A free 1-day seminar

Have you moved past the pilot stage and into production with server virtualization? Are you realizing that there's more to virtualization than just cramming lots of virtual machines onto servers to save floor space and power?

Hesitant to go further, not knowing how best to proceed? Need to assuage upper management's fears of the unknown?

At this seminar, independent experts Chris Wolf and Richard Jones help set you on the road to leveraging the best of virtualization without being ambushed by its unique challenges.

Find out how to:

• Analyze an existing virtual infrastructure to identify areas of improvement
• Use High Availability improvements to move beyond simple failover capabilities
• Tune and manage virtual environments according to best practices
• Assess backup and storage options for virtual servers
• Deploy cost-effective business continuity with advanced virtualization management tools

Our speakers explain the issues production virtual environments present not seen in the old world – in areas like managing change, ensuring data protection and tuning performance. Additionally, they offer practical advice on the technologies available to improve availability, manageability and performance in ways unique to virtual environments.

Register for this seminar now!

This exclusive event offers a full day focused on advanced topics. Don't miss this exclusive opportunity - attendance is limited. Reserve your free seat today by completing our quick online registration form or call Annabelle Bozin at 508-621-5530.

At this seminar you learn:

Our agenda includes breakfast, lunch, plenty of networking opportunities and tons of valuable information. And you benefit from these key sessions with Chris Wolf and Richard Jones:

Session 1: Re-architecting your Virtual Environment

Now that you’re running virtualization in production, this session will take you through the processes for analyzing an existing virtual infrastructure and selecting hardware, platforms and virtual infrastructure technologies to make your virtual environment run at its full potential. Many enterprises are faced with pending hardware refresh cycles, while others are virtualizing additional servers for the first time. This session provides practical guidance on state of the art virtualization architectures, with attention directed toward the following topics:

• Virtual infrastructure analysis and data collection methodologies
• Effective strategies for running mission critical and homegrown applications in virtual environments
• Server platform selection, with key differentiators amongst competing rack mount and blade platforms
• Details on the technical drivers for second generation hardware assisted virtualization
• Key decision points on managing heterogeneous virtual environments

Session 2: Virtual Infrastructure Automation and High Availability Best Practices

Numerous improvements in virtual infrastructure High Availability (HA) have caused countless enterprises to rethink their existing virtualization HA architectures. Is your virtual HA architecture “so last year,” or is it following state of the art IT best practices? In this session, HA best practices for all major virtualization platforms are highlighted, along with available tools that allow organizations to take their virtual infrastructures beyond simple failover to application level orchestration and automation. Topics include:

• High Availability improvements
• Storage Area Network considerations
• iSCSI Integration
• Failover policies

Session 3: Virtual Infrastructure Tuning and Advanced Management

Advanced virtualization infrastructures can perform badly if improperly configured and managed.  This session explores tuning and management concepts of the virtual infrastructure, including:

• Leveraging new technologies such as OVF to streamline virtual machine management
• Virtual network security best practices
• Troubleshooting performance bottlenecks, including application, CPU, network and storage
• Performance optimization
• Scripted management solutions, including VM auditing, monitoring and Active Directory integration

Session 4: Protecting your Virtual Environment: Backup and Storage

Data growth seems only to accelerate.  Protecting the whole system from application data to virtual machines, applications and their configurations has not only changed from the traditional backup/restore methods but had fanned out into a number of methods.  This session digs through the various methods and technologies including:

• VMware Consolidated Backup
• N-Port ID Virtualization
• Looking out for the Application
• Protection scalability and performance
• Best practices and pitfalls to avoid

Don't miss out! Attendance is free, apply now by registering online, or call Annabelle Bozin at 508-621-5530 to reserve your seat today.

Session 5: Advanced Business Continuity Blueprints for Virtual Environments

Business continuity continues to prove its importance to IT organizations of all sizes, but advanced virtualization management tools are now bringing business continuity and disaster recovery solutions within reach of mid-market organizations and are suggesting cost reductions to enterprises.  This session explores various methods and technologies including:

• Virtualization tools for business continuity
• Dealing with replication issues
• Virtual environment disaster recovery
• Designs to avoid

Who should attend:

This seminar is designed for IT managers and IT practitioners looking to step up to next-gen virtualization.

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