Here in the ANZ region we are known for trying anything new. Starting this week the APAC vBrownBag podcast is going to host the Storage Debate. Each episode I will propose a controversial idea about storage in enterprise IT and two teams of storage experts will tell us why the idea is right or wrong.
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This the first guest blog post, find out more about the guest blogger program here.
This post is by Steven Kang who blogs at ssbkang.com, where you can find his back catalogue of posts.
VMware vCenter Orchestrator (hereafter vCO) was deployed a few weeks back and it’s been decided to deploy PowerShell plug-in for advanced automation workflows. Due to the lack of documentation, it wasn’t straightforward installing & configuring PowerShell host. In this post, I would like to share my experience with you.
For those of you who’s not familiar with vCO, the following documentations would be helpful. Also, attaching PowerShell plug-in documentation.
One of the constants in life is change,so we will be changing up a little on this site. We are starting a guest blogging program, having up and coming bloggers post a few articles here. This will help them get exposure and help you to find new perspectives and writers. Each week we will have
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It is my turn to make some VMUG pilgrimages. In September I am going to be at the Chicago VMUG summit making vBrownBag video awesome. Since it is such a long way to go I thought I’d make the most of it and also visit the SoCal VMUG Summit on my way home. Later I plan to be at the Boston VMUG Summit in October, on my way to VMworld EMEA.
For those headed to VMworld, you may have heard about the awesomest (yes its a word) kick of party – VMunderground. As is the case every year, there are a limited number of tickets to get in, and we just happen to have a few to give away! This contest is geared towards our live
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Now that VMworld USA is over for another year we have a heap of video to look over. The TechTalk videos are all linked from teh session titles below and in this playlist on YouTube. We also had a great time with the Opening Acts panel discussions, those videos are in this playlist on YouTube.
If you missed out at VMworld USA you still have a chance to present a TechTalk at VMworld EMEA in Barcelona next month. Sign up using this form.
There is not a whole heck of a lot that I was able to find in this area. Mayhaps it’s partly because of how KVM works. That is, VMs are naught but Linux processes and thus can be tuned the same way one tunes Linux. RedHat IBM IBM Part 2 OpenStack Linux-KVM Linux-KVM
Damian Karlson hosts a Q&A with members of the Virtual Design Master Team as well as several current and former participants from season 2 including Melissa Palmer, Byron Schaller and Geoff Wilmington. Video You can learn about the Virtual Design Master competition at www.virtualdesignmaster.com and follow along on Twitter @vdmchallenge Originally published at https://vbrownbag.comm –
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First and foremost thank to all of our listeners and supporters and to VMware Press and Packt Publishing for supporting this contest. We asked you why you wanted to win the books you requested here were some of my favorites: vSphere Design Best Practices – In my day to day work, I routinely design, build
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I’m delighted to announce SimpliVity as our sixth and final sponsor for VMworld USA 2014. SimpliVity are a hyperconverged VM infrastructure company. Their OmniCube platform uses a hardware engine for storage deduplication and compression, which also enables replication for disaster recovery. The TechTalk schedule is pretty full, but if you’d like to present, propose yours
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Philip Monk covers service design in VMware vCloud Automation Center (vCAC). Video You can follow Philip on Twitter @phil_monk31 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 as the Automate All The Things series at https://vbrownbag.comm/vbrownbag-automate-all-the-things-training-schedule/, Cisco
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VMTurbo is a long time sponsor of this site, it’s great to have them also sponsoring the TechTalks at VMworld USA. VMTurbo were also a presenter at Tech Field Day, we learnt about the free market commodity trading algorithms that are used to manage resource delivery. Imagine VMs have a budget to buy things like
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We had an awesome time at the Atlanta summit, met a heap of new people and made a pile of great video. If you haven’t already checked it out this page has session titles with links to the video or the whole YouTube playlist is here. Since Atlanta was so great we are going to
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We had an awesome time at the Atlanta summit, met a heap of new people and made a pile of great video. If you haven’t already checked it out this page has session titles with links to the video or the whole YouTube playlist is here. Sign up for your tech talk here. Since Atlanta
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There are times (like when you’re figuring out a post like this) that you will need to fire up devstack in a VM, and in said VM ensure KVM is running. Here’s how to do that: Add ‘vmv.allow = TRUE’ to the VMX file. I do this in vagrant like so: # VMware Fusion config.vm.provider
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I really like when sponsors want to work with vBrownBag for multiple events and over multiple years. It says that they see the value of getting close to the community of people who use their products to solve business problems. Cisco has sponsored every TechTalk event that vBrownBag has ever done, and we’re delighted to
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Having jumped from the VMware world where the memory overheads and performance characteristics of ESXi and varied workloads are well known, I was surprised to learn that such was not always true in the case of KVM. In this post we talk a bit about KVM/Qemu, and how it’s memory overhead breaks down. Understanding Memory
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The following content is in Spanish, the language in which the webinar is presented. El pasado 24 de julio, 2014 ProfessionalVMware.com #vBrownBag LATAM presentó el tema @VMworld sesiones y recomendaciones por Larry Gonzalez, Kyle Murley y Randall Cruz. (tip: se puede ampliar a pantalla completa y cambiar la calidad de reprodución a HD 720p). vBrownBag en
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On this episode of the ProfessionalVMware.com #vBrownBag, Chris Sears gets you up to speed on containers, specifically Docker as well as their use case and why he believes Docker and VMware work well together. Video You can find Chris on Twitter @csears Links referenced in this recording include Docker Hub: https://registry.hub.docker.com/ CoreOS linux: https://coreos.com/ Project
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Philip Monk joins the #vBrownBag to talk about vCloud Automation Center (vCAC) architectural decisions you might face with your vCAC project. Video You can find Philip on Twitter @phil_monk31 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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