Karl Widmer

Neuzugang beim Swiss German VMUG Leadership Team

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Das letzte Jahr war geprägt duch Corona, durch geplante und wieder abgesagte Anlässe und Veranstaltungen. Auch war es bei unserer VMUG etwas ruhiger. Der eine oder andere Event wurde geplant und wieder abgesagt, leider. Doch das Jahr 2021 startet mit frischem Wind in den Segeln. Wir konnten einen ersten Event zusammen mit unseren Kollegen aus der Westschweiz stemmen. Der Anlass fand grossen Anklang bei euch, was wir aus verschiedenen Rückmeldungen gesehen haben. Leider hat das mit dem Zoom-Link nicht überall geklappt, wir entschuldigen uns dafür. Doch hierfür ist nun vorgesorgt, künftig sollten Reminder mehrfach versandt werden sodass wirklich jede angemeldete Person auch die benötigten Informationen erhält.

Doch nicht nur was Anlässe und Zoom-Links angeht startet unsere VMUG mit frischem Wind in den Segeln. Ich darf freudig verkünden das wir im Leadership-Team einen Neuzugang haben!

Neu im Team!

Ich darf vorstellen: Michael Rebmann (Link zu seinem VMUG Userprofil)

Michael Rebmann arbeitet bei VMware Schweiz als Senior Solution Architect. Er kennt sich bestens aus wenn es um Themen wie EUC etc. geht, hat auch Ahnung von Tanzu, und weiss wie sich gewissen Themen und Lösungen miteinander verbinden lassen.

Michael, ich danke dir jetzt schon für deine Zeit, dein Wissen und deine Inputs!

Aktuelles Leadership-Team der Swiss German VMUG:

Wir suchen nach wie vor interessierte Personen für das Leadership-Team. Drei Personen insgesamt können es sein. Schaut euch doch mal auf unserer VMUG Community Site vorbei, hier gibts den Link mit mehr Informationen dazu.

Wie geht es nach dem Start ins 2021 weiter?

Michael und ich arbeiten bereits an der Agenda fürs 2021, mit Augenmerk auf das zweite Quartal. Gerne geben wir euch einen Ausblick auf die verschiedenen Themen die wir abdecken könnten:

  • Multi-Cloud – AWS, Azure und Google, (reelle Use Cases für VMC on AWS, Azure VMware Solution und Google Cloud VMware Engine)
  • VMware SaltStack Config – Technischer Überblick
  • VMware Horizon Monitoring Options – Cloud Monitoring, Control-Up & vRealize Operations for Horizon Management Pack
  • Wie baue ich ein Security Operations Center auf mit VMware Carbon Black – Präsentation von Partner «ISPIN»
  • Modern Windows 10 Management mit Workspace ONE – Lessons from the field – Präsentation von einem Partner oder Kunden
  • Digital Workspace as Code
  • VMware Tanzu Refresher
  • Partner Sessions von Veeam, Nvidia etc.
  • «Storage Partner»
  • vSphere 7 Update 2 What’s new
  • vSphere Management mit Terraform

Bitte beachtet auch den bereits bestehenden VMUG Community Beitrag hier (Themen und Vorschläge gesucht) sowie einen bald erscheinenden Beitrag (ich möchte eine Umfrage erstellen bezüglich den möglichen Themen und der dazu verfügbaren resp. aufwendbaren Zeit).

Bis auf Weiteres werden wir die Anlässe nur virtuell stattfinden lassen können. Und ich weiss das wohl die eine oder andere Person des Online-Meetings bereits überdrüssig ist. Deshalb möchte ich von euch wissen wieviel Zeit ihr opfern möchtet. So können wir die bereits vorhandenen (und allenfalls auch neue) Themen optimal planen, um euch ein interessantes und abwechslungsreiches 2021 bieten zu können.

Abhängig von den Speakern für die jeweiligen Topics wird es wohl nicht immer möglich sein ein Meeting in Deutscher Sprache abhalten zu können. Ich bitte um euer Verständnis.

