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Vmware Seminar - Virtualizing Mission Critical Applications Technical Seminar

mattman555 — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:20:51 GMT

I got this in my email today and though you might all like this..

This is the only link I got for registration

http://www.surveymethods.com/Preview.aspx?E0FEEAE7B4AEB7A5A1EAECE7ECABB6B4EBA2&DO_NOT_COPY_THIS_LINK

Here is the information...

Virtualizing Mission Critical Applications Technical Seminar

Please join VMware for a half-day technical seminar to discuss successful strategies for an optimal deployment of your Tier One applications on VMware.

Seminar Agenda
o 10:15 AM Attendee Check-In
o 10:30 AM Welcome, Introductions
o 10:45 AM VMware Customers Discuss How They Have Successfully Virtualized Tier One Applications
o 12:00 PM Lunch
o 12:30 PM Best Practices for Virtualizing Data Base Applications – SQL, Oracle
o 1:30 PM Best Practices for Virtualizing Exchange
o 2:30 PM Questions & Wrap-up
Our agenda offers an extended question and answer session where you can share your observations, discuss challenges, and gain key insights from other attendees.

Space is limited, so confirm your attendance and register today!

Questions?
Contact Heather Baker hbaker@vmware.com

Event Details
December 2, 2009
10:15 AM – 3:00 PM

Hyatt Regency Phoenix
122 N 2nd St
Phoenix, AZ 85004
(602) 252-1234
REGISTER TODAY

Lunch to be provided

VMware Technical Roundtable events are not intended for VMware partners. If you are a VMware partner and require training on a solution topic, please contact your channel manager directly for the latest information on VMware products.

- Matt Mancini
Phoenix VMUG Leader

Anyone going 10G with VMware outside of a Nexus platform...?

kurtbunker — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 08:12:44 GMT

Hello All,

I am curious if anyone has any comments around designing or implementing a full 10G (ESX & SAN) or Hybrid (10G servers & multiple 1G SAN) on something other than Cisco Nexus. My experiences so far with 10G implementations on Nexus has been fantastic, but not everyone is a Cisco shop. When I saw the writting on the wall for the 10G tipping point in pricing in late 2008/ealry 2009 I didn't think Cisco would be as competative as it has been on pricing. I think that pricing has kept many people designing around it, because outside of some lower 48 projects I just haven't heard of anyone implementing much on anything else. I like to hear about other options considering how important the network is for a VM project.

Cheers,

Kurt

2012 Movie Screening with World Wide Technology (WWT) and HP

mattman555 — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:35:08 GMT

World Wide Technology and HP have a movie screening this Friday 11/13/09..

Go here to register...

http://www.wwt.com/news_events/WWT_HP_Movie_Event_1109.html

Thanks...

- Matt Mancini
Phoenix VMUG Leader

12/10/2009 Phoenix VMUG Meeting - Agenda

mattman555 — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:57:09 GMT

The Agenda and Sponsor List are now posted in our Forum.

There are a few areas in the agenda that need to be finalized and we will update it as soon as we can.

Thanks!

Matt Mancini

Phoenix VMUG Leader

ESX4i iSCSI LUN MAPPING

cwohechler — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 22:21:01 GMT

Would like to review the software iSCSI initiator to iSCSI target LUN mapping. I have been testing with OpenFiler and OpenSolaris ZFS strorage arrays. "LUN Thrashing" is a IO killer and can easily happen if the targets are not statically mapped on the ESX hosts.

Directions to the November 3rd VMUG

jerrylcasper — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:14:11 GMT

Driving instructions to the event:

The event will be in Building 38 at Tektronix in Beaverton, Oregon.
Parking lot is at the intersection of Zworykin and Terman.
Building is also walking distance from the Milikan Way Max Station (the light rail system)
Easiest driving directions are from Jenkins:
o Go south on Hocken
o Go West on Terman until Zworykin

See ~~blocked::http://www.tek.com/ir/bv_map.html~~

Agenda and Speaker's List for the November 3, 2009 VMWare User Conference

jerrylcasper — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:15:29 GMT

8am - Registration and Continental Breakfast

9am - VMWare Keynote - VMWare View and the Desktop Strategy

10am - Breakout Sessions: Structured Communication Systems (Securing your Virtual Environment), IBM (Scaling Up Your Virtual Environment), and Scott Herold from Quest Software (Extending PowerCLI to Enterprise Apps with Virtualization Ecoshell)

11am - Breakout Sessions: HP/Logicalis, Cisco: Nexus 1000V Series Switches, and Reflex Systems

11:55am - Ivoxy Keynote with Alec Taylor - VMWare ThinApp

12:40pm - Lunch

1:40pm - Cisco Keynote: Technical Demo of UCS

2:35pm - Breakout Sessions: NetApp, DoubleTake Software: Optimize while you Virtualize, and OPUS: Interactive Diverse Business solutions made possible by a Vmware environment

3:30pm - Breakout Sessions: Tristan Todd - Business Continuity and Virtual Infrastructure and Ravi Soundararajan (Staff Engineer, VMWare Performance Team) & Balaji Parimi (VMWare Ecosysetm Engineering): vSphere APIs for Performance Monitoring

4:25pm - RSI Keynote. Matt Rigby, Right! Systems Inc. EMCIE VCP CCEA MCSE, Sr. Systems Engineer - Oregon Services Manager: "Next Gen I/O and Enterprise Cloud Computing Demystified"

VMware Systems Engineer position located in Irvine, CA

FrancineP — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:54:10 GMT

Sr Systems Engineer, VMware - work with latest technology at company that helps you grow & thrive

VLSystems

Irvine, CA 92606

This position offers you the opportunity to work with a variety of technologies and diverse clients, expanding your skills on an ongoing basis.
Our success depends upon staying on the leading edge of our industry, and you'll showcase your ingenuity working with the most current technologies -- often before the manual is published.

We understand the key role that our engineers play in our ability to thrive, and we invest in education, certificate incentive programs, and more.
In addition we foster a collaborative environment in which you can stretch your creativity. While you will spend the majority of your time in the field, overnight travel will be rare.

Your mission will be to act as a consultant and a hands-on project lead for medium to large-scale infrastructure solutions for our clients. To be a good fit for this opportunity you will have extensive experience with deploying best practice-based infrastructures with VMware (ESX, VI, vSphere) as well as working familiarity with storage and networking/ routing & switching. You also will need virtualization experience with Microsoft Server 2008/2003 and Exchange 2007/2003.
In addition, you will need outstanding interpersonal and customer service abilities as well as logical troubleshooting skills.

VLSystems, founded in Irvine, CA in 1978, is a Cisco Premier Certified Partner with a Master Security Specialization and a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner specializing in secure information solutions involving Cisco LAN/WAN, data center and security, Microsoft advanced infrastructure, SharePoint Portal Server, workflow and collaboration, and managed services.

IMPORTANT: HOW TO APPLY:
We want you to be as selective as we are! For a detailed 'insider's view' of this position and to submit your resume online, please visit the following URL:

http://vlsystems.jobinfo.com/description.lasso?jid=9900298&rcid=102850

If the link does not work, simply copy the complete URL and paste it into your browser's address line.

PLEASE RESPECT OUR RECRUITMENT PROCESS.
DO NOT USE ANY OTHER METHOD TO APPLY OR CLICK ANY OTHER BUTTONS.
Thank you for your attention to this detail.

Opportunity for a VMware Engineer

Jeanie — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 11:06:14 GMT

Hi

We are seeking a VMware Engineer for our Direct Client

Location: Los Angeles, CA

Direct Hire (Fulltime) Opportunity

This position pays a competitive base salary as well as comprehensive benefits which include - a wide selection of medical/dental/vision health plans, 401(k), Cash Value and ESOP retirements plans, floating holidays and on site fitness center.

