Transcript Virtualization Deep Dive Day

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
IT Pro Evangelist: Microsoft http://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!!!
Agenda
All 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
Give Your Computer
New Live at:
http://www.perfectdisk.com/
StarWind Software
Leading Provider of Storage Virtualization Software
Trial Download:
www.StarWindSoftware.com
Contact them at:
617-449-7717
[email protected]
Located in Burlington at 40
Mall Rd.
Tim Mangan
Dave Vantine
Al Mullin
John Ross
Ron Thibeau
Lee Benjamin
Harvey Yee
Kenneth Olson
Andrew Burger
Peter Dupuis
Peter Larson
Alan Kuttner
Jose Castro
Your Name Goes Here 
Special Assignments
Dan Stolts
Steering Committee
Board
Thanks To Our Leaders
Jerry Feldman
Your Name Goes Here 
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
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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?
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 ThinLaunch Software
 InstallFree Software
Nov 10th – Expand
Networks - Wan
Optimization and Acceleration for VDI
 SuperStar Training – TBD?
 Virtualization Deep Dive Day - Feb 12th 2010
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In The News!
Huge Change in Licensing
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Oracle Kills Virtual Iron
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Oracle kills Virtual Iron, VI VARs left holding bag
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Virtualization Practice Newsletter
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VMware and Microsoft Race to Make Each Other Irrelevant
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Oracle Raises Prices Again
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Virtualization for Dummies: Sun and AMD Special Edition
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Linux virtualization: KVM takes on Xen in corporate markets
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Microsoft Desktop Virtualization Tools Refined By Paul Thurrott
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Windows 7 Spurs Interest In Microsoft Virtual Hard Disk (VHD)
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Hyper-V is not hype
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Bing gains search share on Yahoo, Google
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Microsoft Announces: Virtualization Solutions Competency
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Quest Desktop Virtualization Group Announces Product Integration Initiatives with Microsoft
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Quest VDI Road Show
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Citrix: Extend your Hyper-V virtualization infrastructure – Free White Paper
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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
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Technical Overview of System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 – Webcast Sept 9th available for download after the fact
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2 In 3 IT Managers Have Cloud Funding
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Xen Hypervisor Goes For Full Virtualization
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VMware service to push SMBs to ESXi
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What is Dynamic Virtual Client Computing? Or, What’s the Problem with VDI and Why XP Mode is a Good Thing
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The Hypervisor War Rages On: A Look At The New Hyper-V R2
New Virtualization Sessions
Available via Community Launch
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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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