In diesem Sinne, nochmals vielen Dank an Michael! Und euch, geschätzte Members, eine gute restliche Woche, und man hört und sieht sich am nächsten Event!

Beste Grüsse

VMUG Leadership Team

VMware Virtual Roadshow – All things vSphere!

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Geschätzte VMUG Member,

Es ist schon wieder eine Weile her als wir den letzten face-to-face Event, aber auch den letzten virtuellen Event hosten durften. Doch wir, unsere Kollegen von der Westschweizer VMUG und wir, haben die Möglichkeit bekommen, zusammen mit einigen Top-Leuten von VMware eine virtuelle Roadshow zu hosten. Ok, nicht wir hosten den Event, das macht VMware. Aber wir rühren nun mächtig die Werbetrommel für diesen Event, sodass möglichst viele VMUG Member aus der Schweiz am Anlass teilnehmen können.

Wo und wann findet der Event statt?

Wann findet der Event statt? Kurz und knapp:

Datum: 25. Februar 2021
Zeit: 16:00 – ca. 18:00 Uhr
Wo: Online (Zoom Meeting, Link wird kurz vor dem Event verschickt)

Wie melde ich mich an?

Die Registrierung erfolgt über die VMUG Webseite. Den Zoom-Link für die Teilnahme am Meeting erhält ihr dann kurz vor dem Event.

Hier geht’s zur Registrierung: vmug.com – Swiss German VMUG

Was erwartet mich?

Was erwartet euch? Die Agenda ist wie folgt geplant:

16:00 – 16:10 Opening / Intro (VMUG Leaders)
16:10 – 16:40 Frank Dennemann:

Creating a developer self-service platform with vSphere 7 while maintaining governance
16:40 – 16:50 Q&A and Break
16:50 – 17:20 Cormac Hogan:

vSphere 7 7.0 U1 and the Kubernetes Admin
17:20 – 17:30 Q&A and Break
17:30 – 18:00 Duncan Epping:

vSAN 7.0 U1 and the vSphere Admin
18:00 – 18:10 Q&A and wrap up by VMUG Leaders

Wer spricht am Event?

Ihr kennt die Speaker wohl alle, und sie haben gut gefüllte Terminkalender. Wir danken ihnen und VMware für ihre Zeit, und heissen sie an diesem Event herzlich willkommen!

Duncan Epping

Chief Technologist Cloud Platforms bei VMware

Autor von Yellow-Bricks.com, sowie der vSAN Deep Dive und Clustering Deep Dive Bücher.
Cormac Hogan

Chief Technologist bei VMware

Autor von CormacHogan.com, sowie unzähligen Büchern zu vSAN (bspw. vSAN Deep Dive).
Frank Dennemann

Chief Technologist bei VMware

Spezialist im Bereich Resource Management, Autor von frankdenneman.nl von Büchern aus vSphere Deep Dive Serie, und DER NUMA-Flüsterer!

Die Kollegen der Westschweizer VMUG und wir freuen uns jetzt schon riesig auf diesen Event! Und wir können euch nur empfehlen, euch den Tag dick im Kalender zu markieren.

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Chers membres VMUG,

Cela faisait longtemps que nous n’avions pas été autorisés à proposer le dernier événement personnel, mais aussi le dernier événement virtuel. Mais nous, nos collègues de VMUG en Suisse romande et nous, avons eu l’opportunité d’organiser un roadshow virtuel avec certaines des meilleures personnes de VMware. Ok, nous n’organisons pas l’événement, VMware le fait. Mais nous battons maintenant le tambour pour cet événement, afin que le plus grand nombre possible de membres du VMUG de Suisse puissent participer à l’événement.

Où et quand a lieu l’événement?

Quand l’événement a-t-il lieu? Court et doux:

Date: 25 Février 2021
Temps: 16:00 – ca. 18:00h
Où: Online (Zoom Meeting, le lien sera envoyé peu avant l’événement)

Comment puis-je me connecter sur?

L’inscription a lieu sur le site Internet de VMUG. Vous recevrez ensuite le lien de zoom pour participer à la réunion peu de temps avant l’événement.

