Sept 23rd 2010 User Group Meeting
Topic: VMM 2008 R2 Self-Service Portal 2.0
Virtual Machine Managers has been referred to as “Manager of Managers” because it can manage virtual machines from both the Microsoft stack (Hyper-V and Virtual Server) as well as VMWare (ESX and VSphere).
In this presentation, Virtual Machine Manager will be covered and also some of the more talked about features will be discussed such as Performance and Resource Optimization (PRO), virtual to virtual (V2V) and physical to virtual (P2V) conversions and the new self-service portal.
Here are some benefits of the VMM self-service portal:
· Allocate datacenter resources. Use VMMSSP to pool datacenter infrastructure resources, such as network, storage, load balancers, virtual machine templates, and domains, and make them available to business units to meet their infrastructure needs. You can also use VMMSSP to establish the costs associated with reserving and using infrastructure resources.
· Simplify business unit on-boarding. Use VMMSSP to simplify the process of enrolling a business unit and provisioning its infrastructure. With VMMSSP, datacenter administrators can register business unit requirements in one central location. After they have registered, business unit administrators can request resources in the organization’s infrastructure pool to host their IT services.
· Validate and provision infrastructures requests. Use VMMSSP to simplify the process that datacenter administrators use to validate and provision a business unit IT administrator’s infrastructure requests. Using VMMSSP, datacenter administrators can provision the requested resources, and assign them to the requesting business unit IT administrator.
· Provide forms for self-service virtual machine provisioning. Use VMMSSP to streamline the business unit IT user’s experience in managing virtual machines.
· Extend and customize virtual machine actions. Use the powerful extensibility features of VMMSSP to work with IHV, ISV, and SI partners to customize different virtual machine actions (create, delete, stop, start, resume, shutdown, pause, store, and deploy).In this way, you can leverage the unique characteristics of your infrastructure.
Speaker:
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Brad is a lead technical consultant and MCT certified trainer based in Ottawa, ON. He works with Cistel, a Microsoft GOLD partner based in Ottawa as a System Center and Virtualization architect. 2-time recipient of the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award for 2010 in the Virtual Machine domain and Management Infrastructure in 2009. He is also a member of the Windows Springboard Technical Expert Panel (STEP) for Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 having delivered STEP presentations as an evangelist in Quebec City, QC and St-Johns, Newfoundland. Brad is a writer for Tech Republic and contributes monthly to the Network Administration and IT Security weblogs. Brad has authored Microsoft partner training courses for System Center Configuration Manager 2007 which have been delivered around the world. Brad also authored some webcasts on Data Protection Manager 2007 including 300 level “Protecting Applications with DPM2007” and 400 level “Advanced Features and Capabilities of DPM2007” also used in Microsoft partner training. Brad is also a Microsoft Certified Trainer having delivered courses in Security+, AD, AD Security, SCOM, SCCM, DPM, VMM, and Microsoft Desktop Optimization Platform. Brad actively consults to large organizations helping them architect, implement, configure and customize System Center technologies integrating them into their business processes. He is also an active consultant, and contributor to the support community. Brad presented in both the Architecture and Virtualization Tracks for TechDays 2009 and 2008 in both Montreal and Ottawa as well as at the 2009 Microsoft Management Summit in Las Vegas. He was the Systems Management and Security track co-lead Microsoft Canada representative for TechDays 2009 in Canada. He was a representative for Canada at TechEd 2009 in Los Angeles, CA. Brad maintains a weblog “Rantings of an IT Pirate” at http://owsug.ca/blogs/brad/default.aspx where content is replicated to the popular MyITForum and “The Lazy Admin” websites. He has extensive experience with Active Directory Services, virtualization, and Microsoft System Center and Virtualization technologies in the enterprise. |
Location:
Microsoft Canada Co.
100 Queen Street Suite 500
Ottawa, Ontario
K1P 1J9
Agenda:
5:00 p.m. Event registration
5:30 p.m. Q & A
8:00 p.m. Door Prizes
Notes:
· Snacks and Pop will be served, Please RSVP to help us order enough of both.
· Please note that no one will be admitted after 5:55 p.m.!
Registration site: http://www.clicktoattend.com/?id=150826
Event Code: 150826
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News
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