vmug 6 program

Tuesday 17th April 2012DoubleTree Hilton Hotel, Leeds

VMUG 6 Event Programme

VMUG 6 Event Programme

Brendon Higgins – VMUG Chair

Welcome To Vmug 6

Welcome back to Leeds for VMUG 6 and I hope everyone enjoyed vBeers last night. Since our last event back in November we have added new committee members to our branch, moved to a two day format, published an event program and started repeating our none commercial presentations. Our user group is independent and run by system administrators for system administrator, so your feedback is valuable to us. In fact we have a new iPad (3) to give away to get it! So please make sure you let us know what you think about the changes, the event in general and any ideas you have to make the next event even better.

We are the emerging market leader in developing Thin Client Technology, focusing on VDI. Our devices are easy to manage, energy efficient and offer a low TCO. Our terminals are all certified VMware, Citrix and Quest ready to name a few and fully support PCoIP, HDX, EOP and RemoteFX.

Arista Networks develops Ethernet switches to support the modern virtualised Data Centre. Arista’s founder was an early investor in VM Ware. This has lead to the two companies continuing a close partnership to develop new standards such as VXLAN as well as award winning integration platforms such as VM-Tracer (GOLD VM World 2011).

Arkeia delivers backup and recovery solutions for fast, easy-to-use, and affordable data protection. Featuring source-side progressive deduplication, Arkeia’s appliances, virtual appliances, and software back up data to disk, tape and cloud and protect all major virtual platforms including VMware, Hyper-V and more than 200 physical platforms including Windows and Linux.

CommVault’s exclusive architecture gives companies unprecedented control over data growth, costs and risk. CommVault’s Simpana® software suite of products share a single code and common function set to deliver Data Protection, Archive, Replication, Search and Resource Management capabilities. Discover the unparalleled efficiency, performance and reliability only CommVault can offer… www.commvault.com

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Our Sponsors

EMC is a global leader in enabling businesses and service providers to transform their operations and deliver information technology as a service (ITaaS). Fundamental to this transformation is cloud computing. Through innovative products and services, EMC accelerates the journey to cloud computing, helping IT departments to store, manage, protect and analyze their most valuable asset—information—in a more agile, trusted and cost-efficient way.

Liquidware Labs™ is the leader in Assessment and User Experience Management for next generation desktops. The company’s Stratusphere™ and ProfileUnity™ solutions have been described by analysts as the industry’s first “On-Ramp to VDI” providing complete methodology and software that enable organizations to cost-effectively plan, migrate, and manage their desktop infrastructure.

Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT”) is the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential.

NextIO provides rack-level I/O consolidation and virtualization solutions that maximize value, productivity and efficiencies of complex server I/O. Our innovative architecture is based upon industry standard PCIe switching technology. By separating the compute from the I/O we create pools of server I/O resources at the rack level that can be shared, virtualized or dynamically allocated across servers within the rack. Data center managers’ benefit from lower TCO and increased time to revenue. For more information, visit www.nextio.com

Proact (formerly B2net) is pleased to be supporting VMUG for the sixth year running. Now part of the largest storage and virtualisation integrator in Europe, and seeing huge growth as a leading Enterprise Cloud Services provider, Proact UK continues to drive change and process for its clients through shared skills and experience.

Veeam Software, an Elite VMware Technology Alliance partner, develops innovative products for virtual infrastructure management and data protection. Customers can reduce costs, minimize risks and fully realize the promise of virtualization with Veeam.

Learn more about company and products by visitingwww.veeam.com.

WhipTail provides the world’s first cost-effective entirely flash-based storage array. Not a caching appliance, not PCIe - nothing in-band that fails and complicates your storage architecture. WhipTail leverages MLC flash drives providing 200K read & 250K write IOPS, 0.1ms of latency, in 2U using less than 180W …and a 7-year guarantee on the SSD endurance.

The Xangati Management Dashboard, a two-time award winner of Best of VMworld finalist for Virtualisation Management, accelerates cloud computing, server virtualisation, and VDI initiatives by providing second-by-second visibility into the interactions of all objects across the entire virtual and physical infrastructure.

A big thank you to Biomini who will be sponsoring the bar at the end of the event.

