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Virtualization Group – Boston Welcome! www.virtg.com. Dan Stolts Founder and President: Virtualization Group – Boston President: Boston User Groups http://www.BostonUserGroups.org IT Pro Evangelist: Microsoft http://blogs.technet.com/danstolts
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Virtualization Group – BostonWelcome!www.virtg.com Dan Stolts Founder and President: Virtualization Group – Boston President: Boston User Groups http://www.BostonUserGroups.org IT Pro Evangelist: Microsoft http://blogs.technet.com/danstolts Founder/Owner: Bay State Integrated Technology, Inc. http://www.BayStateTechnology.com
Virtualization Group - Boston • www.VirtG.com – Virtualization Group – Boston • Normal Meeting (after today) Second Tuesday – Microsoft – 201 Jones Road - Waltham MA; MPR-A • Recording tonight and presenting live online but will likely be the last regular meeting content that is streamed live for a while. Likely to resume Live Streaming 2010 timeframe. • Thank You All For Coming!!!
Agenda Time Description 6:00-6:45 pm Welcome – Virtualization News and TechTips/Q & A 7:00-7:45 Microsoft Cloud Computing 101 Bill Zach – Microsoft Architect Evangelist 8:00-8:45 Live Sequencing with App-V Tim Mangan - TMUrgent 8:50ish Evaluations, Door Prizes
Thanks to StarWind Software for Supplying the Pizza and Beverages!!! Trial Download: www.StarWindSoftware.com Contact them at: 617-449-7717 sales@starwindsoftware.com Located in Burlington at 40 Mall Rd. StarWind Software Leading Provider of Storage Virtualization Software
Leaders@virtg.com • We have MUCH to do, Let us know if you can help!
Our Plans • RSVP for Meetings so we can purchase the correct amount of food and soda’s • Live meetings that are recorded for download later for those that cannot attend. • Two Speakers every night • Bio of all speakers and a link to samples of their work • Presentation material available online within three days of presentation
Past Sessions • Feb – Deep Dive Day • Virtualizaton 360 – Overview of Virtualization • Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V / John Kelebley • VmWare Virtualization: Portfolio and Roadmap/ Dan Sullivan • Improving File System Performance in a Virtual Environment / Bob Nolan • Security Aspects of Virtualization / Dan Stolts • Application Virtualization: Concepts and Platforms / Tim Mangan • Physical to Virtual Migration / John Kelbley • Performance Discussion / moderated by Dan Stolts and Tony Piltzecker • SAN Considerations for a Virtualized Data Center / Tim Gwinn • Running Linux on Hyper-V: “How To” & Support Considerations / John Kelbley • VM Management (SCVMM) / Dan Stolts • Client Hosted Virtualization with MEDV: First Look / Matt McDermott • Hyper-V Backup & Recovery "On The Cheap" / John Kelbley • Virtualization on the Desktop / Jerry Feldman • Case Study: Using Sanbolic on Hyper-V to Simplify SAN Storage / Dave Dupuis • March 26th – Windows 2008 R2 Hyper-V / Bryon Surace • April 23rd – Citrix Virtualization Portfolio / Jerry Shea • May 28th – Cloud Computing/Bill Zach and App-V Sequencing/Tim Mangan
Future Agenda • May 28th • Cloud Computing – Hosted Services, Azure, Mesh, MagicFolders, Etc. – Bill Zach • Application Sequencing Hands-on Bring a laptop if you like. – Tim Mangan • June 9th • Windows Server 2008 R2 – See the Latest and Greatest NOW! - Remote Desktop Services (RDS) [Terminal services], Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) – Microsoft / Dan Stolts • Turn a Server Into a SAN - Virtualization Storage by StarWind • July 17th – Summer Camp in Cambridge (Second Friday) [Special Time and Date] • All Day Virtualization Summer Camp • You pick the topics and the speakers (Bar Camp Style) • Suggest a topic or register as a speaker online Link to be announced soon • August 11th – • Virtualization on iSCSI SAN / NAS
