Sponsors who keep supporting vBrownBag year after year makes me almost as happy as community members who keep contributing year after year. Please join me in welcoming Rubrik back as a sponsor of the vBrownBag TechTalks at VMworld US and EMEA. Currently, we have around 50 TechTalks submitted and expect to have space for over
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Jad El-Zein and Cody De Arkland continue their discussion of Custom Forms in a hands on deep dive. Jad wrote a detailed implementation guide for vRA. It is available at http://www.virtualjad.com/2017/02/vra-7-2-detailed-implementation-video-guide.html vRA Customizing Blueprint Request Forms Documentation https://docs.vmware.com/en/vRealize-Automation/7.4/com.vmware.vra.prepare.use.doc/GUID-7906CCD5-38D3-4ECA-BFE4-8A1BC690FD74.html *About vBrownBag* SUBSCRIBE! http://bit.ly/vBBYoutube Socials: Twitter: https://twitter.com/vBrownBag Facebook: https://facebook.com/vBrownBag iTunes: http://bit.ly/vbrownbagitunes Google+: google.com/+vBrownBag https://vBrownBag.com is a community
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I have been meaning to write about how the vBrownBag TechTalk videos get made. It has taken a few years to get everything together and the setup is still developing over time. We live stream and record video so that the presentation is available to people who cannot attend in person. I have found that our specific requirements are unusual, few other video producers work in quite the way that we do. All of the equipment selection is driven by a set of requirements.
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Jad El-Zein and Cody De Arkland present one of vRealize Automation 7.4’s newest features: Custom Forms. Cody’s Overview Blog: https://blogs.vmware.com/management/2018/05/xaas-machine-provisioning.html Chip Zoller’s Drop Down List blog: http://www.sovsystems.com/drop-down-lists-in-vrealize-automation-from-static-to-dynamic-to-external/ vRA Customizing Blueprint Request Forms Documentation https://docs.vmware.com/en/vRealize-Automation/7.4/com.vmware.vra.prepare.use.doc/GUID-7906CCD5-38D3-4ECA-BFE4-8A1BC690FD74.html *About vBrownBag* SUBSCRIBE! http://bit.ly/vBBYoutube Socials: Twitter: https://twitter.com/vBrownBag Facebook: https://facebook.com/vBrownBag iTunes: http://bit.ly/vbrownbagitunes Google+: google.com/+vBrownBag https://vBrownBag.com is a community of people who
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The spring conference season continues with HPE Discover next month, and the vBrownBag TechTalks will make their first appearance at Discover this year. We are starting small, just four hours of TechTalk stage time at Discover US this year, and we would like to invite you to present a vBrownBag TechTalk at HPE Discover. If you already know about our TechTalks and will be at Discover, then drop me an email (alastair@vbrownbag.com) to schedule a TechTalk. If you are less familiar, then read on, and I will explain all.
We will be live-streaming the TechTalks, the schedule will fill out on this page.
I know it is early, but we need to fit with the VMworld team’s schedule. Submissions are now open for vBrownBag TechTalks at VMworld 2018 US and EMEA. If you already know about vBrownBag TechTalks then go right ahead and fill out this form.
Now that we have completed five Build Day Live events, there are a few patterns that have emerged and a particular area where we have steadily improved our game. If you have watched the live streams, you will know that it is always the network that gives us the most trouble. On one Build Day, I had to use my manager’s voice and say that we were not going to troubleshoot the network any further but needed to do a field expedient temporary configuration. The core of the problem is that we bring some network in the vBrownBag traveling lab and need to integrate that networking with the vendor’s lab equipment. I try to make the vBrownBag a little like a production environment, so there are VLANs that separate different networks for management, storage, and workload VMs. Most vendor environments are labs where networking is kept simple. The solution has been to expand the traveling lab network and use less of the vendor’s network. The current lab provides 10 x 10Gbe ports and 10 x 1Gbe ports for the vendor’s equipment.
The first vBrownBag AMA (Ask Me Anything) will be with Datrium on Thursday the 26th of April at 12:00 noon Pacific time.
