UPDATED 27 Jan 2006 - PLEASE SEE LAST POST IN THIS THREAD
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Dear All,
The Steering Committee are happy to announce the next UK London VMware User Group Meeting on Wednesday 1st February 2006. The meeting will be held at the offices of Accenture at 20 Old Bailey, London EC4M 7AN in the St Pauls Room, reception from 12:30 for a 1pm start to finish around 5pm. The nearest tube stations are St Paul's (central line) and Blackfriars (district/circle).
Directions: http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=EC4M+7AN&btnG=Search
After a good, long break we hope you're all revived and looking forward to receiving presentations on the technology and participating in some best practise discussion.
Agenda:-
Welcome, introduction and news
Presentation by Richard Garsthagen, Head of Technical Marketing, VMware
Presentation by Accenture: "Accenture's vision for the next generation datacentre"
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Post-P2V maintenance by Mike Laverick
Storage virtualisation presentation by Matt Moss, NCE Group
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Group discussions on one or more from:
- Virtual Center farms - conventions and composition
- Components of the business case for virtualisation
- Storage configuration and backups
- ESX Server 2.5.x configuration - tips, experience and best practise
Depending on demand, places may be limited to two per organisation. We hope to see you at the meeting and afterwards for the (now) traditional drink! To reserve a place then please reply to this, else email alaricdavies at yahoo.com
Sincerely, and with regards,
The UKLVMUG Steering Committee
http://www.vmware.com/community/forum.jspa?forumID=76
Lee James (lee.james at uk.bp.com)
Simon Rivers (simon.rivers at bankofengland.co.uk)
Terry Keep (terry.keep at gen-a-soft.co.uk)
Alaric Davies (alaricdavies at yahoo.com)
Mike Laverick (mikelaverick at rtfm-ed.co.uk)