Hello, everyone, and welcome to the 3.30 to 4.30 p.m. session of the 2023 Open Simulator Community Conference. In this session, we are pleased to introduce the presentation, Help! I'm Lost in the Metaverse! Our panel is Becky Adams, Ellie Pinyin, Bruce Gross, who is Cooper Swizzle, Shannon Broden, who is Criaccia, Shannon, and Valerie Hill, who's Val Librarian, Greg. Becky is an online higher education educator and the coordinator of the Virtual World's Education Consortium. Bruce ran a five-year 3D-based training program before retiring. He brings a broad spectrum of experience in training and is the VWEC Kitely Ambassador. Shannon is a Masters of Library Science and Information Science student at San Jose State University. She volunteers helping the VWEC with the Metaverse Database Project. Dr. Valerie Hill is a library and information science educator. She is a co-coordinator of the Virtual World's Education Consortium and director of the Community Virtual Library. Please check out the website found at conference.opensimulator.org for speaker bios, details of this session, and the full schedule of events. This session is being live-streamed and recorded, so if you have any questions or comments, you may send tweets to at OpenSimCC with the hashtag pound OSCC23. Welcome, everyone. Let's begin the session. Thank you, Lear. And welcome everyone to Help! I'm Lost in the Metaverse. My colleagues and I will share what the Virtual World's Education Consortium has accomplished to help network and collaborate across virtual worlds. And you might notice that they look a bit lost. It can be very confusing when you are trying to navigate across the Metaverse. Now, we hope that you will have questions for us. We hope that you will have some feedback, and we'd like to ask for you to hold those questions until the end. Here we are in OpenSim. We hope you're enjoying the OSCC 2023 conference. Some of you have hypergrid jumped from other grids. I'd like to ask you to type in the local chat an estimate of the number of virtual worlds where you have created an avatar. I'm going to estimate I've created at least 15 across the Metaverse. In the hypergrid worlds, in some of the VR worlds, type an estimate of your avatar number. Some of us go on monthly events to different virtual worlds with or without headsets to explore the Metaverse for education. I'm noticing some numbers. Ellie says maybe 10 avatars. Kayaker 12. I see two, nine. I have more than 25, says Lear, and at least eight Lear Lobos. So often we bump into our avatars in other virtual worlds. We may even forget that we have one in a particular world across the Metaverse. Often this question arises. Where is everyone? It can be really empty. Educators and subject experts have been exploring virtual environments for 20 years and more, but many are unaware of the high quality simulations and the projects that have been accomplished. Have you ever explored a beautiful landscape in a virtual world and it feels completely empty? It happens. It's like a ghost town, a beautiful simulation, and people have moved on. People can create amazing places and then they move on and create something else. Or they may have trouble getting others to come and visit what it is they've created. Type a Y in the local chat if you have ever encountered similar projects across worlds that appear to be striving to recreate the wheel. And they don't realize someone else has already accomplished this. Exactly. I'm seeing that. It's either empty. Nobody has come. Or it's something that many people have created and they don't realize someone has already paved this way before. We've found many communities who have collected landmarks to help and share with others. Not realizing that other people were striving to do that very same thing. Creating spreadsheets, note cards with landmark lists, lists on websites, and they're very difficult to maintain because often landmarks change or people move to other grids or they leave that particular project or due to lack of funding, it suddenly disappears. So organizing the metaverse is a daunting task. Archiving the great immersive builds to share what other people have done is a daunting job and librarians like myself are considering ways to help. After 15 years researching how to be a librarian in a virtual environment, the Virtual Worlds Education Consortium has become the perfect opportunity to work together across worlds. We want to help learners and digital citizens of all ages find the best simulations and the best communities to help build them. So I'm going to hand the mic to Ellie Pinion so she can tell us more about VWEC. Thank you, Val. Many of you have heard about VWEC already. We appreciate the opportunity to be here at OSCC and to share more about the Virtual Worlds Education Consortium with you, especially if you haven't heard of us. My first experience in Virtual Worlds was in Second Life through the new Media Consortium in 2007. I met Lear at one of their conferences and was amazed at all that she was doing with her students in a virtual world. Anyone else attend the new Media Consortium NMC conferences? Just say why if you have, because I bump into people all the time who have. Yes. Unfortunately, they no longer exist. They were a great support to online education and its infancy. Honestly, I thought Second Life was very strange, but I was fascinated by the opportunities it offers for students. As I explored, a friend and I got stuck in a bush. We had no idea what a TP was. I couldn't cam over. I didn't know if I could sit nearby. That would work. I also dropped my hair and had no idea how to pick it up as it laid on the ground in front of my abbey. I bumped around things and avatars. I imagine that's similar to what you guys have experienced. I eventually got better at navigating and decided there was potential and I should see how my students would use it. I've been teaching in Virtual Worlds ever since. Then I joined every group I could find, but at first I was a bit lost. Pretty alone and just taught and taught and taught my classes using the great environment and meeting great people and then inviting them to talk to my class, which they were so kind to do. Everyone was so kind and were happy to come and share their approaches. Many have become close friends and colleagues. As I heard other educators stories, they were varied and really interesting. But it was clear that even with the amazing groups that are successful in Virtual Worlds, we often had no idea what others were doing and were often redundant in our needs and work. It has been aptly pointed out that many of us work harder than needed if we could share our resources, experiences and knowledge. We also believe that we are more likely to get challenges solved if we work together. After some initial conversations, we invited key educational groups to meet to talk about how we could collaborate without making more work and more meetings for everyone. And it was important to us to try not to replace all the great work that was already happening. After a couple of conversations, it was clear there was a need for our groups to come together to collaborate and connect so that we are not isolated and reinventing the wheel. Thus, VWEC began in January of 2021. Because we want to be supportive but not add more work to everyone, we have four meetings a year. Each quarterly session focuses on a topic or theme always with the goal of supporting this purpose through collaboration. We agreed on three ideas. A collaborative venture open to all Virtual World educators. Number two, to help all kinds of educators in educational communities, academic, higher ed, K-12 teachers, lifelong learners, etc., who utilize any or all virtual environments. And lastly, to support sharing successes, resources and addressing challenges. In that, VWEC is the virtual worlds with a capital S education consortium. All this is wonderful conference highlights. There is so much going on in many diverse worlds. We all learn from each other and we are excited about the great work that is happening around the metaverse. And we are so pleased to be able to work together to promote teaching and learning through these amazing and very supportive platforms. In that, I do want to thank OSCC for this wonderful conference as you bring us all together as well. Because we know that we cannot be in every world effectively, it became clear that we needed to find ambassadors with similar passions to support all the educators doing great work in the individual virtual worlds around the metaverse. We are so fortunate to have Cooper Swizzle step up for us in Kitely. I'd like to turn it over to Cooper, our very first VWEC ambassador, who is doing a wonderful job in Kitely. He will share our recent accomplishments. Over to you, Cooper. Good afternoon, evening, morning, wherever you're all at. I am Cooper Swizzle and today I'm really excited to share with you the updates from the VWEC Kitely world. We actively participated at promoting us and Second Life at the OS Fest in 2023. I'm trying to get my footing here. Sorry, folks. Because we wanted to make sure people knew about us. We also joined a boat flotilla where we created a boat that represented VWEC for Open Sims. The Kitely VWEC