APAC Virtualization Podcast

The Sydney and Melbourne VMUG User conferences are only two weeks away.  We’re assembling as many of the speakers as possible to join the podcast and outline some of what they are presenting. From International superstars like Stephen Foskett and Mike Laverick to the local heroes presenting community content at the Melbourne conference there will be a collection of people to talk with and ask questions.

Join us live or download afterwards, either way don’t miss the discussion.

Start Time (GMT+11): 23 January 2013 9:00 PM (EDT Sydney)
Duration (minutes): 45

Talkshoe Call ID: 75046

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http://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/apac-virtualization-roundtable/id354097519?mt=2

Other Time zones: 

New York (USA) – 6AM
San Francisco (USA) – 3AM
Perth (Australia) – 6PM
Hong Kong (Hong Kong) – 6PM
Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) – 6PM
Tokyo (Japan) – 7PM
Auckland (New Zealand) – 11PM
London (UK) – 10AM

As things were wrapping up at vForum Sydney 2012 and the solutions exchange was being torn down a few of us gathered to record a podcast, it’s a round-up of our impressions of vForum Sydney in 2012. Craig Waters was joined by Alastair Cooke, Andrew Dauncey, Chris Jones and Darryl Crossley to talk converged infrastructure and everything else topical.

The show is in the podcast feed or you can head over to Talkshoe by clicking the image below.

Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes:
http://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/apac-virtualization-roundtable/id354097519?mt=2

Normal service will resume next week.

The party was a great success again, to the awesome sponsors Veeam and Netapp we were able to gather and socialise before the main event. The event is publicised by word of mouth and social media among the people doing virtualization, the technical people who design, install and manage solutions.  This year we collected a ticket price of $5 per ticket and after the Eventbrite and credit card fees were settled we have donated over $400 to Bear Cottage. Incidentally it was Anastasia at Veeam who suggested the charity, a great choice of an organisation to help.

The Pumphouse was pretty busy downstairs when we started, giving some people a little trouble to find us until the Veeam banner was erected.  My friends Andrew and Craig manned the door, leaving me free to socialise the whole time, a great help to me so thanks guys. These guys also handed out the Veeam swag, a rather entertaining looking USB hub in the shape of a stick figure person, and the door prizes from TrainSignal for some lucky attendees. Upstairs in addition to the food and drink there were bags of T-shirts from NetApp, just like last year the rather geeky lettering on them glows in the dark.

I was pleased to hear people who had only talked online meeting up in person and really happy to talk with so many new people. Once again I failed to take a lot of photos and my phone camera had a lot of trouble with the light, these should give you a feeling of what went on.

The TrainSignal Door prize winners:

David Byrne, the leader of the Tasmanian VMUG gets some vSphere training.

Daniel Martushev who gets to brush up his vSphere networking skills, clearly his chicken skewer holding skills are already second to none.

Paul Hedland with a blur of vSphere Site Recovery Manager training.

The guys from Lazu got vSphere training and a T-shirt, I completely failed to get their names but had a great chat with them.

I’m expecting that the VMdownunderground party will make a return next year, so book the week of November 20 & 21 in 2013 for vForum and VMdownunderground.

Tickets are now available, get yours now or find out more about the event on the Eventbrite page http://vmdownunderground2012.eventbrite.com/

Tickets to the event are limited so best you book your ticket now.

Thanks again to my awesome sponsors: Veeam and NetApp. This event wouldn’t take place without their commitment to our community.

While you’re thinking about vForum Sydney 2012 you should also think about presenting a vBrownBag lightning talk, a ten minute presentation on something for the community. The registration link for presenters is here.

The event before the event is back. Inspired by the VMunderground party before VMworld USA, VMdownunderground is your opening opportunity to meet people from the VMware community who are active in the ANZ region.

I am delighted to announce that there will be VMdownunderground 2012 on Tuesday 13th November, the evening before vForum Sydney opens.  The details are at http://vmdownunderground2012.eventbrite.com/ where you will be able to buy tickets from 10:00 next Tuesday 23rd October. All proceeds from the ticket sales are being donated to Bear Cottage to help them to care for children who have a life-limiting illness.

I’m also delighted to welcome back my two sponsors from last year, both Veeam and NetApp have returned to support this community. I’m still seeking a few more sponsors to enable a larger event than last year.

Book the date and I look forward to seeing you there.

After the excellent San Francisco and Barcelona sessions in August and October the Tech Talks are coming to Sydney.

Tech Talks are an opportunity for you to present something, anything, that is of interest to the Virtualisation community.  It doesn’t need to be unique and undiscovered but it should be something important to you and useful to others. 

The best sessions are ones where you’ve done something or learnt something the hard way and you can help other people have an easier time of the same problem.

