Category Archives: VMUG

Have We Hit Peak VMware Community?

Lately, VMUG has become no stranger to controversy after dust-ups with rowdy vendors like Nutanix, and a website launch that was lackluster and fairly disruptive amongst a messy and fast-paced split from SmithBucklin (the original VMUG HQ outsourcer). Now they are dealing with a self-made mess after the announcement that VMUG is joining the Dell Technologies User Community (DTUC) community. There have also …

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Omaha VMUG Twitter Contest

To all Omaha VMUG Members- I’d like to invite you to Twitter.  I’m sure you’ve heard about this tool, but I don’t think many of you are participating.  What you may not know is how much value there is in this tool for virtualization admins and architects.  There are some great discussions going on out there, …

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Kansas City VMUG Plans

As I sit down to really dig into building labs for the upcoming Regional VMUG in Kansas City, I realize that I haven’t even mentioned it once on my blog.  I guess it is close enough now that I can spill some beans as to what we have in store. Similar to what we did …

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My New Writing Career

Obviously there has been a lack of posts lately.  For that I apologize. The main reason I haven’t been blogging much lately is that I’ve been doing a lot of freelance writing.  I realized I haven’t been talking about these articles much on my blog, so I figured now was as good a time as …

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VMUG Summary

All our hard work seems to have paid off.  Based on the conversations and survey results  we’ve received I think everything went very well. Labs The labs were a huge success and for the most part went off without a hitch.  There were some issues with the SRM labs that lead me to believe that SRM doesn’t …

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VMUG Is This Week!

This week is the culmination of months of work for me and the many others that have been working to get the next Omaha-Area VMUG event ready for an AMAZING time!  Everything is on track and the finishing touches are going on right now.  Last I heard we’ll have close to 200 people registered!  If …

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Setting up SRM on CX4-120

One of the labs we’re creating for the upcoming Omaha-Area VMUG is SRM.  It is posing some interesting challenges.  The biggest challenge is figuring out how to best provide a lab to 15 pairs of people without creating 30 sites.  We will cut some corners on that issue by having the instructor perform some of the core tasks like pairing sites …

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First Impressions of Performance on Enterprise Flash Drives

After about one week of playing with the lab gear EMC has loaned us to use for the upcoming VMUG, I’m ready to share my first impressions. First off, let me say that these drives deliver on the promise the SSD drives offer.  They are FAST. Generally, I’m seeing an XP template deploy in ~2 min (template is a …

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VMUG Lab Storage

I wanted to start my series of blog posts about the Omaha-Area VMUG lab infrastructure with the base of the infrastructure (or any virtual infrastructure): the storage. We were lucky enough to work out a deal with EMC to let us borrow a couple of Clariion arrays. Specifically they are CX4-120 arrays.  Not that impressive you say?  What if I …

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VMUG Registration is Now Open!

Registration for the Omaha VMUG on 3/24 is now open.  Hopefully you have already received an invite via email.  If not, please check out this one on VMware’s site: http://campaign.vmware.com/usergroup/invites/Omaha_3-24-10.html Registration can be completed here: http://info.vmware.com/forms/VMUG_REG?eventcity=8367-omaha&theme=Omaha Please note that the above link will only register you for the event itself.  You should receive a phone …

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