Eric Schils of VMUG Belgium just announced their 19th meeting. This free VMUG.BE meeting will take place on March 29 at the Business Faculty in Brussels, Belgium. Again Erik has scheduled some great speakers, a.o: Luc Dekens, Alain Geenrits and Bert Arnauts.
Registration is now open to all VMUG members! Not a member…you can sign up for free here.
The full program for this meeting is below:
| 8:00 | Registration and Coffee | ||
| 9:00 | Welcome VMUG+ | Erik Schils | |
| 9:15 | Open vSwitch Reinventing Network Operations and Data Center Economics. Clouds are dynamic by design and the network is a barrier to achieving the promise of cloud computing. Nicira delivers the first network virtualization platform that enables the network for cloud. |
Nicira | |
| 10:00 | Nimble Storage Presentation | ||
| 10:30 | Break | ||
| 10:45 | Track 1: View, A Thinking Man’s Game | Miguel Rodriguez | |
| An integrated flex-pod approach to a vDesktop deployment that depends on many facets of technology. This use case will bring to light that a vDesktop deployment depends on more than a vSphere infrastructure. Planning and research will help to ensure a successful customer experience. You have to be able to provide an end to end solution, from hyper-visor and storage to the desktop image and ThinApp. Lessons learned and creative solutions. | |||
| Track 2: Cloud Service Provisioning | Nicolas Van Wijnsberghe, VMware | ||
| Manage tomorrow’s Applications today and move from IAAS to AAAS. Join me in this live demo session where we will be showing the simplicity and automation Application Director brings to introducing & deploying Applications to your SDDC. | |||
| 11:30 | Switching Rooms | ||
| 11:35 | Building a Veeam Scale Out Architecture | Niels Engelen | |
| A session about optimising a backup infrastructure using Veeam proxies resulting in a trouble-free backup environment. This all combined with some lessons learned and potential tips and tricks. | |||
| 12:10 | Lunch | ||
| 13:00 | Track 1: vCloud Director, In the Real World | Bart Van Praet, ePact | |
| What is vCloud Director, Why start with vCloud Director? How to talk to the network and security guy. Why do it virtual? Wrap up and demo. A real world example on why and how we implemented VMware vCloud Director and how we convinced, or not convinced the networking and security guys to do ‘IT Virtual’. | |||
| Track 2: Manage and Automate VMware View with PowerCLI | Luc Dekens | ||
| Manage and automate VMware View with PowerCLI. Run View PowerCLI cmdlets locally and remotely, Automate your View administrator tasks, such as creating desktop pools and desktops, defining entitlements and assigning ThinApp Packages. And see how the AD LDS can provide a wealth of information for your reports. | |||
| 14:00 | Switching Rooms | ||
| 14:05 | Track 1: vCops – Extending Enterprise Management | Alain Geenrits, VMware | |
| In this slide-free environment we will explore how to connect vCenter Operations Manager to other data in the enterprise to get a view of storage systems, OS and application data and much more. Custom dashboards allow you to build the views you need to quickly consult data. No animals will be hurt during this session. | |||
| 14:50 | Break | ||
| 15:15 | Track 1: Storage Performance Baselining | Eric De Witte, EMC | |
| This session will cover the process of performing Storage performance baselining, identifying the needs, conducting the baselining and monitoring the environment after the baselining is done. We will leverage tools like iometer, io analyser, esxtop, vscsistats, VCOPs. (Applicable to environments of all sizes, with or without SAN/NAS). | |||
| Track 2: Hypervisors Networking: Best Practices for Interconnecting with Cisco Switches | |||
| Originating virtual port-ID, source MAC hash, load-based teaming, IP hash, explicit failover order. Do these terms ring a bell? Do you know the best connectivity scheme for each of those? Come to this session and you’ll learn Cisco’s best practices in terms of Hypervisor to physical switch connectivity. | |||
| 16:00 | vBeer Session | Bert Arnauts | |
| vBeer session: bold statements about virtualization that are true! (or not?). Interactive session where sharing your experiences and vision is a must! | |||
| 16:45 | Prize Drawings | ||
| 17:00 | Closing Drinks | ||
