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In the current issue of the German “ix” magazin there is the first (of three) parts of a nice vCenter Orchestrator tutorial. Buy the issue in paper at your favorite newspaper store, or online (you can also just get the single article): http://www.heise.de/ix/inhalt/2013/9/112/

The authors of the article, Jens and Guido Söldner, are also teaching a two day instructor-led hands-on workshop focusing on vCO and vSphere automation These are taking place in Düsseldorf and Munich starting at Sept. 10th and Oct. 10th 2013.

Get details and book your place at http://www.amiando.com/vmworkshop2013.html

VMworld 2013 is starting tomorrow in San Francisco, as usual providing a real bunch of Hands-on Labs you can get your fingers on all the products.

And of course there is a lot of vCenter Orchestrator stuff represented in these labs (hey, it’s becoming a more and more important component within the VMware vCloud Suite!):

And you can find vCO in quite a few breakout sessions this year:

So if you are attending VMworld this year, make sure to check out these sessions (live, or afterwards on www.vmworld.com)!

If you are not attending: Register yourself at http://hol.vmware.com and check the lab HOL-OPS 07 to get a guided introduction in vCO!

You are attending VMware Partner Exchange (PEX) 2013?

Make sure to attend our bootcamp session “TEX1150 Workflow Development with vCenter Orchestrator“!
Brian Watrous (you know him from the great free vCO training videos on www.vmwarelearning.com!) and myself will teach you vCO, from your first “Hello World” workflow to great integration use-cases…

Watch the promotion…

Aaaand, there is more: Other sessions talking about vCO are…

CI1285 – Building Integrated Software Defined Datacenters with vCloud Director by Chris Knowles and Thomas Kraus

TEX1403 – Keep It Simple with Automation Development Best Practices with Savina Ilieva

TEX1911 – The vCenter Orchestrator Adapter Program – Extend VMware’s Cloud Service Provisioning Solution with Terry Lyons and Meenakshi Nagarajan

So, Wir sehen uns in Las Vegas wieder  !

Same content, new dates:

VMware Partner University provides a free two-session QuickStart series for vCenter Orchestrator, running on October 17th and 18th 2012.
If you are a VMware Partner (AFAIK no matter what Partner Program/Level): Login to PartnerCentral, browse to Partner University and select “Programs/QuickStart Series”.

Regardless if you are a Consulting Partner or an Software vendor or an hardware Vendor:
vCenter Orchestrator becomes a more and more important piece in VMware’s portfolio, so it’s about time to get started!
NOW!