Today is the Datrium Build Day, live from 9 am Pacific time on YouTube. There are a few resources that you might want to use: A white paper on converging primary and secondary storage Some great insight into the Datrium split provisioning model A white paper on blanket encryption, where no unencrypted storage data crosses
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November is upon us and so we are getting close to the Datrium Build Day. The vBrownBag mobile data center will be making another trip to Sunnyvale in Silicon Valley. On Thursday the 16th of November, starting at 9 am Pacific time, we will live stream the process of deploying the Datrium Open Converged platform
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What a week, the HPE SimpliVity Build Day was a whole week of work in the data center. Our third Build Day showed you what it is like to deploy a SimpliVity HyperConvered Infrastructure (HCI) into an existing vSphere environment and migrate workloads. We implemented two SimpliVity clusters, migrating workloads into the first and adding
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Now that the dust has settled from VMworld, it is Build Day season again. On October 26th, we will be live streaming from HPE in Houston as we deploy SimpliVity into an existing vSphere environment. I am really looking forward to this one as it was working with SimpliVity that helped form the idea of
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A vBrownBag “speed-round” where we saw how much Kubernetes, OpenFaas, and vSphere API’s we could cram into! VMware APIs as a Service using OpenFaaS and VIO Kubernetes Video We take an empty vSphere Integrated OpenStack Kubernetes cluster, and deploy OpenFaaS on it. In it’s normal state, it deploys to single node, behind a port. Traditional
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Kyle Ruddy reviews the RESTful APIs available with vSphere 6.5 *About vBrownBag* SUBSCRIBE! http://bit.ly/vBBYoutube Socials: Twitter: https://twitter.com/vBrownBag Facebook: https://facebook.com/vBrownBag iTunes: http://bit.ly/vbrownbagitunes Google+: google.com/+vBrownBag https://vBrownBag.com is a community of people who believe in helping other people. Specifically we work in IT infrastructure and we help other people in the IT industry to better their carreers by
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Rubrik’s Peter Milanese discusses: – Authentication – Calling a ReSTful API – Writing Code Using RESTful APIs Video *About vBrownBag* SUBSCRIBE! http://bit.ly/vBBYoutube Socials: Twitter: https://twitter.com/vBrownBag Facebook: https://facebook.com/vBrownBag iTunes: http://bit.ly/vbrownbagitunes Google+: google.com/+vBrownBag https://vBrownBag.com is a community of people who believe in helping other people. Specifically we work in IT infrastructure and we help other people in
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The last quarter of 2017 is going to be busy for the vBrownBag Build Day team. In November, we will be in Sunnyvale (Silicon Valley) at the offices of Datrium. Datrium is the pioneer of “Open Convergence” which aims to deliver the value of Hyperconverged without some of the scaling limitations of putting persistent storage
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@arielsanchezmor here again. Humor me while you read this long post. I wanted to share some of our internal discussions and mindset here at vBrownBag 🙂 TL:DR vBrownBag is excited with what VMware Code has achieved with the Hackathons and we want to help keep the energy flowing by helping local hackathons happen. We
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Hey guys! @arielsanchezmor here to break the news that vBrownBag will be doing 4 talks at the #NYNJVMUG UserCon! In a breakout room: 9:25 – 9:38 AM Session 1 Nicholas Scuola – The Importance of the vCommunity 9:40 – 9:55 AM Session 2 Ken Hui – Options for DR in the Cloud In the VMUG
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Hi everyone! @arielsanchezmor here. Just wanted to report that the 2nd edition of “Focus on the expert” interviews recorded during VMworld US 2017 are now all uploaded and published in their own Youtube playlist! We were also able to get 4 authors who recently released books to tell us more about them! The list: Corey
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Cody De Arkland talks about building integration for VMware with Amazon Echo using VMware’s APIs. Using Python, Flask, NodeJS, Echo Skills, and Visual Studio Code. Using Amazon Echo and VMware Video *About vBrownBag* SUBSCRIBE! http://bit.ly/vBBYoutube Socials: Twitter: https://twitter.com/vBrownBag Facebook: https://facebook.com/vBrownBag iTunes: http://bit.ly/vbrownbagitunes Google+: google.com/+vBrownBag https://vBrownBag.com is a community of people who believe in helping other
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Chris Wahl from Rubrik kicks off the API Zero to Hero series with an introduction to RESTful APIs. Introduction to RESTful APIs Video Show Notes: – Imperative vs Declarative (2:20) – Avoid building by hand (4:25) – Learning a RESTful API is really easy (7:10) – What is REST (7:55) – Why learn RESTful APIs?
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Kendrick Colmen discusses how the changing application landscape impacts containers, and persistent storage. Containers and Persistence Video Show Notes: – Applications are changing (6:50) – Dev/Test/App life cycle (8:50) – Enter containers (9:25) – Why you should care (12:00) – Demo (17:50) – Demo recap – what just happened? (23:50) – Containers vs VMs –
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Kenny Garreau discusses Docker Swarm to provide clustering, HA, and scheduling services. Docker Swarm Video *About vBrownBag* SUBSCRIBE! http://bit.ly/vBBYoutube Socials: Twitter: https://twitter.com/vBrownBag Facebook: https://facebook.com/vBrownBag iTunes: http://bit.ly/vbrownbagitunes Google+: google.com/+vBrownBag https://vBrownBag.com is a community of people who believe in helping other people. Specifically we work in IT infrastructure and we help other people in the IT industry
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In this Docker 101 episode, Kenny Garreau provides you with the basics on Docker and containers. Docker for Virtualization Admins Video *About vBrownBag* SUBSCRIBE! http://bit.ly/vBBYoutube Socials: Twitter: https://twitter.com/vBrownBag Facebook: https://facebook.com/vBrownBag iTunes: http://bit.ly/vbrownbagitunes Google+: google.com/+vBrownBag https://vBrownBag.com is a community of people who believe in helping other people. Specifically we work in IT infrastructure and we help
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Interviewing for a job is tough. It’s the equivalent of deciding if you want to get married during the first date. In this episode, Rebecca Fitzhugh (mock) interviews Thom Greene to help you understand interviewing strategies. Mock Interview Video *About vBrownBag* https://vBrownBag.com is a community of people who believe in helping other people. Specifically we
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Cody De Arkland is back with a vengeance to wrap up the unintended VIC trilogy. As you can/have seen in part two many of the demos did not go as intended (not the worst thing to happen from a learning perspective by the way). In this episode, Cody “fixed the glitch” with the demos –
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Today is a huge day for vBrownBag TechTalks at VMworld. For the first time, our TechTalks are in the Content Catalog and the Schedule Builder application. The US sessions are live today. I would also like to welcome Pure Storage as a sponsor of the vBrownBag TechTalks at VMworld US and EMEA. It is great
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Cody De Arkland shows you how to install and configure VMware Integrated Containers (VIC). VMware Integrated Containers Installation and Configuration Video Show Notes: – Installing and consuming VMware Integrated Containers (VIC) (1:25) – Container ecosystem at VMware (3:10) – Demo (4:15) *About vBrownBag* https://vBrownBag.com is a community of people who believe in helping other people.
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