The iXorg TestFest Fall 2020 will be held virtually using Zoom.   This will be iXorg's 26th TestFest Technical Conference. 

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 TestFest Fall 2020 Agenda

Agenda

Saturday
8:30 - Coffee and juice
9:00 - Set up iXorg server and network
10:30 - Break
10:45 – Initial setup of iXsystem Mini XL NAS
12:00 - Working lunch – Xinuos Definitive OS update
SCO Legacy OS patches and updates
13:00 – ZFS overview
14:00 – Install FreeNAS, configure disks and arrays
14:30 – ZIL and SLOG
15:00 – ARC and L2ARC
15:30 - Break
15:45 – Samba 4 and Active Directory
Sunday
8:30 - Coffee and juice
9:00 - Unbox Supermicro SYS-E200-8D servers
9:30 - VMWare update
10:00 - Load ESXi
10:30 - Break
10:45 – Install a vCenter server, Deploy VMs
12:00 - Working lunch
13:00 – Configure VMWare FT, test FT fail over
14:00 - Install and configure Virtual Box
15:30 - Break
15:45 – Load and configure Watchguard virtual firewall20:00 - 22:00 Social meeting
Monday
8:30 - Continental Breakfast
9:00 - iXorg Introductions
9:15 - Generating security certificates and CSR, submit the request
10:30 - Break
10:45 - Samba 4
12:00 - Lunch Buffet
13:00 - Camera integration
14:00 – Sendmail authentication
15:30 - Break
15:45 - Open Lab
Tuesday
8:30 - Coffee and juice
9:00 - Watchguard Firewall presentation and hands on lab
- Release version and HW overview
- Bandwidth control by port and application control
- Deep packet inspection of encrypted ( HTTPS ) traffic
- Logging and reporting tools
10:30 - Break
10:45 - Firewall continued
12:00 - Lunch
13:15 - Annual General Meeting (AGM)
14:45 – Barcode recognition
15:45 - Break
16:00 – Linux OS Comparison16:30 - Business discussions and member presentations
Presentation of Datto products for backup and DR
Wednesday
8:30 - Coffee and juice
9:00 - Loading Wireshark, running tcpdump, basic TCP/IP decoding
10:30 - Break
10:45 - Server based security, ipf, TCP wrappers and xinetd
12:00 - Lunch
13:00 - Hands on Lab
15:00 - Take down
17:00 - Conference ends 

Agenda (Draft 2)

Saturday Nov 10 equipment setup

• Set up servers and SAN HW

• Configure SAN RAID

• Install ESXi 5.1

• Basic configuration of ESXi

• Configure NTP

• Server NIC teaming, virtual switches

• Configure switches.

• Trunk switches together

• Install pfSense, configure main firewall

Sunday Nov 11  hands on lab

• 8:30 coffee and juice

• 9:00 Introduction to vSphere 5.1

• Install ESXi 5.1

• Load vSphere Client 5.1

• Install vSphere vCenter Server Appliance

• Configure vSphere vCenter Server Appliance

• 10:45 Short break

• 11:00 Unixware 7v – Dave Stetzel

• 12:00 Break for lunch - not supplied

• 1:00 Introduction to PFsense

• Installation of PFsense

• Firewall configuration examples

• 2:30 Short break

• 2:45 Use of VLANs to support WAN traffic

• Discussion of UTM

• Group lab time with PFsense

Monday Nov 12

• 8:30 coffee and juice

• 9:00 Welcome and member introductions – David Dew

• 9:30 Anzio Print Wizard – Bob Ramussen

• 10:45 Short Break

• 11:00 Group lab time

• 12:00 Lunch sponsored by UNXGlobal

• 1:00 UnXis road map – Andy Nagle

• 3:00 Break sponsored by Rasmussen Software

• 3:30 UnXis road map – Andy Nagle

• FLOSS porting discussion

Tuesday Nov 13

• 8:30 coffee and juice

• 9:00 Samba 4 overview

• Samba 4 Active Directory overview

• 10:45 Short break

• 11:00 Group lab time

• 12:00 Lunch sponsored by iXorg

• 1:00 Annual General Meeting

• 3:00 Break sponsored by iXorg

• 3:30 General business discussion

Wednesday Nov 14

• 8:30 coffee and juice

• 9:00 vSphere backup using Veeam

• Member’s topic presentations

• 10:45 Short break

• 11:00 Hands on lab

• 12:00 break for lunch – not supplied

• 1:00 Hands on lab

• 4:00 Equipment take down

iXorg Spring Fest 2013

UnXis Unixware 7.1.4 Plus, vSphere 5.1 and vSphere vCenter Server Appliance, iSCSI SAN, Samba 4

