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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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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