Tag: links

Links! Lots of them. Here we go again: http://www.rtfm-ed.co.uk/2012/07/17/whats-not-so-new-in-vsphere5-part2-vm-management/ Not Virt specific, but applies to all vendors/products/brands in the virt space: http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2012/07/its-easier-to-love-a-brand-when-the-brand-loves-you-back.html Oh NOES you’ve been haxed! –  https://shouldichangemypassword.com/ ESXi Builds in AutoLab – http://vbrownbag.comm/2012/07/autolab-automation-uncovered-esxi-builds/ Windows Builds in AutoLab – http://vbrownbag.comm/2012/06/autolab-automation-uncovered-windows-builds/ vCenter Ops Fundamentals Class – http://virtualization.info/en/news/2012/07/vmware-vcenter-operations-manager-fundamentals.html VCAP-DCA5 is now available – http://vmwaretraining.blogspot.com/2012/07/vcap5-dca-registration-is-now-open.html Is CLI[…]

Holy links Batman! What follows below are a collection of links from the semi-regular closing of tabs to reclaim memory. Also, most of them are virtualization/VMware related!   Rails apps at scale – http://www.bluebox.net/news/2012/06/managing-real-wold-rails-apps-at-massive-scale-part-i/ With the various outages last week, a DR piece – http://www.itworld.com/business/282852/disaster-recovery-1975-how-att-reconnected-170000-phone-lines The UnConference – http://vninja.net/virtualization/vmworld-session-reject-club/ More UnConference – http://www.virtualnetworkdesign.com/vbrownbags/vbrownbag-unconference/ Piston Cloud[…]

This also notes the first post made from a Win7 instance running on the OCP box via VMware View! Also, I don’t have cats, but I blame my excessive amount of open tabs on them: Links VCAP-DCA Obj 9 follow-up http://www.vhersey.com/2012/05/vbrownbag-vcap5-dca-objective-9/ Big Iron hatin on Cloud Storage: http://dataontop.com/doing-their-very-best-to-stall-cloud-storage/ Razor! – Read, watch the videos… then[…]

Last week was entertaining, what with a laptop rebuild and knocking out some Orchestrator work in preparation for VMworld. (More on that later). Here’s the tabs I currently have open: VDDK API Reference – http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.vmware.vddk.pg.doc_50%2FvddkPreface.html Enabling CBT with PowerCLI: http://www.vmguru.com/articles/powershell/23-cbt-tracker-powershell-script-now-with-more-zombie Doing the above for a number of VMs at once: http://jpaul.me/?tag=change-block-tracking More of the same:[…]

It’s that time again. Here are some of the interesting happenings of the past week: EVC Mode – http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1003212 Virtualization Practice (@texiwill) on what OpenStack is not: http://www.virtualizationpractice.com/openstack-what-it-is-not-15670/ How Rackspace used Continuous Delivery to rebuild the cloud: http://www.rackspace.com/blog/how-rackspace-re-wrote-the-cloud-with-openstack-continuous-delivery/ VCAP5-DCA Training – http://vmwaretraining.blogspot.com/2012/04/vsphere-5-training-that-will-help.html Sean Crookston & Harley Stagner’s new book: http://www.seancrookston.com/2012/04/17/new-book-optimizing-vsphere-deployments/ vCloud Networking explained – http://www.ntpro.nl/blog/archives/2024-vCloud-networking-explained-in-1-slide-and-52-animations.html[…]

<– Seems most weeks feel like this anymore. I’ve also found that in addition to open tabs, the number of browser windows has also multiplied. Here’s some that I think are particularly relevant and/or interesting: Host Profiles Tech Overview – http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/VMW-Host-Profiles-Tech-Overview.pdf Minimum viable vCenter Converter Permissions – http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2000123 Xtravirt on Host Profiles – http://www.vladan.fr/vmware-vsphere-host-profiles-from-xtravirt/ Sometimes[…]