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Next Meeting: November 19th, 1 - 5 PM, Trio's, Downtown South Bend - Comparing SAN technologies and Roundtable discussions!

rboenne — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:22:38 GMT

There will be a meeting Nov. 19th (yes, different Thursday) from 1pm to 5 pm.

LUNCH WILL BE PROVIDED (And it's Trios, which has excellent food).
REGISTER NOW: http://www.vmware.com/resources/communities/usergroup/events.html

We're changing locations to Trios (View Larger Map</small>).

129 N Michigan St
South Bend, IN 46601
(574) 288-8746
http://www.triossb.com‎/
Trios South Bend

Agenda is as follows:

1- 1:30 pm VMUG Business & Lunch
1:30 - 3 pm Presidio Network Solutions will be presenting on a comparative view of SAN Technologies
3:00 - 3:30 pm - Q & A
3:30 - 3:45 pm - break
3:45 - 4:45 pm - Roundtable discussions on backups, vSphere 4, VDI, security and other topics

http://local.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Trio's+Restaurant+%26+Jazz+Club%E2%80%8E,+south+bend,+in&sll=41.676771,-86.250386&sspn=0.023624,0.036736&ie=UTF8&hq=Trio's+Restaurant+&%20Jazz%20Club%E2%80%8E%2C=&hnear=South+Bend,+IN&ll=41.677175,-86.250401&spn=0.022822,0.036736&z=15&iwloc=A

Robert Boenne
robert.boenne@tcunet.com
P 574-284-6493
Cell: 574-274-6153

No October meeting.... Details for November meeting will be coming soon

rboenne — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:05:04 GMT

There will be a meeting Nov. 19th (yes, different Thursday) from 1pm to 5 pm.

LUNCH WILL BE PROVIDED (And it's Trios, which has excellent food).

We're changing locations to Trios ().

129 N Michigan St
South Bend, IN 46601
(574) 288-8746
http://www.triossb.com‎/
Trios South Bend

Agenda is as follows:

1- 1:30 pm VMUG Business & Lunch
1:30 - 3 pm Presidio Network Solutions will be presenting on a comparative view of SAN Technologies
3:00 - 3:30 pm - Q & A
3:30 - 3:45 pm - break
3:45 - 4:45 pm - Roundtable discussions on backups, vSphere 4, VDI, security and other topics

http://local.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Trios+Restaurant+%26+Jazz+Club%E2%80%8E,+south+bend,+in&sll=41.676771,-86.250386&sspn=0.023624,0.036736&ie=UTF8&hq=Trios+Restaurant+&%20Jazz%20Club%E2%80%8E%2C=&hnear=South+Bend,+IN&ll=41.677175,-86.250401&spn=0.022822,0.036736&z=15&iwloc=A

Robert Boenne
robert.boenne@tcunet.com
P 574-284-6493
Cell: 574-274-6153

Reminder: September 10th VMUG Meeting - 6-8 pm - vCloud - VMWare System's engineer will be speaking about vCloud and VMWorld announcements!

rboenne — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 19:25:17 GMT

Location: Teachers Credit Union
110 S. Main Street
Executive Board Room and Lounge
South Bend, IN 46601

Agenda:

Food
General VMUG business and annoucements
Virtual Cloud Computing and VMware vCloud

Pat O'Day of BlueLock will be presenting on the evolution and future of
virtual cloud computing. As the original author of the Wikipedia entry
for "infrastructure-as-a-service" and avid public speaker on the
topic, Pat O'Day is a recognized expert in virtual cloud computing.
He'll discuss the types of clouds, how to blend cloud environments for
optimization and how interoperability will play a huge role in cloud
computing now and in the future. O'Day will also explain a number of
use cases and BlueLock's use of VMware technology as a premier vCloud
partner.

Update: Scott Archer, Systems Engineer from VMWare will be speaking about vCloud and announcements from VMWorld 2009

Peer networking (bring your questions big and small!)
Socializing at BW3

The goal is to have the meeting on the second Thursday every month.

