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This year we have a total 31 labs. Attendees can sit as few or many of these labs as they’d like. Each lab is designed to be 60 minutes in length, though as these are self-paced (step by step) labs attendees can sit the lab at their own pace.

LAB01 SRM Suite – Visualize, Analyze, Optimize

LAB02 VNX with AppSync Lab: Simple Management, Advanced Protection

LAB03 EMC Software Defined Storage (SDS)

LAB04 Atmos Cloud Storage: Mature, Robust and Ready to Rock

LAB05 EMC NetWorker Backup and Recovery for Next Generation Microsoft Environments

LAB06 Flexible and Efficient Backup and Recovery for Microsoft SQL Always-On Availability Groups

using EMC NetWorker

LAB07 Easier and Faster VMware Backup and Recovery with EMC Avamar For the Storage Administrator

LAB08 Automated Backup and Recovery for Your Software Defined Data Center with EMC Avamar

LAB09 Taking Backup and Archiving To New Heights with EMC SourceOne and EMC Data Domain

LAB10 Optimizing Backups for Oracle DBAs with EMC Data Domain and EMC Data Protection Advisor

LAB11 Operational and Disaster Recovery using RecoverPoint

LAB12 Achieving High Availability in SAP environments using VMware ESXi clusters and VPLEX

LAB13 VPLEX Metro with RecoverPoint: 3-site Solution for HighAvailability and Disaster Recovery

LAB14 Introduction to VMAX Cloud Edition

LAB15 Replication for the VMAX Family

LAB16 Performance Analyzer for the VMAX Family

LAB17 Introduction to the VMAX Family

LAB18 Storage Provisioning and Monitoring with EMC Storage Integrator (ESI 2.1)

and Microsoft System Center Operations Manager

LAB19 EMC|Isilon Compliance Mode Cluster Setup, Configuration, and Management Simplicity

LAB20 EMC|Isilon Enterprise Ready with OneFS 7.0 Enhancements

LAB21 RSA Cloud Security and Compliance

LAB22 VMware vSphere Integration with VNX

LAB23 VNX Unisphere Analyzer

LAB24 VNX/VNXe Storage Monitoring & Analytics For Your Business Needs

LAB25 VNX Data Efficiency

LAB26 VNXe Unisphere Administration & Snapshots

LAB27 EMC VSPEX Virtualized Infrastructure for End User Computing

LAB28 Collaborative Big Data Analysis with the Greenplum Unified Analytics Platform

LAB29 Manage Your vCloud Suite Applications with VMware vFabric Application

LAB30 Discover VMware Horizon Workspace

LAB31 Deploy and Operate Your Cloud with the VMware vCloud Suite

Lab Opening Hours:

Monday: 11:00AM- 9PM

Tuesday: 7:00AM – 6:30PM

Wednesday: 7:00AM – 5:00PM

Thursday: 7:00AM – 2PM

*Note: Doors close 30 mins before the end of each day

What does the HOL Layout Look Like?

We have a total of 200 seats where attendees can come and sit any of the 31 labs. There are representatives from all BUs and the SD Specialist and SE teams, who will be supporting their respective labs, along with seating the attendees ensuring they have a great HOL experience.

Where is the HOL Located?

The labs are located on the 2nd floor of the Sands Expo Hall at the Venetian – immediately on the right hand side as you enter the EMC Village.

Backend Infrastructure Details:

The backend infrastructure is run out of our massive Durham data center, with the infrastructure being based on VCE Vblock architecture. *Note: we are also running eight XtremIO bricks to serve up the content.

• EMC Data Center: Durham – North Carolina

• EMC: Storage (VNX & XtremIO)

• Cisco: Servers (UCS) & Networking

• VMware: vSphere 5.1 & vCD

Management & Monitoring Showcase:

At the front of the HOL area we also live showcasing (via two large 27” plasma screens) the following products which are connected, and provide an insight, to the backend HOL Cloud infrastructure:

• EMC SRM Suite:

– ProSphere

– Watch4Net

• EMC XtremIO

• VMware vCOPS

We will have representatives from these product teams to walk through a demonstration with attendees, showing them what is happening “under the hood” of the HOL Cloud infrastructure (eg: compute, network, storage utilization, etc) using the various products mentioned above.

Competition:

We are running a number of competitions at the HOL, with spot prizes, giveaways and a daily prize draw of an Apple TV for those who sit a lab and complete the brief survey at the end.