VMware Communities : Thread List - Western MI Area VMware User Group

New Lansing VMUG

ccullingford — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:38:08 GMT

After several years of kicking the idea around and now several months of trying, we now have an official VMware user group in Lansing. The community site is located at http://communities.vmware.com/community/vmug/us-central/lansing.

I want to introduce myself. My name is Chris Cullingford and I have volunteered to be the leader of the Lansing VMUG. I am a Technical Architect for the State of Michigan’s Department of Information Technology responsible for the design and deployment of server virtualization technology for the state.

Our first meeting will be after the first of the year. I am looking to have meetings quarterly. I am trying to secure a facility for our first meeting so we can lock in dates and speakers. If you have a facility available in the Lansing area that could accommodate 60-70 people and would be willing to help please contact me via the community.

Be on the lookout for the meeting notice coming soon. To ensure you receive it go to http://info.vmware.com/content/subscription and update your profile to include VMUG event announcements.

I look forward to meeting you at the upcoming meetings.

Until later,
Chris

WMVMUG update?

benwayj — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:36:45 GMT

Just wonder what the status of this group is.

Any news on the next meeting?

Anyone in West Michigan running View?

Western MI VMUG Meeting?

pkoster — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 23:28:58 GMT

I have a contact that agreed to come up with a location for us for the next meeting. Is John still running the Western MI VMUG and does anyone have his contact info so I can get the two in touch? Do we have anyone willing to present?

Thanks.

Phil Koster

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Topics for next VMUG meeting

ChiBoy — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 16:57:22 GMT

Please feel free to submit your ideas for the next quarterly VMUG meeting and I can start working on putting this together.

I can be reached at craig.meyer@priorityhealth.com or just post in the forum.

Thanks.

Craig

West Michigan Meet Up Jan 2009

rtroy — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 13:31:42 GMT

Hello everyone, my name is Ryan Troy and I am looking to put together a meet-n-greet with West Michigan VMware users. Please send me a private message via the VMware forums or post here if you would be interested in attending, if there is enough interested I'll set something up.

Roomer Up comming even kalahari- Sanduski

cardinalortho — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 00:36:02 GMT

I hurt that it going to be Virtual even at Kalahari, it any body know information these even it going on? Let me know thanks!

Live Demonstrations of VMware VDI and ThinApp August 5th in East Lansing!

TonyDe — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 21:33:02 GMT

Live Demonstrations of VMware VDI and ThinApp

Discover the true power and flexibility of your desktop or laptop computer with VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure. Reduce hardware costs by 50% or more by running multiple operating systems simultaneously on a single PC. Automate and streamline tasks to save time and improve productivity. If you require additional flexibility, you can run any version of virtually any application on a single operating system without conflicts. You can even run multiple versions of the same application utilizing VMware ThinApp. To learn more, contact us or attend our event in East Lansing on August 5, 2008.

To get more information please contact me directly or visit http://www.assurancegroupservices.com/event.aspx.
August 5th event being held in East Lansing, MI -- Kellogg Hotel & Conference Center -- 55 South Harrison Road -- East Lansing, Michigan 48824-1022
-Food and Beverages provided-

Anthony DeAngelo
Assurance Group, Inc.
Business and Technology Solutions
281 Cramer Creek Court
Dublin, Ohio 43017-2586
(614) 408-9804 – direct
(614) 301-8533 – mobile
(877) 764-3678 - toll
(614) 408-0880 - fax
anthony.deangelo@assurancegroupservices.com

VMWare Presentation - Green IT & Disaster Recovery Awareness Seminar

TonyDe — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:06:11 GMT

You are invited to attend the Green IT and Disaster Recovery Awareness Seminar Series is on August 5th (8am or 1pm).

Speakers include VMware-Virtualization Solutions, eG Enterprise- Enterprise Monitoring Solutions, Xiotech- SAN Storage Solutions, and Double Take- Replication and Recovery Solutions.

This event is free to attend and you will find the seminars to be very beneficial to the continued success of your Company, Computing, and Technology department, DR Planning and Data continuance.

With the consolidation of technologies presented, you will better understand new improvements for the availability of your key applications and data while reducing operational budgets and administrative support costs. There will be open Q&A and networking with other local IT professionals.

To get more information please contact me directly or visit http://www.assurancegroupservices.com/event.aspx.
August 5th event being held in East Lansing, MI -- Kellogg Hotel & Conference Center -- 55 South Harrison Road -- East Lansing, Michigan 48824-1022
-Food and Beverages provided-

Meeting in May

BigJoe — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 14:21:11 GMT

I am looking at setting up a meeting in May. It looked like there were a few people interested. I need to get in contact with people at VMWare because I am not sure what our status is. Please reply to this posting with what you can provide (anything with a question mark). If you have news or want to report on a VMWare news topic make please post the topic so we can make sure only one person will talk about one topic and have a quick paragraph or two discussing the news post. Thanks --Joe

Place: ?

