Episode Followup – HCX from Zero to Hero – Bilal Ahmed and Chris Noon
In this vBrownbag EMEA session, Bilal and Chris will give us an overall view about HCX and it will finish with a live demonstration of a migration.
Episode Followup – NSX Cloud and HCX with Britton Johnson
Britton Johnson (https://twitter.com/vcixnv) continues our series on VMware NSX-T with a quick look at NSX Cloud before diving into the multiple use cases for VMware HCX Resources: https://cloud.vmware.com/vmware-hcx https://labs.hol.vmware.com HOL-2081-01-HBD-VMware HCX – Getting Started with Cross-Cloud Mobility https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=VMware+HCX https://cloud.vmware.com/community/hybrid-cloud-extension/ https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-HCX/index.html https://youtu.be/B0erP-Rrkuo
Episode Followup – Introduction to VMware Cloud Foundation with Heath Johnson
Heath Johnson (https://twitter.com/heathbarj) gives us an introduction to VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), shows a few demos, and gives us a sneak peek of the newest version of VCF 4.0 Resources: vmware.com/go/cloudfoundation-poster vmware.com/go/vcfhol vmware.com/go/cloudfoundation-community vmware.com/go/cloudfoundation-faq
vBrownBag TechTalks and online VMworld
It is official, VMworld 2020 will be an online-only conference happening during the week of 28 September. There will be no in-person VMworld in the US or EMEA until at least 2021. I’m not surprised, and I’m pleased that the VMworld team has chosen to make an early call to go online. It is too
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Episode Followup – NSX-T Data Center Security and Distributed Firewall with Britton Johnson
Britton Johnson (https://twitter.com/vcixnv) continues our series on NSX-T Data Center with a look at Security and Distributed Firewall. Britton dives deeper into the security features of the platform and shows us how security rules are evaluated. We also got a peek at vRealize Network Insight (vRNI) #NSX #VMware #Education Resources: https://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/search.php?deviceCategory=nsxt https://labs.hol.vmware.com/ HOL-2026-91-NET – VMware
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Episode Followup – vExpert PRO 2020 Update with Tim Davis, Matt Crape, Matt Langguth, Joe Houghes, Ariel Sanchez
A new crop of VMware vExpert PROs were awarded and we had some of them participate in a roundtable talking about what the program is about and how it helps others who aspire to get the vExpert award. Here’s the announcement and their twitter accounts: https://blogs.vmware.com/vexpert/2020/04/07/vexpert-2020-sub-program-awards/ https://twitter.com/vtimd https://twitter.com/MattThatITGuy https://twitter.com/gsxesx https://twitter.com/jhoughes https://twitter.com/arielsanchezmor Blog posts with tips
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Episode Followup – NSX-T Data Center Routing and Switching with Britton Johnson
Britton Johnson (https://twitter.com/vcixnv) continues our series on NSX-T Data Center with a look at Routing and Switching. Britton gives us a deeper dive into the logical constructs within NSX-T as well as some topology examples and guidance on design. #NSX #VMware #Education Resources: https://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-37591 https://labs.hol.vmware.com/ HOL-2026-01-NET – VMware NSX-T: Getting Started – Module 3 Logical
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vBrownBag TechTalks in 2020
It is the time of year when I get serious about TechTalks and planning for VMworld. This year there seems to be a reasonable probability that VMworld will not be the same as last year, either online-only or reduced attendance. Either way, the vBrownBag TechTalks will go ahead. You can sign up to present a
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Episode Followup – Unlocking the Potential of Events for SDDC Automation presented by Michael Gasch (@ebano1), William Lam (@lamw) and PK (@pkblah)
Michael, William and PK join us to discuss how VEBA enables event based automation for vSphere. Every VI Admin knows that little toolbar in vCenter Server showing the Tasks and Events happening in their environment. This is commonly used to track progress of an operation and can also be used for auditing purposes. However, did
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Episode Followup – Introduction to NSX-T, presented by Britton Johnson
VMware, VMware Network Virtualization Britton Johnson (https://twitter.com/vcixnv) begins our series on NSX-T with a look at the overall platform and its capabilities as well as resources for exam preparation and general learning. Resources: https://nsx.techzone.vmware.com/ https://www.dpdk.org
Episode Followup – Tips, Habits & Grit – What Successful Engineers do to Advance their Career presented by Nick Scuola
Nick Scuola (nscuola) give us a great rundown of tips and habits that technical engineers can utilize to enable themselves to skill up and truly drive their careers Resources: https://spookysolutions.com/2019/10/11/tips-habits-grit-what-successful-engineers-do-to-advance-their-careers/ https://spookysolutions.files.wordpress.com/2019/10/nick-scuola-tips-habits-grit-what-successful-engineers-do-to-advance-their-careers.pptx https://spookysolutions.com/2015/03/17/how-to-be-an-awesome-it-professional/
Episode Followup – VCDX motivation with Chris Noon
Chris Noon (@UltTransformer) talks about what motivated him to embark on his VCDX-NV journey. Chris covers both his motivations and high-level tasks he’s had to complete during his journey so far.
