The March 2021 edition of the Brisbane VMUG meeting will be held online via Zoom on Tuesday 16th March from 4pm to 6pm. We have speakers from Lenovo and VMware presenting and it promises to be a great afternoon.
Here’s the agenda:
VMUG Intro (by me)
Lenovo Presentation – XClarity and VMware Day 0 – 2 operations, covering the ThinkAgile VX appliance, what comes in the box, how does it work with vLCM, XClarity modules and what they plug into, vRLI, vROps, vRA, etc.
VMware Presentation – Cloud Foundation and Tanzu
Q&A
The speakers have gone to great lengths to make sure this will be a fun and informative session and I’m really looking forward to hearing what they have to say. You can find out more information and register for the event here. I hope to see you there (online). Also, if you’re interested in sponsoring one of these events, please get in touch with me and I can help make it happen.
The East Coast VMUGs are hosting a virtual event on December 10, powered by the Melbourne VMUG. The event starts at 4pm AEST (5pm AEDT). Details as follows:
MVMUG Leader Update – Jeremy Drossinis
recent changes to the MVMUG Committee.
announcement in regards to MVMUG’s end of year function.
updates from the Brisbane and Sydney VMUGs.
2020, the year that was
Sponsor Session by Michael Lang, Solutions Architecture Manager, NVIDIA
Accelerated VDI Desktops
Virtual Desktops in 2020 with Windows 10, Office 365, a variety of browsers as well as video and conferencing tools, created unprecedented challenges around scale, performance and of course a great user experience, and with increasing adoption of Work From Home, the challenge for IT has never been higher to deliver.
Come and find out how a vGPU accelerated solution can help you deliver a high quality Horizon desktop anywhere, any time and delight your users.
What workload elements make a modern VDI desktop and what are the challenges?
How does vGPU accelerate the Horizon desktop and ensure a good UX?
HW and SW elements of vGPU.
Sizing and deployment considerations.
Some example use cases (Education and FSI)
Q&A
One attendee will win a prize draw of an NVIDIA goodies, consisting of an NVIDIA Star Wars branded video card, a NVIDIA Ruler (great for office bragging rights) as well as a PC care kit with stickers, webcam cover and cleaning cloth.
Please note to enter the prize draw by NVIDIA the following apply:
You must attend the virtual meeting
In order to be in the running, you must complete a short sign up form, which will be shared by NVIDIA during their presentation.
VMware Session – to be announced!
NVIDIA has gone to great lengths to make sure this will be a fun and informative session and I’m really looking forward to hearing all about vGPU. You can find out more information and register for the event here. I hope to see you there. Also, if you’re interested in sponsoring one of these events, please get in touch with me and I can help make it happen.
The November edition of the Brisbane VMUG meeting is a special one – we’re doing a joint session with a number of the other VMUG chapters in Australia and New Zealand. It will be held on Tuesday 17th November on Zoom from 3pm – 5pm AEST. It’s sponsored by Google Cloud for VMware and promises to be a great afternoon.
Here’s the agenda:
VMUG Intro
VMware Presentation: VMware SASE
Google Presentation: Google Cloud VMware Engine Overview
Q&A
Google Cloud has gone to great lengths to make sure this will be a fun and informative session and I’m really looking forward to hearing about Google Cloud VMware Engine. You can find out more information and register for the event here. I hope to see you there. Also, if you’re interested in sponsoring one of these events, please get in touch with me and I can help make it happen.
The July edition of the Brisbane VMUG meeting will be held online via Zoom on Tuesday 28th July from 4pm to 6pm. We have speakers from Runecast and VMware presenting and it promises to be a great afternoon.
Here’s the agenda:
VMUG Intro (by me)
Runecast Presentation – Predict, Upgrade and Secure your VMware environment proactively with Runecast
VMware Presentation – Deploying Tanzu Kubernetes Grid with vRealize Automation with Michael Francis
Q&A
The speakers have gone to great lengths to make sure this will be a fun and informative session and I’m really looking forward to hearing what they have to say. You can find out more information and register for the event here. I hope to see you there (online). Also, if you’re interested in sponsoring one of these events, please get in touch with me and I can help make it happen.
Welcome to Random Short Take #37. Not a huge amount of players have worn 37 in the NBA, but Metta World Peace did a few times. When he wasn’t wearing 15, and other odd numbers. But I digress. Let’s get random.
Pavilion Data recently added S3 capability to its platform. It’s based on a variant of MinIO, and adds an interesting dimension to what Pavilion Data has traditionally offered. Mellor provided some good coverage here.
Speaking of object storage, Dell EMC recently announced ECS 3.5. You can read more on that here. The architectural white paper has been updated to reflect the new version as well.
Online events are all the rage at the moment, and two noteworthy events are coming up shortly: Pure//Accelerate and VeeamON 2020. Speaking of online events, we’re running a virtual BNEVMUG next week. Details on that here. ZertoCON Virtual is also a thing.