education consortium started approximately April 2023 and I'm proudly serving as the VWEC Kitely ambassador. Starting this January, we'll be hosting our quarterly meetings like they do in Second Life at 9 o'clock, Second Lifetime, but to better accommodate diverse time zones, we've also included a 5 o'clock one. We're looking ahead to 2024 and we have two exciting projects in the world. First, we're planning, excuse me, a VWEC Kitely conference where individuals will showcase their contributions to Open Sim similar to this OSCC that we're doing right now and our aim is to generate momentum in Kitely and attract others. Additionally, our second project involves organizing monthly or bimonthly tours for residents in Kitely, Open Sim, Second Life, so that we can get more people coming and shopping everywhere to see what everyone is doing and sharing with each other. Thank you. Next, we'll hear from Kriata. I'm Shannon Brodin, known in virtual worlds as Kriata Shannon. I assist VWEC with maintaining the Metaverse database. The VWEC Metaverse database is an effort to collect document and share information about educated oriented virtual world communities throughout the Metaverse. Catalogging virtual worlds is important because there's a lack of in-world tools for searching simulations and communities across various virtual worlds in the Metaverse that are vetted locations for people to visit. VWEC's goal is that the database will inspire partnerships, increase virtual world participation in educational communities, and contribute to the documentation of all the virtual worlds that are out there. Documenting virtual worlds is so important so that both current and future generations know what informational professionals as well as educators and others have accomplished with virtual worlds. Recording this information now in the present isn't so important because virtual worlds are ever changing and once a simulation disappears, it is difficult, if not impossible, to find traces of it. As already talked about today, there have been mentions made of the lack of permanence in virtual worlds. If you have a community and want to know how to contribute to our Metaverse database, there is a Google form that's available. I believe it will be in the speak easy or you can visit the VWEC website or get more information at the booth in the expo area as well. We would love to hear from you. Thank you very much. Thank you, Kriatia. And next we're going to talk about K-12, the kindergarten of the Metaverse. In my opinion, just might be Minecraft. A sandbox virtual world that we are exploring is very similar to Minecraft and it's called MindTest. Here, VWEC has a free grid, no cost to educators or children or learners. For anyone who wants to try a Minecraft-like world without any cost, K-12 teachers should certainly be aware of the creativity and the creative thinking that takes place in Minecraft and in MindTest, learning how to code, how to use your inventory, how to build. All of that is a great way to start learning about the Metaverse. Our VWEC MindTest ambassador, similar to Cooper in Kitely, is Olive Tree Lighthouse, who many of you know. And Olive Tree has helped us find space there. And we have a VWEC outpost for K-12 teachers to learn as well as bring in their students. Currently, we're meeting in MindTest to explore ways to help K-12 teachers introduce the Metaverse for teaching and learning. You can contact me later if you're interested in exploring MindTest, if you've heard of Minecraft and you've never had the opportunity to see how it works for kids and really for all age brackets. You can contact me or Olive Tree later for more information. And we'll talk about the privacy of that. There is a question about MindTest being moderated to keep predators out. Yes, we are in a very family-friendly space and we have people who do watch out for that. We also have a key chain so that someone cannot just go in without being on the list. So we're addressing privacy for K-12 while we're learning how to introduce this to educators. And the main reason we're doing that is educators do not want to purchase the program and download it if they're not even sure how they're going to use it in their classrooms. So you can see that the Virtual World's Education Consortium is making strides across the Metaverse to help both lifelong learners, like many of us, as well as the next generation of learners. But we need more Ambassadors to represent other evolving worlds. As Ellie was saying, you can't be in all of these worlds. Of course, we mentioned some of us have 15 avatars, but it's really difficult to go to all the events, to go and see the wonderful simulations as the Metaverse evolves. So we need Ambassadors in particular worlds to help navigate them and share them with others. Now this is a win-win for everyone because VWEC shares the landmarks, curates the group calendars and events, curates all the communities that are educational, and helps us all promote the best practices for teaching and learning, both now and in the future. So all of you can share your world, your work, and your communities and builds as Crayatio is showing through our databases. And there are links over at our exhibit booth, number nine, later that you can see. You can also notice our website links are growing, and the calendars for various worlds across the Metaverse are on our website, and they're growing as well. We have this OSCC conference is right there on our calendars. If you click on our VWEConsortium.org website, go to calendars, you'll see OSCC, you'll see the Dickens project, which is currently up and running. You'll see other conferences when VWBPE comes along, for example, or any of the conferences across the Metaverse, we will strive to put them on the VWEC website. So I know I've seen a couple of questions in the local chat, so we'll go and find those and we'll use, I'll speak those questions in voice so my panelists can help address them. Well the first one I think you addressed, it was from Lisa Laxton and it was, do you need more contributors of data? And you gave her your contact information and for olive trees. The next one you talked about, which was how you handle predators and a safe learning environment. And the third's really important for educators, it's how we control FERPA. And I gave a little answer for that one. I don't hold FERPA-related conversations in world. I've taught 60 classes and we focus on creativity and project construction, but the FERPA-related part of the conversation, which is usually about evaluation, grades, and the kinds of data that's controlled under those, under that law, we do in the formal course tool. Over to you Val. Yes, absolutely. Understanding how to introduce the metaverse to children while maintaining their privacy and helping families understand this is critical to the future. And personally my passion is digital citizenship, which starts really at birth, if not before birth as parents are uploading sonogram pictures. We live in a culture where privacy is very fragile. And so we want to help teachers and families understand that, learn how to be good digital citizens. But we also work with the teachers to help them understand that. So that's a really good question. And let's see if there are any other questions. And I'd like my colleagues here to be able to answer them as well as we go along. I also wanted to ask you, what you think of this project? Is it necessary that we have formed a consortium? Do you like this idea? Do you think this could help people navigate the metaverse? So not only questions, but we'd also like to hear what you think about the idea and hear your suggestions for helping connect the OpenSim communities. Well, I don't know if you saw that question, but it's from Lisa Laxton that says, are you preventing students from posting personally identifiable information, PII? That is really up to each individual teacher. Right now we're not bringing in any student without teacher supervision. So it's up to the teacher to make sure they understand, you know, that that's part of digital citizenship is that they understand that. And as we grow, we may come up with some policies where they have to actually sign up, you know, a form of what their technological use is, and that they perhaps even have a digital citizenship quiz. I worked with that with my fifth graders in a Minecraft club. They built a digital citizenship game so that they could share for younger students how to maintain their privacy, not to share anything personal online. All of that was embedded in the Minecraft game. And yes, absolutely. I see that anything that they are posting, it is essential that we help kids realize that it's their responsibility because data mining is all around us. Privacy is a huge problem for all age brackets. So very, very good topic. Identity and digital citizenship and understanding that and introducing it. And this is the perfect way to introduce it because if you're in a world that is fairly locked down and you can discuss these issues there at a young age, that's a great way to help promote digital citizenship. Other questions. And while you're thinking of your questions, I'd like to put up our contact information. All four of us are open to