BrownBag Follow-Up – VCP5 Objective 6 w/ Josh Atwell
The Video The Slides
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BrownBag–VCP5 Objective 6 (@Josh_Atwell)
This week we continue down the road of VCP5 prep with Josh Atwell (Blog / Twitter) who will be covering Objective 6 on the VCP5 blueprint. For more info on Josh, I’d encourage you to follow his blog, or ping him on Twitter. He’s a really smart guy! BrownBag VCP5 Objective 6 Details Date/Time: 2/15/2012
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[APAC] BrownBag – VCAP-DCD Storage Follow-Up
Video Also, not much in the way of show notes for this one. Enjoy!
[APAC] BrownBag Follow-Up – VCAP-DCD Study Group
The APAC BrownBags kicked off last night with a VCAP-DCD study group. The Video Slides More BrownBags You can find all our past recordings for both the VCP5 series as well as every other topic we’ve covered (50+ hours) here: https://vbrownbag.comm/brownbags/
BrownBag Follow-Up – VCP5 Obj. 2 Networking w/ Scott Lowe
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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Open Tabs 1/6/2012
These are collected over a period of a few weeks while out on leave. They have again gotten to be too many to effectively manage, so as I close them out, I read & dump here. Cloud Shark – A vApp or physical appliance, as well as a service, for uploading packet captures (pcap) files.
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Open Tabs 12/21
Here we go again, it’s Wednesday, and my chrome windows have more tabs open than they should. RDP vs PCoIP – A post I was thinking about writing as I get more into this VDI thing. Well done, the only thing I would like to see added to the comparison would be the Citrix protocols
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Happy Birthday John Troyer!
Just wanted to make a quick note to John Troyer, the man, myth, and legend behind the awesomeness of the VMware communities on his birthday to say “Thanks” for everything. Really! Some of John’s efforts that I’ve had some real life benefit from: Blogger/Press pass @ VMworld. vExpert 3 years running (vExpert is the VMware
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vSphere 5 Link Dump
I’ve not had a good chance to process the entirety of the flood that has been the vSphere 5 release. Let alone think on the implications of the licensing change. So a summary post will be forth coming at some stage (maybe). Until then, here are a bunch of links that I gathered in or
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BrownBag Follow-Up – vSpecialist Nick Weaver
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
EMC World Day 2 & 3 Wrap-Up
One post, two parts. Not because they’re short, but because the days were so intense I only had a chance to jot down notes & start to expand on them now. TL;DR – For those at the show, you’ll understand. For those that couldn’t make it… you’ll want to stay tuned to EMC & VMware…
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Hints of Things To Come – EMCWorld Day 2
In lieu of a longer post later (tomorrow morning) I thought it would be worthwhile to drop a note about a few things. First was Paul Maritz’s keynote… There was quite a bit of good info in there: – it costs VMWare .06 per vm per hour to provision a VM. – the hypervisor is
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ESX is Dead. Long Live the King.
So this happened. VMware has pulled the ESX Classic binaries from being available as a direct download: While they do provide a download link for ESX classic, it sends a pretty clear message… If you haven’t made migration plans, NOW is the time to do so. Thankfully, they’ve not left folks completely out to dry
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Spring Cleaning – Orphaned VM Files with vCO
Hey… if Luc can do it, so can I, right? Turns out that yes, I can, and it’s quite easy with vCenter Orchestrator also. If you haven’t already, check out these other posts on vCO: Mass Migrations Check for Snapshots Get Started with vCO vCO BrownBag Now, our task at hand, clean up some orphaned
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BrownBag – PowerCLI 101 Video Online
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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TIL – ESXi TSM Has Jobs Support
The TSM in ESXi is a Posix like environment and much of it resembles and behaves much as you would expect the old RHEL based service console to. That said, some of it is very different too. Today, I figured out that while it may not have all of the features I’m used to (screen),
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TIL – Some ESXi CLI-Fu (Start/Stop/List VMs)
Following up on some of my other TIL posts and a really really bad “vMotion on a stick” experiment, I had to get down and dirty with the ESXi CLI. Without further adieu heres how to List, Start, and Stop VMs from the ESXi CLI (aka TSM): Note: You’ll need to have TSM (ssh) enabled
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BrownBag Security – Ed Haletky (@Texiwill)
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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VMware Tools ISO for Linux Guests
The RPM version of the VMware tools installer for Linux guests seems to have gone the way of the dinosaur. In addition, the tools ISO for Linux has been provided as it’s own download, that is hidden away on the ESX or ESXi download pages, rather than the “Tools and Drivers” page. Not sure why,
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Things in my Open Tabs – Face Melting Java in VMs
I’ve hit the point in Chrome where I’ve been so productive that I can’t be productive. That is, the point in which I have more tabs open than I could hope to reasonably read. What that means for y’all, is that as I close them out, I hit a few that hit interest points and
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