#vBrownBag Follow Up – VCAP Design Bootcamp with John Arrasjid, Mostafa Khalil and Linus Bourque

In part one of a two-part VCAP Design Boot Camp, John Arrasjid, Mostafa Khalil, Linus Bourque and JonHall reviewed the blueprints for the VCAP-DCD, VCAP-CID and VCAP-DTD exams.  On Tuesday November 19th, they will dive back in and review test examples to help you prepare for the exam. Video #vBrownBag VCAP Design Boot Camp with
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EMEA #vBrownbag goes to Italy

The EMEA #vBrownbag covers a very large region and unlike the US version it supplies places with a multitude of languages with many of them being second or even third language English speaking. After several discussions at VMworld EMEA with Andrea Mauro and several other high profile Italian vExperts the VMUG.IT guys have agreed to
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#vBrownBag US VCAP Design Bootcamp with John Arrasjid (@vcdx001) Tuesday 11/12 and 11/19 [Updated!]

**Update – The boot camp will be focused on the VCAP Design exam, not VCDX – sorry for the confusion** The VCAP Design Bootcamp is coming to the #vBrownBag!  John Arrasjid (@vcdx001) will be presenting two special #vBrownBag US shows on Tuesday 11/12 and 11/19.  The regularly scheduled OpenStack show will return after the VCAP
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Automate ALL the things #vBrownBag Follow Up – PowerCLI for the VDI geek with Andre Leibovici (@andreleibovici)

Andrew Leibovici talks about how you can start to automate VMware Horizon View, how it works, how to configure your environment, how to get-help and some examples. #vBrownBag Automate ALL the things – PowerCLI for the VDI geek with Andre Leibovici (@andreleibovici) from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo.

Automate ALL The Things #vBrownBag Follow Up – PowerCLI for the VM admin with Alan Renouf (@alanrenouf)

Alan Renouf rolls the next Automate All the Things session, discussing PowerCLI for the infrastructure manager.  He kicks off with requirements for PowerCLI as well as some basic commands to help get you started automating all the things. **First 35 seconds not edited, after all isn’t that what makes a #vBrownBag? Slides Video #vBrownBag Automate
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2013-oct-03 ProfessionalVMware #vBrownBag LATAM @ercruzv privilegios y roles en vCenter

The following content is in Spanish, the language in which the webinar is presented. El pasado 10 de octubre en ProfessionalVMware #vBrownBag LATAM se presentó el tema Privilegios y roles en VMware vCenter por Randall Cruz Vega @ercruzv .

Automate All the Things #vBrownbag Follow-Up Todd Lewey (@tlewey) covering Autolab

Todd Lewey (@tlewey) covers the installation and configuration of Autolab which will be used through out the Automate All the Things series. Getting Started with Autolab You can download Autolab here (http://www.labguides.com/) Google+ Community If you need help, have other questions or want to keep the conversation going, you can join the G+ Automate All
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#vBrownbag Follow-Up Nick Marshall (@nickmarshall9) covering vSphere 5.5 vFlash Read Cache

Nick Marshall, author of Mastering vSphere 5.5, reviews the configuration and use of the new VMware vSphere 5.5 vFlash Read Cache. 2013-09-11 Professionalvmware.com #vBrownBag vSphere 5.5 vFlash Read Cache with Nick Marshall (@nickmarshall9) from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo.

#vBrownbag Follow-Up Nick Marshall (@nickmarshall9) covering VSAN

Nick Marshall, author of Mastering vSphere 5.5, reviews the requirements, installation and configuring of VMware’s new VSAN offering which was announced at VMworld along with vSphere 5.5. 2013-09-04 Professionalvmware.com #vBrownBag VMware VSAN with Nick Marshall (@nickmarshall9) from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo.

2013-Set-12 ProfessionalVMware #vBrownBagLATAM ¿Qué es y cómo uso #VSAN? c/ @PunchingClouds

The following content is in Spanish, the language in which the webinar is presented. El pasado 12 de setiembre en ProfessionalVMware #vBrownBag LATAM se presentó el tema VMware Virtual SAN ¿Qué es y cómo uso #VSAN? VSAN agrupe en clústeres los discos de los servidores a fin de crear un almacenamiento compartido de máxima simplicidad
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#vBrownBag Follow-up My Journey to becoming a VCDX with Brian Suhr (@bsuhr)

Brian Suhr talks about some the requirements, and lessons learned as he works towards his VMware Certified Design Expert (VCDX) Certification and wraps up with a Q&A. #vBrownBag Follow-up VCDX Journey with Brian Suhr (@bsuhr) from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo.

#vBrownBag Tech Talks @VMworld 2013


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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Couch to OpenStack – Quantum Follow-Up

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 Seb Hakiel and Grant Friend covering pain points and lessons learnt from a 4k seat VDI deployment

On the 13th of August 2013 Seb Hakiel and Grant Friend covered pain point and lessons learnt from a 4000 seat VDI deployment. The recording form the webinar is below EMEA vBrownbag with Seb Hakiel and Grant Friend 4k seat VDI deployment from EMEA vBrownbag on Vimeo.

#vBrownBag Follow-up Stretched Cluster with Joey Ware (@joey_vm_ware)

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.

Couch to OpenStack – Cinder Follow-Up

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’, and ‘Cinder’ VMs Used the Vagrant shell provisioner to install Ubuntu Grizzly repos MySQL KeyStone Glance Nova Cinder Setup .stackrc with environment variables Discussed the OpenStack Block Storage
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#vBrownbag Follow-Up Sean Duffy covering the Xtravirt vPi

On the 6th of August 2013 Sean Duffy covered the Xtravirt Advantage vPi on the EMEA vBrownbag. The recording from the webinar is below The presentation can be downloaded here: http://www.shogan.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/download-monitor/download.php?id=vPi.pptx EMEA vBrownbag with Sean Duffy covering the Xtravirt vPi from EMEA vBrownbag on Vimeo.