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vSphere 4 Full Class

mgraybiel — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:26:29 GMT

http://mylearn.vmware.com/mgrReg/courses.cfm?ui=www&a=det&id_course=39632

Class for vSphere 4 (full class, not upgrade from 3.5 to 4) is being offered in Sherwood, AR

Overview:
This hands-on training course explores installation, configuration, and management of VMware® vSphere™, which consists of VMware ESXi/ESX™ and VMware vCenter™ Server. Upon completion of this course, you can take the examination to become a VMware Certified Professional. The course is based on ESXi 4.0, ESX 4.0, and vCenter Server 4.0.
Students who complete this course may enroll in any of several more-advanced vSphere courses. See www.vmware.com/education for options.

Dates:
12/08/2009 9:00 AM - 12/11/2009 5:00 PM

Location:
Facilities of Secant Technology
7508 Highway 107
Sherwood, AR, United States 72120

How do I get VM files off of an ESXi box?

KevinMartin77 — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:48:21 GMT

Where are the VM files stored on the ESXi? How do I get to them so I can put those vm's possibly on another machine

or back them up if my ESXi box goes down?

hung vsphere esxi

smokeman — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:50:24 GMT

We noticed a problem with a vpn server we have running virtual. We started troubleshooting, and the screen froze while we were using it....not just for a second either, it was for about 10-15 seconds.
We were about to start installing that machine from scratch, when we jumped on another vm we had running on the same esxi host, and it had frozen also....(That's not supposed to happen, right?)
Dell poweredge 2950 with dual quad core cpu's, and 32gigs ram. We are still using local storage, on a raid5, with 5 - 300 gig 15k sas drives.

As I said in the subject, this is a newly installed vsphere esxi server. It was upgraded....was that our mistake?
how can we tell what went wrong, so we know to call dell, or vmware?

Thanks,
Barry Smoke
AR Division of Legislative Audit

Next VMUG on VMware vSphere and more!

johnswb — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:30:38 GMT

We are looking to have another VMUG meeting soon and talk about VMware vSphere. Please look at to the pool and answer what day you would like to have it on. Looks like a lot of new goodies in the VMware vSphere. Hope to see you soon.

Alliance Systems Dell EqualLogic Lunch Seminar and Demonstration 10.7.09 Loca Luna Restaurant

Alliancesys — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 14:11:29 GMT

Please join Alliance Systems and Dell EqualLogic for a Lunch Seminar on iSCSI storage to include a hands on demonstration on October 7th, 2009 at the Loca Luna Restaurant. An invitation is attached for your convenience but can also be reached on our website at www.alliancesys.com. We will walk through the Dell EqualLogic value proposition and discuss how it relates to the virtual world as well as addressing backup/recovery, snapshots, replication, thin provisioning, etc. Lunch will be provided. We hope you can join us!

Closing the VM Visibility Gap

VMobserver — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 20:14:19 GMT

Central to any performance monitoring effort is the ability to monitor seamlessly across physical and virtualized environments.
Using the Observer platform, organizations obtain enterprise-wide views of virtualized resources and performance within virtualized
and physical environments.

VMblog.com article

VM Solution Details

Webinars scheduled for May 1st, May 7th & 8th as delivered by Network Instruments who is also available to present at local
User Group meetings. Register to attend or send inquiries to Rick Kingsley at rkingsley@netinst.com

Dell EqualLogic Lunch and Learn hosted by Alliance Systems on Thursday March 19th-Jonesboro AR

Alliancesys — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 21:06:04 GMT

You are cordially invited to join Alliance Systems and Dell EqualLogic for a lunch at learn event in Jonesboro Arkansas on Thrusday March 19th. We will have 2 arrays available to illustrate the simple installation and setup as well as enterprise features such as snapshots, replicaiton and thin provisioning as well as other features. With Dell EqualLogic, all of the enterprise software is included in the price of the array so there are no extra line items to increase your cost as you make your purchase.

Please see the attached invitation for more details and registration or you can visit our website at www.alliancesys.com or contact Erich Schark at 636-349-4434.

We hope to see you there.

Production domain downtime from vmnic network crosstalk

smokeman — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 21:58:46 GMT

I was hoping you guys could look at this thread, and post some comments...
We're kinda freaked out about it.
http://communities.vmware.com/thread/193987?tstart=0

Has anyone upgraded to ESX 3.5 U3?

johnswb — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 14:33:49 GMT

We've upgraded and started seeing a few problems with a VM would migrate for one host to another. What I've see is the VM would lose complete communication and any net sessions to the VM would be disconnected. Also, I have see the VM keep a black screen when rebooting and viewing it through the console. The biggest problem I've see are VM's just rebooting for no reason. This is not good. We are currently running this on our test environment which is a good thing. I'm going to open a ticket with VMware. I will post the results.

After migrating my VDM server from one host to another my clients lost connection to their VM's

DCHarrington — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 22:48:32 GMT

3 ESX host 3.5 update 3 VC 2.5 update 3 VDM 2

Next VMUG Meeting Location?

johnswb — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 03:11:44 GMT

We are planning to have another VMUG meeting in March of 09. Any suggestions on where the next one can be held at?

Q&A from Nov 20th 2008 VMUG

johnswb — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:13:08 GMT

Be on the lookout for the questions and answers from the VMUG!

VMUG - Nov 20

mgraybiel — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 23:04:56 GMT

Hi All,

As an FYI, the next Little Rock area VMUG is being held November 20th. Details are:

Location:
Dillard's
1600 Cantrell Road
Little Rock AR, 72201

Time:
10am - 2pm

Date:
November 20th 2008

VDI Seminar (Little Rock)

mgraybiel — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 23:17:18 GMT

VDI Technical Roundtable at Peabody Hotel. Registration link is below. I have sent this out to a few of you, but thought it would be a good idea to notify any of you that may not have received this from me or your Sales Team. This is not a sales pitch, but a technical dive into our new capabilities and a function review of VMWare's Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Offering. Lunch is provided.

Date and time is: Nov 11, 11:30 AM - 1 PM at the Peabody Hotel
Please register if you plan on attending. Helps us know how much food to order.

http://info.vmware.com/content/TR_reg?src=EM_0804_VMW_OTHER_TRTSERIESWEST_HB_SALESINV&ossrc=EM_0804_VMW_OTHER_TRTSERIESWEST_HB_SALESINV

More Training for Little Rock

mgraybiel — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 23:09:55 GMT

More training in Sherwood, AR for VI3 Install and Config.

Dates:
Nov 11 - http://mylearn.vmware.com/register.cfm?course=22622
Feb 17 - http://mylearn.vmware.com/register.cfm?course=28459

new training class

mgraybiel — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:07:17 GMT

Hi folks,

I am checking into everyone's interest regarding another VMware VI3 Install and Config class in the Little Rock area. We need 10-12 people to make this class happen.

Class would be targeted for September or October.

Local Training

van.vannoy — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 15:35:51 GMT

As discussed in the VMUG meeting last week there was some interest in pursuing local training. I have no problem attempting to try and coordinate this if there is enough interest. Please post here how many people from your organization you would be willing to send and which training course it is that you are interested in. I am under the impression that it has been put on our budget to send me to a training class on VMware this year. So we can start the count at 1. I think it will take around 12 people to make it economical enough to bring someone in.

First meeting in Arkansas

johnswb — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 01:30:19 GMT

Hello all,
The plan is to have the first meeting some time in January. I am open for any ideas / tips, or help that anyone can shoot this way. I do have the "Best Practices for User Group Leaders", I'm just looking for others in put.

Will Johnson