#vBrownBag Follow-Up – Cloud Security w/ @Texiwill
Video Slides Don’t have the slides for last night yet, however we’ll update once they’re in hand.
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vSphere on Open Compute – Part 1 Lab Setup
This is part one of a few part series on the test I’m going to put the OCP Platform through. This first test will describe how the lab is setup. Next will be some basic “ghetto” load tests. Finally, we’ll throw some VDI at it. The Hardware Compute For compute, we’ll be using the v1.0
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vCenter Server Fell Out of Linked Mode
In prepping for the vCO book, one of the things I tested out was Linked-Mode vCenters. Once I discovered the vCO plug-in would not support linked-mode vCenters in the way I was expecting, I deleted the VM that was hosting vCenter02… this lead to the following in my vSphere client: vCenter Server not connected What?
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Migrating to OxygenCloud
So, this last weekend I’ve decided that I needed to get a bit more secure and a bit more proactive in how data is handled at ProVMware. I’ve been a DropBox customer for years, and likely will stay that way, as it has some great features. However, for everything else, I’ve now got a private
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#vBrownBag Security w/ @texiwill (4/25/12)
We’ve had Ed on the #vBrownBags a number of times. This time, like the past, we’ll be talking security, with an added twist. Ed is also putting on a hardcore tech conference in Austin, Tx, the vScience Conference. So, expect the #vBrownBag to be a preview of the sort of material, depth, and quality you
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Resource Pool Pie – The Warning
Was segregating out some of my home lab stuff from some of the nested things in the lab and came across this when dropping a VM into the vApp: Basically telling me that this single VM will eat all of the Resource Pool Pie. Not familiar with the resource pool pie? Check out this post
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Open Tabs 4/20/12
It’s that time again. Here are some of the interesting happenings of the past week: EVC Mode – http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1003212 Virtualization Practice (@texiwill) on what OpenStack is not: http://www.virtualizationpractice.com/openstack-what-it-is-not-15670/ How Rackspace used Continuous Delivery to rebuild the cloud: http://www.rackspace.com/blog/how-rackspace-re-wrote-the-cloud-with-openstack-continuous-delivery/ VCAP5-DCA Training – http://vmwaretraining.blogspot.com/2012/04/vsphere-5-training-that-will-help.html Sean Crookston & Harley Stagner’s new book: http://www.seancrookston.com/2012/04/17/new-book-optimizing-vsphere-deployments/ vCloud Networking explained – http://www.ntpro.nl/blog/archives/2024-vCloud-networking-explained-in-1-slide-and-52-animations.html
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Did My Virtual Machines Dance? – DRS History
Once you turn DRS on and set it to fully automatic, unless you have some affinity / anti-affinity rules in place, your VMs will get up and dance around your cluster. In most cases this is fine and dandy. However, occasionally there are times where you will want to know where the VM was, where
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#vBrownBag Follow-Up – PowerCLI 201 w/ Jake Robinson
Video Slides
Open Tabs 4/12/12
VLAN Trunking – http://etherealmind.com/cisco-vtp-transparent-mode-discard-risk-transparent-client-server/ Really Really good vSphere 5 memory management diagram – http://www.ntpro.nl/blog/archives/2023-VMware-vSphere-5-Memory-Management-and-Monitoring-diagram.html Make Bigger Clusters – http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2012/04/10/cluster-sizes-vsphere-5-style/ Storage Performance T-Shooting – http://blogs.vmware.com/kb/2012/04/storage-performance-and-timeout-issues.html Demystify Hadoop! – http://virtualgeek.typepad.com/virtual_geek/2012/04/big-ideas-demystifying-hadoop.html CCNA Part 1 – http://planetvm.net/blog/?p=2291 CCNA Part 2 – http://planetvm.net/blog/?p=2297 Infiniband over Ethernet == Fast – http://etherealmind.com/infiniband-ethernet-rocee-better-than-dcb/ Some really cool info on how Instagram handled LOTS of
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vBrownBag – PowerCLI 201 w/ Jake Robinson
Per Mr Karlson’s site: On Wednesday April 11th, Jake Robinson (@jakerobinson) will present PowerCLI 201 on the vBrownbag, and Josh Atwell (@josh_atwell, AKA “vGinger Admin Extraordinaire“) will be hosting. If you can’t attend this Wednesday at 7PM CDT, make sure to download the podcast as it should be great. Register today! 🙂 Find us on
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BrownBag Follow-Up: Open Topic
The US BrownBags last week had a bit of an open topic round table discussion. We also gave away some copies of the new Cengage title Administering vSphere 5. Video ProfessionalVMware BrownBag – Open Topic from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo.
[APAC] vBrownBag Follow-Up: VCAP-DCD Implementation Design
Last week the APAC BrownBags covered the VCAP-DCD Implementation Design section. Video ProfessionalVMware BrownBag – VCAP-DCD Implementation Planning from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo. Slides
Open Tabs – 4/7/12
<– Seems most weeks feel like this anymore. I’ve also found that in addition to open tabs, the number of browser windows has also multiplied. Here’s some that I think are particularly relevant and/or interesting: Host Profiles Tech Overview – http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/VMW-Host-Profiles-Tech-Overview.pdf Minimum viable vCenter Converter Permissions – http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2000123 Xtravirt on Host Profiles – http://www.vladan.fr/vmware-vsphere-host-profiles-from-xtravirt/ Sometimes
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[Orchestrator] Use VUM to Upgrade the vCO vApp
Incase you have more than a small hand full of vCO vApps handy, you can use vApp functionality in VUM to upgrade vCO. You’ll need to do the following to get that going: Create the vApp Baseline Creating a vApp baseline works much like creating other baselines. On the home page of your vSphere client
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April #vBrownBags
With storage month behind us, April is now here, and with that, some more vBrownBags: Registration: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/613559281 Presenter Topic Date N/A Game Show 4/4/12 Jake Robinson PowerCLI 201 4/11/12 @Texiwill vSphere Security 4/18/12 Open vSphere Security 4/25/12 If you have anyone you recommend to fill the open slot… let me know.
Installing VMware Update Manager Download Service
Before getting into installing, let’s take a second to talk about what the Update Manager Download Service (UMDS) is and when you’d use it. As the name implies, UMDS is a service that will go and fetch patch notifications, metadata, and binaries that is separate from your VUM install. When would that be useful? In
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[APAC] vBrownBag Follow-Up – VCAP-DCD Cluster Design
Video Slides More! Did you know there are now a metric boatload of ways to get the vBrownBags? In addition to live and the follow-up posts, you can pull the podcast from these places also: iTunes – http://bit.ly/BrownbagiTunesRSS – http://bit.ly/BrownbagPodcast
vBrownBag Follow-Up – vSphere Storage w/ Ravi Part 2
We both started and finished vSphere Storage month with Ravi Venkat, and what a wonderfully informative month it was. This weeks recording & slides are below: Video Slides More! Did you know there are now a metric boatload of ways to get the vBrownBags? In addition to live and the follow-up posts, you can pull
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After vCenter 5.0 U1 Upgrade, vCO Client Issues
For better or worse, I run my vCO Client from the vCenter Server in my lab, up till today, that wasn’t an issue either. That is, after upgrading to vCenter 5.0 U1 I was presented with: “You may not have the appropriate permissions.” – What? Ok… let’s browse to the directory: Even after clicking “Continue”
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