It’s back! As a special thank you to our listeners, the #vBrownBag crew is happy to once again run our annual end of year give-away! Now through December 16th you can sign up using the form below to be entered to win one of these great prizes which were generously donated for our community by
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Steven Murawski, community manager with Chef, joins the #vBrownBag to talk about PowerShell DSC (Desired State Configuration). Video Presentation, sample scripts and slides can be downloaded at http://bit.ly/1xSqGnT You can follow Steven on Twitter @StevenMurawski and his blog http://stevenmurawski.com Originally published at https://vbrownbag.comm – Sign up for the live #vBrownBag broadcast at https://vbrownbag.comm/brownbags/ where you
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Jeffrey Hicks, author of several titles including Learn PowerShell 3 in a Month of Lunches stops by the #vBrownBag to discuss PowerShell. You can download the presentation and examples Jeffrey used during the presentation to help prepare for the homework. You can follow Jeffrey on Twitter @JeffHicks and his blog. PowerShell Recording PowerShell Homework Originally
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SaltStack CTO Thomas Hatch and engineer Mike Place stop in on the #vBrownBag DevOps series to cover: – Introduction to SaltStack – What is SaltStack automation for Web-scale infrastructure operations – SaltStack concepts – Real world use case and walk through You can follow Thomas and Mike on Twitter @thatch45 and @cachedout respectively. SaltStack Video
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Jeff Geerling, author of Ansible for DevOps covers an introduction to Ansible in the #vBrownBag DevOps series and shows how easy it is to get started and build inventories and playbooks to automate tasks with Ansible. Video Homework Slides You can follow Jeff on Twitter @geerlingguy and check out his book – Ansible for DevOps on LeanPub
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Yvo van Doorn joins the #vBrownBag DevOps series to discuss configuration management with Chef. Video Presentation You can follow Yvo on Twitter @yvov . Originally published at https://vbrownbag.comm – Sign up for the live #vBrownBag broadcast at https://vbrownbag.comm/brownbags/ where you can also get updates and view our past series such as the Automate All The Things series at https://vbrownbag.comm/vbrownbag-automate-all-the-things-training-schedule/, Cisco certification series https://vbrownbag.comm/vbrownbag-cisco-certification-track/ or
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Frank Büchsel provides a deep dive into VMdir – SSO review, multi-master replication, service endpoints and performance impacts. Video Presentation You can follow Frank on Twitter @fbuechsel and his blog http://fbuechsel.eu/ Originally published at https://vbrownbag.comm – Sign up for the live #vBrownBag broadcast at https://vbrownbag.comm/brownbags/ where you can also get updates and view our past series such as the Automate All The
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Jeremy Adams joins us to present the ProfessionalVMware.com #vBrownBag DevOps session on Puppet. Follow along in the homework to deploy the Puppet learning VM and see how you can create manifests to do things like patch systems for Heartbleed. Video Homework Originally published at https://vbrownbag.comm – Sign up for the live #vBrownBag broadcast at https://vbrownbag.comm/brownbags/
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Matthew Brender joins us for part 3 of the ProfessionalVMware.com DevOps series to talk about Git/GitHub and source code management. Video Homework You can follow Matthew on Twitter @mjbrender and his blog http://mjbrender.com/ and http://neckbeardinfluence.com/ Originally published at https://vbrownbag.comm – Sign up for the live #vBrownBag broadcast at https://vbrownbag.comm/brownbags/ where you can also get updates
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Jonas Rosland introduces you to Vagrant which is used for creating and configuring virtual development environments and can also be used along side configuration management tools such Chef, Salt and Puppet which we will cover in future episodes. Keep track of our entire DevOps schedule which will include links to recordings and homework or join our Google+ community to discuss episodes,
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In our official kick off to the DevOps series, John Willis explains just what this DevOps thing is. John provides excellent insights and helps you understand how to apply the concepts and culture that define DevOps. Keep track of our entire DevOps schedule which will include links to recordings and homework or join our Google+ community to
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Paul McSharry covers objective 4 of the VMware Certified Professional – Network Virtualization (VCP-NV) certification blueprint. Objective 4.1 – Configure Environment for Network Virtualization Objective 4.2 – Deploy VMware NSX Components Objective 4.3 – Upgrade Existing vCNS/NSX Implementation Objective 4.4 – Expand Transport Zone to Include New Cluster(s) Video More information of the exam and
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Jason Shiplett joins the US #vBrownBag to discuss the preparation that went into submitting his VMware Certified Design Expert written design (which was accepted by the way, congratulations Jason and good luck on the defense!). Note that these are Jason’s own experience and not an official VMware endorsement or study guide. More information of the
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Rene Van Den Bedem covers objective 3 of the VMware Certified Professional – Network Virtualization (VCP-NV) certification blueprint. Objective 3.1 – Configure and Manage vSphere Standard Switches (vSS) Objective 3.2 – Configure and Manage vSphere Distributed Switches (vDS) Objective 3.3 – Configure and Manage vSS and vDS Policies Video More information of the exam and the
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Ross Wyne covers objective 2 of the VMware Certified Professional – Network Virtualization (VCP-NV) certification blueprint. Objective 2.1 – Define Benefits of Running VMware NSX on Physical Network Fabrics Objective 2.2 – Describe Physical Infrastructure Requirements for a VMware NSX Implementation Video More information of the exam and the blueprint along with specific tools to
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Jeff Carrell returns to show you IPv6 through a Wireshark lens. Video You can follow Jeffrey on Twitter @JeffCarrell_v6 as well as his website http://www.teachmeipv6.com/ Originally published at https://vbrownbag.comm – Sign up for the live #vBrownBag broadcast at https://vbrownbag.comm/brownbags/ where you can also get updates and view all of our episodes including the Automate All The Things series (https://vbrownbag.comm/vbrownbag-automate-all-the-things-training-schedule/),
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Frank Büchsel covers objective 1 of the VMware Certified Professional – Network Virtualization (VCP-NV) certification blueprint. Objective 1.1 – Describe the Benefits of a VMware NSX Implementation Objective 1.2 – Describe VMware NSX Architecture Objective 1.3 – Differentiate VMware Network and Security Technologies Objective 1.4 – Contrast Physical and Virtual Network Technologies Objective 1.5 –Explain
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Starting on October 1st and going through at least January, the ProfessionalVMware.com #vBrownBag podcast will bring you a series designed to prepare and strengthen your DevOps knowledge and skill set. Much like we did for Couch to OpenStack and Automate ALL the Things series we have setup a Google+ community and “homework” to give you
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Phil Monk covers the VMware vCloud Automation Center Advanced Services Designer (now part of the vRealize Suite). Video You can follow Phil on Twitter @phil_monk31 Originally published at https://vbrownbag.comm – Sign up for the live #vBrownBag broadcast at https://vbrownbag.comm/brownbags/ where you can also get updates and view our past series such as the Automate All The Things series athttps://vbrownbag.comm/vbrownbag-automate-all-the-things-training-schedule/,
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Jeffrey L Carrell, author of Guide to TCP/IP (Networking) joins the #vBrownBag to lay down the basics for IPv6 including an introduction, address architecture and format, auto configuration and more. You can also download this useful IPv6 cheatsheet from Jeff at http://teachmeipv6.com/IPv6-Essentials-Cheat-Sheet_v1.1.pdf Video Slides You can follow Jeffrey on Twitter @JeffCarrell_v6 as well as his website
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