Inscrivez-vous ici: vmug.com – VMUG suisse allemand

À quoi s’attendre?

16:00 – 16:10 Opening / Intro (VMUG Leaders)
16:10 – 16:40 Frank Dennemann:

Creating a developer self-service platform with vSphere 7 while maintaining governance
16:40 – 16:50 Q&A and Break
16:50 – 17:20 Cormac Hogan:

vSphere 7 7.0 U1 and the Kubernetes Admin
17:20 – 17:30 Q&A and Break
17:30 – 18:00 Duncan Epping:

vSAN 7.0 U1 and the vSphere Admin
18:00 – 18:10 Q&A and wrap up by VMUG Leaders

Qui prend la parole lors de l’événement?

Vous connaissez probablement tous les orateurs et ils ont des rendez-vous bien remplis. Nous vous remercions ainsi que VMware pour votre temps et vous souhaitons la bienvenue à cet événement!

Duncan Epping

Chief Technologist Cloud Platforms chez VMware

Auteur de Yellow-Bricks.com, ainsi que les livres vSAN Deep Dive et Clustering Deep Dive.
Cormac Hogan

Chief Technologist chez VMware

Auteur de CormacHogan.com, ainsi que d’innombrables livres sur vSAN (par exemple vSAN Deep Dive).
Frank Dennemann

Chief Technologist chez VMware

Spécialiste de la gestion des ressources, auteur de frankdenneman.nl, des livres de la série vSphere Deep Dive et THE NUMA whisperer!

Les collègues de VMUG de Suisse romande et nous attendons déjà avec impatience cet événement! Et nous ne pouvons que vous recommander de marquer le jour en gras dans votre calendrier.

2020 DACH VMUG UserCon

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Ja, bald ist Weihnachten, und bald ist das Jahr auch schon wieder vorbei. Schnell gings irgendwie. Doch noch ist der Schlussstrich nicht unter der Rechnung. Etwas haben wir noch für euch.

Am Dienstag, den 15. Dezember 2020, findet die DACH VMUG UserCon statt. Unsere Kollegen aus Deutschland haben schon länger eine UserCon im Köcher. Wegen der aktuellen Situation rund um Covid-19 sind aber leider diverse Events abgesagt worden. Die Kollegen haben sich nun gedacht, wieso nicht die VMUG Freunde aus Österreich und der Schweiz fragen ob sie mitmachen wollen, resp. die Werbetrommel auch bei ihren Members rühren?

Gesagt, getan!

Die Agenda, die Speaker und die Themen findet ihr hier:

2020 Germany VMUG UserCon – vmug

Für den Event registrieren könnt ihr euch hier:

Germany VMUG Virtual UserCon (vfairs.com)

Es werden euch Präsentationen angeboten, die Themen wie Data Protection, vSAN, NSX, Cloud und Security abdecken. Aber auch neue Topics wie Tanzu und Kubernetes kommen nicht zu kurz.

Wir freuen uns auf diesen Event! Ich hoffe man sieht /hört / liest sich am Dienstag!

Beste Grüsse

Swiss German VMUG

Swiss German VMUG – May 2020 Event CANCELED

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We put the safety and health of our members above all else. As such, we are closely monitoring the impact of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) across the globe.

Due to the current situation around Corona we discussed the topic with our Swiss French colleagues and also with the speakers. Unfortunately, we have to cancel this event.

Currently, we don’t plan any events at least in the first half of this year, due to the Corona situation.

Please don’t register anymore for this event. An informational email will be sent as soon as possible.

Thank you!

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We’re back! Yes, it was a long time, and we are really sorry about this! But we’re back now, and we will start the year with an awesome VMUG meeting!

Today we proudly announce our first VMUG meeting for this year! And we’re starting with a bombshell! In January this year, we were contacted by our friends from the Swiss-French VMUG. They told us that they are in contact with a VMware specialist to have him on their next VMUG meeting. And thanks to our friends we’re happy to welcome Cormac Hogan from VMware as our special guest for our first VMUG meeting this year!

