As I get into this performance thing with Mr Kevin. I thought I’d share a few numbers from early builds and what not. You know, the sort of “should we do this” thing kind of stuff. These nubmers are for a 5 node build using the Vagrantfiles here: Node CPU Ram Controller 1 1 1.5GB
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In the final episode of the professionalvmware.com #vBrownBag VCP-DCV series, Mike Brown provides a HA & DRS fire hose review requirements, configuration and consideration for HA and DRS. Video Slides You can find Mike on Twitter @VirtuallyMikeB and his blog at http://virtuallymikebrown.com/ Originally published at https://vbrownbag.comm – Sign up for the live #vBrownBag broadcast at https://vbrownbag.comm/brownbags/ where you
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We now have three confirmed sponsors for the #vBrownBag TechTalks at VMworld USA 2014. I know Brocade from many years ago as a Fibre Channel switch vendor. For a few years they have been moving into Ethernet switching and of course into software defined networking. I particularly like the Vyatta router, which runs beautifully in
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Ok, so yesterday (two days ago now) started with “Day -1” but mayhaps I’m just an idiot, who knows. So, today’s workshop? Well, it was pretty amazing. Lots of good questions, and the lab worked for most folks. We did have some questions come up around what CLI commands we were copying/pasting during the preso
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Tom Hollingsworth comes back for the second of two parts cover the Cisco Certified network Professional for Data Center (CCNP DC) on the ProfessionalVMware.com #vBrownBag podcast. Video You can follow Tom on Twitter @networkingnerd and his blog networkingnerd.net Sign up for the live ProfessionalVMware.com #vBrownBag broadcast at https://vbrownbag.comm/brownbags/ where you can get updates on upcoming
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All kinds of checked into the hotel room. Speaker badge acquired, and scoped out the presentation room for tomorrow. If you haven’t already and are going to be here, you can download all of the materials here. If your hote wifi sucks, we’ll have all of this on USB keys Other Day 1 Tidbits –
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tl;dr Download our OSCON lab materials here. As a follow-up on my coming to OSCON, I thought it prudent to provide some info & downloads for the lab ahead of time. Lab Materials While we will have USB keys in the tutorial for everyone, we figure some of y’all might want to get started early.
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Edit: As I got a bit deeper into the copies, a new method was needed. Common First, make an image of the usb disk in question. To do this, open Disk Utility, and then: Click File Click New Click “New Image From Folder…” Select your folder Wait Next, find the image file in finder &
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For those that didn’t get the messge on the twitters, I will be at OSCON this year. Specifically, I will be helping Egle run a “Getting Started with OpenStack” tutorial. The tutorial will begin with an overview of OpenStack and its different components. We will then provide access to the individual OpenStack instances to the
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Dan Barber covers the following for the Cisco Certified Network Professional Data Center 642-999 Implementing UCS (and) 642-998 Designing UCS (or) 642-035 Troubleshooting UCS You can find Dan on Twitter @dancbarber and his blog where he has provided an excellent follow up. Video Additional information from the podcast. 1. Experiment with the Cisco UCS Emulator: https://communities.cisco.com/community/technology/datacenter/ucs_management/content?filterID=contentstatus%5Bpublished%5D~category%5Bucs-platform-emulator%5D 2.
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The #vBrownBag crew, thanks to VMware Press and Packt Publishing, is proud to bring you the 2014 Summer Book-apolooza. We have several great titles to give away to our listeners including: DevOps for VMware Administrators Virtualizing SQL Server with VMware Essential Virtual SAN (VSAN) VCAP5-DCA Official Cert Guide CCENT Practice and Study Guide CCNA Routing
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Regular contributor and vBrownBag crew member, Eric Wright (@discoposse), wrote an interesting article on his blog discoposse.com discussing the number of labs he uses on a regular basis. It has long been understood that having a lab for learning, testing new technologies, and testing automation has become a near requirement for operating a good IT environment.
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I’ve been working with Infinio since the day they went public, at Tech Field Day 9, and really like the people there. Infinio are the our second sponsor for the TechTalks at VMworld USA in 2014. As another helper for the community Infinio are giving away a full conference pass, follow this link to enter
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On 7/23, Chris Sears will be presenting on “vDocker” which will cover: An accelerated introduction to Docker and find out how to combine it with VMware technologies to enable scalable multi-cloud deployments. We will cover Docker’s origins in the world of Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) infrastructure and highlight several related projects, including Vagrant, Shipyard and CoreOS. From
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On 8/13 and 8/20 the #vBrownBag will be hosting Matt Liebowitz and David Klee respectivley to discuss virtualizing Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft SQL. If you have questions you’d like to see answered, fill in the form below so we can share them with the presenters.
I’m delighted to announce the first sponsor of this year’s TechTalks at VMworld USA, Coho Data. Coho have a very interesting product that combines very smart software and SDN with commodity hardware to form a high performance scale out storage array. I had the pleasure to be present at Virtualization Field Day 3 in March
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Installing a New Linux Kernel on Ubuntu 12.04 Whilst this may be common knowledge for those who have been working with Ubuntu for a while, it took me a few google searches to figure out, so here is the process I have settled on. sudo apt-get update # List available versions sudo apt-cache search linux-image-generic-lts
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In part 5 of the professionalvmware.com #vBrownBag VCP-DCV series, Frank Buechsel covers the following: Virtual machine management & resource utilization: Virtual CPU and virutal memory How to configure VMs, various options, impact on VM and host performance (multi-vcpu, memory, overhead) Reservations, limits, shares, resource pools Video Slides You can find Frank on Twitter @fbuechsel and
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Tom Hollingsworth joins the #vBrownBag for part two of the Cisco Certified Network Associate for Data Center (CCNA DC) podcast. Video You can follow Tom on Twitter @networkingnerd and his blog networkingnerd.net Sign up for the live ProfessionalVMware.com #vBrownBag broadcast at https://vbrownbag.comm/brownbags/ where you can get updates on upcoming Cisco certification track episodes as well
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I’ve normally got at least 3-4 books I’m reading at any given point. Sometimes they’re even related to what I do. That said, I don’t much like the echo chamber that becomes my own head, so, I asked via Twitter this morning what folks are reading and came up with a few good reads: Work-ish/Business-ish
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