Biomni’s mission is to provide the most cost-effective, powerful, and easily configured dedicated Front Office solution for IT.

That’s all we do. Which is why we do it well, and do it fast. Today, Biomni has been deployed globally across hundreds of organizations collectively supporting thousands of end-users.

Mike Laverick, rtfm

Techknowledgist, Agent Provocateur, Laverick-by-name, Laverick-by-Nature-Mike is known for cutting through the vendor verbal diarrhoea and getting to point that’s in everyone’s mind. There are no elephants in the room in Mike’s sessions. A former instructor of 17 years standing, author, hack, podcaster, public speaker – Mike’s been active in the virtualisation community before there was a community to be active in. So come along and watch the legend in action.

Presenation Topic: vNewsIn this round up of news in the world virtualisation – Mike will be bring up to speed with what’s going on in the last couple of months. This part news/part discussion group – so expect to be ready to voice your opinions. Those who do stand a chance to win something from Mike’s box of VMUG goodies.

Sam Wong, Cloupia (partnering with Proact)

Sam leads Cloupia’s Technical Operations. Sam was CEO of a Cisco VAR and served as VP Engineering for several companies. Sam has 25 years of IT experience, including twelve years working in the channel, eight years in professional services/management consulting, ten years in IT operations, five years in sales, and four years in product management.

Our Speakers

Phani Varma Penmethsa, Cloupia (partnering with Proact)

Phani joined Cloupia from Proact and is responsible for our European consulting and systems engineering. Prior to Proact, Phani previously worked at NetApp, VMware, EMC, HP and GE. Phani has deep technical expertise with datacentre server/applications, network, storage and virtualization architecture and a wide understanding of datacentre infrastructure.

Presentation Topic: Trending, Management and Automation for Cloud and FlexPod EnvironmentsThis presentation will provide an overview of Cloupia’s Cloud automation solutions. We will briefly discuss today’s data center challenges and how Cloupia mitigates these challenges with its unified automation solution. You will learn how Cloupia solutions accelerate and automateIT deployments, management and operations. This presentation includes live demos of management, monitoring, provisioning and orchestration. This presentation will also showcase CloudGenie, the most popular iPad / Android app for management.

Alex Nichol - Arista Networks

Alex Nichol is System Engineer with Arista network, a company focused on building and scaling the next generation cloud Data Centre’s. Alex has 15 years of Experience in the network industry, working across various technology fields; Data Centre, Service Provider and Enterprise with Arista, Brocade, Nortel Networks and Bay Networks. Presentation Topic: VXLAN Technology Overview

The presentation is a technical overview of the up and coming VXLAN standard, which Arista has co-authored with VMware to order to build scalable virtualised network using standard Layer 3 methodologies

Presentation Topic: Challenges for building a Virtualised NetworkThe presentation will cover the challenges virtualisation presents to the network layer and the effectiveness of new technologies (VXLAN, TRILL etc) and operating systems to meet these challenges.

Paul Beckett – Paramount Solutions

I have a BSc (Hons) in I.T gained in Liverpool University in 2002. I was Young Entrepreneur in 2003 for a company i set up straight from University. I have a wealth of experience from sales right through to Business Banking. I have been with Paramount Solutions since October 2011. I have guided many contractors through the process of how our company can reach their needs.

Presentation Topic: Permanent Employment into Contracting• Process of becoming a contractor, Pro’s and Con’s of using an Umbrella company or

establishing your own limited company.• Taxation implications of both aspects of contract work.• Maximising your take home pay

Andrew Fryer – Microsoft

Andrew Fryer is a Technical Evangelist at Microsoft UK Ltd, specialising in datacentre and database management. When not blogging and making screencasts in the office he can be found presenting at IpExpo, TechEd Europe and the TechDays events run for It professionals in the UK.

Presentation Topic: Windows “8” Server an operating system for the private cloudYou might be forgiven for thinking that Windows “8” server is just Windows Server 2008 R2 with a shiny front end and some improvements to Hyper-V, but the changes are far deeper than that.

