Also available throughout the day will be a PowerCLI Hands on Lab, come to learn how to get started with PowerCLI, take PowerCLI to the next level or even just to say hi and chat with me and Jonathan Medd about PowerShell, PowerCLI or anything else on your mind.

Event Details

Thursday, November 3, 2011

8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

National Motorcycle Museum
Coventry Road
Bickenhill, Solihull, West Mids, England B92 0EJ

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Meeting Agenda

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Sessions will not only include VMware but Citrix, Microsoft, EMC, Netapp, B2Net and many many more – it should be fun !

I will be presenting a session on “Image Builder, Auto Deploy and general PowerCLI”, my session will be from 15:15 – 16:05 in the “Mull Room”.

If you are not yet registered to attend I suggest you head over to http://www.vmug.org.uk/ right now before they run out of room.

For more information on the day please see the below details and schedule of events:

Details

Date: Tuesday 11th October, 2011
Time: 9am to 5 pm with post event drinks
Venue: Mint Hotel Leeds, Wharf Approach, Granary Wharf, Leeds, United Kingdom,
LS1 4BR, + 44 113-241-1001

Schedule

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VMUG Details

Location

London Chamber of Commerce and Industry
33 Queen Street
London, EC4R 1AP
Click here for directions

Networking Reception
Pavilion End
23 Watling Street, EC4M 9BR

Facilities

• Lab based on vCOPS
• VMware Genius Bar

Please Note: If you wish to participate in the lab, you MUST bring your own laptop/client device please! You will need View 4.6 client installed (or admin rights to install it).

Agenda

Plenary sessions in Capital
10:00 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. – Welcome, Alaric Davies, Chairman
10:15 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. – Cloudvision for the Virtualised Environment, John Peach, Arista Networks, Sention System Architect
11:00 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. – Private Cloud Management Made Simple, Martin Sajkowski, Embotics, EMEA Operations & Colin Jacks Senior Solutions Specialist
11:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. – Break in Sponsor Expo
12:15 p.m. – 13:00 p.m.– Double-Take by Vision Solutions – Christian Willis, Technical Director: Meeting the Availability Challenges of physical, Virtual and Geographically Dispersed Systems
13:00 p.m. – 14:00 p.m.– Lunch in Sponsor Expo

Track 1

14:00 p.m. – 14:50 p.m. - vCOPS Advanced, Mark Stockham, VMware
15:00 p.m. – 15:50 p.m. – SRM Futures, Mike Laverick
16:00 p.m. – 16:50 p.m.- Cloud: Can You Compete? Mark Craddock

Track 2

14:00 p.m. – 14:50 p.m. - Thinking, Building & Scripting Globally, Julian Wood
15:00 p.m. – 15:50 p.m. – Managing IT as We Evolve to Cloud Computing, Colin Fernandez, VMware
16:00 p.m. – 16:50 p.m. – How to Save your Time With PowerCLI, Jonathan Medd

17:00 p.m. – Close
17:00 p.m. – Onward Drinks at Pavilion End (www.vbeers.org)

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Register now on the following site: http://www.myvmug.org/e/in/eid=84

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The next London VMUG has been arranged and will take place on Thursday, 12 May 2011.

There will be a change to the normal routine as it now looks like there will be multiple tracks, multiple sponsors and labs. There is also a theme for this VMUG… “Your Journey to the Cloud”. The start time has also changed to 10am. This event will be sponsored by COLT, EMC and Quest.

To book your place at the VMUG visit the VMUG site here, before registering for the event you will also need to sign up as a member of the myvmug site first.

Agenda:

Plenary sessions in Capital

10.00 – 10.20 – Welcome, Alaric Davies, Chairman

10.20 – 11.00 – presentation & demo the vCloud1 -Greg Branch, Director of Architecture, Colt and Dan Senior, Virtualisation Architect, Colt

11.00 – 11.45 – Paul Martin, Quest – Private Cloud – Build for Success by Planning for Failure, with Quest Software

11.45 – 12.15 – Break in Thames where our sponsors will be exhibiting

12.15 – 13.00 – EMC

13.00 – 14.00 – Lunch in Thames where our sponsors will be exhibiting

TRACK 1

14.00 – 14.50 Massimo re Ferre, Making sense of vShield & vCD for the “average Joe”

15.00 – 15.50 Jason Miles, Automation in the Cloud

16.00 – 16.50 Mark Craddock

TRACK 2

14.00 – 14.50 Stuart Radnidge, Rethinking Infrastructure

15.00 – 15.50 Tom Brand, Cloud topic

16.00 – 16.50 Cloud topic TBA

17.00 – Close

17.00 – Networking Reception at Pavilion End, 23 Watling Street, EC4M 9BR

Labs
These will be running simultaneously from 10:20 a.m. and you will need to register upon arrival to book your lab session.

The VMUG are providing VMware vCloud Director Labs for all UG members to get a look and feel for the product. COLT has very kindly agreed to host the labs ontheir infrastructure in the Cloud. COLT are a certified VMware vCloudDatacenter Services Provider and the first in EMEA to provide this service. The COLT team along with VMware vCloud Architects have provided two types of labs to provide the best experience possible.

