Tag: networking

VMware Fusion 6 – Disable Promiscuous Mode Authentication

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The question came up during a #vBrownBag: “How do you disable that annoying little popup for promiscuous mode”. If you have worked with Autolab, you will have seen it too. About 8 times each Autolab build (4 for each nested esxi host). To bypass it in Fusion 6, there are two methods: Disabling Promiscuous Mode
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Couch to OpenStack – Quantum Follow-Up

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Thanks everyone for coming along last night. To recap, we: Used git to clone the Couch to OpenStack repo Used Vagrant to stand up the ‘controller’, ‘compute’, ‘cinder’, and ‘quantum’ VMs Used the Vagrant shell provisioner to install Ubuntu Grizzly repos MySQL KeyStone Glance Nova Cinder Quantum Setup .stackrc with environment variables Discussed the OpenStack
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#vBrownBag Follow-up Stretched Cluster with Joey Ware (@joey_vm_ware)

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Joey Ware gives an overview of how University of Oklahoma’s Shared Services group is using a stretched cluster for their private cloud utilizing state fiber for sub 5ms speeds. #vBrownBag Follow-up Stretched Cluster Deployment with Joey Ware (@joey_vm_ware) from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo.

OpenStack #vBrownBag – Quantum and You

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Last night we had on a coworker of mine (as in sits less than 8 feet away) on to talk about the state of networking and what Quantum (and SDN) can bring to the table. Note: We had a screen resolution mismatch. With luck you’ll be able to see it better on the recording: 2013-03-26
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Serial Over USB on OSX via Screen!

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Had to configure a Cisco firewall for the first time in literally YEARS today and ran into a few small hurdles. Mostly, my MacBook doesn’t have a serial port nor a HyperTerminal like program. Never fear, however, there are USB to Serial adapters out there that have OSX drivers… that’s where we meet challenge the
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[APAC] BrownBag Follow-Up – VCAP-DCD Networking Design

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Last night’s (Early morning maybe?) APAC BrownBag covered the VCAP5-DCD Networking topic. VCAP-DCD Networking Video ProfessionalVMware BrownBag VCAP-DCD – Network Design Part 1 from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo. Notes Kendrick Coleman & Spanning Tree – http://kendrickcoleman.com/index.php?/Tech-Blog/vmware-networking-dont-forget-stp.html Cisco Networking Forums on RSTP – https://learningnetwork.cisco.com/thread/5691 Brad Hedlund on UCS & vSphere – http://bradhedlund.com/2010/09/15/vmware-10ge-qos-designs-cisco-ucs-nexus/ The vSphere Design book –
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BrownBag Follow-Up – VCP5 Obj. 2 Networking w/ Scott Lowe

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Long at last, the follow-up post. Sorry it took so long this time, I was traveling and on a crummy connection, and then well, family first. That said, to the folks in the BrownBag family, here is the VCP5 Objective 2, Networking BrownBag video featuring Scott Lowe (blog) along side our own Damian Karlson. Video
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BrownBag – VCP5 Section 2 Networking with Scott Lowe

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You know… it’s that time of week again. The time of week where you will do the most awesome, career advancing, personal enrichment, raise producing thing you do all week. That is, you will come join VMware expert Scott Lowe (twitter / blog) as we cover section 2, vSphere Networking, on the VCP Exam Blueprint.
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BrownBag Follow-Up: Networking & VXLAN

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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

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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 – vCloud Networking w/ Kendrick Coleman

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This week we get to rock out with Kendrick Coleman who is a BrownBag veteran. BrownBag – vCloud Networking This time around Kendrick (web/twitter) will be joining us on the Brownbag to talk about VMware vCloud networking. If you’re interested in deploying VMware vCloud Director within your environment, or simply learning more about how VMware
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Excellent VXLAN Write-Up

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Since it’s announcement at VMworld this year VXLAN has had me all manner of interested and I’ve been reading various things that have come my way. The following links are to some of the best resources on it I’ve found thus far: http://codingrelic.geekhold.com/2011/09/care-and-feeding-of-vxlan.html http://codingrelic.geekhold.com/2011/09/care-and-feeding-of-vxlan.html http://codingrelic.geekhold.com/2011/09/vxlan-conclusion.html

Private VLAN Resources

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I found myself digging for resources about Private VLANs this last weekend and found some of the following useful: Wikipedia FTW! Eric Sloof’s Private VLAN Training: Online Training – Configure Private VLAN IDs from Eric Sloof NTPRO.NL on Vimeo. Cisco “Lan Security” – PVLANS – Cisco.com “Understanding Private VLANS” – Cisco.com Nexus 1000V PVLAN information
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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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