Virtualization, VMware, Hyper-V, Eucalyptus, Cloud Computing

Get hands-on experience! Not just information about Virtualization, iSCSI, EC2, Hyper9, management, security, high availability, Vmotion, Storage Vmotion but also information on using existing and whitebox hardware for testing the free VMware and Hyper-V versions. Hands-on with VMware and iSCSI SANs and discussions on deploying for cost-cutting and/or performance improvement. I'll bring VMware laptops with a gig network for our use. New! Eucalyptus on Ubuntu!

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Past events

  • monitoring, analyzing, planning and optimizing virtual infrastructures

    20-21 Apr 2011 in , United States

    * they did not actually say this...but it'll be better than pizza.

  • Gluster chat...

    14-15 Jun 2010 in New York, United States

    We will chat about the state of Virtualization andGluster WAFS available as COTS and open sourcejust like NExenta. The meeting will be completelyfree of TLAs and Powerpoint slides.

  • VMware best practices presentation and ZFS discussion

    31 Mar-1 Apr 2010 in New York, United States

    2 VMware engineers have offered to present"Best Practices in Virtualization"allegedly this will be powerpoint free...there will be time for Q&A after the presentationsAfter we will discuss ZFS and why it's the bestfilesystem and storage solution for virtualization!

  • Virtualization - linked clones

    3-4 Mar 2010 in New York, United States

    recap since last meetup of major virtualization newsquick recap of Ubuntu and EC2linked clones under Esxi, courtesy of Jonathan

  • UEC - Part 2

    11-12 Nov 2009 in New York, United States

    Part 1 (first hour) Install Ubuntu, create a cloud controller, storage controller, and a node controller. manage these images and instances with elasticfox. Part 2 (second hour) Bundle an image and upload to Amazon. Run EMIs and AMIs interchangeably. use euca tools to manage amazon and eucalyptus. For those that attended last night, I'll have some USB sticks that we can run Ubuntu off of to create more regions and availability zones.

  • Hypervisor face-off or Ubuntu UEC

    4-5 Nov 2009 in New York, United States

    it's been a while and not much has changed in the virtualization industry...nary a peep on the new VDI...so let's talk about Ubuntu UEC and creating your own private cloud... Have you downloaded the release candidate of Workstation 7? Worth even more than it's cost of zero... Folks have been really good about withdrawing RSVPs and creating spots for others when they determine they cannot make it...thanks, it's helpful to everyone who is waiting to attend.

  • repeat! Amazon EC2 and Ubuntu UEC - but quick...

    17-18 Sep 2009 in New York, United States

    Although this is a repeat of last wednesday's meetup, we are changing the format a bit. Start time will be 6:30, end at 8:30 sharp. The presenter will have port 22 access already and have the needed security keys in order to teach the following: 1) select appropriate management tool (elasticfox? Cloudkick? Command line?

  • Amazon EC2 and Ubuntu UEC with Eucalyptus

    9-10 Sep 2009 in New York, United States

    We've covered VMware extensively, and we will have a short intro covering new developments in VMware-land but now on to CLOUD COMPUTING. It's in the title of this group. In the hands-on, power-point free style of this group we will cover: 1) What is Amazon EC2?

  • Virtualization lab at VMware (EMC) offices - Trimming Linux&Windows

    29-30 Jul 2009 in New York, United States

    EMC / VMware has generously allowed us to use their offices for this meetup! We have a huge projector and conference table to make it easy to see and to participate in the lab. It's a powerpoint-free zone (no boring slides) and this wednesday's second topic will be reducing the size of your VMs by up to 95% so that more of them can run on the same box. Just enough OS (JeOS) to run your app.100 VMs on a box? Absolutely.Please RSVP in advance to be on the list for building security.

  • Virtualization lab at VMware (EMC) offices

    16-17 Jul 2009 in New York, United States

    EMC / VMware has generously allowed us to use theiroffices for this meetup!Please RSVP in advance to be on the list for building security.In this meetup, we will demo, discuss, and debate differenthypervisors, iSCSI SAN solutions and whitebox (home hardware)solutions. There will be either an 8 port or 24 port switch(depending on number of RSVPs) for you to plug into and runyour own ESX hosts and perform OS loads and live migration (Vmotion).

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