Also a long-time supporter of our VMUG, a good friend, and a community guru, we also welcome Dennis Zimmer to our first VMUG meeting this year!

About our guests

Cormac Hogan is currently working as a Chief Technologist in the Office of the CTO in the Hyper-converged Infrastructure (HCI) Business Unit at VMware. Specialized in Software-Defined Storage, hyper-converged infrastructure. Co-author of the „Essential Virtual SAN“ and „vSAN 6.7 U1 Deep Dive“ books. Main author and owner of the blog cormachogan.com.

Dennis Zimmer has a strong reputation as a technology visionary across the globe. He has written 10 books, hundreds of magazine articles and video training, that are read and used by leading IT professionals. He has been awarded VMware vExpert for 11 years in a row and is a thought leader within the Virtualization Community. CEO of Opvizor.

About the event

Cormac Hogan will present us with the latest bits about vSAN, VMware Cloud Formation, Kubernetes Storage Constructs, Cloud Native Storage, and we might get a little sneak peek into the future. Dennis Zimmer will tell us more about Kubernetes on VMware in Detail.

Agenda / date

Please mark your calendars for May 13, 2020!

Time Topic Speaker
17:30 (5:30pm) Welcome reception
~17:55 (5:55pm) Intro, VMUG presentation, Agenda Karl Widmer
~18:00 (6:00pm) vSAN, VMware Cloud Formation, Kubernetes Storage Construct, Cloud Native Storage Cormac Hogan
~19:00 (7:00pm) Kubernetes on VMware Dennis Zimmer
~20:00 (8:00pm) Snacks, socializing

Location

We’re hosted at the Westhive in Zurich. This restaurant is located at the same address as the VMware Switzerland HQ. What a coincidence! You can find more information about the location itself on their website: https://www.westhive.com/en/.

Sponsoring

We’d like to thank to VMware for the sponsoring of this event. We’ve got good connections to our VMware friends at the Switzerland HQ and the brought up the idea of this location.

Parking / Travel

There is a parking garage near the location, just some minutes in walking distance, Parkhaus Zürich P-West, Förrlibuckstrasse 151, 8005 Zürich. If you travel by public transportation, just catch the Tram number 6 or 8, or the bus number N13, and hop out at the stop Fischerweg.

Event registration

Registration is open. Please visit our Swiss German VMUG Community site to register for the event. Please be aware of the registration limit of 45 people due to available space at the location. Thank you!

Notice: please check your spam or junk folder if you don’t get a registration confirmation shortly after registration. Maybe you could add the email address „Mail@ConnectedCommunity.org“ to your trusted senders list.

Swiss German VMUG September Event – Performance Monitoring

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The September event is all about Performance Monitoring with real-world problems and solutions. We’re hosted at „The Alehouse“ in Zurich, close to the University of Zurich. Our member Tom Luessi, Truecore GmbH, and Dennis Zimmer from Opvizor will show you interesting things about Performance Monitoring.

About the speakers

Dennis Zimmer is working since 20 years in the server virtualization area. He wrote several books, hundreds of magazine articles and video trainings. Dennis is also a 10-time VMware vExpert and is a thought leader within the Virtualization Community. Dennis is the CEO and board member of Opvizor Inc.

Tom Luessi is is working more than 15 years in IT in training, systems engineering and consulting, and is the CEO of Truecore GmbH. Tom is also working as CTO at the Swiss cloud provider Naveum AG. Since 2011 Tom is working as an IT-trainer and speaker at many specialist congresses, events and educational institutes. He is also a VMware vExpert.

About the topic

Tom gives us an insight into the customer’s requirements for performance and SLA monitoring, from the point of view of the Swiss cloud provider Naveum AG, using the example of the VMware vCloud Director based Infrastructure as a Service platform. Dennis showcases solutions with Opvizor’s hands-on products through live demos and experiences.

