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!

Great VMUG Meeting in Denmark

On April 3rd VMUG Denmark held its first vMug of the year, the place was a repeat of a nice setting that was done last year as well. It was held in a Cinema and afterwards there were a showing of the new Captain America: The Winter Soldier Movie. More than 100 vMuggers had claimed a ticket for this VMUG so the cinema was filled to capacity.

It started off with Nicolai Sandager bidding us all welcome, talked about the next VMUGs in june 19th and november 20th. There will also be a VMUG in Jutland but the date hasn’t been set yet. He proceeded to give a shoutout to the 11 freshly awarded Danish vExperts, and seemingly on purpose omitting Frank Brix on the list on the screen :).

The first presentation, was done by one of the sponsors of the event Bitdefender, who talked about their antivirus products. To be honest that was the low point of the day. Not that many people really care about antivirus, its one of those things you have to do, and causes problems once in a while, but no more than that. I’m thinking its kinda hard to make such a topic interesting for a room full of VMware geeks.

The next presentation was something entirely different. Mads Fog, one of a new vExperts, did a very interesting presentation on his ventures into getting vSphere to run on Apple hardware. Seems like a real niche thing, but i’m guessing it has some use cases around the world. You can read more about Mads’ work here

After a break PernixData founder and CEO Poojan Kumar took the stage with Frank Brix as his Wingman doing a product demo. Poojan took us through the basics of how PernixData was created “2 guys and a Powerpoint”. And gave us a really nice presentation on PernixData FVP. The product actually seems very nice, but I havent seen many Danish companies adopting it yet. But it shows great promise, and I do believe that i could find more than one use case for FVP at my job.

Next up was Scott Lowe who gave a very good introduction to Cloud Networking. And even though the presentation simply was called “NSX – Scott Lowe” most of the time was spent on talking about what you would require of a technology that was deemed Cloud Networking. For those of us who aren’t working with networking on a daily basis this was a really great introduction. And of course it’s always a great help that Scott is a such a good presenter.

After his presentation Scott had a meeting with the Danish VCDX Study group, while the rest of us networked.

The last presentation of the day was done by Lego Geek Simon Gallagher about his vTardis platform, and its evolution from a noisy and heat producing Compaq server to his latest version that ran on his way more wife friendly 32Gb Laptop. vTardis is his lab setup for vSphere, running nested ESXi’s inside VMware Workstation. This actually seems like a very good way to do test labs. 2 of the key take-aways from this was, Autodeploy is your friend, and DO invest in an SSD disc for your lab, otherwise you’ll end up waiting for hours for stuff to boot.

That concluded the days presentation and after a run to grab Coke and Popcorn it was time for Captain America: The Winter Soldier. In my opinion very american movie with a lot of action, which let you switch off your brain and just watch 🙂

The day ended with a vBeers event, in which more than 30 vMuggers partook, a great conclusion on another great VMUG by the Danish VMUG-team. Looking forward to the next VMUG