This post is by Cody Bunch. I’ve had a request or two recently on how to get started with VMware automation, what resources are there, and what tool should I use. This post aims to at least address two out of the three. That is, how to get started and what resources. Tool selection has
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On the 13th of August 2013 Seb Hakiel and Grant Friend covered pain point and lessons learnt from a 4000 seat VDI deployment. The recording form the webinar is below EMEA vBrownbag with Seb Hakiel and Grant Friend 4k seat VDI deployment from EMEA vBrownbag on Vimeo.
I wrote a few weeks ago about Infinio and their NFS acceleration product for NFS datastores on vSphere. Since then I realised that one of the clients I’m working at is an ideal candidate for the product. The customer has an aged VDI environment containing some old ESXi hosts and backed by an old low spec NetApp array. The performance of the VDI desktops is limited by the amount of RAM in the ESXi servers and the speed of the storage.
Cheers! Today I sat & passed the VCP5-DT exam. DT is a cert I’ve been procrastinating in attaining, so I’m glad I finally hunkered down & got it out of the way. As with other VCP-level exams, the DT has 85 questions & you have 90 minutes to finish. An additional 15 minutes is allotted
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At Tech Field Day 9 last month Infinio came out of stealth mode and showed their upcoming storage acceleration product for the first time. The product places a caching appliance on each ESXi host to accelerate reads from NFS datastores. For server virtualization this can be a huge help as usually around 80% of VM
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On the 2nd of July 2013 Prasenjit Sarkar covered VCAP5-CIA Objective 2: Manage vSphere Resources on the EMEA vBrownbag. The slides from the session are available here : EMEAvBrownbagvStretchCloud and the video from the session is below. EMEA vBrownbag with Prasenjit Sarkar covering VCAP5-CIA Objective 2 – Manage vSphere Resources from EMEA vBrownbag on Vimeo.
On the 9th of April 2013 Michael Webster covered VCAP5-CID Objective 6: vCloud Availability on the EMEA vBrownbag. Unfortunately due to unexplained reasons the video corrupted and only the last twenty minutes recorded and are available (the irony is noted) ProfessionalVMware #vBrownBag EMEA 09-04-13 20.16 from EMEA vBrownbag on Vimeo.
G’day – @coolsport00 here sharing my recent process in studying for the VCP-IaaS exam, which I sat and thankfully passed yesterday afternoon. As a matter of fact, I achieved the highest score of any exam I’ve taken, VMware or otherwise. To start off, let me share the resources I used, and indeed what I recommend
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Well, how’s that for some lessons learned! Last night we didn’t get as far as I had planned and for that, I apologize. However, we’re not going to let that stop us are we? We’ve adjusted the schedule to add a night dedicated to a Vagrant primer & Lab tools needed for the rest of
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This week I’ve been working on an upgrade project at a small customer. Pretty routine stuff, take a vSphere 5.0 environment and upgrade to vSphere 5.1, having SRM added another step to the upgrade process. One thing I highly recommend is that you use the vCenter 5.1 Pre-Install Check fling that Alan Renouf has published on the VMware Labs web site. I did run into a supportability issue around SQL Express.
On the 18th of June 2013 Michael Russell covered VCP5-IaaS Objective 5 on the EMEA vBrownbag. The video from the session is below: EMEA vBrownbag with Michael Russell Covering SSL Deployment using Automation Tool & OpenSSL from EMEA vBrownbag on Vimeo.
Every application and device, whether compute, network, or storage; physical or virtual; Windows or Linux, generates log messages. Messages from any single application or device contain useful information including auditing, statistics, and errors. When messages from multiple applications and/or devices are aggregated, a large amount of knowledge can be obtained if the information can be
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The following content is in Spanish, the language in which the webinar is presented. El pasado 13 de junio 2013 en ProfessionalVMware #vBrownBag LATAM @elnemesisdivina presentó el tema #VCAP DCA 6.2 – Troubleshoot Memory Performance Recursos y respuestas a algunas preguntas del público durante la sesión: A: Understanding Memory Resource Management in vSphere 5 http://blogs.vmware.com/performance/2011/09/understanding-memory-resource-management-in-vsphere-5.html
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I’m delighted to let you know that the TechTalks have their first two confirmed sponsors for 2013, Infinio and Nutanix have both confirmed sponsorship. This is the start of the road to this year’s awesomeness. As luck would have it both Infinio and Nutanix are presenting at Tech Field Day 9 which is where I
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On the 12th of March 2013 Pietro Piutti covered VCP5-IaaS Objective 5 on the EMEA vBrownbag. The video from the session is below: EMEA vBrownbag with Pietro Piutti covering VCP5-IaaS Objective 5 from EMEA vBrownbag on Vimeo.
On the 11th of June 2013 Andrea Mauro covered VCAP5-CIA Objective 1 – Configure and Maintain vCloud Director on the EMEA vBrownbag. The slides from the session can be found here and the video from the session is below: EMEA vBrownbag with Andrea Mauro covering VCAP5-CIA Objective 1 – Configure and Maintain vCloud Director from
-> Continue reading #vBrownbag Follow-Up Andrea Mauro Covering VCAP5-CIA Objective 1 – Configure and Maintain vCloud Director
As is usually the case a heap of great sessions didn’t make the cut for presentation at VMworld, commiserations to all disappointed submitters. As we did last year the vBrownBag crew want to help get some of those great sessions from the community in front of the people who will benefit from them. Yes we
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This coming Wednesday, June 12th Nick Fritsch (@nfritsch) will be presenting on Trend Micro Deep Security. Does it really work as advertised? Can a virus be detected on a virtual machine that isn’t running an anti-virus agent? Come see for yourself as Nick shows us a demonstration of Trend Micro Deep Security. Nick will also
-> Continue reading Upcoming #vBrownBags with Nick Fritsch (@nfritsch) and Chuck Mills (@vChuckmills)
Hi readers. Josh Atwell here. Recently I had an opportunity to speak at the South Florida VMUG Users Conference. This was a great event. During my presentation I shared AutoLab and BareMetalCloud with the audience and was excited at the solid response I received from attendees. One attendee, Azael Colon, shared with me something cool
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On the 30th of April 2013 Phil Monk covered VCAP5-CID Objective 4 – vCloud Security on the EMEA vBrownbag. The video from the session is below: EMEA vBrownbag with Phil Monk covering VCAP5-CID Objective 4 – vCloud Security from EMEA vBrownbag on Vimeo.