It’s back! As a special thank you to our listeners, the #vBrownBag crew is happy to once again run our annual end of year give-away! Now through December 16th you can sign up using the form below to be entered to win one of these great prizes which were generously donated for our community by
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This guest post is by Bryan Krausen who blogs at ITDiversified, where you can find his back catalogue of posts. Find out more about the guest blogger program here.
As mentioned in this article, there are many variables to take into consideration when deploying and configuring VMware Site Recovery Manager. When failing (or testing) your virtual machines from site to site, decisions must be made on what cluster will they start on, what priority will they be failed over, and what, if any, scripts will be executed after fail over has occurred. An equally important step is ensuring that the VMs can communicate on the correct network at the surviving site. VMware SRM has multiple ways of handling customization of a VM’s IP; one that is “automated” using IP Customization Rules and another that is completely manual, set configurations per VM. Both are explained and shown below.
Note: Site Recovery Manager supports customization of the same guest operation systems which vSphere 5.5U2 supports. Check the document here for a support matrix.
This guest post is by Dean Lewis who blogs at Educational Centre, where you can find his back catalogue of posts. Find out more about the guest blogger program here.
So after an interesting North West VMUG event on 12th November, I’ve decided to write my own comments on the state of employment within IT. This is prompted by Neil Mills Talk at the above VMUG event, where he gave tips on super charging your CV, and the industry as he see’s it.
Most of my recruiting experience from the last year comes from a reseller/solutions provider point of view.
This guest post is by Bryan Krausen who blogs at ITDiversified, where you can find his back catalogue of posts. Find out more about the guest blogger program here.
VMware’s Site Recovery Manager provides the ability to failover VMs in the event of a disaster or for planned migrations between datacenters. In my case, we’re using it for the former as we have two “main” datacenters, one located in Louisville and the other in downtown Chicago. Although we’ve tried to deploy applications with site redundancy in mind, some applications are simply reliant on a single site, whether by limitations of the software or by choice.
Decisions, decisions… Planning a VMware SRM deployment takes considerable thought as there are many choices and routes to accomplish the same tasks. For example, we could choose to utilize EMC’s RecoverPoint or VMware vSphere Replication to replicate the data to the opposite site. We could choose to create a dedicated “DR” VLAN or should we explore spanning Layer 2 across the datacenters using VXLAN or OTV. Should we purchase additional capacity at both sites or simply suspend “Tier 2/3″ VMs in the event of a failure to ensure resources are available?
This guest post is by Melissa Palmer who blogs at vmiss.net, where you can find her back catalogue of posts. Find out more about the guest blogger program here.
As part of #vDM30in30 Eric Wright wrote a great article on reducing technical debt, which got me thinking quite a bit. Mainly about automation, and the journey it takes to get there. Here’s a couple more ideas on how to get you started on the journey if you haven’t already begun.
(Mission Control at NASA Wallops.)
This guest post is by Rob Nelson who blogs at http://rnelson0.com/, where you can find his back catalogue of posts. Find out more about the guest blogger program here.
One of the most important concepts of The Goal is to increase throughput. Throughput is the rate at which the system generates money through sales. That is, when your company takes raw materials, processes them into a finished good, and sells it, the measured rate of that activity is your throughput. Severe emphasis on sales. Throughput is not the same as efficiency. Today, we will look at throughput vs. efficiency and how these concepts apply to IT.
Though we are focusing on throughput, we must state the descriptions of the two other measurements. Inventory is all the money that the system has invested in purchasing things which it intends to sell. Operational expense is all the money the system spends in order to turn inventory into throughput. I list the three definitions together because the definitions are precise and interconnected. Changing even a single word in one requires the other two be adjusted as well.
Jeffrey Hicks, author of several titles including Learn PowerShell 3 in a Month of Lunches stops by the #vBrownBag to discuss PowerShell. You can download the presentation and examples Jeffrey used during the presentation to help prepare for the homework. You can follow Jeffrey on Twitter @JeffHicks and his blog. PowerShell Recording PowerShell Homework Originally
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This year vForum Sydney was held at Luna Park to celebrate VMware ANZ’s 10th anniversary and all I can say is what a great place to have a conference! We tried to pack as much as possible into the two days including techtalks, visiting the solutions exchange and blogging at the keynotes! Although this meant
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This guest post is by James Brown who blogs at http://jbcomp.com/, where you can find his back catalogue of posts. Find out more about the guest blogger program here.