you contacting us later, whether it's about our databases, whether it's about the Open Sims, a contact Cooper about Kitely. Krayatya also is very active and involved in Kitely and with our databases. I'll move over to the couch area and see if anyone else has another question. Let's watch the local chat. You know, while you're waiting for questions, you know, Lisa's questions are very important. When I served on a teen grid with 800 of 13-year-old students over a two-year period, before I was permitted to do that, I had to have an investigation in the last 15 years of my life to make sure that I hadn't done any committed any crimes and especially sex crimes. And of course, they had to go into everywhere you'd lived and it was a pretty thorough little investigation and I got to pay for it. So you have to be very committed when you're an educator in these worlds because we often have to pay for those kinds of investigations. But because of that screening, I was able to work with children. Yes. And I saw in the local chat this, if voice was used, and that's another, we use Discord for our back channeling and for voice because that too can be private and we don't bump into people that we don't know. It's a great way to teach about strangers in the metaverse when we're in a small community that we can really watch and that has a key chain for those that have access. So it's, you know, so many of the kids are on all kinds of games and their parents don't even understand that they are meeting strangers. So it's important that we have the opportunity to introduce this and let them understand that it is their responsibility. The teacher and the parent won't always be with them. We need to teach them that at a very young age. Is there another question that we missed in local chat? I will point out on our website, we have an info center. We're striving to have 24-7 coverage so that people across the globe who want to understand the metaverse for education can find a real person to talk to because they all come in with different needs, different questions, different skill sets. Crayatia and Cooper are interested in doing that same thing in Kitely. So if we could have a group, a network that helps share this across grids, it would really help education in the future. So Bell, Art has asked if the teacher in MindTest does not use voice either and Art, that is correct. Yes, we don't have. Yes.  There is no voice capability in MindTest. So we need Discord open to be able to do that. We've created a private Discord voice channel so that we can be doing that while we're learning the MindTest platform. It's important also, depending on what the curriculum is for educators, that they can learn a bit about how to use and navigate the interface before they allow the students because the first thing that every child wants to do in MindTest is build a house and wait for the zombies to come out. For years, I've been saying the metaverse is it's got a lot more potential than just slaying zombies. The world that we take them in doesn't even have the zombies and the monsters. We go into a survival mode, not a survival mode, but a creative mode, an educational mode. They can slay zombies on their own time. Eva, this is Kriyayi again. I can't remember who said it. It was way, way upstream, but there's something I really want to clarify. We've spent a lot of time talking about two particular virtual worlds, and that's because a lot of the educators that we work with happen to be there. This is for the audience. One of the biggest places we really would like more data and more input is about communities that exist outside of those two, for the database that I was talking about earlier. We really want to know about what's out there on OpenSum, what's out there on the HyperGrid. You would submit it and then behind the scenes, we look at it, we check out and find out more about the world, see if it meets the criteria of what our list is looking for, and if it does, and if it meets any of the things that I talked about earlier for lifelong learners, for education, then we list it. We really want to hear from you. You know, someone you should reach out to is at University of Hawaii at Manoa, Dr. Peter Leong. He was teaching on OSGrid, and he had asked us questions about how to support persons with disabilities, and in particular sighted students, students who cannot see, and he had all these objects that talked and announced their characteristics to give this person a more visual experience of the region. So you might want to check with him. Sure. Jotting that name down, and that's the advocating and sharing what VWEC has been doing for the last couple of years and how we're growing. We're coming up with an advocacy packet that will be very professional, that we can share both to actual, you know, higher educational institutions, K-12 schools, but also just to communities that are learning communities. We're open to lifelong learners, as we said.  Many of you build wonderful educational resources, and you are not academics or formal educators. You're welcome to join us. You know, Wisdomseeker just spoke up, and she's at the forefront of cognitive health with the Whole Brain Health Institute and the programs that they offer to help as we get older, you know, to keep cognitively crisp. Which is harder to do late in the day, by the way. I did see the question about how do you get the word out to other schools about MindTest. Well, we've moved slowly on this. We don't want to get, you know, tons and tons of teachers and students in here until we've understood the best way to introduce it to teachers. So we're moving slowly, but it is on our website, and that's what we plan to do, is use the VWEC Consortium website and then have different tabs for all the different ambassadors and what it is that they offer in particular grids. And so as we get that word out and MindTest grows and we get more volunteers, we may have to expand that, and it'll be on the website. But for now, how to get there, you can find that on the website. We're currently meeting in MindTest on Saturday mornings at 11.30 a.m. Pacific time, and people just come and explore, and either I'll be there or some of the MindTest ambassadors. Olive Tree, extremely helpful with our MindTest outpost. And if you don't mind, I'd like to also interject that this semester I'm teaching pre-service teachers, which means K-12 teachers in the making, and Val was kind enough to let me bring them into MindTest, and she shared with them her expertise. There is a lot of materials out there, and then when I, when we went and looked at the potential districts that they may work in, many of the districts offer Minecraft as an option. So them being able to get a sense of good ways to teach using virtual worlds, including MindTest and Minecraft, is a very important piece of what we're trying to do. Yes, and her students coming into MindTest was, it was, it really helped us learn how to introduce it to teachers. They were very successful. Some of them were out there like, you know, already building a boat and going out on the water and going deep down into the caves. So, you know, a lot of children are already familiar with Minecraft. It's helping the educators understand how to use it for serious learning that we want to help with. Great question about disabilities. And we just finished the VWEC student challenge in Second Life, which we may bring to other worlds as well. And we had Gentle Heron from Virtual Ability come and talk to the students about embedding better content in their builds that would help people with disabilities. And they did a wonderful job showing how important that is. So we would like to share that to other worlds across the metaverse as well. And any of my colleagues have anything else to say about the importance of learning about disabilities in virtual environments? Oh, it's hugely critically important. Absolutely. And it also, as you guys know, as you deal with your life virtually, it also helps them in real life as well. So it's a critical component for sure. Thank you, Belle. And then I just put in the chat, Beth Carver asked, do you all have YouTube contacts or is that info on your website as well? Do you want to talk about that, Belle? Sure. And I put in the local chat the link tree for VWEC. And what that link tree is, it's all of our links to YouTube and links to all our different social media. I'll drop that in again if you don't see it. We, some of us have our own YouTube channel. My own is full of all kinds of virtual world material as well. But I decided it needs to all channel into VWEC. So most of our machinima that's about education we're putting on our VWEC YouTube channel and archiving it in playlists like the student challenge that we just had. We also bring other playlists in that are important across the metaverse like the non-profit commons and all of the interviews we've been doing there. Or other people like Jan Luria in Japan who does monthly tours. And he has the Japan grid in the OS grid. We're archiving those YouTube channels because if people don't see that, they don't know what's been accomplished. Machinima is a great way to archive the metaverse. And if you have a YouTube channel, you think we should subscribe