#vBrownBag Summer Book-apolooza contest courtesy of @VMwarePress and @PacktPub

The #vBrownBag crew, thanks to VMware Press and Packt Publishing, is proud to bring you the 2014 Summer Book-apolooza.  We have several great titles to give away to our listeners including: DevOps for VMware Administrators Virtualizing SQL Server with VMware Essential Virtual SAN (VSAN) VCAP5-DCA Official Cert Guide CCENT Practice and Study Guide CCNA Routing
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Free! Free! Free! – #vBrownBag End of the Year Blow-Out

It’s that time of year again, where, in partnership with our amazing and ever supporting group of sponsors we line up some really cool stuff to give back to the community. This year, the list is at least as amazing as it was last year. Additionally, we’re doing this lottery style, so there are more
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VMware Workstation & Fusion Tech Previews Now Available

The technology fairy dropped a note in my inbox about a Public technology preview for VMware’s Desktop Virtualization Products (VMware Workstation and VMware Fusion). While this is a bit unusual for VMware, new and shiny is always fun. The details are below: VMware Workstation CTP The VMware Workstation Team is excited to invite you to
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Now This is Very Interesting – Open Source VMFS Driver!

Interesting indeed. Scott Lowe & Mr. Brambley already did an excellent write up, so I’ll spare you more boring reading. However, this opens up some further cool uses for VMFS. “This driver enables read-only access to files and folders on partitions formatted in the Virtual Machine File System (VMFS) by VMware. VMFS is a clustered
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BlueBear Kodiak Invites – I Has Them!

Actually had a wonderful discussion on BlueBear, Kodiak, and all things Geek with the Head Bear Matt himself. Sparing y’all the geeky details, what came of this my dear readers, is that I have Kodiak invites. Lots of them. Right here in fact! Just click on through, and be sure to mention that you came
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"Free" Virtualization Round-Up

I’ve tried not to cover much outside ESX so far, but one cannot keep their head in the sand about what else is out there. Following on Pancil’s ESXi Post, I’ve found a breakdown, here of the "Free" Virtualization products. Keep in mind, tis not my post, just came across it while looking some things
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