Food sponsor: ?

Introductions (5 min)
VMware News (If any) (10 min)
Main presentation (15-30 min): ?
Open Discussions (the rest of the hour)

Upgrade Virtual Hardware taking a long time

taylorjl — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:08:39 GMT

I just upgraded from ESX Server 2.x to 3.5 and have nine virtual machines running on this box. I ran "Upgrade Virtual Hardware" on all nine, all but three have successfully been updated. The three still in progress have been running for over 2 hours. Does anyone have any ideas why these are taking so long and what can be done? Nothing is special compared to the other six that updated fine and only took a few seconds.

Thanks,

Jerry

Backup procedures of VMWare machines

jffgrnfld — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 21:38:07 GMT

I'm a newer convert to VMWare, and have successfully implemented an ESX 3 environment that is quickly growing. As this happens, one of the questions that I've had - which seems to have a lot of different possibilities and answers - is: what is the best way to back up different VMs?
Our implementation of VM has been to get a number of single-purpose linux and windows machines that were mostly running on cast-off desktops or old servers virtualized. This means we'd love to have backups of them - but at a low-cost solution as much as possible. File-level restores are ideal, and we're currently using Veritas NetBackup as our backup software.
Is anyone doing Consolidated Backup or some other homegrown or alternative-type of backup solution and is willing to share their story? Perhaps this would be a good presentation for the User Group if someone does...

Would like to do a technical presentation of our VDI product

JPitsch — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 16:33:35 GMT

Greetings all,

My name is Jeff Pitsch and I work for Quest Software/Provision Networks division. We have a VDI product that I think everyone should see. I was wondering who I would talk too to get on the schedule for meetings.

Jeff Pitsch
Quest Software - Provision Networks
Phone: 616-648-2258

Fast track Program

nonsparker — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 01:16:38 GMT

Has any one taken the VMware Infrastructure 3: Fast Track Program?

I was wondering if it is worth the $.

Any meeting on the horizon?

BigJoe — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 01:26:40 GMT

Has there been any talk about the next meeting?

Thanks

Joe

VDI?

chouse — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 14:05:07 GMT

Anyone venturing in to VDI-land? We are planning on virtualizing 1500 desktops with vmware, appstream for app deployment and HP or Wyse terminals at the desks.

Preferred Hardware configuration

BigJoe — Wed, 24 May 2006 18:38:39 GMT

We are currently researching a hardware platform for our future ESX servers. We are looking at the differences between "Big Boxes" and Blades. Our current plan is to migrate 100-130 servers into ESX.

What have any of had good/bad/indifferent experiences with?

Where is the best place to look for VMware related jobs?

virtualme — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 17:29:16 GMT

If you are looking for a new job and want to see the best/most jobs related to working with VMware products, where is the best place? Is it a job website like Monster? Or are there better places to look? Any ideas?

Thanks,

virtualme

VM communication in the DMZ

bf1001 — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 13:19:58 GMT

ESX VI3 Host: HP DL385 16GB RAM, (2) Dual-core Optrons, Quad-port 1GB NIC (HP NC340T)

(2) NICs connect our VSwitch to the DMZ Cisco 3750 Switch

We have a VM running Windows 2003 Server R2 that is in our DMZ and it is having communication issues. (static IP 192.168.x.x)

We have a hardware VPN tunnel between our site and a vendors site, that connects our program on our troubled VM to theirs.

The problem:
Open up a command window to ping our vendor to make sure the VPN tunnel is up, and it works fine. Browse the Internet to make sure we can connect to another vendor over http, that works as well. But when we try to ping a second time we get request timed out. Put the static IP on a physical machine and get none of the problems......

Now I was at the last user group meeting in Grand Haven, and I talked with a gentleman that said he was having the same issue. They resolved the issue by upgrading the IOS on their PIX. (I forgot to get his name or who he worked for....oops). Well we replaced our PIX 515E with a Cisco ASA5510 version 8.02 and we are still having the issue.

Any thoughts?

Registration for COVUG Tech Days is now open! It's worth the drive!!!

JerryCollins — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 20:19:04 GMT

The Central Ohio VMware Users Group is hosting their second regional event. We have roughly 40 vendors coming from all over talking about all kinds of topics. There will also be even more technical breakout sessions throughout the day.

The list of topics that will be engaged in over the two day event is long but you can see most of the list here at the general information site.

http://65.189.158.30

Not only is this event going to have a 10 thousand square ft vendor floor with all kinds of hands on stuff and demos, but there will be presentations going on all day and breakout sessions.

View the list of topics and see what all is going on.

Sign up quick to ensure you can attend and get the handout bag full of goodies from the vendors.

The vendors are silly with big give-aways. I cant even mention them here.

