This year will be the fourth community party before vForum Sydney. Inspired by VMunderground and designed to let the VMware community come together before the conference starts this is one of the most fun parts of vForum. This year vForum in Sydney coincides with the OpenStack Summit in Paris, where I will be producing more
-> Continue reading VMDownUnderground & TechTalks in Sydney
This guest post is by David Espejo, who blogs at vcloudopia.wordpress.com, where you can find his back catalogue of posts. David writes in Spanish, so if you don’t speak Spanish be sure to use a browser that will translate for you. Find out more about the guest blogger program here.
It has been a while since I published the first part of this entry and well, it’s time to continue.
The more I learn about it, the harder it is to compress everything into a single blog post. On this occasion I will cover the implementation of VXLAN on a VMware vSphere environment and some of the following topics will be covered in subsequent posts:
A. VXLAN and the multicast requirement: three different levels of (in) dependence from Multicast
B. vCNs Edge as an efficient and cost-effective VXLAN gateway
C. A day in the life of a VXLAN frame
So, this has been quite a journey for me. If any of you are like me, you’ve avoided anything related to Networking, & especially Networking certifications like the plague. At work, if any issue networking related surfaced, I gladly pawned it off to the “networking guy”. With the boundaries between layers of the infrastructure stack
-> Continue reading ICND1 (CCENT) Study Guide
VMware’s annual VMworld EMEA event is underway in Barcelona and the energy is amazing. Sessions are packed, the hang space is flowing with continuous traffic and chance meetings, and the vBrownBag crew is on-site producing more great content. VMware provided a great setup that has made it comfortable for the attendees, the presenters, and both
-> Continue reading VMworld Barcelona Underway!
Matthew Brender joins us for part 3 of the ProfessionalVMware.com DevOps series to talk about Git/GitHub and source code management. Video Homework You can follow Matthew on Twitter @mjbrender and his blog http://mjbrender.com/ and http://neckbeardinfluence.com/ Originally published at https://vbrownbag.comm – Sign up for the live #vBrownBag broadcast at https://vbrownbag.comm/brownbags/ where you can also get updates
-> Continue reading #vBrownBag DevOps Follow-Up Git with Matthew Brender (@mjbrender)
Jonas Rosland introduces you to Vagrant which is used for creating and configuring virtual development environments and can also be used along side configuration management tools such Chef, Salt and Puppet which we will cover in future episodes. Keep track of our entire DevOps schedule which will include links to recordings and homework or join our Google+ community to discuss episodes,
-> Continue reading #vBrownBag DevOps Follow-Up Introduction to Vagrant with Jonas Rosland (@virtualswede)
In our official kick off to the DevOps series, John Willis explains just what this DevOps thing is. John provides excellent insights and helps you understand how to apply the concepts and culture that define DevOps. Keep track of our entire DevOps schedule which will include links to recordings and homework or join our Google+ community to
-> Continue reading #vBrownBag Follow-Up Introduction to DevOps with John Willis (@botchagalupe)
Paul McSharry covers objective 4 of the VMware Certified Professional – Network Virtualization (VCP-NV) certification blueprint. Objective 4.1 – Configure Environment for Network Virtualization Objective 4.2 – Deploy VMware NSX Components Objective 4.3 – Upgrade Existing vCNS/NSX Implementation Objective 4.4 – Expand Transport Zone to Include New Cluster(s) Video More information of the exam and
-> Continue reading #vBrownBag Follow-Up VMware VCP-NV Objective 4 with Paul McSharry (@pmcsharry)
Storage Debate – Host based caching is going to kill the market for all flash arrays before it really starts
If you are going to be in Barcelona then you should present a TechTalk. The signup form is here, go ahead and sign up now. With under two weeks to go until the conference it is time to welcome another sponsor. Brocade was another new sponsor at VMworld USA and has continued their support for
-> Continue reading vBrownBag TechTalks at VMworld EMEA
This guest post is by Melissa Palmer who blogs at vmiss.net, where you can find her back catalogue of posts. Melissa was the creative (evil) genius behind the scenarios for the Virtual Design Master Challenge. Find out more about the guest blogger program here.
I first delved into the world of OpenStack about a year ago. I had heard it thrown around in meetings, and started seeing a fair bit about it on twitter. As I did more research I found out it began in 2010 as a research project between Rackspace and NASA. Which of course, only intrigued me further, since I’m a huge space nerd. I’ve also heard it come up in discussion more often than not in the last year or so.
