VMware Communities : Unanswered Threads - New England Area VMware User Group

Lab Manager Consultants Needed ASAP!!!

m8trixdg — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:39:02 GMT

Hi New England,

This is Brad from ICI a local VMware VAR. We are looking for Lab Manager trained people for immediate employment in the New England area. If you know of anyone please contact me and we cna talk.

bmaltz@iciamerica.com

Thanks,

Brad

NH Meeting -- Vendor Sponsorship

smoody — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 17:00:33 GMT

I am interested in speaking to someone about vendor sponsorship for the upcoming user group meeting. If someone could reach out to me or point me in the right direction I would appreciate it.
Regards, Scott Moody, scott@exultium.com, (781) 956-5528

July VMUG - Vendor Sponsorship

Kandace — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:23:10 GMT

I've recently started managing the New England Territory for Xiotech. Would someone please contact me with information in regards to sponsoring and having a booth at the upcoming July 23 VMUG meeting?

Kandace Peterson, Account Executive. kandace_peterson@xiotech.com (586)557-9912. thanks!

Vmware position in MA

Steve19 — Mon, 18 May 2009 18:34:13 GMT

I have a senior level Vmware position. The position involves design, planning and development for system availability, functionality, security and performance for shared properties. Provide production support, technical leadership, and capacity planning.

Knowledge of VI3 enterprise, ESX servers and Virtual Center. Experience with SAN clusters - HP EVA platform preferred. NetApp a plus. Vmware cluster knowledge. HA, DRS, vMotion, Storage Motion. Knowledge of Vmware View or Lab manager a plus.

VCP preferred and strong customer facing skills.

The position will be a contract to hire or perm role. US Citizen.

please reply to:

Steve

ssheldon@intepros.com

IntePros Consulting

IT Recruiting

Lexington, MA

Everyone is Invited - Register Today

m8trixdg — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 02:16:35 GMT

If You have not had a chance to see these technologies actually workign, sign up for a real live demo today. If you signup for the VDI session you will get a real Virtual Desktop to use for 5 days at the ICI office. This desktopwill be reachable from anywhere there is an internet connection.

Register Here

Employment Opportunity in Boston: Virtualization Solution Architect

gfederico — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 18:49:33 GMT

We are currently looking for a Virtualization Solution Architect out of our Boston office. This is a senior role. We are looking for someone at the architect level who has presented to customers and has experience with the presales effort. The job is ~60% presales, 40% delivery. There is some associated travel to our offices in Rochester, Hartford, and Tampa offices.

AdvizeX Technologies is a leading information technology provider of infrastructure and enterprise application solutions. AdvizeX combines the technical expertise of our consultants with the technologies from our strategic business partners to solve information technology issues impacting our clients' businesses. As a value-added reseller of open-systems information technology, AdvizeX has built key partnerships with leading technology vendors Hewlett-Packard, EMC, VMWare, Microsoft, and Oracle. We were named EMC Partner of the Year for 2008.

Gary Federico

Technical Recruitment Manager

AdvizeX Technologies

gfederico@advizex.com

401-322-6043

April VMUG - Newport Rhode Island!

charney — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 11:00:06 GMT

Then next New England VMUG will be:
April 30th
from 10:00 am to 6:00 PM
at the Newport, RI Marriot.

We have negotiated a 99$ room rate for the first 100 people who reserve their rooms.
Just mention the New England VMware User Group Event!

Or go to the following link

http://cwp.marriott.com/pvdlw/vmware/

KEYNOTE:

Mark Brunstad VMware Educational Services presents:

Distributed Power Management: Use Case & Technical Deep Dive

Break out Sessions:

VMware Systems Engineering presents:

What next for VMware Virtual Infrastructure? Learn about vSphere - the next generation of Virtual Infrastructure products from VMware

VMware Professional Services presents:

Performance Benchmarking using vCenter: Using vCenter as a tool to get performance data;see how applications and systems are performing when running on ESX. We will look at what the difference between benchmarking and load testing is, what counters are available is vCenter and how to understand what they mean, how to tune vCenter to get you the counters you need, and what counters matter for OS (Linux and Windows), MS SQL, and MS Exchange. The presentation will include screenshots of the vCenter performance tab as well as the new Reporting feature that was release with update 4.

Envision Technology

Assessment, Monitoring and Management

1) How do you assess the health of VMware environment? What tools already exist in the system, and what third party tools are available?

2) What tools are available for in-depth, ongoing monitoring of the virtual environment? What metrics can be monitored that will provide a reasonable snapshot of total health of a VMware environment?

3) Once the environment is healthy and being monitored, what should actually be running in the environment? What is virtual server sprawl, why does it matter, and what are some strategies for controlling it?

