First and foremost thanks to our three (yes THREE) guest presenters: Paul Richards – Virtualization lead on the Product Engineering team at SunGard Availability Services. His background is in virtualization, storage, and now this cloud stuff. Brian Knudtson – just a simple Systems Engineer trying to make his way through this virtual world he’s found
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We had a decent, if quick show last night, during with we covered VMRun/VIX, PowerCLI, and a few other things. Here are the show notes: Video: ProfessionalVMware VCAP-DCA BrownBag – Scripting & Automation from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo. Flash Cards: Here they are… only 5 this time: http://www.flashcardexchange.com/flashcards/view/1599665 Objectives: Objective 8.1 PowerCLI Notes: Getting started with
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ProfessionalVMware BrownBag – Jon Hall – 2010 Review from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo. Other than the video above, I don’t have much in the way of links or show notes this time around. As always it was a pleasure to have Jon along. Also, a quick thanks to TrainSignal for their ongoing support.
Black Friday? Nah… BrownBag Friday! Here’s the video for this weeks BrownBag: ProfessionalVMware VCAP DCA Section 2 BrownBag from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo. If you like what you see… be sure to check out our other BrownBags here. If you need the full video, you can download it from the Vimeo link above.
Thanks all who stuck around even after our late start. We still managed to have a productive call, both with the flash cards during the call, as well as the long fireside chat with Jason Boche afterwards. Thanks again Jason! Also thanks to everyone else who hung out on the call. Now onto the meat
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Welcome back my friends, to the show that never ends…Tonight Sean (@vFail) covered the ins and outs of the VMware vMA. Video: ProfessionalVMware VCAP BrownBag – vMA from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo. Slides: VCAP DCA – vMA View more presentations from ProfessionalVMware. Notes: VMware vMA – http://vmware.com/go/vma Resoureces: http://vfail.net http://geeksilver.wordpress.com http://vexperienced.co.uk http://communities.vmware.com/community/vmtn/certedu/certification/vcap http://kendrickcoleman.com/index.php?/Tech-Blog/vcap-datacenter-administration-exam-landing-page-vdca410.html http://vmwaretraining.blogspot.com/ VCAP Updates
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As promised, the video is indeed online and embedded below: Video: ProfessionalVMware/vFail VCAP-DCA BrownBag Objective 1 from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo. Slides! Vcap dca section 1 View more presentations from ProfessionalVMware. Show Notes: Uber Celerra VSA – http://nickapedia.com/2010/09/12/ubertastic-celerra-uber-vsa-v3-unisphere/ Storage Blogs http://virtualgeek.typepad.com/virtual_geek/ http://storagemonkeys.com/ VCAP-DCA Resources http://thesaffageek.wordpress.com/vcap-dca-dcd/ http://communities.vmware.com/community/vmtn/certedu/certification/vcap http://kendrickcoleman.com/index.php?/Tech-Blog/vcap-datacenter-administration-exam-landing-page-vdca410.html http://www.ntpro.nl/blog/archives/1585-Looking-for-VCAP-practice-questions-Here-they-are….html iSCSI Multivendor Post Pluggable Storage Architecture http://geeksilver.wordpress.com/2010/08/17/vmware-vsphere-4-1-psa-pluggable-storage-architecture-understanding/ How
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Today we had Jim Curry and Jonathan Bryce of the OpenStack project come by to tell us a bit about the project. What it is, does, etc. The best place to see this is the video, just below. I’ve also collected some notes along that way that should be useful. First, the video: ProfessionalVMware VCP
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Sorry about this folks, I’ve had some random “Life Happens” issues that caused this not to get posted on time. Here are the show notes and the video: Video ProfessionalVMware BrownBag 12 – VCAP Security from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo. Notes We covered quite a few items this go around. Most importantly however were the lessons
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Thanks again to Ed Haletky (@Texiwill) for coming along and presenting this week. Here is the video from the session: BrownBag #10 – Security Deep Dive from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo. Links: Virtualization Practice – Ed’s Blog http://www.virtualizationpractice.com/blog/?file_id=41 – Resources! Virtualization Security Roundtable
Tuesdays Brownbag had a good turn out and also featured the excellent debut of our newest co-host: Guillermo Rodriguez. Guillermo (Gee yair mo) like many of the folks on the call is a budding VCP, having taken his class, studying for his exam and interested in helping others reach the same goal. Video: We had
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As discussed during the show, this is the follow-up post for our conversation with Jon Hall about the new VCAP Certifications. The Video Brown Bag #8 – Jon Hall Returns from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo. Please note: You can download the original WMV from the Vimeo site. The Links There were not as many this time
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We had a good time this call. You’ll be able to tell from the recording though that we are still very much armatures playing in this space. Outside a minor emergency and Tom having some audio difficulty, we had a great discussion around rapid provisioning ESX servers. Video: VCDX Brown Bag #8 – Rapid Provisioning
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The show notes for this are more or less lost at this point. Whoops. That said, the video is online. This one felt more like teaching a class than a discussion around certification, but as awkward as that was for us to handle, I think we did “ok”. You tell me. VCP Brown Bag #7
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Firstly, the video! In the spirit of the changes this webinar announced, we’ll also try some changes with the video. First embedded: ProfessionalVMware VCDX Brown Bag #5 from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo. And then, a link where you can download the high quality .mov file. Yes, yes… I can re-encode again to m4v if there is
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Well, this took quite a bit of time to get posted. I blame solar flares! Professional VMware VCDX Brown Bag #4 from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo. I also blame the solar flares for the missing show-notes this week. Whoops! Hope you enjoy the video, and as always, thanks to TrainSignal for making this possible.
We had an excellent turn out this time, and hope to see some more folk continue to join us. In addition to the illustrious Tom Howarth of PlanetVM.net, we also had Jason Boche of Boche.net, who has become a regular at these. A great thanks goes out to both of these folks, as well as
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Hot on the heels of yesterday’s call, and subsequent "lab fail” we’ve got today’s follow-up post. The topic we covered was storage, however that didn’t stop us from rambling into other areas. First, the links: Virtualization Team Study Guide iSCSI Management from the CLI (JFVI) VMware Communities Study Guide Software iSCSI (that isn’t Openfiler) VMware
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We had an all-star cast on the call yesterday, including TWO VCDXs #34 himself, Jason Boche and #29 Frank Denneman. There was even a bit of Twitter interaction from Duncan, pointing out that when it comes to HA, there can be only one. Unfortunately, due to the seat of the pants nature this call took,
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