This event has been postponed.  We have tentatively rescheduled for September 2012 (post VMworld).  Stay tuned to http://dcvmug.com for more info and future events.

Potomac Regional VMUG is Coming to Washington D.C. in May!

Join your fellow VMware users at this free, full-day event for in-depth technical sessions, demonstrations, exhibits, and networking opportunities. Come to the Nationals Stadium to meet with your peers and industry experts to discuss virtualization trends, best practices, and the latest technology!

Visit the Potomac Regional VMUG User Conference event page (http://www.vmug.com/index.php?mo=cm&op=ld&fid=236&source=5) to reserve your place at this event now.

Take advantage of these educational and networking opportunities:

8 VMware educational sessions
12 partner education tracks
Exhibitor area with VMware partners
Complimentary breakfast and lunch
Registration is complimentary, so register today!

Please note: You will need to log into the VMUG website to register for this meeting. If you have not already obtained your VMUG login credentials, please visit the Username and/or Password Help page to request your username and password.

Questions? Contact memberservices@vmug.com

Wednesday, May 9, 2012
8:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Location
Nationals Park
1500 South Capitol Street Southeast
Washington, DC 20003

Register Now: http://www.vmug.com/index.php?mo=cm&op=ld&fid=236&source=5

The Washington DC VMUG invites you to the first meeting of the DC VMUG in 2012.  The event will be held on Tuesday, January 17th, 2012  at Nationals Park.

Our sponsors, Tintri and Veeam, will have some great give-aways for attendees. We’ll have a tour of the new Nationals Park at the end of the VMUG meeting.

Register Now!

Agenda

7:30am – 8:00am: Registration & Breakfast
8:00am – 8:45: Tintri Presentation
8:45 – 9:00am: Break
9:00 – 9:45am: Apps in the Enterprise : Horizon App Manager vs. Citrix Xenapp; Michael Letschin, vExpert, Convergence Technology Consulting
9:45 – 10:00am: Break
10:00 – 10:45am: Veeam Presentation
10:45 – 11:15am: Ask the Experts and Closing Remarks
11:30am: Nationals Park Tour

Location

Washington Nationals Park

1500 South Capitol St., SE
Washington, DC 20003

Free Parking in Lot C, or Metro to Navy Yard (Green Line) and walk 0.3 mi SW to Nationals Park

Proceed to Red Porch Restaurant

Join your fellow virtualization professionals on Thursday, September 15th from 6:00pm to 11:00pm for an independent networking event. vBeers is designed to be vendor agnostic and independent and allow IT pros to get together an network and talk without the influence of the vendors we all get pushed. Shortly after the VMworld conference we should have plenty to talk about.
Old Dominion has a standard happy hour until 7 PM with discounts on food and drink along with some specials running all night. We have a central area reserved just for the group.
Just one block from the Mt. Vernon Square /7th St-Convention Center metro stop, you can take the green or yellow line right to us.

Sign up here: http://dcvbeers.eventbrite.com/?ref=ebtn

More info on the venue here: http://olddominionbrewhouse.com/

Contact @mletschin for info.

The Washington DC VMUG Invites You to a Joint Event with VMware on vCenter™ Management Solutions.
Join us in the morning and learn from VMware subject matter experts how VMware vCenter™ Operations are fundamentally simplifying how IT is managed:

• Automate operations with intelligence and visibility
• Interpret workload, health and capacity metrics
• Identify and resolve workload stress and population problems
• Correlate change events and performance patterns

Stick around for the VMUG lunch and meeting:

• Networking Lunch
• VMware Updates and What’s New with VMUG
• VMworld 2011 Preview
• Community Scripts and Free Tools to Manage and Monitor Your VMware Environment. *Attendees are invited to bring your favorite scripts for monitoring, managing, and reporting on your VMware environments to share with the group.*

This is a unique opportunity to learn from best practices, see a demo and to speak with vCenter™ Operation experts directly.

Space is limited, so register today!
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
9:00 a.m. – 2:30 p.m.