Primary Responsibilities:

Design a large scale VMware farm to support over 1000 servers
Install and configure VMware VI3
Manage P2V Migrations
Recommend and deploy appropriate storage solutions
On Site surveys and migrations at several sites
Effectively drive innovation and optimization in the VMware technology area

Additional Responsibilities:

Windows Server Installations and management
Monitoring configuration and maintenance
Hardware and OS support for application teams
Microsoft Cluster configuration and troubleshooting
Maintain Active Directory (Group Policies, login scripts, DFS)
Able to perform system management, performance turning and monitoring

Required Skills:

4+ years of VMware and Windows Architecture/Administration experience, preferably in a large IT environment (no less than 100 servers)
VMware VCP certification
Expert knowledge of enterprise VMware technologies
Strong knowledge of Active Directory
Scripting (VBS, Jscript, PowerShell)
Strong knowledge of TCP/IP, WINS, DHCP, SMTP, ICMP, ICA, SMB
Windows 2000\2003 - Administration, WINS, Troubleshooting, IIS
Strong Windows networking skills
Strong knowledge of Clustering technologies including Microsoft and Veritas
SAN installation and maintenance (Fiber, ISCSI and NAS)
A Bachelor's degree in Information Systems or equivalent preferred
Possess good verbal and written communication skills
Good project management and time management skills

If you are interested, please send your resume to jeanie.harris@ispace.com ASAP...

EMC Offer to Sponsor a VMUG

Florence Le goff — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:30:29 GMT

Dear VMUG Leaders:

EMC is very interested in sponsoring an upcoming VMUG and I wanted to see if you had a need or availability for a sponsorship and speaker. EMC and VMware made some exciting announcement around vSphere and other solutions for the private cloud and the virtualized data center and we are currently talking to may customers and VMUGs about the recent VMworld announcements. Below is an abstract we just delivered in Seattle at the VMUG and we can also cover topics such as DeDupe for Vmware and cover some new solutions with the addition of Data Domain.

Please let me know if you would be interested in having EMC host and sponsor an upcoming event. Best Regards,

*_EMC ABSTRACT_</strongEMC will be giving a technical overview of vStorage Infrastructure Services in vSphere and their impact on the datacenter, including VAAI (vStorage APIs for Array Integration). In addition, we will discuss how VMware technologies are redefining the relationship between storage and system administration. Lastly EMC will cover any new EMC solutions announced at VMworld that customers can leverage for their VMware environments.</p>

Florence Le Goff
EMC Corporation
415-699-2027
legoff_florence@emc.com

EMC Offer to Sponsor a VMUG

Florence Le goff — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:29:22 GMT

Dear VMUG Leaders:

Please let me know if you would be interested in having EMC host and sponsor an upcoming event. Best Regards,

Sponsorship VMware User Group meetings in Seattle

YSteller — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 16:49:27 GMT

Good morning,

I hope that you are all doing well. Do you know who I need to contact in order to sponsor a VMware Use Group meeting at my company? What are the requirements for sponsoring a meeting?

Thank you.

VMware Position - Denver

KChambers — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 21:39:55 GMT

I have the following contract position open in the Denver area:

Vmware System Adminstrator with Citrix - DTC

Contract Position - 3 months with possibility to extend

Location: DTC/Belleview

Skill's: Deep knowledge of VMWare (VCP cert is good) especially VDI and Citrix are a must.

Must be a US citizen and have good communication skills (verbal and written).

Tasks:

Building ESX servers, and view manager servers
Deploy VM templates utilizing view manager product suite.
Working with Citrix application streaming
Extensive documentation with technical writing team

Background Check and drug test are required.

If interested, please call Karen at 303-256-6258.

VMware Position - Denver

KChambers — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 20:34:19 GMT

I have the following contract position open in the Denver area:

Vmware System Adminstrator with Citrix - DTC

Contract Position - 3 months with possibility to extend

Location: DTC/Belleview

Skill's: Deep knowledge of VMWare (VCP cert is good) especially VDI and Citrix are a must.

Must be a US citizen and have good communication skills (verbal and written).

Tasks:

Building ESX servers, and view manager servers
Deploy VM templates utilizing view manager product suite.
Working with Citrix application streaming
Extensive documentation with technical writing team

Background Check and drug test are required.

If interested, please call Karen at 303-256-6258.

11:00AM?

solomonchang — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 22:16:59 GMT

Whoa, I thought this user group would meet at night... at an hour when most of us would actually be off work?

I have a hard enough time convincing my boss to use VMWare to begin with, and now the user group expects us to sneak off during the day to attend?

Solomon

LinkedIN Groups and vmugphoenix.com is born!

mattman555 — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 05:36:25 GMT

vmugphoenix.com-

Recently we register the domain name vmugphoenix.com and for a whopping $10 it gave all the leaders email, shared documents and a little website.

If your interested in sponsoring an event you can email events@vmugphoenix.com
So feel free to contact me directly at matt.mancini@vmugphoenix.com

LinkedIn -

We have started two groups, one for our users and one for our Vendors and Sponsors.

Please feel free to join the appropriate group!

Our LinkedIN Group for users is: Phoenix VMUG - Users Only (http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1241967&trk=hb_side_g)

Our LinkedIN Group for our sponsors &vendors is: Phoenix VMUG - Sponsors and Vendors (http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2217183&trk=hb_side_g)

Thanks and see you at out next meeting.

Matt Mancini

Phoenix VMUG Leader

matt.mancini@vmugphoenix.com

Interested in helping form VMUG meeting

chessconsulting — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 19:46:28 GMT

Hello - My name is Don LaMure and I have recently started my own consulting company and have been selling professional services for many years. Essentially all of my past clients are using VMware. As I would like to offer them consulting in these areas, I feel a VMUG meeting could be very beneficial. I'm currently the co-founder of the Silicon Valley SharePoint User Group and now have over 100 members on our LinkedIn Group and normally 50+ attendees to our once a month meetings.

If anyone is interested in working with me on getting this started, please call me at 408-393-6205 or email chessconsult@yahoo.com

Thank you in advance.

Don

Network World's IT Roadmap conference 12/10 at the Moscone

lmhealthcare — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 19:43:53 GMT

I attended this show last year, and really came away with a lot of good info. The cost is free, so if you can take a day away from the office, I highly recommend it. There are quite a few tracks to attend. You won't have any problems filling your day with sessions. They'll post more info about the sessions as the date comes closer, you can look at the other cities to get a decent idea of what to expect.

http://www.networkworld.com/events/

Systems Engineer Job Posting - Portland, Or

kertman — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 17:37:20 GMT

Tripwire has a Systems Engineer opening for its VMware management product, vWire. See the link below for details.

http://www.tripwire.com/company/careers/job-listings/?jobid=150

New to VMWare

rayp46 — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 10:48:31 GMT

I've never used VMWare but plan to download VMware Esxi 3.5 and want to know if anyone uses it to bring forensic images, such as e01 or dd into the virtual environment. If so have you have any luck in doing so, or I'm I trying to use a product that will not work. Thank you in advance

How would you set up Outlook (w/ VMware?) on a MacBook Pro so it would do mailmerge with Salesforce?

SunnyRainbow — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 21:26:36 GMT

How would you set up Outlook (w/ VMware?) on a MacBook Pro so it would do *mailmerge with Salesforce*?

Can that be done smoothly?

I don't have VMware or Outlook yet but I assume I may need VMware to run Outlook at this time? I'm running OS 10.5.8.

I use Firefox, and Safari (for different things), as well as gmail and MAIL. SalesForce seems adamant about using Outlook.

Thanks!

VSphere4 Training Providers

TomPorter — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 23:15:11 GMT

Does anyone have an opinion on training quality differences between VMware training an authorized trainers like Global Knowledge? I am going to check out the vsphere4 training in a couple weeks. Anyone have a preference?

VMWorld 2009: "From Point Solution Hell to Enterprise Tool Heaven" -Manager, Technical Operations, VMware

KristenatCAInc — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:35:08 GMT

CA is also hosting an event on Tuesday evening, September 1st at Boulevard featuring VMWare as our customer: "From Point Solution Hell to Enterprise Tool Heaven", Chuck Lintell, Manager, Technical Operations, VMware. We would love to have some VMWare User Group attendees!