The VMUG Team

robert.boenne@tcunet.com

574-274-6153 (cell)

574-284-6493 (office)

South Central VIP Cocktail Reception - VMworld, San Francisco

VMHA — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:38:56 GMT

http://now.eloqua.com/e/es.aspx?s=524&e=9786368&elq=b117bc3dbf7c42ebb6d3d2fdefa88dfe&OPENID=Browser

Please join VMware, iland, Cisco, and Intel for South Central VIP Cocktail Reception - VMworld, San Francisco

Misty Goeddertz

mg@iland.com

http://www.iland.com/

August 13th VMUG Meeting - 6-8 pm - Win a Dell Mini!!!!

rboenne — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 14:23:38 GMT

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

Location: Teachers Credit Union
110 S. Main Street
Executive Board Room and Lounge
South Bend, IN 46601

Agenda:

Food
General VMUG business and announcements
Dell with be talking about vStorage and *giving away a Dell Mini*!
Peer networking (bring your questions big and small!)
Socializing at BW3 (if desired)

Additional directions:

WEST of the College Football Hall of Fame, EAST of the courthouse.
Across the SOUTHEAST corner from the City Center Building and across
the SOUTHWEST corner of the Marriott. Parking is available in the TCU
lot and on the street. Please enter from the parking lot entrance.

http://tinyurl.com/3egmht

Future Dates:

Sept. 10
Oct. 8
Nov 12
Dec 10

The goal is to have the meeting on the second Thursday every month.

The VMUG Team

robert.boenne@tcunet.com

574-274-6153 (cell)

574-284-6493 (office)

Follow up from last night's meeting

VirtualPathSean — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 17:15:31 GMT

I assumed they were files.

If they were in a database, then we are talking about something much more in depth. This would require database pointers for the room and desktop names. (all depending on how the patient database works)

Event in Sandusky - Kalahari 2009?

legal1 — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 19:56:54 GMT

The event apparently has been cancelled

Although the ks09.org website is still up & advertising this for August 12-14, 2009, the organizers web site ServerWranglersGuild.com currently has this message posted:

It is with great regret that I inform you that the KnowledgeShare09: Virtualization event has been canceled.

Registered attendees need to contact Kalahari resorts directly to either cancel your reservations or make other arrangements.

Our sincere thanks to all our sponsors and attendees and our apologies for the cancelation.

Jerry Collins
Executive Co-Founder
Jerry.Collins@ServerWranglersGuild.com

CDW SRM Meeting (2009 Feb) Resources - 1

rboenne — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 18:02:14 GMT

Here's the link to the presentation we watched

VMWare Distributed Power Management (DPM) Demo

Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 Viewer link (needed to view attachments if you don't have PowerPoint 2007)

Power Point 2007 Viewer

VCB and TSM

Ray Storer — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 13:59:29 GMT

vcbmounter will only allow once session (vcbmounter to execute) at a time. So, all vcb backups must occur serially (one after another). I do not know if this is a hardware or software limitation.

So, what we do is run vcbmounter to export all our guests to their respective directories. Then, we run the "subst" command to assign drive letters to the various directories. Finally, we kick off two TSM backups to put the vcb images to tape. The "subst" of directories for drives allows us to put our backups on different tapes so during a restore we avoid tape contention. Overall, it works great.

Ray

Site Recovery Manager - SRM Offline Demo

rboenne — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 13:24:14 GMT

Here's the latest version of the Site Recovery Manager Offline Demo.

Unzip to a directory and run the executable. If you press 'F1' during the demo you can see the prompts and when you click on the red boxes that will show up, it will fill in the required information.

Sorry for the delay on getting this uploaded.

Future meeting Topics

michaelw_eci — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 21:35:44 GMT

Based on the open discussion at the end of the last meeting I think a lot of people would like to hear about ESX deployment, things like

How to configure your SAN, size of UNs, how many disks per LUN, how many virtual machines per LUN, LUN configuration for different applications (SQL, Web, etc.)
How to identify bottlenecks on your ESX servers
Sizing of virtual machines (CPU count, memory size) to avoid overcommitment or negative overcommitment.
How to setup network cards in ESX servers for best performance and redundancy
etc.

I think some best practice meetings would be beneficial to all to get a solid ESX understanding across our user group and then start getting into the more advanced things like DRS, DPM, HA, SRM, etc.