Lab A – Consuming Cloud resources from VMware vCloud Director
This lab is tailored to provide a user’s view of consuming compute resource from the cloud. It provides an insight into the ability provide resources via a self-service portal deploying virtual machines via vApps within private virtual datacenters.

Lab B – Administrating VMware vCloud Director
This lab provides the administrators view of vCloud Director. The lab contains a virtual center server, vCloud Director server and an ESX host to create compute resources within the cloud. It provides the ability to define different compute services in the form of vApp’s which can then be published within the vCloud Catalogue. This also enables the administrator to define different

View the complete agenda and the most current information as this event approaches.

Register today to join us for this free informative event.

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ESXi is obviously a hot topic at the moment and the configuration of ESXi without the service console access is proving to be difficult for many users.  This session will take you through the configuration of a host from start to end showing you how easy it is and highlighting some of the scripts and cmdlets explained in my previous post.

As a bonus I will also be giving away a set of “VMware vSphere Pro Series Training Vol. 1: View, ThinApp, Nexus 1000V, and PowerCLI” videos during my session, with thanks to the great guys at TrainSignal, be sure to bring your questions along for a chance to win this great prize !

There will obviously be all the other great sessions which normally take place and there is even a rumour that an all powerful PowerCLI expert from the states will be descending from upon high to give us the latest and greatest automation information from VMware !

I am personally looking forward to a “Real life” session which my colleagues Jonathan Medd and Vic Milne will be delivering, this will be an interesting presentation on how they moved both datacenters and storage devices with (nearly) no downtime !

Also on my agenda will be the Enterprise Cloud presentation from vStu that is sure to be full of both useful information in a friendly and native Australian dialog and humour.

As always the details for the VMUG can be found on the forum here.

If you are looking to deploy ESXi and are having trouble performing or have had trouble performing a certain task then please do let me know via the comments of this post so I can be sure to include this. – It would also give you bonus points when in the running for the TrainSignal video

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Firstly, the VMUG will be held on Tuesday 24th November, and is going to focus fairly heavily on vSphere.  If any of you would like to present on a vSphere-related topic with which you have good, recent experience, please get in touch with Alaric as soon as possible. This could be any of installation, upgrade (hosts, VC, VMs), networking, storage, design changes, operations changes, backup, DR, third party tools, and so on. There are some fantastic giveaways that are available to anyone who presents a session, so please do get in touch with him via the forum here: http://communities.vmware.com/thread/241557?tstart=0

Secondly, please note that after this event, invitation emails will be arriving from londonvmug at yahoo dot com. Confirmation emails from yourselves will need to be sent to that address from then on (although not for this meeting). If you need to have the new address added to a white list at work, please do so as soon as possible.

Thirdly, and finally, the bit you’ve been waiting for, the event details:

The Steering Committee are pleased to announce the next UK London VMware User Group meeting, kindly sponsored by Symantec, to be held on Tuesday 24th November 2009.

We hope to see you at the meeting, and afterwards for a drink or two.
Our meeting will be held at:

Thames Suite,
London Chamber of Commerce and Industry,
33 Queen Street,
London
EC4R 1AP
+44 (0)20 7248 4444

The nearest tube station is Mansion House, location information is available here.

Reception is from 1230 for a prompt 1pm start, to finish around 5pm. The agenda looks something like this:

1100 – 1200 (Optional) Powershell workshop – Jonathan Medd to cover PS one-liner solutions and new VI toolkit functionality – HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

12:30 – 13:00 Arrive & Refreshments
13:00 – 13:15 Welcome & News – Alaric Davies
13:20 – 14:05 Sponsor Presentation – Symantec
14:10 – 14:55 ESX Home Lab/White box setup – Simons Gallagher & Seagrave
15:00 – 15:20 Refreshment Break
15:25 – 16:00 Session 3 – vSphere topics, Guy Chapman, Mike Laverick, audience
16:05 – 16:45 Session 4 – vSphere topics, Alaric Davies, Mike Laverick, audience
16:45 – 17:00 Close
17:00 – Pub

To register your interest in attending, please find details on the forum post here. If you do not receive a confirmation email, please don’t just turn up since we will not be able to admit you to the meeting.

Please separately mention if you intend attending Jon’s Powershell workshop at 1100.

Content from the meetings will continue to be uploaded to www.box.net/londonug, NDA permitting.

The details of this post were taken from Alarics post here

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I was contacted by one of the UKVMUG leaders and asked if I would be interested in giving a presentation/class for an hour before the normal UKVMUG for those who were interested in learning… I jumped at the chance as love to pass on my experiences and show people the easy way to learn both PowerShell and PowerCLI as there are a few shortcuts and things I have learnt over the past 6 months.

Initially I was told this would probably be around 5-10 people, this quickly grew and turned out to be around 30 people, not a bad crowd if I do say so myself ! (If you were there please leave me a comment on this post with any feedback (good or bad)).

I totally ran out of time and have been asked to do a more advanced session next time now we all know the basics, something I am really looking forward to.

