Two bits of BrownBag news this week. First, there is no BrownBag this week. Figured after the VCP5 Cannon-Ball run, we’d give you a chance to digest and take the exam. Second, we need to know a bit about how to make the BrownBags better, so tell us what you think: http://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/832843/Do-you-BrownBag-copy-February-27-2012 If survey’s aren’t
-> Continue reading The BrownBags Need Your Help
Video Slides Links http://www.vhersey.com/2011/08/access-the-esxi-direct-console-user-interface-dcui-over-ssh/ http://www.lucd.info/category/vsphere/event/ http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2011/08/10/vcenter-appliance/ http://www.virtuallyghetto.com/2011/07/new-vsphere-5-cli-utilitiestricks.html http://www.vbeers.org/2012/02/21/vbeers-seattle-wa-wednesday-march-7th-2012/ http://www.yellow-bricks.com/esxtop/ http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/topic/com.vmware.ICbase/PDF/vsphere-esxi-vcenter-server-50-monitoring-performance-guide.pdf http://www.amazon.com/Storage-Design-Implementation-vSphere-VMware/dp/0321799933/ref=sr_1_11?ie=UTF8&qid=1329962282&sr=8-11 http://communities.vmware.com/community/vmtn/server/vsphere/automationtools/vima
This week Alastair Cooke will be covering Availability and DR design on the APAC BrownBags. Register here: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/505624097
It’s that time of week again! This time we’re finishing out the VCP5 Blueprint with @btobia. Brian Tobia is a technology consultant at RSA, The Security Division of EMC, with a specific focus on cloud and virtualization security. Previously, Brian has held various systems and network administration roles within VMware environments since the ESX 2.x
-> Continue reading BrownBag – VCP5 Objective 7 with @btobia
The Video The Slides
Last night’s (Early morning maybe?) APAC BrownBag covered the VCAP5-DCD Networking topic. VCAP-DCD Networking Video ProfessionalVMware BrownBag VCAP-DCD – Network Design Part 1 from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo. Notes Kendrick Coleman & Spanning Tree – http://kendrickcoleman.com/index.php?/Tech-Blog/vmware-networking-dont-forget-stp.html Cisco Networking Forums on RSTP – https://learningnetwork.cisco.com/thread/5691 Brad Hedlund on UCS & vSphere – http://bradhedlund.com/2010/09/15/vmware-10ge-qos-designs-cisco-ucs-nexus/ The vSphere Design book –
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I’ve been slacking quite a bit in not having announced this. The BrownBags are now international, with Alastair Cooke hosting these in an APAC friendly timezone. To get the latest on what topics they’ll be covering, check the APAC BrownBag site here. This week they will be covering Network design. Be sure to register here.
This week we continue down the road of VCP5 prep with Josh Atwell (Blog / Twitter) who will be covering Objective 6 on the VCP5 blueprint. For more info on Josh, I’d encourage you to follow his blog, or ping him on Twitter. He’s a really smart guy! BrownBag VCP5 Objective 6 Details Date/Time: 2/15/2012
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Yes, it’s only Tuesday, but I need to get some of these tabs closed if for nothing else but to reclaim the memory. That said, there are some good ones. 24% of IT shops, no performance monitoring – http://reports.informationweek.com/abstract/5/8658/Cloud-Computing/research-2012-state-of-cloud-computing.html vSphere Alarms & PowerCLI (This area needs much more coverage) Setting alarms with PowerCLI http://www.seancrookston.com/2012/02/13/setting-vcenter-alarms-with-powercli/ More
-> Continue reading Open Tabs–Week ending 2/17/2012
Video Also, not much in the way of show notes for this one. Enjoy!
Video Not much in the way of show notes otherwise this weekend.
Tonight we’ll be having the man, myth, and legend that is David Davis on to cover Objective 5 of the VCP5 blueprint. About David: David Davis is the author of the best-selling VMware vSphere video training library from TrainSignal. He has written hundreds of virtualization articles on the Web, is a vExpert, VCP, VCAP-DCA, and
-> Continue reading BrownBag – VCP5 Objective 5 with David Davis
Time to clean out the open tabs again. Here’s a line-up of what’s going on in my world: Double-Cloud Proxy – http://www.doublecloud.org/doublecloud-proxy/ Like Onyx, but spits out working Java Best of 2011 Security books: http://taosecurity.blogspot.com/2012/01/its-time-to-name-winner-of-best-book.html Best of 2011 Presentation/Communication books: http://www.presentationzen.com/presentationzen/2012/01/10-books-to-help-you-think-create-communicate-better-in-2012.html Per VM Pricing (How much did that VM really cost): http://gabrielchapman.com/?p=159 vCO Multi-Node: http://blogs.vmware.com/orchestrator/2012/01/vco-multi-node-plug-in.html
-> Continue reading Open Tabs Week of 2/11/12
So all of us have Windows boxes in our shops that need to be installed, have some apps dropped on them and managed, even if we don’t really want them. That install process, has gotten easier over time with templates and what not, however, you still need to build that golden image, etc. Well, for
-> Continue reading Ninite.com – The Best Windows Tool You Aren’t Using
The APAC BrownBags kicked off last night with a VCAP-DCD study group. The Video Slides More BrownBags You can find all our past recordings for both the VCP5 series as well as every other topic we’ve covered (50+ hours) here: https://vbrownbag.comm/brownbags/
The Video: Some Notes (From #BrownBag on twitter) @DuncanYB: New Article: Creating an IP-Pool for VC Ops – http://bit.ly/yKSLdM If you’re up in 6 hours, join @DemitasseNZ for an APAC version http://t.co/ZSCLaX9O Another great VCP5 resource can be found on @mwpreston’s blog: http://bit.ly/wAh5aU Synch MSCS/AD with common NTP server, and disable host based time synchronization
-> Continue reading BrownBag Follow-Up – VCP5 Objective 4 with Jason Boche
Long at last, the follow-up post. Sorry it took so long this time, I was traveling and on a crummy connection, and then well, family first. That said, to the folks in the BrownBag family, here is the VCP5 Objective 2, Networking BrownBag video featuring Scott Lowe (blog) along side our own Damian Karlson. Video
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You know… it’s that time of week again. The time of week where you will do the most awesome, career advancing, personal enrichment, raise producing thing you do all week. That is, you will come join VMware expert Scott Lowe (twitter / blog) as we cover section 2, vSphere Networking, on the VCP Exam Blueprint.
-> Continue reading BrownBag – VCP5 Section 2 Networking with Scott Lowe
I’ve talked about vMA and Active Directory (AD) integration before, also upgrading and troubleshooting it. This time out, we’re going to talk about doing this on vMA 5.0. I’ll start with the assumption that you’ve deployed vMA already. Attaching vMA 5.0 to Active Directory (AD) Make sure vMA is in DNS Make sure vMA is
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