VMUG Schedule for 2008 and 2009

rboenne — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 13:48:01 GMT

Sorry for the late notice. Unfortunately, I was not able to get things lined up for the meeting that should have taken place today. I also wasn't able to set things up until our next meeting. However, we did decide at our last meeting to go with a monthly schedule (see below). So, the next meeting will be February 12th at TCU with a talk on Virtual Center and ESX and best practices. This should be a good overview of VI3 and prepare us for the new version coming out with all of the changes.

Feb. 12
Mar. 12
Apr. 9
May 14
June 11
July 9
Aug. 13
Sept. 10
Oct. 8
Nov 12

The goal is to have the meeting on the second Thursday on the odd months of the year.

Where are you from?

peedy — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:07:58 GMT

Hi everyone, I just joined the VMUG. Unfortunately I missed the meeting.

My name is Chris Peden and I am an independant Technology Consultant with many clients in the Michiana area. I have been using VMware in testing environments for years and with the push virtualization has been making I am going to be doing more production virtualization including an exchange 2003 server here in the next week. I use Windows, Mac's, Unix (BSD and Solaris) and have dabbled with linux. I personally use Fusion, Server, and ESXi in my home office.

Some random facts: I like to cook, and I attend GCC.

I look forward to being part of the group and helping make it a success.

If you would like to contact me, please feel free at chris at chrispeden.com

Regards

Chris

VCP Fast Track VMware Authorized Course offered in Goshen, Indiana (Jan 2009)

us3rn4me — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 04:39:05 GMT

As mentioned in Thursday's meeting - MapleTraining (Goshen, Ind) is offering a VMware Authorized Course in Jan 2009. To sit the VCP exam, authorized courseware is a requirement. For further information, check out

http://www.mapletraining.net/asp/class.asp?ClassID=508

Contact info at http://www.mapletraining.net/

Thanks, Michael

Link to Microsoft document on Datacenter server licensing

brandenb — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:25:02 GMT

Here is the link to the Microsoft document on Datacenter server licensing.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/evaluation/news/bulletins/datacenterhighavail.mspx

This is the relevant portion:

Unlimited virtualization rights: Starting October 1, 2006, new servers licensed with Windows Server Datacenter Edition (and previous licenses with new version rights) will have license rights to run an unlimited number of virtualized Windows Server instances. By simply licensing the server's processors with Windows Server Datacenter Edition, customers will be able to run Windows Server Standard Edition, Enterprise Edition, Datacenter Edition or a mix of the three editions without having to track the number of virtual machines or pay for additional Windows Server licenses.

Licensing does not depend on which virtualization technology is used. With all processors in a server licensed for Windows Server 2003 R2, Datacenter Edition, you can run one instance of the software in a physical operating system environment and an unlimited number of instances in virtual operating system environments. With VMWare GSX Server or SWsoft Virtuozzo, this means you can run one physical instance plus unlimited virtual instances. With VMWare ESX Server, it means you can run unlimited virtual instances because there is no need for a physical instance.

Huge Virtualization event - Indianapolis - August 7 "Demo Days"

ryan_birk — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 13:01:43 GMT

This is the largest virtualization event held in Indiana!

http://campaign.vmware.com/usergroup/invites/IndianaDemoDay_8-7-08.html

Finally, an event focused around demonstrations!

VMware User group members chose 12 demonstrations out of over 35 submitted.

There are over 25 sponsors participating (including: Cisco, Dell, Symantec, EMC, Wyse, and more)

This is a must attend event whether you are new to VMware or a veteran.

We hope you can make it!

VMWare conferences

rboenne — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:33:21 GMT

http://campaign.vmware.com/usergroup/invites/IndianaDemoDay_8-7-08.html

Indiana Area VMUG
"Back
to School" Demo Day


	Please join us for the upcoming Indiana Area VMware User Group Demo Day on Thursday, August 7, 2008. Please join an innovative group of VMware users at University Place Conference Center and Hotel (on the campus of IUPUI) to network, share ideas and learn how to get the most out of your VMware solutions. There will be live demos and presentations throughout the day! This is a great opportunity to meet with your midwest peers to discuss virtualization, best practices, and the latest technology.	Agenda
08:00am-09:00am -	Registration
09:0am-09:30am -	Keynote / Opening Remarks
09:30am-12:30pm -	Booths see detailed schedule
12:30pm-01:30pm -	Lunch and Expo
01:30pm-04:30pm -	Booths see detailed schedule
04:30pm-08:00pm -	Reception (open bar & hors d'oevres)

Put the date on your
calendar and/or register today!