Please join CA and VMware during VMWorld 2009 for an exclusive event to learn about VMware's strategy in building an Enterprise Management System. You will hear about VMware's business justification to consolidate multiple point solutions, their evaluation process, implementation experience, and decision to choose CA's Infrastructure Management Solutions. In addition, VMware will also discuss the immediate value they have received from CA's integrated solutions

Enjoy appetizers and cocktails at one of San Francisco's most exclusive restaurants!

We look forward to seeing you.

Agenda
6:15-6:30pm	Registration
6:30- 6:45pm	CA Welcome, Sanjay Tailor, Vice President, Solution Strategy, Infrastructure Management
6:45- 7:15pm	VMware: "From Point Solution Hell to Enterprise Tool Heaven", Chuck Lintell, Manager, Technical Operations, VMware
7:15 - 8:30pm	Networking Cocktail Reception

Seating is limited. Please RSVP to Leila.nuri@ca.com or 650-862-8174 today.

VMWorld 2009: "From Point Solution Hell to Enterprise Tool Heaven" -Manager, Technical Operations, VMware

KristenatCAInc — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:29:03 GMT

Enjoy appetizers and cocktails at one of San Francisco's most exclusive restaurants!

We look forward to seeing you.

Agenda
6:15-6:30pm	Registration
6:30- 6:45pm	CA Welcome, Sanjay Tailor, Vice President, Solution Strategy, Infrastructure Management
6:45- 7:15pm	VMware: "From Point Solution Hell to Enterprise Tool Heaven", Chuck Lintell, Manager, Technical Operations, VMware
7:15 - 8:30pm	Networking Cocktail Reception

Seating is limited. Please RSVP to Leila.nuri@ca.com or 650-862-8174 today.

VMWorld 2009: "From Point Solution Hell to Enterprise Tool Heaven" -Manager, Technical Operations, VMware

KristenatCAInc — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:12:23 GMT

Enjoy appetizers and cocktails at one of San Francisco's most exclusive restaurants!

We look forward to seeing you.

Agenda
6:15-6:30pm	Registration
6:30- 6:45pm	CA Welcome, Sanjay Tailor, Vice President, Solution Strategy, Infrastructure Management
6:45- 7:15pm	VMware: "From Point Solution Hell to Enterprise Tool Heaven", Chuck Lintell, Manager, Technical Operations, VMware
7:15 - 8:30pm	Networking Cocktail Reception

Seating is limited. Please RSVP to Leila.nuri@ca.com or 650-862-8174 today.

If anyone is going to VMWorld 2009 in the Bay Area....

KristenatCAInc — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:09:08 GMT

CA is also hosting an event on Tuesday evening, September 1st at Boulevard featuring VMWare as our customer. We would love to have some VMWare User Group attendees!

Enjoy appetizers and cocktails at one of San Francisco's most exclusive restaurants!

We look forward to seeing you.

Agenda
6:15-6:30pm	Registration
6:30- 6:45pm	CA Welcome, Sanjay Tailor, Vice President, Solution Strategy, Infrastructure Management
6:45- 7:15pm	VMware: "From Point Solution Hell to Enterprise Tool Heaven", Chuck Lintell, Manager, Technical Operations, VMware
7:15 - 8:30pm	Networking Cocktail Reception

Seating is limited. Please RSVP to Leila.nuri@ca.com or 650-862-8174 today.

If anyone is going to VMWorld 2009 in the Bay Area....

KristenatCAInc — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:05:32 GMT

CA is also hosting an event on Tuesday evening, September 1st at Boulevard featuring VMWare as our customer. We would love to have some VMWare User Group attendees!

Enjoy appetizers and cocktails at one of San Francisco's most exclusive restaurants!

We look forward to seeing you.

Agenda
6:15-6:30pm	Registration
6:30- 6:45pm	CA Welcome, Sanjay Tailor, Vice President, Solution Strategy, Infrastructure Management
6:45- 7:15pm	VMware: "From Point Solution Hell to Enterprise Tool Heaven", Chuck Lintell, Manager, Technical Operations, VMware
7:15 - 8:30pm	Networking Cocktail Reception

Seating is limited. Please RSVP to Leila.nuri@ca.com or 650-862-8174 today.

If anyone is going to VMWorld 2009 in the Bay Area....

KristenatCAInc — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:03:28 GMT

CA is also hosting an event on Tuesday evening, September 1st at Boulevard featuring VMWare as our customer. We would love to have some VMWare User Group attendees!

Enjoy appetizers and cocktails at one of San Francisco's most exclusive restaurants!

We look forward to seeing you.

Agenda
6:15-6:30pm	Registration
6:30- 6:45pm	CA Welcome, Sanjay Tailor, Vice President, Solution Strategy, Infrastructure Management
6:45- 7:15pm	VMware: "From Point Solution Hell to Enterprise Tool Heaven", Chuck Lintell, Manager, Technical Operations, VMware
7:15 - 8:30pm	Networking Cocktail Reception

Seating is limited. Please RSVP to Leila.nuri@ca.com or 650-862-8174 today.

VMWorld 2009- An evening with CA and VMWare

KristenatCAInc — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:01:14 GMT

CA is hosting an event on Tuesday evening, September 1st at Boulevard featuring VMWare as our customer.

Enjoy appetizers and cocktails at one of San Francisco's most exclusive restaurants!

We look forward to seeing you.

Agenda
6:15-6:30pm	Registration
6:30- 6:45pm	CA Welcome, Sanjay Tailor, Vice President, Solution Strategy, Infrastructure Management
6:45- 7:15pm	VMware: "From Point Solution Hell to Enterprise Tool Heaven", Chuck Lintell, Manager, Technical Operations, VMware
7:15 - 8:30pm	Networking Cocktail Reception

Seating is limited. Please RSVP to Leila.nuri@ca.com or 650-862-8174 today.

Converting XP/SP2 to VMware Fusion 2 on iMac

Magaia — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 16:30:16 GMT

I am trying to convert XP/SP2 that I installed on a separate partition on my iMac. Could you please let me know what data I shall input in Step 2 re: Destination.

Netmotion Mobility XE running virtual

sjenovai — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 14:37:37 GMT

We have migrated our netmotion application to virtual. The application is running well. Is anyone else running this virtual yet? If so, have you had any issues or dificulties?

VMWare Consultant Needed

OSTBrian — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 00:30:22 GMT

We are currently looking for a few VMWare consultants for a project that we are working on. The job requirements are listed below. If you are interested please send your resume to Jobs@OutsourceTesting.com. Once the position is filled I will post an update to this thread.

-Advanced skills using VMware to convert physical machines to virtual.

-System OS (Operating System) experience and understanding for installation, support and troubleshooting with skills in the following OS's

- Windows Server

- Linux (Redhat, SUSE, etc)

- Netware

-Understanding of OS services and determining what services are running on servers and ability to troubleshoot them if they do not start

-Experience using VMware Capacity Planner

-Be able to diagnose port usage and which ports need opened for installed application to function in the network

-Time period to be determined once schedule is complete (estimated at 12 - 16 weeks)

Preference given to those with experience with VMware Appspeed and other UNIX OS experience.

Is there a better way to manage VMware Snapshots?

efritz — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 22:34:34 GMT

Has anyone come up with a way to manage or view your snapshots other than right clicking on the server and selecting snapshot manager?

It would be nice to have a tool or view that shows you all your active snapshots to better. What do you guys do?

Erin

Shareable Drive

send2jacky — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 05:43:49 GMT

Hi !
I am running 2 windows 2003 server in VMware workstation 6.5 and i want them to u an extra shareable drive.
I have created an extra drive and attached on both OS. the drive is workinw but the only problem is that whenever i update the content i need to restart the second operating system to reflect the changes.
Please sombody tell me how can i overcome this problem

Thanks & Regard

Installing network printers on VM Fusion 2.0.5

appraiser — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 04:40:14 GMT

I am having trouble getting my HP Officejet Pro 8500 jA909 series printer to install on Fusion. It is connected to the host via ethernet. I am using the bridged stting for the network in Fusion but it cannot see my printer for some reason. Any help is appreciated.