Location
JW Marriott Washington DC
1331 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20004
Driving directions

Agenda
8:30 a.m. – Breakfast & Registration
9:00 a.m. - VMware Presentation: Master Your Virtualized Infrastructure
10:15 a.m. - Partner Presentation
11:00 a.m. – VMware Product Demo
11:30 a.m. – Morning Wrap up
12:15 p.m. - VMUG Lunch, Updates, and Announcements
01:00 p.m. - VMware Security and Compliance, Rob Babb, VMware

01:30 p.m. - Community Scripts & Free Tools to Manage & Monitor Your VMware Environment

Sponsored by

We’ll kick off a normal VMUG meeting after the VMware event. Please make special note – *Attendees are invited to bring your favorite scripts for monitoring, managing, and reporting on your VMware environments to share with the group.* Prizes for the best scripts shared!

Please note, this is not an official DC VMUG event.  That said, check out the vBeers website for info on a vBeers Happy Hour coming up in DC.  From the post on vBeers:

For all the guys out there that have talked for weeks and months about our choice of beer and bourbon, the time has come.  We will be having a vBeers Happy Hour at one of the newest and hottest places in DC, Jack Rose Dining Salon.

For those of you who don’t know it was featured in the Washingtonian Magazine this month and is just opening with one of the largest Scotch selection ever assembled from a private collector in DC.  They also should have 20+ beers on tap.

Heres the details, hope you all can make it and if we find the date I picked is really bad… don’t fret this will not be the only time we do this.. And questions, comments, please make them below.

Location: Jack Rose Dining Saloon
Address: 2007 18th Street Northwest, Washington D.C., District of Columbia 20009
Date: July 13, 2011
Time: 6PM – 9PM ish

Time:
9:30am – 2:30pm

Location:
Fair Lakes Hyatt
12777 Fair Lakes Circle
Ballroom
Fairfax, VA 22033

Directions

The VMware vExpert Award is given to individuals who have significantly contributed to the community of VMware users over the past year. vExperts are book authors, bloggers, VMUG leaders, tool builders, and other IT professionals who share their knowledge and passion with others. These vExperts have gone above and beyond their day jobs to share their technical expertise and communicate the value of VMware and virtualization to their colleagues and community.

This year, several members of the Washington DC Metro Area VMware User Group (VMUG) were honored with VMware vExpert awards.

Josh Townsend VMUG Co-Leader

Josh manages the IT group at Tiber Creek Consulting, where he also serves as the virtualization practice lead.  Josh has been working with VMware solutions since 2002.  Josh was honored with VMware’s vExpert award for 2010.  Josh blogs on VMware related topics at http://vmtoday.com.  Follow Josh on Twitter @joshuatownsend.  Josh maintains http://dcvmug.com.  Email Josh with questions or comments – joshuatownsend at gmail.com

Jason Langone – VMUG Co-Leader

Jason is a highly regarded virtualization professional.  Jason blogs at http://thinkvirt.com. Jason was honored with VMware’s vExpert award for a second consecutive year (2009, 2010) and has receive numerous other awards and recognition for his VMware expertise.  Follow Jason on Twitter @langonej.

Kanuj Behl

Kanuj is a Virtualization architect from the Northern Virginia / DC Metro area. Kanuj blogs at http://vmwise.com.  Follow Kanuj on Twitter @vmwise.

VMworld 2010, hosted by VMware, gives you unparalleled access to educational opportunities that will show you how to reduce IT complexity, and enable IT as a service through virtualization and cloud computing. Join us to…

Learn
Select from Breakout Sessions and Hands on Labs that cover topics such as leveraging the public cloud, virtualizing enterprise applications and managing desktops as a service.

Engage
Meet one on one with Knowledge Experts or join group discussions to learn and share with peers and industry experts.

Network
Visit industry-leading technology partners showcasing complementary solutions that can help you dramatically reduce your IT complexity.

New This Year

More Labs – Self Paced
All Labs are self-paced so you have more freedom and options to choose from.

No Session Registration
No need to pre-register this year. You’ll have ample opportunity to attend the sessions of your choice as each one will be repeated at least twice.

Knowledge Experts
Collaborate with industry leading subject matter experts in sessions, discussions and one-on-one meetings.

Visit http://vmworld.com for more info and to register for this event!

VMware became aware of an issue affecting users of VMware View after applying Update 2 to their ESX 4.0 hosts. The problem only effects PCoIP, RDP works normally. There is a discussion of the problem in the VMware Communities here.

While our IT Teams work to resolve the issue, the Knowledge Base Team has responded by creating an up-to-the-minute live document at: http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1022830 and using @vmwarecares and @vmwarekb Twitter accounts to alert customers.

This Knowledge Base article will be updated as new information becomes available. If you have been affected by this, please read the KB.