Heath Johnson (@heathbarj) presents on an amazing, quick way to spin up your VCF home lab! Resources: For obtaining VLC: http://tiny.cc/getVLC Joining the VLC Support : http://tiny.cc/getVLCSlack
Kevin Tebear (https://twitter.com/ktebear) continues our series on VMware Cloud Foundation with a deeper look at the architecture and some details on new features in version 4.0 Resources: vmware.com/go/cloudfoundation-poster vmware.com/go/vcfhol vmware.com/go/cloudfoundation-community vmware.com/go/cloudfoundation-faq
Britton Johnson (https://twitter.com/vcixnv) continues our series on VMware NSX-T with a quick look at NSX Cloud before diving into the multiple use cases for VMware HCX Resources: https://cloud.vmware.com/vmware-hcx https://labs.hol.vmware.com HOL-2081-01-HBD-VMware HCX – Getting Started with Cross-Cloud Mobility https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=VMware+HCX https://cloud.vmware.com/community/hybrid-cloud-extension/ https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-HCX/index.html https://youtu.be/B0erP-Rrkuo
Britton Johnson (https://twitter.com/vcixnv) continues our series on NSX-T Data Center with a look at Security and Distributed Firewall. Britton dives deeper into the security features of the platform and shows us how security rules are evaluated. We also got a peek at vRealize Network Insight (vRNI) #NSX #VMware #Education Resources: https://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/search.php?deviceCategory=nsxt https://labs.hol.vmware.com/ HOL-2026-91-NET – VMware
-> Continue reading Episode Followup – NSX-T Data Center Security and Distributed Firewall with Britton Johnson
Britton Johnson (https://twitter.com/vcixnv) continues our series on NSX-T Data Center with a look at Routing and Switching. Britton gives us a deeper dive into the logical constructs within NSX-T as well as some topology examples and guidance on design. #NSX #VMware #Education Resources: https://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-37591 https://labs.hol.vmware.com/ HOL-2026-01-NET – VMware NSX-T: Getting Started – Module 3 Logical
-> Continue reading Episode Followup – NSX-T Data Center Routing and Switching with Britton Johnson
Michael, William and PK join us to discuss how VEBA enables event based automation for vSphere. Every VI Admin knows that little toolbar in vCenter Server showing the Tasks and Events happening in their environment. This is commonly used to track progress of an operation and can also be used for auditing purposes. However, did
-> Continue reading Episode Followup – Unlocking the Potential of Events for SDDC Automation presented by Michael Gasch (@ebano1), William Lam (@lamw) and PK (@pkblah)
Chris Noon (@UltTransformer) talks about what motivated him to embark on his VCDX-NV journey. Chris covers both his motivations and high-level tasks he’s had to complete during his journey so far.
Hi everybody! @arielsanchezmor here 🙂 I am in possession of the old vBrownbag recording kit (camera, tripod, wireless lavalier microphone) so whenever I get permission to record user presentations, I do it. I’m happy to be able to show three sessions from friends near where I lived the Pittsburgh area, from the Pittsburgh VMUG in
-> Continue reading 2019Q1 vBrownbag recordings at VMUG events
It is now nearly a month since VMworld USA and we are starting to think about VMworld EMEA, where there will be another full schedule fo TechTalks. You can already find many of these sessions in the Content Catalog for VMworld EMEA, just search for VMTN. This is also a great time to announce that
-> Continue reading Morpheus Data – TechTalks at VMworld EMEA
Jase McCarty joins us to discuss what’s new with vSAN 6.7. Contact Jase with any questions or feedback at www.twitter.com/jasemccarty vsan assessment https://www.vmware.com/products/hyper-converged-infrastructure/assessment.html storage hub https://storagehub.vmware.com/ documentation portal https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSAN/index.html HOLs https://my.vmware.com/en/web/vmware/evalcenter?p=vsan-18-hol *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
-> Continue reading VMware vSAN 6.7 Enhancements with Jase McCarty (@JaseMcCarty)
Niran Even-Chen (twitter.com/NiranEC) joins us to talk about NSX-T and Cloud Native Applications (CNA). Watch as he proves that they work together like peanut butter and jelly. The video includes 3 live demos! *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
-> Continue reading VMware NSX-T + CNA with Niran Even-Chen (@NiranEC)
Good day #vCommunity! Shane (@coolsport00) here to provide you all with an updated VCP6.5-DCV Study Guide to my previous v6 Guide (see: here). There are several changes in the v6.5 Exam Blueprint from v6, notably understanding Migration to VCSA (Section 4.3), VCSA HA (Section 9.2), & Section 10.3 no longer being covered on the exam.
