Tag: vSphere

BrownBag – Design & vSphere Storage Appliance

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Per Damian’s blog, this week’s BrownBag technical deep dive will center around vSphere design and the vSphere Storage Appliance (VSA). Damian will be joined by Sean Crookston, Chris Wahl, and Bill Hill to deep dive into designing vSphere environments with the VSA. BrownBag – Desigh & vSphere Storage Appliance Register: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/945190048 Date/Time: 10/5 @ 7:30PM
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Using PowerCLI, Onyx and Orchestrator

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Yes! You can! I’m not talking about using vCO to call PowerCLI scripts. As well, that’s been covered before. What I’m talking about is using PowerCLI against VMware Onyx to get vCO JavaScript (Jeorg Lew’s post on it here). First, get Onyx. I’ll wait… Have it? Excellent. Now fire it up & change the output
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VCAP BrownBag – Wade Holmes Edition

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Wednesday this week brings another Damian Karlson edition of the BrownBags. This week he’s featuring Wade Holmes who will be talking about vCloud Director and the vCloud Architecture Toolkit. Wade Holmes (web/Twitter) is a Technical Solutions Architect for VMware. Wade has over 14 years of experience planning, designing, engineering, architecting and supporting complex computing environments
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BrownBag Follow-Up – VCAP-DCD Objective 1 (Jason Boche)

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Woot! This was yet another outstanding session led by Damian Karlson, this time starring Jason Boche talking about Objective 1 of the VCAP-DCD. This, is the follow-up post, both with video, slides, and notes. Video ProfessionalVMware.com Technical Brownbag (Jason Boche) – VCAP-DCD Objective 1 from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo. Slides ProfessionalVMware BrownBag (Jason Boche) – VCAP-DCD
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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

BrownBag – Jason Boche Edition! VCAP-DCD

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It’s that time again, and whilst I’ve handed off MC Duties to Damian Karlson (This fellow here, aka @sixfootdad), I think it’s still important to let y’all know what’s coming up. This week he’ll have the one, the only Jason Boche on. Jason will be covering VCAP-DCD Objective 1. Details Topic: VCAP-DCD Objective 1Date/Time: 9/21/2011
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vCenter Orchestrator – New Plug-ins for Awesome!

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There has been a lot going on in the vCO space while I’ve been head down in the book. No excuse to not post about it however. This post is all about the plug-ins: VMware posted here about the vCenter 5.x plug-in: As promised in a previous post, the vCenter Server 5.0 plug-in adds over
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BrownBag Follow-Up – Duncan & Frank Edition

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So, I’ve still only managed to get through about 15 minutes of this total. Frankly, I will need to listen to it at least two or three times to process the entire Bus Full of Awesome that Frank & Duncan brought around. Special thanks to Damian Karlson for hosting these over the next bunch of
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BrownBag – Duncan Epping Edition

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So we’re going to have a special one-off Brown Bag to do a Technical Deep-Dive with the one, the only, Duncan Epping (Of yellow-bricks fame) and Frank Denneman (here). Who is Duncan? Well, I figure most of y’all know this already, but here is the Bio: Duncan Epping is Principal Architect in the Technical Marketing
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PowerCLI 101 – VMworld Follow-Up

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For those that couldn’t make it to the live show, be heartened to know that what we did was a live version of this BrownBag. If that’s not enough… brace yourself for some really awesome stuff, right here: The Slides They’re not much to look at because well, it was a demo heavy session. That
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BrownBag Follow-Up: VCAP-DCA Objective 2

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Woot! Excellent BrownBag, Excellent Presenter, Excellent Participation. Sorry the follow-up post took a bit longer than usual. We covered VCAP-DCA objective 2 – Networking, with live demos some good lecture, slides, and follow-up resources. Video: ProfessionalVMware BrownBags – VCAP DCA Objective 2 – Networking from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo. Slides ProfessionalVMware VCAP BrownBag Section 2 View
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vCenter Orchestrator – Add NFS Datastore

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Was surprised this wasn’t here by default, but alas, out of the box vCO does not ship with a workflow to manage an NFS datastore. Thanks to the VMware communities for a bit of scripting, I was able to put one together. First we’ll break out the components, then show you how it runs. Finally
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BrownBag – VCAP-DCA vNetwork Distributed Switches

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ZOMG It’s that time of week again! The time where we announce the speaker and topic for this week’s BrownBag! Topic: VCAP-DCA Objective 2 – vNetwork Distributed Switches Speaker: Damian Karlson (@sixfootdad) who blogs here. Will be presenting this weeks BrownBag. Damian is VMware Certified Professional (VCP4), a VMware vExpert for 2011, and am currently
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BrownBag Follow-Up: VCAP-DCA Objective 6.2

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On 8/3 we talked vSphere performance as it relates to the VCAP-DCA exam. Specifically objective 6.2 on the exam blueprint. We also had special guest Hersey Cartwright along for the ride. First the Video, then some of the links: The Video ProfessionalVMware BrownBag – VCAP-DCA Objective 6.2 from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo. The Links Generating Load
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Automation 101 – VMware Tools with Orchestrator

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We’ll skip the reason you need tools installed. We’ll also skip a bit on the other ways to do this in PowerCLI. Rather, we’ll bring you a way to do this in Orchestrator. Note: If you’re not using vCO, you should be. Why? I covered that here. Additionally, there are some excellent vCO resources here.
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BrownBag Follow-up – Storage, Virtualization, and NetApp

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The Summary! No, it’s not that I was too lazy to fill out the template for the post, really. In fact, it was an excellent call with Julian Cates from NetApp. All in all a pretty good discussion. Video ProfessionalVMware BrownBags – NetApp & Virtualization Storage from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo. Summary So there we go,
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Automation 101: vCenter Orchestrator – Set Custom Attributes

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vCenter Orchestrator… It’s power is only exceeded by it’s mystery. Or so we thought… We’ve touched on vCO a number of times in the past. So much so that I’m actually writing a book on it (Yes that was a shameless plug…).  What follows now was a special request from Maish Saidel-Keesing brought about by
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