The VMUG Team

Meeting Survery Results and next meeting

rboenne — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 19:50:58 GMT

Here are the post meeting survey results that I thought we could use a a beginning of discussion and planning for future meetings. For the next meeting, we'll have a vendor speak on VDI since we'vre already been planning since the last meeting, after that meeting we'll have a user case story meeting (any volunteers? - maybe we'll talk about Virtual Center / ESX 3.5 then as well) and after that, based on the results below, we'll see about having a vendor speak about Disaster Recovery and/or Virtual Center / ESX 3.5

We're looking for voluneteers to host the next meeting. TCU is willing to host the next meeting but doesn't have to. Coachman is willing to host in Middlebury. We'd be looking at the dates of July 10th, 17th or 24th at 6 pm. Sean O'Meara from Xcedex will talk about Virtual Desktop Infrastructure. If you're willing to host, check that you can and then e-mail me.

Comments? Questions?

		Content relevant to my needs	Technical Information	Slides and Demonstration	Overall Meeting
	Excellent	11%	11%	11%	0%
	Very Good	78%	67%	0%	89%
	Acceptable	11%	22%	56%	11%
	Need Improvement	0%	0%	33%	0%


What topics would you like to see discussed?	Business Continuity Planning / Disaster Recovery	15%
	Capacity Planning / Resource Management	10%
	Enterprise Desktop Virtualization	13%
	ESX 3.5 and VirtualCenter 2.5	17%
	Installation / Setup / Deployment	6%
	Performance Monitoring & Tuning	8%
	Security	6%
	Server & Data Center Consolidation	8%
	Test & Development Environments	6%
	Virtual Appliance & Enterprise Software 2.0	2%
	Virtual Infrastructure Management and Automation	8%
	If other, please specify	0%



If yes to using VMare, which products?	VMware ACE/VDI	0%
	VMware Consolidated Backup	0%
	VMware Fusion (for the Mac)	4%
	VMware Infrastructure 3	35%
	VMware Lab Manager	0%
	VMware Player	15%
	VMware Server	23%
	VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure	0%
	VMware Workstation	23%
	If other, please specify	0%



In the upcoming year, which of the following topics are of most important to your organizations business and IT initiatives?	Cost Savings	22%
	Virtualizing the Desktop	16%
	Remote Office/Branch Office Virtualization	6%
	Disaster Recovery	25%
	Green IT	0%
	Virtual Life Cycle Automation	3%
	Platform Management - SAP	6%
	Platform Management - Windows	16%
	Platform Management - Exchange	6%

Vendor Guidelines

Sean_Xcedex — Wed, 21 May 2008 22:46:40 GMT

I think a discussion should be had on the difference between a "Vendor" and a "VMware Partner / Reseller."

In my mind a "Vendor" is a company like Equallogic, Dell, Vizioncore, Bladelogic, etc. Whereas a "VMware Partner" is more like New Age Technologies, Xcedex or Berbee.

With that in mind, I totally agree that a "Vendor" should have to bring a client or a case study. Additionally, I believe the time limits are great to keep "Vendor's" from pitching their new products. However, I believe "Partners" should be held as a technical resource and help answer questions. By all means, "Partners" should also help defer the costs of the meetings. Yet, at the same time they should be prevented from giving any kind of sales pitch. We all come to these meetings to learn more about VMware, not to get bombarded with people trying to sell us VMware.

It is also very important to note that I am a VMware Partner. I love user group meetings and I would be willing to tape my mouth shut in order to ensure that I could still attend them.

Just my thoughts.

VMUG Sponsorhip Opportuntity Form

rboenne — Tue, 20 May 2008 18:21:04 GMT