Announcing VMware Technology Exchange Developer Day

navadavuluri — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 00:00:31 GMT

Tech Exchange Developer Day is happening this year at
vmworld 2009 on the 31st of August. This
event is a Developer specific event, designed to show our developers *how to
build solutions* with VMware.

More Info: http://communities.vmware.com/community/developer/techexchange

Updates on twitter: @VMDeveloperDay

Receiving error when attempting to import .ovf file using ovftool 1.0

jeffreywhall — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 19:00:44 GMT

We have recently installed ESXi 3.5 and I have been converting our old .vmx files to .ovf using the OVFtool 1.0. When I attempt to import the file using the command line, I receive an error stating that the "Host is disconnected or in maintenance mode." Neither of which is true. I have put the system in maintenance mode and took it back out and still received the same error. When I attempted to use the VIC to import the .ovf file, I received an XML Envelope error. I researched the error and it stated that since I am using OVFTool 1.0 versus 0.9, I would have to use the command line to import the file. Does anyone have any thoughts on this?

Looking for Sponsors -- Sign us up!

dgetto3PAR — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:19:35 GMT

I am Debra Getto the corporate events specialist with 3PAR and we are looking to invest in the VMUG's in the West, Central, South, East as well as worldwide. If you are looking for sponsors please feel free to contact me. We would love to participate.

Phone: 510-668-9250

E-mail: dgetto@3PAR.com

Setting up VMware class at a church, we need your help

shyder@graniterock.com — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 21:49:46 GMT

We are planning to setup VMware classes at local church for the IT folks who got lay off in this economy or folks who want to learn virtualization.

We are doing this just to help people out and when economy turns around we want people to get back to work ASAP and use virtualization in their companies and safe energy/environment by using VMware virtualization products.

Please help us to donate some of your old servers which we can use for ESX server. We are in need of the following items.

3 Servers for ESX (prefer 64 bit)

One server for virtual center

One SAN any size or brand or may be NAS

ESX licenses (education only)

vSphare license

I have 10 students right now waiting us to start this programs. Please help us to donate your old hardware or if you like you can take your stuff back after the class. Any help , suggesting or idea will be will be appreciated.

You can reach me at 831-818-1041 or email me at fida@techfriendsca.com

Thank you very much in advance.

Fida

Boise VMUG Members admission to Interface 2009

hawkadmin — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:49:02 GMT

Hello all,

After attending last years Interface conference in Boise, I was asked to become a member of it's advisory council. Upon becoming a member, they notified me to extend an invitation to any and all of the user groups that I am a member of. So all VMUG Boise members are extended a formal invitation and allowed complimentary registration to this event.

I know what some of you are thinking....."Great, another card spammer event." While that is somewhat true, some of the presentations I sat through were very informative and worth while. Plus, the food and the schwag giveaways are really good too.

For those of you unfamiliar with Interface, you can read more about it here: INTERFACE Home Page

This event will take place on August 13th from 9:30a – 4:00pm at the Boise Centre on The Grove

You must complete the registration before attending else you will not be allowed to enter. To register simply go here: (INTERFACE registration) and select "Advisory Council Referal" under "How did you hear about INTERFACE?"

I was also asked to inform you of some of the ways that INTERFACE can benefit you as a member of the VMUG:

Complimentary
* Registration to INTERFACE 2009*

For all
chapter members, their staff & chapter associates

Public Exposure

On the
conference website, and advertisement in conference planner

Monetary Donation to
* Chapter*

To
chapter scholarship fund or favored charity, based on # of attendees referred
by chapter

Discounted Vendor
* Participation Pricing*

20%
discount for any vendors/sponsors associated with the VMware & Boise
Microsoft ITPro Users Groups

Meeting Space

Conference
room or theater time for chapter seminar or meeting

Complimentary Space
* at INTERFACE*

Table-top
area for chapter use (based on space availability)

If any of you have any additional questions about the event or how to get in touch with F2F/Interface for space or other services, please respond to this thread or track me down next week at the VMUG meeting.

Thanks!

-Devin Throngard

devin at hcollc dot com

Vendor Speaking Opps

sgreer — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:26:20 GMT

Hi Matt,

Can you please contact me regarding speaking opportunities at your August meeting.

Kind Regards,

Sara Greer (sgreer@exagrid.com)

ExaGrid Systems

Subject: Offer to Sponsor VMUG Meeting

PaulWinterowd — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 22:14:24 GMT

Attention Group Organizer,

I'm with Symantec in the Global Strategic Alliance group. The team I work with focuses on the VMware relationship and we would like to get involved with the sponsorship of future VMware User Group meetings in Las Vegas. I see you have an event with a sponsor for the upcoming event on July 23, 2009. If the sponsor falls through or you are seeking future meeting sponsors, please don't hesitate to let me know.

All the best,

Paul Winterowd

Paul_winterowd@symantec.com

Offer to Sponsor VMUG Meeting

PaulWinterowd — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 21:56:10 GMT

Attention Group Organizer,

I'm with Symantec in the Global Strategic Alliance group. The team I work with focuses on the VMware relationship and we would like to get involved with the sponsorship of future VMware User Group meetings in Boise. I understand you have an event and a sponsor for the upcoming event on July 10,2009. If that falls through or you are seeking future meeting sponsors, please don't hesitate to let me know.

Paul Winterowd

Paul_winterowd@symantec.com

Anyone out there?

cheebert — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 00:29:20 GMT

So while I had hoped to be at the last meeting at HCC, I got shanghaid and couldn't make it. So is anyone out there? Are there going to be regular meetings?

Did Academic pricing get setup?

Is there any sort of community support group yet?

Inquiring minds want to know...

/brian chee

VMware Admin/Systems Engineer looking for work 4 Year VMware & 15 years IT experience

shyder@graniterock.com — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 08:55:37 GMT

Hello,

My name is Syed and I am looking for VMware projects or full time job.

I just got laid off on June 5th from Graniterock after almost 10 years, I was working as a VMware admin/Systems Engineer.

I am in the market right now and looking for VMware admin kind of projects/job. Please feel free to contact me at 831-818-1041 or email me at fida@techfriendsca.com if you have any question or or if you guys need any VMware/IT help.

I am attaching my resume here please take a look at it. i live in Santa Clara California but I am open to travel.

Thanks,

Syed Hyder

VMware Admin/Systems Engineer looking for work 4 Year VMware & 15 years IT experience

shyder@graniterock.com — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 08:50:01 GMT

VMware Admin/Systems Engineer looking for work 4 Year VMware & 15 years IT experience

shyder@graniterock.com — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 08:48:09 GMT

Hello,

My name is Syed and I am looking for VMware projects or full time job.

I just got laid off on June 5th from Graniterock after almost 10 years, I was working as a VMware admin/Systems Engineer.

I am in the market right now and looking for VMware admin kind of projects/job. Please feel free to contact me at 831-818-1041 or email me at fida@techfriendsca.com if you have any question or or if you guys need any VMware/IT help.

I am attaching my resume here please take a look at it. i live in Santa Clara California but I am open to travel.

Thanks,

Syed Hyder

VMware Admin/Systems Engineer looking for work 4 Year VMware & 15 years IT experience

shyder@graniterock.com — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 08:43:43 GMT

Hello,

My name is Syed and I am looking for VMware projects or full time job.

I just got laid off on June 5th from Graniterock after almost 10 years, I was working as a VMware admin/Systems Engineer.

I am attaching my resume here please take a look at it. i live in Santa Clara California but I am open to travel.

Thanks,

Syed Hyder

VMware expert looking for VMware Projects/Job

shyder@graniterock.com — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 08:37:46 GMT

I am in the market right now and looking for VMware admin kind of projects/job. Please feel free to contact me at 831-818-1041 or email me at fida@techfriendsca.com if you guys need any VMware/IT help.

