Sorry about this folks, I’ve had some random “Life Happens” issues that caused this not to get posted on time. Here are the show notes and the video: Video ProfessionalVMware BrownBag 12 – VCAP Security from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo. Notes We covered quite a few items this go around. Most importantly however were the lessons
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A you may already know, Tom Howarth and I have actually managed to get a session accepted for VMworld. The gist of it is: Get a bunch of storage heavyweight folks onto a stage to answer your questions about storage & virtualization. That said… We need your help. Ask Your Questions: We understand that not
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So I’m traveling a bit outside of my normal realm and am hanging out in South Florida for a bit. What does that mean? Well outside excellent bicycling weather and humidity, it also means local area vMUGs! Two of them in fact. Come on out and let’s talk Virt! Details: South Florida Area vMUG Date:
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Instead of writing a 4.1 post, which seems to be all the rage, I’ll instead link you to a few of them that I have been reading (which are in turn links out to more documentation). Eric Siebert – http://vsphere-land.com/news/vsphere-41-the-links.html vChat (about 4.1) – http://www.techhead.co.uk/vchat-a-regular-virtualization-related-webcast VMware 4.1 KB articles – http://blogs.vmware.com/kb/2010/07/useful-vsphere-41-knowledgebase-articles.html ESXi “touchfree” installs –
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You know you want it… We’ll be covering the security objective from the VCAP-DCA Blueprint. Likely with some live demos along the way. What’s that you say? “When? How? What"? Details Date/Time: Tuesday, July 20th @ 2PM CST Registration: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/909625585 Note: If you have registered in the past, you ‘should’ not need to again. Preparation:
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This post actually has it’s roots in a practical and useful change in VMware’s “delete all” snapshot functionality. For the details, I strongly suggest you go off to Duncan’s page and read all about it. It was that post that in turn generated quite a lot of twitter buzz around some additional features, or naming
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I am the King of Last Minute Scheduling… as such, this weeks Brown Bag will be a rambling open topic.We’ll talk VCP, VCAP, establishing trust between Management & Virtualization groups, and anything else that happens to come up. The Details: Date/Time: Today (7/6/2010) at 2PM CST Registration: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/909625585 Looking forward to seeing y’all there.
It’s summer reading time again! The first item on my reading list this summer is none other than the “Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) (Data Center): A Complete Reference Guide to the Cisco Data Center Virtualization Server Architecture (Networking Technology)” (A mouth and a half full). From the first two chapters of the book, the
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Over the course of my travels, I’ve found that having a quick reference to random Windows commands is helpful. Here are two sets of commands I use often enough to be useful, but not often enough that I’ve committed them to memory: Managing IP Addresses from the CLI Netsh! – This one predates PowerShell on
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Thanks again to Ed Haletky (@Texiwill) for coming along and presenting this week. Here is the video from the session: BrownBag #10 – Security Deep Dive from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo. Links: Virtualization Practice – Ed’s Blog http://www.virtualizationpractice.com/blog/?file_id=41 – Resources! Virtualization Security Roundtable
With vSphere comes the ability for third parties to add hardware to the HCL without having to wait for an update to ESX for their drivers to be included. An excellent move on VMware’s part as this opened up the door hugely for 3rd parties to supply certified & updated drivers as well as provide
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In the spirit of all things Brownbag, we’re branching out beyond certification to include several “Deep Dive” technical podcasts with industry leading experts. Mind, we’ll still keep to our certification roots, but the Brownbag format lends itself well to doing technical deep dives as well. As such, our first topic will be Virtualization security, and
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Tuesdays Brownbag had a good turn out and also featured the excellent debut of our newest co-host: Guillermo Rodriguez. Guillermo (Gee yair mo) like many of the folks on the call is a budding VCP, having taken his class, studying for his exam and interested in helping others reach the same goal. Video: We had
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The following is a guide on how to get Oracle 10g R2 RAC installed on ESX 3.5 using CentOS Virtual Machines. Quite a mouthful, isn’t it? This was written up by Justin Mungal. In the guide Justin covers every thing needed to get Oracle RAC installed on ESX 3.5 and then some. It should be
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This post is actually in preparation for another that will list my favorite Podcasts. First I thought it would be helpful to show you how I get through the many many hours of Podcasts generated a week. Other than listening to them while driving & during downtime, I time-shift them to 1.5x their recorded speed.
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There are still some big things on the horizon for the Brown Bag series. One of the first things is the introduction of a new co-host for the VCP Series. Rather than try to introduce him here… We’ll leave it as a mystery during the call. This go around we’ll be talking about storage, otherwise
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@vRobM and I were discussing an unrelated topic when DRS and the mysterious stars came up. (**)? Our first instinct was this was the “special sauce” between the two all beef patties. However after some creative KB searching we came across a formula that describes it quite well: DRS Recommendations To understand the stars, you
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With the long weekend here in the US I about forgot to put this post out. Tomorrows VCDX Brown Bag, due to a complete lack of show prep on my side will be Canceled. Those of you who registered should have received a notice. Sorry for doing this at the 11th hour, but please stay
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As discussed during the show, this is the follow-up post for our conversation with Jon Hall about the new VCAP Certifications. The Video Brown Bag #8 – Jon Hall Returns from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo. Please note: You can download the original WMV from the Vimeo site. The Links There were not as many this time
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I mean it. Really. One of my pet peeves is the fellow who installs VMware server on his workstation to run his work provided Windows XP image (or some variant of Linux). The logic behind this usually goes something like: “I needed to be able to create virtual machines and VMware Server is the only
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