Signup for VMware Day – 8/18/2010

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Join VMware on Wednesday, August 18, 2010 for lunch and half-day in depth discussion with VMware experts. This is a unique opportunity to gain new ideas, receive updates on VMware support best practices and learn tips and tricks from the VMware support team.

Location
Maggiano’s
516 North Clark St.
Chicago, IL, 60654
Phone: (312) 644-7700

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Chicago VMUG – Slides from 7/28/2010 Meeting

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Thank you all for attending the meeting today, our next meeting will be posted on this site soon.

Presentations:

Transitioning to ESXi 4.1

Compellent – Company and Product Overview

Summary:

You can read a summary of today’s VMUG presentations on Brian’s blog VirtualizeTips.com.

Chicago VMUG meeting on July 28th 2010

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The next Chicago area VMUG will be on Wednesday, July 28th from 10am – 2pm and will be located downtown on Wacker drive. With VMware making the announcement that ESXi is the future of the ESX platform, many organizations are starting their preparations for the migration to ESXi. Come join us as we take a closer look at ESXi and talk about how your organization could make the migration as smooth as possible. In addition, learn about some of the inner workings or ESXi and get your questions answered.

Free lunch will be provided. Check out the agenda below:

10:00 a.m. Welcome
10:15 a.m. VMware Updates
10:45 a.m. Storage Virtualization and VMware
11:30 a.m. Lunch and Discussion Groups
12:15 p.m. Migrating to ESXi
1:00 p.m. ESXi Q/A and Tips/Tricks
1:45 p.m. Raffle Prizes and Closing

Location:
TechNexus
ECC Floor 15
200 South Wacker
Chicago, IL 60606

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Welcome to the official Chicago VMUG site

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Welcome all to the new site for the Chicago VMUG community. We will be using this site along with many other methods to communicate with our members. We have big dreams for our VMUG her in Chicago and want you to be a part of them, so please come and join us at our regular meetings. Invite others that are passionate about VMware to come along and join in on the discussions. The larger we grow this community the more we will all benefit from it.

Were else will you be able to get so many smart VMware people in the same room without having to travel to VMworld. So whether you have experience to share with others or are looking for someone that has details about a VMware product that you are looking to implement come join us.

Have a story to share with the Chicago VMUG

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If you have an experience that was a success or you learned something that others might benefit from please share with us. You can write up your story in a detailed post and send to us and we will proof read and if the story is appropriate for the community we will post the story here and you will be listed as the author. Please be sure to include you contact details and a short summary of yourself.