Join us for the upcoming Myrtle Beach VMUG meeting taking place on Friday, June 22, 2012 from 12-2 pm.

Coastal Carolina University
Burroughs & Chapin Marine and Wetland Studies Building
Room 100
290 Allied Drive
Conway, SC 29526

Registration is now open and available to all VMUG members. This is a great opportunity to meet with your peers to discuss virtualization trends, best practices, and the latest technology!

Meeting Agenda

• 12:00 p.m. Lunch Served
• 12:05 p.m. eGroup Presentation – vSphere 5 Advanced Administration – Derek Bell, eGroup
• 1:05 p.m. Break
• 1:10 p.m. VMUG News & VMware Updates – Bruce Fisher, VMware
• 1:30 p.m. Wrap-Up

Visit the Event Details Page for the full agenda.

We ran into some trouble on a few VMs in our LAB after we upgarded to vSphere 5.   For some reason once powered on  the VM NICs were not showing as connected. And ergo, the VMs were without network connectivity.

So the next step of course was to click connected and apply.  But to no avail this did not work.  The virtual NICs still would not connect and the device status did not change.  So the quick fix was to add a new vNIC and then reapply the IP settings at the OS level.  This worked fine for a few severs but would not scale well if we had to role out massive amounts of new VMs.  Which of course we  do for the up coming Carolina Technology Conference.

So, knowing we needed to change our core base image VM for our VMware View 5 deployment, I started to do some digging.  It turns out that vShield is the culpret here and the problem was solved by excluding the following line in the .vmx file for the VM in question with a “#”.

#ethernet0.filter0.name = “vshield-dvfilter-module”

Now of course comes the challenge of figuring how and why vShield managed to go hay wire during the upgrade…..

“Raising the Bar | EMC with VMware”

Tuesday, August 30th, 2011
4-7 PM

The Harbour Club
35 Prioleau Street
Charleston, South Carolina

4:00 – 5:30 P.M. (Prioleau Ballroom):
Presentations by:
Derek Bell, eGroup
Brian Gatta, EMC

5:30-7:00 P.M. (Prioleau Ballroom)
Networking Event with access to industry experts from eGroup and EMC at your fingertips! Read more >>

On July 12th, CEO Paul Maritz announced the largest product launch in VMware history. vSphere 5 is being launched along with the following VMware Cloud Infrastructure and Management products:

• Site Recovery Manager 5
• vSphere Storage Appliance 1.0

Software that delivers shared storage benefits without the cost and complexity of shared storage hardware. VMware vSphere Storage Appliance extends the benefits of virtualization to all SMBs by transforming internal storage from several server hosts into a protected shared storage resource

- Simple setup and configuration

- High availability without storage hardware required

- Pooled workloads for higher utilization and guaranteed service levels

• Heartbeat 6.4
• vShield 5
• vCloud Director 1.5

eGroup can assist your company with these new solutions in the following ways:

- Education Briefings
- vSphere Health Check to prepare for 5.0 upgrade
- vSphere 5.0 upgrade services
- Consultation, Design, and Deployment Services for all new solutions
- Discounted Licensing

Read more >>