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March Meeting

Monday, 01 March 2010 10:23 Randy Snyder
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Don't forget to register for the March VMUG:

08:30 Registration and networking

09:00 NetApp
Speakers Matt Kletzly and Bob Christenson

Maximize Your IT Efficiency!
Discover why NetApp is simply the best choice for your mission-critical applications on Microsoft, Oracle, and VMware products.

 At this “NetApp 101″ event, you will learn how to:

- Reduce storage, power, cooling, and floor space needs by as much as 50%

 - Reduce the cost and complexity of managing and storing information.

 - Leverage your current infrastructure.

- Improve your bottom line and realize a rapid return on your investment.

10:15 Break

10:30  Customer Experience on NetApp

11:15 Wrap up

11:30 Close  

http://communities.vmware.com/community/vmug/events

I have the New Train Signal video as a giveaway 

 

News update

Thursday, 25 February 2010 17:03 Randy Snyder
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  Did you know that there was a CONUG?  What is that Central Ohio NetApp Users group.  I attended my first last night, good time and they have appetizers (in case you were interested in what they have that we don't.  If you are interested ask the NetApp guys about it next month when they are in to sponsor our meeting and check out http://communities.netapp.com/groups/cbus-coh-ug Also if there are other users groups meeting that talk about VMware let me know and we will get the word out for them as well. 

On another note there was an interesting release from vKernel, take a look http://www.vkernel.com/solutions/capacity-view and check out their new product.  Best of all its free (we know how that goes over). 

 

Cloud

Monday, 22 February 2010 17:48 Randy Snyder
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  No matter what your thought is on the “Cloud” you should at least be getting familiar with the terminology and technology behind it.  It has been gaining momentum and the technology seems to be catching up.  At least that is what I am reading.  Speaking of which if you don’t subscribe to “The Internet Protocol Journal” you might want to read the last couple of articles (Volume 12, Number 3 and Volume 12, Number 4 titled “Cloud Computing” by T. Sridhar.  You can read these at http://www.cisco.com/web/about/ac123/ac147/about_cisco_the_internet_protocol_journal.html .  The two part article is a little lengthy but well worth the read.  It pretty much covers the who, what and why of the cloud.  If you haven’t thought about this from the business stand point, think about the hardware replacement cycle that most companies go through.  Think of all the time spent evaluating vendors, testing and evaluating and then implementing new technology.  This doesn’t mean you will necessarily be out of a job or all of your equipment will go away.  By changing over to operating expenses versa capital expenses the business can save a lot of money especially when you have to replace a lot of hardware on the floor every couple of years.  Move to the cloud and some of those worries go away and become some other datacenter manager’s issues.  This may or may not be a fit for your needs but that is why you should investigate it further.           

 

February COVMUG Meeting Videos

Monday, 22 February 2010 08:05 Eric Mitchell
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February COVMUG Meeting Videos - from Zahid Ghauri and Mike Raab of Hyper9.

Dim lights Download Embed Embed this video on your site Zahid Ghauri of Hyyper9 (part 1)

Dim lights Download Embed Embed this video on your site Zahid Ghauri of Hyyper9 (part 2)

Last Updated on Monday, 22 February 2010 08:24
 

February VMUG

Wednesday, 17 February 2010 17:29 Randy Snyder
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I would like to thank Platform Labs and Hyper9 for coming out in the snow and making sure we put on another informative VMware Users group.  For those of you that missed out we will be putting the video up shortly and if you would like to contact Hyper9 for more info reach out to Mike Raab at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .  Their presentation is posted in the shared documents folder so you can review it.  Here is an overview of Hyer9:

Hyper9 VEO (virtual environment optimization)

 

The Hyper9 platform brings a unique data centric approach gives you the visibility into the inter-dependencies and behavior around capacity, performance, configuration, history and state, in all layers of the virtual stack, including the guest, vms, datastores, hosts, custom groupings, etc.  Our out-of-the-box output today can drive reporting, trending, alerting and remediation, saving admins time and companies expensive resources.  Hyper9 installs in minutes and scales to manage 1000s of VMs.

 

After the meeting we had some questions about how to get started with VMware, how to setup a homelab, and how to get more info.  First thanks for asking and keep asking that is the only way we can help.  For more info on products make sure you check out the http://www.VMware.com web page and look under the products sections.  There are numerous whitepapers and documentation on the products.  The communities section is filled with members that would love to answer your questions or point you in the right direction so sign up and check them out.  As well utilize your local VMUG, if you didn’t know we meet the third Tuesday of every month from 9am to 11:30.  As for getting started well there are all kinds of great bloggers out there check out some of these sites to get started on your own home lab configuration:

http://blogs.virtualizationadmin.com/davis/2010/01/20/video-my-home-vmware-vsphere-lab/

http://virtualisedreality.com/2010/02/14/home-lab/

http://www.techhead.co.uk/vmware-esxi-home-lab-why-what-and-how-considerations-when-building-your-own-home-lab

http://communities.vmware.com/thread/241119

http://virtualgeek.typepad.com/virtual_geek/2008/06/building-a-home.html

http://blogs.vmware.com/vmtn/2010/01/white-boxes-and-home-labs-community-podcast-79.html

If you are not familiar with the community podcasts these run every Wednesday and as you can see by the link above they have an entire topic on the subject. 

I hope this helps you get started.  Keep the questions coming, get involved and tell us what you did. 

Last Updated on Wednesday, 17 February 2010 17:34
 
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