-> Continue reading VCP6.5-DCV Study Guide
https://youtu.be/3qdXdtKRZuQ Nigel Hickey joins us to talk about upgrading to vSphere 6.7. End of General Support for vSphere 5.5 notice: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/51491 VMware Product Interoperability Matrixes: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2006028 Supported and depreciated topologies: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2147672 Update sequence for vSphere 6.5: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2147289 vSphere Upgrade ebook: http://www.vmw.re/vsphere-upgrade-ebook vspherecentral.vmware.com http://www.vmw.re/65upgradetool http://www.vmware.com/go/vsphere65playlist *About vBrownBag* SUBSCRIBE! http://bit.ly/vBBYoutube Socials: Twitter: https://twitter.com/vBrownBag Facebook: https://facebook.com/vBrownBag iTunes:
-> Continue reading VMware vSphere 6.7 Upgrade with Nigel Hickey (@vCenterNerd)
Mike Foley (@MikeFoley) discusses the new security features of vSphere 6.7 3:38 – ESXi and TPM 2.0 14:30 – Windows 10 & 2016 Security Features Support 35:15 – VM Encryption in HTML5 UI 40:06 – vSphere 6.7 Security Resources https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2018/05/vsphere-6-7-security-media-resources.html *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
-> Continue reading VMware vSphere 6.7 Security Features w/ Mike Foley (@mikefoley)
We have brought you a lot of great video about the Datrium DVXsolution, Open Converged, with the Build Day Live and the AMA. Our friends at Datrium were also the first to say yes to supporting the TechTalks at VMworld US 2018. There is still time to submit your TechTalk, details are on this page. Sessions
-> Continue reading Datrium Sponsors TechTalks at VMworld US 2018
Kyle Ruddy (@kmruddy) joins us to discuss and demo what’s new with the vSphere 6.7 APIs. The best way to reach Kyle for question is twitter DM https://www.twitter.com/kmruddy Have a feature request? Post it to https://powercli.ideas.aha.io/ and they will look into it! *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
Thom Greene continues the “From Zero to Useful” series as he walks through configuration, design, and deployment of vRealize Operations Manager. Once configured, we dive into performing a health check of a virtual machine. Links from the show can be found at www.thomgreene.com/vrops Thom’s blog: www.thomgreene.com Github.com/tbgree00 twitter: @tbgree00
Brett Johnson introduces the concept of infrastructure as code, CD/CD pipeline, and Git best practices. Git Resources: Commitmas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlY_hqvCmqY&list=PL2rC-8e38bUXloBOYChAl0EcbbuVjbE3t Git Documentation: https://git-scm.com/doc
Tony Reeves joins us to close out the 2018 Home Lab series for vBrownbag. We look into methods to assemble gear, using NFR, trial, and free licenses to add more services into your home lab, and modernizing publicly available scripts to work with vSphere 6.5. Veeam NFR license details can be found https://www.veeam.com/blog/how-to-get-free-veeam-nfr-key.html
https://youtu.be/ag36WCKrq5g Grant Orchard demonstrates using Terraform to deploy VMware VMs as code. He starts simple then introduces variables and shows how to deploy a complete application stack leveraging Terraform modules. Check out Grant’s blog series at https://grantorchard.com/infrastructure-as-code-vsphere-admin-part1/ Follow Grant on twitter at https://www.twitter.com/GrantOrchard 3:00 – Brief introduction to Terraform 16:00 – Dependency Resolution/graphviz 19:00 –
-> Continue reading VMware and Terraform Infrastructure as Code with Grant Orchard (@grantorchard)