In The News! • Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer Announces a New Search Engine to be release next week WWW.BING.COM – “Bing is a decision engine that goes beyond what people have come to think of as search—and what our competitors offer today” • Free Virtualization eBook available online - Understanding Microsoft Virtualization Solutions http://csna01.libredigital.com/?urmvs17u33 - huge e-book, covering a lot of different stuff • Virtualization Group www.virtg.com – Incorporates as a non-profit corporation • In his keynote address at EMC World 2009 in Orlando, CEO Joe Tucci named "The Next Big Things in IT" as part of his vision for where EMC and the IT world are headed over the next few years. Virtual Data Center, Cloud Computing, Virtual Clients (VDI), Virtual Applications. Check out his definitions… Very interesting http://ct.techrepublic.com.com/clicks?t=212635120-2ee6503bcff80a40a2239526b3aa59f4-bf&brand=TECHREPUBLIC&s=5 • Virtualization Bolsters 10 Gigabit Ethernet Network Adapter Market, According to Dell’Oro Group - Intel and Broadcom lead the way http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/home/permalink/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20090528005276&newsLang=en • Windows Server 2008 R2 RC ready for download - RTM expected in Oct 2009 Windows Server 2008 R2 Release Candidate Enterprise Product Code : Q7Y83-W4FVQ-6MC6C-6QQTD-TPM88Windows Server 2008 R2 Release Candidate Standard Product Code : V4KRB-QDWK2-GVT4X-BV4XG-34TV4Windows Server 2008 R2 Release Candidate Datacenter Product Code : WXGKX-XXW8X-P8KTJ-PFX7T-DPYYWWindows Web Server 2008 R2 Release Candidate Product Code: RBBKH-BVD6B-74FV9-RYPJ7-TCFXBWindows Server 2008 R2 Release Candidate Itanium Edition Product Code : MW6C7-2MYCB-PF3DK-VCQ2W-XGWFPWindows Server 2008 R2 Release Candidate (RC) is available for download here. (or on TechNet or MSDN)
More News.. • Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 - RTM expected in Oct 2009 http://www.pcworld.com/article/152638/windows.html?tk=rss_news • HDE Announces Karesansui: Open Source Virtualization Management Software for Linux http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/home/permalink/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20090528005331&newsLang=en • VMware to buy $20 million stake in Terremark. The company offers managed infrastructure services using VMware's virtualization software http://www.infoworld.com/d/virtualization/vmware-buy-20-million-stake-in-terremark-835 • VMware's new flagship product, vSphere 4, is available today and ushers in the next phase of the virtualization wars http://infoworld.com/d/virtualization/today-we-welcome-vmware-vsphere-4-world-308 • Native Support for VHDs in Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 http://blogs.technet.com/virtualization/archive/2009/05/14/native-vhd-support-in-windows-7.aspx • Native Support for VHDs in Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 http://blogs.technet.com/virtualization/archive/2009/05/14/native-vhd-support-in-windows-7.aspx • Steve Riley no longer with Microsoft - This is not new news but many may not have heard. • XenApp Myth Busters Video http://www.xenserver5.com/videos/mythbusters/ • White Paper: Hyper-V: Step-by-Step Guide to Using Live Migration in Windows Server 2008 R2 http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd446679.aspx • Coming Soon: Windows XP Mode and Windows Virtual PC http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/business/archive/2009/04/24/coming-soon-windows-xp-mode-and-windows-virtual-pc.aspx • TechEd 2009 – Keynotes and some other content available online http://www.microsoft.com/events/TechEd2009/ • TechEd 2010 Scheduled for June 7-11, 2010 in New Orleans • Microsoft Announces Virtualization Solutions Competency for Partners https://partner.microsoft.com/global/40103468
Virtualization Resources • Microsoft Virtualization • Web: http://www.microsoft.com/virtualization • Technet: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/default.aspx • Edge: http://edge.technet.com • System Center Virtual Machine Manager • Web: http://www.microsoft.com/scvmm • Hyper-V • http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/hyperv.aspx • Microsoft Application Virtualization (formerly SoftGrid) • Web: http://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter/appv/default.mspx • Terminal Services • Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/ts/ • Web: www.microsoft.com/terminalserver • Virtual PC 2007 • Web: http://www.microsoft.com/virtualpc • Virtualization Group – Boston • Web: http://www.virtg.com • Leader Blog: http://blogs.technet.com/danstolts
More Resources • Virtualization Admin http://www.virtualizationadmin.com/ • TechTargethttp://searchservervirtualization.techtarget.com • Brian Madden http://www.BrianMadden.com • Cloud is an operations model, not technology http://news.cnet.com/8301-19413_3-10249486-240.html
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