to and maybe put on our playlists. You can contact me. You see my email on the screen. And I see that it talks about Peggy doing Minecraft in school grant. When I worked in Minecraft with my students, I did a research article on using Minecraft for digital citizenship. And so I'm making a list of research on Minecraft for education. So I can try to grab that link for you as well. Well, you know, I haven't used Rattagast here and I was using MetaBolt and I was using it in both Second Life and in on the team grid because I was on both sides. As far as here, I haven't had a need on this grid to log into it, but I suppose I could. Certainly have the client. What I do is I log in and test all kinds of game designs to see what the user experience is when it's not graphical. And the question about maintaining modesty standards, we bring this up as well. We bring up all of these digital citizenship criteria. How to represent yourself in your identity online as well as historical accuracy. And Ada here has been great in sharing costumes and historical design. We partner with historical Sims. Not that we want to be the costume cops or anything like that, but it's a teachable moment to point out, you know, they didn't wear sneakers in the 16th century, you know, just those kinds of teachable moments about authenticity and accuracy across the metaverse in simulations. Exactly. It's fun when you and Bethany, I think, is right here who did one about women getting dressed in the time period of Dickens in the Victorian era. What were they wearing? How long did it take them to put all that on? It makes learning fun when you enter the historical era rather than just read about it or look at a picture. Yes, Ada is saying standards vary a lot across the world. We've run into that. There are cultural differences in what people consider appropriate behavior. And so we learn that as we go, and we have conversations about that most definitely. And we're learning that at the VWEC just, you know, behind the scenes, making sure that people are private and safe and they're being appropriate and, you know, and coming up with the best policies and procedures. Because a lot of this, even though some of us have been here over 15 years, teaching others how to do it with best practices isn't super easy. You know, we still are pioneers in the rapidly evolving virtual environments. I'm looking at the chat to see if there's any other questions that we have missed. And I am interested in, as you've been wrapping your mind around how we can better connect across the metaverse in the future, I'm hoping that you're thinking that this is a necessary goal that we strive to better organize the worlds and the communities, particularly for teaching and learning. There's a huge question. How do you obtain digital citizenship? Well, this is really important. I do many talks on this. And if you're interested in having me come and do a talk on it, it's my passion. It's very important that people understand that it's not just one thing. It's an ongoing, huge list of criteria that covers cybersecurity, privacy, your online digital footprints that you're leaving from the time you're born. Most content today is born digital. It's not born print. And so it's we live in digital culture. And we have to learn what that means. That's digital citizenship. So you don't just obtain it and get a certificate. You learn it as you go the rest of your life, but understanding that it's your responsibility as the bottom line. There are some great sites that do give kids little digital citizenship passports or badges and things like that. But it doesn't mean they're done. It doesn't mean they've achieved it. It's going to continue to change. And with data mining and now with AI, understanding best use of AI and best use, how to deal with AI, that's going to be part of digital citizenship as well. To chime in on that, Val, since you have a minute, Dr. Constance Steinkuler, who ran a MOOC on games and game design back in the day, she, her doctoral research was in the use of games and digital literacy. She ran a study on the world of Warcraft and how students communicate. And she looked at a priest's forum and just a she looked at 80 threads on how they shared information on combat and strategy and tactics. And she did a formal assessment. It's really beautiful study. And if anyone wants the slides from it, I have a version of it. I got permission from her to give a keynote on for ISTI and with a lot of stats in them. It was a wonderful quantitative study. But she noticed the students were reading 11 grades above their level. And they were so excited about the content that they just kept pursuing. And I know that's beyond digital literacy. That's also reading literacy. But she looked at all these formal ways to assess this. And she showed how model based reasoning, how all of these different pop culture and literacies, how they really strengthen learning and reinforce it. And so if anyone would like a copy of that, reach out to me and I'll be happy to share that. I'll get you a link also. Yes. And digital literacy, media literacy, all these different types of literacy are part of digital citizenship. They are part of it because, as I said, most content is born digital. Reading is totally different. Literacy is completely different than it was when many of us were growing up. And there's a lot of research on that. And so we could talk, we could do a whole program on changing literacy. I think that topic of digital citizenship and changing literacy and the metaverse being a place, the metaverse is an actual place. It's not an app. I like to say that we're not on an app here. We're in a place. And in order to understand this place and be literate, we need to understand what it means to be a good digital citizen. Did we miss any questions in chats? Anyone have anything else that they wanted to ask us? Any of us in particular? I do encourage you to check out our booth number nine and see the two databases slash directories that we have. We have a member directory of all the members who joined BWEC and then the database of all the communities and simulations across the metaverse. Thank you all. Oh, I was gonna say. Go ahead. No, no, you go ahead and finish and then I'll close the session. Okay. I just wanted to thank everyone and their input and comments are so very helpful. We really appreciate your time today. Well, I want to thank the panelists for this informative and interesting presentation. As a reminder to our audience, you will want to check out the conference dot open simulator dot org to see what's coming up on the conference schedule. You won't want to miss our next session, which is at 4 30 p.m. And it it's called using generative AI to create content for 3D immersive virtual worlds. Also check out the OSCC 23 poster expo and come to their booth. They have an amazing booth with all kinds of content in it for you. Also check out the sponsor and crowd funder booths located throughout all of the OSCC expo regions. Thank you again to our panelists and to you, the audience.


Thank you. So good afternoon. I hope everyone's holding on in there. As I said, I'm Mark Baker. I work for Canonical. I'm the product manager at Canonical. For those of you who don't know, Canonical is the company behind Ubuntu. Keep lucky for the user survey here. Thank you Foundation for running the user survey. But Ubuntu is a very popular platform on which to run OpenStack. So, many people, most people that you could argue with say, run their OpenStack on Ubuntu today. This is a selection. This is the NASCAR slide, I believe people call it. The Wall of Logos slide. These are some of the people that are running Ubuntu OpenStack, different types of OpenStack on top of Ubuntu today. A lot of those you've seen are super users or on stage at the OpenStack. Some bits, some of you guys like Best Buy or RoaTT and others. And again, a small selection of the customers that we engage with. That's the corporate advertising open. You'll be glad to know. So, what are all of these guys having gone? No one to guess? Do I just get on with it? So, all of these guys run containers, right? All of these technologies are based upon containers. And who's running containers? No one. Container's a big opportunity here, frankly. Good. So, all of these guys are running containers. It doesn't matter. A lot of them running Ubuntu as well. So, you'll see, you know, guys like Kuroku from WRT just doing stuff with containers. Proxpons for the OpenStack containers. Docker, of course, for the darling of the container community. Results and others, right? So, containers, containers, containers. And this talk really is about how we can use containers. How we are canonical with the OpenStack. We can use containers if we wish to deploy, manage the scale of the stack in kind of interesting ways. So, we took a little about hypervisors. IBM, back in the probably some smart IBM Distinguished Engineer, back in the mid-70s wrote a paper on hypervisors. So, you know, hypervisors, the concept of hypervisors has been around for quite a long time. And they split that into two types. Remember it wasn't wrote that paper's name, I can't remember. Split it into two types of hypervisors. The type one, kind