BrownBag – vCloud Architecture Deep Dive

This weeks BrownBag will feature an architectural Deep Dive of VMware’s vCloud platform covering the following areas: vCloud Architecture Deep Dive vCloud “Eco-System” of Components All the possible building blocks Importance of Orchestration Broad depth of knowledge for vCloud Architects and Administrators Scalable vCloud Production Architecture Example Based on vCAT 2.0 Published Catalog Considerations in
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BrownBag Follow-Up: Networking & VXLAN

The Video: The Links: Han Yang on Twitter.http://twitter.com/#!/Official_1000V All things 1000v & VXLAN The 1000v Community on Cisco.com. Discussions, Docs, Webinars, etc: https://communities.cisco.com/community/technology/datacenter/nexus1000v Cisco Cloud Lab: https://cloudlab-us-west-01.cisco.com/+CSCOE+/logon.html

BrownBag – Networking VXLAN

Hot on the heels of last week’s vCloud Networking discussion with Kendrick Coleman (web / twitter), we have another networking special, VXLAN. This is going to be brought to you by Han Yang from Cisco. Han will be on to share an introduction to VXLANs – and hopefully we’ll be able to cover some of
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BrownBag – David Davis Part the Second

Woot! So we had David Davis on the BrownBags once before. This time around, he’s back to talk about all things VCP5, Certification in general, and some of the exciting things TranSignal has coming. BrownBag Details Date/Time: Wednesday, 10//19/2011 @ 7:30 PM CSTRegistration: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/945190048 About David Davis This Wednesday, 10/19/2011 at 7:30PM CST, we’ll have
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BrownBag Follow-Up: vSphere Design with Harley Stagner

In our last BrownBag Damian Karlson hosted Harley Stagner (Blog) and talked about vSphere Design: Video ProfessionalVMware Technical BrownBag – Harley Stagner from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo. Slides vSphere Design Brownbag with Harley Stagner View more presentations from ProfessionalVMware

BrownBag – vSphere Design Discussion (Harley Stagner)

vSphere Design Discussion This Wednesday, October 12, Harley Stagner will be joining Damian Karlson (blog) on the BrownBag for an in depth, interactive discussion on vSphere design. If you are interested in learning more about vSphere design, studying for your VCAP-DCD, or VCDX, this would be the session to attend. Critical Details: Date/Time: Wednesday, 10/12/2011
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VCAP BrownBag – Wade Holmes Edition

Wednesday this week brings another Damian Karlson edition of the BrownBags. This week he’s featuring Wade Holmes who will be talking about vCloud Director and the vCloud Architecture Toolkit. Wade Holmes (web/Twitter) is a Technical Solutions Architect for VMware. Wade has over 14 years of experience planning, designing, engineering, architecting and supporting complex computing environments
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BrownBag – Jason Boche Edition! VCAP-DCD

It’s that time again, and whilst I’ve handed off MC Duties to Damian Karlson (This fellow here, aka @sixfootdad), I think it’s still important to let y’all know what’s coming up. This week he’ll have the one, the only Jason Boche on. Jason will be covering VCAP-DCD Objective 1. Details Topic: VCAP-DCD Objective 1Date/Time: 9/21/2011
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BrownBag Follow-Up – Duncan & Frank Edition

So, I’ve still only managed to get through about 15 minutes of this total. Frankly, I will need to listen to it at least two or three times to process the entire Bus Full of Awesome that Frank & Duncan brought around. Special thanks to Damian Karlson for hosting these over the next bunch of
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BrownBag Follow-Up: VCAP-DCA Objective 2

Woot! Excellent BrownBag, Excellent Presenter, Excellent Participation. Sorry the follow-up post took a bit longer than usual. We covered VCAP-DCA objective 2 – Networking, with live demos some good lecture, slides, and follow-up resources. Video: ProfessionalVMware BrownBags – VCAP DCA Objective 2 – Networking from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo. Slides ProfessionalVMware VCAP BrownBag Section 2 View
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BrownBag – VCAP-DCA vNetwork Distributed Switches

ZOMG It’s that time of week again! The time where we announce the speaker and topic for this week’s BrownBag! Topic: VCAP-DCA Objective 2 – vNetwork Distributed Switches Speaker: Damian Karlson (@sixfootdad) who blogs here. Will be presenting this weeks BrownBag. Damian is VMware Certified Professional (VCP4), a VMware vExpert for 2011, and am currently
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BrownBag Follow-Up: VCAP-DCA Objective 6.2

On 8/3 we talked vSphere performance as it relates to the VCAP-DCA exam. Specifically objective 6.2 on the exam blueprint. We also had special guest Hersey Cartwright along for the ride. First the Video, then some of the links: The Video ProfessionalVMware BrownBag – VCAP-DCA Objective 6.2 from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo. The Links Generating Load
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BrownBag – VCAP-DCA Objective 6 Performance

For this week’s BrownBag we’ve scored Hersey Cartwright to come talk to us about vSphere performance as it relates to the VCAP-DCA. Hersey has a little over 20 years experience in system and network administration. Currently he is the Network Operations Manager for a community Credit Union located in Southeastern, VA. he is responsible for
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BrownBag – David Davis / TrainSignal Edition

Hello and welcome to the ProfessionalVMware BrownBag! Yes, that’s right, join us on July 20 @ 7P CST to chat all things vSphere, vSphere Training, and more with David Davis. David Davis (CCIE #9369, vExpert, VCP, CISSP, MCSE) has been in the IT industry for 15+ years. He has authored over 300 articles, 6 video
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BrownBag Follow-up – Storage, Virtualization, and NetApp

The Summary! No, it’s not that I was too lazy to fill out the template for the post, really. In fact, it was an excellent call with Julian Cates from NetApp. All in all a pretty good discussion. Video ProfessionalVMware BrownBags – NetApp & Virtualization Storage from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo. Summary So there we go,
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