You can watch the stream live on YouTube or sign up through FaceBook and get reminded. If you cannot make it live, we will post the recording to YouTube, just make sure to fill out the form below if you want a question asked.
The Oracle Ravello Build Day Live was our first event without a hardware product. That made travel easier for me as I didn’t need to bring the vBrownBag mobile lab to Israel. Instead, we used the cloud, also known as somebody else’s computer. This is a central part of the Ravello value, not needing to
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Merry Commitmas everyone! It is that time of year again to brush up on your git skills and sign up for some great prizes thanks to our awesome end of year giveaway sponsors! Please take a minute to connect with them on Twitter and check out what they have to offer. None of this is
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It is always nice to welcome new sponsors and I am delighted that Pivot3 has chosen to support the vBrownBag TechTalks at VMworld EMEA. Pivot3 is a hyperconverged vendor with some very interesting policy based management, including storage QoS. While I’m talking about TechTalks, you can find all of the VMworld USA 2017 TechTalks in this
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Build Day number two is in the can, we had a great week in Silicon Valley with Pure Storage. We initially thought we wouldn’t have enough content for a Build Day with Pure. The array deployment is a 30-minute task, and from there it is simple to operate. Happily, we realized that we could show more than day 1, we could show a lot of the day two operations. We got to see some radical simplicity in the management of the Flash Array and did a whole lot of lifecycle operations on the array. You can see the live part of the build day in this video, and all of the Pure Storage build day videos in this playlist.
The vBrownBag Build day is happening again this month (20 July 2017) with Pure Storage as our hosts. We will be bringing a new vSphere cluster to silicon valley and migrating a bunch of VMs onto a nice All-Flash-Array. The plan is to have a couple of heavy workloads that are constrained by the existing
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I just sent the session acceptance for the hundred vBrownBag TechTalk sessions that are in the schedule for VMworld 2017. I am expecting that we will have the busiest VMworld ever for vBrownBag. The US schedule is packed, with a wait list of half a dozen sessions. The EMEA schedule does have space for more
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Time is nearly up for initial submissions for vBrownBag TechTalks at VMworld. On Friday night (June 30th), we will be taking the initial submissions and putting together the schedule for the TechTalks. Right now, it looks like we will have a full schedule for VMworld USA and room for a few more sessions in Barcelona.
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vBrownBag TechTalks are back for a sixth year at VMworld US and EMEA. After a little drama along the way, I am confident that these will be the best vBrownBag TechTalk we have had at VMworld. Two great changes for us, the TechTalks will be in Schedule Builder and we will be reaching out to
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It was our first time making vBrownBag video at Dell/EMC World, despite having so many friends at both companies. We had an interesting mix of community presentations and people from inside Dell/EMC. Two interesting presentations were by Dell/EMC fellows, Radia Perlman and Steve Todd, these are people valued for thinking about the future of IT.
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This guest post is by Ryan of VIRTUBYTES where you can find his back catalog of posts. Ryan writes about VMware products and a lot of related infrastructure technologies.
A few weeks back, we discussed Zerto’s ability to perform point-in-time file level restores directly from the replication journal. However, what if the data you need from 30 minutes ago isn’t readily compiled into a file or requires manual intervention to produce; such as a database backup or a PST export of Exchange mailbox items? Introducing Zerto Failover Tests for data recovery.
The following content is in Spanish, the language in which the webinar is presented. 2017-03-09 #vBrownBag LATAM @molikop #AWS primeros pasos con live demo 2017-03-09 #vBrownBag LATAM @molikop #AWS primeros pasos con live demo 2017-03-10T05:53:14.000Z
Mike Foley, TME for Security will be discussing what’s new in vSphere 6.5 security. What’s New in vSphere 6.5 Security Video Show Notes: What’s New in vSphere 6.5 Security. Presenter: Mike Foley Twitter: @mikefoley – VM Escape is not the problem you are looking for! (1:00) – When do I get encryption? (1:35) – VMware’s
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