of full, power virtualized hypervisor environments, AKA kind of VMware and Zen type of environments. And then the type two, the kind of hardware accelerated hypervisor environments, things like VirtualBox or KVM, some others too. We can also have the development of something called LXD or LexD. And this we're somewhat cheekily proposing as being a type three hypervisor. So it's a hypervisor designed specifically to run containers, to deploy, manage, scale, and operate with containers. LexD provides a machine container. Who knows what a machine container is? Good, well, I will show you in any way, even if you tell me you are new. So, hopefully you can see this. This is, by the way, this session has lots of live damage in it. There's a lot of screen in it. So you can't tell that. See what I'm typing? Please tell me. You're going to be really bored. So, I want to show you Docker, right? Docker is what we call as being an application container. So if you can see my table here on the, I guess, your left-hand side, if you're looking at it. If I just go and connect to a container, I'm just going to enter my pseudo-password, because Docker has to run, certainly 110, the version I'm running here. It has to run fully privileged. I'm inside my Docker container now. I want to see a bunch of stuff, and if I go and have a look at... Anyone that gives live damage, by the way, you lose the ability to type rapidly as it goes through. So you see this application container is Docker container is only running one thing. It's just running batch, right? That's because I created a Docker container, just sitting down in Iran, that has just batched in it, right? And I only see that straight Docker container. So if I come back out to my shell, look at the top of the screen so you can see, if I go and have a look at a system container, let's do the same thing. So LXC, a Linux container I've created, here it's using LXD, the hypervisor. If I go and do the same thing, it's going to access that. This is, you can see, I'll see a whole bunch of stuff by LS, but in my home directory. But notice, one, I do need to pseudo for that, right? So I'm just running as an unprivileged environment. And two, if I have a look in that environment, you can't see particularly well because of the scrolling. There's a whole different set. So let's try that again. There's a whole different set of processes running, right? It looks actually much more like a full Linux environment. So that's because it is much more of a full Linux environment. So not just the one process of a Docker container or an application container. LXD or LXD are full system containers, right? So it's kind of very analogous to a VM, right?  Now, if I want you to, in here, I can do, let's do pseudo app update, for example. I can go, this is right on my old Wi-Fi hotspot here. So you won't be impressed with the speed. But I can go and pull the updates. I can even go in, is there anything to update? All the access are up to date there. But I can go and update this. This tool will be back to where I want to do that kind of stuff, right? So that's the difference between a system container and a machine open class as being an application container. Let's get back to first place for that in a second. So LXD provides a machine container. It's something that looks and smells just like a VM. It can be any type of Linux, right? Any, as you probably know, containers. A few more Linux containers on the Linux platform. No windows just yet. So LXD provides those machine containers. Applications containers just like Docker host a single process on the file system. The example we just showed you there was a course bash. A machine container, LXD, boot of full OS on their file system. The thing it's sharing is the kernel, right? So there's only one kernel on my laptop right now, as far as I'm aware. And so, but all the user space processes, all the libraries, et cetera, are wrapped in that container and it looks just more like a VM. So I actually jumped ahead to the demo. So we see these kind of Linux containers, the machine container sitting somewhere between a virtual machine and a physical machine and a kind of Docker or process container, right? Sitting on Docker LXD, it acts and behaves just like a VM except it's sharing the kernel and that gives us some benefits, right? So LXD is an API driver, right? So the API means that we can access it remotely over a REST API. So using a single machine, I can go and interact with containers across all sorts of different platforms. There's also integration, which you'll see down here. LXD, there was that over and I'll explain that in a second. Sitting on the meeting list, there's something called ZFS, or ZFS if you're English, right? You just heard of that? Two people, good. Good, good, good. So ZFS or ZFS is a very well-respected fastest technology. It provides a lot of very cool fastest features, Snapchat, backups, copy and write loads. You can read the details there. It's very high performance. There's a lot of DGP on the fly. It's very, very efficient, very well-respected, right? People who knew and loved Solaris before they got hooked on Linux generally talk about two things that they loved with Solaris. Excuse me, you guys, I still have 30 minutes here, is that right? Extra time for me. So the people that worked with Solaris generally loved two things about it, right? One was de-tracing and the other was ZFS, right? Those are often the things, back in the day when I went to Red Hat helping to replace Solaris and Big Data Centers in the city. Those are the two things that Solaris had a bit of a mode about, right? Where is de-traced, where is ZFS? They got over that. But anyway, so this is sitting on... Everything I was just showing you earlier on, those are LXD containers that are sitting on top of ZFS and that makes them super fast because LXD sitting in conjunction with ZFS makes the sporting containers, running containers, snapshot containers, running containers really very, very fast indeed. So why did the world's faster open stack? Well first up, I don't have any data that shows what it is, right? There's no benchmark that says this is the fastest. I could go make up a benchmark and do that but there's really no point. But this is a hyper version of the architecture, it deploys in minutes and it deploys in containers. We already saw that earlier on. Dozens of LXD instance containers this is launched very, very quickly with the snapshot stuff. I'm going to show you all of this. I'll just kind of come to that. So in my environment here, back on exit of that, I come back onto my OS. By the way, let's do something if you're familiar with dispatch. Dispatch is a benchmark utility. I'm just running this natively on my laptop. It's an old one that I travel with that I don't get too upset if it gets stolen. So it's not going to be overly impressive but it's going to run about 1,000 or 10,000 iterations I think of calculating something on the processor here. So as soon as that finishes, normally it takes about 10 seconds, there we go. So yeah, 9.94 seconds. It's very little depending on the jitter that we have on the system and stuff like that. If I go back to my container and I can hopefully do the same I just want to stress this. This should be within a few percent in terms of the performance. The reason I'm doing this and I want to show you that running a container is akin to running on bare metal. If I do a benchmark, whenever it comes back, there we go, within whatever it was, 400th of a second. So pretty basic. In fact, it looks faster actually in a container which is probably just a jitter on the system. So that's the few percent. So what does that give you? It's giving you native bare metal performance. And that's important because there's no doubting it. KBM, your hypervisor of choice can add a little overhead in terms of that network performance. But we don't flip to something here. Let's go back here. So once this screen, here I have a system that is running OpenStack. So if I run here, you'll see how much of different things are running containers and other databases. Whole heap of stuff. If I do a Xe list, you'll see that there are about how many 16 or so containers. Each one of these is running in OpenStack Service. This is all running. It's not actually on my laptop because I don't have enough memory. You need about 16 giga-round to run this on a single machine. But it's running on, actually, an Intel NUC that has 16 giga-round and a nice SSD. So it's actually based there in Colorado. So this is okay for that. So I've got my 16 servers. This is all being put together actually using something called Juju. I'm not going to talk about Juju other than saying you'll see that there's pretty much a one-to-one mapping between the different services that have been deployed. We've deployed that matching with Juju and the number of containers that we have. Let's just scroll up a little so that you'll see we're running there with an Xe list. You'll also notice that on the right-hand side we've got something called Snapshots. Snapshots. SCD called Snapshots for the time being. We'll come back to Snapshots in a minute. So all of these services are running. If I go and connect on to my system, you'll see that