Ben Vaux, Xangati

Ben Vaux, Director of Systems Engineering at Xangati, has vast technical experience in accelerating virtualization projects with companies in the EMEA region. He currently resides in Dubai leading a team of subject matter experts in the virtualization, cloud, network security, VPN and application acceleration spaces. Presentation Topic: Stop the Virtualisation Blame GameXangati will explore why virtualisation is being blamed for nearly every

problem occurring in the infrastructure and what you can do about it. Topics include: Why the network, storage and app teams (and even vendors) point the finger at virtualisation; What information you need to stop the blame war in its tracks and resolve the alleged virtualisation problems; and Real-world examples when virtualisation was wrongly blamed and what or who was the real culprit (or culprits).

Ricky El-Qasem – Liquidwarelabs

Ricky El-Qasem Technical Director of Northern EMEA for Liquidware Labs is a valued member of the virtualisation community. Ricky is highly accredited and with 19 years of experience behind him makes him a suitable all-rounder. Ricky is well know on the social media circuit and develops free tools for the virtualisation community.

Presentation Topic: Optimising Virtual Desktops with Profile UnityLearn how to get the most of out of your virtual desktop environment with the Liquidware Labs Profile Unity solution. This session will cover some tricks and tips for taking control of you VDI platform.

Tim Simons – Proact

Tim joined Proact in 2007, initially part time to learn more about the industry and technologies, but quickly moved on to become a full time Technical Consultant. With Proact, Tim has gained a wealth of experience designing and deploying VMware farms for many customer environments. He has worked on many large scale projects for some of Proact’s high profile clients including legal, construction, banking, central and local government organisations. Tim is now a Technical Design Authority focusing on Proact’s Managed Services.

Presentation Topic: Upgrading to vSphere 5Considerations around design principles and changes when moving to the latest version of VMware’s hypervisor

Steve Knodl – Director of Product Management, NextIO

Steve Knodl is Director of Product Management for NextIO. He has over 15 years of I/O industry technology experience ranging from RAID storage to Infiniband to I/O Virtualization. Over that time he has written code, performed market research, and brought multiple products to market, including the some of the first server based RAID storage arrays and iSCSI storage systems. Previous to NextIO, Knodl served as a Solutions Architect at Astute Networks and Sr. Product Manager at QLogic. In his free time, he is a pilot and developed an aviation app for pilots called The Digital Pilot. Knodl holds a BSEE degree from the University of Wisconsin.

Presentation Topic: 10Gb Network Consolidation AlternativesA comparison of different alternatives for network consolidation on 10Gb links including VLANs, PCIe IOV, VMware NetIOC and Switch Independent NIC Partitioning.

Tom Dodds, Sales Excutive -10ZiG Technology

10ZiG Technology is the emerging market leader in development of Thin Client Technology, with a primary focus in the desktop virtualisation market space. Our Thin Clients are optimised for virtual desktops and offer VDI clients with preinstalled support for PCoIP, HDX, EOP and RemoteFX. Our devices combine the best of breed security, high performance,flexibility and offer a complete desktop experience.

Presentation Topic: Thin Client Technology at its PeakWe will look at why 10ZiG Technology should be your Thin Client vendor of choice, what 10ZiG offers and how to choose which device will best fit your environment. We will see what is new from 10ZiG and what is planned for the future, whilst exploring how you can take this journey with us and follow the path of least resistance in your VDI project.

Hani El-Qusem – Veeam

Pre-sales professional with over 15 years of experience in providing solutions to a broad range of organisations; including corporate, government, defence and intelligence agencies.

Presentation Topic: Taking Backup and Recovery in a New DirectionAs organisations continue their journey into the world of virtualisation it will soon become apparent they will face new challenges around their virtual setup especially when it comes to their backup and recovery strategy.

Failure happens when organisations look to use the same technologies for both physical and virtual server backups and try to make old processes fit. Research has proven that when it comes to virtualisation you need a fundamentally different approach to deliver the required results.

Veeam Software develops innovative solutions for VMware vSphere using breakthrough technology to help your backup and replication processes.

