Agenda

Saturday April 28 equipment setup

• Set up server and SAN HW

• Configure SAN RAID

• Install ESXi 5.0.

• Basic configuration of ESXi

• Configure NTP

• Server NIC teaming, virtual switches

• Configure switches.

• Trunk switches together, star configuration to main switch

• Install pfSense, configure main firewall

• Install Windows 2008R2, patch, configure Active Directory – DNS - DHCP

• Install Windows 2008R2, patch, configure vCenter

• Install CentOS 6.0, patch, configure DNS – tftp – Samba

• Populate CentOS with boot images, build PXE boot menus

• Build ESXi 5.0 under ESXi 5.0 virtual host

Sunday April 29 hands on lab

• Install vSphere 5.0 client

• Overview of lab HW, network setup, servers

• Review of ESXi 5.0 under ESXi 5.0

• Install nested ESXi 5.

• Configuration of vSwitch and networking

• iSCSI storage configuration

• Install OSR6v

• Install OSR5, OSR6, UW714 native on Dell HW

• Install H700 monitoring script

• Test RAID failure and rebuild

• Test iDRAC remote access

• Test DR1000 with BackupEDGE

• Remote bare metal restore

Monday April 30

• 8:00 - 9:00   Room open, coffee and juice served at 8:30

• 9:00 - 9:45   David Dew - Welcome and member introductions

• 9:45 - 10:30  Rick Slan - Dell server road map

• 10:30 - 11:00 Break

• 11:00 - 12:00 Rick Slan - Dell EqualLogic presentation

• 12:00 - 1:30  Lunch co-sponsored by Dell and iXorg

• 1:30 - 3:15   Bob Martin - Virtual Internet and data center presentation

• 3:15 - 3:45   Break

• 3:45 - 5:30   Andy Nagle - UnXis road map presentation,
  Open Source porting plans and community discussion

Tuesday May 1

• 8:00 - 9:00     Room open, coffee and juice served at 8:30

• 9:00 - 10:15  David Farr - Dell Reseller presentation

• 10:15 - 10:30  Break

• 10:30 - 12:00  Bob Rasmussen - Print Wizard presentation

• 12:00 - 1:30  Lunch sponsored by UnXis

• 1:30 - 3:15  Tim Rice - UW7 and OSR6 P2V conversion lab

• 3:15 - 3:45  Break sponsored By Rasmussen Software

• 3:45 - 4:30  Norman Kutemperor - How to develop a World Class  GUI Solution on a SCO platform

• 4:30 - 5:30  Norman Kutemperor - How to leverage the vast  windows PC base and move substantial SCO Unix servers

• 8:00 - 10:00pm  Hospitality Event

Wednesday May 2

• 8:00 - 9:00  Room open, coffee and juice served at 8:30

• 9:00 - 10:15  Business discussion

• 10:15 - 10:30  Break

• 10:30 - 12:00  Hands on lab

• 12:00 - 1:30  Lunch sponsored by Virtual Internet

• 1:30 - 3:00  Open lab and discussion for iXorg members

• 3:00 - 4:00  Equipment take down