Session Abstracts
Virtualization & Workspace Management Sessions:
Keynote: Virtualization Strategy for your IT Infastructure
Speaker: Brian Madden
Join Brian Madden, a well-known virtualization expert, as he explores the future of virtualization strategies across your IT Infrastructure.
A Deep Dive into Quest ChangeBASE
Speaker: Greg Lambert
Learn how Quest ChangeBASE can enable your customers to address their desktop, server and virtualized application compatibility issues. This session involves an overview of Quest ChangeBASE, including a step-by-step scenario on how to capture, load, test and report on compatibility issues of desktop, server and virtualized applications.
Automating User Profile Migration: Eliminating the Heartbreak from OS Refreshes and Upgrades
Speaker: Greg Shields
You know the heartbreak: It’s the look in a user’s eyes when you’ve missed just one tiny profile setting during an OS refresh or upgrade. Maybe it was a precious desktop background, or a cherished Internet Explorer bookmark. To you, it’s just data; to them, it’s their entire world.There is a better way. By fully automating user profile migrations with Microsoft’s free User State Migration Toolkit, you can guarantee their “entire world” always survives a refresh or upgrade. In this USMT deep dive with Microsoft MVP and migration expert Greg Shields, you’ll learn how to use and customize which data the USMT migrates. Better yet, you’ll leave with the assurance that every precious profile always survives your next OS refresh or upgrade.
Best Practices for Virtualizing Mission Critical Applications (MS Exchange, SQL Server)
Speaker: Christopher Kusek
Best Practices for Virtualizing Mission Critical Applications is a session designed for those seeking solutions and guidance around these delicate business critical workloads. Hear stories and proven techniques from industry experts on best practices used to virtualize with confidence. This session will cover design considerations for mission critical workloads, performance and scalability information, high availability options, and support considerations.
Designing Storage for Virtual Environments
Speaker: Anil Desai
One of the most common issues related to virtual infrastructure design is related to planning for and managing the storage environment. Successful SAN, NAS, and local storage deployments require the provisioning of highly-reliable, high-performance, cost-effective solutions to meet business and technical needs. The challenge for IT is in consolidating and optimizing infrastructures while staying within budgets. The primary concerns – including storage capacity, performance, and reliability – can drive the success or failure of virtualized deployments.
This presentation begins with recommendations for designing a storage environment based on requirements, starting with a solid understanding of application workload characteristics. Strategies for collecting storage statistics through historical and real-time performance monitoring can provide valuable insight into real requirements. Based on this data, IT departments can compare different storage approaches, including centralized network-based storage, and cloud-based options. Important features to consider include file- and block-level de-duplication, thin provisioning, high-availability, clustering, and disaster recovery. Attendees will learn methods by which they can best plan for, implement, manage, and monitor storage for virtualization in their own environments.
Dive into the New Hyper-V PowerShell Module
Speaker: Adam Driscoll
Microsoft is rethinking the way their server operating systems are managed. Rather than being based solely on GUI-based management tools, Microsoft has adopted an architecture that enables PowerShell support for nearly any feature within the OS. This is becoming more important as virtual environments become more prevalent and the numbers of devices, virtual or otherwise, expand tremendously. In the previous version of Windows Server there was no native PowerShell support for Hyper-V. In Windows Server 8 this has changed drastically. This session will dive into the new Hyper-V PowerShell module available in Windows Server 8. We will examine how we can use simple cmdlets to manage complex Hyper-V infrastructures.
Hot Storage Tricks with Hyper-V in Windows Server 8
Speaker: Hans Vredevoort
Windows Server 8 is positioned as the cloud operating system from Microsoft and has been completely redesigned to live up to the expectations of the private cloud administrator. In this session Hans Vredevoort will take you along on a trip of cool new storage features that will attribute to the success of Windows 8 in general and Hyper-V in particular. Topics that are explained and shown are: creating VHDX &Hyper-V VM’s via PowerShell 3.0; Creating a Disk Pool and thinly provisioned spaces (virtual disks); Serving out iSCSI targets to a Windows 8 cluster; Configuring the Scale Out File Server Role, Employing Cluster Shared Volumes 2.0, Deploying VM’s to Continuously Available File Shares and finally Showing Live Storage Migration between SMB2.2 File Shares.
Hyper-V DaaS Cloud Rapid Deployment with Quest vWorkspace HyperDeploy and HyperCache
Speakers: Patrick Rouse & Dilip Naik
In this session attendees will learn how to architect a Hyper-V Private Cloud for rapid deployment of Windows Desktops or Remote Desktop Session Hosts. The presenters will demonstrate how to define the cloud parameters, create and update base VM Templates, provision and re-provision desktops and session hosts and monitor performance. The presenters also will discuss the architecture of HyperDeploy and HyperCache and provide best practices for desktop and session host clouds.
Implementing a Microsoft Private Cloud with SCVMM 2012
Speaker: Dung K. Hoang
Deploying a private cloud is the next logical step after you virtualize your IT infrastructure. Join this session to hear and see how you can accelerate your journey to the cloud with Microsoft System Center 2012. You will see a private cloud implemented on MS Hyper-V platform using SCVMM 2012.
Storage, Backup & Recovery Considerations in Hyper-V
Speaker: Christopher Kusek
Storage is one of the most critical components in virtualization. What different storage options are supported in Hyper-V? Attend this session to find out what you need to know to be confident in designing a storage and backup strategy which fits for your Hyper-V environment.
Storage Improvements in Windows Server 8 / Hyper-V 3.0
Speaker: Anil Desai
Virtualization architects and administrators have long sought quicker, simpler and more cost effective ways to scale and manage storage in their data centers. Microsoft has made many significant improvements in the architecture and storage features of Hyper-V 3.0 and the Windows Server 8 platform. Examples include support for SMB-based virtual disks, management UI improvements, network stack improvements, Hyper-V Replicas, NTFS reliability improvements, incremental VHD backups, storage de-duplication, offloaded data transfer, SMB protocol improvements, and Storage Spaces. These features can help improve storage management for many different types of virtualization deployments and can help bring the idea of cloud-based automation closer to reality.
This session will focus on technical details and demonstrations of new features in the Windows Server 8 platform and in Hyper-V 3.0. The focus will be on practical suggestions for how and when the new features should be used to reduce costs, simplify administration, and increase performance.
Tips and Free Tools for Resolving (Nearly) Every Windows 7 Application Incompatibility
Speaker: Greg Shields
You’ve been craving a migration to Windows 7 since the very date it released. Far more secure and manageable than Windows XP and far less cranky than Windows Vista, getting on Windows 7 makes your job easier. What’s holding you up? Is it your applications? Some apps just don’t work atop Windows 7. Others need a little extra care to get them functioning. Get that care with Microsoft’s free Application Compatibility Toolkit and Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit. Powerful, but also powerfully complicated to use successfully, you’re going to need some help. Get it in this jump start with Microsoft MVP and deployment expert Greg Shields. You’ll leave with everything you need to inventory your apps, determine the fixes they need, and remove every hurdle to your Windows 7 migration.
Technical Deep Dive into Capacity Management and Performance Analytics
Speaker: Mattias Sundling
Capacity management and intelligent analytics have become far more critical in managing a quickly growing dynamic datacenter. From this technical deep dive, you’ll understand why traditional monitoring fall short, understand how capacity management relates to performance and why analytics is superior to fixed thresholds.
Virtual Machine Manager: Fabric Management and Cloud Creation Overview
Speaker: Stephen Baron
System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager is designed to deliver industry leading virtual machine management, deployment, and configuration for services in private cloud environments. It features deep investments in server application virtualization, service design, and service modeling all of which can be used to build an on-premises private cloud. This session will include an overview of key new features that include VMM Fabric Creation and Management, Network and Storage support and Private Cloud Creation and Delegation. Attendees will gain an understanding of VMM 2012 supported scenarios, along with an understanding of how to use these capabilities to build an on-premise private cloud.
Virtual Machine Manager: Modeling and Maintaining Virtualized Services in VMM 2012
Speaker: Stephen Baron
System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager features deep investments in server application virtualization, service design, and service modeling all of which can be used to deploy business services to the private cloud. This session provides a technical overview of the VMM 2012 Service Creation and Service Servicing features that includes creation of services in the private cloud. Come and join us to hear about this feature and learn how using a model driven approach for creating applications in a virtualized environment can benefit your organization.
Windows Server 8 Hyper-V Breakout Session
Speaker: Rob Nottoli
This session will overview the new and updated features for Windows Server 8 Hyper-V, including Multitenancy, High Availability, flexibility infrastructure and Scale & Density. It will provide a complete summary of why you should consider Windows Server 8 Hyper-V for server consolidation, key workload support and VDI, as well as an ideal platform for Infrastructure as a Service, including Private Cloud, Hosted Private Cloud and Public Cloud. This session will be very demo heavy in order to maximize your experience and exposure to Windows Server 8 Hyper-V capabilities.
Windows Server 8 VDI Enhancements
Speakers: Rob Notolli & Patrick Rouse
In this session we will focus on the benefits that Windows Server 8 brings to the table for VDI implementations. VDI is a powerful technology, and this session will drill down into the new features of Windows Server 8 that enable a modern VDI workstyle. This session will cover user profile disks, Hyper-V over SMB, personal machine collections, pooled virtual machine collections, easier patching and deployment capabilities. Additionally this session will also cover the enhancements that Remote Desktop Services that are related to VDI desktops.
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