While not participating in the Blackouts, there are a good number of folks who are. Also, as someone who makes his living on the web and supporting web / cloud related technologies, I figure raising awareness can only be a good thing. Some quick background on what these are and why they’re important to you,
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So, FreeBSD9 was released recently. While it’s not on the VMware HCL, the prior release 8.x is, so keep in mind while it works, support may get interesting if something goes sideways. Installing FreeBSD 9.0 Getting the bits I pulled the 2.1GB DVD ISO from here: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/9.0/ Choose the ISO that suits what your requirements.
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Coming to a BrownBag near you! Last week Damian (@sixfootdad) kicked off the VCP5 Study Group series with Objective 1 from the VCP BluePrint. Join us again this week as we have Shane Williford (aka @coolsport00) to cover Objective 3: Plan and configure vSphere Storage. Register for the BrownBag Date/Time: 1/18/2012 @ 7PM CSTRegister: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/918511944
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Going over some of the vCO book material I found this diagram I made for the troubleshooting system of the vCO book Basically, it lists out most of the various systems that the vCO engine talks to or depends on out of the box. Useful when you have something that died and you’re not sure
-> Continue reading Orchestrator – vCO Interdependencies Map
After some time off from an amazing 2011, the BrownBags are back. This time with a series tracking the VCP5 Blueprint and timed to coincide with the VCP4 to VCP5 upgrade timeline. So if you are upgrading (or studying for the first time) be sure to sign up! BrownBag VCP5 Series Details: Days / Time:
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Check out Brad’s Video. No, there is not a bias for beards, just the other winners have not yet responded to making their videos public.
It’s getting close to the “no class required” VCP5 upgrade deadline, so what that means, is we’re going to take the BrownBags and use them as a group study session for those prepping for the exam. What we need however, is some volunteers to help is get through the blueprint. Volunteers! So, there is a
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John, along with having an Awesome beard, is the winner of one of VCP Vouchers! Here’s his video: More to come over the next few days.
Here we go again, it’s Wednesday, and my chrome windows have more tabs open than they should. RDP vs PCoIP – A post I was thinking about writing as I get more into this VDI thing. Well done, the only thing I would like to see added to the comparison would be the Citrix protocols
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By popular demand, I’ll be posting videos publically as I get permission from the respective submitters. Here is Paul’s:
Paul Smith, Come on down. Actually, we’ve been in contact and the various bits will begin shipping over the next bunch of days/weeks. Paul Smith is an IT professional of 13 years in Canada who got quite a not happy x-mas message, re: being laid off. So, the BrownBags are going to attempt to make
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Did not mean to leave y’all hanging… some of these things took longer than we had thought. Current Status Sorry judging took so long, the thing about asking for video submissions, is you have to well, watch each one to be fair. However, we have indeed picked a winner and have contacted them, If all
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In a not so regular thing, I often find myself with a metric boat load of open tabs related to all things VMware, Virtualization, and cloud. Some of them are even worth sharing, so that’s what follows: VMware IO Analyzer http://gabrielchapman.com/?p=82 – This is well worth a read. Basically VMware has released a fling to
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Update – 12/17 So, the decision process took longer than I had anticipated, however we have selected and are contacting the winner. We will post when we have permission for the video and confirmation that he can indeed receive the gear. So, here’s the dealy-yo. The BrownBags have grown HUGELY this year, and we’ve had
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This week’s BrownBag is a revisit of the popular VMworld session of the same name (for reference). This time around, due to timing and finding representatives, we will only have EMC and NetApp available to throw down. That said, if you’ve followed either Chad Sakac or Vaughn Stewart on Twitter or the blogs for any
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Just a note that there is no BrownBag this week as we’ll be celebrating the Thanksgiving holiday here in the US. All is not lost however, as we have almost 45 hours of BrownBags in the archives covering a range of vSphere certification and Deep Dive topics. In fact, here are the Top 10 according
-> Continue reading BrownBag – Week of November 21, 2011
While I’ve been head down in the final edits for the vCO book (Pre-Order here), a few things happened in the vCO community. vCO Happenings vCO Training! – vcoteam.info Unattended vCO vApp deployment – vcoteam.info (manual deployment here) Getting started with vCO – PhilipSellers.com, a good getting started piece. vCO Training Videos – vmware.com More
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This weeks BrownBag will feature Andre Leibovici who will be discussing VMware View & End User Computing. Who? Andre Leibovici I am currently working for EMC as Sr. vSpecialist. I have a background of over 15 years industry experience managing IT infrastructures in large organizations. For the last few years my passion has been around
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This weeks BrownBag will feature an architectural Deep Dive of VMware’s vCloud platform covering the following areas: vCloud Architecture Deep Dive vCloud “Eco-System” of Components All the possible building blocks Importance of Orchestration Broad depth of knowledge for vCloud Architects and Administrators Scalable vCloud Production Architecture Example Based on vCAT 2.0 Published Catalog Considerations in
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Hot on the release of vSphere 5, Scott Lowe has released an update to one of the best general vSphere books on the market, Mastering VMware vSphere 5. Pre-Review I pulled down the kindle edition of this one about a week ago and moving through at a pretty good clip and wanted to share my
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