Agenda

Saturday May 4 equipment setup

• 8:30 Coffee

• 9:00 Set up servers and SAN HW

• Build VMware hosts

• 12:00 Lunch

• 1:00 Install ESXi 5.1 on USB Key

• Basic configuration of ESXi

• Configure NTP

• Server NIC teaming, virtual switches

• 2:30 Break

• 3:00 Install ESXi 4.1

• Basic configuration of 4.1

• In place upgrade of 4.1 to 5.1

• Presentation of iSCSI SAN

• Extra lab time to repeat ESXi install

Sunday May 5 hands on lab

• 8:30 Coffee and juice

• 9:00 Install ESXi 5.1

• Basic configuration of ESXi

• Configure iSCSI

• Load vSphere Client 5.1

• Install vSphere vCenter Server Appliance

• Configure vSphere vCenter Server Appliance

• 10:30 Break

• 11:00 UnixWare 7.1.4 Plus Dave Stetzel

• 12:00 Working lunch sponsored by iXorg

• 1:00 Install Windows 2008R2

• Install Vsphere vCenter server

• 2:30 Break

• 3:00 Install WIN7

• Install and configure Veeam

• Set up Veeam for overnight backup

• Install Microlite BackupEDGE

Monday May 6

• 8:30 Coffee and juice

• 9:00 Welcome and member introductions – David Dew

• Check Veeam backups, recover VMs

• 10:30 Break

• 11:00 Clone VMs

• Recover a server from a clone

• Veeam Zip backup and recovery

• Export and deploy OVF format

• 12:00 Lunch

• 1:00 Samba 4 install

• Samba 4 in Workgroup mode

• 3:00 Break

• 3:30 Samba 4 in Active Directory Mode

Tuesday May 7

• 8:30 Coffee and juice

• 9:00 UnXis company announcements, product strategy direction, UnixWare 7.1.4 Plus

• 10:30 Break

• 11:00 UnXis company announcements, product strategy direction, UnixWare 7.1.4 Plus

• 12:00 Lunch sponsored by UnXis

• 1:00 Install UPS server appliance

• Configure shutdown and test

• Install iSCSI server

• iSCSI multipath and failover

• 3:00 Break

• 3:30 General business discussion

Wednesday May 8

• 8:30 Coffee and juice

• 9:00 Bare metal rebuild of ESXi and VM recovery

• Restore UW7 with RecoverEDGE

• 10:30 Break

• 11:00 Member’s topic presentations

• 12:00 Lunch

• 1:00 Hands on lab

• 4:00 Equipment take down

Saturday - 10/29/2011

- 10:00 am to 05:00 pm - Lab Setup and Configuration

                                           (Paul, Mike and Tim)

Sunday - 10/30/2011

- 09:00 am to 05:00 pm - Hands-on-Labs

- Broken into one hour sessions including the following:

1) Installation of ESXi 5.0 under ESXi

2) Configuration of iSCSI with VLAN on ESXi

3) Installation and configuration of a SW firewall

4) Configure a DMZ

5) Configure a NIC and VLAN to provide a WAN IP to a VM

6) Joomla installation and Configuration

7) Begin Testing on OpenServer 6.0.0v

8) Zimbra Demonstration

Monday - 10/31/2011

- 09:00 am to 10:00 am - Welcome

- 10:00 am to 10:30 am - break

- 10:30 am to 12:00 pm - Synology Presentation

- 12:00 pm to 01:30 pm - Lunch - Sponsored by Synology

- 01:30 pm to 03:30 pm - UnXis Presentation

- 03:30 pm to 04:00 pm - break

- 04:00 pm to 05:00 pm - VMware 5.0 - Overview

- 05:00 pm to 06:00 pm - HP P2000 SAN/SAS Demonstration

- 07:30 pm to 09:30 pm - Halloween Party somewhere in the Golden Nugget (TBD)

Tuesday - 11/1/2011

- 09:00 am to 10:00 pm -iPv6 Technical Discussion(break at 10)

- 10:00 am to 12:00 pm - SCO Cloud Presentation and demostration

- 12:00 pm to 01:30 pm - Lunch - Sponsored by SCO Cloud

- 01:30 pm to 02:30 pm - Microlite BackupEDGE presentation

- 02:30 pm to 03:30 pm -Annual General Meeting and Elections

- 03:30 pm to 04:00 pm - break

- 04:00 pm to 06:00 pm - Software and Virtual Firewalls

Wednesday - 11/2/2011

- 09:00 am to 10:00 am -General Business Discussions

- 10:00 am to 11:00 am -Hands-on-labs (OpenServer 6.0.0v testing)

- 11:00 am to 12:00 pm -Hands-on-labs

- 12:00 pm to 01:30 pm - Lunch - Sponsored by UnXis

- 01:30 pm to 03:00 pm -Hands-on-labs (continued)

- 03:00 pm to 04:00 pm -

- 04:00 pm to 06:00 pm - Open Discussion and equipment breakdown and cleanup

Internet Access for the entire event - Sponsored by Microlite Corporation 

When: May 22 through 26, 2010.  Similar format to the last event, start at noon on Sunday and finish up after lunch on Wednesday.