oh, there we go. So this is the environment I have that's running. This is all running on a single Intel. Now I'm running in 16 also containers. Nothing particularly exciting going on right now. Don't have a look at the instances. I've probably only got one running. Let's go and launch an instance. Let's call it demo2. Very creatively. Take it down there. Go to next. Go to Xenio. Next. Go next. Then next. And I think we can go there. So go ahead and launch that. Let's go and spin up an instance within the understanding environment. So this is all running on that single machine. Off it goes. Starts building it. Spawning it. You'll see the image name here coming into your clues. It's Xenio-Lex-D. So what's actually being launched is not a VM, but it's a container. It's a Lex-D. It's a full Linux container. It's running inside of our oversight that's deployed in Lex-D containers. The reason that we're able to do this on a single Intel is because of that efficiency. So this is thanks to something called the Nova Lex-D driver. Something that we've written in the process of working with John Garber, Nova-DL, trying to upstream in the same gentle way. So it should be available to everybody pretty soon. Good. So, as I said, we've got a number of things running. Let me just flip back to, I've got a cheat sheet here. I just want to make sure that I'm showing everything that we've got. So it's a good job we do that because there's a bit that I forgot. So I put this together. This opens that cloud together using something called Cutter-Up. So Cutter-Up, if anyone's running a book 2604, come out of here. You can see here. It's clear so we can get that and history. This is a machine that I launched this morning. You can see these are all 29 commands that I have run on that machine since it was born on this other Intel NUC. So you can see it's pretty, half of these are duplicates because I can't type or I was just practicing. So I've updated it, upgraded it, added a repo, installed a bunch of Cutter-Up ZFS stuff, run some config commands and then ran something called Cutter-Up OpenStack. Cutter-Up OpenStack across my fingers gives us this very simple because this driven user interface to be able to use the container, to be able to build containers underneath either on a single machine or multiple machines. Here I get three choices. I can build an OpenStack or build an OpenStack with NovaXD. The hypervisor allows us to be able to deploy managed containers within Nova or do something with the OpenStack or a pilot. That's another tool that we have which I won't discuss with you right now. Very, very simple. If I go ahead and select that, a little bit of lag. I'll skip out of that. What it does is give you a very simple interface to be able to say, build me an OpenStack, go choose which services I want to build it into the container. This is how we arrive essentially at the number of containers we have deployed here, just running our OpenStack environment. Let's go and have a look at if we do Alexi there. Choose one of these. I should just ask the audience to choose one of these really because I was being adventurous. I won't do that. Go into that and see which one this is running. Keystone. This is running Keystone. Pretty important part of our OpenStack environment I think we'll all agree. Let's come out of that. Because it's such an important piece I'm going to let's go and see. I'm going to take a snapshot of that. I'm going to snapshot it. Let's go ahead and call it backup two. I'm not going to conflict anything. I'm going to take a snapshot so it's taking a full snapshot of the Alexi container that's running our Keystone environment. We just saw do that. That was really fast. So that's nice to ZFS. It's running underneath it. Let's go back into that machine. So this is running can you see that on the back? It's running our Keystone environment. Let's just go and check. It still is. So it's running our Keystone environment. And let's go there. You see that? Is that recommended? So now this is going to give us some problems actually. So if I could do that again. I think you'll probably agree that's going to make life difficult for Keystone. It's running an environment. This was our production of the second environment. That's going to cause us some trouble. But thanks to the fact that we're taking a snapshot of that we want to be able to get our Restore a good version. Let's go. We can do we can get the right one. Let's go and grab it from our Chi Chi. There's something that's just too big to type in your Dingerland demo. There's two, right? How long does that take? A second? Two seconds maybe? So if we go back and do the same thing back into our environment as I am. AUX. Our cloud should still be running. I should, because my fingers be able to continue to navigate around my environment, right? So you begin to see how this is gives us not only a kind of pretty high-performance environment running at native bare metal speed. Both our open stack environment is running containers and workloads are running within it bare metal speed. But you think how it gives us nice means to be able to provide some resilience in our environment, right? So availability. People know that, operators will know, availability is not just about how to keep systems available. It's how quickly can you restore them when they go barely up, right? Which, inevitably, they will do at some point in their life. So just to make that point again, we have all of these containers running. If I want to take a snapshot of my entire environment if I've got the right thing in my history, yes, here we go. Just using this Alexi list running on to XI's minus I, Alexi's snapshot. Just take the snapshot of every single container in my environment and then if I do Alexi list again, you should see we've now got the snapshot of every single container that's running an open stack service. So I can do this all day, I won't do because I haven't had enough time, but I can do this all day is go into each service in turn, do something rude and unusual to it and then just restore it continuing having my happy, happy, open stack environment. So the other piece I've come back to and I showed it to show you just the other piece here, you'll see that in terms of hyperbisers on this cloud we haven't got any traditional, I guess you call it class of this, traditional hyperbisers. So there's no KBM in this environment right here. This is designed specifically to run on a small, lightweight environment and do like this. You could run it in your production system if you wanted, but really it's designed for people that want to be able to build a real cloud, something a little beyond the Dev stack, be able to spawn real VM to it with services that are connected in real way. So we've only got this one hypervisor here which is the Lexity hypervisor and you'll see that that's running a couple of instances. So there's a whole heap of backup slides here in this demo file, so I have to scroll through those really fast. So this hypervisor, the hyperconverter architecture, there are very many different architectures that you can use to deploy an over stack environment. The way that counter up deploys this is deploying it all on a single system. But even if we had multiple systems it would spray or distribute each of those application loads across as many machines as possible. And that's often referred to a hyperconverter architecture. For those of you who remember Piston, if you're old enough in over stack to remember them, Piston uses a simpler thing, so running spraying services across as many machines as possible, sharing computing and storage. And so if you're using counter up to deploy an over stack environment, then it uses the same model. And we've got that exact architecture in play, many of the production customers I've talked about. So if you like Sky, you'd like to go to telecom and others. And it's running very successfully, very fast. So please do give it a go. We've got say dozens of those Lexi instances launching in seconds, we can snapshot everything super fast and run at bare minimum speed. So, if you want to get this to go, you're going to need to do a few things. The first is going to be running Ubuntu 16.04. So this is all pretty new stuff. It's all on Ubuntu 16.04. If you're going to deploy Ubuntu 16.04 on a machine, you can probably deploy it in a VM if you've got a chunky enough machine. But deploy that. You're going to need 16 gig of RAM.   Run that.  Let's go back and see whether we've got as far as that. There we go. For whatever reason that wasn't big. I'm having to run new RecessSH tunnels to be able to get here. It's quite likely that one of us cracked out. Forgive that. Other places you can get more information are ubuntu.com. We want information about how you can use Lexi to deploy management-run forces of containers. That's there. There's also information there about what we're doing with Nova Lexi. If you want to be able to find that out. If you want Lexi, their Linux container project sits on GitHub like most things and also linuxcontainers.org. So go and check those out. And that was it. I'm finishing with four minutes to spare. Does anybody have any questions? I guess thank you very much. You get four minutes back.


