The next Wisconsin VMware User Group Meeting is scheduled for Thursday, March 4th.
Our sponsors are Trend Micro and NetApp.
Agenda
- 8:30 Registration: Refreshments provided by our meeting sponsors Trend Micro and NetApp
- 9:00 Welcome
- 9:05 NetApp presents Virtual Server Deployment, Backup, and Disaster Recovery with VMware and NetApp by Mike O’Rourke, Consulting Systems Engineer
- During the discussion topics include unified architecture, data deduplication, backup and recovery, integration with VMware and a short demo of NetApp features.
- 10:00 Break
- 10:20 Trend Micro presents Server & Application Protection For Dynamic Datacenters by Bob Lewinski,SME – Virtualization Security
- Challenges of the Dynamic Datacenter & Virtualization Impact on Compliance. Advanced protection for VirtualizedMission critical servers against known and zero-day attacks.
- 11:15 Wrap-up: Q&A, announcements, drawings.
- 12:00 Lunch: Our meeting sponsors NetApp and Trend Micro provide us with lunch. This is a great opportunity for further networking with your fellow VMware users as well as today’s presenters.
Directions
Best Western Bridgewood Resort Hotel 1000 Cameron Way,Neenah, Wisconsin, 54956-9807
Phone: 920/720-8000 Map:http://bit.ly/dvP3XV
Meeting registration link
Here are some of the items I have received from some of our vendor and community supporters:
- Cisco has provided me another copy of Project California: a Data Center Virtualization Server. This book is about the development of their UCS (Unified Computing System) product.
- TrainSignal: David Davis provided 2 copies of his new VMware vSphere Pro Series Vol. 1 (View, ThinApp, Nexus 1000v & PowerCLI) Training set as well as 2 copies of his VMware vSphere Training DVD’s
- Mike Laverick sent a copy of his VMware vSphere 4 Implementation book.
- Veeam: Matt Forsberg (new Enterprise Accts Rep, Midwest) sent me some of Jason Boche’s vCalendars.
- Jase McCarty sent me a copy of the VMware vSphere 4 Administration Instant Reference that he co-authored with Scott Lowe & Matthew Johnson.
- Kurt Kobylecky from Vizioncore is sending me some vSphere 4.0 Quick Start Guides (co-authored by Thomas Bryant from Vizioncore)
- I just signed the WI-VMUG up with the O’Reilly User Groups program and as a start they gave me some eBooks (winner’s choice, I think) to give away.
- I am expecting the usual box of VMware VMUG swag to arrive in time for the meeting.
Here is the link to the WI-VMUG meeting registration: http://bit.ly/b8gXdR
For those of you who don’t have to get back to work after the WI-VMUG meeting next Thursday, the next Wisconsin Tech OnTap Live NetApp User Group Meeting is being held on March 4th as well.
It is from 3:00-6:00pm in Delafield. You can register at: http://bit.ly/bdcAkt
Here is some more info from the email invite I received:
We’re excited to bring you the latest segment in the continuing series of NetApp’s quarterly Wisconsin Tech OnTap live user group meeting.
This quarter’s featured topic includes working with the latest release of Operations Manager featuring Performance Advisor and Protection Manager, discussing provisioning best practices, and OnTap 8.0 7Mode.
Come exchange ideas with other local NetApp users and talk with specialists from NetApp.
Hot discussion topics include:
— Advanced Alerting, Monitoring, Reporting (Ops Mgr 4.0)
— Enhanced Provisioning Best Practices
— Intro to Larger (64bit) Aggregates
— Drawing for a $100 gift card!!
We hope you’ll join us for some food and libations while you socialize with your peers and learn from the experts during this informative knowledge exchange.
148 registered as of this afternoon, still room for more of you.
I have some additional giveaways on the way and will post information on them as soon as I know they will be here in time for this meeting.
160 registered as of 5pm today (Monday). I have room for more if you have not yet registered be sure to do so and I’ll see you Thursday.
170 on the final official registration sheet from VMware. My throat/voice is shot so Mike Nelson may be taking over as MC of tomorrow’s event. Regardless I am looking forward to another great meeting.