All in all I really enjoyed the session, all questions were answered and there was a great bunch of people there, after my session there was a great VMUG with some really interesting subjects and loads of community based people attending including the great Tom Howarth, vStu, Daniel Eason, Jonathan Medd, Steve Chalmbers, Kiwi Si, Rob Upham and many many more.

As promised to the people in the session and to the people who couldn’t make the session below is my material:

The Slide Show

This is short as I mainly gave demo’s and talked through the content:

The Demo Script

The demo script I took people through can be downloaded below:

http://www.virtu-al.net/Downloads/demo.txt

I used the Powershell Start-Demo script V3 which can be downloaded from here:

http://huddledmasses.org/powershell-start-demo-3/

Also during the session Tom Howarth was walking around with his digital recorder, I believe he is still doing his Steven Spielberg bit on it but as soon as it is online I will link to it.

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The meeting will be held at the following location:

The Thames Suite,
London Chamber of Commerce and Industry,
33 Queen Street,
London EC4R 1AP,

+44 (0)20 7248 4444.

The nearest tube station is Mansion House, location information is available here.

Reception is from 12:30 for a prompt 1pm start, to finish around 5pm.

The agenda for is not final at the moment, but looks something like this:

12:30 – 13:00 Arrive & Refreshments
13:00 – 13:15 Welcome & News
13:20 – 14:05 Sponsor Presentation – TBA
14:10 – 14:55 Presentation on real world Site Recovery Manager experience
15:00 – 15:20 Refreshments Break
15:25 – 16:00 Committee-moderated, user-generated content and discussion
16:05 – 16:45 VMWorld Cannes debrief
16:45 – 17:00 Close
17:00 – Pub

Please feel free to contribute to the ‘UG content ideas’ forum thread running here. The organisers won’t be able to incorporate all of the ideas for this coming meeting, but they will do there best to include some of them.

To register your interest in attending, please check this communities thread for details

Please don’t just turn up since they will not be able to admit you to the meeting.

Content from the meetings will continue to be uploaded to http://public.box.net/londonug,
NDA permitting.

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I will be there so please come over and say Hi as I normally know no-one !

The details released are as follows….

The Steering Committee are pleased to announce the next UK London VMware User Group meeting (sponsorship pending , to be held on Tuesday 10th March 2009. We hope to see you at the meeting, and afterwards for a drink or two.Our meeting will be held at the Thames Suite, London Chamber of Commerce and Industry, 33 Queen Street, London EC4R 1AP, +44 (0)20 7248 4444. The nearest tube station is Mansion House, location information is available here.

PLEASE NOTE: As well as the date changing from the previously-published one, the day has also changed to Tuesday, and we’re in a different part of the venue from normal (out of the lift, turn right). Rest assured, the usual UG staples of great content and me banging on about Powershell will be present and correct.

Reception is from 1230 for a prompt 1pm start, to finish around 5pm. Our agenda for is not final at the moment, but looks something like this:

12:30 – 13:00 Arrive & Refreshments
13:00 – 13:15 Welcome & News
13:20 – 14:05 Sponsor Presentation – TBA
14:10 – 14:55 Presentation on real world Site Recovery Manager experience
15:00 – 15:20 Refreshments Break
15:25 – 16:00 Committee-moderated, user-generated content and discussion (some good stuff being lined up here)
16:05 – 16:45 VMworld Cannes debrief
16:45 – 17:00 Close
17:00 – Pub

Please feel free to contribute to the ‘UG content ideas’ forum thread running here. We won’t be able to incorporate all of the ideas for this coming meeting, but will do our best to include some of them.

To register your interest in attending, please reply with up to two named attendees from your organisation. If you do not receive a confirmation mail from us, please don’t just turn up since we will not be able to admit you to the meeting. Content from the meetings will continue to be uploaded to http://public.box.net/londonug, NDA permitting.

Sincerely, and with regards,

The UKLVMUG Steering Committee

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The meeting will be held at the Capital Suite, London Chamber of Commerce and Industry, 33 Queen Street, London EC4R 1AP, +44 (0)20 7248 4444.

The nearest tube station is Mansion House, location information is available here.

Reception is from 1230 for a prompt 1pm start, to finish around 5pm.

Agenda:

12:30 – 13:00 Arrive & Refreshments
13:00 – 13:15 Welcome & News
13:20 – 14:05 Sponsor Presentation – Compellent
14:10 – 14:55 Presentation on Lifecycle Manager by Alexey Stokes, VMware
15:00 – 15:20 Refreshments Break
15:25 – 16:00 “If I knew then what I know now” Virtualization lessons learned, Tom Brand, Morse
16:05 – 16:45 VMworld debrief and VI4 – what we can tell you
16:45 – 17:00 Close
17:00 – Pub

Please feel free to contribute to the ‘UG content ideas’ forum thread here.

The meeting organisers will not be able to incorporate any of the ideas for this coming meeting, but they will do there best to include some of them next time.

To register your interest in attending, please see the forum for details. If you do not receive a confirmation mail, please don’t just turn up since they will not be able to admit you to the meeting.

If your going look out for me !

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