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We are running an event this December for Microsoft Premier customers.  I'm pretty excited about it actually.  Premier Field Engineering and Microsoft Consulting Services are teaming up to present real world details on Hyper-V, System Centre Virtual Machine Manager 2008 and Application Virtualisation.  We plan on running as many demonstrations as possible during the event so death by PowerPoint should not be an issue.

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This event is only open to Microsoft Premier Customers.  Contact your Technical Account Manager to reserve your place.  If you are not a Premier Customer we plan on running the event again early in 2009.  Drop me an email if you are interested in attending.

Here is the agenda for the event :

Title:  Technology Day – Microsoft Virtualisation (Level: 300)

Location

Microsoft Sandyford
Building 3, (Atrium B)
Carmenhall Road,
Sandyford Industrial Estate, Dublin 18

Training Room 5.41

Date & Time
Fri 5th December @ 9:15

Breaks

15 mins @ 11:15 am
1 hour @ 1pm – 2pm (Lunch)
15 mins @ 3:30pm

Morning

09:30

Workshop Introduction

09:45

Microsoft Virtualisation @ Nissan Ireland
Rory Donnelly (CIO Nissan Ireland)

10:00

Virtual Data Centre :

Microsoft Server Virtualisation and System Centre Virtual Machine Manager
Gavin McShera, Victor Arzate Rodriguez and David McCormick

This session is aimed at providing skills to deploy and administer a Virtualised Data Centre, using Microsoft Server Virtualisation products and System Centre Virtual Machine Manager 2008.

Content:             

Hyper-V Architecture

  • Understand the architecture behind Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V and Hyper-V Server.
  • Learn how to increase uptime, by understanding what is happening under the covers of Hyper-V.

Getting to grips with Server Core Hyper-V and Hyper-V Server

  • Understand the process of enabling Hyper-V on Server Core including enabling remote management.
  • Understand the best practices for management and delegation.
  • Learn from our experience of deploying Hyper-V Server Core.

Performance Best Practice & High Availability

  • Understand Hyper-V Performance Best Practices – The big 4: Disk, Memory, Network & Processor.
  • Understand Failover Clustering Best Practices, Server Core hosts & Management.

Managing Hyper-V

  • Learn how to effectively manage Hyper-V hosts in an enterprise deployment using SCVMM 2008.
  • Understand SCVMM design considerations and best practices.

Deploying and Migrating to Hyper-V

  • Understand various methods of virtual machine deployment, including with SCVMM 2008.
  • Learn about some common migration routines.

Afternoon

02:15

Application Virtualisation with Microsoft App- V (formerly Softgrid)
Alan Stone and Paul Devlin

This session introduces Microsoft Application Virtualisation and provides notes from the field with real world scenarios

Content:    

  • An overview of the App-V technology
  • How App-V can mature the IT Environment

Notes from the Field

  • How App-V helped a customer overcome application delivery challenges
  • Benefits to mobile workers
  • Application Compatibility
  • Sequencing Recipes best practices

Application Virtualisation 4.5 What does the future hold?

  • Integration with the System Centre family of products
  • New Deployment methods for Virtualised applications
  • Asset intelligence & App-V 4.5

03:45

Open Discussion – Q & A