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Automate ALL The Things #vBrownBag Follow Up – PowerCLI for the Infrastructure admin with Alan Renouf (@alanrenouf)
Alan Renouf returns for another #vBrownBag PowerCLI session, helping you Automate All The Things. Alan shows us how to leverage PowerGUI to create PowerCLI to build scripts to monitor and automate your VMware infrastructure. Video #vBrownBag Automate ALL the things – PowerCLI for the infrastructure manager with Alan Renouf (@alanrenouf) from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo.
EMEA #vBrownBag Follow Up – Italian Version Episode 1 with Andrea Mauro, Giuseppe Guglielmetti and Pietro Piutti
The following content is in Italian, the language in which this series of webinars is presented. Il 12 Novembre ho dovuto 2013 Andrea Mauro, Giuseppe Guglielmetti e Pietro Piutti ha fatto il primo della serie di lingua italiana EMEA vBrownbags. La registrazione del webinar è qui sotto: EMEA vBrownbag Italian Version Episode 1 from EMEA
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EMEA #vBrownbag goes to Italy
The EMEA #vBrownbag covers a very large region and unlike the US version it supplies places with a multitude of languages with many of them being second or even third language English speaking. After several discussions at VMworld EMEA with Andrea Mauro and several other high profile Italian vExperts the VMUG.IT guys have agreed to
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#vBrownBag TechTalks Livestream from VMworld EMEA 2013
TechTalks schedule
#vBrownBag at VMworld EMEA next week
I hope everyone is locked and ready to go next week, VMworld Europe is a great event and I’m personally disappointed that I’m going to be asleep in New Zealand while my buddies are having fun in Barcelona. The #vBrownBag crew will be there, Gregg has the shortest trip and will be joined by Kyle,
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#vBrownBag TechTalks Schedule for VMworld EMEA 2013
Below is the schedule for the #vBrownBag TechTalks in Barcelona. We are still receiving new submissions so keep an eye on it as we approach the event for updates. See you all soon! Time Monday Tuesday Wednesday 10:30 – 11:00 vExpert Hour vExpert Hour vExpert Hour 11:00 – 11:15 Joerg Lew – Make your automation stopgaps
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The vBrownBag community survey
Here at vBrownBag global HQ we are hard at work plotting to make vBrownBag more awesome. One thing we know is that the most awesome thing about vBrownBag is you, the community, so it’s time to ask what you think. Please take two minutes to fill in the quick survey we’ve put together and let
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VMware Fusion / Workstation Performance Hacks
This post is by Cody Bunch Well, not sure if they’re hacks, but they are some handy VMX file settings that can, at least marginally improve the performance of your VMs. VMX Settings v.vmx[“logging”] = “FALSE”v.vmx[“MemTrimRate”] = “0”v.vmx[“MemAllowAutoScaleDown”] = “FALSE”v.vmx[“mainMem.backing”] = “swap”v.vmx[“sched.mem.pshare.enable”] = “FALSE”v.vmx[“snapshot.disabled”] = “TRUE” v.vmx[“isolation.tools.unity.disable”] = “TRUE”v.vmx[“unity.allowCompostingInGuest”] = “FALSE”v.vmx[“unity.enableLaunchMenu”] = “FALSE”v.vmx[“unity.showBadges”] = “FALSE”v.vmx[“unity.showBorders”]
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On Putting the User Back Into User Group
This post is by Cody Bunch Following on Scott’s commitment to the community, I would like to announce that I too will be accepting five folks (VMware, OpenStack, Unix, etc…) who are willing to step up, volunteer, and speak for the first time at your local user group (be it VMUG or otherwise). So what
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The Votes are in – Best community #vBrownBag sessions at VMworld US
This post is by Cody Bunch Before we get into the results, a few thanks need to go out to the folks at VMware that made this happen for the second year in a row, as well as our various #vBrownBag swag sponsors. If you didn’t get in on the swag scavenger hunt, no worries,
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Podcasting for Cancer
Wow, it’s been an amazing first 24 hours or so. Earlier this week a fellow community member Gabriel Chapman @Bacon_Is_King tweeted about having lost his father to cancer a year ago and now his mother’s was spreading. Shortly after Trevor Pott @cakeis_not_allie started to engage the community and seeing what we could do. Myself and
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2013-Set-12 ProfessionalVMware #vBrownBagLATAM ¿Qué es y cómo uso #VSAN? c/ @PunchingClouds
The following content is in Spanish, the language in which the webinar is presented. El pasado 12 de setiembre en ProfessionalVMware #vBrownBag LATAM se presentó el tema VMware Virtual SAN ¿Qué es y cómo uso #VSAN? VSAN agrupe en clústeres los discos de los servidores a fin de crear un almacenamiento compartido de máxima simplicidad
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VMworld 2013 #vBrownBag Session Voting
With VMworld 2013 under our belts and all the vBrownBag sessions available online here, it’s time to pick your favorites. This lets us, and your favorite presenters know what you want more of, or the corollary, what there should be less of. Head on over to vote.professionalvmware.com, log in with your twitter account, and let
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vBrownBag TechTalks posted on YouTube
Another VMworld USA is over and we’re all slowly catching up on sleep. The vBrownBag Tech Talk videos are now up on YouTube, you can find links to all the videos either on the original schedule web page or on this YouTube playlist. Huge thanks go to the nearly forty community members who prepared and
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VMworld 2013 Wrap Up
This post is by Cody Bunch This is the sort of post where one would say something about being tired, sore feet, or having the “VMworld crud”. While I've had a bit of all of those things, this is not that post. This post could also drone on and on about how despite the oddball
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#vBrownBag at PuppetConf 2013: Nick Weaver Interview
The vBrownBag Team had a great time at VMworld 2013 with the live tech talks and with meeting many of our webcast attendees and listeners. The week before, though, a few of us actually attended another IT conference that happened in San Francisco: PuppetConf 2013. VMware’s vCloud Hybrid Service (vCHS) is leveraging Puppet in its
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#vBrownbag Follow-Up Andrea Mauro covering VCAP-CIA Objective 3
On the 27th of August 2013 Andrea Mauro covered VCAP-CIA – Objective 3 Manage vCloud Director Resources on the EMEA vBrownbag. The recording from the webinar is below EMEA vBrownbag with Andrea Mauro covering VCAP5-CIA Objective 3 Manage vCloud Director Resources from EMEA vBrownbag on Vimeo.
#vBrownBag treasure hunt at VMworld USA 2013
VMworld is under way and so the #vBrownBag activities are also underway. Starting Monday we will have the TechTalks happening in the communities lounge, behind the escalators in Moscone South. The TechTalks are also available streaming online for those not attending in person and (when I sort that out) on YouTube so you can view
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Discounts on VDI books
Packtpub has offered us a discount code for some books, two books about VMware View, or Horizon View as it’s now called. The vouchers are for a nice 30% discount on the two books and are valid until the 25th of October. Implementing VMware Horizon View 5.2 Voucher code MREIVHV30 Instant VMware View Virtualization How-to
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