I am attaching my resume here please take a look at it. i live in Santa Clara California but I am open to travel.

Thanks,

Syed Hyder

VMware Admin/Engineer looking for a new home.

chadpatt123 — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 21:09:10 GMT

I have been administrating VMware products since 2002 (Certified) and open to a new start in the Seattle Area...

Respond to chadpatt@comcast.net and I will send off a resume.

Strictly anonymous customer feedback on storage vendor?

9200daytonave — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 15:55:55 GMT

Hello,

We're in negotiations with 3par to provide disks behind a netapp gateway. Among other things this will be the storage behind several VMWare farms.

We're already a netapp shop but are new to 3par. I'm hoping to get candid feedback on 3par from a shop that's familiar with them, from outside of their list of "friendly" references. Ideally I'd like to set up a conference call between you and a few representatives of our storage team. We'd like to ask you about the gear, you experience with it, and especially the vendor's support organization and your experiences with them. If you're not up for a scheduled conference call, I'd also be grateful to swap emails or talk one-to-one on the phone.

Your help with this will not get back to 3par. For example, I am posting this from a new VMUG account. No information you provide will be relayed back to 3par. Nothing identifying you will ever be inluded in any written correspondence.

Feel free to contact me at this username at gmail.com. Also feel free to forward this to anyone you know who has experience with 3par.

Hope to hear from you...

Presentations from the Seattle VMUG User Conference are now available

jeanw — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 18:00:40 GMT

Hi everyone - thank you for attending the 1st Annual Seattle VMUG User Conference. Presentations are now available for download. Please take a moment to provide us with your feedback from the meeting. Upon completion of the short survey you will be redirected to the presentations.

http://www.surveymethods.com/EndUser.aspx?E5C1ADB0E2A3B3BE

Thank you

The VMUG Team

November 2009 PDX VMWare User's Conference - Call for Presentations

jerrylcasper — Wed, 27 May 2009 23:54:07 GMT

The steering commitee for the Portland VMUG is interested in holding an all day User's Conference in November 2009. We'll still hold the August VMUG as normal, but we want to offer an expanded curriculum with additional opportunities for VMWare users to present their experiences. We'll most likely have plenty of speakers from VMWare and VMWare partners, but we truly want to encourage VMWare end users to give presentations. If you are excited about VMWare, use it in your environment, and would like to share with others the technical, political, or social experiences you've had with any of the VMWare products, we'd love to here from you!

We are now accepting submissions for presentation topics for the November PDX VMWare User's Conference. We are hoping to provide all end-user speakers with a small stipend or gift for their participation. This is your chance to share your experiences with your peers in the Portland technical community and develop your network of technical contacts. If you are interested in presenting, please e-mail me at

jerrylcasper at hotmail dot com

May 2009 PDX VMUG Presentations

jerrylcasper — Wed, 27 May 2009 23:37:22 GMT

Attached are the May 2009 VMUG presentations that have been passed on to me by the presenters. I currently have the View/VDI presentation from Tristan Todd and the Tips and Tricks presentation from NexusIS/Brad Ault. I have been unable to obtain the VMWare presentation.

Looking for a VMWare Guru in Portland

NancyAList — Thu, 21 May 2009 19:19:43 GMT

Am trying to network to find a VMWare/Virtualization Guru in Portland
for my client. They are an IT solutions company that specializes in
data center virtualization, managed services and unified
communications. They are growing their virtualization practice in
Portland and need a VMWare VCP 3.x to lead it locally. Person would be
50% client facing/50% architecting solutions for clients. Great
opporutnity with good salary + benes. From a VMWare standpoint, they
have some of the nation's top talent...who literally wrote books on
virtualization, so there is a great opportunity to learn and grow. Any
ideas for me?

Error: No Boot Device Found

ArizonaGeek — Mon, 18 May 2009 16:16:23 GMT

Last night we had a production FTP server reboot, I am at a loss as to why it rebooted since Windows doesn't say anything, VIC doesnt tell me anything and the SAN reported no errors. So while that is a problem, the bigger issue is that when the server rebooted it didn't make it past the BIOS giving the error message No Boot Device Found. You power off the VM, wait a second, power it back on and it comes up with no issues. This isn't the first time or the first server to get this error on a guest OS crash. I don't believe the physical server had an issue, otherwise all the guests would have rebooted or HA would have logged a move, and if the SAN had issues and we would have got an alert from the SAN monitoring software. Has anyone run into something like this before?

ESX 3.5 update 4. The guest is a 2003 Standard server, updates are set to download but not install, there were no snapshots, no CD attached and this was not a P2V server, we are using Serv-U as the FTP server software. All the logs basically point to the machine just rebooted out of the blue, Event logs, FTP logs and the VM logs.

IDC's Matt Eastwood speaks on impact of virtualization-May 21

VMUGSeattle — Fri, 15 May 2009 19:28:06 GMT

IDC's Matt Eastwood will provide you with practical information on how virtualization impacts storage, networks, desktops and security. He will present a holistic view of virtualization with a focus on being more efficient and productive in the current economic environment. You will leave with a greater understanding of the tools
and processes being used to manage, control and optimize your virtualization investments. Subject matter experts from VMware will be available to answer any questions.*

Thursday May 21, 2009

Seattle in the afternoon

	Time:		Refreshments and snacks 2:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. Presentations 2:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Cocktail Reception 5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
	Location:		Renaissance Seattle Hotel 515 Madison Street Seattle, WA 98104 (206) 583-0300

Olympia in the morning

	Time:	Continental Breakfast 8:00 a.m. - 8:30 a.m. Presentations 8:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
	Location:	Red Lion Hotel Olympia 2300 Evergreen Park Drive SW Olympia, WA 98502 (360) 943-4000

To register, please send a message to sales@gmi.com

General Microsystems Inc. is a certified VMware partner

batch esxtop to just collect disk data

jreverri — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 17:20:04 GMT

Hello all,

I want to batch output of esxtop to a csv file and just collect disk related data for 24 hours. I went into esxtop and disabled all columns for CPU, MEM, and network in addition to only enabling the desired columns under disk. I saved the file to .esxtop310rc and ran the following command:

nohup esxtop -c .esxtop310rc -b -d 3 -n 28800 >/mnt/esxshare/esx1.csv

The files are huge and they still collect all the CPU, MEM and network data. Here is a copy of my .esxtop310rc file:

abcdefgh
abcdefghijklmno
AbcdEfgHIjklm
ABCdeFGhijk
ABCDEfgHIjk
abcdefghijklm
5d

Any thoughts or ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers, Jason

USER GROUP MEETING?

MKendall — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 17:43:23 GMT

Are there any user group meetings planned? If not, when can we get one planned and what is a good location for everybody?

Job Opportunity in Portland, Oregon

KirkBaillie — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 00:18:56 GMT

I am recruiting for my client who is looking for Sr. Software Engineer that will be responsible for developing product capabilities, in the areas of I/O subsystem and drivers, file systems, file data related memory management, as well as associated user space tools and utilities.

Please contact me for additional information.

05/14/2009 Phoenix VMUG Users Conference - PRESENTORS NEEDED

mattman555 — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 14:22:37 GMT

We are looking for 2 Phoenix VMUG Users (Not Vendors or Sponsors) to present their environments at the next May VMUG Users conference.

The two users we are looking for should have a Moderate or Large deployment of VMWARE ESX.

Trust me we will set you up with a cool give-away for presenting!

If you would be interested in presenting please contact me ASAP.

Email - matthew.mancini@jcl.com or 602.421.9456

Thanks..

Matt Mancini

Phoenix VMUG Leader

05/14/2009 Phoenix VMUG Users Conference - SPONSORS NEEDED

mattman555 — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 14:11:12 GMT

Our May VMUG Users Conference is just around the corner and we need Vendors to sponsor our event.

We hope to have about 200+ VMWARE users in attendance!

If you have vendor contacts or if you are a vendor please contact me about sponsorship.