Where: Golden Nugget Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas, NV

Cost: $175/attendee. This fee is solely to cover the food/catering costs.

 AGENDA FOR IXORG ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING AT 2008 SCO FORUM
===========================================================

What:  iXorg Annual General Meeting
When:  Sunday October 19th, 2008
Where: "Nile C" room of the Luxor, Las Vegas, Nevada

 2:00 - 2:15 Introductions and Welcome - Bob Ungaretti

 2:15 - 2:20 iXorg Booth Schedule - circulate sign-up form

 2:20 - 2:30 Treasurer's Report - David Dew

 2:30 - 3:00 Election of Directors
             Nominees:

             - Paul McNary

             - Deepak Thadani

             - Bob Ungaretti

             - Any nominees from the meeting

 3:00 - 3:30 Discussion, next iXorg winter meeting and testfest

 3:30 - 4:00 SCO Solution Directory Update project

 4:00 - 4:30 Open Discussion

 4:30 - 4:45 Closing Statements - Bob Ungaretti

General Events (Sunday)

 4:00pm - 8:00pm SCO Tec Forum Registration Open
 6:30pm - 8:30pm SCO Tec Forum Welcome Reception
 8:30pm - 9:30pm SCOoffice Birds Of A Feather

Tuesday October 21, 2000 

6:00 - 7:00pm - Closing Session - Eqyptian C

iXorg and HP is holding a Test-Fest event at HP Facilities in Houston on December 7, 8 and 9, 2007

Walt Keyser, our host for this event has arranged for three exciting days of lectures and labs all focused on Sun Solaris and VMWare.

Friday will be focused on exploring reseller and partner program offerings from both vendors and Saturday and Sunday will be focused on lab work where we will be able to get our hands on this software and test it on HP's hardware.

Should be a great event.

Please click here to see a complete agenda and other information about this event.

iXorg will hold its annual meeting on the Sunday afternoon before SCO Forum registration.

Draft 1 schedule for iXorg Annual Meeting 2007
(Last updated 7/19/07)

Date: Sunday, August 5th, 2007

Location: "Andros B" room of The Mirage, Las Vegas, Nevada

(Map of the Conference Room Location)

Team 1 Systems, Inc.

www.team1systems.com

HP / Compaq 

Many iXorg members have unique expertise in implementing UNIX solutions on HP servers. As a partner of HP, we keep up-to-date on the latest product information and are involved in leveraging the growth of HP-UNIX solutions in the industry.

HP is a leading technology solutions provider for consumers and businesses with market leadership in fault-tolerant servers, UNIX servers, Linux servers, Windows servers, storage solutions, management software, imaging and printing and PCs.

Microlite

iXorg partners with Microlite to provide complete backup solutions for Linux and UNIX platforms, including network backups.

Microlite is the leader in Bare Metal Disaster Recovery Technology for Linux, SCO OpenServer, and SCO UnixWare, and it was the first company to bring a commercial crash recovery product to market for each of those operating systems, as well as SCO OpenServer and SCO Unixware. It is recognized as having the most advanced crash recovery product available for each of those platforms.

Draft(9) schedule for iXorg AppFest June 2007
(Last updated 5/30/07)

Dates May 30 to June 3.

Held at Team1 near Pittsburgh. See below for details, and for possible attendees.

Agenda: 

Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday

Team1 will be providing three servers preloaded
with OSR6, UW714 and 5.0.7.  Please contact Dan Tracy
if you would like early access to the servers to load
software.

Large conference room holds 12 - 15
Small conference room holds 8

SCO attendees:

Vendor attendees:

HP - Walt Keyser
Facet - Eric Yundt
FilePro - Chris Henschen
FilePro - Bud Henschen

iXorg attendees:

Dan Martin
Steve James
Harry Scott
Michael Brown
David Green
Wildon Terrell
Mark Geier
Paul McNary
Chris Henschen
Bud Henschen
Bob Ungaretti
Matt Byrd
Jean Pierre Radley
Keith Burris
Dave Burris

The annual SCO Forum will be held in Las Vegas; the dates are now firm. iXorg will hold its annual meeting on the Sunday afternoon before Forum registration.

iXorg's Winter Meeting will be held in Orem, Utah,from Sunday, March 18th through Wednesday, March 21st. The meetings will take place in the Hampton Inn Conference Room in Orem.

Details | Agenda