VMworld Day 1

Sunday, August 30th was my first day at VMworld 2015.  So far it contained the following:

1. Over 10 miles of walking/running
2. Playing dodge ball to raise money for the Wounded Warriors charity
3. Checking in to conference and collecting conference material
4. Attending Opening Acts 2015 via #VMunderground group
5. Talking with a lot of community friends at opening
6. Attending VMunderground party

The two things that stuck with me the most from my day 1:

1. Storage specialists confirmed my thoughts that applications who have their own replication mechanism (such as MS SQL Availability Groups) are both more efficient and reliable than using any type of storage replication
2. This community rocks in its support for each other.