#vBrownBag Episodes

Great news, the vBrownBag TechTalks are coming back to vForum Sydney. For those familiar with TechTalks you can go straight to the signup form here. Tech Talks originated at VMworld 2012 where they provided an opportunity for community members, whose presentation submissions were not accepted into the main catalogue, to present the core of  a
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Yesterday was the Chicago VMUG conference and vBrownBag were there in force. Nick Marshall delivered the morning keynote, all about career progression and a session on VSOM. GS Khalsa delivered an SRM presentation ad then one on VDP 5.8. These guys are both VMware employees so were here as part of the VMware contribution to
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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.

A few months ago I decided to go all in on the vSphere Web Client. I was one of those people that wasn’t a huge fan of ESXi when the Service Console was dropped, so I decided to take a different approach here and embrace it. The verdict? I like it. A lot. I’ve gotten so used to it, that when @DiscoPosse and I tried to do a Test Track at VMworld, I had a bad time. I kept on saying “but I know exactly how to do this in the Web Client!”, and of course, it was iSCSI. So it was a really bad time. As I write this and wait for my vCenter to reboot, I’m actually using the C# Client to access the host, and I can’t wait to get back to the web client.

(Bye bye!  Might as well bite the bullet and get used to not using it)

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I cannot believe how the weeks are passing and we are getting closer to VMworld in Barcelona. We still have places for more TechTalks. The signup form is here, go ahead and sign up now. We are delighted to have SimpliVity sponsoring the TechTalks at Barcelona, just like they did for VMworld USA.

Cisco continues to be the only company to say yes to sponsoring every single TechTalks event. Welcome back our friends at Cisco. We still have places for TechTalk presenters. The signup form is here, go ahead and sign up now. We also have places for TechTalk sponsors both at VMworld EMEA and at the OpenStack
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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.

INTRODUCTION

Recently, I wrote a PowerCLI script to audit which virtual machines are running on vDisks in relationship. With this report, I could correct naming convention of both VMFS volumes and vDisks and find out which VMFS volumes are not in relationship.

In this blog post, I will be going through:

• Products Used
• Script & Explanation
• Sample Output

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Hey there folks, if you were previously registered for the EMEA #vBrownBag, please re-register at https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/541316569 as the webinar ID has changed. Thanks!  

Now that the dust has settled from VMworld USA you can check out all the great TechTalk videos, either as the YouTube Playlist here or on the schedule page each session is now a link to it’s video. By the way the Opening Acts videos are in this playlist. Naturally we are going to make
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We are back with another storage debate on the APAC edition of the vBrownBag podcast. This week two teams will argue for and against the statement: Fibre Channel is the walking dead of storage infrastructure, just like tape. Teams are still being arranged, but expect to hear from John, Justin, Geoff and David. If you
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Veeam is a huge supporter of the community, they have been a sponsor of many vBrownBag activities. You may have noticed Veeam’s name on fewer things in the last couple of months, but fear not they have not given up on the community. Quite the opposite Veeam are doing their own conference, VeeamON,  to bring
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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.

INTRODUCTION

I’ve worked on rebuilding a vCenter server due to one of the services failing to start and in this blog post, I will try and assist people who is planning to rebuild the existing vCenter server.

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