Join us, along with our sponsor iland for the upcoming Wisconsin VMUG meeting taking place on Thursday, July 11th, 2019.
This is a great opportunity to meet with your peers to discuss virtualization trends, best practices, and the latest technology!
Meeting Agenda
- 8:15 Registration: Refreshments provided by our meeting sponsor iland
- 8:45 Welcome: by Mike Nelson, WI-VMUG Co-Leader
- 9:00 VMware Presentation: NSX-T vs NSX-V by Benjamin Bowman, VCIX-NV Senior Networking and Security Technical Account Specialist at VMware
With the release of NSX-T 2.4 comes near complete feature parity with NSX-V. This presentation will cover key functional and architectural differences between the two. Whether considering a new install or a transition there are critical decisions must be made when deploying NSX-T.
- 9:50 iland Presentation: An Open Discussion About Cloud by Brian Knudtson, Cloud Technologist at iland (@bknudtson)
It’s natural to have concerns when implementing a new IT architecture, especially one as impactful as moving to the cloud. Bring those concerns for a discussion about how the cloud can address those concerns. - 10:40 Break
- 11:00 Community Presentation: Concourse, Pipelines and Bosh, Oh My! by Nathan Scheunemann, Sr Systems Engineer at SKYGENUSA (@chickendilla)
Concourse is the open-source CI/CD system that Pivotal Software uses to automate tasks from deploying and upgrading foundations to pretty much any task you can think of. In this presentation, I would like to share some of the things I have learned about concourse. We will start this journey by looking at a quick way to learn concourse for yourself with a simple hello world pipeline, and then move to a full multi-worker install with some more complicated pipelines. - 11:50 Lunch provided by our meeting sponsor iland
- 12:20 VMware Presentation: Modernize Data Center: VMware Cloud Foundation 3.7 Solution Overview by Gilbert Rivera, Sr. Solutions Engineer at VMware
- 1:10 Ask the Experts: Roundtable Q&A
- Benjamin Bowman, VCIX-NV Senior Networking and Security Technical Account Specialist at VMware
- Brian Knudtson, Cloud Technologist at iland (@bknudtson)
- Nathan Scheunemann, Sr Systems Engineer at SKYGENUSA (@chickendilla)
- Gilbert Rivera, Sr. Solutions Engineer at VMware
- WI-VMUG Leadership Team
- 1:40 Wrap-up: Announcements and Drawings
After the meeting join us for a vBeers at
Karben4 Taproom at 3698 Kinsman Blvd, Madison, WI 53704
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Meeting Location
Madison Area Technical College: Health Education and Information Technology Building
1705 Hoffman St.
Madison, WI 53704
ROOM 309 /311
Park in any legal Visitor or Student parking stall
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Join us, along with our sponsor TierPoint for the upcoming Wisconsin VMUG meeting taking place on Friday, March 15th, 2019.
This is a great opportunity to meet with your peers to discuss virtualization trends, best practices, and the latest technology!
Meeting Agenda
- 8:15 Registration: Refreshments provided by our meeting sponsor Tierpoint
- 8:45 Welcome: by Mike Nelson, WI-VMUG Co-Leader
- 9:00 VMware Presentation: What’s New Overview for vSAN 6.7U1D by Miguel Medina, Senior Solutions Engineer – vSAN/HCI at VMware
Introducing the latest release today, with the themes of hybrid cloud leadership and ease of HCI adoption. This presentation is going to help you better understand how HCI with vSAN, is the starting point for those transitioning to a software defined, hybrid cloud infrastructure. Demo a live environment running on vSAN 6.7U1. Also demo of upgrading cluster from vSAN 6.5 to 6.7U1 using VUM tool. - 9:50 TierPoint Presentation: TBD
- 10:40 Break
- 11:00 Community Presentation: Automating Windows Server Templates by Eric Stacey, Systems Administrator at Plexus (@vYooper)
Why manually update/maintain your server templates when we have automation?! We will take a look at a workflow I helped put together that can take you from Microsoft ISO all the way to a fully patched and configured template for use either manually via vSphere or ready to be called by vRealize Automation. We will take a look at tools various tools like the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit, Packer, the VMware OS Optimization Tool and PowerShell. - 11:50 Lunch provided by our meeting sponsor Tierpoint
- 12:20 VMware Presentation: VMware Skyline – Radically Transform Customer Support by Brandon Hahn, Senior Technical Account Manager at VMware (@BrandonHahn)
VMware Skyline is an automated, proactive support technology that helps customers avoid problems before they occur and reduce time to resolution of active support requests. Learn what’s new in the recently released version 2.0 of Skyline. - 1:10 Ask the Experts: Roundtable Q&A
- Eric Stacey – Systems Administrator at Plexus
- Brandon Hahn, Senior Technical Account Manager at VMware (@BrandonHahn)
- Miguel Medina, Senior Solutions Engineer – vSAN/HCI at VMware
- Aaron Bolthouse, Solutions Engineer, Core Commercial Central at VMware (@BHouse563)
- WI-VMUG Leadership Team
- 1:40 Wrap-up: Announcements and Drawings
After the meeting join us for a vBeers sponsored by Capital Data at The Bar on Lynndale
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Meeting Location
Fox Valley Technical College
1825 N Bluemound Dr, Appleton, WI 54912
Main Campus, Room: HS301 (Enter at Door 16)
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Come join us for #vBeers at Funk’s Pub directly after the December 18th meeting for beers and great conversation. Come for the free beer or come to mingle with other virtualization enthusiasts. Come talk about VMware, discuss challenges in your environment, or stay off topic and talk about whatever else interests you!