Virtera

Building a financial justification for virtualization - how to justify a virtualization project internally ICI Not your standard VDI Use Case: What you haven't thought about for the present and future

Daymark

Avoiding the Top Pitfalls When Implementing VMware Site Recovery Manager in Your Environment

Site Recovery Manager is VMware's framework to automate the testing, failover and recovery of your Virtual Machines and the applications running on those Virtual Machines at your Disaster Recovery site. However, a successful implementation of Site Recovery Manager depends on a well designed solution which includes both a storage replication architecture and a server infrastructure. Daymark will show you how to avoid the common design and implementation pitfalls that can stop a Site Recovery Manager implementation in its tracks.

**Left Hand/HP

Lab/Hands On - Virtual SAN Appliance Software. Be sure to bring your laptop

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Virtual Server Backup: Easy and Economical with Deduplication

Data Core

Maximizing your virtual environment with Powershell

VMware experience

learnvm35 — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 20:15:35 GMT

Hello,

I was wondering if anyone had some good ideas on how to gain experience in Vmware?. etc. How to gain experience in this field or anyone willing to help me gain experience would be great too. Is there any places to go to gain experience to implement/construct vmware systems? I would ultimatly like to tag along when someone is designing/installing a vmware system.

I know its kind of an odd post, but anyone with any ideas would help me out..

thanks,
John

HUGE VMware and EMC event at the NEW CBS Scene at Patriots Place in Foxboro

m8trixdg — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 17:09:43 GMT

Date

Wednesday,
November 12, 2008

Time:
1:00pm - 7:00pm

Location:

CBS Scene Patriot Place
200 Patriot Place
Foxborough, MA
02035

(508) 203-2200

SAVE THE DATE

Please join International Computerware Inc., EMC, & VMware at CBS Scene, Patriots
Place for an informative discussion on the most compelling conversations in IT today.

Topics will include cloud computing, backup & data de-duplication, and virtualization.

CBS AND THE KRAFT GROUP

OPEN THE CBS SCENE RESTAURANT & BAR

A ONE-OF-A-KIND ENTERTAINMENT AND DINING DESTINATION

Current and Classic CBS Programming Converges With Gourmet Cuisine to Create the Next

Generation in Media and Entertainment

State-of-the-Art Three-Story Space, Featuring Over 135 High Definition Screens and Breathtaking

Views of the New England Patriots' Gillette Stadium, Is CBS

Agenda

1:00 PM - Guest Arrival and Registraion

1:30 PM – Presentations, Sponsor Showcase, Guest
Speaker

PRO FOOTBAL HALL OF FAMER – JOHN HANNAH

5:00PM - Cocktails, Appetizers, and Networking

FIRST 50 REGISTRANTS

RECEIVE TICKETS TO PATRIOTS HALL OFFAME

Send Mail to Marketing @ iciamerica.com

Or Call 508-630-1615

Seating is limited!

Click here to see the Grand Opening of CBS Scene at Pats Place!
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCGpD1JRopQ\>

*Must attend event to receive

VMWare opportunity

jobopportunity — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 20:04:34 GMT

Hi All,

My name is Lindsey Marquis and I work for Sapphire Technologies in Portland, Maine. I was speaking with a fellow VMWare consultant and they told me that this would be a good place to look for anyone that might be looking for a job opportunity. I have a great perm position in Maine/New Hampshire. They are looking for a VMWare Software engineer, someone that is VCP certified and also has some real world experience with VMWare. Please feel free to contact me at lindsey.marquis@sapphire.com or at 207-523-3409 or 1-800-679-6544 Ext. 1546 if you are interest, or if you have any suggestions on where else I could look for someone with thise skill set. We also offer a $500 referral bonus if you know someone that is looking. Thank you!

October 23rd Presentations

charney — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 14:48:30 GMT

Here are two of the presentations from the NEVMUG event in Atkinson New Hampshire.

One from Mark Bowker of Enterprise Strategy Group (Mark.Bowker@enterprisestrategygroup.com)

One from Left Hand Networks

How do I sponsor an event?

virtualizationstuff — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 13:43:46 GMT

I wanted to see if someone can contact me about sponsoring the next event. I am talking to the decision maker on my end and he's interested. Please contact me at mmacauley@crgwest.com and I will get you in touch.

Thanks,

Mark

VCPs in the area looking to expand your options?

timantz — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 21:21:55 GMT

Mosaic Technology in Salem, NH is expanding its virtualization practices, and is looking for additional engineering resources. If you are a VCP, in New England, and are interested in seeing what we have to offer, let me know and I will be glad to talk in more detail.

Tim Antonowicz

"There are 10 types of people. Those who understand binary and those who don't."