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Hello, thank you for joining me. I'm in Chalfonson Peter today. Chalfonson Peter is a large village in Buckinghamshire And I'm just standing in a church yard by the Village Centre and what we're going to do today I discovered they have these plaques all around Chalfonson Peter and it's a trail you can do you can follow them And if you go in the library you can pick up this leaflet which tells you about each plaque and there's a little map inside and and So you can see each plaque and there's a picture of how something used to look and then you You know as you are here today you see it as it is now so it's a bit like looking at a past and present book but You really are here in the present and you get to see the past. So we've just walked through the parish church yard There'll be a bit more on the church later and we come out Into the car park and we're going to go and find plaque number one, which is at the The middle school so I'm gonna walk across here. I can't see it yet, but I'll just show it to you So what we'll do is we'll have a look at each plaque and then we can see you know Try and imagine how it would look so what is now the village car park? This was all once a larger part of a graveyard and I believe there were sort of more meadows and there wasn't you know All these houses here and the actual village would have been like I said over there by the church where some of it still is but it's this village has grown a lot and a lot of the village has been rebuilt and It really has changed, but you know, we're gonna look at some of those changes as we do the video. So come up here There is the school and And here's the first plaque now. What's quite interesting is Well, I'll let you have a look at the plaque is The picture they show you Isn't the building you see here It's actually the building behind which is hardest to see from here But there was once two school buildings one was probably for boys and one was for girls and they filled it in in the middle So what the plaque shows is the building behind we're now going to walk on and find the next one So we just come along church lane from where the school was the schools back there our building site By the way, they're building a new Baptist church and I'll show you the one it's going to replace Later on so we get to here just over there is the high street Which we'll talk about more in a minute. This is the marketplace now. Well, there's no cars I'm gonna run across talk more about the marketplace. Well now because I'm gonna show you the second plaque this one here So it shows the marketplace when it was brand new it was formerly called Gold Hill Lane It was all allotments up there and as the village grew in the 1920s. They built this parade of shops I believe there's an identical parade in rice lip in the London bar of Hillingdon and There's some newer shops here. There was a cinema there But we'll get on to that plate later and just here in front of chow font home and hobby store There was octagonal block of public toilets, which is long gone So we now will head up the marketplace. There's a couple more plaques here on this more modern building here This currently houses to co-op now if you look here at this plaque it shows Gold Hill Lane, which is now marketplace So you can see the difference in how it's been transformed in the 1920s to a parade of shops Now if you have a look here This is the Fairfork cars a car company Fairfork They're actually used to build cars here in chow front St. Peter on the side of Where this supermarket is and Then we turn around one more time looking that way you can see looking back down towards the high street You can see just how much and or how narrow the road was just how much it's widened So this build it where I've all gone actually all the buildings you see in there We're now going to carry on walking up to the top of Chow front St. Peter is so I said it used to be called Gold Hill Lane It's now in the marketplace a reason it's called Gold Hill Lane It's because it goes to Gold Hill and that's where we're going now So we've now come up marketplace formerly Gold Hill Lane now the reason it's called Gold Hill Lane It's because over there that is the Gold Hill that's Gold Hill common It's that bit in the foreground or the background rather which is known as the Gold Hill whenever it snows People come from miles around to go sledging there because it's on the best hills in the area So as we walk along here, we've now come down Hamden Road We are going to go back to Gold Hill common, but I've got one more plaque to show you along here this road Churchill Road, that's the road that goes along the back of the shops So, you know, well you can access the back of the shops this one here This is called Hamden House, which I think is rather amusing because Further up in the Chilterns in Buckinshire. There is a big stately home called Hamden House But here we are here's a Hamden House in Chow front St. Peter now as we come to here This is the Chow front St. Peter Hospital. There's a beautiful tulip tree that tree there is a tulip tree I'll explain why it's called a tulip tree in a minute. It's nothing to do with tulips the flower So as we come up to the old Dovecott The hospital this was a cottage hospital. It is still a hospital. It's not a big hospital But you know, it's a hospital. I don't know too much about hospitals But what I'm saying is it's not one of those massive ones. So I'm going to show you this plaque here So the hospital opened in 1871 home of the Hibbet family and so They provided the hospital for Chow and St. Peter now the reason this tree here is called a tulip tree It's nothing to do with tulips at all. It's the shape of the leaf. Have a look at that leaf It is the shape of a tulip flower. Let's point it up. See what I mean That's why they call it the tulip tree. Anyway, I'm now going to go back to Gold Hill Common and Show you some more of the plaques up there So as I head up towards Gold Hill, there's not a plaque on this one But I wanted to show it to you anyway. This is the coronation clock. It was put here in 1953 to commemorate the Queen's coronation I'm now going to take you up to the top of Gold Hill Common where we're going to find our next plaques So here we are at the top of Gold Hill Common now This is a large triangular piece of land in Chow, Fonson, Peter Called a common because it would have once been grazed by cattle and various animals And if you talk to some of the elderly residents of the village, some of them can remember Seeing it when it was all you know when it when he would have seen cattle grazing on the common So it's really quite a pleasant part of the village. We've got the houses along there We're just heading up to here to towards the Baptist Church now I said earlier on when we were down in Church Lane that the building site was a new Baptist Church That's the church it's going to replace the congregation has grown so they're moving to a larger site So I'm not actually sure what's going to happen with The that church building. I'd like to think um, you know, it'll be Kept for something and you know, maybe converted into apartments But be ashamed to knock it down because I think Gold Hill Common wouldn't be the same without the church Dominating the scene but as the next class going to tell us it's not the original church on that site There's been one before so if we come to this bus stop here Here we have the plaque Now that plaque that shows the original church now from looking at it looking at the cottages I think the original church was about there where those houses the ones painted white were it opened in 1792 and then it was replaced by its current building in 1817 it looks like at some point probably in 2021 it should be replaced by the new building in the village now has a pub here Jolly Farmer a lot of drinks in there when I was younger and That is where we should find our next plaque. So it's got to get across the road. It's starting to rain as well Yeah cross the road so here's Jolly Farmer The next plaque is just on the corner. So there is Gold Hill Baptist Church Which like I said, it's having its replacement built down in the village. Oh, here we are look here in the bushes Here is the Jolly Farmer plaque So you can see there was once a smaller pub building there It's been replaced by the much larger ones there today that gay blend still there I should show that to you now. It's just there now what we're going to do There's one more plaque up on Gold Hill Common So if you walk back towards the Baptist Church, I should show you the final plaque up here And then I shall end part one up here on Gold Hill Common in part two What we'll do is I'll show you more of the village center and we'll just carry on so we've been round Round all of them. So there's quite a few to see but I just like how you know, it gives us this opportunity To you know, imagine how somewhere would have been You know before is now sometimes it can be quite hard. It's not not so hard up here because apart from, you know, things like modern cars and Double-glazed windows hasn't really changed too much. Um, but you know, you don't get cows on the common You get dogs being walked on the common which, you know, it's perfectly fine. That's how things evolve But when we get down into the main part of the village things have changed a lot So, you know, that's where these plaques really come into their own that we can really, you know Try and imagine just how Chalfont St. Peter would have looked and you know You get I quite like looking at past and present books on railways and other things and whenever I go to these Towns and cities and villages. I do like to you know, imagine how things were If you've seen some of my videos where I explore old railway lines, you know It's a bit like doing that really except we're not doing it with railways There's no railways in Chalfont St. Peter by the way nearest railway line is at Giles Cross Although there is a railway station with the name Chalfont, Chalfont Latimer on the Metropolitan line And also served by Shilton Railways So but Giles Cross is actually the nearest railway station to here So here we come to the final plaque of part one gold hill pond So it seems hard to believe but there was a pond here I don't know why it was filled in but it's obviously there in the 1920s If anyone knows why it was filled in and those cottages over there, they are still called the pond cottages So I'm just looking at the trees. Are they the same ones? I'm not sure. It looks like a horse chestnut there We have got some or at least one horse chestnut there I think though, well, it's clearly it's not the same one It obviously actually I can just see over there. I won't walk over it I can just see the stump of a much larger tree. So that must be the tree in the picture What I thought I'd do though before we end the video As soon as I've pointed out the actual hill that is known as Gold Hill I thought we'll end there because you get quite a nice view over Chalfont St. Peter Back onto the main bulk of Gold Hill Common. This section of Common you kind of got the road going through it Heading down towards here He got the woodlands over there used to play in those woods a lot as a child and You know, it's it's somewhere I've sort of grown up I've known this area all my life In fact, going back to the pub over there the Jolly Farmer when I was first old enough to have a drink It was called the Village Hall. I remember I thought it was a funny name for a pub So I'm thinking people might not go there because they might actually think it is the Village Hall But it didn't seem to affect its custom. In fact, it was always very busy when I went in there And then in 2016 irreversed to its original name to Jolly Farm So as we come to here, this is the Gold Hill you can sort of see why because it kind of is almost sort of Golden and this is where lots and lots of people go sedging when it snows It's one of the best hills around for sedging So I'm gonna leave you with a view over Chalfont St. Peter walk back down to Village Enter And that's where we should do part two


