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#vBrownBag Follow-Up Introduction to DevOps with John Willis (@botchagalupe)

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In our official kick off to the DevOps series, John Willis explains just what this DevOps thing is.  John provides excellent insights and helps you understand how to apply the concepts and culture that define DevOps.  Keep track of our entire DevOps schedule which will include links to recordings and homework or join our Google+ community to
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#vBrownBag Follow-Up Virtual Design Master (@vdmchallenge)

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Damian Karlson hosts a Q&A with members of the Virtual Design Master Team as well as several current and former participants from season 2 including Melissa Palmer, Byron Schaller and Geoff Wilmington. Video You can learn about the Virtual Design Master competition at www.virtualdesignmaster.com and follow along on Twitter @vdmchallenge Originally published at https://vbrownbag.comm –
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Announcing the Summer 2014 #vBrownBag Book-apolooza winners – Thank You @VMware Press and @Packtpub

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First and foremost thank to all of our listeners and supporters and to VMware Press and Packt Publishing for supporting this contest.  We asked you why you wanted to win the books you requested here were some of my favorites: vSphere Design Best Practices – In my day to day work, I routinely design, build
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#vBrownBag Follow-Up Cisco Learning Network Tour with Matt Saunders (@citylifematt) & Brett Lovins (@brettlovins)

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Brett Lovins and Matt Saunders kick off the #vBrownBag Cisco Certification series with an overview and tour of the Cisco Learning Network – an online community to connect you with learning resources such blueprints, course details and support from others who are working on their Cisco Certifications. Video You can sign up for the Cisco
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Upcoming VMware Certified Advanced Professional – Desktop Design Series

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Starting on March 26th, we will have 3 shows to help you prepare for your VMware Certified Advanced Professional in Desktop Design (VCAP-DTD).  The series will be broken into 3 sections to cover the various parts of the VCAP-DTD Blueprint. You can get up to speed on the blueprints and format of the exam thanks
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On Putting the User Back Into User Group

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This post is by Cody Bunch Following on Scott’s commitment to the community, I would like to announce that I too will be accepting five folks (VMware, OpenStack, Unix, etc…) who are willing to step up, volunteer, and speak for the first time at your local user group (be it VMUG or otherwise). So what
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On Putting the User Back Into User Group

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Following on Scott’s commitment to the community, I would like to announce that I too will be accepting five folks (VMware, OpenStack, Unix, etc…) who are willing to step up, volunteer, and speak for the first time at your local user group (be it VMUG or otherwise). So what does this mean? I will help
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#vBrownBag Tech Talks @VMworld 2013

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The Tech Talks for VMworld USA 2013 have concluded and are now available on YouTube, click the session to open the video. Alternatively you can get all the videos on this Playlist

A few of the videos aren’t here yet, they will be here soon.

  Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday
10:30 vExpert Daily vExpert Daily vExpert Daily
11:00 vExpert Daily Shannon Snowden – Zerto Edward Haletky – 10 Steps to Migrating to the Cloud
11:15 Colin McNamara – OpenStack for VMware admins Joerg Lew – Make your automation stopgaps enterprise ready (with vCO)
11:30 Jim Millard – Certificates 101 Edward Haletky – New way of looking at the Secure Hybrid Cloud Steve Flanders – Extend vCenter Log Insight with Content Packs
11:45 Shane Williford -vCD Networking Made Easy! Peter Flecha – Extending storage to remote offices and the cloud Keith Norbie – SDDC: Like a Harmony Remote Control
12:00 PHD Virtual Jeramiah Dooley – Does Hardware Matter Anymore? Anton Zhbankov – Cloud is people and process, not technology Gabriel Chapman – HyperConvergence – What Is It
12:15 Ashish Gupta – Architecting an all-flash cloud infrastructure YP Chien – Automating Application Server Deployment in vCloud with vCO, PowerShell & Group Policy Trevor Roberts Jr – Vagrant Up with VMware
12:30 Maish Saidel-Keesing – Cisco Chuck Mills – Top Mirage Use Cases Scott Hanson – Converged Infrastructure
12:45 David Espejo – The strange case of the PSOD Todd Mace – Why Flash technology is so disruptive
14:00 Rick Vanover – Veeam Jon Harris – vCAC: The power of custom properties
14:30 Blake Garner – Mac OS X guests in vCloud Infinio  Graham Breeze, Sr. Systems Engineer and vExpert, Tintri -See Zero Management Storage in Action
14:45 Tony Foster – A physical desktop lost in a virtual world.
15:00 Julian Wood – HP Virtual Connect Quick Deep Dive Chris Seline – Real world experience: low latency vSphere storage using VNX
15:15 Christopher Kusek – Using PowerCLI to support your mission; Lessons from the Warzone
15:30 Dwayne Lessner – Nutanix Timothy Patterson – Real Life Adventures with Auto Deploy
15:45 Chethan Kumar – Impact of Data Acceleration Tier on I/O Performance
16:00   David Davis-Trainsignal
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16:30 Eric Wright – Bridging the gap to Private Cloud  Larry Touchette – Accelerate Storage with Server Based Caching
16:45 Chris Gebhardt – Storage Innovations for VMware Horizon
17:00 Wen Yu – esxtop deep dive  Vaughn Stewart – Software Defined Storage: What, How & Why
17:15 Julian Wood – Help, my VDI project is hell!
17:30 Mike Ellis – SRM Lessons Learned

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#vBrownBag US: Call for presenters

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One of the toughest challenges for any weekly podcast is having a steady line-up of guests. We’d like to widen our circle of regular presenters, and would love to have YOU present! The #vBrownBag US podcast airs from 7:30 to 8:30PM Central. Please visit for the #vBrownBag Presenter Guidelines more information. Please complete the form
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PowerCLI – Nexus1000v and VMXNET3

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Today’s post is brought to us by Chris, a member of the VMware community who wields some powerful Louisianan VooDoo magic (and PowerCLI). Chris uses this to show us how to take a csv file in, and use it to attach a VM to a dVS switch as well as adding the VMXNET3 nic to
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What Is Ailing Your VI – Call For Topics

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This blog, thus far has been all about VI. How and what to automate, how to get yourself out of some sticky spots, and perhaps some turtles thrown in for good measure. However, it’s missing something. What is that? YOU! What is going on in your VI? Having trouble? Stuck on something? Some DBA on
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Virtualization Security Round Table Podcast

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Edward Haletky, a regular on VMTN, and the VMTN round table podcasts, is starting his own spinoff, the “Virtualization Security Round Table Podcast” The first show, scheduled for Thursday at 2:30p EST, is going to feature the following topics: Use of Virtualization in a DMZ. Review of security lockdown standards/benchmarks and tools Virtualization Security in
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Late To The Game – VMware VVP Is Now VMware vExpert

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This was announced on twitter, very likely while I was sleeping: jtroyer OK, it didn’t launch today, and I just found a problem with the form. Sigh. I don’t want to leave you empty-handed, so: VMware vExpert about 3 hours ago from web It’s also been announced: VVP -> VMware vExpert » Yellow Bricks Musings
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