Aug 6th Meeting at Fox Valley Technical College

Join us for the upcoming Wisconsin VMUG meeting taking place on Tuesday, August 6th, 2019.

This is a great opportunity to meet with your peers to discuss virtualization trends, best practices, and the latest technology!

Meeting Agenda

8:15 Registration
8:45 Welcome: by Nathan Scheunemann, WI-VMUG Co-Leader
9:00 VMware Presentation: Lessons Learned – Horizon 7 on VMware Cloud on AWS by Sean Massey, Staff Cloud Solutions Architect at VMware (@SeanPMassey)
9:50 Break
10:00 Community Presentation: Preventing Infrastructure Configuration Drift with Pester and PowerShell by Donny Lang, Sr. Systems Administrator at Plexus Corp (@DonnyLang1)
It’s easy to conform to best practices and vendor recommendations when you first deploy a system, but how about once it’s in production for a while? We’ll take a look at Pester, a unit/integration testing framework, and how it can help you get a handle on your entire infrastructure stack to combat configuration drift and unauthorized or undocumented changes. Along with the basics, I’ll show you how to operationalize the Pester tests to make them useful, and provide periodic reporting and dashboard views of the test results.
10:50 Break
11:00 Presentation: TBA by Bob Miller, Systems Engineer at AVI Networks
11:50 Lunch
12:30 Bonus Presentation: Best Practices on Managing vSphere by Nathan Hudson, Senior Solutions Engineer, Office of the CTO Ambassador at VMware (@gr8n8tr0n)
1:20 Ask the Experts: Roundtable Q&A

- Sean Massey, Staff Cloud Solutions Architect at VMware (@SeanPMassey)
- Donny Lang, Sr. Systems Administrator at Plexus Corp (@DonnyLang1)
- Bob Miller Systems Engineer at Avi Networks
- Nathan Hudson Senior Solutions Engineer, Office of the CTO Ambassador at VMware (@gr8n8tr0n)
- WI-VMUG Leadership Team