3. Welcome To Vmug 6
Brendon Higgins – VMUG Chair
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.
4. Our Sponsors
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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).
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5. 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
6. 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 visiting
www.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.
7. 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.
8. Our Speakers
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: vNews
In 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.
9. 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 Environments
This 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 Network
The 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.
10. 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
• rocess of becoming a contractor, Pro’s and Con’s of using an Umbrella company or
P
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 cloud
You 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.
11. 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 Game
Xangati 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 Unity
Learn 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.
12. 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 5
Considerations 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 Alternatives
A comparison of different alternatives for network consolidation on 10Gb links including
VLANs, PCIe IOV, VMware NetIOC and Switch Independent NIC Partitioning.
13. 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 Peak
We 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 Direction
As 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
• earn how to restore an entire machine from backup in a matter of minutes with instant
L
VM recovery
14. Barclay Rae – Independent Management Consultant
Barclay is the writer and presenter of ITSMTV and participates in the
ITSM Rest of the World weekly podcast
Barclay 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 Map
Practical 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 Virtualisation
Discusses 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.
15. 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 Enterprise
Employee 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.
16. 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
17. 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 Solution
The 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 Aggregation
Biomni 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.
18. 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 VDI
This 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.
19. .
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
dawn@vmug.org.uk for further information.
Sponsored by:
20. Agenda
Mull Keirra Iona Tire
09:00 -10:00 Vendor Market Welcome
Address Refreshments
10:00-10:50 Mike Laverick -rtfm-ed. Chris Guest - Microsoft TOPIC: Sam
co.uk TOPIC: vNews - A Development of a customisable Clou
Round-up and Discussion of test lab deployment solution Man
Virtualisation News for C
Env
11:00-11:50 Andrew Fryer - Microsoft Ben Vaux - Xangati TOPIC: Rick
TOPIC: Windows 8 Server Stop the Virtualisation Blame Liqu
an Operating System for the Game Opt
Cloud with
12:00-13:00 V
13:00 - 13-50 Tim Simons - Proact TOPIC: Steve Knodl - NextIO TOPIC: Tom
Upgrading to vSphere 5 10Gb Network Consolidation Thin
Alternatives Pea
14:00-14:50 Alex Nichol - Arista Networks Hani El-Qusem - Veeam TOPIC Dar
TOPIC: Challenges for Building Taking Backup and Recovery in Tec
a Virtualised Network a New Direction Dea
Virtu
14:50-15:15 Ven
15:15-16:05 Asif Malik - VirtualDCS Brendon Higgins - VMUG Chr
TOPIC:A virtualDCS case TOPIC: Back to Basics, How TOP
study: implementing vCloud Computers Works
Director.
16:10-17:00 Mike Laverick -rtfm-ed. Cisco Sam
co.uk TOPIC: vNews - A TOPIC: IPv6 - Time to Deploy? Clo
Round-up and Discussion of Man
Virtualisation News for C
Env
17:00
21. Tiree Coll Eigg Rum Canna
OPIC: Sam Wong Phani Penmethsa Alex Nichol - Arista Networks Paul Beckett, Paramount
able Cloupia TOPIC: Trending, TOPIC: VxLAN Technology Solutions TOPIC: Permanent
n Management and Automation Overview Employment into Contracting
for Cloud and FlexPod
Environments
: Ricky El-Qasem - Steve McGovern - Cisco
me Liquidwarelabs TOPIC: Point2Point TOPIC: IPv6 - Time to Deploy?
Optimising Virtual Desktops TOPIC: The Reality of VDI
with Profile Unity
Vendor Market Lunch
C: Tom Dodds - 10ZiG TOPIC: EMC Barclay Rae - Independent
on Thin Client Technology at its TOPIC: Enabling the Cloud Management Consultant
Peak TOPIC: Service Catalogue
Road Map
OPIC Darren Williams - Whiptail Philippe Guyard Arkeia Adam Hartley DLA Piper
ry in Technologies TOPIC Is Disk TOPIC: Off Site Protection of TOPIC: Social Media in the
Dead for Desktop and Server VMware Data Enterprise
Virtualisation
Vendor Market Refreshments
Chris Kiaie - Commvault Steve McGovern - Stuart Barker Agenci Ltd
w TOPIC: Chuck Out Your Chintz Point2Point TOPIC: Virtualisation – The
TOPIC: The Reality of VDI Solution or an Enabler for
Business Continuity?
Sam Wong Phani Penmethsa Alex Nichol - Arista Networks John Hunt - Biomni TOPIC:
oy? Cloupia TOPIC: Trending, TOPIC: VxLAN Technology Biomni Front Office: Cloud
Management and Automation Overview Portal Aggregation
for Cloud and FlexPod
Environments
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22. Other Events
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.
