NYC VMUG Meeting #1 - March 23, 2017

When: Mar 23, 2017 from 8:30 AM to 12:00 PM (ET)

Associated with New York City VMUG

*** !! Please note the NEW, different location !! ***

NYC VMUG invites you to our first meeting of the year, sponsored by Supermicro and Touro College, where we get to talk about vSAN and home labs.

Our featured speaker will be Paul Braren, founder of TinkerTry and now a Systems Engineer for Software Defined Storage and vSAN for VMware.

We will celebrate the local vExperts at this meeting, make sure you get to know them and take pics! Make sure to post to #NYCVMUG.

Also, we will have several tables available if you want to bring your own laptop and show your blog, homelab, or latest project. VMUGs are about you sharing with other admins so feel free to organize lunch nearby after it to keep talking!

We are grateful to our sponsors:

- Supermicro - for providing a technical session and sponsoring our breakfast

- Touro College is the sponsor of the meeting space and its A/V equipment. We are meeting at their executive offices at 500 7th Ave (near the NW corner at 37th St).

Agenda:

8:30 Room opens, free breakfast available
9:00 VMUG leadership update
9:15 Supermicro business introduction
9:30 From Homelab to vSAN: the TinkerTry journey (Paul Braren)
10:00 Supermicro technical session, with live M.2 NVMe demo (Paul Braren)
11:00 vSAN in your company: How All-Flash works for Ready Nodes and VxRail (Paul Braren)
12:00 Raffles and meeting closing

Speaker Bio:
Paul Braren is an IT Professional living in Wethersfield Connecticut. He created TinkerTry.com 5 year ago, featuring over 800 technical articles that have helped home virtualization lab enthusiasts globally. Paul worked at IBM for 21 adventure-filled years, teaching and deploying x86 Server, virtualization, and enterprise storage technology. Taking on a new VMware Systems Engineer role in 2017, Paul is now focusing his energy on helping customers enjoy the benefits of implementing vSAN.

Breakfast Sponsored by Supermicro and Provided By:

Milk + Honey Food Bar

Location:

Touro College, Executive Offices
500 7th Ave (NW corner at 37th St)
New York, NY 10018

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Location

Touro College Executive Offices
500 7th Ave
New York, NY 10018

Pricing Information

Registration	Price
All Registrants	Free!