A technical deep dive on vCenter 5.1 including SSO, inventory service and focus on the vSphere Web Client. 2013-04-17 20.34 ProfessionalVMware #vBrownBag US with Justin King (@vCenterGuy) from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo.
The April 10th #vBrownBag featured Thomas Brown covering a technical overview of VMware Horizon Mirage as well as a live lab of Horizon Mirage. The Mirage Admin Console is covered in detail followed by a live XP to Windows 7 migration. VMware Mirage with Thomas Brown (@thombrown) ProfessionalVMware #vBrownBag US from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo.
The following content is in Spanish, the language in which the webinar is presented. El 4 de abril 2013 en ProfessionalVMware #vBrownBag LATAM se presentó el tema “Cloud Credibility” por Larry Gonzalez @virtualizeCR (tip: se puede ampliar a pantalla completa y cambiar la calidad de reprodución a HD 720p). https://www.cloudcredibility.com vBrownBag en castellano es una expansión
-> Continue reading 2013-04-04 ProfessionalVMware #vBrownBag LATAM – #CloudCred @vBrownbagLATAM @VirtualizeCR @kylemurley
Brad Christian (@bchristian21) presents on using PowerShell to automate VMware View Pool creation and user provisioning, including Floating Linked Clones, Replica Tiering, AD group creation and entitlements. This method can have a new PowerShell user automating VMware View in under an hour just by filling out a few variables in a spreadsheet. See http://vhipster.com/2013/03/28/vbrownbag/ for the slide
-> Continue reading #vBrownBag Follow-up Automating View with PowerCLI with Brad Christian (@bchristian21)
Hey Peeps, vNoob Here! This is something that I think(not sure) a lot of people are simply not aware exists. You can quickly backup esxi host configuration with PoweCLI. Before I jump into it, I would remiss if I didn’t mention Cody’s post on backing up ESXi host configurations with vMA/vCLI, which you can find
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The February 20th #vBrownBag featured Anthony Elizondo covering host profiles both best practices, as well as things to look out for when using them. Don’t forget your licensing – you need Enterprise Plus to have Host Profiles. One interesting tip I read in the VMware Press Managing and Optimizing VMware book; if you are deploying
-> Continue reading #vBrownBag US Host Profiles with Anthony Elizondo (@complex)
Hey All, vNoob Here! Out on those interwebs there are a lot of VCAP-DCA Study guides out there, all with varying levels of completeness. In fact Chris Wahl has a list of several of them here. A few of those are completed or very close to completion. Langer and Coen however have just put out their own
-> Continue reading An UnOfficial VCAP-DCA 5 Study Guide Now Available for Download
On 1/30 Hersey Cartwright gave an overview and live demo for setting up VMware SRM using vSphere Host replication. Recording and slides below. 2013-01-23 US #vBrownBag VMware SRM with Hersey Cartwright (@herseyc) from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo.
The demo you have all been waiting for! Due to technical difficulties, the demo portion of the 1/23 #vBrownBag with Lawrence Kohan on Chargeback manager was cut out of the original recording but Lawrence re-recorded it with us for your viewing and learning pleasure! #vBrownBag Charge Backback Manager with Lawrence Kohan (@LawrenceKohan) from ProfessionalVMware on
-> Continue reading VMware Chargeback Manager Demo with Lawrence Kohan (@LawrenceKohan)
Hey Everyone! vNoob back for another post. Hope you aren’t tired of me yet! Although I have seen many tools out there that will check disk alignment, most of them require you to install or run some sort of program for it to do the checks. For this reason, I wanted to write a script
-> Continue reading Quick VM Disk Alignment Check with PowerCLI
A great deep dive with Lawrence Kohan (@LawrenceKohan) on Chargeback Manager. This session included an overview of installation requirements and configuration. The session was so well received a follow-up session to cover configuration is being planned. 2013-1-09 19.31 Professional VMware #vBrownBag US with @LawrenceKohan from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo.
Oh man oh man oh man. vNoob is back with another post! The title though certainly has a lot of big words, so let’s break it down. First what is crash-consistent quiescing? There are two types of quiescing, Application-Consistent and Crash-Consistent. Awesome! That explains everything right?? Application-Consistent snapshots means that the snapshot
-> Continue reading Configure VM Snapshots for Crash-Consistent Quiescing with PowerCLI
The 12/12/12 #vBrownBag featured Shane Williford (@coolsport00) presenting a session on VMware View SSL Certificates. Links to the slides and recording of the presentation for those who could not attend below. #vBrownBag US View SSL Certs with Shane Williford @coolsportoo from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo.
The third and final in the #VCDX BrownBag series with John Arrasjid (@vcdx001). This session provided a great overview of the types of troubleshooting scenarios you will see when going for your VCDX. Lots of great questions from the audience and feedback from both John and Mostafa Khalil (@MostafaVMW).
I heard you liked Cloud, so we put some cloud in your cloud… well, you get where that is going. Basically, nesting OpenStack inside OpenStack has some interesting use cases for development. That is, if you are running DevStack on the Rackspace OpenCloud, or if your project is a bit more sensitive and you are
-> Continue reading Nesting OpenStack in OpenStack
The second in the #VCDX BrownBag series with John Arrasjid (@vcdx001). This session provided a great overview of the types of scenarios you will see when going for your VCDX. ProfessionalVMware #vBrownBag VCDX – Session #2 – John Arrasjid 11/28/12 from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo. #vBrownBag VCDX details Time: 7:30 PM CST The next VCDX BootCamp
-> Continue reading #vBrownBag VCDX Boot Camp #2 with @vcdx001
On the 30th of October Kenny Garreau presented on objective 6 of the VCP5-IaaS on the first EMEA vBrownbag Video EMEA vBrownbag with Kenny Garreau covering VCP5-Iaas Objective 6 from EMEA vBrownbag on Vimeo.
Today marks the first day in what will be the start of the #VCDX BrownBag series with John Arrasjid (@vcdx001). For those of you who have been with us from the VCP to the VCAP-DCA & DCD series, having a VCDX specific series has always been a dream of ours, and having John on the
-> Continue reading #vBrownBag VCDX Boot Camp with @vcdx001
The BIOS for VMs in VMware Fusion 5 does not seem to let you boot a USB disk, which say, is handy for configuring ESXi after you have installed it to a USB key, but before dropping said key into your homelab. Inconvenient at best… to get around this: Download Plop Boot Manager from here
-> Continue reading Boot USB Drive in Fusion 5
First, thank you to the VMUG organization and the respective VMUGs for making this happen. I hope the content was good and useful to y’all. Please drop a line if you have questions, need to know more, or need help getting started. Below are the slides and links from the session: Links: vCO Links https://vbrownbag.comm/vcenter-orchestrator/
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