This #vBeers event sponsored by Check Point Software. Thanks for sponsoring!!!
What: #vBeers
Where: Funk’s Pub
Address: 5956 Executive Dr #101, Fitchburg, WI 53719
When: Tuesday, December 18th from 2:30-5pm
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Join us, along with our sponsor Rubrik for the upcoming Wisconsin VMUG meeting taking place on Tuesday, December 18th, 2018.
This is a great opportunity to meet with your peers to discuss virtualization trends, best practices, and the latest technology!
Meeting Agenda
- 8:15 Registration: Refreshments provided by our meeting sponsor Rubrik
- 8:45 Welcome: by Mike Nelson, WI-VMUG Co-Leader
- 9:00 VMware Presentation: Building the Ultimate Hybrid Cloud with VMware Cloud Foundation: by Heath Johnson – Sr. Technical Marketing Manager at VMware
Learn how to build a hybrid cloud that is easy to consume, manage and highly secure. This session will review a reference architecture for building a hybrid cloud with VMware Cloud Foundation. You will quickly understand how to connect VMware Cloud Foundation to VMware Cloud on AWS. Then, get a dive deep into the tools that empower workload mobility, ease of management, and automated application deployment using VMware Hybrid Cloud Extension, Hybrid Linked Mode, VMware vRealize Automation, and VMware NSX. At the end of this session, you will be ready to build your hybrid cloud. - 9:50 Sponsor Presentation: How to Recover 2TB in 2 Minutes: by Scott Lysne, Solutions Engineer at Rubrik. Folks, big data is here to stay, and the VM’s are only getting bigger. It is a big part of our jobs to protect, and yes, recover these VM’s in a “reasonable” amount of time. What’s you definition of reasonable? What’s you business’s definition? How do you do this today? Is there a better way?? I think so, and I’ll show you how.
- 10:40 Break
- 11:00 Community Presentation: Keeping up with the clouds – Skills development for fun, career growth, and profit by Sean Massey, Staff Cloud Solutions Architect at VMware (@SeanPMassey)Technology is evolving at an increasingly rapid pace. It seems like the cool technology that everyone was talking about yesterday has been supplanted by something new today, and all of these technologies promise to fundamentally change the datacenter the way that VMware changed it a decade ago. And as training budgets shrink, you feel like you’re falling further behind. And you may not be able to just take a class to implement a new data center technology.
So how can you keep up with the pack and understand newer technology? We’ll talk about some tips and techniques that are used to learn the latest technology and keep yourself ahead of the curve. - 11:50 Lunch provided by our meeting sponsor Rubrik
- 12:20 VMware Presentation: VMware Cloud on AWS Outposts: Managed SDDC On-Prem by Aaron Bolthouse, Solutions Engineer, Core Commercial Central at VMware (@BHouse563) The latest announcement out of AWS Re:Invent on the continued partnership between VMware and Amazon brings the power of VMware Cloud and AWS services on-prem. Learn all the must-know information about this new offering and what it means for you.
