Nordic VMUG – Agenda Live and more than 300 registered already, come join us. #vmug #vmugdk

The agenda for the Nordic VMUG in Field in January is now live, see below.

More than 300 VMware enthusiastic people have already signed up for the day.  So come join us on january 31st 2019 in Fields Cinema Copenhagen

Sign up here

	Room #1	Room #2	Room #3	Room #4	Room #6
08:00 – 09:00	Welcome & registration
09:00 – 09:15	Nordic VMUG – Welcome
09:15 – 10:00	Opening Keynote: Joe Baguley (VMware VP & CTO EMEA)
10:00 – 10:15	Break – Mingle with sponsors
10:15 – 11:00	DELL/EMC – Presenter & Title on its way	PureStorage – Presenter & Title on its way
11:00 – 11:15	Break – Mingle with sponsors
11:15 – 12:00	Lee Dilworth:(VMware): EMEA SDDC Powered by vSAN 12 Month Review – What we saw, What you can learn and What’s to come	Michael Ryom: Getting Started with NSX-T Datacenter	Joerg Lew: Usability, Scalability, Reliability – Make Your Automation Production-ready	Rasmus Haslund & Frank Brix: VMware Reservations, Limits and Shares: How, why, when?	Michael Wilmsen: How-to design a 5000 high-performance Horizon View environment
12:00 – 12:45	Lunch
12:45 – 13:30	HPE Presenter & Title on its way	Veeam Presenter & Title on its way
13:30 – 13:45	Break – Mingle with sponsors
13:45 – 14:30	Niels Hagoort: (Title coming)	Mads Fog: – vRealize Orchestrator: Taming the beast and learn the basics without dying	Anders Winckler Rambøll: vSAN Stretched Cluster	Frank Dennemann: Kubernetes (Title coming)
14:30 – 14:45	Break – Mingle with sponsors
14:45 – 15:30	Myles Gray: vSAN ((Title coming)	Jacob Styrup – Aarhus Universitet: Aarhus University’s SDDC a year later.	Christian Mohn: Software Defined Datacenters for Good — How we built an infrastucture for Mental Health Research	Rasmus Haslund: Preparing for the VCP6.5-DCV certification exam	Brian Madden: EUC (Title coming)
15:30 – 15:45	Break – Mingle with sponsors
15:45 – 16:30	Closing Keynote: Seth Shostak (Sr. Astronomer, SETI Institute) – Looking for Life in Space
16:30 – 16:45	Prize drawings & giveaways
16:45 – 18:15	Closing reception
18:00 – 20:30	Movie pre-premiere ”Green Book” sponsored by Veeam. Registration opening soon

A very exciting #VMUG, #VMUGDK Nordic conference is coming up!

This year we’re featuring a record number of community speakers, as well a sweet set of vRockstar speakers.

This VMUG will be my first as a newly appointed VMUG Leader, so very excited to bring you a very nice setup.

Once again we’ll be in the Nordisk Film Cinema at Fields, and feature multiple tracks running simultaneously. Reserve January 31.st 2019 for this event. 

Besides the speakers quite a few vendors will also set up stands where you can hear about their products and they will most likely feature, different levels of swag you can bring home to the kids 🙂

You can register for the event at Eventbrite

For keynotes we’ve managed to get Joe Baguley, VP & CTO, EMEA to do the opening keynote. And the closing Keynote will be delived by Seth Shotak, Senior Astronomer SETI Institute

Among the community speakers, we have so far confirmed the following

• Joerg Lew – Usability, Scalability, Reliability – Make Your Automation Production-ready
• Michael Ryom – Getting started with NSX-T Data Center
• Rasmus Haslund – Preparing for the VCP6.5-DCV certification exam
• Anders Wickland – vSAN stretched cluster
• Jacob styrup Bang – Aarhus University’s SDDC a year later
• Christian Mohn / Eirik Vada – Software Defined Datacenters for Good — How we built an infrastucture for Mental Health Research
• Mads Fog Albrechtslund – vRealize Orchestrator: Taming the beast and learn the basics without dying

Along side all the great community speakers, we’ve also managed to get a quite capable list of vRockstar speakers to participate. Just look at this lineup.

• Frank Dennemann
• Niels Hagoort
• Myles Gray
• Lee Dilworth
• Brian Madden

After all the sessions, there will be food and drinks and we will feature a still unknown movie and popcorn!

Hope to see many of you at the VMUG!

#VMUGDK event upcoming.

