This week’s US #vBrownBag coincides with a US holiday of great importance, thus, we’ll be taking a pass this week in favor of celebrating the birthday of our great nation. That said, I do still have some awesome #vBrownBag related news. USB Keys! So, what’s so cool about these keys (besides the fact that they’re
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Last night we rocked out to the VCAP-DCA Objective 7. Video Slides More Info You can find all prior shows here. Additionally, we’re on iTunes: http://t.co/07DGNQsT or Feedburner: http://t.co/2Fic71ZW
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Tonight Damian did an excellent improv of Host Profiles, VUM, and other Operational Maintenance objective best practices. If you are studying for your VCAP (or maintaining a vSphere environment), you’ll want to watch this. Video
Last week we had Chris Wahl on to cover the VCAP-DCA Networking Objectives (Objective 2). Video
Nick Marshall took a step out from behind the scenes to drop some major know-how on last weeks APAC vBrownBag around the VCAP-DCD Performance Design objective. Video ;
Video Slides Links Windows 7 Optimization guide. Think about applying these to your servershttp://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/VMware-View-OptimizationGuideWindows7-EN.pdf vSphere HA Application monitoringhttp://www.yellow-bricks.com/2011/08/11/vsphere-5-0-ha-application-monitoring-intro/ Remove non-present devices after P2V using scripthttp://www.boche.net/blog/index.php/2011/06/11/scripted-removal-of-non-present-hardware-after-a-p2v/ Kendrick Colemans’s VM Advanced ISO. Free Tools For Advanced Taskshttp://kendrickcoleman.com/index.php?/Tech-Blog/vm-advanced-iso-free-tools-for-advanced-tasks.html
Video Slides Links VMKernel iSCSI issue http://vmtoday.com/2012/02/vsphere-5-networking-bug-affects-software-iscsi/
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Video Slides Don’t have the slides for last night yet, however we’ll update once they’re in hand.
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The US BrownBags last week had a bit of an open topic round table discussion. We also gave away some copies of the new Cengage title Administering vSphere 5. Video ProfessionalVMware BrownBag – Open Topic from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo.
Last week the APAC BrownBags covered the VCAP-DCD Implementation Design section. Video ProfessionalVMware BrownBag – VCAP-DCD Implementation Planning from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo. Slides
Video Slides More! Did you know there are now a metric boatload of ways to get the vBrownBags? In addition to live and the follow-up posts, you can pull the podcast from these places also: iTunes – http://bit.ly/BrownbagiTunesRSS – http://bit.ly/BrownbagPodcast
We both started and finished vSphere Storage month with Ravi Venkat, and what a wonderfully informative month it was. This weeks recording & slides are below: Video Slides More! Did you know there are now a metric boatload of ways to get the vBrownBags? In addition to live and the follow-up posts, you can pull
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This week the APAC BrownBags covered VCAP-DCD and vSphere Host Design. Video Slides