The October Wisconsin VMUG meeting is on the 6th at Promega in Madison. 1st Basis Consulting and Pure Storage are sponsoring.
Agenda
- 8:15 Registration: Refreshments provided by our meeting sponsors 1st Basis Consulting and Pure Storage
- 8:45 Welcome: by Mike Nelson, WI-VMUG Co-Leader
- 9:00 VMworld Update: by Nate Hudson, Systems Engineer at VMware
- 9:50 Nothing Good Ever Happens at 4 a.m.: A VM Monitoring Methodology for SMBs: by Brian Fehl, VMware Engineer Consultant at 1st Basis Consulting
- vRealize Operations Manager is a powerful tool, but the complexity can be daunting for SMBs with limited IT resources. Still, your VM landscape needs to be monitored. The 1st Watch methodology offers 24/7 monitoring that combines the benefits of automation and abstraction to provide you with vetted alerts and remediation actions based on VMware’s recommended best practices as well as thresholds you define. We’ll dig into the methodology and share real examples of the ways monitoring improves the health of your landscape.
- 10:40 Break
- 10:50 tbd: by Pure Storage
- 11:40 Lunch provided by our meeting sponsors meeting sponsors Pure Storage and 1st Basis Consulting
- 12:05 Member Presentation: Clouds are Magic, and Other Assorted Nonsense: by Bob Plankers, Virtualization Architect at UW-Madison
- 12:50 VMware Technical: Secure Your Datacenter with Micro-segmentation, Overview and Demo: by Kevin Tebear, Systems Engineer at VMware
- 1:35 Ask the Experts: Roundtable Q&A
- Bob Plankers, Virtualization Architect at UW-Madison
- Kevin Tebear, Systems Engineer at VMware
- Nate Hudson, Systems Engineer at VMware
- Brian Fehl, VMware Engineer Consultant at 1st Basis Consulting
- Pure Storage
- 2:00 Wrap-up: Announcements & Drawings
