The vBrownBag Team had a great time at VMworld 2013 with the live tech talks and with meeting many of our webcast attendees and listeners. The week before, though, a few of us actually attended another IT conference that happened in San Francisco: PuppetConf 2013. VMware’s vCloud Hybrid Service (vCHS) is leveraging Puppet in its
-> Continue reading #vBrownBag at PuppetConf 2013: Nick Weaver Interview
The next episode of the Couch to OpenStack Series will be an office hours session led by Eric Wright. It will be a good opportunity for new and existing podcast viewers to reflect on what we’ve covered up to this point. The goal is to clear up any questions that you may have on OpenStack.
-> Continue reading Couch to OpenStack Office Hours on August 20, 2013
Thanks everyone for coming along last night. To recap, we: Used git to clone the Couch to OpenStack repo Used Vagrant to stand up the ‘controller’, ‘compute’, ‘cinder’, and ‘quantum’ VMs Used the Vagrant shell provisioner to install Ubuntu Grizzly repos MySQL KeyStone Glance Nova Cinder Quantum Setup .stackrc with environment variables Discussed the OpenStack
-> Continue reading Couch to OpenStack – Quantum Follow-Up
Thanks everyone for coming along last night. To recap, we: Used git to clone the Couch to OpenStack repo Used Vagrant to stand up the ‘controller’, ‘compute’, and ‘Cinder’ VMs Used the Vagrant shell provisioner to install Ubuntu Grizzly repos MySQL KeyStone Glance Nova Cinder Setup .stackrc with environment variables Discussed the OpenStack Block Storage
-> Continue reading Couch to OpenStack – Cinder Follow-Up
Thanks everyone for coming along last night. To recap, we: Used git to clone the Couch to OpenStack repo Used Vagrant to stand up the ‘controller’ and ‘compute’ VMs Use the Vagrant shell provisioner to install Ubuntu Grizzly repos MySQL KeyStone Glance Nova Setup .stackrc with environment variables Discussed the OpenStack Compute services and scenarios
-> Continue reading Couch to OpenStack – Nova Follow-Up
Thanks everyone for coming along last night. To recap we: Used git to clone the Couch to OpenStack repo Used Vagrant to stand up the ‘controller’ VM Use the Vagrant shell provisioner to install Ubuntu Grizzly repos MySQL KeyStone Glance Setup .stackrc with environment variables Discussed OpenStack Image services and the integration with Compute For
-> Continue reading Couch to OpenStack – Glance Follow-Up
Gurusimran Khalsa is the featured vBrownBag Presenter this week. Gurusimran, aka GS, is a Senior Consulting Engineer for Presidio. He has presented multiple times for the vBrownBag podcasts on the topics of Security as well as VCAP Exam experiences. In his free time, GS is one of the leaders of the New Mexico VMUG, and
-> Continue reading #vBrownBag Presenter Spotlight: Gurusimran Khalsa
The vBrownBag Presenter Spotlight is back after a brief hiatus. This week, we have Shane Williford (aka Mr. CoolSport00) joining us! Shane is a Sr. Systems Engineer for the Kansas City School Systems who enjoys sharing his insights on implementations and various topics that might frustrate other users (ex: SSL Certificates, Location-based printing for VDI).
-> Continue reading #vBrownBag Presenter Spotlight: Shane Williford
EMC World 2013 features some of the latest advancements in storage technologies and their applications for virtualized workloads. There was the big announcement regarding Project ViPR, and it will be interesting to see how it will allow storage allocations to be more agile. Of course, we don’t want Storage Sprawl. So, it will be important
-> Continue reading #vBrownBag at #EMCWorld 2013 – Jase McCarty Interview
This week’s guest is Randy Keener. If you have been to either of the 2012 VMworlds, you will recognize Randy from the #NotSupported Tech Talks. These sessions were a huge hit in San Francisco and Barcelona, and I’m confident that we will see them again at future VMworlds. For this week’s interview, Randy had some
-> Continue reading #vBrownBag Presenter Spotlight: Randy Keener
The week before VMware Partner Exchange 2013, Nick Weaver took time out of his busy schedule for the vBrownBag Presenter Spotlight. I think Nick is fairly well-known to our regular listeners, but in case you are new to vBrownBag, here’s a little background info about him: Nick is an Automation Architect for VMware where he
-> Continue reading #vBrownBag Presenter Spotlight: Nick Weaver
It’s time for another episode of the vBrownBag Presenter Spotlight series! This week’s guest is Hersey Cartwright. Hersey is a Senior Virtualization Engineer for ABS Technology Architects specializing in VMware vSphere and holding the VCAP-DCA Certification. He recently presented a vBrownBag showcasing VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) running on top of AutoLab! When Hersey is not
-> Continue reading #vBrownBag Presenter Spotlight: Hersey Cartwright
Ravi Venkat was part of the vBrownBag Month of Storage with, not just one, but two segments in March 2012. He agreed to sit down with us and to share more of his industry insights in a vBrownBag Presenter Spotlight session. If there was a Who’s Who for the Virtualization & Cloud community, you might
-> Continue reading #vBrownBag Presenter Spotlight: Ravi Venkat
In this week’s installment of the #vBrownBag Presenter Spotlight, we are joined by the man behind the vCloud Link icon on Twitter, Jake Robinson! Jake is a Solutions Architect at Bluelock, where he specializes in infrastructure automation, cloud computing, and security. His credentials include the VCP, CISSP, and VMware vExpert recognition. Jake has presented at
-> Continue reading #vBrownBag Presenter Spotlight: Jake Robinson
This week’s spotlight features Kenny Coleman. You may know Kenny from his posts on vCloud Director and other vTopics at www.kendrickcoleman.com or from his appearances at the vBrownBags presenting vCloud Networking and VCAP DCA content. He is an infrastructure architect for VCE focused on enterprise datacenter technologies. In his daily role, he is responsible for being a
-> Continue reading vBrownBag Presenter Spotlight: Kenny Coleman
New for 2013! We are launching the vBrownBag Presenter Spotlight podcast series. Some of our vBrownBag Presenters recently sat down with us to share some of their insights on Virtualization and Cloud, and we’ll be posting these talks every other week. Our first victim volunteer is Chris Wahl. He is an IT industry veteran with
-> Continue reading vBrownBag Presenter Spotlight: Chris Wahl