We have only one month to go until the OpenStack Summit in Paris.
Below is the schedule of TechTalks at the summit, as you will see the three days of TechTalks is absolutely packed. We will be in room 126/127 of the Palais De Congres for the three days of the Main Conference. There will be people presenting all the time, so drop by and watch live.
We do still have spaces for more sponsors, contact alastair@vbrownbag.com for details.
VMworld EMEA is under two weeks away. The vBrownBag crew will be there again making more TechTalk videos in the Hang Space.
When we are recording you can find the live stream on the vBrownBag Live page.
It is not too late to propose a Tech Talk, as you can see we have a few gaps. Signup using this form.
Jason Shiplett joins the US #vBrownBag to discuss the preparation that went into submitting his VMware Certified Design Expert written design (which was accepted by the way, congratulations Jason and good luck on the defense!). Note that these are Jason’s own experience and not an official VMware endorsement or study guide. More information of the
-> Continue reading #vBrownBag Follow-Up VMware VCDX Preparation with Jason Shiplett (@jshiplett)
Rene Van Den Bedem covers objective 3 of the VMware Certified Professional – Network Virtualization (VCP-NV) certification blueprint. Objective 3.1 – Configure and Manage vSphere Standard Switches (vSS) Objective 3.2 – Configure and Manage vSphere Distributed Switches (vDS) Objective 3.3 – Configure and Manage vSS and vDS Policies Video More information of the exam and the
-> Continue reading #vBrownBag Follow-Up VMware VCP-NV Objective 3 with Rene Van Den Bedem (@vcdx133)
This guest post is by David Espejo, who blogs at vcloudopia.wordpress.com, where you can find his back catalogue of posts. David writes in Spanish, so if you don’t speak Spanish be sure to use a browser that will translate for you. Find out more about the guest blogger program here.
VXLAN seems increasingly to be on the lips of all who follow the network virtualization market these days. On one hand the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) approved about three weeks passed the state technology VXLAN draft or draft a protocol to be recognized by an RFC, which provides a more solid basis for consolidation.
Moreover, the growing rise of SDN suite of VMware: NSX has led partners like Juniper Networks, Arista Networks, among others; to offer devices capable of integrating with NSX using as VXLAN overlay protocol, for their capabilities and flexibility for infrastructure requirements.
This is the motivation for this series of 2 entries, fingers crossed, will become more posts on the progress of NSX as a platform for SDN.
Let’s get down.
Please join me in welcoming another returning sponsor (my favourite kind). Infinio are this year taking on Europe, brining better storage performance on existing arrays to a whole new market. Naturally they are continuing to sponsor the #vBrownBag TechTalks, so we will be seeing them in Barcelona. If you are going to be in Barcelona
-> Continue reading VMworld EMEA TechTalks – Infinio
Yesterday I had the pleasure of recording a sesion with Mike LaverickJesse StLaurent, and Steven Poitras. These gentlemen represent EVO:RAIL, SimpliVity and Nutanix respoectively. The three together represent the main players in the HyperConverged Infrastructure market. Since this market is so hot and so very different from the architectures it replaces we wanted to talk
-> Continue reading #vBrownBag Extra – Hyperconverged Infrastructure
Ross Wyne covers objective 2 of the VMware Certified Professional – Network Virtualization (VCP-NV) certification blueprint. Objective 2.1 – Define Benefits of Running VMware NSX on Physical Network Fabrics Objective 2.2 – Describe Physical Infrastructure Requirements for a VMware NSX Implementation Video More information of the exam and the blueprint along with specific tools to
-> Continue reading #vBrownBag Follow-Up VMware VCP-NV Objective 2 with Ross Wynne (@RossWynne)
This guest post is by Steven Kang who blogs at ssbkang.com, where you can find his back catalogue of posts. Find out more about the guest blogger program here.
While upgrading ESXi 5.0 servers to 5.5 , I faced an issue that a bunch of virtual machines weren’t able to be vMotioned while entering maintenance mode.
In this blog post, I would like to share with you how I went through the issue and found the solution.
Initial symptom was that whenever I execute vMotion with a several virtual machines, it stopped at 14% saying:
“A specified parameter was not correct”