Attend this workshop and:• Discover Award Winning Data Protection with Veeam vPower• Learn the new features which set V6 apart from V5• Learn how to restore an entire machine from backup in a matter of minutes with instant

VM recovery

Barclay Rae – Independent Management Consultant

Barclay is the writer and presenter of ITSMTV and participates in the ITSM Rest of the World weekly podcastBarclay Rae has worked on approximately 400 ITSM projects over the last 25 years. Barclay has worked for a number of ITSM organisations and delivers strategic consultancy and mentoring, as well as analyst services to the ITSM industry.

Presentation Topic: Service Catalogue Road MapPractical Guidance on how to set up and maintain a Service Catalogue. This includes both strategic Service Catalogue concepts plus some practical steps and examples of how to make this work and demonstrate value from IT Services.

Darren Williams – Whiptail Technologies

Darren is the EMEA SE Director for WhipTail, WhipTail specialise in Enterprise Flash SSD Arrays providing 250K IOPS (4K Random Writes) at 0.1ms latency. Previous to this Darren was the UK & Ireland Pre Sales Manager at Brocade for 6 years. Before moving to Brocade Darren had a mixture of Operations and Architecture roles around Storage, for companies such as Clifford Chance, Churchill Insurance and Hays Distribution. In these 15+ years Darren gained first hand experience of what users need and want out of Enterprise solutions such as Brocade and WhipTail.

Presentation Topic: Is Disk Dead for Desktop and Server VirtualisationDiscusses the use of Flash based solutions to replace Hard Disk Solutions in Desktop and Server Virtualisation Solutions. Hard Disk solutions are great for capacity but not for performance, IOPS and low latency are key for both VDI and Server Virtualisation.

Philippe Guyard, Arkeia

Philippe Guyard is Regional Manager for the UK at Arkeia Software and specialises in backup and DR strategies in virtual and physical environments. With over two decades in software in general and backup in particular he offers extensive expertise in these two areas. Prior to Arkeia Philippe has worked for Schlumberger, Wintershall or Option-Plus in France.

Presentation Topic: Off-site protection of VMware Data Backup and off-site data storage strategies in VMware environments

Adam Hartley – DLA Piper

Presentation Topic: Social Media in the EnterpriseEmployee use of social media, inside and outside the workplace, can expose employers to serious legal liabilities. This session will consider the legal liabilities which can arise, and the developing case law on social media in the workplace and highlight what steps employers should be taking to ensure that their organisation is protected against the legal issues arising from employee use and misuse of social media.

Asif Malik – VirtualDCS

Now a Technical Consultant at virtualDCS, Asif Malik has been delivering IT solutions for the past 17 years and was one of the original founders of the online payment service Nochex.com. Working with virtualDCS, Asif uses the latest VMware technology to assists customers in migrating to the cloud.

Presentation Topic: A virtualDCS case study: implementing vCloud Director.

The presentation will discuss how virtualDCS used and implemented vCloud director within our second data centre. The presentation will cover the challenges and successes faced when implementing the solution.

Chris Kiaie – Commvault

Chris Kiaie has been a specialised Data Management Consultant since May 2005 when he joined the Oceania CommVault professional services team. Prior to joining CommVault he worked as a Microsoft Engineer specialising in Enterprise Platform design & Implementation. Through his consultancy company Oriium, Chris’s team offer Consultancy & Project delivery services for a wide range of blue chip/public companies.

Presentation Topic: Chuck Out Your Chintz –Leveraging CommVault Simpana & Low Cost / High Performance Storage to take control of your Virtual Infrastructure.Demonstrating how software solutions such as CommVault Simpana can both compliment and in some cases replace expensive storage in the Virtual Enterprise. Utilising Global De-duplication, Block level site to site replication and high speed backup storage Simpana offers an attractive and cost effective alternative Disaster Recovery solution.

Stuart Barker – Agenci Ltd

Stuart Barker is the CEO of Agenci Ltd and specialises in PCI DSS, ISO27001, Third Party Assurance, Cloud Computing Security and Business Controls Assurance. Prior to joining the Agenci, Stuart was the head of Data Governance and Information Security at GE and subsequently Santander. He holds professional qualifications like CISSP, CISA and CISM.

