend this year :

• The conference is FREE and all day
• Keynotes presented by Kendrick Coleman and Chris Wahl
• Attend educational sessions from VMware and partners
• 40 sponsors
• Free breakfast and lunch
• All attendees will receive a gift

Sessions

Attend educational sessions from VMware and partners on topics including:

• Data Center Management
• EUC – Desktop Virtualization
• Hybrid Cloud & Emerging Technologies
• vSphere & Virtualization
• Storage & Availability

There will be 3 sessions on the recently announced vSphere 6.  Check out the agenda to see a list of all the sessions.

Home Lab Giveaway

This year we are trying to set the bar high and do something really awesome for our members to help develop their skill set and advance their career goals.

As such, we’re ponying up the cash for the ultimate grand prize: an entire home lab kit comprising of :

• ProLiant MicroServer Gen8 Ultra Micro Tower Server
• 16 GB DDR3 Memory Upgrades
• 2 SSDs: Samsung Electronics 840 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5-Inch SATA III S
• 1 4 Port Ethernet adapter
• VMUG Advantage subscription that includes the new EvalExperiance

Reception Party

After the conference the reception party is going to be at the Hyatt Regency Gateway Terrace.  It is on the roof top of the same building that the conference is in.  Free food and drinks will be provided.  This will be the perfect  place to network with fellow VMware administrators, users, employees, and partners

Even if you can’t stay all day, there are many reasons to register and stop by.  So don’t forget to register.

Yesterday I received word that both keynote speakers for the 2015 St Louis VMUG User Conference have been confirmed.  Both speakers are vExperts and rock-stars in the virtualization world.

One of the speakers is Kendrick Coleman.  He works for VCE, has presented at VMworld and is a contributing author to VMware vSphere Design, 2nd Edition.  You can check out his website www.kendrickcoleman.com/ to see more information about Kendrick.

The second speaker is Chris Wahl.  Chris is a senior solutions architect for AHEAD and VCDX # 104.  He is one of the authors of Networking for VMware Administrators.  He has also published many courses at Pluralsight and presented at VMworld many times.  Check out his website www.wahlnetwork.com to see more information about Chris.

The User Conference is Thursday March 19th.  If you have not registered, please browse over to the St Louis VMUG User Conference page to register and see more details.