Transcript Virtualization Deep Dive Day

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
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
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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
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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
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]
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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!
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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”
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Free Virtualization eBook available online - Understanding Microsoft Virtualization Solutions
http://csna01.libredigital.com/?urmvs17u33 - huge e-book, covering a lot of different stuff
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Virtualization Group www.virtg.com – Incorporates as a non-profit corporation
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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=212635120-2ee6503bcff80a40a2239526b3aa59f4bf&brand=TECHREPUBLIC&s=5
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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&ne
wsId=20090528005276&newsLang=en
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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-TPM88
Windows Server 2008 R2 Release Candidate Standard Product Code : V4KRB-QDWK2-GVT4X-BV4XG-34TV4
Windows Server 2008 R2 Release Candidate Datacenter Product Code : WXGKX-XXW8X-P8KTJ-PFX7T-DPYYW
Windows Web Server 2008 R2 Release Candidate Product Code: RBBKH-BVD6B-74FV9-RYPJ7-TCFXB
Windows Server 2008 R2 Release Candidate Itanium Edition Product Code : MW6C7-2MYCB-PF3DK-VCQ2W-XGWFP
Windows Server 2008 R2 Release Candidate (RC) is available for download here. (or on TechNet or MSDN)
More News..
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Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 - RTM expected in Oct 2009
http://www.pcworld.com/article/152638/windows.html?tk=rss_news
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Steve Riley no longer with Microsoft - This is not new news but many may not have heard.
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XenApp Myth Busters Video http://www.xenserver5.com/videos/mythbusters/
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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
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Coming Soon: Windows XP Mode and Windows Virtual PC http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/business/archive/2009/04/24/comingsoon-windows-xp-mode-and-windows-virtual-pc.aspx
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TechEd 2009 – Keynotes and some other content available online http://www.microsoft.com/events/TechEd2009/
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TechEd 2010 Scheduled for June 7-11, 2010 in New Orleans
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Microsoft Announces Virtualization Solutions Competency for Partners https://partner.microsoft.com/global/40103468
Virtualization Resources
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Microsoft Virtualization
Web: http://www.microsoft.com/virtualization
Technet: http://technet.microsoft.com/enus/virtualization/default.aspx
 Edge: http://edge.technet.com
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System Center Virtual Machine Manager
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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
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Terminal Services
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Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/ts/
Web: www.microsoft.com/terminalserver
Virtual PC 2007
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Web: http://www.microsoft.com/virtualpc
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Web: http://www.virtg.com
Leader Blog: http://blogs.technet.com/danstolts
 Virtualization Group – Boston
More Resources
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Virtualization Admin http://www.virtualizationadmin.com/
TechTarget http://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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