The VMworld team would like your TechTalk session to be in the Content Catalog when it launches and has set a deadline of the end of June to be part of the Content Catalog at launch. If you have a topic but haven’t submitted it yet, go ahead and submit your session now using this[…]
TLDR: Signup here. Once again we look towards VMworld and want to have the best community and educational content in the vBrownBag TechTalks. vBrownBag TechTalks are brief presentations (12 or 27-minute slots) by community members that help other community members. Most presentations are technical, the audience is definitely technical. We will arrange with you to[…]
It seems that the community is still hard for vendors to include in their conferences & particularly the online replacement for their conferences. The community is my sole reason for going to almost every VMworld event since 2011, so I want to spend time with my community friends at VMworld 2020. With that in mind,[…]
Our plans for TechTalks at VMworld 2020 are getting clearer. There will be a small number of TechTalks in the official VMware event, repeated in each of the three time zones. We will have quite a few more TechTalks than the VMworld team can accommodate, so we will also have a pre-VMworld event. On Monday[…]
Build Day Live has been bringing you live-streamed, hands-on, learning about various vendor’s products for the last three years. But this is 2020, so everything must change. Travel restrictions, particularly for me, mean that we do not expect to be doing Build Day Live events for quite a while. Our new format is more of[…]
Modern times require modern solutions, so vBrownBag has joined a 15-year-old platform. You can now find vBrownBag on Reddit at https://www.reddit.com/r/vBrownBag/. Our subreddit is a place to talk about vBrownBag episodes and talk with community members. A little like the blogger tables at VMworld, but without the conference noise. We plan to link all new[…]
It is official, VMworld 2020 will be an online-only conference happening during the week of 28 September. There will be no in-person VMworld in the US or EMEA until at least 2021. I’m not surprised, and I’m pleased that the VMworld team has chosen to make an early call to go online. It is too[…]
It is the time of year when I get serious about TechTalks and planning for VMworld. This year there seems to be a reasonable probability that VMworld will not be the same as last year, either online-only or reduced attendance. Either way, the vBrownBag TechTalks will go ahead. You can sign up to present a[…]
Less than a week from now, VMworld EMEA 2019 kicks off at Fira Gran Via in Barcelona, and the vBrownBag team will be there to make TechTalk videos. You can find all of the TechTalks in the Content Catalog, search for VMTN. You can find the sessions in the VMware Communities area in Hall 6,[…]
In the middle of September, we had another fun Build Day Live event. This time, we deployed the NetApp HCI platform and the NetApp Kubernetes on top of the HCI. Be sure to take a look at all of the videos from the Build Day Live with NetApp in Boulder as well as the event home page. We all enjoyed our time in Boulder, a beautiful central city with the Rocky Mountains rising up directly to the west of town. I have wanted to look at the process of deploying this HCI platform since I was convinced that HCI isn’t really about having the compute and storage cluster on the same servers. The NetApp HCI uses compute-only hypervisor hosts, and then shared storage using the scale-out Element storage OS from the SolidFire platform. Other HCI platforms use storage inside the hypervisor hosts, and so the storage cluster overlaps the compute cluster. With NetApp, there are two separate clusters, but the management is unified, it overlaps.