Presentation Topic: Virtualisation – The Solution or an Enabler for Business Continuity?Understand what is Business Continuity Management and its various components. Discuss and understand how virtualisation is one of the many enablers the business will need to recover technical capability that has to be delivered in a managed and secured manner in line with recovery of business processes and staff

Chris Guest - Microsoft

Chris is currently working as an SDET in Microsoft Mediaroom. In the various guises of this role he has been responsible for Managing and Developing Test Automation, Lab Deployment Tooling and Test Infrastructure. Not always in the test discipline, he began his career as a programmer in the games industry. Since then he has obtained an MSc in Networks & Distributed Systems, developed bespoke ICT software and worked on a leading Anti-Virus product.

Presentation Topic: Development of a Customisable Test Lab Deployment SolutionThe intention is to discuss the project history for a bespoke internal test lab building tool. At the time of its creation many of the latest technology solutions were not available or mature. But as we walk through we’ll see that many of the problems faced and solved are similar to what you might now find in a commercial off-the-shelf system. We’ll start with the initial basic requirements and witness how they iteratively develop towards the current solution.

Jon Hunt – Biomni

Jon worked at EDS in Procurement, and liked the Biomni offering so much he decided to join them in 2000. He is an Electronics Engineer by background with over 25 years’ experience working in IT and was previously Operations Director at Applied Digital Devices.

Presentation Topic: Biomni Front Office: Cloud Portal AggregationBiomni ensures cloud provisioning is positioned seamlessly within your Service Catalog, enabling the delivery and management of virtual servers and cloud resources within a ‘one-stop shop’ Service Catalog.Whether you’re adopting a private, public or hybrid cloud approach, the establishment of a fully integrated Service Catalog is an essential step in maintaining standards and enabling efficient user self service with automated provisioning.

Steve McGovern – Point2Point

Steve holds ultimate responsibility for the technical aspects of Point to Point and focuses on shaping the direction of our technical proposition and ensuring that his team is positioned to deliver this. Steve is also recognised as one of the UKs leading specialists in desktop and application virtualisation and is one of Point to Point’s key enthusiasts.

Presentation Topic - The Reality of VDIThis session will provide an overview of our project methodology, practical

experience and customer engagements and should appeal to both those considering Desktop Virtualisation in its early stage as well as those working with it as our practical experience and customer success will apply to both.

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VMUG Manchester

We’ve listened to our users feedback and VMUG is coming to Manchester

12th June at The Palace Hotel, Oxford Street.

If you’re interested in attending, we will be enabling registration on the website soon at www.vmug.org.uk

Spaces still available to sponsor, if you are interested, please contact: Dawn Kelly at [email protected] for further information.

Sponsored by:

Agenda

Mull Keirra & Iona Tiree & Coll Eigg & Rum Canna

09:00 -10:00 Vendor Market & Welcome Address & Refreshments

10:00-10:50 Mike Laverick -rtfm-ed.co.uk TOPIC: vNews - A Round-up and Discussion of Virtualisation News

Chris Guest - Microsoft TOPIC: Development of a customisable test lab deployment solution

Sam Wong & Phani Penmethsa Cloupia TOPIC: Trending, Management and Automation for Cloud and FlexPod Environments

Alex Nichol - Arista Networks TOPIC: VxLAN Technology Overview

Paul Beckett, Paramount Solutions TOPIC: Permanent Employment into Contracting

11:00-11:50 Andrew Fryer - Microsoft TOPIC: Windows 8 Server an Operating System for the Cloud

Ben Vaux - Xangati TOPIC: Stop the Virtualisation Blame Game

Ricky El-Qasem - Liquidwarelabs TOPIC: Optimising Virtual Desktops with Profile Unity

Steve McGovern - Point2Point TOPIC: The Reality of VDI

Cisco TOPIC: IPv6 - Time to Deploy?

12:00-13:00 Vendor Market & Lunch

13:00 - 13-50 Tim Simons - Proact TOPIC: Upgrading to vSphere 5

Steve Knodl - NextIO TOPIC: 10Gb Network Consolidation Alternatives

Tom Dodds - 10ZiG TOPIC: Thin Client Technology at its Peak

EMC TOPIC: Enabling the Cloud

Barclay Rae - Independent Management Consultant TOPIC: Service Catalogue Road Map

14:00-14:50 Alex Nichol - Arista Networks TOPIC: Challenges for Building a Virtualised Network

Hani El-Qusem - Veeam TOPIC Taking Backup and Recovery in a New Direction

Darren Williams - Whiptail Technologies TOPIC Is Disk Dead for Desktop and Server Virtualisation

Philippe Guyard Arkeia TOPIC: Off Site Protection of VMware Data

Adam Hartley DLA Piper TOPIC: Social Media in the Enterprise

14:50-15:15 Vendor Market & Refreshments

15:15-16:05 Asif Malik - VirtualDCS TOPIC:A virtualDCS case study: implementing vCloud Director.