  • Multi-tenant VMware vCloud solution for service providers to automate virtual machine deployment and monitoring
  • NUMA, vNUMA problems, analysis and optimization
  • Monitor the vCSA appliance and the internal database
  • vSAN 6.7 Monitoring and Storage Profiling

Agenda

Time Topic Speaker
17:30 Welcome
~ 17:55 Intro, VMUG presentation, Agenda Karl Widmer
~ 18:00 Performance- and SLA Monitoring in vCloud Director on a real-life example Tom Lüssi,

Truecore GmbH
~ 19:00 Performance Monitoring –

Real-Life issues and solutions

 Dennis Zimmer,

Opvizor Inc.
~ 20:00 Burgers, Beer and Networking

About the event details

We’ll meet at 5:30pm for the welcome, then from 6:00pm we’ll start with the event. After the event you’re invited to stay for some drinks and food and some chat.

We’re offering a burger and a beer per person at this event, sponsored by our guests! Please let us know if you’d like to have a vegetarian alternative, and we’ll make it happen!

Our Sponsors

Main: Opvizor Inc.

Silver: Truecore GmbH

Location

This event is hosted at „The Alehouse“ in Zurich, close to the University of Zurich. You can find the details on the map within this Meetup. You can find more interesting details about the location on their website: https://www.alehouse.ch/

Parking / Travel

There are limited parking lots available if you travel by car. It’s recommended to park at one of the nearby public parking garages (Parkgarage am Central, Parkhaus Urania, Parkhaus Globus, Parkhaus Zürich Hauptbahnhof).

If you travel by public transportation, your stop close to the location is either ETH / Universitätsspital or Haldenbach, both at the Universitätsstrasse.

https://www.meetup.com/VMware-User-Group-Swiss/events/254451008/

Swiss German VMUG June Event – Backup, Restore and Availability

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The June event is all about backup and availability of a vSphere infrastructure. We’re invited at the Veeam HQ and the guys there will show us some bits and bytes on how to backup and recovery and keeping your infrastructure available, in all scales.

We’ll meet at 5:30pm for the welcome, then from 6:00pm we’ll start with the event. After the event you’re invited to stay some minutes for some drinks and snacks and some chat.

Topics

We will hear lots about availability in virtualized infrastructure. Probably we’ll get also a sneak peak of upcoming updates and features within the Veeam software.

Location / travel

At this event we’re hosted directly at the Veeam Switzerland HQ in Baar. The office itself is located close to the Baar train station. If you travel with public transportation, you can travel on from Zurich main station with the InterRegio train towards Lucerne, or the S24 towards Rotkreuz. If you’re traveling from Zug you can pick the S1 and hop out at the station Baar Lindenplatz.

There are also limited parking lots available if you travel by car. The parking lots are charged, but not that expensive.

Information about the location

The location is limited to about 20 attendees.

For more information and registration please visit our Meetup, link below.

https://www.meetup.com/VMware-User-Group-Swiss/events/251173062/

VMUG Advantage & EvalExperience

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There are also multi-year and group memberships available! Contact advantage@vmug.com for details. Need help on educating your boss on the importance of purchasing your VMUG Advantage membership?  VMUG Advantage has created a justification email for you to use. Please edit or revise the letter to fit your needs.

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Swiss German VMUG – 2018 Event / Meeting Agenda

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Hello VMUG friends!

The management board of our VMUG discussed today the dates for our 2018 agenda. That was one of many things we want to do better in 2018 and beyond. You should get the information early so you can plan your agenda too. And we look forward to welcome you to our events.

The dates

Mark the following dates in the calendar:

Locations

The locations are sought due to the fairly central location and good accessibility of public transport and individual transport in the greater Zurich area. We are always looking for good venues that can accommodate at least 50 people and are equipped with a video projector (optional media systems with microphones and speakers). If you have suggestions, if you know a good location, then you are welcome to send us an email any time.

Topics

Also in the Topics, we will be putting our heads together within the Management Board in order to be able to offer you a diversified and interesting program. If any of you would like to present something, anytime! Are you currently working on an exciting project? Do you want to talk about good and bad times in the project? Do you know an interesting product that can not be withheld from the community? Then get in touch with us and we’ll look at it together. From the community to the community. It is important that it has to do with VMware (after all, we are a VMware User Group).