Episode Followup – Falling from the Clouds – Basics, Pitfalls & What You Didn’t Know About Azure & AWS
Jason McMinn (@vm_jmcminn) will lead a discussion around Azure & AWS, where we’ll cover some basics, pitfalls and the things we didn’t know that we didn’t know about Azure & AWS.
Episode Followup – A Tale of Trust presented by Benedikt Frenzel (@BenediktFrenzel)
VMware, Security Benedikt Frenzel (@BenediktFrenzel) joins us to discuss how the Lookup Service works and how to fix Trust Anchor mismatches. Resources: https://www.ben-on-vms.com/
VMworld EMEA 2019, TechTalks Next Week
Less than a week from now, VMworld EMEA 2019 kicks off at Fira Gran Via in Barcelona, and the vBrownBag team will be there to make TechTalk videos. You can find all of the TechTalks in the Content Catalog, search for VMTN. You can find the sessions in the VMware Communities area in Hall 6,
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Episode Followup – Flask on AWS Fargate by Michael Herman
Michael Herman (@MikeHerman) continues our Python For DevOps series how to use Python, Docker, and AWS Fargate to run a Flask microservice! It’s a lot of knowledge in 46 minutes to hang on tight! Resources: https://gitlab.com/testdriven/flask-tdd-docker/tree/aws-fargate https://testdriven.io/courses/tdd-flask/ https://testdriven.io/ https://realpython.com/ https://mherman.org/ https://github.com/mjhea0
Build Day Live with NetApp HCI and Kubernetes
In the middle of September, we had another fun Build Day Live event. This time, we deployed the NetApp HCI platform and the NetApp Kubernetes on top of the HCI. Be sure to take a look at all of the videos from the Build Day Live with NetApp in Boulder as well as the event home page. We all enjoyed our time in Boulder, a beautiful central city with the Rocky Mountains rising up directly to the west of town. I have wanted to look at the process of deploying this HCI platform since I was convinced that HCI isn’t really about having the compute and storage cluster on the same servers. The NetApp HCI uses compute-only hypervisor hosts, and then shared storage using the scale-out Element storage OS from the SolidFire platform. Other HCI platforms use storage inside the hypervisor hosts, and so the storage cluster overlaps the compute cluster. With NetApp, there are two separate clusters, but the management is unified, it overlaps.
Episode Followup – Learning Python: Foundations to Real World Projects by Eric Matthes
Eric Matthes (@ehmatthes), author of the best seller Python Crash Course, continues our Python For DevOps series, shares baby pics of himself, and does a live coding exercise using the requests module and threading! Resources: https://ehmatthes.github.io/pcc_2e https://ehmatthes.github.io https://nostarch.com/pythoncrashcourse2e
Episode Followup – Building and Deploying a Python Tool with Flask and vRA Cloud by Tom Burge
Tom Burge (@vcixninja) continues our Python For DevOps series with a look at vRA Cloud, VMware CodeStream, & Flask Resources: https://github.com/tomburge/dice-data-collector https://github.com/tomburge/ https://tomburge.org/
Episode Followup – Use Python’s async and await to boost DevOps by Michael Kennedy (@mkennedy)
Michael Kennedy (@mkennedy), host of the Talk Python To Me Podcast (@TalkPython) continues our Python For DevOps series with a presentation on how to use the async and await keywords to increase performance! Resources: https://github.com/mikeckennedy/async-await-jetbrains-webcast https://github.com/mikeckennedy/wakeup https://training.talkpython.fm/ https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/