Brendon Higgins - VMUG TOPIC: Back to Basics, How Computers Works

Chris Kiaie - Commvault TOPIC: Chuck Out Your Chintz


Stuart Barker Agenci Ltd TOPIC: Virtualisation – The Solution or an Enabler for Business Continuity?





John Hunt - Biomni TOPIC: Biomni Front Office: Cloud Portal Aggregation

17:00 Bar

Mull Keirra & Iona Tiree & Coll Eigg & Rum Canna

09:00 -10:00 Vendor Market & Welcome Address & Refreshments


Chris Guest - Microsoft TOPIC: Development of a customisable test lab deployment solution



Paul Beckett, Paramount Solutions TOPIC: Permanent Employment into Contracting

11:00-11:50 Andrew Fryer - Microsoft TOPIC: Windows 8 Server an Operating System for the Cloud

Ben Vaux - Xangati TOPIC: Stop the Virtualisation Blame Game

Ricky El-Qasem - Liquidwarelabs TOPIC: Optimising Virtual Desktops with Profile Unity



12:00-13:00 Vendor Market & Lunch

13:00 - 13-50 Tim Simons - Proact TOPIC: Upgrading to vSphere 5

Steve Knodl - NextIO TOPIC: 10Gb Network Consolidation Alternatives

Tom Dodds - 10ZiG TOPIC: Thin Client Technology at its Peak

EMC TOPIC: Enabling the Cloud

Barclay Rae - Independent Management Consultant TOPIC: Service Catalogue Road Map

14:00-14:50 Alex Nichol - Arista Networks TOPIC: Challenges for Building a Virtualised Network

Hani El-Qusem - Veeam TOPIC Taking Backup and Recovery in a New Direction

Darren Williams - Whiptail Technologies TOPIC Is Disk Dead for Desktop and Server Virtualisation

Philippe Guyard Arkeia TOPIC: Off Site Protection of VMware Data

Adam Hartley DLA Piper TOPIC: Social Media in the Enterprise

14:50-15:15 Vendor Market & Refreshments

15:15-16:05 Asif Malik - VirtualDCS TOPIC:A virtualDCS case study: implementing vCloud Director.

Brendon Higgins - VMUG TOPIC: Back to Basics, How Computers Works

Chris Kiaie - Commvault TOPIC: Chuck Out Your Chintz


Stuart Barker Agenci Ltd TOPIC: Virtualisation – The Solution or an Enabler for Business Continuity?





John Hunt - Biomni TOPIC: Biomni Front Office: Cloud Portal Aggregation

17:00 Bar

Proact is pleased to be partnering with Cisco, Intel, NetApp and VMware on its first EMEA Virtualization Bootcamp.

Taking place on Wednesday, 25th April at Proact’s Head Office in Chesterfield we will demonstrate how to design, architect, install and operate a lean virtualization infrastructure based on Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS), VMware vSphere 4.0 and Nexus 1000v. Such an environment allows you to consolidate mission critical servers on a fully virtualized infrastructure, achieving massive cost and power savings.

Also find out about Proact’s ‘FlexPod as a Service’ Private Cloud offering which brings all four technologies together with highly skilled service management and monitoring, and a flexible ‘pay-as-you-go’ charging structure.

This one-day event covers theory in the morning and hands-on lab sessions in the afternoon, so you’ll get the chance to set up the complete environment on real physical hardware. This is a unique opportunity to not only gain more information, but to try it for yourself.

More information on the day, including the agenda, can be found at www.vbootcamp2012.com/uk/proact, and you can register for the event at www.vbootcamp2012.com/uk/proact#~Registration. We hope you can join us and we look forward to seeing you on the 25th.

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