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PHOENIX VMUG

PHOENIX VMUG. February 25, 2010 Desert Willow Conference Center Phoenix. Leaders. Charles Braffett Charles.braffett@vmugphoenix.com Robert Cooley Rob.cooley@vmugphoenix.com Duke Encinas Duke.encinas@vmugphoenix.com Luke Gray Luke.gray@vmugphoenix.com Matt Mancini

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PHOENIX VMUG

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  1. PHOENIX VMUG February 25, 2010Desert Willow Conference Center Phoenix

  2. Leaders • Charles Braffett • Charles.braffett@vmugphoenix.com • Robert Cooley • Rob.cooley@vmugphoenix.com • Duke Encinas • Duke.encinas@vmugphoenix.com • Luke Gray • Luke.gray@vmugphoenix.com • Matt Mancini • Matt.mancini@vmugphoenix.com

  3. Today’s Sponsors

  4. Today’s Sponsors

  5. Sponsors and Users Sponsors are a big part of VMUG and they usually will provide meals, drinks, or door prizes in exchange for presentation time or site presence at our meetings. Sponsors cannot run a VMUG meeting nor do they have direct access to VMUG members information. What is a Sponsor – simply put – if you work for a company that sells, supports, or consults – IT based software / hardware, or services then you’re a sponsor and not a user. Questions - Sponsors should contact vmugteam@vmare.com or become a partner at http://www.vmware.com/partners/programs/

  6. Sponsors and Users • What if someone approaches me about their services? • All Sponsors should have a ribbon just below their name tag. This ribbon should read SPONSOR. • If you are approached by a person not wearing this ribbon please let us know.

  7. User Feedback... • I can’t hear... I can’t see... • - Ask for the presenter to speak up • - Move to the front of the room • - Flag down a leader to help with sound or visuals • ...Need time with Sponsors • - During the lunch break • - Skip a session • - During Breaks • Got issues? Talk to the leaders and let us try to resolve issues like these immediately.

  8. Communicate with us! • Ways to communicate with us.. • Phoenix VMUG forum • http://communities.vmware.com/community/vmug/forums/us-est/phoenix?view=overview • LinkedIn groups • Phoenix VMUG –Users Only • Twitter • Follow >> vmugphoenix

  9. Floor Plan General Session Room 2 Room 1

  10. Morning Agenda Start Time Topic Room Location 8:00 AM – 8:30 AM Registration, Breakfast Vendor Area / General Session 8:30 AM – 8:45 AM Welcome and Introductions Meeting Overview - Matt Mancini General Session 8:45 AM – 9:15 AM VMWare Updates General Session 9:15 AM – 10:15 AM Key Note Session ... World Wide Technologies General Session Best Practices: An Open Discussion 10:15 AM – 10:30 AM Break 10:30 AM – 11:15 AM Sessions... Phoenix VMUG - Gotcha Session 101 Room 1 Vizioncore – A Practical Approach to Virtualization Expansion Cottonwood 1 Nasuni -- The Cloud as Primary Storage Cottonwood 2 11:15 AM – 11:30 AM Break 11:30 AM – 12:15 PM Sessions... Phoenix VMUG – Gotcha Session Advanced Room 1 HP- Rethinking Server Virtualization Cottonwood 1 F5 - Maximizing the Agility of your Virtualized Infrastructure Cottonwood 2 12:15 PM – 1:00 PM Lunch Dining Area

  11. During the Lunch Break • Are you traveling from Tucson or Southern Arizona? • Would you like to help form the Tucson VMUG group? • If so lets meet up to talk about getting this group rolling. • We’ll meet here next to main stage during the lunch break..

  12. Afternoon Agenda

  13. Solutions Exchange Room • Room2 is the Solutions Exchange room. • This room is a place where you can ask the experts and get answers. • You can also use this room to • network with other users • or if you like to talk to a vendor • one-on-one. • Currently staffed with 3 VCP’s • from MicroAge and 2 Employees • from VMware

  14. Door Prizes/Fish Bowl • Just a reminder to visit our vendors... • Drop off a Business card and/or get your badge scanned.. When you do you will get a Orange Prize Ticket. • Drawing will be held at the • end of this Meeting.

  15. Door Prizes/Fish Bowl • To show our appreciation to our users, the Phoenix VMUG leaders are giving away some cool gifts... • Tickets = prizes!!!

  16. We need you... • Next June 2010 -- • P2P Topic – Home Labs or Work Sandboxes • -- OpenFiler or Free / Cheap NAS Products • -- Home Lab (Have you deployed one? If so share with us) • -- Workstation 7 • We need P2P presenters • Please contact us if you’re interested.. • Other Upcoming Topics-- • Duke Presents --Perl Scripts • Charles Presents – VMware for Non-Profits 2 • Rob Presents – Manage VM Network from a SmartPhone • Matt Presents – ESXTop Part 2

  17. Special Keynote Session in June! We are working out the details to have a major publisher and the authors of a vSphere Technical book to be at our next VMUG Meeting. The authors will be present to discuss the highlights and answer some Q&A but we will be giving away copies of their book too.

  18. Looking Back... Phoenix VMUG was re-founded on 05/30/2008 1st Event Drew about 50 Users, now ~300 users Common Event lasted about 4 hours, now all day In the early days sponsors really pushed the content that you see.. Quickly we realized that users really want Peer to Peer interaction and our sponsors really need to start presenting technical content not just sales pitches.. The Phoenix VMUG Leaders start to push this..

  19. Fast Forward... • After 2 years of asking sponsors to present more technical content we’ve made some progress... • Though their presentations do sometimes get better, some of them lack the content we’re looking for... • This is where we NEED your help... • It’s time to send a clear message to the sponsors... • Please pull out your survey from your bags…

  20. Time to get Involved! • The survey you hold in your hands is a way for us to send a clear message about content. • Please fill out your survey and turn it in at the front desk… • When you do so you’ll get a 4GB USB stick… • You can turn this in at anytime... • (Except for right now...)

  21. Next 2 Sessions.. • - VMWARE Updates • - Keynote • World Wide Technologies – • Best Practices: An Open Discussion • Then to a 15 Minute Break…

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