First, thanks to everyone who have helped make the #vBrownBags what they are… those of you who attend on a weekly basis, who have told friends about the #vBrownBags, or who download us on iTunes. Also thank you to everyone who has hosted or presented a #vBrownBag. With out you, the #vBrownBags would not be
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This also notes the first post made from a Win7 instance running on the OCP box via VMware View! Also, I don’t have cats, but I blame my excessive amount of open tabs on them: Links VCAP-DCA Obj 9 follow-up http://www.vhersey.com/2012/05/vbrownbag-vcap5-dca-objective-9/ Big Iron hatin on Cloud Storage: http://dataontop.com/doing-their-very-best-to-stall-cloud-storage/ Razor! – Read, watch the videos… then
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Video Slides Links http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.vmware.vsphere.upgrade.doc_50%2FGUID-9040F0B2-31B5-406C-9000-B02E8DA785D4.html http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.vmware.vsphere.install.doc_50%2FGUID-980D9E38-633E-4557-9144-AC422FA239C5.html http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2011/09/05/cheat-sheet-auto-deploy/ http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/topic/com.vmware.ICbase/PDF/vsphere-esxi-vcenter-server-501-auto-deploy-guide.pdf http://www.gabesvirtualworld.com/my-first-auto-deploy-design-for-real-production-environment/ http://jeremywaldrop.wordpress.com/2010/11/11/cisco-ucs-service-profile-coolness/ http://communities.vmware.com/thread/328034 http://download3.vmware.com/software/vmw-tools/autodeploygui/VMwareAutoDeployGUIPracticalGuide5.pdf http://blogs.vmware.com/esxi/2011/09/sample-scripts-for-automating-auto-deploy.html
As with the Oxygen post, I’ve been playing with the idea and a few Cloudy storage options in the Homelab for a bit. This week, with a well known storage conference going on, I’ve been installing and testing TwinStrata’s CloudArray. As a side note, when did we stop removing spaces and capitalizing compound words? About
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This week’s #vBrownBag has Hersey Cartwright returning to present on the VCAP-DCA! Specifically he’ll be tackling Objective 9. To register: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/613559281
Video Slides Links http://frankdenneman.nl/2010/12/node-interleaving-enable-or-disable/ http://frankdenneman.nl/2011/01/amd-magny-cours-and-esx/
It’s time for yet another round of ‘close ALL the tabs’. Made even better this time by some random mixup by which some apps open links in FireFox tabs, others in Chrome. Instead of fixing it, it makes for a nice organization system. http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/05/please-dont-learn-to-code.html – To code or not to code. Some decent arguments both
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DPM or Distributed Power Management is the power saving function of VMware’s DRS. I’ll not go into too much on configuring it here, as that’s quite thoroughly covered elsewhere (Those are 3 different links). I will show you, however, quickly how to test it. Why? Well, there are a few times when you’d want to
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Tonight Damian did an excellent improv of Host Profiles, VUM, and other Operational Maintenance objective best practices. If you are studying for your VCAP (or maintaining a vSphere environment), you’ll want to watch this. Video
Last week we had Chris Wahl on to cover the VCAP-DCA Networking Objectives (Objective 2). Video
Nick Marshall took a step out from behind the scenes to drop some major know-how on last weeks APAC vBrownBag around the VCAP-DCD Performance Design objective. Video ;
Edited: So, not sure why but this post was stuck in my drafts folder until the evening right before… bleh. So I’m going to be at the North Carolina User Summit (here) presenting on vCO and handing out a few copies of the vCO Book. If you are going to be in the area Tuesday,
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Last week was entertaining, what with a laptop rebuild and knocking out some Orchestrator work in preparation for VMworld. (More on that later). Here’s the tabs I currently have open: VDDK API Reference – http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.vmware.vddk.pg.doc_50%2FvddkPreface.html Enabling CBT with PowerCLI: http://www.vmguru.com/articles/powershell/23-cbt-tracker-powershell-script-now-with-more-zombie Doing the above for a number of VMs at once: http://jpaul.me/?tag=change-block-tracking More of the same:
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Video Slides Links Windows 7 Optimization guide. Think about applying these to your servershttp://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/VMware-View-OptimizationGuideWindows7-EN.pdf vSphere HA Application monitoringhttp://www.yellow-bricks.com/2011/08/11/vsphere-5-0-ha-application-monitoring-intro/ Remove non-present devices after P2V using scripthttp://www.boche.net/blog/index.php/2011/06/11/scripted-removal-of-non-present-hardware-after-a-p2v/ Kendrick Colemans’s VM Advanced ISO. Free Tools For Advanced Taskshttp://kendrickcoleman.com/index.php?/Tech-Blog/vm-advanced-iso-free-tools-for-advanced-tasks.html
Tim Gleed will be back on the #vBrownBag again this week to finish up on vSphere VM Storage design as it applies to the VCAP-DCD. For part one, check here. Details Date/Time: 5/3/12 @ 18:00 Sydney, AustraliaRegistration: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/505624097
For those who haven’t seen his posts / presentations here before should check them out. VMware’s Nathan Small who works as a Staff Engineer at Global Support Services and specializes in… well, storage! We’ll have him on the 5/2/12 vBrownBag to do what he does best, dive mind-blowingly deep into storage in vSphere environments. Details
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This came up whilst doing preparation and writing for a forthcoming exam prep book. There was an objective that required changing the location of a VM Swap file. There are two PowerCLI one-liners that can help you here. One for the cluster level, then one for the hosts. PowerCLI – Change the VM Swapfile location
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Video Slides Links VMKernel iSCSI issue http://vmtoday.com/2012/02/vsphere-5-networking-bug-affects-software-iscsi/
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