Virtual back to Physical?

harpoon70 — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 17:49:49 GMT

Is this possible? I would think so I am sure many people have virtualized a machine and found that it was just to heavily used and a resource hog for the virtual word.

Thanks everyone

Harpoon

Any Other ROI Numbers You Care To Share?

virtualizationstuff — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 15:12:36 GMT

Here are mine:

http://virtualizationstuff.blogspot.com/2008/01/actual-roi-of-virtualization.html

Overall Consolidation ratio: 20:1

1,000 Wintel boxes into 50 Sun Blades running VMWare
8,000 square feet to ~200 Square feet
Cooling is 1/10 of what it was
Power is 1/10 of what it was

For a couple of large accounts that I work with, I will take you through the back of the napkin math we did on a whiteboard to quantify the ROI of Virtualization:

100,000 physical Wintel servers collapse into 5,000 Sun Blades
Power is reduced to 1/10
Cooling is reduced to 1/10
Floor space in two data centers 10:1 reduction in footprint

The assumptions were that the costs (they are leased machines) were a wash on the hardware:

The Wintel boxes draw was 230 Watts at 50% Utilization so 23,000 KW per month
@ $0.35/KW multiplied by 730 Hours in a month comes out to ~$6M per month on power costs to run machines and cool them.
Did not include facilities costs like rent, depreciation, etc.

Virtualization costs:

5,000 blades draw 3900kw*730*.35= $900,000/mo (6 to 1 reduction)
Add in costs of VMWare - $5,000 per instance * 5000 = $25M
5 month payback w/license inclusion

Anyone Else going to Burton Group's Catalyst conference 6/23-27

virtualizationstuff — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 17:57:16 GMT

http://www.catalyst.burtongroup.com/NA08/ is the URL for it.

I am speaking on the Data Center track Thursday, and I wanted to see if any other New Englanders would be in San Diego that week.

Mark

http://virtualizationstuff.blogspot.com

Couple upcoming events.

VkernelRB — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 01:33:39 GMT

All,

Lighthouse is having a Go Green with Virtualization session on this Tuesday (6/3) in Foxboro:

http://www.lighthousecs.com/News-and-Events/Events/Register.asp?EventID=55

FlyTrap Technologies is doing a VDI dinner (6/24)

http://www.flytraptech.com/page/12-events

Both look like decent events if folks are interested.

Thanks,

Rob

Rob Bergin
Systems Engineer
www.vkernel.com

Managing Virtualization with Virtual Appliances

To download a free trial of our products, click here: http://www.vkernel.com/downloads/all/

Position Available - EMC/Vmware Consultant

m8trixdg — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 18:00:56 GMT

We are looking for a consultant with experience in VMware deployments and EMC technology. preferebably EMC NAS solutions. This indivudal should possess the following:
Ability to talk to customers at all levels including Executives and administrators.
Hands on implementation experience including Best Practices from VMware and EMC technologies.
Willing to travel around New England incluidng NY/NJ. Considered Local travel Only.
Compensation includes Salary (DOE), 401, insurance, expenses etc...

Please email me at at bmaltz@iciamerica.com for further information or if interested.

Thanks,
Brad

Job Opening: Windows Administrator

Brickard — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 19:41:37 GMT

Franklin area company seeks a direct hire Windows Administrator. 5-10 years of experience in an enterprise- class data center necessary. Experience with VMWare, HP C Class Blades, troubleshooting SANs is preferred. 75-85k Please respond with interest.

vmware workstation disabled my m9750 hotkeys

yusufz — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 20:08:34 GMT

I have just installed vmware workstation 6 on my Vista Ultimate notebook and it is causing the hotkeys on my keyboard to stop functioning. Any ideas on how to fix this problem?

Thanks,

Job Opportunity

AEB — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 20:25:44 GMT

I am currently looking for a full time System Engineer with VMware experience to work for a leading provider of virtualization infrastructure technologies and services to companies worldwide. Would be responsible for performing installation, configuration, and implementation of VMware products and technologies. You would be working remotely from home with commuting to clients sites throughout New England. Primarily you would be commuting to the Boston area. Please forward resumes to abelleville@exsosit.com

ESX 3 licensing

cfpender — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 19:55:37 GMT

G'day,

I work for a hardware reseller and one of our salespeople posed this question from a customer:

"We have another question about VMWare license usage. We have been reading various articles from users who claim that if you purchase a 2-processor license you can split the license across two 1-processor machines. The bottom line is that if you have four 1-processor machines you only need to purchase two 2-processor licenses."

Any thoughts on this ? VMWare said "no", that a 2 CPU license would still need to be purchased for a single CPU server. I would think that would be true of host-based licensing, but wouldn't Licensing Server licenses only view the number of CPUs in the cluster and not individual servers ?

Thanks