It’s a fresh new year and so a new start for the APAC edition of the vBrownBag. I’ve decided to make VCDX a target for this year so thought I’d use the vBrownBag to document and support my application and defence process, maybe helping you along the road to VCDX too. This week I will
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Just a few notes to help myself remember. To use a serial connection (Cisco / Arista) attached to a server:sudo screen /dev/ttyS0 9600 (Where ttyS0 is the port it’s attached to) ethtool – Because 10gig hates me:ethtool -s eth4 autoneg off speed 10000 duplex full On a new switch, remember to enable spanning tree on
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Announcing the launch of Spanish language vBrownBag building upon the ProfessionalVMware platform for professional growth and contribution the VMware community of Spanish speaking professionals in Latin America, Spain and around the world. That’s right, 2013 is the year vBrownBag officially sweeps Around the World, like Daft Punk! With US & APAC going strong and the recent addition of EMEA, the
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Hi everyone, first off, a huge thank you to our listener community and to the sponsors of this giveaway. We couldn’t do any of this without our listeners, presenters, supporters, and sponsors. THANK YOU! 🙂
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D’oh! You just created a custom-based ESXi Install image with all the drivers and plug-ins then found out you missed a driver. Or, a new and very cool plug-in was just released by a vendor & you want to try it out. What is the best way to get this installed? Well, if you don’t
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Had to do some ISO to USB image making today. Besides being slow going, there was nothing that indicated how much time I had left to get a coffee. Without further adieu: (pv -n ./startfile.iso | dd of=/output.file) 2>&1 | dialog –gauge “Running dd please wait…” 10 70 0 That will produce something like this:
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There are a lot of components to VMware View that are really cool features. One of the coolest in my opinion is the ability to set up Location-Based Printing based on where the client device is located. End users can use a workstation, thick client, or zero client Client device to connect to VM Desktops.
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It’s that time of year again, where, in partnership with our amazing and ever supporting group of sponsors we line up some really cool stuff to give back to the community. This year, the list is at least as amazing as it was last year. Additionally, we’re doing this lottery style, so there are more
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Greetings all! vNoob Here! I am going to be doing some blog posts for vBrownbag. If we haven’t met yet you can find me on twitter or on my website. Anyway let’s get started. One thing I noticed lately is there really isn’t an easy or quick way to check out what the current memory statistics are
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As with my previous post for the DCD, the PDF below is a compilation of notes I took while studying for the VCAP5-DCA exam. It covers each section of the Blueprint provided by VMware. In addition to my own studies, there are several great resources in the Community that I used & I reference those
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In the PDF below is a compilation of notes I took while studying for the VCAP5-DCD exam. It covers each section of the Blueprint provided by VMware. If there is anything else you would like to see added, let me know & I’ll be more than happy to modify the document. Hope it helps in
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Which is a good thing, mind. A good friend of mine, the “Any Stacker” (blog, twitter) has been working on and has a functioning prototype for a Chef Broker in Razor (github link). As it gets a bit more functional, I’ll put together some videos on usage and the like. However, it looks like my
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Deciding to restart the series the day before the show lead to a small crowd and not a lot of questions.
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After a long hiatus due to multiple VMworlds and the backlog of things that needed to be done it is time to restart the APAC vBrownBag. The VCAP5-DCA prep wasn’t lighting me up so I’ve decided to return to what we do best, design. I think that there are a few areas of design that
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I’m a big fan of simple vSphere network configurations, one vSwitch with a small number of fast uplinks. This has been my stance since ESX 3 and I think it’s still a good starting point for a network design. I have had some concerns about the vNetwork Distributed switch (vDS) with it’s management through vCentre
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Having not used the ESXi command line as often as I should, I logged in and found myself in an unfamiliar place. My objective was to enter maintenance mode, reboot the host, and exit maintenance mode. ESXi CLI Enter Maintenance Mode vim-cmd hostsvc/maintenance_mode_enter ESXi CLI Exit Maintenance Mode vim-cmd hostsvc/maintenance_mode_exit ESXi CLI Reboot the host
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Due to the VCP-IAAS being a relatively new exam with very few presenters available, we may move it to another time. In it’s stead, we’ve lined up a number of really good presenters around VMware and Cloud Security. Our schedule: Presenter Date Edward Haletky (@texiwill) 10/3/2012 “GS” Gurusimran Khalsa (@gurusimran) 10/17/2012 Maqsood Siddiqui 10/24/2012 Rob
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First, if you haven’t installed Sublime Text, I would suggest you go here and do that now. It’s a great text editor, with all manner of excellent features. However, it does not ship with PowerShell syntax highlighting by default. To add it, do the following: Download the ZIP from here: https://github.com/SublimeText/PowerShell Extract the zip into
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Having spent some time on the road last week at both the DC and Chicago VMUGs, I collected a number of USB keys from the various booths. Not wanting them to go to waste (most were >2GB) I threw them together in a small Nexenta Powered SAN. GhettoSAN Setup Installed Nexenta in a VM under
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Wow… so much going on. So much, that I’ve neglected to post this until now. However, if you are in the DC or Schaumburg (Chicago) area, I will be in town next week to hang out at your VMUG. Details Potomac Regional VMUG User Conference Date: 9/26 Register: http://dcvmug.com/ Chicago VMUG User Conference Date: 9/27
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