It’s always great to welcome back our long term sponsors. The latest returning sponsor is Infinio who are supporting the #vBrownBag TechTalks at VMworld USA this year. Infinio have a downloadable storage acceleration product that can breathe new life into a tired array. With a 30 day trial and no downtime to deploy it’s easy
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The following content is in Spanish, the language in which the webinar is presented. El pasado 23 de julio @jorgecabreraec presentó el tema “VCP6-DCV 2V0-621 Objetivo 5” con demo de resource pools y DRS
Peter Shepherd from VMware stops by to discuss improvements in the vSphere 6 Web Client on the What’s new in vSphere 6 #vBrownBag series. vSphere 6 Web Client Video Originally published at https://vbrownbag.comm – Sign up for the live #vBrownBag broadcast at https://vbrownbag.comm/brownbags/ where you can also get updates and view our past series such
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Dan Barr covers Monitoring for section 7 of the VMware Certified Professional 6 Foundation Exam. VCP6 Foundation Section 7 Video Objective 7.1 – Describe tasks, charts and events – List important metrics like esxtop counters for CPU, memory, disk, network, counters in web client monitoring, indentify common issues – Review monitor/logging options, syslog, snmp, log
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Mike Wilson is back to discuss troubleshooting in vSphere 6. VCP6 Troubleshooting Video Objective 6.1 – General troubleshooting steps, log locations – Demo includes ESXi health monitor, export information Objective 6.2 – Review common storage, network, VM issues including resource contention, identifying when virtual machines do not have access to enough resources – Demo includes
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It is a pleasure to welcome Unitrends as a sponsor of the TechTalks at VMworld USA this year. This is the first time that we’ve had Unitrends as a sponsor, however you may know that they acquired PHD Virtual a few years ago and that PHD Virtual had supported the TechTalks in the past. Unitrends
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The vBrownBag team love to be involved in unusual and innovative things. One new thing we really like is John Troyer’s upcoming conference The Reckoning. This promises to be the antidote to massive anonymous conferences like VMworld. The Reckoning will be a fairly small gathering, a couple of hundred technologists who like to communicate about technology. Naturally when
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In case you missed it, signups are open for TechTalks at VMworld 2015. These are 10 minute presentations by community members for the benefit of other communiuty members. Sign up using these links: VMworld US TechTalk signup to present in San Francisco VMworld EMEA TechTalk signup to present in Barcelona I am delighted to announce Cisco as
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Geoff Wilmington covers objective 5.6 as we continue with the #vBrownBag VCP6 Foundation Series. Section 5, Objective 5.6 Video Objective 5.6 – Describe patching requirements for ESXi hosts and VM hardware/tools – Describe host profiles, use cases – Demo includes create/export host profile, attach host profile, verify compliance – Demo includes configure VUM, patch repository,
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Geoff Wilmington covers objective 5.5 as we continue with the #vBrownBag VCP6 Foundation Series. Section 5, Objective 5.5 Video Objective 5.5 – Describe backup and recovery options – Snapshot requirements and best practices, how snapshots work, when not to use snapshots – How VDP works, requirements, sizing – How vSphere replication works, requirements, sizing –
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Sandeep Dinesh covers the use cases for NoSQL databases before diving into the features of Google Cloud Datastore and wraps up with a live Python and Datastore demo. Google Cloud Datastore Video You can find Sandeep on Twitter @sandeepdinseh and examples like the one used tonight on https://github.com/thesandlord/samples/tree/master/google-cloud-datastore/interactive-demo Originally published at https://vbrownbag.comm – Sign up for the
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Jonathan Frappier, minus an epic self muting, covers section 5 of the VCP6 Foundation Exam which includes HA, DRS, and FT. VCP6 Foundation Exam Section 5 Video Objective 5.1 – Describe DRS, Storage DRS, VMCP, and HA, use cases, configuration options – Discuss DRS thresholds and HA Admission Control – Demo includes create cluster, enable
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Last week we had a great time at Cisco Live! in San Diego. It is a pretty massive conference and I really just saw a small corner. Naturally the corner I saw was the vBrownBag TechTalk stage. You can see the TechTalk and roving reporter videos we recorded on this page. I’m looking forward to
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On this episode of the #vBrownBag Google Cloud Platform Series, Paul Newson covers the various storage options available from Google such as Google Cloud Storage, Cloud Datastore, and Cloud SQL as well as considerations for each. Google Cloud Storage Video You can find Paul on Twitter @newsons_nybbles Originally published at https://vbrownbag.comm – Sign up for
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In this episode, Mike Wilson reviews section 4 of the VCP6 Foundation Exam blueprint, focusing on networking. VCP6 Foundation Exam Section 4 Video Objective 4.1 – Identify VM hardware versions and capabilities, VM access options (console, etc) – Demo includes create/configure templates and customization specs, edit virtual machines, deploy virtual machines and vApps Objective 4.2
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Brian Dorsey dives into Google Compute Engine and how it is different from other platforms. Including the developer platform for accessing various tools. Google Compute Engine Video You can find Brian Dorsey on Twitter @briandorsey Originally published at https://vbrownbag.comm – Sign up for the live #vBrownBag broadcast at https://vbrownbag.comm/brownbags/ where you can also get updates and view our past
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We are live at Cisco Live! in San Diego. We will be making video in the mornings Monday to Wednesday. You can follow along the live stream at the usual live page. The schedule is very fluid at present, so a little pot luck whether we are on air or not. These are the presentations
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In the first episode of the #vBrownBag Google Cloud Platform Series, Terrence Ryan provides an overview of the platform and demos how several services such as Compute Engine and Big Query can be used. Google Cloud Platform Overview Video You can find Terrence on Twitter @tpryan and his blog http://terrenceryan.com/ Originally published at https://vbrownbag.comm – Sign up
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In this episode, Brian Welch reviews section 2 of the VCP6 Foundation Exam blueprint, focusing on networking. Section 2 Video Objective 2.1 – Capabilities of vSS overview – Use cases for vSS – Demo includes create/delete vSS, port groups, vmkernel adapters, configuration of vmkernel adapters Objective 2.2 – Capabilities of vDS overview – Demo includes
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This guest post is by Anthony Chow who blogs at http://cloudn1n3.blogspot.co.nz/, where you can find his back catalogue of posts. Find out more about the guest blogger program here.
Back in 2008 when I first started to learn about VMware’s server virtualization technology, it is very confusing on the different products and how they are related together. There are the ESX, ESXi, vSphere and vCenter server and there are older products such as VMware server or the GSX server. With Google we can find lots of articles on these products but the problem is that most of these articles do not have a date and since the VMware virtualization technology is advancing in such a high pace, we do not know if the information was current or relevant to which version of vSphere.
Now in 2015, can you tell me all the current VMware products and how they are related?
To look at VMware’s product offering, it is best to look at VMware’s vision on data center – Software Defined Data Center architecture.
Data Center comprises of these functions: