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I was lucky enough to get out of the office and go to the London VMUG today – I had missed the previous one so was keen to catch up and meet some of the people I had conversed with previously over Twitter etc.

Needless to say it had a lot of great content – Jonathan Medd’s demo of PowerGUI, VESI and in particular for me Onyx Alpha really enforced the power of using PowerGUI to administer VMware. I am going to be trying to use Onyx to help me fathom some areas I wanted to look at with PowerGUI as a result ..

Symantec’s offerings around VMware were a surprise in terms of the breadth they seemed to cover so worthwhile seeing their current offerings as well as the coverage of the vStorage API which will release early next year.

Simon Gallagher’s T.A.R.D.I.S™ demo was very informative .. the sight of two HP ML115’s running ESXi with a further 10 ESXi servers virtualized on top of them was impressive! I am already working out how to hit my boss up for a couple for Lab Testing …

The final event with Mike Laverick and Guy Chapman discussing vSphere features and Cloud concepts was very interesting and gave good insight into what it means to different people, and quite how different that could be.

Thanks to Alaric for organising as usual – and for his interesting detour into the Large Hadron Collider

Now I need to see if I can think up some content for the next meeting to avoid Alaric waving the nagging finger again!

If you haven’t been before – keep an eye on this forum http://communities.vmware.com/community/vmug/emea/london?view=discussions or email londonvmug@yahoo.com to get yourself on the next one.