Every year at VMworld, in addition to the great content, there are a host of other great activities going on. However, in order to keep up with them you’d need to look a bit like the guy on the left: <—– Yes, a robot with a time machine. That, or take copious amounts of some
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Will you be at VMworld? I will! In fact, Glenn Sizemore and I will be rocking and rolling for a Wednesday PowerCLI 101 session. If you’re thinking about PowerShell, PowerCLI or just beginning to automate your environment, we’ll take you over some of the most basic basics. There are actually a number of really good
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Wednesday, 11A VMworld time: Hope to see you there!
Was surprised this wasn’t here by default, but alas, out of the box vCO does not ship with a workflow to manage an NFS datastore. Thanks to the VMware communities for a bit of scripting, I was able to put one together. First we’ll break out the components, then show you how it runs. Finally
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ZOMG It’s that time of week again! The time where we announce the speaker and topic for this week’s BrownBag! Topic: VCAP-DCA Objective 2 – vNetwork Distributed Switches Speaker: Damian Karlson (@sixfootdad) who blogs here. Will be presenting this weeks BrownBag. Damian is VMware Certified Professional (VCP4), a VMware vExpert for 2011, and am currently
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This is not so much a post of any real substance, more a: “Hey, I just noticed this cool thing here” or so in the vCO interface. Specifically, the last time a specific job/workflow ran: While selecting the workflow would seem a fairly obvious choice, it’s nice that it’s right there, and will tell you
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For this week’s BrownBag we’ve scored Hersey Cartwright to come talk to us about vSphere performance as it relates to the VCAP-DCA. Hersey has a little over 20 years experience in system and network administration. Currently he is the Network Operations Manager for a community Credit Union located in Southeastern, VA. he is responsible for
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As much as I’ve harped on installing and running stuff with vCO, the one thing I haven’t touched on much to date has been where to get the bloody download bits. Unfortunately as I’m writing this there is not a product specific download page for vCO. Rather you will need to download the entire vCenter
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We’ll skip the reason you need tools installed. We’ll also skip a bit on the other ways to do this in PowerCLI. Rather, we’ll bring you a way to do this in Orchestrator. Note: If you’re not using vCO, you should be. Why? I covered that here. Additionally, there are some excellent vCO resources here.
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Hello and welcome to the ProfessionalVMware BrownBag! Yes, that’s right, join us on July 20 @ 7P CST to chat all things vSphere, vSphere Training, and more with David Davis. David Davis (CCIE #9369, vExpert, VCP, CISSP, MCSE) has been in the IT industry for 15+ years. He has authored over 300 articles, 6 video
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As mentioned here, I have been playing around with the “nuke from orbit” bits in vCO for both Virtual Machines & their AD objects. One of the snags I hit was the fact that one of these things was not like the other. That is, the VC:VirtualMachine bits that the vCenter plug-in uses could not
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This week’s BrownBag (the one on 7/6 that is) we will be talking all about storage and virtualization with NetApp’s Julian Cates. “Julian Cates is a 14 year IT pro who has spent the last half of his career at NetApp as a consultant, engineer, and architect. He is currently focused on NetApp storage solutions
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Was catching up on feeds this weekend and noticed on Duncan’s site that vCenter Operations Enterprise had hit 1.0.1, and there is some good stuff in the release itself: User Interface A new VirtualCenter Relationship Widget that displays the performance status of objects in your virtual environment and their relationships. You can click objects to
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This week has me finishing up Chapter 10 or so of the upcoming vCO Book (Amazon pre-order link here). Chapter 10 is the “How to cleanse a VM with fire” or so, and one of the varied bits of clean-up you have to do after deleting a VM is to pop that sucker out of
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vCenter Orchestrator… It’s power is only exceeded by it’s mystery. Or so we thought… We’ve touched on vCO a number of times in the past. So much so that I’m actually writing a book on it (Yes that was a shameless plug…). What follows now was a special request from Maish Saidel-Keesing brought about by
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If you are going to be using Orchestrator… and you should be, you are going to want to pull down and install the VIX plugin from here. Why? I hope you are strapped into your seat, and that seat is bolted to the floor because the awesome fixing to drop will hit with a force
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So, starting July 7, the BrownBag series will gain a European branch on PlanetVM.net run by Tom Howarth. You can find the announcement here. Those of you with long memories will remember that I used to be involved in Cody’s Brownbag series of online training sessions. That is until he moved the the sessions to
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Woot! We’ve touched on storage before (here) but we have not yet scratched the surface of VDI let alone how it effects storage. More than that, we’ll have some VDI experts from around the community to talk to us. First, the critical details: Critical Details: Date/Time: 6/22 @ 7PM CSTRegister: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/351927521 Speaker Bios: Michael Letschin
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I’m likely late to the party here… the vCO product page now has a new tab: That’s right, a page dedicated to vCO plugins. The only bits missing are the VIX plugin bits from the labs page.
Occasionally I run into a good post from elsewhere (The Art of Suffering, vZen, etc) that has lessons that translate into our world quite well. This time around I was reading a bit on Garr Reynolds’ PresentationZen blog and came across this post. The post while not directly related to IT infrastructure, Garr’s bag is
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