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 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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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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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 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 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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