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.
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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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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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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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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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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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 –
-> Continue reading #vBrownBag Follow-Up Networking for VMware Administrators with Chris Wahl (@chriswahl)
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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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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I’m not at the summit this go around, and that is unfortunate as there are lots and lots of really excellent things going on. Here are some links I’ve collected from the twitters and some commentary on what’s been live-streamed. Live Streaming: Keynotes: http://www.openstack.org/ Tech Talks: http://professionalvmware.com/brownbags/vbrownbags-live/ Schedule: http://openstack.prov12n.com/vbrownbag-techtalks-schedule-atlanta/ Security: Security got called out in
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With the Juno summit underway, it means that OpenStack IceHouse shipped recently. As you may know, I worked with Mr Kevin Jackson (here) on the second OpenStack Cookbook which was a Grizzly release. Mind, books take a /long/ time to update, so we decided against re-releasing for IceHouse. That said, the examples in the book,
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On the 6th of May 2014 Frank Buechsel covered VCAP-CID Objective 1- Create a vCloud Conceptual Design.The recording from the webinar is below and the slides can be downloaded from here: Sign up for the live ProfessionalVMware.com #vBrownBag broadcast at https://vbrownbag.comm/brownbags/ and follow some of our past series such as the Automate All The Things
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Starting on 6/3 we will be running a VCP-DCV series on the EMEA #vBrownBag. If you are already registered for the EMEA show, these will run on the normal schedule and be posted along with all our other shows to the site and iTunes. You can find more details about the series here (https://vbrownbag.comm/vbrownbag-vmware-certified-professional-data-center-virtualization-vcp-dcv-track/).
This week I’m starting a new series. With Irfan Ahmad from Cloud Physics as my guest to talk about performance troubleshooting for a few episodes. We will run every second Thursday evening at 9PM New Zealand time. You can find details at this page on my blog, signup for the series here or wait for
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Please join me in welcoming Cisco as a sponsor of the vBrownBag TechTalks at the OpenStack summit in Atlanta. Cisco has been a long time supporter of the vBrownBag so we’re really pleased to have them with us on this adventure. It’s not too late to submit a session, signup here. To check out the
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Mike Marseglia stops by the EMEA #vBrownBag to talk about VMware Auto Deploy. Video You can find Mike on Twitter @mmars and his blog http://blog.mmars.org/ Sign up for the live ProfessionalVMware.com #vBrownBag broadcast at https://vbrownbag.comm/brownbags/ where you can get updates on our upcoming Cisco certification track series as well as follow some of our past
-> Continue reading #vBrownBag EMEA VMware Auto Deploy with Mike Marseglia (@mmars)
Chris Colotti stops by to introduce VMware’s vCloud Hybrid Service Disaster Recovery solution and presents an overview of the architecture, setup and configuration demo and considerations for using vCHS DR. Video You can find Chris on Twitter @ccolotti and his blog http://www.chriscolotti.us/ as well as some recent posts on his blog about vCHS DR http://www.chriscolotti.us/vmware/5-things-to-know-about-vcloud-hybrid-service-disaster-recovery/
-> Continue reading #vBrownBag VMware vCloud Hybrid Service Disaster Recovery with Chris Colotti (@ccolotti)
Below is the schedule for the TechTalks at the summit, when the sessions are uploaded to YouTube I will link each session from here. For presenters and those who would like to see the presentations live we will be in room B207, stop by and say hi. All the videos have been uploaded to YouTube
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Kristopher Boyd stops by to introduce VMware’s new Desktop as a Service (DaaS) offering to enable organizations to provide VDI solutions as a completely hosted solution. Video You can find Kris on Twitter @VirtualBoyd Sign up for the live ProfessionalVMware.com #vBrownBag broadcast at https://vbrownbag.comm/brownbags/ where you can get updates on our upcoming Cisco certification track
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The vFLOWer Toolkit, created by ByteLife Solutions, converts vCO packages into versionable source code (XML) and vice versa. In this form, it is more practical to manage and control the development and dissemination of vCO workflows and actions between different teams of developers using popular source control solutions such as GitHub. In this presentation, Kaido
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