Chicago VMUG User Conference – October 31st
The Chicago VMUG team is happy to announce that we will be holding a User Conference on Monday, October 31st. This is a much larger event than our normal Local Meetings and will feature a number of great vendors, speakers, breakout sessions, and prizes. We’ve lined up a number of folks to come out and speak to you on a variety of technical topics, including vSphere 5, End User Computing, and Performance Tuning.
As a reminder, we’re also sending one winner to the VMware Install, Configure, Manage (vSphere 5) course, which is a prerequisite for obtaining VCP5 certification if you do not already have your VCP4. Click here for Event Information and Registration, walk-ins also welcome.
Event Details:
7:30 a.m. – 3:45 p.m.
Renaissance Schaumburg Convention Center Hotel 1551 North Thoreau Dr.Schaumburg, IL 60173
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read moreChicago VMUG meeting on July 13th 2011 come out and participate
It’s that time again fellow Chicago VMware people, the VMUG group will be having our next meeting on July 13th in the Addison, IL area. Stay tuned here or our Twitter account for the upcoming registration and location details.
The meeting will be focused on Virtual Desktops (VDI) and security both are hot topics.
9:30am – 10:00am – Registration
10:00am – 10:45am – Impact of VDI on traditional storage (Xiotech)
• Impact of virtual desktops on traditional
• Looking at storage in terms of IO Density (IOPS/GB) like a vehicle’s
• SSD technology overview (benefits, pitfalls, etc)
• Effective tiering of data storage
10:45am – 11:15am – vShield Technologies Overview (Elias Khnaser – Artemis)
• Benefits of using vShield
• How to justify vShield solution in existing environments
• Customer references
11:15am – 11:45pm – vShield Technical Deep Dive (Keith Luck – VMware)
11:45pm – 12:15pm – Lunch
12:15pm – 1:00pm – Introduction to Virtual Security (Michael Davis – Savid/Hacking Exposed Author)
1:00pm – 1:50pm – VMware/vShield Security Q/A Panel (Xiotech, Michael Davis, Keith Luck, Eli Khanaser)
1:50pm – 2:00pm – Prizes & Giveaways
Chicago VMUG March 2011 meeting recap
Sorry for the delay in writing up the summary, things have been a bit crazy and these pictures have been sitting on my phone for a few weeks now. We had our last meeting on March 23rd at the Tech Nexus in Chicago. The turnout for the meeting was close to 100 people that showed up to learn more about vCloud Director.
We had Bill Call in from VMware to cover the plumbing of VMware vCloud Director. Bill is a local VMware employee that specializes in Cloud technology. During Bill’s session everyone got a detailed discussion about all of the different pieces that make up the vCloud offering and how things come together to make a very strong product that is 1.0 product offering. I snapped a couple of pictures during Bill’s talk and pasted them below.
The next session at the meeting was Chris Cicotte a vSpecialist from EMC. This session provided us with an idea of how vendors are positioning vCloud Director to their customers. Chris’s talk was more focused at a higher level that explained things in a manor that you could use in talks with your management when they come to ask about this new thing called Cloud.
After some tasty food that was brought in by out meeting sponsor BlueLock, they took the floor. The BlueLock session was focused on what they offer as being one of the official vCloud Director partners in the US that was selected by VMware. The session included a demo of their offerings and some open discussion.
The meeting wrapped up with a open discussion panel that was lead by our speakers. This always proves to be a popular session at the meetings. During this part of the meeting the attendees can ask any question related to virtualization and have it answered by the experts or someone from the audience. This is a great time to ask those questions that you have been thinking about in the early hours sitting in your cubicle. It’s not very often that you get this much brain power in one room so we encourage everyone to bring their questions as they really help the meeting be a success.
read moreJoin VMUG for our upcoming ThinApp Overview webcast
Date: Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Choose from two time slots: 12:00 p.m. CST or 6:00 p.m. CST
This session will detail new features and enhancements to the ThinApp™ product including the 4.5 and 4.6 releases. The second half of the session will review VMware’s vision for the future of application virtualization and provide demonstrations of possible future technology.
Speaker: Travis Sales, Sr. Product Specialist SE, VMware
Technical Level: Beginner
March 23rd – Next VMUG
9:30am – 10:00am – Registration
10:00am – 10:30am – Introduction to the Cloud (Bill Call – VMware)
10:30am – 11:15am – vCloud Director Technical Deep Dive (Chris Cicotte – EMC vSpecialist)
11:15am – 11:45pm – vCloud Technologies Overview (Bill Call – VMware)
11:45pm – 12:15pm – Lunch
12:15pm – 1:00pm – BlueLock – Building the Hybrid Cloud (BlueLock)
1:00pm – 1:50pm – vCloud Q/A Panel (Bill Call, Chris Cicotte, BlueLock, Doug Mismash(EMC))
1:50pm – 2:00pm – Prizes & Giveaways
Registration will be posted soon
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Agenda:
8:30 a.m. – 9:15 a.m.
Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:15 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.
VMware Overview: Management Solutions Across Infrastructure and End User Computing
10:15 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
Break
10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Partner Overview: Capabilities and Integration Points with VMware Solutions
11:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.
Q&A and Raffle
