Hot on the heels of last week’s vCloud Networking discussion with Kendrick Coleman (web / twitter), we have another networking special, VXLAN. This is going to be brought to you by Han Yang from Cisco. Han will be on to share an introduction to VXLANs – and hopefully we’ll be able to cover some of
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Before announcing this weeks BrownBag, I wanted to give a huge THANKS to Nick Marshall for getting the BrownBags onto iTunes. So, to Nick: Picture via: vistamommy
This week we get to rock out with Kendrick Coleman who is a BrownBag veteran. BrownBag – vCloud Networking This time around Kendrick (web/twitter) will be joining us on the Brownbag to talk about VMware vCloud networking. If you’re interested in deploying VMware vCloud Director within your environment, or simply learning more about how VMware
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In case you missed the announcement, the barrier to entry for vCenter Orchestrator was just lowered significantly with VMware’s release of the vCO 4.2 vApp. Here, we’ll talk about installing it. Installing the vCO vApp Assumptions Basically, I’m assuming that you have an edition of vSphere that is licensed for vCenter and have downloaded both
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Woot! So we had David Davis on the BrownBags once before. This time around, he’s back to talk about all things VCP5, Certification in general, and some of the exciting things TranSignal has coming. BrownBag Details Date/Time: Wednesday, 10//19/2011 @ 7:30 PM CSTRegistration: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/945190048 About David Davis This Wednesday, 10/19/2011 at 7:30PM CST, we’ll have
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vSphere Design Discussion This Wednesday, October 12, Harley Stagner will be joining Damian Karlson (blog) on the BrownBag for an in depth, interactive discussion on vSphere design. If you are interested in learning more about vSphere design, studying for your VCAP-DCD, or VCDX, this would be the session to attend. Critical Details: Date/Time: Wednesday, 10/12/2011
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While I’ve talked some about VMTurbo before (here and here), I figured now would be a good time to let you know abut some of the enhancements they’ve made recently: Improved workload placement policy support It is now possible to specify “Place” and “Don’t Place policies for the workload and hosts and datastores addressing typical
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To be honest, I’ve not poked at the vSphere Storage Appliance since the vSphere 5.x Beta. That said, the technology itself looks promising, and as will be discussed on the BrownBag this week, it will become part of some of your vSphere designs. To help prep for the BrownBag or to learn overall about the
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Per Damian’s blog, this week’s BrownBag technical deep dive will center around vSphere design and the vSphere Storage Appliance (VSA). Damian will be joined by Sean Crookston, Chris Wahl, and Bill Hill to deep dive into designing vSphere environments with the VSA. BrownBag – Desigh & vSphere Storage Appliance Register: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/945190048 Date/Time: 10/5 @ 7:30PM
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This is a revisit of an older post on running ESX4.x in Fusion 3.x. This time updated for ESXi 5.x and Fusion 4.x. The steps this time around are nearly identical to the ones last time: Pull down the ISO New VM Point the installer at the ESXi ISO: Confirm the OS Type: Wait a
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Yes! You can! I’m not talking about using vCO to call PowerCLI scripts. As well, that’s been covered before. What I’m talking about is using PowerCLI against VMware Onyx to get vCO JavaScript (Jeorg Lew’s post on it here). First, get Onyx. I’ll wait… Have it? Excellent. Now fire it up & change the output
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Woot! So, blogging may be picking up again in the nearish future as I approach the end of the first pass on writing the vCO book. That said, I was hoping to get some input from the larger vCO using community on some bits of the book. That is, help me shape the vCO troubleshooting
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Wednesday this week brings another Damian Karlson edition of the BrownBags. This week he’s featuring Wade Holmes who will be talking about vCloud Director and the vCloud Architecture Toolkit. Wade Holmes (web/Twitter) is a Technical Solutions Architect for VMware. Wade has over 14 years of experience planning, designing, engineering, architecting and supporting complex computing environments
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Since it’s announcement at VMworld this year VXLAN has had me all manner of interested and I’ve been reading various things that have come my way. The following links are to some of the best resources on it I’ve found thus far: http://codingrelic.geekhold.com/2011/09/care-and-feeding-of-vxlan.html http://codingrelic.geekhold.com/2011/09/care-and-feeding-of-vxlan.html http://codingrelic.geekhold.com/2011/09/vxlan-conclusion.html
It’s that Cody guy again, and well he’s late to the announcement party again… Busy is as busy does, but that said, in cleaning out my feed reader I found the following Gem: Check it out here. Note the little bit at the bottom: That’s right… vCO Plug-In docs on your e-reader of choice.
It’s that time again, and whilst I’ve handed off MC Duties to Damian Karlson (This fellow here, aka @sixfootdad), I think it’s still important to let y’all know what’s coming up. This week he’ll have the one, the only Jason Boche on. Jason will be covering VCAP-DCD Objective 1. Details Topic: VCAP-DCD Objective 1Date/Time: 9/21/2011
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There has been a lot going on in the vCO space while I’ve been head down in the book. No excuse to not post about it however. This post is all about the plug-ins: VMware posted here about the vCenter 5.x plug-in: As promised in a previous post, the vCenter Server 5.0 plug-in adds over
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You know an idea has merit when someone else sees the value in it and wants to take it to the next level. I had a personal conflict with the BrownBag schedule over the next bunch of weeks, and while at VMworld chatting with some really great folks (Sean Crookston, Bill Hill, and Kanuj Behl)
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So we’re going to have a special one-off Brown Bag to do a Technical Deep-Dive with the one, the only, Duncan Epping (Of yellow-bricks fame) and Frank Denneman (here). Who is Duncan? Well, I figure most of y’all know this already, but here is the Bio: Duncan Epping is Principal Architect in the Technical Marketing
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For those that couldn’t make it to the live show, be heartened to know that what we did was a live version of this BrownBag. If that’s not enough… brace yourself for some really awesome stuff, right here: The Slides They’re not much to look at because well, it was a demo heavy session. That
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