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!
This is your last chance to register for tomorrow’s (July 12, 2011) big VMware online event, “Raising the Bar, Part V”. During the event, VMware CEO Paul Maritz and CTO Steve Herrod will announce the next generation of VMware cloud infrastructure offerings. The event will be broadcasted live beginning at 9:00 AM PDT
The agenda looks like this:
- 9:00-9:45 Maritz and Herrod present
- 10:00-12:00 Deep dive breakout sessions
- 10:00-12:00 Live Q&A with VMwarevExperts
While I don’t have any inside knowledge on the event, I expect new product and service offerings, along with details on recent acquisition announcements on how VMware is bringing to bear its vision for a seamless cloud infrastructure – public, private, hybrid – that is simple to manage, easy to scale, and with all the dynamism that one could imagine. And if that weren’t enough, one lucky attendee for this online event will win a ticket to VMworld 2011. This event promises to be a great intro to what is shaping up to be a great VMworld 2011 in Las Vegas!
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
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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/
