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
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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.
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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”
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)
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.
Jeff Carrell returns to show you IPv6 through a Wireshark lens. Video You can follow Jeffrey on Twitter @JeffCarrell_v6 as well as his website http://www.teachmeipv6.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 and view all of our episodes including the Automate All The Things series (https://vbrownbag.comm/vbrownbag-automate-all-the-things-training-schedule/),
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Frank Büchsel covers objective 1 of the VMware Certified Professional – Network Virtualization (VCP-NV) certification blueprint. Objective 1.1 – Describe the Benefits of a VMware NSX Implementation Objective 1.2 – Describe VMware NSX Architecture Objective 1.3 – Differentiate VMware Network and Security Technologies Objective 1.4 – Contrast Physical and Virtual Network Technologies Objective 1.5 –Explain
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Starting on October 1st and going through at least January, the ProfessionalVMware.com #vBrownBag podcast will bring you a series designed to prepare and strengthen your DevOps knowledge and skill set. Much like we did for Couch to OpenStack and Automate ALL the Things series we have setup a Google+ community and “homework” to give you
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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.
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: