This event has been postponed.  We have tentatively rescheduled for September 2012 (post VMworld).  Stay tuned to this site and http://dcvmug.com for more info and future events.

Potomac Regional VMUG is Coming to Washington D.C. – May 9th, 2012!

Join your fellow VMware users at this free, full-day event for in-depth technical sessions, demonstrations, exhibits, and networking opportunities. Come to the Nationals Stadium to meet with your peers and industry experts to discuss virtualization trends, best practices, and the latest technology!

Visit the Potomac Regional VMUG User Conference event page to reserve your place at this event now.

Take advantage of these educational and networking opportunities:

• 8 VMware educational sessions
• 12 partner education tracks
• Exhibitor area with VMware partners
• Complimentary breakfast and lunch
• Registration is complimentary, so register today!

Wednesday, May 9, 2012 8:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Location Nationals Park 1500 South Capitol Street Southeast Washington, DC 20003

Please note: You will need to log into the VMUG website to register for this meeting. If you have not already obtained your VMUG login credentials, please visit the Username and/or Password Help page to request your username and password.

Questions? Contact memberservices@vmug.com

This is a re-post from http://dcvmug.com/dc-vmug-january-17th-2011/.  Please follow the DC VMUG site for updates!

The Washington DC VMUG invites you to the first meeting of the DC VMUG in 2012. The event will be held on Tuesday, January 17th, 2011 at Nationals Park.

Our sponsors, Tintri and Veeam, will have some great give-aways for attendees. We’ll have a tour of the new Nationals Park at the end of the VMUG meeting.

Register Now!

Agenda

7:30am – 8:00am: Registration & Breakfast
8:00am – 8:45: Tintri Presentation
8:45 – 9:00am: Break
9:00 – 9:45am: Apps in the Enterprise : Horizon App Manager vs. Citrix Xenapp; Michael Letschin, vExpert, Convergence Technology Consulting
9:45 – 10:00am: Break
10:00 – 10:45am: Veeam Presentation
10:45 – 11:15am: Ask the Experts and Closing Remarks
11:30am: Nationals Park Tour

Location

Washington Nationals Park

1500 South Capitol St., SE
Washington, DC 20003

Free Parking in Lot C, or Metro to Navy Yard (Green Line) and walk 0.3 mi SW to Nationals Park

Proceed to Red Porch Restaurant

Here’s the SlideRocket presentation for tomorrow’s DC VMUG.  My first real time playing with VMware’s Slide Rocket. It took me a few crashes of PowerPoint to move to SlideRocket (even after I had included it in the recent VMware Acquisitions slide).  Overall a pretty good experience!

This presentation is subject to change (I’m running out of steam tonight).  If/when I do update it on SlideRocket, this embedded deck will just magically update – the magic of the cloud!

Feel free to comment with changes or suggestions for other free utilities and scripts!  I  added a Scripts & Free Tools page to http://vmtoday.com today with some embedded Google Docs spreadsheets to keep a running list of the cool VMware scripts and tools that I come across. I’ve found and promptly forgotten so many over the years – hopefully this helps me as much as it helps you in finding and saving some great community resources!

The Washington DC VMUG Invites You to a Joint Event with VMware on vCenter™ Management Solutions.
Join us in the morning and learn from VMware subject matter experts how VMware vCenter™ Operations are fundamentally simplifying how IT is managed:

• Automate operations with intelligence and visibility
• Interpret workload, health and capacity metrics
• Identify and resolve workload stress and population problems
• Correlate change events and performance patterns

Stick around for the VMUG lunch and meeting:

• Networking Lunch
• VMware Updates and What’s New with VMUG
• VMworld 2011 Preview
• Community Scripts and Free Tools to Manage and Monitor Your VMware Environment. *Attendees are invited to bring your favorite scripts for monitoring, managing, and reporting on your VMware environments to share with the group.*

This is a unique opportunity to learn from best practices, see a demo and to speak with vCenter™ Operation experts directly.

Space is limited, so register today!
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
9:00 a.m. – 2:30 p.m.

Location
JW Marriott Washington DC
1331 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20004
Driving directions

Agenda
8:30 a.m. – Breakfast & Registration
9:00 a.m. - VMware Presentation: Master Your Virtualized Infrastructure
10:15 a.m. - Partner Presentation
11:00 a.m. – VMware Product Demo
11:30 a.m. – Morning Wrap up
12:15 p.m. - VMUG Lunch, Updates, and Announcements
01:00 p.m. - VMware Security and Compliance, Rob Babb, VMware

01:30 p.m. - Community Scripts & Free Tools to Manage & Monitor Your VMware Environment

Sponsored by

We’ll kick off a normal VMUG meeting after the VMware event. Please make special note – *Attendees are invited to bring your favorite scripts for monitoring, managing, and reporting on your VMware environments to share with the group.* Prizes for the best scripts shared!

This one is for all you in the DC area (I”m looking at you, DC VMUG members) looking to network with fellow VMware folks….