- 1:10 Ask the Experts: Roundtable Q&A
- Aaron Bolthouse, Solutions Engineer, Core Commercial Central at VMware (@BHouse563)
- Heath Johnson – Sr. Technical Marketing Manager at VMware (@HeathBarJ)
- Sean Massey, Staff Cloud Solutions Architect at VMware (@SeanPMassey)
- Scott Lysne – Solutions Engineer at Rubrik
- WI-VMUG Leadership Team
- 1:40 Wrap-up: Announcements and Drawings
After the meeting join us for a vBeers sponsored by tbd at Funk’s Pub in Fitchburg.
5956 Executive Dr. #101
Fitchburg, WI 53719
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Join us, along with our sponsor Capital Data for the upcoming Wisconsin VMUG meeting taking place on Thursday, October 25th, 2018.
This is a great opportunity to meet with your peers to discuss virtualization trends, best practices, and the latest technology!
Meeting Agenda
- 8:15 Registration: Refreshments provided by our meeting sponsor Capital Data
- 8:45 Welcome: by Mike Nelson, WI-VMUG Co-Leader
- 9:00 VMware Presentation: VMworld Update and Industry Perspective: by Nate Hudson, Sr. Solutions Engineer (@gr8n8tr0n) and Keith Townsend, Solutions Architect (@CTOAdvisor) at VMware
- Nate presents a recap of VMware announcements with from VMworld 2018 in Las Vegas along with Keith providing insight from the perspective of an industry analyst.
- 10:30 DellEMC Disaster Recovery to the Cloud: by Matt Murphy, Sr. Systems Engineer at Dell EMC
- Orchestrated recovery for Virtual Environments and Applications to and from public cloud.
- 11:00 Break
- 11:10 Community Presentation: Server 2019 – What’s New by Mike Nelson, Co-Leader and Technologist at Rubrik (@nelmedia)
- Let’s have a look at the latest OS version of server from Microsoft. We’ll dive into editions and licensing, patching, features, and demo’s!
- 12:00 Lunch provided by our meeting sponsor Capital Data
- 12:30 Capital Data Presentation: Can’t Contain Myself! Container Architecture and Use Cases by Adam VandeVen, Sr. Cloud Solutions Engineer and Patrick Ruffino, Sr. Solutions Architect at Capital Data
- Containers are quickly becoming a standard method of deploying applications, providing a number of benefits over traditional OS and application deployments. Capital Data will be presenting an introduction to Docker container architecture and defining popular use cases for containers. We will also discuss popular methods for deploying and managing containers on-premises, such as VMware’s vSphere Integrated Containers Engine.
- 1:20 Ask the Experts: Roundtable Q&A
- Adam VandeVen, Sr. Cloud Solutions Engineer at Capital Data
- Patrick Ruffino, Sr. Solutions Architect at Capital Data
- Nate Hudson, Sr. Solutions Engineer at VMware (@gr8n8tr0n)
- Keith Townsend, Solutions Architect at VMware (@CTOAdvisor)
- WI-VMUG Leadership Team
- 1:50 Wrap-up: Announcements and Drawings
After the meeting join us at the nearby Point Burger Bar for a vBeers sponsored by Zerto. Details here
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Come join us for #vBeers at Point Burger Bar directly after the October 25th meeting for beers and appetizers. Come for the free beer or come to mingle with other virtualization enthusiasts. Come talk about VMware, discuss challenges in your environment, or stay off topic and talk about whatever else interests you!
This #vBeers event sponsored by Zerto. Thanks for sponsoring!!!
What: #vBeers
Where: Point Burger Bar
Address: 10950 Good Hope Rd, Milwaukee, WI 53224
When: Oct. 25th from 3-5pm
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Our 2019 UserCon will be our 10th. So we figured why not celebrate our anniversary by returning to where it all began. On Tuesday, April 16th, 2019 we will be holding our UserCon at The Ingleside Hotel (formerly Country Springs) in Pewaukee. This year’s UserCon was our best ever and we are already working hard on topping it in 2019. So mark your calendars and save the date.
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Join us, along with our sponsor Zerto for the upcoming Wisconsin VMUG meeting taking place on Thursday, August 16th, 2018. This is a great opportunity to meet with your peers to discuss virtualization trends, best practices, and the latest technology! Meeting Agenda
After the meeting join us for a vBeers sponsored by Presidio at The Bar. Details here. Be sure to share this meeting information with your colleagues, and join the Wisconsin VMUG Community! |
Meeting Location
D.J. Bordini Center – Room BC112B
5 North Systems Drive
Appleton, WI 54912
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