London VMware Usergroup 25th Feb 2010

The Steering Committee are pleased to announce the next UK London VMware User Group meeting, kindly sponsored by Pano Logic, to be held on Thursday 25th February 2010. We hope to see you at the meeting, and afterwards for a drink or two, courtesy of VMware.

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

1100 – 1200 (Optional) PowerCLI / Powershell workshop – Alan Renouf. Please bring your own curly brackets.

12:30 – 13:00 Arrive & Refreshments
13:00 – 13:20 Welcome & News – Alaric Davies

13:20 – 14:00 Sponsor Presentation – Chris Hammans, Pano Logic

Real world vSphere deployment experiences – Stuart Thompson
(Mostly) Zero downtime DC migration for Dummies – Jonathan Medd

15:00 – 15:20 Refreshment break

ESX home lab update, virtualizing Terminal Server workloads – Simon Gallagher
Thin provisioning and capacity planning in a virtual world – Chris Evans, 'The Storage Architect'
Bringing the Cloud Down to Earth – Stuart Radnidge, vinternals

16:45 – 17:00 Close
17:00 – Pub

To register your interest in attending, please send an email to londonvmug@yahoo.com with up to two named attendees from your organisation. If you do not receive a confirmation mail, 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 Alan's PowerCLI workshop at 1100. Content from the meetings will continue to be uploaded to www.box.net/londonug, NDA permitting.