SBTUG26 August 2009

SBTUG 26 August 2009

• Virtualisation Smackdown• 6 speakers– Kathy Hughes– Steven Gross (VMware)– Jeff Alexander (Microsoft)– Scott Lindsay (Citrix)– Dino Soepono (Citrix)– Nick Rayner (SWUG)

• Panel session

About SBTUG

• Why:– High level clarity– Make informed technology choices

• Who:– Senior Developers, – Managers– Business Owners

• What:– Cover a range of vendors– With a Microsoft bias (mine)

• Craig Bailey – www.craigbailey.net

Tonight’s aim

• Understand virtualisation• Main benefits of the big 3• Ability to investigate further

Social networking SBTUG

• Facebook group• http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=5695001142

• Facebook events• LinkedIn group• http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=810297

• Twitter feed• http://twitter.com/sbtug

• FriendFeed• http://friendfeed.com/sbtug

Cost

• $5 donation to cover pizza• Help me cover costs

• Survey says...

Quick survey

• Who’s here to learn what virtualisation is?• Who’s using Virtualisation already?• Who’s using one vendor?• Who’s using a mix of vendors?

Smackdown Rules

• There is no vendor bashing• Please ‘boo’ offenders• But selling hard is encouraged...

Prizes

• T-Shirts

Thank you

• Kathy Hughes for organizing the night• Jon Harsem for the VEEK shirts• Microsoft for the venue + facilities (bathroom)• Andrew Coates for getting us a bigger room• Jeff Alexander for organising the webcast• And of course...

The Panel

• Kathy Hughes – SharePoint MVP• Steven Gross - VMware• Jeff Alexander - Microsoft• Dino Soepono - Citrix• Scott Lindsay - Citrix• Nick Rayner – Windows User Group

Agenda

• 6:00pm : Welcome + News (Craig) 6:15pm : Introduction to Virtualisation (Kathy Hughes) 6:30pm : VMware Workstation (Kathy Hughes) 6:50pm : VMware ESX Server (Steven Gross) 7:10pm : Microsoft Hyper-V : (Jeff Alexander) 7:30pm : Pizza 7:45pm : Citrix XenServer: (Dino Soepono & Scott) 8:05pm : Virtual PC + Virtual Server (Nick Rayner) 8:30pm : Panel session 9:00pm : Finish

News

• No news tonight... Let’s get straight into it

Kathy Hughes

• Introduction to Virtualisation

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SBTUG 26 August 2009

Tonight• Virtualisation