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Denver VMware User Group VMUG

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Lewan is sponsoring the upcoming Denver VMUG, if you want to learn more about VMware products and network with others in your industry signup and attend.  I hope to see you there!

Join us for the upcoming Denver VMUG meeting! This is a great opportunity to come together with your fellow VMware users to discuss virtualization trends, best practices, and the latest technology!

Registration is open and included as part of your VMUG member benefits. Please note, in order to register for this meeting we ask that you sign up for a complimentary VMUG membership, if you haven’t already done so. Click login below to sign up today.

http://www.myvmug.org/e/in/eid=221

Meeting Agenda

  • 11:15 a.m. – Doors open
  • 11:30 a.m.- Lunch served
  • 11:45 a.m.- Open discussion
  • 12:15 p.m. – What’s New at VMware/VMworld review
  • 12:30 p.m.- vSphere 5 overview
  • 1:15 p.m.- vSphere 5 Demo
  • 2:00 p.m.- Questions, discussions, giveaways

Thank you to our meeting sponsor:   

August 25, 2011 VMware vSphere Performance Monitoring and Troubleshooting

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Thank you to everyone who came out today to join us at Sports Authority Field.  As a reminder, please let me/us know what we can do to help make you and your company successful.

  • VMware vSphere 5 architecture and design session, we’ve been part of the beta program now for many months and we’re ready to help you successfully upgrade or implement vSphere 5
  • vSphere Health Check, configuration drift happens, best practices changes, lets get your environment back on track
  • Onsite vSphere Performance Analysis session
  • POC or implementation of vCenter Operations, we’ve got it setup in our offices, you are all welcome to come poke around and see what it can do.
  • “Enlightened Enterprise”, not ready for cloud IAAS yet but interested in using some of the features being developed in public cloud infrastructures?
Thanks again for coming, follow me on twitter @dbrinkmann – see you all again soon!

http://www.slideshare.net/dbrinkmann/vmware-vsphere-performance-troubleshooting

User Environment Management

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Be sure to check out this User Environment Smackdown created by Ruben Spruijt.  If you’re new to this space User Environment encompasses quite a few things and is an emerging market/solution not just when talking about desktop virtualization but also when it comes to managing physical PC’s and tradition OS and application delivery.

http://www.brianmadden.com/blogs/rubenspruijt/archive/2011/06/24/user-environment-management-smackdown-head-to-head-analysis-of-appsense-citrix-immidio-liquidware-labs-microsoft-quest-res-scense-tricerat-unidesk-and-vuem.aspx

At Lewan we work extensively with AppSense and we’d be happy to chat with you about your environment and the solutions that AppSense brings to the table.  Whether you’re managing physical desktops, virtual desktops, using Citrix, VMware View, etc….AppSense has a great management solution that you should definitely check out!

Citrix Synergy of the Rockies

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Lewan Citrix Synergy Invite PDF

When: June 23, 2011 from 7:30 AM to 11:00 AM

Where: At the brand new Hilton Garden Inn, 600 S. Colorado Blvd., Denver, CO 80246

Overview: Here’s for the thousands of Citrix customers and fans in Colorado who missed this year’s phenomenal Citrix Virtual Computing conference in San Francisco – Citrix Synergy 2011.

In cooperation with Citrix, Lewan & Associates is bringing you a local, condensed version of Synergy with product announcements and strategies delivered by the source.  Meet speakers from Citrix product management and desktop virtualization leadership as well as our own Lewan technical experts.

  • Consider virtualizing applications, desktops, servers, or users?
  • Concerned about securing and delivering the best possible remote end-user experience?
  • Pondering the use of Thin Clients as an alternative end-point?
  • Need to stay on top of Desktop Virtualization technologies?

RSVP at www.lewan.com/events now!

Agenda:

7:30-8:00 AM     Registration and breakfast

8:00-8:15 AM     Lewan Introduction and Welcome

8:15-9:00 AM     KEYNOTE News from Citrix Synergy

9:00-9:15 AM     Break

9:15-9:45 AM     Secure & Accelerate remote access with NetScaler and Branch Repeater

John Gormally, Enterprise Relationship Manager Networking and Cloud Team

9:45-10:15 AM     Citrix Receiver – The Secret Sauce

Peter Schultz, Product Manager for the infrastructure of Citrix Receiver

10:15-10:30 AM     User & profile virtualization, the #1 success factor in ANY desktop environment

Jason McGeough from AppSense

10:30-10:45 AM     Thin, Zero, and Cloud PC clients

Michael Torian from Wyse

10:45-11:00 AM     Lewan Wrap Up

New tool from Citrix – KeepMeLoggedIn

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I think the KB article is pretty self explanatory, basically after a user exits their last session on a XenApp server it keeps the session open for a determined period of time so that if the user reconnects within that time period they will utilize session sharing and their application will launch lightning quick… cool sh*t huh?  basic…yes, works, yes.

http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX128579