For all the guys out there that have talked for weeks and months about our choice of beer and bourbon, the time has come.  We will be having a vBeers Happy Hour at one of the newest and hottest places in DC, Jack Rose Dining Salon.

For those of you who don’t know it was featured in the Washingtonian Magazine this month and is just opening with one of the largest Scotch selection ever assembled from a private collector in DC.  They also should have 20+ beers on tap.

Heres the details, hope you all can make it and if we find the date I picked is really bad… don’t fret this will not be the only time we do this..

Location: Jack Rose Dining Saloon
Address: 2007 18th Street Northwest, Washington D.C., District of Columbia 20009
Date: July 13, 2011
Time: 6PM – 9PM ish

Get yourself to the vBeers website to register:  Direct link to the event here: http://www.vbeers.org/2011/06/08/vbeers-and-vbourbon-dcnovamd-weds-13th-july-2011/

VMware has been investing in the VMware User Group (VMUG) program over the past year, adding new benefits and opportunities to an already great program.  In addition to local meetings where you can interact with fellow VMware professionals, the VMUG program offers other great benefits – the latest is the VMUG Advantage program. The VMUG Advantage program offers the following benefits:

• $100 Discount to VMworld
• 20% Discount on VMware Instructor Led Training
• 20% Discount on VMware Certification
• 1-Year Free Subscription: All Access eLearning Courses ($750 Value)
• 30% Discount on Workstation and Fusion Software html Licenses

The VMUG Advantage program has an introductory price of $170 for individuals (with corporate/multi-user discounts available) until May 21.  Not a bad deal if you plan to attend VMworld in Las Vegas (Aug 29 – Sept 1), complete a certification (VCP, VCAP, VCDX, VCA-DT), or take some instructor led training through VMware.  Heck – the eLearning subscription alone more than pays for program subscription cost!

As a VMUG member be sure to login to the new www.myvmug.org and update your profile or add an picture or avatar. Over the next month you’ll see exciting new benefits added to the website, including VMUG Community Pages, Event Listings, and Education Resources.

If you’re not already a VMUG member, go ahead and sign up at www.myvmug.org to learn about local/regional events and to get access to the other great benefits like the VMUG Advantage.

Time:
9:30am – 2:30pm

Location:
Fair Lakes Hyatt
12777 Fair Lakes Circle
Ballroom
Fairfax, VA 22033

Directions

It was great seeing so many VMware User Group (VMUG) members at this week’s Virtualization Forum in Washington, DC.  There are several more Virtualization Forum‘s scheduled for North America, Europe, and Asia – these events are a great chance to see live demo’s, connect with experts, and catch a peek of some exciting technologies in the virtualization space.  I hope to see everyone I met at the VMware booth at the next Washington, DC VMUG.

Our next event will be on Thursday, April 29th at the Sheraton Crystal City Hotel in Arlington, VA where we will be discussing best practices when Virtualizing Tier 1 Applications.

Here is the agenda for the meeting:

11:30 a.m.    Registration
11:50 a.m.    Opening Remarks
12:00 p.m.    Riverbed Presentation by Jim Borda
12:45 p.m.    Lunch
01:30 p.m.    What’s New by VMUG Leader Jason Langone
01:45 p.m.    Double-Take Presentation: “The Secret to Disaster Recovery for Any Application, Anywhere” by James Senecal
02:30 p.m.    Beverage Break
02:45 p.m.    Virtualization of Tier 1 Apps
03:30 p.m.    Wrap-up

This is a great opportunity to meet with your peers to discuss virtualization trends, best practices and the latest technology.  Register today to join us for this free informative event. Space is limited, so respond as soon as possible to reserve your seat.

The official registration form can be found here: http://campaign.vmware.com/usergroup/invites/WashingtonDC_4-29-10.html.

Please join us for the upcoming Washington DC VMware^® User Group meeting on Tuesday, March 10th, 10:30 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.

This is a great opportunity to meet with your peers to discuss virtualization trends, best practices and the latest technology.

Agenda
10:30 a.m. Check-In
10:50 a.m. Opening Remarks
11:00 a.m. Compellent Presentation
11:45 a.m. Lunch
12:30 p.m. VMware ThinApp Presentation by Jason Langone
01:30 p.m. Beverage Break
01:45 p.m. Veeam Presentation
02:30 p.m. Wrap-up session

Register today to join us for this free informative event. Space is limited, so respond as soon as possible to reserve your seat.

Location:
Westin City Center
National Ballroom A
1400 M Street NW
Washington, DC 20005
Map Here

Sponsored by:

As I am one of the leaders of the Washington, DC VMware User Group, please feel free to reach out to me with questions, comments, volunteering to present at an upcoming meeting, or just to introduce yourself.

You can stay in touch with the group by visiting http://dcvmug.com (redirect to http://communities.vmware.com/community/vmug/forums/us_northeast/dc) or our LinkedIn Group.