Email to - matthew.mancini@jcl.com or call 602.421.9456

Thank you..

Matt Mancini

Phoenix VMUG Leader

Question about NetApp Storage?

SimpleJo — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 18:44:12 GMT

Hello everyone,

I need some unbias feedback on NetApp storage. I work at Apollo Group and we have been using shared Hitachi SANs but they are seriously poor performers. We are planning to get a NetApp POC going and I need to get some pros/cons. We will be going with fiber not iSCSI. Does anyone have best practices for carving disk groups and LUN sizes? Please email me at my work email is joe.sanchez(at)apollogrp(dot)edu

Thanks,

Joe Sanchez

Deep technical discussions

JoeTowner — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 01:00:04 GMT

While I appreciate the fun and structure of the VMUG, I am looking to beat brains with a few fellow geeks. Any of these type of get together would be after business hours, with little structure.

I look forward to seeing what others have racked their brains on. My current frustrations revolve around managed hosted environments, and the associated networking & backup tasks.

-Joe

Next Bay Area VMUG - Wednesday March 25th 2009

jschlach — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 19:01:01 GMT

We have put together a meeting for Q1! We will get caught up with VMware and hear from EMC on their lower-end and cross-platform D/R solutions. For more information and free registration: http://campaign.vmware.com/usergroup/invites/NorthBayArea_3-25-09.html

Also, I am looking for customers doing interesting things with VMware products who would like to present at our meetings. We focus on enterprise products a lot, it would be interesting to hear about some desktop related projects! Send me a direct message if you are interested.

instantDB

eddog88 — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 19:47:35 GMT

I have a VM windows 2003 running on ESX and am trying to install a 3com wireless controller software (Enterprise Managment Suite) and it hangs on the DB initialation. it used InstantDB for its database. It works on a physical machine. Does

anyone have any idea why?

Portland VMUG: How you can help.

dominic7 — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:41:24 GMT

The Portland VMUG team is very interested in your participation. We've got a lot of work to do to make each meeting successful, and we'd like you're help if you've got either time or resources to donate. Below are a few ways that you can help us make the Portland VMUG one of the best in the nation.

1. Participate on the PDX VMUG "Core" Team. We meet physically once per quarter in order to set up the next meeting. These meetings are generally a few weeks after a VMUG meeting where we review the survey results from the previous meeting, and do some logistical planning for the next upcoming meeting. We're looking for individuals who can attend most of the meetings to help us guide how each event is planned.

2. Web Development. We own the pdxvmug.com domain name, but we lack the skills to set up a professional looking website that has integration with wordpress or blogger so we can update it easily. If you're a web developer and have some free time we'd like to talk to you.

Co-Location space located

Hosting Space. We're also looking for a few U of hosting space that we can use where we can host our own content. We promise not to be too bandwidth intensive. We're also thinking that we may be able to come up with a community lab which would allow our VMUG community access to some of the technologies they may not have access to at their own job which can be used to prepare presentations.

If you think you'd be interested in helping with any of these points, please contact me ( dominic@vmprofessional.com ). I'd love to talk to you.

Guidelines for posting in the Bay Area CA VMware User Group forum

jschlach — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:09:36 GMT

We've had a lot of random posts in this forum so I thought I would post a general guideline.

The focus of this forum is the Bay Area geographic region. If you have a question about a particular product, post in the product area forums. Your post will get a lotmore visibility and far quicker response.

Thanks!

Jason

Can't print when host OS is running in Fusion 2

bsovel — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 17:18:34 GMT

Hopefully this is the right place to post this.

I am using Fusion 2 on a Mac running 10.5.

If the host OS is running (windows 2000) I can't print on either the windows side or the Mac side.

As soon as I suspend Windows. I can print again on the Mac side.

I have Fusion set up to use the mac default printer.

Two of the three February 2009 PDX VMUG presentations have been uploaded to the documents section of the Portland VMUG

jerrylcasper — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 19:25:37 GMT

We had over two hundred people register for the February VMUG and had well over 100 people for the three technology presentations. There were a ton of giveaways, free lunch, and some well done technical presentations on several aspects of virtualization. Thanks to all who attended and to the customer presenters who continue to make the events successful.

The Site Recovery Manager and NPIV presentations have been uploaded.

New to group and a question

JohnBrock — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 00:57:31 GMT

Hi:
My name is John Brock. I work for Robert McNeel & Associates here is Seattle. We are the developers of Rhinoceros - NURBS modeling for Windows. Some of our users are running VMware Fusion on their Macs including myself. I am involved in technical support, product testing, and training. So far Fusion works pretty well. It runs much more smoothly than Parallels.

However I have run into a few minor problems. I reported the first within the 30-day support period and played email tag with "Ranjeet" in support. We went to the effort of building a test application for him that demonstrated the mouse cursor problem we discovered. After three tries, he reported he was able to duplicate the error but the status of the problem has disappeared into the dark abyss that is typical technical support.

I wanted to report another bug and found that I have to buy into some support program to even report defects in the product. That REALLY makes me angry. Why should I pay them so I can report problems in their software? What's that about? Crazy.

At any rate. I wanted to see if anyone else has seen this problem. I have installed Windows XP Pro (with all updates) in Fusion. When I use the Windows Explorer (file) to make a new folder, or to rename an existing folder, the list does not refresh unless I force a refresh with F5 or change out of, and back into the parent folder. Has anyone else seen this and is there a fix for it?

Sorry for the minor rant. I spend a great deal of time doing technical support for our application. We consider it a privilege that our customers are willing to call or email with questions and problems. We do not charge a maintenance fee like many developers do, including VMware.

John Brock
Seattle

File Storage

LionHeartII — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 20:19:20 GMT

Can anyone tell me where data files are stored in VM Ware Fusion on the Mac? I'm trying to organize a sync between my desktop and laptop computers for the files I create while in Windows NT so I don't have to manually drag files over the network or recreate them when I go to work from one machine to another. The files I create in Windows NT might be stored in the "My Documents" folder while in Windows but in some cases, the files may be in a folder within the particular application folder so I'd like to be able to identify them accordingly. If need be, I can probably organize the files I create to all be kept in the "My Documents" folder. Are the files even individually identifiable on the Mac? I suppose worst case scenario is to have a sync program for Windows to Windows but I'd rather be able to identify there location in the Mac environment and have them updated between the two computers.

Thanks.

File Storage

LionHeartII — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 07:20:43 GMT

Fusion shutting down when USB plugged in..........

brokendc10 — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 00:11:29 GMT

Hi,

I hope I'm in the right area here. First time looking for help with VMWare Fusion - it's been rock solid for well over a year.

Anyway, as of a couple weeks ago, every time I plug in the Garmin 405 usb stick I get the light gray screen telling me that I have to hold the power button down to completely shutdown my Macbook.

Up until then, I had been using this USB stick flawlessly.

Can anyone help?

Thanks in advance............and again, I apologize if this isn't the correct forum.

- Mark

Having trouble with virtural drive and physical drive which using host and virtural machine.

berkimdg — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 23:09:42 GMT

My host OS is Windows XP professional and virtural machine OS is Windows 2003 server standard. I made virtural disk with entire hard drive using patition. When I update file from Host machine which is "G" Drive, files don't show on virtural machine which is "E" drive. How can I make to see any file changes on both host and virtural machine? Please help~

05/2009 VMUG Meeting - Suggestion Box

mattman555 — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:05:54 GMT

Members - Our May VMUG meeting is shaping up to be more of a large event!

We are planning on having 4 different 1 hour break out sessions that will be repeated.

This will give you the opportunity to attend any of the two.

The general idea is to have VMWARE give us an overview of all or their products, and then the break out session are a bit more in depth with what you can do with their products.

Also, there will be a vendor area with about 15 to 20 vendors, 4 to 8 Platinum vendors demostrating their products.