Stay tuned for more information soon!

Swiss German VMUG Meeting March 2018: vSAN Deep Dive & AWS with Duncan Epping & Frank Denneman

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Today we proudly announce our first VMUG meeting for this year! And we’re starting with a bombshell! In November last year we were contacted by our friends from the Swiss French VMUG. They told us that they are talking with some VMware specialists to have them on their next VMUG meeting. And thanks to our friends we’re happy to welcome Duncan Epping and Frank Denneman from VMware as our special guests for our first VMUG meeting this year!

About our guests

Duncan Epping is currently working as the Chief Technologist at VMware in the Office of CTO. Holder of VCDX #007. Specialized in Software Defined Storage, hyper-converged infrastructures and business continuity / disaster recovery solutions. Main author and owner of VMware / Virtualization blog Yellow-Bricks.com.

Frank Denneman is currently working as Senior Staff Architect at VMware R&D for VMware Cloud on AWS. Former Chief Technologist at PernixData. Holder of VCDX #29 Co-author vSphere Deep Dive Series. In-depth knowledge in VMware resource management for virtual infrastructures, Author and owner of frankdenneman.nl.

Thank you very much for making this great event possible!

About the event

Duncan Epping and Frank Denneman will present us the latest bits and bytes about VMware vSAN and VMware Cloud on AWS, two of the hottest topics at this time!

After the „official“ part of the event you’re invited to stay a while for some food and drinks, socializing and networking. And i’m pretty sure that Duncan and Frank will be available for some questions!

Date / Time

  • Thursday, March 8th
  • Starting Time: 17:30 (5:30 pm CET / Swiss time)

Location

Agenda

  • 17:30 – Arrival, welcome
  • 17:45 – Meeting intro, general VMUG information
  • 18:00 – Duncan Epping, VMware: vSAN Deep Dive
  • 19:00 – Short break
  • 19:15 – Frank Denneman, VMware: VMwaer on AWS
  • ca. 20:15 – Snacks & drinks, socializing, networking

(Times may vary)

Registration / more information

Please sign up on Meetup.com for this event.

(The event page will be continuously updated)

Information for parking / public transportation

There are about 200 paid parking lots directly at the venue. For restaurant visitors the parking lots a free of charge. Please follow the signs.

The airport hotel is located in the immediate vicinity of the train station Balsberg and also the train station of Glattbrugg can be reached on foot within a few minutes. Trains to the hotel run at regular intervals. Take the train to Zurich main station and then take the train to Zurich airport (IR, IC, S2 or S16). The airport shuttle runs every 15 to 30 minutes between the hotel and the airport and can be found in the arrivals area between Terminal 1 and 2.

Hotel recommendation

For all our guests which have a long voyage to the meeting and back home we can recommend the Novotel Zurich City-West Hotel.

Swiss German VMUG – 3rd Meeting announced

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Today we proudly announce our third VMUG meeting! Next week we’ll meet us to listen to two external speakers. We’ve got guests from Runecast and Rubrik which will present us their solutions to add more value to your VMware vSphere infrastructure. We’re hosted this time at Credit Suisse, which serves us also with food and drinks.

Date / Time

  • Thursday, November 9th
  • Starting Time: 17:30 (5pm CET / Swiss time)

Location

  • Credit Suisse Education Center (Google Maps)
  • Bederstrasse 115, 8002 Zürich

Agenda

  • 17:30 – Arrival, welcome
  • 17:45 – Meeting intro, general VMUG information
  • 18:00 – Rubrik: Technology overview
  • 18:30 – Runecast: Automated Expertise
  • 19:00 – Apéro, Networking, Socialising

(Times may vary)

Registration / more information

Please sign up on Meetup.com for this event.

(The event page will be continuously updated)

We’re currently looking for parking slots for people who travel with their car.

If you’re traveling with public transportation, please pick the tram or bus and get out here:

  • Waffenplatzstrasse (stop directly in front of the building entrance)
  • Rieterstrasse (building entrance directly around the corner)

Please keep in mind to calculate enough time from parking to the venue!