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Houston Area VMware User Group Agenda
Jan 20th 2006
12:00 - 4:00 PM
One Riverway, Suite 2080, Houston, TX 77056

Sessions from VMworld 2005

Session Title: VMware ESX Server Performance Troubleshooting
Speaker: Kevin Dickens
Participants will gain an understanding of shares, scheduling, and min and max settings. Participants will analyze performance issues, identify root cause, and fix problems. Topics include troubleshooting CPU, network, disk, and memory issues. Participants should be familiar with the ESX Server Service Console since much time will be spent at the command line. A basic familiarity with Linux will aid in participants'
enjoyment of the exercises

Session Title: Virtual Infrastructure in Production: Backup and Disaster Recovery
Speaker: Irish Spring
The Backup and Disaster Recovery will focus on virtual infrastructure business continuity best practices. Participants will gain experience with full virtual machine backup and restore techniques and will explore practical approaches to backup and recovery within the context of shrinking backup windows, limited resources, and dynamic virtual machine inventories.

Session Title: VMware ESX Server Workload Analysis: How to Determine Good Candidates for Virtualization
Speaker: Partner
This presentation will describe several approaches for categorizing Microsoft Windows 2000 server workloads based on the server resources consumed or infrastructure capacity available. The session will cover the steps necessary to measure and quantify those workloads and specific industry best practices for the target infrastructure.

Vendor Presentations:
Altiris - Michael Zachary
Metilinx - Lorraine Marquis

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