P.S. This is being held at the Kalahari Resort in Sandusky, OH and rooms are very cheap. Its about 1 hour and 55 minutes from Columbus Ohio. Bring the family as there are plenty of things to do.

Go here to register: http://info.vmware.com/content/UGReg-MultiSession?session=UserGroup-CentralOhio

Central Ohio VMware Users Group needs volunteers for break-out session lea

JerryCollins — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 16:12:13 GMT

The Central Ohio VMware Users Group is looking for volunteers to lead breakout sessions of up to 20 people at our upcoming July event at www.KalahariResorts.com July 19th and 20th.

This opportunity is open to anyone. You can pick a topic of your choice and you dont have to be an expert. You only need to be willing to keep the conversation going.

If you are interested in volunteering please contact me ASAP!

Thanks,

Jerry Collins
Central Ohio VMware Users Group
Jerry.Collins@covug.org

COVUG Summer Tech Days

JerryCollins — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 19:55:32 GMT

The Central Oho VMware Users Group has its summer version of the highly successful Tech Days event coming up. This event will be July 19th and 20th at the extremely popular KalahariResorts.com location next to the even more popular Cedar Point amusement park in Sandusky, Ohio.

Not only are there currently 40 vendors lined up to present and talk about all different kinds of technologies surrounding virtualization but they are also ready to fill the huge vendor floor with all kinds of booths and information.

You may think it amazing that there will be a Luau the evening of the 19th open to all attendees, a game room filled with large screen TVs with game consoles, and that overnight rooms will be available for a large portion of the attendees who are first to register for only $100 (give or take $10). However you will be astonished to find out that the event itself is free.

The Central Ohio VMware Users Group is working diligently to bring all this together. We expect registration to be opened some time in the middle of June and the invites will come from VMware.

We are looking for some people to help lead informal discussions on different technical topics. It is our objective to have a good range of technical information available and these discussion forums will be a part of that.

For Questions, Comments, suggestions or other please contact:

Jerry.Collins@covug.org
Or
Whitney.Tapp@covug.org

Stay tuned for more info as the event comes together.

Very Good URL for VMWare

gdsqx9 — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 13:36:58 GMT

In my search of the VMware.com web site, I ran into this site that has a gem worth of information on VMware.

http://www.ozvms.com

Suggestion: Agenda

Paul.B — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 13:16:43 GMT

Is it possible to get an agenda sent out before the next meeting? The only reason I ask is because at yesterday's meeting, I felt it was sort of "sales-pitchy" for the first 45-60 minutes. We meet with vendors on a regular basis and have heard a lot of this stuff before, so hearing it again doesn't add a lot of value for me personally.

I'm not against bringing in vendors to talk about the cool new stuff they have, I'm all for it actually. However, I'm sure there are other topics that other members may or may not find valuable depending on where they are with their current environemnt, and if we had an agenda before hand we could decide if attendance would be worth the time away from work.

Just a thought.

VMWorld 2006

Paul.B — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 19:39:00 GMT

Anyone from the area heading out to LA this year?

West Michigan Area VMware User Group meeting - October 25, 2006

jeanw — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 03:51:54 GMT

Join us for the upcoming West Michigan VMware User Group meeting

Date: October 25, 2006
Time: 10:00am - 12:00noon

Location: IBM Corp.
2900 Charlevoix Drive, SE
Grand Rapids, MI

To register: http://www.vmware.com/vmug

Agenda:
- Presentation on IBM's virtualization strategy
- Open forum
- Planning the direction for the user group

MI User Group

ccullingford — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 01:36:04 GMT

Is there any interest in starting a user group in the Lansing area?

Q3 2006 Meeting date?

DanD23 — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 19:05:07 GMT

Has a date/time/location been picked for the next meeting? I was unable to attend the last one and haven't seen any updates on this.

Join us for upcoming Q4 Western Michigan VMUG meeting

jeanw — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 15:37:40 GMT

Date: October 25, 2006
Time: 10:00am - 12:00noon

Location: IBM Corp.
2900 Charlevoix Drive, SE
Grand Rapids, MI

To register: http://www.vmware.com/vmug

Agenda:
- Presentation on IBM's virtualization strategy
- Open forum
- Planning the direction for the user group

VC2 & ESX 2.x

russelwilk — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 21:11:46 GMT

From a question we had in today's user group meeting I decided to post the answer.

The question: Can you manage ESX 2.5.2 with VC2 or must you be at ESX 2.5.3?

The answer: VC 2.0 can manage 2.0.1, 2.1.x, 2.5.x, and 3.0. The documentation can be found at http://www.vmware.com/support/vi3/doc/releasenotes_vi3.html#beforebegin.

Thanks again for a great meeting today!!!

Russel

Old Presentations

BigJoe — Wed, 24 May 2006 19:00:31 GMT

Here we can post older presentations to the group.