Here is the basic agenda

10:00 - 10:30AM User Registration / Arrival

10:30 - 10:50 AM Phoenix VMUG Update - Matt Mancini of Phoenix VMUG

10:50 - 11:50 VMWARE Product Line Overview - VMWARE REP TBD

11:50 - 1:00 Break / Lunch - Get to know your VMUG Members Virtual

1:00 - 2:00 Breakout Session 1

Topic 1 - How to implement ESX with an Unlimited budget

Topic 2 - How to implement ESX with an Moderate budget

Topic 3 - How to implement ESX with for Free

Topic 4 - Platinum Vendor Presentations - 15 Minute Rotating Presentations in the All Vendor area

2:00 - 2:15 - Break

2:15 - 3:15 - Breakout Session 2

Topic 1 - How to implement ESX with an Unlimited budget

Topic 2 - How to implement ESX with an Moderate budget

Topic 3 - How to implement ESX with for Free

Topic 4 - Platinum Vendor Presentations - 15 Minute Rotating Presentations in the All Vendor area

3:15 - 3:30 Break

3:30 - 4:00 Door Prizes / Adjourn PM Clean up

We're open to your thoughts and suggestions

Matt Mancini

Phoenix VMUG Leader

Palm Tungsten E2 hot sync

rr1134 — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 00:02:43 GMT

**I am trying to hot sync my data from my Palm Tungsten E2 to my Mac Book Pro Fusio with MS XP Home**

**It would not download into Mac even t ho the disc said it would ( I guess Leopard is not compatible)**

**It did download into the Windows area..... but it would not HOT SYNC>.... even though it siad that it did it successfully**

**I know it does work as i added a name and number in the CONTACTS area without any problem manually. but i have over 500 names in my Palm**

**IS THERE A WAY TO HOT SYNC THE CONTACT DATA ? RR1134@AOL.CO*M Robert*

Windows 7 and Vista

jt643 — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 21:38:16 GMT

I just loaded Windows 7 on a new virtual machine. I still want my primary machine to be Vista, but every time I open Fusion, it automatically boots to Windows 7. How do I tell Fusion which machine I want to default to?

Other information: The Windows 7 machine is an actual virtual machine while the the Vista machine is actually my boot camp partition.

Thanks in advance!

Slow boot up with VMware Fusion 2.0.1

RoryJ — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 03:09:58 GMT

I went from Fusion 1..... to 2.0.1 and had a 10-fold or more boot up time increase in the virtual machine Windows XP pro. It was seconds (maybe 10, never really counted), to minutes - 1.5 to 2 or more. Shut down is also much slower. I've seen the entries on slow boot ups in 2.0, and didn't find anything that seemed to help. The system is displaying a blue screen with "Welcome" on it for a very long time. In addition, the upgrade lost track of a number of files so I had to go and find them again in order to be able to run programs -- Password Safe, and Eudora in particular. Is there any solution for the slow boot up, or if not is there any way to get back to the 1... version without having to reload windows (XP Professional 2002, SV 2) and the applications? I am using an iMac, leopard OS.

RoryJ

User Group Meeting

JustinBKay — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 19:18:18 GMT

How do you register for the User group meeting?

Installing Fedora via VMware Player

waltxie — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 05:37:35 GMT

Hi. My name is Walt. I'm new to Linux, and I've been following a guideline to creating a virtual OS (Fedora 9) via VMware. However, I am stuck at the partitioning, where it asks me to choose one of four choices:

Remove all partitions on selected drives and create default layout

Remove Linux partitions on selected drives and create default layout

Use free space on selected drives and create default layout

Create Custom Layout

However, this isn't the problem. The real problem is that VMware isn't finding the hard drive to install Fedora 9 on. Underneath the four choices are two little black boxes, which I have no idea what they say. So, when I try to add a drive, it takes me to this "Advanced Storage Options" window where it asks me to "Add iSCSI target." When I try to do so, VMware tells me there's an error: "I must have a network configuration set up for iSCSI config. Please boot with 'linux asknetwork.'" I don't know how to add an iSCSI target, so please help! The specifications is that I am running VMware via Windows XP Home. Thanks in advance.

P2V Social Event

mattman555 — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:45:06 GMT

Based on our last meeting it seamed like a P2V Social event was in order.

It will be about a 2 hour meeting starting at 5PM, date and location are unknown at this time.

Post up if your are interested and let me know what side of town your are on.

The feedback from this thread will determine where this event will be held.

Thanks..

Matt Mancini

Phoenix VMUG Leader

Reverted Snapshot

aminn — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 18:58:00 GMT

I had never taken a snapshot before, and I reverted back to a previous snapshot taken at the time of the installation by mistake, and so it seems like I have lost all my programs and lecture notes, and there is only 2 weeks left to my finals.. Does anyone have any idea if there is a possibility of retrieving the information???

VMWare Fusion 2.0 will not open due to 'File Damaged' / Virtual Machine Library

Loki-Albert — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 01:53:05 GMT

It started with getting the message that 'VMWare Fusion has paused virtual machine because the disk on which the virtual machine is stored is almost full. To continue, free up at least 892 mb of disk space.'
With no additional instruction and unable to get it to do anything on the windows side , I left the windows side and began to look for space from the Mac side. I moved a number of files into the trash and then to my usb drive and thought I had kept track of them, just in case. The VMWare Fusion did open back up, and thinking I needed to take a snapshot, I removed my two older snapshots and then I got the same message. I again began to remove files from the Mac side both in Downloads and Library folder, I think.
Apparently I removed the wrong files and hope someone can help me recover the situation I am now in, with the Virtual Machine Library showing 'File Damaged' and apparently not offering any suggestions or options.
Thank you.

Silicon Valley User Group Meeting - October 24th

Bryanrood — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 05:32:45 GMT

After a long sebbatical, the SIlicon Valley User's Group is BACK!

Join an innovative group of VMware users as we recap VMworld 2008
at National Semiconductor. VMware representatives will talk about the latest releases: VDC-OS, vCenter, VMware View, vCloud. Come to network, share ideas, and learn how to get the most out of your
VMware solutions.

This is a great opportunity to meet your peers within the Silicon Valley to discuss virtualization trends, best practices, and the latest technology!
Agenda
08:30am - Check-In / Breakfast
09:00am - Introductions and Use Case - Bryan Rood, VMUG Leader
09:30am - VMworld 2008 Highlights - Jon Raines, VMware SE
10:15am - Break
10:30am - VMworld 2008 Highlights - Mike O'Reilly , VMware SE
11:15am - 3Leaf Systems Presentation
Register today to join us for this free informative event. Space is limited, so respond as soon as possible to reserve your seat.

Meeting length

rshimizu12 — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 05:38:32 GMT

The meetings are too long. I think it might be advisable to have shorten the meetings and meet more often.

Announcement: Fall Sacramento area VMware User Group Meeting

Benjamin Craig — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 05:24:36 GMT

Hello Everyone!

I'm very excited to announce the Fall Sacramento VMware User Group meeting will be held on November 6th! This is the last VMUG of the year and trust me, you don't want to miss it! By popular demand we will be giving a recap of VMworld 2008 followed by a presentation on VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure). This month's meeting will be sponsored by Network Appliance, who has graciously offered to provide dinner, beverages, and a cool giveaway!

Daniel Speciale of Network Appliance will be demonstrating VDI in a hands-on lab while Benjamin Craig of River City Bank will facilitate a recap of VMworld 2008! We are currently looking for attendees of VMworld who would like to volunteer to share their experiences with the community. Cisco Systems has also given us a new piece of demo gear: One of their brand new 48 port 10Gb Ethernet switches which will be onsite for your perusal. As always, if anyone has suggestions or specific questions they would like us to address, please post them on the Sacramento Area VMware User Group forum which can be found here:

http://communities.vmware.com/community/vmug/us-west/sacramento

For those of you who are new to the community, let me provide a little history... Even though these meeting are (gratefully) sponsored, this is NOT a sales event. We've decided to put together an on-going "case study" of a fictitious company that has determined they are going to virtualize their environment. At each meeting we cover different aspects of planning and deploying virtualization via VMware. We started with "Assessing Your Infrastructure", and moved on to: "Building a Scalable Infrastructure", "Leveraging VMware features to Meet Business Requirements", "Backup, Recovery, and DR/BRP", and "Real-World Deployment Issues". Undoubtedly, we will continue to inject some twists and turns along the way. We intend to bring in equipment and setup a lab as needed.

