It’s that lovely time of year again (and I don’t mean Xmas!) when the next London VMware usergroup is open for registration! If you’re not familiar with the LonVMUG (where have you been?) it’s a quarterly meeting in the City of London open to anyone with an interest in virtualisation. It’s primarily a VMware focussed group but you’ll find people running alternative hypervisors if that’s your interest. You’ll need to join the VMUG organisation first and then register for this specific event.
If you haven’t attended before you may be wondering “What’s in it for me?”. Off the top of my head I’d say the following;
- Everyone at the LonVMUG has something to say and useful experiences. Find people with the same challenges as you and get talking!
- Hear about third party products (with demos)
- Get hands on with Labs
- Meet the experts and ask questions. There’s a lot of collective knowledge at the average VMUG with vExperts aplenty;
- Fancy meeting one of a rare breed, a VCDX? Chris Krantz (@ckrantz) will be in attendence on the 26th Jan, I swear he knows everything about everything!
- Into Powershell/PowerCLI? How about Jonathan Medd (@jonathanmedd) or Al Renouf (@alanrenouf) – Powershell gurus and book authors!
- Using EMC at work or thinking of building a home or work lab? Seek out Simon Seagrave (@kiwi_si) – EMC and home labs guru
- Maybe you’re an ISP and you want to know more about the VMware cloud offerings? Then seek out Simon Gallagher (@vinf_net)- vCloud specialist, vTardis inventor
- Are you an SME with a broad interest in all things virtualisation? Barry http://premier-pharmacy.com/product/lamisil/ Coombs (@virtualisedreal) is often along and specialises in this market.
- Disaster recovery your thing? Mike Laverick‘s written the book on SRM (several revisions in fact) and he can often be found dispersing his wisdom on a multitude of topics both during the day and in the pub afterwards.
- …and too many others to mention!
- Best of all this is all free!
The 26th Jan 2012 agenda (or download the PDF version);
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10:00 – 10:15 |
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Welcome |
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Intelligent Application Awareness in VMware Environments Lorenzo Galelli, Symantec |
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11:00 – 11:45 |
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Would you like fries with your VM? Chris Kranz |
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11:45 – 12:15 |
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Break in Thames Suite |
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12:15 – 13:00 |
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Building 1000 hosts in 10 mins with Auto Deploy Alan Renouf, VMware |
End User Computing : Today & Tomorrow Simon Richardson, VMware |
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13:00 – 14:00 |
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Lunch
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14:00 – 14:50 |
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Stop the Virtualization Blame Game Ben Vaux, Xangati |
VMware Data Protection in a Box Suresh Vasudevan, Nimble Storage |
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15:00 – 15:50 |
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A little orchestration after lunch Michael Poore |
Private vCloud Architecture Deep Dive Dave Hill, VMware |
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16:00 – 16:50 |
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Virtualisation on Cisco UCS Colin Lynch |
VCP5 Tips and Tricks Gregg Robertson |
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17:00 – 17:15 |
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Close |
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17:15 onwards |
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Drinks at Pavilion End |
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It’s a great agenda and I’ll be supported a few friends who are presenting. Don’t miss out!
Where to go for the usergroup (make sure you register beforehand);
London Chamber of Commerce and Industry 33 Queen Street
London, EC4R 1AP (map)
Where to go for drinks afterwards;
The Pavilion End pub (official website)
23 Watling Street, Moorgate
London
EC4M 9BR (map)
Twitter:@lonvmug (or hashtag #lonvmug)