Speaking of Pure Storage, this article from Cody Hosterman on NVMe and vSphere 7 is lengthy, but definitely worth the read.
I can’t recall whether I mentioned that this white paper covering VCD on VCF 3.9 is available now, and I can’t be bothered checking. So here it is.
I’m not just a fan of Backblaze because of its cool consumer backup solution and object storage platform, I’m also a big fan because of its blog. Articles like this one are a great example of companies doing corporate culture right (at least from what I can see).
I have the impression that Datadobi has been doing some cool stuff recently, and this story certainly seems to back it up.
The June edition of the Brisbane VMUG meeting will be held online via Zoom on Tuesday 2nd June. We have speakers from VMware and StorageCraft presenting and it promises to be a great afternoon.
Here’s the agenda:
VMUG Intro (by me)
StorageCraft Presentation – Object Storage with Jack Alsop
VMware Presentation – vRealize Automation with Mark Foley
VMware Presentation – Project Pacific with Michael Francis
Q&A
The speakers have gone to great lengths to make sure this will be a fun and informative session and I’m really looking forward to hearing what they have to say. You can find out more information and register for the event here. I hope to see you there (online). Also, if you’re interested in sponsoring one of these events, please get in touch with me and I can help make it happen.
The February edition of the Brisbane VMUG meeting (and first for 2020) will be held on Tuesday 18th February at Fishburners (Level 2, 155 Queen Street) from 4 – 6pm. It’s sponsored by Zerto and promises to be a great afternoon.
Here’s the agenda:
VMUG Intro
VMware Presentation
Zerto Presentation: Leveraging Azure Cloud and VMware with no disruption and fully orchestrated fail-over capabilities with Zerto’s Continuous Data Replication. Also learn about what’s new for Azure here in Australia with the imminent release of incremental snapshots of Azure’s managed disks and what this means for Zerto users.
Q&A
Refreshments and drinks post-event.
Zerto has gone to great lengths to make sure this will be a fun and informative session and I’m really looking forward to hearing about what’s happening with Continuous Data Replication. You can find out more information and register for the event here. I hope to see you there. Also, if you’re interested in sponsoring one of these events, please get in touch with me and I can help make it happen.
The November 2019 edition of the Brisbane VMUG meeting will be held on Tuesday 26th November at Fishburners from 4pm – 6pm. It’s sponsored by VMware and promises to be a great afternoon.
Here’s the agenda:
VMUG Intro
VMware Presentation: VMware the network company! A presentation by Francois Prowse
Q&A
Refreshments and drinks
Join us for an end of year celebration to thank the VMUG community for all their efforts in 2019 as well as hearing from VMware from a different perspective. You can find out more information and register for the event here. I hope to see you there. Also, if you’re interested in sponsoring one of these events, please get in touch with me and I can help make it happen.
Want some news? In a shorter format? And a little bit random? This listicle might be for you.
Remember Retrospect? They were acquired by StorCentric recently. I hadn’t thought about them in some time, but they’re still around, and celebrating their 30th anniversary. Read a little more about the history of the brand here.
Sometimes size does matter. This article around deduplication and block / segment size from Preston was particularly enlightening.
This article from Russ had some great insights into why it’s not wise to entirely rule out doing things the way service providers do just because you’re working in enterprise. I’ve had experience in both SPs and enterprise and I agree that there are things that can be learnt on both sides.
If you’re thinking of updating your Mac’s operating environment, this is a fairly comprehensive review of what macOS Catalina has to offer, along with some caveats.
Anthony has been doing a bunch of cool stuff with Terraform recently, including using variable maps to deploy vSphere VMs. You can read more about that here.
Speaking of people who work at Veeam, Hal has put together a great article on orchestrating Veeam recovery activities to Azure.
Finally, the Brisbane VMUG meeting originally planned for Tuesday 8th has been moved to the 15th. Details here.
*Update – This meeting has now been moved to the 15th October.
The October 2019 edition of the Brisbane VMUG meeting will be held on Tuesday 8th October at Fishburners (Level 2, 155 Queen St, Brisbane) from 4pm – 6pm. It’s sponsored by Rubrik and promises to be a great afternoon.
Here’s the agenda:
VMUG Intro
VMware Presentation
Rubrik Presentation: Automating VM Protection in Rubrik with vSphere Tags (and other cool stuff….)
Q&A
Refreshments and drinks post-event.
Rubrik have gone to great lengths to make sure this will be a fun and informative session and I’m really looking forward to hearing about their solution. After the VMUG wraps up at 6pm, feel free to come along to Brewbrik at The Pool Terrace & Bar on Level 4 at Next Hotel, Queen Street Mall (just down the road from Fishburners). Brewbrik is an informal get together of Rubrik customers, partners, prospects and general hangers-on. Rubrik will be shouting drinks and food. You can find out more information and register for the event here. I hope to see you there. Also, if you’re interested in sponsoring one of these events, please get in touch with me and I can help make it happen.
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