Now that VMworld USA is behind us it is natural that we look forward to VMworld EMEA next month. We are working with the VMware Communities team and will have a TechTalk stage in the Hang Space again. You can submit your TechTalk using this form. TechTalks are ten minute long presentations by community members
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This post is reproduced from Mike Letshin‘s blog at The Solutions Architect.
Every once in a while there is a day that brings together people that are from down the street, across the country and around the world with an attempt to make the world a slightly better place. While this sounds like quite the audacious goal, The Reckoning aims to:
I have been lucky enough to be in attendance to represent Nexenta but also my history and background. Kicking off the day with an unconference that was hosted by Cody Bunch and Alastair Cooke of vBrownbag we started with a generic list of topics that those in attendance thought were important to the community, the tech sector and hopefully others that could not attend. I have done these before and the ideas tend not to get to flow past the group in attendance, and since the first break out, I volunteered to lead it seems only write to pass on some of the insight from those that may have been there, might want to go there or those that are just guessing but either way they are nuggets of knowledge.
VMworld USA has come and gone for another year again. Naturally the vBrownBag crew were there in force. Many presented sessions as part of their day job and many were there to learn. As we have for the past few years we made a lot of TechTalk videos, over 60 videos this year. As usual we
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As I mentioned a couple of months ago the vBrownBag crew will be at John Troyer’s The Reckoning event next weekend (13 & 14 September). In particular we will be organizing the vBrownBag Unconference on Sunday afternoon from 2-5pm. The vBrownBag Unconference is made possible by the support of SimpliVity. Once that is over we
-> Continue reading The Reckoning Unconference
We are underway at VMworld 2015 with the Opening Acts panels. Panelist details and panel topics are here on the VMundeground site. You can follow along from home with the live streams: Panel one: Panel two: Starting tomorrow we will have the TechTalks live from the hang space, the schedule is here.
I start my travel to VMworld tomorrow, so it is last minute arrangement time. If you are in town on Sunday then go get registered some time after 7am. Then plan on spending some time with us at Opening Acts and VMunderground, all the details are here. Neither event requires tickets and both are at
-> Continue reading VMworld Is upon Us
I am really looking forward to the OpenStack Summit in Tokyo. Not just because the vBrownBag TechTalks are so interesting. Also, because I loved my three days in Tokyo last year and want to see more of the city. The OpenStack Foundation have asked us to make TechTalks again, you can sign up to present
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The vBrownBag team love to be involved in unusual and innovative things. One new thing we really like is John Troyer’s upcoming conference The Reckoning. This promises to be the antidote to massive anonymous conferences like VMworld. The Reckoning will be a fairly small gathering, a couple of hundred technologists who like to communicate about technology. Naturally when
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We have a packed schedule, as you can see every available piece of time is full of presentations. I’m delighted that the Women of OpenStack have filled almost the whole schedule on Tuesday. The Schedule now links to each video on YouTube, or you can find the playlist of all 85 videos here. Naturally the
-> Continue reading vBrownBag TechTalks at Vancouver Summit–The Schedule
It was magic at first, running multiple VMs on one server using a hypervisor. Then the magic was running VMs on a hypervisor that was itself a VM on another hypervisor. What if I told you that there was a cloud that is built on top of other clouds? A sort of cross-cloud cloud? And this cloud allowed you to take your VMs from vSphere and KVM straight into the cloud? No conversion, just copy the VMs to this new cloud.
We have around eighty sessions proposed for TechTalks at the Vancouver summit next month. It is awesome to have so many but we have space for some more. Go ahead and propose a session using this form. Particularly we would love to see more presentations from the women of OpenStack. Tuesday will be a solid
-> Continue reading vBrownBag TechTalks at Vancouver Summit are filling up
With only 47 days remaining until the OpenStack Summit in Vancouver we are getting pretty excited. We have 70 TechTalks proposed, so well on our way to making over 90 videos at this summit. There is still time to sign up to present your own TechTalk using this form. It looks like we will have
-> Continue reading vBrownBag TechTalks at Vancouver gather steam
The following content is in Spanish, the language in which the webinar is presented. El pasado 26 de marzo @arielsanchezmor presentó el tema #VMware VCP-NV Objetivo 3 vDS/vSS para #NSX
It has only been a couple of months since we had an amazing week at the Paris OpenStack summit. Now it is time to look forward to the Vancouver summit in May. The vBrownBag crew are delighted to be returning to make TechTalk videos at our third summit. This year will have a focus on
-> Continue reading #vBrownBag TechTalks in Vancouver
If you are a regular with vBrownBag and ProfessionalVMware.com then you are likely to be pursuing certifications, running some type of homelab, or simply trying to hone your skills. It has been difficult dealing with short evaluation periods for licensing. We have long lamented having to reinstall our environments or maintain multiple MyVMware accounts to
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This guest post is by Dean Lewis who blogs at www.educationalcentre.co.uk, where you can find his back catalogue of posts. We have open slots for guest bloggers, find out more about the guest blogger program here.
The past few months I’ve forced my head into revision for the three CCNP exams, with two down, I have TSHOOT left to do, and I’m aiming to pass before Christmas Day. Which is a nice goal to have, but when I have to recertify next year, It’ll be around 24th December.
But currently, Cisco only requires you to pass one of the three exams to keep the CCNP.
The TSHOOT is an interesting exam, compared with others. It contains a small number of multiple answer based questions, however the bulk of the exam is sat around a pre-defined and publicly available topology, where within a simulator you troubleshoot various support tickets.
Sorry for the post delay on this. But, here it is.. the 2nd part of the ICND series Study Guide. As with the 1st post, the core purpose behind these network exams is to help you better understand the concepts involved to achieve your VCP-NV (NSX). This exam (ICND2) is needed to complete the requirements
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This guest post is by David Espejo, who blogs at vcloudopia.wordpress.com, where you can find his back catalogue of posts. David writes in Spanish, so if you don’t speak Spanish be sure to use a browser that will translate for you. Find out more about the guest blogger program here.
It’s been a long time since my last post, and as always, I appreciate the opportunity that the vBrownBag community offers me to publish here. I’ve been on the road with a growing list of project deadlines due to a new consultant role that I accepted, but I’m learning a lot so I hope to share all that new knowledge here.
In this occasion I will talk about what has often been cited as the main barrier to VXLAN adoption: the requirement of Multicast in the physical network and the resulting operational burden of deploying and managing such requirement.
Jonathan Frappier provides an overview of VMware Application Services (formerly Application Director or AppD) and does a live demo. A follow-up recording can be found at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sXlZrr8jWw which was done after the show to demonstrate an application blueprint deployment. Video Homework You can follow Jonathan on Twitter @jfrappier and his blog http://www.virtxpert.com Originally published at
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This guest post is by Anthony Chow who blogs at http://cloudn1n3.blogspot.co.nz/, where you can find his back catalogue of posts. Find out more about the guest blogger program here.
Compute, Network and Storage are the 3 pillars of a data center. Storage had been my weakest point in terms of knowledge and experience.
Today I had a great chat with Brian Knudtson (@bknudtson) who is very knowledgeable in different aspects of the technology field and had opened my mind in the area of “Hyper-convergence”. In this post, I am stepping out of my comfort zone again and try to venture into this area and take a look at this emerging and expanding market. In VMworld 2014, VMware announced a new product EVO:RAIL which reinforce the idea that this “Hyperconvergence” market has huge potential in the coming years.