I was trying to avoid this post, but alas, a little shameless self promotion can’t hurt. VMware this year has decided to put a multitude of the sessions submitted during the CFP up for a vote, and I must say, there are plenty of good sessions up there. So even if I’m not your favorite,
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Due to a change in Jon Hall’s schedule, the VCP Brown Bag for May 18th has been canceled and moved to the 25th. This also means that I had to push the VCDX Brown Bag on the 25th out to June 1st. Those of you registered should have received notifications, those of you not registered
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After the excellent conversation we had last time, we’ve scheduled Jon Hall to come talk VMware Certification again this week. If you were there for the last one, you know you won’t want to miss this. If this is your first time… you will want to make every effort to be there, trust us. Critical
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We had a good time this call. You’ll be able to tell from the recording though that we are still very much armatures playing in this space. Outside a minor emergency and Tom having some audio difficulty, we had a great discussion around rapid provisioning ESX servers. Video: VCDX Brown Bag #8 – Rapid Provisioning
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The show notes for this are more or less lost at this point. Whoops. That said, the video is online. This one felt more like teaching a class than a discussion around certification, but as awkward as that was for us to handle, I think we did “ok”. You tell me. VCP Brown Bag #7
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This week we’ll be talking ESX Rapid provisioning, specifically objective 8 from the Enterprise Admin Blueprint. We’ll then take the discussion and build kickstart script, finishing with a scripted ESX install. Sound like fun? You know it will be. Here are the critical details: Date/Time: May 11, 2010 @ 2P CST Registration*: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/602230081 * Note:
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This came up on #VMware on Freenode this weekend. Basically the concern was “How do I Backup my ESXi USB Key?” Other than ripping the USB key out of a production machine… how was the user to do this? Well, vMA and the vCLI provide a method for this: Backing up your ESXi Configuration: To
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Nick Weaver, posted an update to the EMC Celerra VSA, or Virtual Storage Appliance. The build has rightfully been dubbed the -Uber edition. Here are a summary of his changes: 1. Completely automated install: On first boot a configuration wizard will ask a few questions and automatically reboot. On second boot everything is configured and
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Firstly, the video! In the spirit of the changes this webinar announced, we’ll also try some changes with the video. First embedded: ProfessionalVMware VCDX Brown Bag #5 from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo. And then, a link where you can download the high quality .mov file. Yes, yes… I can re-encode again to m4v if there is
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I believe we’ve covered networking before, but alas, that was before we started recording these. So… for the sake of completeness we will cover it this time around. First the critical call details: Date: May 4, 2010 @2PM CST Registration: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/875600073 Note: VMware has a Free VCP Voucher offer, check here for details.
I found myself digging for resources about Private VLANs this last weekend and found some of the following useful: Wikipedia FTW! Eric Sloof’s Private VLAN Training: Online Training – Configure Private VLAN IDs from Eric Sloof NTPRO.NL on Vimeo. Cisco “Lan Security” – PVLANS – Cisco.com “Understanding Private VLANS” – Cisco.com Nexus 1000V PVLAN information
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Welcome back my friends, to the show that never ends… This week’s VCDX Brown Bag will be an open topic discussion of all things VCDX. If we luck out, we’ve got VCDX #16 (Least I think that’s his number) Russell Pope. Call details: Date/Time: April 27, 2010 @ 2PM CST Registration: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/602230081 Changes: Based on
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No really, it is seriously awesome. Eric Sloof from NTPRO.nl has published a video that runs you through a little utility he wrote called “vmFilemanager”, then further shows you how to create such a utility using the free edition of Visual Basic 2008. Online Training – Automating vSphere with the VIX API from Eric Sloof
-> Continue reading Awesome VMware VIX Training
This weeks call with Jon Hall was full of interesting folks and even more interesting information about the VMware certification tracks. Note: Due to the content of the video VMware kindly requested I remove it until they make their official announcements in the not too distant future. I want to thank again everyone for coming
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Well, this took quite a bit of time to get posted. I blame solar flares! Professional VMware VCDX Brown Bag #4 from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo. I also blame the solar flares for the missing show-notes this week. Whoops! Hope you enjoy the video, and as always, thanks to TrainSignal for making this possible.
Note: The follow-up video has been posted here. The video suffered, but the audio is what you’re after. It’s that time again. Time for another VCP Brown Bag. This time, we’ll also have a special guest: VMware’s Certification Tsar, Jon Hall. We’ll go over some of the recent certification news, VMware’s different tracks, and anything
-> Continue reading VCP Brown Bag #6 – A Chat With Jon Hall
Got a comment on my share and share alike post that covered setting up shared VMDK files on VI3 / ESX 3.x. Seemingly it didn’t work any longer. Work or not, I figure it’s time to revisit this in a new way, using vCLI(rCLI)! This will require the following steps: Download & install the vCLI
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This is a story, all about how, my cluster got flipped and turned upside down. Now I’d like to take a minute, to invite you to the next VCDX Brown Bag, where we’ll cover DRS Clusters & Performance Monitoring, and have a bit of fun while we’re at it. The critical details: Date/Time: Tuesday, April
-> Continue reading VCDX Brown Bag #4 – DRS Clusters and Performance Monitoring
For those of you who don’t have a copy of Hal’s PowerCLI book (if you don’t, you should)… and for those that do, but would like a supplemental reference for the VMware PowerCLI cmdlets, check VMware’s PowerCLI cmdlet reference. Have already used it to good ends this week. Example: New-VM added a DiskStorageFormat parameter… completely
-> Continue reading Online PowerCLI Reference
We had an excellent turn out this time, and hope to see some more folk continue to join us. In addition to the illustrious Tom Howarth of PlanetVM.net, we also had Jason Boche of Boche.net, who has become a regular at these. A great thanks goes out to both of these folks, as well as
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