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Opening …. Virtualization Group – Boston Welcome! www.virtg.com. Dan Stolts Founder and President: Virtualization Group – Boston President: Boston User Groups http://www.BostonUserGroups.org Founder/Owner: Bay State Integrated Technology, Inc. http://www.BayStateTechnology.com
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Opening … Virtualization Group – BostonWelcome!www.virtg.com Dan Stolts Founder and President: Virtualization Group – Boston President: Boston User Groups http://www.BostonUserGroups.org Founder/Owner: Bay State Integrated Technology, Inc. http://www.BayStateTechnology.com IT Pro Evangelist: Microsofthttp://blogs.technet.com/danstolts
Virtualization Group - Boston • www.VirtG.com – Virtualization Group – Boston • Normal Meeting Second Tuesday – Microsoft – 201 Jones Road - Waltham MA; MPR-A • Not Recording or presenting Live tonight. Likely to resume Live Streaming 2010 timeframe. • Thank You All For Coming!!!
AgendaAll About Storage! Time Description 6:00-6:45 pm Welcome – Virtualization News and TechTips/Q & A 7:00-7:45 The Impact of Logical and Physical Fragmentation in a Virtual Environment by Bob Nolan of PerfectDisk (Raxco) 8:00-8:45 iSCSI Presentation by Bob Boule of StarWind Software Bob Boule – StarWind Software 8:50ish Evaluations, Door Prizes
Thank You To Our Sponsors! Thanks for sponsoring this event by supplying funds for pizza and beverages!!! Raxco Software Provider of Storage Optimization Software StarWind Software Leading Provider of Storage Virtualization Software Give Your Computer New Live at: http://www.perfectdisk.com/ Trial Download: www.StarWindSoftware.com Contact them at: 617-449-7717 sales@starwindsoftware.com Located in Burlington at 40 Mall Rd.
Thanks To Our Leaders • We have MUCH to do, Let us know if you can help! • There is much satisfaction in becoming a community LEADER! • Boston User Groups needs help too! Email Dan (http://blogs.technet.com/danstolts/contact.aspx) for details
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 • June 9th – Windows Server 2008 RDS and StarWind Storage SAN • August – Virtualization Summer Camp
Future Agenda • Sept 8th – MPR-B • All About Storage • Raxco Software makers of PerfectDisk – Bob Nolan • StarWind Software – Bob Boule • Oct 13th – MPR-B,C Thin and Free? • ThinLaunch Software • InstallFree Software • Nov 10th – Expand Networks - Wan Optimization and Acceleration for VDI • SuperStar Training – TBD? • Virtualization Deep Dive Day - Feb 12th 2010
In The News! • Huge Change in Licensing • Oracle Kills Virtual Iron • Oracle kills Virtual Iron, VI VARs left holding bag • Virtualization Practice Newsletter • VMware and Microsoft Race to Make Each Other Irrelevant • Oracle Raises Prices Again • Virtualization for Dummies: Sun and AMD Special Edition • Linux virtualization: KVM takes on Xen in corporate markets • Microsoft Desktop Virtualization Tools Refined By Paul Thurrott • Windows 7 Spurs Interest In Microsoft Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) • Hyper-V is not hype • Bing gains search share on Yahoo, Google • Microsoft Announces: Virtualization Solutions Competency • Quest Desktop Virtualization Group Announces Product Integration Initiatives with Microsoft • Quest VDI Road Show • Citrix: Extend your Hyper-V virtualization infrastructure – Free White Paper • System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 has released to manufacturing (RTM’d) and will be generally available (GA) via volume licensing on October 1 • Technical Overview of System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 – Webcast Sept 9th available for download after the fact • 2 In 3 IT Managers Have Cloud Funding • Xen Hypervisor Goes For Full Virtualization • VMware service to push SMBs to ESXi • What is Dynamic Virtual Client Computing? Or, What’s the Problem with VDI and Why XP Mode is a Good Thing • The Hypervisor War Rages On: A Look At The New Hyper-V R2
New Virtualization Sessions Available via Community Launch • Session 3: Virtualization – A Quick Return • Session 4. Managing the Quick Win • Session 5. If I Virtualize it, how do I manage it? • Session 9. Client-Side Virtualization • Session 10. Using Presentation Virtualization • Session 11. Scaling Terminal Services Out Part 1 • Session 12. Scaling Terminal Services Out Part 2 • Session 13. Running Legacy Applications with Virtualization – Part 1 • Session 14. Running Legacy Applications with Virtualization – Part 2 • Session 15. Creating a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure • Session 16. Securing the Virtual Environments • Session 17. Virtualization Solutions: Centralized, policy-based management
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More Thanks To… • Microsoft -Facilities, Presenters and Swag • O’Reilly Publishing – Swag • Pearson Publishing – Swag • VirtG - Virtualization Group – Boston