Hello everybody! Watch this video to find out how to recover data from a system drive or RAID system based on a virtual network-attached storage Starwind, SAM and NAS. In today's video, I'll show you how to recover data from a RAID level 5 with the XFS file system or a virtual machine-based VMware hypervisor. This video tutorial is also suitable for other ways of building a virtual network-attached storage, Hyper-V, KVM and so on. But before we get down to data recovery, let's have a quick look at what Starwind, SAM and NAS is. Starwind, SAM and NAS is a powerful and convenient tool to create and manage network storage systems. It allows users to unites several physical disks into a single data storage, with the opportunity to backup and replicate data. However, just like any other equipment, even with the most reliable system on board, Starwind still has a risk of data loss due to various factors such as hardware failures, operating errors for human fools. In today's video, we'll explore how to recover data from Starwind, SAM and NAS storage if it is lost or damaged. I will show you the recommended steps in the data recovery process using special light tools and NASs. We will also cover important aspects in preventing data loss and creating backups to ensure the safety of your data. For installation, download an ISO image of the operating system for Starwind, SAM and NAS from the official website. Select download, fill in the gaps, and then two links will be sent to your email. A link to download the ISO image of the system and a link to download the trial version key. Creating a virtual machine with Starwind, SAM and NAS is no different from doing it on Ubuntu. Visit our channel to check out one of our videos for a detailed tutorial on creating virtual machines in the VMware system. The only difference is the network settings. To see the machine online, choose Bridge Networking. Now let's explore Starwind installation in greater detail, although this process shouldn't raise any questions. Power on the virtual machine. When it starts booting, you will see the license agreement window. Accept the agreement to continue. Then you will see the installation window. Make sure the item installed Starwind appliance is selected and press enter. Now choose the disk where to install the operating system. Type yes to confirm your choice and press enter. It starts the installation process, so you will have to wait a little until it is over. When it's complete, press enter to restart. When the virtual machine boots, you will see the management console. To make a storage device accessible on the network, configure its network settings, including the IP address and subnet according to your infrastructure. This will allow other devices on this network to connect to the storage and exchange data, as well as to manage the storage system. To open the console, press enter, then type the login and password. By default, the login is user and the password is RDS123RDSCAPITAL. Now open the network settings and press enter to modify them. Type the IP address, the subnet mask, default gateway, as well as the hostname and DNS. Then press enter to confirm them. Now when you proceed to this address in your browser, it opens the web interface for Starwind, ZAN and NAS. Having opened this address, you will see the Starwind initial configuration wizard window. At the next stage, upload the license file. The link to it was sent to you earlier, together with the link to the operating system image. Read and accept the end-user license agreement to continue. You only define network settings and click Next, an important note. We recommend using static network settings in this configuration. Specify the name and location of the virtual machine and click Next. Create an administrator account, give the login and password, confirm the password and click Next. Review the selected properties and click Configure to start setting up your storage. Wait until the initial configuration wizard configures Starwind ZAN and NAS. Now the storage is configured and ready for work. Click Finish to install Starwind vSphere plugin or uncheck the box to skip this step and proceed to the login page. Enter the login and password for the new user. Here you can create a pool, a volume, and so on. In the next part of this video, we'll be exploring how to recover data from a RAID system, but before that, let's see how it can be created in this operating system. This RAID will be based on MDADDM technology. To build the RAID with the available hard disks, open Storage – Storage Pools. Click on the button Create a new pool. After that, select disks and choose the pool profile for this pool. The recommended automatic one or manual. In the manual profile, you can select the RAID level and file system. By default, it's XFS. When all the properties are ready, click Create. When the creation process is complete, the pool will appear in this window. Now you can create a volume. Open the Volume tab. Click on Create a new volume. Select the Storage Pool, where the new volume should be created, then set its name and size. At the next stage, choose your file system settings, review the properties and click Create. When the volume is ready, you can create a shared folder and configure access to it. Open the Storage Management Console. Choose Configure SMB Share. Create SMB Share. Check this option for the required volume and give the shared folder name. Then press Yes or Enter to confirm. After that, change the SMB password. Otherwise, the shared folder will never appear on your network. So open the File Explorer, Network and here it is, your shared folder. Now let's explore the process of data recovery. If you need to recover data from a crashed RAID with Starwinds sign and NASA braiding system or from the system drive, use a dedicated tool from Hetman Recovery. If you want to recover data from a system drive, choose Hetman Partition Recovery. And if you'd like to do it from RAID, install Hetman Recovery. It supports most popular file systems RAID levels and array patterns used by various NAS manufacturers including Starwinds. Since this NAS is based on a virtual machine, the Recovery tool also supports work with virtual disk files used by various hypervisors. Download, install and run Hetman Recovery. To search for lost files on virtual machine disks, they should be first mounted into the Recovery tool. To do it, click Tools, Mount Disk, then choose the virtual disk type or hypervisor, and give the pass to the virtual disk files. Click OK, and click Next again. After that, the disks will appear in the programs window and you will see your RAID. The Recovery program will automatically rebuild the RAID with the available hard disks, so all you have to do is to scan it. This is how the system drive is displayed in the programs window. Due to peculiarities of the file system and for convenience reasons, it is separated and shown as a detached device. If you need to recover data from this drive, right-click on it and choose Open. After that, choose the scan type and analyze the disk. The RAID array is shown above. To start searching for lost files, right-click on the array and choose Open. Select the scan type. For status, we command running a fast scan first. It will take less time. To the program fail to find the necessary files, then run full analysis. To do it, go back to the main window, right-click on the array and choose Analyze again. Full analysis. Select the file system type for this disk and uncheck the box for content-aware analysis to accelerate the search process. In very complicated scenarios, you can choose to scan the disk with content-aware analysis enabled. When the scan is over, open the folder where the lost files used to be. Recover tool preserves original file names and folder structure, which makes the recovery process as user-friendly and convenient as possible. Besides, the program lets you preview the file content before recovery, which helps you to make sure that you are going to recover exactly the data you've been looking for. The contents of every file is displayed in the preview window. Any files which were previously deleted are shown with the corresponding marking. Select all the items you want to recover and hit the recovery button. Find where to save the data, choose the disk and folder, and click Recover again. When the recovery process is complete, you will see all the files in the Choosing Directory. Summing up, we have explored how to recover data from Starwind, Sand and Nest storage. It is important to keep in mind that data loss prevention strategies and regular backups can help you considerably reduce the corresponding risks. Also, remember to monitor the condition of your equipment to avoid unexpected failures and issues related to the work of your Nest. With all these things combined, you can ensure safety and reliability of your data storage system. And that is all for now. I hope this video was useful and it helped you to recover lost files. Remember to click the Like button and subscribe to our channel. Leave your comments under the video. Thank you for watching. Good luck.


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