#vBrownBag Episodes

#vBrownBag Follow-Up VMware VCP-DCV with Raajiv Yadav (@cloudmatador)

Posted on June 30, 2014April 2, 2016 by Philip McKraken

Part 4 of the ProfessionalVMware.com #vBrownBag VCP5-DCV series; an Introduction to storage. Raajiv Yadav covers: – Storage protocols, RAID options, performance, considerations, configuration – Create datastores, rescan datastores, PSPs, datastore clusters Video You can follow Raajiv Yadav on Twitter @CloudMatador Sign up for the live ProfessionalVMware.com #vBrownBag broadcast at https://vbrownbag.comm/brownbags/ where you can get updates
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Win a 1 month premium subscription to the Cisco Learning Network #vBrownBag #TheCiscoLearningNetwork

Posted on June 26, 2014April 2, 2016 by Philip McKraken

Join the professionalvmware.com #vBrownBag on the Cisco Learning Network and you could win a 1 month premium subscription. Once each month until they reach their goal of 900,000 users the #vBrownBag crew will give one lucky Tweeter a one month premium subscription code to the Cisco Learning Network. To enter all you have to do is tweet that
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#vBrownBag Follow-Up Cisco CCNA DC with Tom Hollingsworth (@networkingnerd)

Posted on June 24, 2014April 2, 2016 by Philip McKraken

Tom Hollingsworth joins the #vBrownBag for part one 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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Importing OpenStack Keystone Users & Tenants into OpenLDAP

Posted on June 23, 2014August 18, 2016 by Cody Bunch

If you’ve been following along, we installed OpenLDAP here, that or you have one of your own going. Either way, the goal of this post, is to pull information out of OpenStack Keystone for import into OpenLDAP. Preparing us to transition Keystone backend over to LDAP. Getting started To get started, we’ll assume a working
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#vBrownBag Follow-Up VMware VCP-DCV with Sean Massey (@seanpmassey)

Posted on June 23, 2014April 2, 2016 by Philip McKraken

Sean Massey covers section 3 of the ProfessionalVMware.com #vBrownBag VCP5-DCV track which includes: – Introduction to vCenter: What is is, what are the requirements (Windows, SQL, DNS, AD etc..) and components – Installation of vCenter and vCenter components (SQL, SSO, etc) – Setup permissions, review and add new roles – Installation of the VCSA Video
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Quiet or Unattended Installing OpenLDAP on Ubuntu 14.04

Posted on June 20, 2014 by Cody Bunch

After much looking about, I couldn’t actually find a decent writeup on this. At least not all in one place. So after having beat my face against it for a little while (repeatedly), I came up with the below. Installing OpenLDAP You’ll need an Ubuntu 14.04 box for this (tho, 12.04 should also work). Once
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Link Dump: Promise Theory

Posted on June 17, 2014 by Cody Bunch

Ok, my head hurts. So much reading, watching, things to think about in regard to the application of promise theory… Wish I could promise these were light posts or so. Quick Intro Wiki http://arxiv.org/pdf/0810.3294v5.pdf ACI Kitchen Soap Intro to Promise Theory Mark Burgess More Intro Jeff Sussna Requirements into Promises Scaling Agile with Promises Promise
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OpenStack Lumberjack – Part 3 Logstash and Kibana

Posted on June 17, 2014 by Cody Bunch

Our Story So Far So, if you are just joining up, what we are building is set to mimic the setup described Here. We have done a bit of set up in parts 1 and 2: – OpenStack Lumberjack Part 1 – OpenStack Lumberjack Part 2 In this post, we will install Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash,
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#vBrownBag Follow-Up VMware VCP-DCV with Simon Eady (@simoneady)

Posted on June 17, 2014April 2, 2016 by Philip McKraken

Simon Eady presents the first session on the VMware Certified Professional – Data Center Virtualization (VCP5-DCV) certification which covers: – Introduction to vSphere components: hosts, vCenter, datastores, virtual switches – Introduction/Navigation to the vSphere C# and Web Client – Introduction to virtual machines, VM hardware versions and review of virtual machine files You can find
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Tweet your CCNA R&S Question for a chance to win thanks to @scottm32768 #vBrownBag

