Tim ManganPresident: Virtualization Group – BostonKahuna: TMurgent Technologies, LLP http://www.tmurgent.com

VIRTUALIZATION GROUP – BOSTON

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Virtualization Group - Bostonwww.VirtG.com – Virtualization Group –

Boston•Normal Meeting Second Tuesday – Microsoft – 201 Jones Road - Waltham MA;

MPR-A

•Are Recording tonight, but not live.

Thank You All For Coming!!!

AgendaCloud and DFS!

Time Description6:00-6:45 pm Welcome – Virtualization News and

TechTips/Q & A  

7:00-7:45 Cloud Computing Security and Audit-Ability by Peet Rapp

8:00-8:45 Opportunities and Challenges of Microsoft DFS by Klavs Landberg of CEO of AutoVirt

8:50ish Evaluations, Door Prizes

Thank You To Our Sponsors!AutoVirtDistributed File System Virtualization and Management

http://www.autovirt.com/

Thanks for sponsoring this event by supplying funds for pizza and beverages!!!

• Tim Mangan• Dave Vantine• Dan Stolts• John Ross • Ron Thibeau

Board

• Lee Benjamin• Peter Larson• Jose Castro• Kenneth Olson• Steve Gallo• Tom Regan• Your Name Goes Here

SteeringCommittee

Leaders@virtg.com

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.

(Usually) 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 2010 Jan – Native Boot to Vhd Dec – Windows XP Mode – Hands On Nov – Wan Optimization and Acceleration for VDI Oct – ThinLaunch and InstallFree Sep – Disk Defragmentation and iSCSI Aug – Virtualization Summer Camp Jun – Windows Server 2008 RDS and StarWind

Storage SAN May – Cloud Computing and App-V Sequencing Apr – Citrix Virtualization Portfolio Mar – Windows 2008 R2 Hyper-V Feb – Virtualization Deep Dive Day

Future Agenda April 13th – MPR-B

Citrix Night Citrix will be here to update us on their Virtualization products

May 11th – Possibly offsite*unconfirmed* We might meet at IBM on

Wyman Rd Tour of IBM Virtualizaiton Lab IBM Presentation tbd

June 8th – Azure and Appsense Summer - Virtualization Summer

Camp?

Interest in June BNUG Event?Implementing Shared Storage in a

VMware Virtualization Environment Workshop What is virtualization and why is shared storage so critical to a project’s

success Technologies available for implementation of shared storage (iSCSI, NFS) Shared pools vs. raw disk storage Deduplication Local snapshots Off-site replication NetApp NFS VMware demonstration

Setting up a storage pool Creating a Virtual Machine using shared storage Implementing snapshots Data recovery from stored snapshots

EqualLogic iSCSI VMware demonstrations Setting up a storage pool Physical to virtual migration utilizing the standalone vConverter tool Utilizing raw disk storage Implementing snapshots Data recovery from stored snapshots

In The News! Microsoft App-V 4.6 Released IBM Unveils eX5 Servers based

on Nehalem Oracle/Sun Deal Completed

Will Oracle VM3 this spring become 4th player?

“XP Mode” without hardware Virtualization – using VMWare Player

NSF Give Cloud Access to Researchers using Microsoft Azure

20 Coolest Cloud Productivity Applications from CRN

VMware acquires most of RTO Software

Virtual Reality Check 2.0 Results Released

AgendaCloud and DFS!

Time Description6:00-6:45 pm Welcome – Virtualization News and

TechTips/Q & A  

7:00-7:45 Cloud Computing Security and Audit-Ability by Peet Rapp

8:00-8:45 Opportunities and Challenges of Microsoft DFS by Klavs Landberg of CEO of AutoVirt

8:50ish Evaluations, Door Prizes

More Thanks To…

Microsoft -Facilities, Presenters and Swag

O’Reilly Publishing – Swag

Pearson Publishing – Swag

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