Good morning, afternoon, and evening to all the blog readers.
I was challenged by Eric Wright and the #vDM team to do two things. First was to write 30 blogs in 30 days. This seems to be working out, The second was to step up even further and be a guest blogger for #vBrownBag. We will see if I am asked to do it again.
So with the explanation out of the way, here we go.
The above introduction was more than just an explanation. In January of 2014, I decided it was time for me to start getting my name out there to maybe move up into a better career. So I started a blog, updated my Linked-in, and started a Twitter account. The community I found on twitter was overwhelming. One of the first people I followed on Twitter was Bryon Schaller. He had just been accepted to participate in the #VirtualDesignMaster program. So I started watching and following. I became more and more interested in the VCDX program and becoming a Virtual Architect. From there I have gather 132 twitter followers. I have followed 318 people/vendors.
SaltStack CTO Thomas Hatch and engineer Mike Place stop in on the #vBrownBag DevOps series to cover: – Introduction to SaltStack – What is SaltStack automation for Web-scale infrastructure operations – SaltStack concepts – Real world use case and walk through You can follow Thomas and Mike on Twitter @thatch45 and @cachedout respectively. SaltStack Video
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If you are going to be in Sydney for vForum then you should present a TechTalk. The signup form is here, go ahead and sign up now. With a day to go until the conference we have a late sponsor to add to our list. Zerto are a returning vBrownbag techtalk sponsor although this is the
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Yvo van Doorn joins the #vBrownBag DevOps series to discuss configuration management with Chef. Video Presentation You can follow Yvo on Twitter @yvov . Originally published at https://vbrownbag.comm – Sign up for the live #vBrownBag broadcast at https://vbrownbag.comm/brownbags/ where you can also get updates and view our past series such as the Automate All The Things series at https://vbrownbag.comm/vbrownbag-automate-all-the-things-training-schedule/, Cisco certification series https://vbrownbag.comm/vbrownbag-cisco-certification-track/ or
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vForum Sydney is just over a week away and the vBrownBag crew will be present making more TechTalk videos. It is not too late to propose your own TechTalk, as you can see below there are spaces still available, it’s as simple as signing up using this form. Due to Internet connectivity challenges, we’re not able
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Frank Büchsel provides a deep dive into VMdir – SSO review, multi-master replication, service endpoints and performance impacts. Video Presentation You can follow Frank on Twitter @fbuechsel and his blog http://fbuechsel.eu/ Originally published at https://vbrownbag.comm – Sign up for the live #vBrownBag broadcast at https://vbrownbag.comm/brownbags/ where you can also get updates and view our past series such as the Automate All The
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The storage debate continues, Justin Warren, John Martin, Jeff O’Connor, Andrew McGee and David Lloyd
If you are going to be in Sydney for vForum then you should present a TechTalk, also you should attend the free VMDownUnderground pre warmup party the night before (you can register here). The TechTalk signup form is here, go ahead and sign up now. With under two weeks to go until the conference it is time to welcome
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Jeremy Adams joins us to present the ProfessionalVMware.com #vBrownBag DevOps session on Puppet. Follow along in the homework to deploy the Puppet learning VM and see how you can create manifests to do things like patch systems for Heartbleed. Video Homework Originally published at https://vbrownbag.comm – Sign up for the live #vBrownBag broadcast at https://vbrownbag.comm/brownbags/
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If you are going to be in Sydney for vForum then you should present a TechTalk. The signup form is here, go ahead and sign up now. With under two weeks to go until the conference it is time to welcome our first sponsor. NetApp are a new vBrownbag techtalk sponsor at vForum Sydney although they
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This year will be the fourth community party before vForum Sydney. Inspired by VMunderground and designed to let the VMware community come together before the conference starts this is one of the most fun parts of vForum. This year vForum in Sydney coincides with the OpenStack Summit in Paris, where I will be producing more
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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 has been a while since I published the first part of this entry and well, it’s time to continue.
The more I learn about it, the harder it is to compress everything into a single blog post. On this occasion I will cover the implementation of VXLAN on a VMware vSphere environment and some of the following topics will be covered in subsequent posts:
A. VXLAN and the multicast requirement: three different levels of (in) dependence from Multicast
B. vCNs Edge as an efficient and cost-effective VXLAN gateway
C. A day in the life of a VXLAN frame