So the next VMUG Danish edition is almost upon us, and if you haven’t registered already I can only urge you to do so at vmug.com/denmark

VMUG’s are the gathering of users of VMware from your local area, and once in a while we are hosting guest speakers like the superstars. This time the always interesting Duncan Epping and for the opening Keynote Kit Colbert has agreed to come and speak to us. The full agenda of speakers can be found here

As the name implies VMUG’s are for and by the users and as such you’re always encouraged to give a presentation of what you have done with VMware. And don’t be shy, no matter how small a solution you have and run, someone else at the usergroup has a similar setup. A lot of the users who attend have somewhere between 1 and 20 hosts, and most likely face a lot of the same challenges that you have.

At my current work I’m somewhat on the other end of that scale, owning a VMware platform that hosts around 25.000 VM’s. That sounds daunting, and there are some new learnings for VMware at scale, but at the core this is just numbers. Your basic VMware training/knowledge still comes in very handy.

Through the VMUGs I’ve gotten many new friends that share some of the same experiences that I’ve had. These friends that helped me at first when I was new to VMware and I have to agree this has helped me work wise as well. It was at similar usergroup I was approached with the position of my current job.

This time the VMUG will be held at the new Movie theatre at Fields Copenhagen, which offers multiple rooms for presentations. So you will have to the ability to choose between 25 different breakout sessions that are held throughout the day. After the closing reception, VEEAM has sponsored a viewing of Star Wars Episode 8: The Last Jedi.

Hope to see you at VMUG!

 

 

The Nordic #VMug is just around the corner #vExpert #vmugdk

 

In less than two weeks time the now legendary Nordic VMug will take place at the Scandic Hotel in Copenhagen.

If you haven’t been to VMworld this is probably the VMug to attend, as it is shaped like a mini VMworld. There are keynotes, different tracks to choose from, giveaways and actually also something that looks like a small Solutions Exchange where the sponsors have stands, on which you can talk technicians and sales people from the respective sponsors and exhibitioners. Usually this a really nice way to have one to one with vendors where you can ask your questions without standing up in a room with 400 people to ask your question.

And as usual you will be joined by around 400 of your peers, fellow vSphere admins, powercli and java scripters. And I can truly say, that there is a huge variety in costumers, you will find them with setups that has 2 hosts and 25 VM’s up to 20.000 VM’s and 2.000 hosts. So there WILL be someone there with a setup close to yours, with whom you can talk to about theirs or your own setup. This networking part is the key in VMug, you’ll be able to connect with a lot of other costumers and VMware staff, that can help you in your day to day life,

If you haven’t signed up already you can head over here to do so, and if you work with VMware I encourage you to do so.

The setup of speakers this time, pretty much reads like who’s who of VMware fame. The opening keynote will be performed by Jeremy van Doorn, who has been one of the cohosters of #Vmworld TV.

Then there will be VMware superstars like the now returned Frank Denneman, with the closing keynote talking about the latest cloud move by VMware, where they can put VMware Cloud on Amazon Web Services Cloud.

The ever pleasent Cormac Hogan will once again come to our VMug, this time to speak about Cloud Native Application projects that are running at VMware. Cormac is also know for his deep insights into VMware Storage.

Duncan Epping also again has agreed to come and give a presentation about vSAN, and this time will give us some insights on the roadmap and the future he sees for vSAN in the coming years.

Mike Foley of VMware will do a presentaion on Security features of vSphere, and most likely give a deep dive in to the new cool vSphere 6.5 security features that was just released. Security and Compliance is an ever increasing part of a vSphere Admin’s life, so be sure to attend this one.

Then there’s Lee Dilworth who previously has done presentation of vSphere streched Clustering along with Duncan. This time he will talk about the way vSAN I/O actually works. You can expect some good insights into this product.

There will also be sessions from Ghaleb Zekri from VMware, Simon Eady a VMug Leader, Andrea Mauro from Italy, Brian Knutsson from Atea, Grant Orchard from VMware , Michael Ryom & Nicolai Sandager from ProAct, Simon Todd from VMware, David Hill from VMware and Marteinn Sigurdsson from Thekking of Iceland

Check it all out at https://www.vmug.com/vmugdk and I hope to see you there.

The vExpert 2017 Applications are now open!

Just to let you all know that you can now apply for the 2017 vExpert.

Hop over to http://blogs.vmware.com/vmtn/2016/11/vexpert-2017-applications-are-now-open.html to fill out your application.

I have already filled out mine, and fingers are crossed until February 8th when they announce the new vExperts for 2017.

I can only encourage you to apply, the vExpert community is truly outstanding and have made quite a few new acquaintances through this.

Good Luck