Location:
Board room FC-30 in the food courtPlace De ville Tower C330 Sparks St.Ottawa Ont.K1A 0N5

Presentations:
1- Stephane Robinson (Health Canada) – The Evolution of virtualization at Health Canada

2- Teradici – Desktop virtualization with PC-over-IP - PC-over-IP
technology allows enterprise PCs and workstations to be centrally
managed in a data center while providing high resolution, full frame
rate 3D graphics and HD media, with full USB peripheral
interoperability, locally over a LAN or remotely over a high-latency
WAN. PC-over-IP is an innovative display protocol technology that
enables the practical consolidation of all IT resources into a data
center, eliminates the need for desktop workstations, PCs and thin
clients, and delivers an uncompromised user experience to each desk,
anywhere, without incurring the security risks associated with
transmitting data across a network or having data reside in remote PCs.

3- Cisco – Networking Best Practices in a virtual environment (3.5 and vSphere 4)

Registration: http://campaign.vmware.com/usergroup/ug-signup.php?session=Ottawa

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This is a new introductory video to VMware Site Recovery Manager that explains what SRM can do and provides a demo of the product.

You can watch the video here.

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VM Monitor

Get X-Ray Insight into Your ESX Servers:

• Quickly check the health of your VMware ESX Server

• View detailed virtual machine health statistics

• Get visual alerts when performance degradation occurs

FREE Real-time NetFlow Analyzer

This free desktop tool captures and analyzes NetFlow data so that you can:

• Quickly answer "why's the network so slow?"

• Identify network top talkers

• Analyze traffic spikes and bandwidth consumption

Exchange Monitor

Continuously monitor Microsoft® Exchange health, including:

• Exchange services

• Mail queues

• Host server health

Award Winning TFTP Server

The most robust, widely trusted and easy-to-use TFTP server which enables you to:

• Concurrently upload and download images from multiple devices

• Upload and download configurations to devices

• Transfer files larger than 32MB

Advanced Subnet Calculator

Compute addresses for IP subnets with ease and perform other tasks with:

• Forward and reverse DNS resolution

• CIDR calculator

• Ability to geneate a list of addresses for any subnet

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This search brings you all the video tagged VMware across MSN, AOL, MTV, Hulu, ESPN, YouTube, MySpace, Dailymotion, Metacafe.

To search other video use http://www.live.com/?scope=video.

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The VMware Infrastructure Management Assistant (VIMA) allows administrators and developers to run scripts and agents to manage ESX and ESXi systems. VIMA is a virtual machine that includes prepackaged software, a logging component, and an authentication component that supports non-interactive login. You can use VIMA to perform most of the tasks commonly performed in the ESX service console.

You can download the appliance here.

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Ok, here it is, the free Hypervisor from Microsoft that will try to compete with VMware ESXi, Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008.

The download is almost 1 GB in size so if you feel like giving it a try this is the link:

• Microsoft Hyper-V Server Download

A couple of things to take into account from the FAQ page:

Q: Is it possible to “upgrade” a Microsoft Hyper-V Server to Windows Server 2008?

A: No. Microsoft Hyper-V Server and Windows Server 2008 are different products. To migrate from a Microsoft Hyper-V Server environment to a Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V environment, export the virtual machines from Hyper-V Server, install Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition, enable the Hyper-V role and import the virtual machines.

Q: Does Microsoft Hyper-V Server include high availability (failover clustering) capabilities for unplanned downtime?

A: No. If high availability is a customer requirement, then we recommend using Windows Server 2008 Enterprise or Datacenter Editions which include integrated failover clustering support.

Q: Can you use PowerShell locally with Microsoft Hyper-V Server?

A: No. PowerShell is not included with Microsoft Hyper-V Server. However, if you use System Center Virtual Machine Manager you can use PowerShell remotely to manage a Microsoft Hyper-V Server.

Q: Does Microsoft Hyper-V Server use a parent partition like Windows Server 2008 with the Hyper-V role enabled?

A: Yes. Microsoft Hyper-V Server shares some things in common with Windows Server 2008 with the Hyper-V role enabled including a common kernel and drivers.

When to use Hyper-V Server 2008?

• Test and Development


• Basic Server Consolidation


• Branch Office Consolidation


• Hosted Desktop Virtualization (VDI)

Also, you can access the Technical Resources page here.

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From Scott Lowe:

• Fault-Tolerant VMs in VI: Operations and Best Practices

From VM /ETC:

• Virtual Center Directions

From Colin McNamara:

• Cisco releases Nexus 1000v virtual switch for VMware

Enjoy!

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An issue has been uncovered with ESX 3.5 Update 2 (build 103908) and ESXi 3.5 Update 2 (build 103909) that causes the product license to expire on August 12, 2008.

VMware has reissued ESX 3.5 Update 2 (build 110268) and ESXi 3.5 Update 2 (build 110271) for download.

You can download the new bits here

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