Posted on June 16, 2014April 2, 2016 by Philip McKraken

Scott McDermott, who recently presented two sessions to help you prepare for the CCNA Routing and Switching exams is running a contest on Twitter and his blog. Tweet your CCNA R&S related question to @scottm32768 with the #vBrownBag hashtag for a chance to win Networking for VMware Administrators or the CCNA Official Cert Library courtest of VMware
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OpenStack LumberJack – Part 2 Services & Remote Logging

Posted on June 16, 2014 by Cody Bunch

OpenStack Lumberjack – Part 2 OpenStack Services Configuring OpenStack for Remote Logging Logging for OpenStack has come quite a ways. What I’m going to attempt to do over a few posts, is recreate and expand a bit on what was discussed at this last OpenStack Summit with regard to Log Management and Mining in OpenStack.
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#vBrownBag Follow-Up Cisco CCNA R&S Part 2 with Scott McDermott (@scottm32768) and contest!

Posted on June 12, 2014April 2, 2016 by Philip McKraken

On part 2 of the Cisco Certified Network Associate for Routing and Switching Scott McDermott discusses common pitfalls people encounter such as the difference between frames and packets, subnet masks and wild card masks and BPDU. Still have CCNA R&S questions? Tweet your question to Scott @scottm32768 with the #vBrownBag hashtag for a chance to
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#vBrownBag Follow-Up VMware VCP-DCV with David Stamen (@davidstamen)

Posted on June 11, 2014April 2, 2016 by Philip McKraken

David Stamen presents the second session on the VMware Certified Professional – Data Center Virtualization (VCP5-DCV) certification which covers: – ESXi requirements (HCL review), installation, configure management interface, setup ESXi AD auth – Review ESXi services, what they are used for (FDM, SSH, etc…) – Configure ESXi firewall – Install common add-ons; dump collector, syslog
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OpenStack LumberJack – Part 1 rsyslog

Posted on June 9, 2014 by Cody Bunch

Setting up rsyslogd for OpenStack Logging for OpenStack has come quite a ways. What I’m going to attempt to do over a few posts, is recreate and expand a bit on what was discussed at this last OpenStack Summit with regard to Log Management and Mining in OpenStack. For now, that means installing rsyslogd and
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#vBrownBag Follow-Up Cisco CCNA R&S with Scott McDermott (@scottm32768)

Posted on June 9, 2014April 2, 2016 by Philip McKraken

Part 1 of the Cisco Certified Network Associate for Routing and Switching with Scott McDermott. Video You can find on Scott on Twitter @scottm32768 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 as follow some of our past series such
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My Markdown Workflow… for now.

Posted on June 6, 2014 by Cody Bunch

Some Markdown Things I’ve recently started to think about doing another book (or three if I’m to be believed). As part of that, I thought long and hard about my current workflow. What worked, what did not, and started to make some changes. One of those changes was to start writing “the things” in Markdown.
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TechTalks at VMworld 2014

Posted on June 4, 2014April 2, 2016 by Alastair Cooke

It seems to be that time of year again. The VMworld session voting is over and the accept / reject emails are flying. If your proposed session has not been accepted then the vBrownBag crew can help you to get the message from your presentation out. For the third year we will be running TechTalks
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#vBrownBag Follow-Up Cisco CCENT with Daniel Bogda (@dabogda)

Posted on June 2, 2014April 2, 2016 by Philip McKraken

Daniel Bogda, a Cisco technical lead for EMC, covers the Cisco CCENT IP Networking blueprint to help you prepare for the exam. Video You can find on Daniel on Twitter @dabogda. 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 as
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Summer VMUG Tour? – Why Not?

Posted on May 30, 2014April 2, 2016 by Cody Bunch

This post is by Cody Bunch. Summer VMUG Tour? – Why not? It has been at least 5 or 6 months since I was last at a VMUG, either local or otherwise. In that time, a lot of things have happened! So, why not take some time this summer and make a circuit of things.
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#vBrownBag Follow-Up Cisco Nexus 1000v Virtual Switch with Josh Coen (@joshcoen)

Posted on May 29, 2014April 2, 2016 by Philip McKraken

Josh Coen reviews the installation and configuration of the Cisco Nexus 1000v virtual switch. This is a third part virtual switch provided directly from Cisco to provide enhanced functionality compared to the VDS in vSphere. Video Slides You can find on Twitter @joshcoen and his blog http://www.valcolabs.com/ Sign up for the live ProfessionalVMware.com #vBrownBag broadcast
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