There are plenty of examples of what other people have presented n the LiveStream web site at www.livestream.com/vmwarecommunitytv

If you’d like to submit a session then fill in the form here and I’ll get in touch.

Join Craig Waters (@cswaters1) to find out from Australian and New Zealand VCDXs more about VMware’s highly regarded Design Expert certification

Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes:
http://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/apac-virtualization-roundtable/id354097519?mt=2

Listen to the recording on Talkshoe:
http://www.talkshoe.com/talkshoe/web/talkCast.jsp?masterId=75046

Show Notes:

Host: Craig Waters @cswaters1 http://blog.rack.org.au

For this episode we had the following VCDX guests live on call:

Michael Webster @vcdxnz001 http://longwhiteclouds.com
Josh Odgers @josh_odgers http://joshodgers.com
Shane White @ausvmguy

Michael shared the following links to good VCDX resources:

http://longwhiteclouds.com/2011/08/24/my-recommendations-for-vcdx-candidates/
http://longwhiteclouds.com/2011/08/24/my-lab-environment/
http://www.vmware.com/go/vcdx
http://communities.vmware.com/message/1813247

Here’s a link to the original VMUG meeting presentations (requires VMUG login – I’m sure you’ll have one of these) includes a really good presentation by @amitchell01 who is a VMware employee VCDX:
http://www.vmug.com/p/do/si/topic=689

If not here’s a link to Josh/Shane’s presentation:
http://joshodgers.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/josh-odgers-shane-white-mvmug-july-27th-2012-vcdx-experience.pdf

Plus thanks to the following for attending: -

Will Huber @huberw
Mike Laverick @Mike_Laverick
Duncan Epping @DuncanYB
Andrew Daunce @daunce_
Tim Gleed @timgleed
GS @gurusimran
Chris Jones @cpjones44
Fernando Paul @mynerdizzles

Great turnout everyone, any ideas from the EMEA/APAC crew on what you want the next topic to be about?

Anyone interested in being a guest? reach out and contact me!

Start Time (GMT+10): 3/10/12 9:00 PM Sydney time (EST)
Duration (minutes): 45

Talkshoe Call ID: 75046

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Other Time zones:

New York (USA) – 7AM
San Francisco (USA) – 4AM
Perth (Australia) – 7PM
Hong Kong (Hong Kong) – 7PM
Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) – 7PM
Tokyo (Japan) – 8PM
Auckland (New Zealand) – Midnight
London (UK) – 12PM

What is new and what difference does it make?  Now that we’ve had a few weeks to digest the VMworld announcements what impact will it all have?  Join us to talk about the changes that were announced.

Also there’s a bonus episode on Talkshoe, an interview I did with Randy Groves and Anthony Davis of Teradici that I did at VMworld.

Start Time (EDT): 19/09/12 9:00 PM Sydney time
Duration (minutes): 45

Talkshoe Call ID: 75046

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Other Time zones: 

New York (USA) – 7AM
San Francisco (USA) – 4AM
Perth (Australia) – 7PM
Hong Kong (Hong Kong) – 7PM
Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) – 7PM
Tokyo (Japan) – 8PM
Auckland (New Zealand) – 11PM
London (UK) – 12PM

Last week was VMworld in San Franscisco, it was an awesome show with some big announcements. Join Mike Laverick and I to talk about what it all means

Here’s the links from the show:

Stu McHugh’s blog, new home of the vNews

Mike and Barry Coombs’ book, Building End-User Computing Solutions with VMware View

Mike’s blog on the VMware Communities

Also Mike’s future blog location

Start Time (EDT): 05/09/12 9:00 PM Sydney time
Duration (minutes): 45

Talkshoe Call ID: 75046

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Other Time zones:

New York (USA) – 7AM
San Francisco (USA) – 4AM
Perth (Australia) – 7PM
Hong Kong (Hong Kong) – 7PM
Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) – 7PM
Tokyo (Japan) – 8PM
Auckland (New Zealand) – 11PM
London (UK) – 12PM

This episode will walk through a case study of an Enterprise virtualization backup project with de-dupe, replication, and multiple locations. Matt Wiessing has been the Infrastructure Architect in charge of designing & overseeing implementation of the backup solution and will talk about the technologies and some lessons learned

Start Time (EDT): 08/08/12 9:00 PM Sydney time
Duration (minutes): 45

Talkshoe Call ID: 75046

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Other Time zones: 

New York (USA) – 7AM
San Francisco (USA) – 4AM
Perth (Australia) – 7PM
Hong Kong (Hong Kong) – 7PM
Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) – 7PM
Tokyo (Japan) – 8PM
Auckland (New Zealand) – 11PM
London (UK) – 12PM