Just a note that there is no BrownBag this week as we’ll be celebrating the Thanksgiving holiday here in the US. All is not lost however, as we have almost 45 hours of BrownBags in the archives covering a range of vSphere certification and Deep Dive topics. In fact, here are the Top 10 according
-> Continue reading BrownBag – Week of November 21, 2011
While I’ve been head down in the final edits for the vCO book (Pre-Order here), a few things happened in the vCO community. vCO Happenings vCO Training! – vcoteam.info Unattended vCO vApp deployment – vcoteam.info (manual deployment here) Getting started with vCO – PhilipSellers.com, a good getting started piece. vCO Training Videos – vmware.com More
-> Continue reading vCenter Orchestrator (vCO) Happenings
Wow… this one ran into the 2 hour range. VDI is apparently awesome, in demand, or both. The Video: The Slides: iTunes http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/professionalvmware-brownbags/id468638808 Want to Present at a BrownBag? If you’d like to present a BrownBag, drop me a line!
This weeks BrownBag will feature Andre Leibovici who will be discussing VMware View & End User Computing. Who? Andre Leibovici I am currently working for EMC as Sr. vSpecialist. I have a background of over 15 years industry experience managing IT infrastructures in large organizations. For the last few years my passion has been around
-> Continue reading BrownBag – VMware View & End User Computing
Yesterday we dove deep into VMware’s vCloud and it’s associated architecture. Check out the video here: vCloud Architecture Video Slides vCloud Architecture BrownBag View more presentations from ProfessionalVMware. iTunes We’re now on iTunes too! http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/professionalvmware-brownbags/id468638808 Links! Sysprep KB’s: http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1026614http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1026317http://4sysops.com/archives/skiprearm-use-vista-indefinitely-long-without-activation/ Maximums: http://www.virtual-blog.com/2011/08/vmware-vcloud-director-1-5-config-maximums/http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere5/r50/vsphere-50-configuration-maximums.pdf vCloud Cloning series: http://www.chriscolotti.us/vmware/vcloud/gotcha-vcloud-director-clone-wars-part-1-overview/http://www.chriscolotti.us/vmware/vcloud/gotcha-vcloud-director-clone-wars-part-2-deep-dive/http://www.chriscolotti.us/vmware/vcloud/vcloud-director-clone-wars-part-3-design-considerations/ vCloud “Eco-System” http://www.virtual-blog.com/2011/10/vcloud-ecosystem-components-explained/http://www.chriscolotti.us/vmware/vcloud/components-for-a-vcloud-deployment/ (A bit older was my original cut
-> Continue reading BrownBag Follow-Up – vCloud Architecture
This weeks BrownBag will feature an architectural Deep Dive of VMware’s vCloud platform covering the following areas: vCloud Architecture Deep Dive vCloud “Eco-System” of Components All the possible building blocks Importance of Orchestration Broad depth of knowledge for vCloud Architects and Administrators Scalable vCloud Production Architecture Example Based on vCAT 2.0 Published Catalog Considerations in
-> Continue reading BrownBag – vCloud Architecture Deep Dive
The Video: The Links: Han Yang on Twitter.http://twitter.com/#!/Official_1000V All things 1000v & VXLAN The 1000v Community on Cisco.com. Discussions, Docs, Webinars, etc: https://communities.cisco.com/community/technology/datacenter/nexus1000v Cisco Cloud Lab: https://cloudlab-us-west-01.cisco.com/+CSCOE+/logon.html
Hot on the release of vSphere 5, Scott Lowe has released an update to one of the best general vSphere books on the market, Mastering VMware vSphere 5. Pre-Review I pulled down the kindle edition of this one about a week ago and moving through at a pretty good clip and wanted to share my
-> Continue reading Pre-Review – Mastering VMware vSphere 5 (Scott Lowe)
Hot on the heels of last week’s vCloud Networking discussion with Kendrick Coleman (web / twitter), we have another networking special, VXLAN. This is going to be brought to you by Han Yang from Cisco. Han will be on to share an introduction to VXLANs – and hopefully we’ll be able to cover some of
-> Continue reading BrownBag – Networking VXLAN
Before announcing this weeks BrownBag, I wanted to give a huge THANKS to Nick Marshall for getting the BrownBags onto iTunes. So, to Nick: Picture via: vistamommy
Video – vCloud Networking (Kendrick Coleman) ProfessionalVMware Technical BrownBag – vCloud Networking from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo. Slides – vCloud Networking (Kendrick Coleman) BrownBag – vCloud Networking View more presentations from ProfessionalVMware.
This week we get to rock out with Kendrick Coleman who is a BrownBag veteran. BrownBag – vCloud Networking This time around Kendrick (web/twitter) will be joining us on the Brownbag to talk about VMware vCloud networking. If you’re interested in deploying VMware vCloud Director within your environment, or simply learning more about how VMware
-> Continue reading BrownBag – vCloud Networking w/ Kendrick Coleman
In case you missed the announcement, the barrier to entry for vCenter Orchestrator was just lowered significantly with VMware’s release of the vCO 4.2 vApp. Here, we’ll talk about installing it. Installing the vCO vApp Assumptions Basically, I’m assuming that you have an edition of vSphere that is licensed for vCenter and have downloaded both
-> Continue reading Orchestrator – Install the vCO vApp
This week we had David Davis of TrainSignal back to talk vSphere 5 and VCP5 training. Check out the video below: The Video
Woot! So we had David Davis on the BrownBags once before. This time around, he’s back to talk about all things VCP5, Certification in general, and some of the exciting things TranSignal has coming. BrownBag Details Date/Time: Wednesday, 10//19/2011 @ 7:30 PM CSTRegistration: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/945190048 About David Davis This Wednesday, 10/19/2011 at 7:30PM CST, we’ll have
-> Continue reading BrownBag – David Davis Part the Second
In our last BrownBag Damian Karlson hosted Harley Stagner (Blog) and talked about vSphere Design: Video ProfessionalVMware Technical BrownBag – Harley Stagner from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo. Slides vSphere Design Brownbag with Harley Stagner View more presentations from ProfessionalVMware
vSphere Design Discussion This Wednesday, October 12, Harley Stagner will be joining Damian Karlson (blog) on the BrownBag for an in depth, interactive discussion on vSphere design. If you are interested in learning more about vSphere design, studying for your VCAP-DCD, or VCDX, this would be the session to attend. Critical Details: Date/Time: Wednesday, 10/12/2011
-> Continue reading BrownBag – vSphere Design Discussion (Harley Stagner)
This week our illustrious host Damian was joined by Sean Crookston, Chris Wahl, and Bill Hill who Deep-Dived into designing vSphere environments as well as the vSphere Storage Appliance. BrownBag Follow-Up Slides ProfessionalVMware BrownBag – SMB Design View more presentations from ProfessionalVMware. Video ProfessionalVMware Technical BrownBag – VSA and SMB vSphere Design from ProfessionalVMware on
-> Continue reading BrownBag Follow-Up: vSA and SMB vSphere Design
While I’ve talked some about VMTurbo before (here and here), I figured now would be a good time to let you know abut some of the enhancements they’ve made recently: Improved workload placement policy support It is now possible to specify “Place” and “Don’t Place policies for the workload and hosts and datastores addressing typical
-> Continue reading What’s New in VMTurbo?
To be honest, I’ve not poked at the vSphere Storage Appliance since the vSphere 5.x Beta. That said, the technology itself looks promising, and as will be discussed on the BrownBag this week, it will become part of some of your vSphere designs. To help prep for the BrownBag or to learn overall about the
-> Continue reading Useful Links – vSphere Storage Appliance (VSA)