WHEN:
Thursday evening the 6th of November 2008 from 5:00pm to 9:00pm (Plan on leaving the office a little early so you can avoid traffic.)

WHERE:
Cattlemens Restaurant
12409 Folsom Blvd.
Rancho Cordova, CA 95670
(916) 985-4249
http://www.beststeakinthewest.com/rc.htm

AGENDA:
5:00 to 5:50pm - Meet, greet, and grab a pint!
5:50 to 6:00pm - Review of the previous meeting's presentation
6:00 to 7:00pm - Dinner and Presentation: VMworld 2008 Recap and VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure)
7:00 to 9:00pm - Q&A, open discussion and peer networking

HOW TO RSVP:
If you haven't already done so, please "Officially" sign up to be a member of the VMware User Group here:
http://www.vmware.com/vmug

We will send out an official "Fall Sacramento User Group Invitation" through VMware this week. Please help us provide an accurate head-count for the restaurant. Because seating is limited to about 100 people, we ask that you confirm your attendance by responding to the official e-mail. (Based on recent attendance, we will be providing a amplified mic so everyone can hear.)

Please pass this invitation on to any co-workers and associates who may be interested in VMware, and if you have any questions please don't hesitate to contact me!

Thanks!
Benjamin Craig

VMware Virtualization Forum 2008 Coming to San Diego Dec 3, 2008 ...

BacMan — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 23:42:37 GMT

FYI, the VMware virtualization forum is coming to San Diego on Dec 3, 2008. Follow the link below to register ....

http://info.vmware.com/content/VirtualizationForum_Home

Have anyone implement VMware VDI?

BacMan — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 21:08:32 GMT

Hi all,

Just wonder that anyone in VMUG SD have implement VMware VDI? If som can share what your experience? Also, what thin-client devices that you use and recomend?

I am in the process to setup a test environment to test and evaluate the VMware VDI with WYSE, HP and Panalogic thin-client devices.

Cheers,

R&D Lab Systems Administrator for a High Performance Virtual Data Center

walterwong — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 18:44:19 GMT

{font:Verdana}{size:10pt}We are a small elite R&D team in San Mateo that

is the centerpiece of the Security Division of RSA/EMC developing leading edge
security technology for the fastest growing segment in security, Data Loss
Prevention.

{font:Verdana}We are seeking a high intellect, expert Systems Administrator
for a unique opportunity to {font:Verdana}{size:10pt}design, setup, maintain and
support a virtual, multi-platform, high end R&D data center environment
utilizing a large VMware ESX cluster, 100 terabyte EMC CLARiiON SAN, NAS
servers, networking equipment, domain controllers, databases, web, ftp and
email servers.

Expertise with Windows systems administration
required.

Experience with VMware Virtual Infrastructure, ESX,
and Lab Manager highly preferred.

Experience Linux Systems administration highly
preferred.

You would have the opportunity to {font:Verdana}{size:10pt}support
the efforts of a world-class, geographically distributed R&D team working
on innovative security software.

Must be able to work independently, ideally in a
dynamically changing fast pace environment.

You may not be actively looking but we offer the benefits of a
small company environment, leading edge technology and the stability of a major
industry leader.

You can find more information about us at: http://www.rsa.com/node.aspx?id=3426

{font:Verdana}{size:10pt} Contact: walter wong at walter.wong@rsa.com

Please Fill Out the VMUG Survey!

pmcallister — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 16:42:19 GMT

The thank you email from the VMUG team contains a survey link that helps us make the VMUGs better. Please click!

Thanks!

Paul McAllister

SLC VMUG Leader

11/14/08 Phoenix VMUG - Presenter Needed

mattman555 — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 15:30:33 GMT

We are looking for a member to step up and present their environment OR talk about a specific topic like VDI, SRM, etc..

Please contact us ASAP.

Matt Mancini

Phoenix VMUG Leader

Reinstalling Windows XP

bbkamm — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 21:59:19 GMT

I have VMWare Fusion 1.0 and Windows XP Home Edition running on a MacBook. About a month about, my DSL Internet connection stopped running properly in Windows (it works fine on the Mac side). I have tried a system restore and other fixes recommended in Windows Help, but think I'm at the point where I just have try and reinstall Windows. How do I do that through VMWare Fusion?

Rocky Mountain Oracle Users Group Training Days Invitation

niklasi — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 21:58:09 GMT

Hi All,

We (Rocky Mountain Oracle Users Group - RMOUG) would like to invite VMUG members to participate in the RMOUG Training Days event. We are a group of primarily technical Oracle software users and we believe that we could benefit from having members from VMUG present information around vmware best practices, tips/tricks as well as best practices or case studies. (Or anything else you would think is applicable for that matter :))

We have a seen a great increase in the number of vmware installations that run Oracle products in the last few years, making vmware a new and very interesting technology to us. In addition, I am guessing that some VMUG members come in contact with Oracle software as well and there will be plenty of opportunity for you to attend various Oracle sessions at Training Days in order to increase your knowledge and collaborate with us.

For more information, here is a link to our website: http://www.rmoug.org/

Here is the training days invitation and registration information:

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Oracle OpenWorld is over. Stop. Take a breath. Now get ready for RMOUG Training Days 2009!

The abstract submission deadline, October 6, is right around the corner and we want you to be part of the tradition of excellence at the biggest and best grass-roots conference in the country. Don't delay; submit your abstract for RMOUG Training Days 2009.

Regards,

Ron Bich and Peggy King
Co-directors of Training Days TrainingDaysDir@rmoug.org

We are looking forward to collaborating with VMUG and please let me know if you have any questions,

Niklas Iveslatt
RMOUG Special Interest Groups Director
Niklas.Iveslatt@arisant.com

Last meeting on 24th by Right Systems

jonb157 — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 18:14:51 GMT

Does anyone know where the presentation that they presented on Security is located at?

September 24 SLC VMUG Slides

pmcallister — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 21:23:07 GMT

Thanks everyone for making it a great VMUG!

The EMC presentation slides and VMworld 2008 announcement slides are in this forum under the "Documents" tab (you are in the "Discussions" tab right now).

Thanks!

Paul McAllister

Healthways

paul dot mcallister at healthways com

801 870 8688

missing files search failed", then after restart my virtual machine was completely gone. How do I recover?

wwent — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:12:11 GMT

How do I recover a lost virtual machine? can i recover data that was on my Window XP OS?

I am having a problem with internet connection in virtualization

Changoloco — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 21:13:45 GMT

I am using a Macbook Pro. I have Win XP Pro installed. I am using a bridged connection in the virtual machine. I can see the mac side of things just fine and I can alsso ping the router in command line. For some reason that I cannot figure out my connection is not getting a default gateway and cannot connect to the internet. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks in advance.

Linkedin - San Diego VMware User Group (VMUG)

PWILSON — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 21:39:31 GMT

Join the Linkedin San Diego VMware User Group (VMUG) for meeting updates.

VMWare crash

ami_laws — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 02:44:43 GMT

I have VMWare version 1 installed on a MacBook Pro. I use Windows XP Pro on my virtual machine which was working Thursday.
On Friday, when I tried to run Windows, I got the following error messages: Could not open paging file for 512 MB: No such file or directory.
Cannot restore virtual machine RAM from file /Users/Ami/Documents/Virtual Machines/Windows XP Professional.vmwarevm/Windows XP Professional.vmem. The file may be corrupted.
Error encountered while trying to restore the state of group memory from file "/Users/Ami/Documents/Virtual Machines/Windows XP Professional.vmwarevm/Windows XP Professional.vmss".

I assume I need to uninstall Windows + /- VMWare and load them again. Any other suggestions?
Thanks,
Ami