#vBrownBag Episodes

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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#vBrownBag Follow-Up VCDX Preparation Special

Posted on May 23, 2014April 2, 2016 by Gregg Robertson

On Thursday 22nd May the EMEA #vBrownbag ran a VCDX Special with Rene Van Den Bedem (VCDX 133) , Craig Kilborn , Gregg Robertson and Bobby Stampfle. The recording from the session is below. #vBrownBag EMEA VCDX Prep Special from EMEA vBrownbag on Vimeo.

Kicking VMware Fusion Networking in the Teeth

Posted on May 23, 2014 by Cody Bunch

Ran into some problems yesterday with VMware networking. It started after a few months of constantly adding and changing networks. Sometimes via Vagrant other times manually. In the end, while the VMNet networking devices would start, all of the network interfaces within the VMs were showing disconnected. Here is how I solved it: Restart Fusion
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VMunderground Opening Acts with #vBrownBag

Posted on May 22, 2014April 2, 2016 by Alastair Cooke

As has been intimated on Twitter and through teasers on the vCommunity Podcast, the #VMunderground and #vBrownBag teams have joined forces for 2014 to bring a new type of community-driven event to anyone willing to come into San Francisco for VMworld 2014 a little bit early. While it’s true that the mission of the two
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#vBrownBag Follow-Up Virtual Network Lab Setup with Byron Schaller (@byronschaller)

Posted on May 21, 2014April 2, 2016 by Philip McKraken

On this episode of the #vBrownBag, Byron Schaller shows you how to create a virtual lab to prepare for various Cisco certifications or even just to better understand network concepts. Video You can find Byron on Twitter @byronschaller, his blog http://vbyron.com/blog which includes some useful follow-up reading such as http://vbyron.com/blog/networking-virtual-cisco-juniper-routers-vsphere/ and http://vbyron.com/blog/brocade-vyatta-5400-virtual-router-vsphere/ Sign up for
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#vBrownbag EMEA VCDX Prep Special

Posted on May 21, 2014April 2, 2016 by Gregg Robertson

The EMEA #vBrownbag will be running a one off (maybe more if this is popular) special webinar around VCDX Prep. This will include four presenters/panelists who have been going through preparing for the VCDX recently and will be covering some of the following: What we did to get to the point of submitting our designs.
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#vBrownBag was at OpenStack Summit Atlanta

Posted on May 19, 2014August 18, 2016 by Alastair Cooke

We had a great week in Atlanta last week making TechTalk videos at the OpenStack summit. You can checkout all the videos on this YouTube playlist. It was great to hang out with Josh and Damian, my long time #vBrownBag brothers. Also to do some real duties with Jeramiah who joined the crew this year.
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#vBrownBag Follow-Up Networking for VMware Administrators with Chris Wahl (@chriswahl)

Posted on May 15, 2014April 2, 2016 by Philip McKraken

Chris Wahl joins the #vBrownBag to cover several chapters from his new book including the differences between physical and virtual networking, the differences between VMware vSphere standard and distributed switches and some design considerations around the use of each. Video You can find Chris on Twitter @chriswahl, his blog http://www.wahlnetwork.com and his new book –
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#vBrownBag Follow-Up Cisco Learning Network Tour with Matt Saunders (@citylifematt) & Brett Lovins (@brettlovins)

Posted on May 15, 2014April 2, 2016 by Philip McKraken

Brett Lovins and Matt Saunders kick off the #vBrownBag Cisco Certification series with an overview and tour of the Cisco Learning Network – an online community to connect you with learning resources such blueprints, course details and support from others who are working on their Cisco Certifications. Video You can sign up for the Cisco
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OpenStack Juno Summit Day 2 – Summary

Posted on May 14, 2014 by Cody Bunch

Doing this sort of thing from the sidelines is much much more difficult than I’d imagined. There is so much happening at the actual event and the social streams only touch the surface of it. Again, the #vBrownBags are live streaming all week, which does help Stream: http://professionalvmware.com/brownbags/vbrownbags-live/ Schedule: http://openstack.prov12n.com/vbrownbag-techtalks-schedule-atlanta/ The keynotes from today have
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