#vBrownBag Episodes

#vBrownBag Follow-Up Cisco CCNP DC with Dan C. Barber (@dancbarber)

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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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#vBrownBag Summer Book-apolooza contest courtesy of @VMwarePress and @PacktPub

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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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Do you even Lab?

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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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Infinio is on board for #vBrownBag TechTalks and a free pass

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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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Upcoming #vBrownBag – Docker with Chris Sears @csears 7/23

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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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#vBrownBag TechTalks at VMworld USA 2014 – with Coho Data

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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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#vBrownBag Follow-Up VMware VCP-DCV with Frank Buechsel (@fbuechsel)

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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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#vBrownBag Follow-Up Cisco CCNA DC with Tom Hollingsworth (@networkingnerd)

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

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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

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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)

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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

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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)

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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

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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

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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

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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)

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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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