Dutch VMUG - 3

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.

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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