Dutch VMUG

Some things never change, or do they? vSphere is getting new and improved features with every release. These features change the characteristics and performance of the virtual machines. If you are not up to speed, you will probably manage your environment based on old and inaccurate information. The vMythbusters have collected a series of interesting hot topics that we have seen widely discussed in virtualization communities, on blogs and on Twitter. We’ve put these topics to the test in our lab to determine if they are a myth or not.

• Defrag your Guest OS disks for best performance
• E1000 is faster than VMXNET3
• CBT causes significant overhead on your VMs
• HA datastore heartbeats prevents host isolation
• LSI SCSI is always better than Paravirtual SCSI

Mythbusters_Dutch_VMUG.pdf

Viktor van den Berg is ramping up. He has presented a great line-up of speakers who are going to deliver the most awesome sessions at the Dutch VMUG event. If you didn’t register yet, there's still a chance. Make sure you mark the 9th of December in your agenda. More information can be found here.

Here’s the list with the celebrities:

• Alan Renouf, Senior Technical Marketing, VMware
• Andre van der Werff, Senior Systems Engineer, VMware
• Bob de Kousemaeker, Principal Product Manager, RES Software
• Bouke Groenescheij, Freelance Consultant, jume.nl
• Cormac Hogan, Technical Marketing Manager for Storage, VMware
• Duncan Epping, Principal Architect, Technical Marketing, VMware
• Eric Sloof, Freelance Trainer/Consultant, Famous Blogger, NTPRO.NL
• Gabrie van Zanten, gabesvirtualworld.com / Consultant - OpenLine
• Henk Arts, Senior System Engineer, Veeam Software
• Jeroen van de Kamp, CTO, Login Consultants
• Luc Dekens, System Engineer, Eurocontrol Maastricht
• Marcel Steenman, Senior Technical Consultant, Platani
• Mattias Sundling, Virtualization Expert, Quest
• Michael Heffernan, Global Chief Technologist Virtualisatie, Hitachi Data Systems
• Raymon Epping, Technical Account Manager, Professional Services, VMware
• Ruben Spruijt, Technology Officer, PQR
• Stefan Willems, Senior Solution Architect, Platani
• Verron Martina, vSpecialist, EMC
• Viktor van den Berg, VMware Consultant, PQR, Dutch VMUG Leader

We all know that Viktor van den Berg was this year’s real professional photographer at the Dutch VMUG Event 2010 but nevertheless here is my small contribution.

My virtualization friend Remon Lam who works as a VMware Consultant  in the Netherlands and is running VirtualClouds.info has recorded my complete VMUG 2010 session on video. Besides that he converted it and did an upload to vimeo last night. Kudos and many thanks go out to Remon. For the attendees who want to see it again because I was talking pretty fast or people that were not able to attend it’s available online, the full 45 minutes. If you want to run through the slides while I’m presenting, you can get your copy here. I hope you will enjoy it and don’t fall asleep.

iPad: http://player.vimeo.com/video/17711772?color=24ff95

This year’s Dutch VMUG Event 2010 video contains a lot of awesome impressions I’ve captured during the day. I want to thank all the 750 attendees for visiting this great event. The video is a compilation of the start-up, some sessions I attended, the workshops, the food and drinks and at the end of the day all the lucky prize winners.

Here's the link to the Dutch VMUG Event 2010 Video for iPad users http://bit.ly/gHV0Ej

This year’s Dutch VMUG event 2010 is massive! The number of attendees is over 750 and there are loads of great sessions and workshops. Right before lunch, I had the honour to present my session which deals with virtual machine advanced troubleshooting in a vSphere environment. When you are interested in  the metrics you can find in esxtop and prepared to go beyond the point where you’re just looking at CPU ready times then this slide deck will give you a better insight. You can also get a grip on things like memory limits and reservation, storage bottlenecks and finding the reason for dropped network packets.

This presentation has cost me a lot of time to prepare but it was a joy to build it. I’ve been working on it for two months. Besides delivering training on a daily basis, I’ve spent every free minute on doing research, gathering screenshots and creating awesome graphics. Two valued virtualization colleagues have reviewed the presentation so I want to thank Rawlinson Rivera and Harold Schoofs for their great feedback. vSphere  Advanced Troubleshooting has been presented during my VMware training courses for five times, so from this place many thanks to all my students for their great feedback in the past weeks. I’ve uploaded the presentation to SlideShare but you can also get a copy here: AdvancedTroubleshooting.pdf - 50 slides of awesomeness from start to end, I hope you enjoy it.

Next week Veeam's Ricky El-Qasem is going back into trainer mode. Some of you may know that he used to be a VMware instructor and so it was a logical move for him when invited by Veeam to develop an education services program. On 10th December He will be delivering a workshop where he will be teaching some lucky attendees of the Dutch VMUG how to use Veeam Backup’s Instant VM recovery and Exchange Item level restore features which is part of vPower engine. In some way this is Veeam’s first official classroom training course and to mark this special occasion they have a great raffle prize. So some lucky attendee of Ricky's workshop gets yes that’s right a brand new xBox 360 with kinect. Only people attending the Veeam workshop are eligible for the raffle, so register today.

http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=331

The Dutch VMUG event attracts a lot of attention. In September 2005, the first time this event was held the number of attendees was around 50. This number has risen over the years. The next event will take place on the 10th of December at the NBC in Nieuwegein and is open for registration. The Dutch VMUG expects around 700 attendees. It looks like this event has become some sort of mini VMworld.

The preliminary agenda with 4 parallel tracks is online and yes I'll be presenting again.

vSphere Advanced Troubleshooting - Eric Sloof (ntpro.nl)

Tijdens deze presentatie zal Eric Sloof laten zien wat de 10 meest voorkomende problemen binnen een vSphere omgeving kunnen zijn. Er wordt onder meer gekeken naar zaken als HA, DRS, Resource Pools en Virtual Machine settings. Veel belangrijker is natuurlijk dat u deze problemen binnen uw eigen omgeving kunt opsporen en oplossen. Daarvoor zijn diverse handige tooltjes en methodieken beschikbaar die ook de revue zullen passeren.

During the Dutch VMUG 2009 event NGN’s Community Master, Melle Gloerich has recorded a interview between Bouke Groenescheij and Wietze Albers. They are talking about performance in a VMware enviroment.

During the Dutch VMUG 2009 event NGN’s Community Master, Melle Gloerich has recorded a conversation between Ruben Spruijt and Gabrie van Zanten. They are talking about VMware View 4 and PCoIP, damaged sectors in a virtual machine, project Virtual Reality Check and the differences between VDI and terminal servers.

Check the photos of the Dutch VMUG Event 2009: http://bit.ly/gWtQB and http://bit.ly/4uFcOa

Right after my Virtualization EcoShell presentation at the Dutch VMUG event last Friday, Scott Herold has interviewed me for a change :-) Normally it’s the other way around. The interview was recorded by NGN’s Community Master, Melle Gloerich.

Melle: I did some more interviews that day (Bouke Groenescheij, Gabrie van Zanten, Ruben Spruijt, Joep Piscaer and another one with Eric separately). I'll put a new one online every week.

http://www.ngn.nl/ngn/n61320-beta/interview-vmware-powershell-experts/?waxtrapp=gmqygiBsHyoOtvOXEgIjI

Dutch VMUG event 2009 – handy scripts