Opening …
VIRTUALIZATION GROUP
– BOSTON
WELCOME!
WWW.VIRTG.COM
Tim Mangan
Vice President: Virtualization Group – Boston
Kahuna: TMurgent Technologies LLP
http://www.tmurgent.com
Microsoft MVP for Application Virtualization
Virtualization Group - Boston
www.VirtG.com – Virtualization Group – Boston
•Normal Meeting Second Tuesday – Microsoft –
201 Jones Road - Waltham MA; MPR-A
•Are Recording Live tonight as a test only.
Thank You All For Coming!!!
Agenda
Can you be both thin and free?
Time
Description
6:00-6:45 pm Welcome – Virtualization News and
TechTips/Q & A
7:00-7:45 Native Boot to VHD Loadfest Dan Stolts of
Microsoft
8:00-8:45 Part 2
8:50ish Evaluations, Door Prizes
Thank You To Our Sponsors!
Thanks for sponsoring this event by supplying funds for pizza and beverages!!!
Bay State
Microsoft
http://www.Microsoft.com/
http://www.BayStateTechnology.com
O’Reily Books
What is Virtualization Boston?
Mission Statement
Areas of Interest
The Virtualization Group–Boston
exists in order to encourage an
exchange of knowledge about all
aspects of virtualization, green
technology and cloud computing
between IT Professionals.
Furthermore, we will foster
affiliation with similar
virtualization groups located
elsewhere to expand the reach
of knowledge and training
resources.
 Server Virtualization
 Desktop Virtualization
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(Hosted and Local)
Presentation Virtualization
Application Virtualization
Storage Virtualization
Cloud Computing
Going Green
Leaders@virtg.com
We have MUCH to do, Let us know if you can help!
Our Plans
 RSVP for Meetings so we can purchase the
correct amount of food and soda’s
 Live meetings that are recorded for download
later for those that cannot attend.
 Two Speakers every night
 Bio of all speakers and a link to samples of their
work
 Presentation material available online within
three days of presentation
Past Sessions
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Feb – Deep Dive Day
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Virtualizaton 360 – Overview of Virtualization
Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V / John Kelebley
VmWare Virtualization: Portfolio and Roadmap/ Dan Sullivan
Improving File System Performance in a Virtual Environment / Bob Nolan
Security Aspects of Virtualization / Dan Stolts
Application Virtualization: Concepts and Platforms / Tim Mangan
Physical to Virtual Migration / John Kelbley
Performance Discussion / moderated by Dan Stolts and Tony Piltzecker
SAN Considerations for a Virtualized Data Center / Tim Gwinn
Running Linux on Hyper-V: “How To” & Support Considerations / John Kelbley
VM Management (SCVMM) / Dan Stolts
Client Hosted Virtualization with MEDV: First Look / Matt McDermott
Hyper-V Backup & Recovery "On The Cheap" / John Kelbley
Virtualization on the Desktop / Jerry Feldman
Case Study: Using Sanbolic on Hyper-V to Simplify SAN Storage / Dave Dupuis
March 26th – Windows 2008 R2 Hyper-V / Bryon Surace
April 23rd – Citrix Virtualization Portfolio / Jerry Shea
May 28th – Cloud Computing/Bill Zach and App-V Sequencing/Tim Mangan
June 9th – Windows Server 2008 RDS and StarWind Storage SAN
August – Virtualization Summer Camp
September – Defragmentation(Raxco) & ISCSI (StarWind)
November – InstallFree and ThinLaunch
December - Expand
Future Agenda
 Virtualization Deep Dive Day - Feb 12th 2010
 (No regular February meeting)
 March 9th
 April 13th
In The News!
 Windows 7 “God Mode”
 http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10423985-56.html
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Citrix offers Desktop Virtualization Flexibility
 http://www.informationweek.com/news/software/server_virtualization/show
Article.jhtml?articleID=220301159&cid=nl_IW_daily_2009-12-11_h
 Segate Enters Enterprise SSD Market
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http://www.infostor.com/index/articles/display/9509984589/articles/infostor/diskarrays/disk-drives/2009/12/seagate-enters_the.html
 Citrix Automates Disaster Recovery on Hyper-V
http://searchservervirtualization.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid94_gci1377087,00.html?track=NL1429&ad=739976&asrc=EM_NLN_10373837&uid=1340943
Free 2008 R2 E-Book
 http://download.microsoft.com/download/5/C/0/5C0BD0AB-040D-4C56-
A60B-661001012DDA/Windows_Server_2008_R2_e-book.pdf
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App Virt Comparison Doc
 http://virtualfuture.info/wp-
content/uploads/2009/08/ApplicationVirtCompChart2009.pdf
More Thanks To…
 Microsoft -Facilities, Presenters
and Swag
 O’Reilly Publishing – Swag
 VirtG - Virtualization Group – Boston