Q1 2006 Meeting

BigJoe — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 14:55:50 GMT

Time has just flew by and it is time we put together another meeting. We are looking at the middle of February for a meeting. A couple of people offered space.

Links to utilties

jp1960 — Tue, 08 Nov 2005 21:25:11 GMT

Here's links to the utilities from my presentation today:

Putty: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/
WinSCP: http://winscp.net/eng/index.php
VMKTree: http://tihlde.org/~larstr/vmktree/

Perl IDE

jp1960 — Tue, 08 Nov 2005 21:30:40 GMT

If anyone is interested in looking at Perl some more, here's some links you may find useful:

http://open-perl-ide.sourceforge.net/ : this is an Opensource Win32 development environment for Perl. I've found it very useful for editing and debugging Perl scripts in the Windows environment

http://www.activestate.com/Perl.plex?hdr=1 : Perl for Win32

http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/ : documentation for the VMWare API's. Take a look at the Scripting API first. It's less complex than the Virtual Infrastructure SDK.

Post your VMWare Profiles Here

jp1960 — Thu, 21 Apr 2005 20:06:25 GMT

If you would like to share your VMWare configuration with other members, post them here.

Next meeting?

jp1960 — Tue, 26 Jul 2005 18:30:39 GMT

Hi all,

Thanks to everyone who attended our last meeting in June. Thanks also to Jason and JSJ for providing the meeting place and Hi-Tech, Inc. for giving the presentation.

We need to decide on when and where we would like to hold our next meeting. I am thinking sometime around October would be good. It would be best if we confirm this at least a month before whatever date we decide on for the next meeting so VMWare has enough time to get invitations out.

Go ahead and reply to this topic if you have suggestions for dates and times for the next meeting.

Thanks!

vmworld

benwayj — Mon, 18 Jul 2005 18:22:00 GMT

Is anyone from the group thinking of going to vmworld in Las Vegas? I would like to go, but it would be nice if that had the content catelog ready when the site went live. Its hard to convince your manager to go, when you don't even know what sessions they are going to have.

jb

Topics for next meeting?

jp1960 — Tue, 26 Jul 2005 18:31:46 GMT

Reply to this topic with any suggestions for topics for our next meeting.

vmware links

benwayj — Thu, 23 Jun 2005 20:48:41 GMT

Here's a good place to share vmware links.

http://del.icio.us/tag/vmware

Hope everyone enjoyed the meeting today.

jb

Next meeting confirmed

jp1960 — Wed, 08 Jun 2005 17:06:19 GMT

In case you haven't received an announcement for our next meeting from VMWare, a registration page has been posted at https://vmwareevents.webex.com/vmwareevents/mywebex/epmainframe.php?rlink=https%3A%2F%2Fvmwareevents.webex.com%2Fvmwareevents%2Fonstage%2Fmainframe.php%3Fmainurl%3D%2Fvmwareevents%2Fonstage%2Ftool%2Fevent%2Fevent_detail.php%3FEventID%3D277351582%26FirstEnter%3D1%26GuestTimeZone%3D%26SourceId%3D&Rnd3215=0.1868986837867208

The meeting will be held from 2:00pm to 4:00pm on 6/23/05. The meeting location is:

JSJ Corporation
700 Robbins Road
Grand Haven, MI 49417

Post here for next meeting date and location

jp1960 — Wed, 20 Apr 2005 12:27:47 GMT

During our meeting on 4/19, we came to a consensus that we would hold our next meeting sometime in June, preferrably during the day.

If you want to volunteer to hold our next meeting at your site in June, please post a date and location.

Ask questions?

benwayj — Fri, 29 Apr 2005 20:09:52 GMT

Do we want to ask support questions in our forum, or should we just kept those post in the main forums?

Have a good weekend.

jb

Post here for future meeting topics

jp1960 — Wed, 20 Apr 2005 12:25:47 GMT

If you have suggestions for topics for future meetings, post them here.

Future presentation topics

BigJoe — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 22:04:11 GMT

Please feel free to post presentation topics here. I will collect any topics off of this thread and bring them to our meeting and we can decide which topic we would like to discuss for the next meeting.

My suggestions:
Backup processes
Automated Replication
Quick deployment

What do you think?

Hello West Michigan Users Group

BigJoe — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 21:58:45 GMT

Welcome to the Forum for West Michigan Users Group. This probably seems like a big area that is covered but I hope we are going to get a good turn out.

Depending on the turn out I would like to get a general geological layout of where people are coming from.

I see this forum as a place where we will post requests for presentors, presentation topics and possibly links to the presentations done during our meetings.

Please make sure to "Watch" the Western MI Area Vmware User Group forum so you can get updates for our future meetings.

I will post one more topic today. It will be suggestions for future topics. I would like to see us do presentations on an idea rather than peoples setups. Then have a discussion on that topic.