This week’s BrownBag (the one on 7/6 that is) we will be talking all about storage and virtualization with NetApp’s Julian Cates. “Julian Cates is a 14 year IT pro who has spent the last half of his career at NetApp as a consultant, engineer, and architect. He is currently focused on NetApp storage solutions
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So, starting July 7, the BrownBag series will gain a European branch on PlanetVM.net run by Tom Howarth. You can find the announcement here. Those of you with long memories will remember that I used to be involved in Cody’s Brownbag series of online training sessions. That is until he moved the the sessions to
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IOPS? No, it’s not where you go to get pancakes. Last night we were joined by two all-stars in VDI sizing and had an awesome audience conversation around VDI and it’s potential impact on storage. What follows is the video and some selected bits from the chat. The Video ProfessionalVMware BrownBags – VDI & Storage
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Who’s got the vPower? “SHO-NUFF” Thursday, June 2, 2011, I’ll be doing an in person “BrownBag” in Houston, Tx as part of the Veeam vPower roadshow. Topic PowerCLI 101, session will run about 1h long. If you’ll be in town, I’d be more than happy to have y’all roll out to the session.
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The Video 2011-05-25 ProfessionalVMware BrownBags – Nick Weaver Edition from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo. The Links Not too many: http://nickapedia.com/2011/02/16/virtual-selection-cloud-constructs-for-rapid-prototypingtesting/ http://nickapedia.com/?s=uber
It’s that time again… when I put a post out days before the next BrownBag without really having a topic or goal in mind. Like every other time, the nerves get up… will they sense how haphazard and fickle this house of cards is before the show? While I know somewhere deep down, it’ll all
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First a huge thanks to Glenn & the other authors of the PowerCLI Reference. If you don’t have a copy… you are doing yourself a disservice. Another thanks to those who attended live and continue to make these valuable for everyone. The Video ProfessionalVMware BrownBag – PowerCLI 101 w/ Glenn Sizemore from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo.
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You know those guys? The ones who wrote that book? No? Well, the book is the VMware vSphere PowerCLI Reference and this weeks guest is none other than Glenn Sizemore, one of the authors of said volume. PowerCLI 101 This BrownBag we’re going to spend some time talking to Glenn about the book and then
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Have you been to a BrownBag? Have you wanted to and haven’t had the time? Do I run them too late, early, on the wrong day? What about the format, to long? short? To little lab, to many words? Content wrong? Not deep enough? Tell me what you think here: http://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/526243/BrownBag Picture from this guy.
Hot on the heels of Scott Lowe, we are going to have Ed Haletky (aka @texiwill) on the BrownBags to talk about “Virtual Environment Security”. That is, the security of your virtual environment and associated management components. Critical Details: Date/Time: Wednesday, April 13, 2011 @ 7PM CST Register: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/351927521 Ed’s Last BrownBag This is not
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The Video ProfessionalVMware Technical BrownBags – Scott Lowe from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo. Scott’s Take Away: Know the products you are working with. Then, know them some more. …Really, know them frontwards and backwards Also, know how they interact with other technologies Links: Scott’s Blog – http://blog.scottlowe.org/ Jason’s Blog – http://boche.net/ Buy the “vShpere Design” book
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Scott Lowe will be along for this weeks BrownBag to talk vSphere Design, his new book, and anything else we can come up with. New Book? Yes, Scott, in combination with Maish Saidel-Keesing, and Forbes Guthrie have put together a tome of… well, vSphere Design awesomeness. Go read a sample chapter here, or order it
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I’ve done some reflecting on the BrownBags recently, reviewing stats and the like and came across a recent success story. Who is RJ? RJ is a virtualization guru with a Texas based Telco and was one of the recipients of the VCP410 ExamCram book. RJ also runs http://itgrunts.com/ With the book, some BrownBags, and lots
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Were you there? It was awesome! Thanks Kendrick for presenting & thanks to Jason Boche for the VCAP Exam vouchers! Now on to the good stuff: The Video ProfessionalVMware BrownBag With Kendrick Coleman from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo. The Links The contest: https://vbrownbag.comm/2011/02/vcap-dca-voucher-give-away-round-2-live-lab/ Kendrick’s Blog: http://www.kendrickcoleman.com/ VCAP-DCA Page: http://www.kendrickcoleman.com/index.php?/Tech-Blog/vcap-datacenter-administration-exam-landing-page-vdca410.html “Green Machine” Lab: http://www.kendrickcoleman.com/index.php?/Tech-Blog/vmware-vsphere-home-lab-qthe-green-machinesq.html Other BrownBags &
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By popular demand (who would have thought) I’m launching another bi-weekly BrownBag series. Topics this time include VMware certification, VCAP-DCA, VCAP-DCD, vSphere Design, and other technical deep dive discussions. Kick-Off To kick off the series, we’ll be having Scott Lowe, one of the authors of the newly released vSphere Design book. Some background on the
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It took a little while, but we’ve received a submission for the VCAP-DCA voucher contest. The submission came from Kendrick Coleman. The critical details: Date/Time: Friday, March 11, 2011 @ 7PM CST Register: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/689250984 Come join us for our first Live Lab presentation!
First, a big thank-you to both Elias for taking the time to chat with us, and to Pearson for providing copies of his new ExamCram book for BrownBag goers. Now onto the content: For those that missed this BrownBag, we talked to Elias Khnaser about his new VCP4 ExamCram book. Here is the video for
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Woot! Yes, woot! Woot we will be having Elias Khnaser, the author of “VCP4 Exam Cram 2nd Edition” on our next BrownBag. Yeah, this book, right here: Cool? Ok, well, “We’ve had guests before” you say. “How is this one different?”, you say… well, it’s different in that, I have 5 copies of this book
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And then, there was a winner! Matt Liebowitz is the winner of the first VCAP-DCA Voucher! Congrats sir. Details will be e-mailed to you shortly. Stay tuned, we still have at least one more voucher to give away. This time with a live lab! Now, onto the video, flash cards, and correct answers: Video ProfessionalVMware
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That’s right folks, VCAP Exam vouchers… Thanks to Jason Boche for making these available to us as prizes. That’s right, prizes. You didn’t think there wouldn’t be work attached did you? So here’s the game, in two rounds: Round 1 – Lightning Round I have a set of Q&A flash cards, the kind that have
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