I am by no means a road warrior, however, I have spent quite a bit of time on the road over the last few years and found a few things to make life a bit easier. Hardware: Light laptop & Tablet combo – If you’re at a conference, you will be walking, a lot. The
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Remember the basic hardening we did? No? Well, go forth and read here. I’ll wait. … Done? Ok, so you are with us on the promise and premise of cloud and short lived application servers. Cattle all the things! You are also with me on the idea that even cattle need to be vaccinated from
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The ‘cloud’ presents new and interesting issues around hardening an instance. If you buy into the cattle vs. puppies or cloudy application building mentality, your instances or VMs will be very short lived (Hours, Weeks, maybe Months). The internet however, doesn’t much care for how short lived the things are, and the attacks will begin
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Rob Nelson does a deep dive into VMware vSphere Auto Deploy which facilitates the rapid deployment and provisioning of vSphere host. Rob covers the requirements including DHCP configuration options and PowerCLI image builder steps. Video Video You can find Rob on Twitter @rnelson0 and his blog http://rnelson0.com/ Sign up for the live ProfessionalVMware.com #vBrownBag broadcast
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Kaido Kibin shows you how to use VMware vCenter Orchestrator for DR failover of your Horizon View infrastructure on the EMEA professionalvmware.com #vBrownBag. Video 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 series at https://vbrownbag.comm/vbrownbag-automate-all-the-things-training-schedule/ or the Couch to
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You may recall 2 weeks ago when I announced the #vBrownBag Junior initiative. I’m slightly embarrassed to say that it was originally intended as an April Fool’s gag, but given the reaction and support we had in the community it left the crew and I with a challenge. I’m happy to announce that the #vBrownBag
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Sometimes you need to make A LOT of devstack instances, and on different providers. That is, some in the cloud, others locally, and then some. At least, I keep finding myself in situations where this happens, so, I made a little Vagrantfile to handle the details for me. Here is the Vagrantfile I use to
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Thomas Brown joins the professionalvmware.com #vBrownBag to wrap up the VCAP-DTD mini-series, reviewing sections 5 and 6 of the the VMware Certified Advanced Professional in Desktop Design blueprint. Video You can find Thomas on Twitter @thombrown and his blog at http://www.thomas-brown.com/. You can request a copy of the blueprint in the VMware MyLearn portal. Sign
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It’s not often (at least in the OpenStack world) that you get 70% done with a blog post explaining a thing and then find a resource that does it better than you could have. In this case, while it’s a bit dated, is a presentation from Mirantis on Heat, it’s Concepts, Architecture, and Workflow: An
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Autoscaling is one of the more interesting (and outstanding) features of OpenStack Heat. In this post, you’ll build a Devstack environment in a VM with Heat, Neutron, and Ceilometer. This will enable you to run the Autoscaling examples. Getting Started To get started, copy the following into a Vagrantfile and vagrant-up. This generally takes
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Link dump! That is, I’ve been looking into OpenStack Heat quite a bit lately. That generally means I’ve got way too many browser tabs open at the moment and need to shut some down. Thus, here comes a huge list of OpenStack links and resources. Heat Websites http://docs.openstack.org/developer/heat/template_guide/openstack.html http://events.linuxfoundation.org/sites/events/files/slides/heat-cloudopen-final.pdf http://zenodo.org/record/7571/files/CERN_openlab_report_Michelino.pdf http://www.slideshare.net/openstackindia/introduction-to-openstack-heat http://docs.openstack.org/developer/heat/template_guide/openstack.html http://docs.openstack.org/developer/heat/template_guide/hot_spec.html#hot-spec http://blog.oddbit.com/2013/12/06/an-introduction-to-openstack-heat/ http://www.sebastien-han.fr/blog/2013/09/06/openstack-heat-and-ceilometer-got-their-dashboard-panel/
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Brian Suhr joins the professionalvmware.com #vBrownBag to review sections 1 and 2 of the the VMware Certified Advanced Professional in Desktop Design blueprint. Recording Slides https://app.box.com/s/uyjvmp20rm6srv5mzngb You can find Brian on Twitter @bsuhr and his blog athttp://www.virtualizetips.com/ andhttp://www.datacenterzombie.com/. You can request a copy of the blueprint in the VMware MyLearn portal. Sign up for the live
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Great news, Rackspace has signed on to be the second sponsor for the #vBrownBag TechTalks at the OpenStack summit in Atlanta. We are delighted to have Rackspace on board as we are racing towards the summit. We already have 30 sessions proposed, and we plan to accept every session. Details of where to signup and
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It’s been a very rewarding week for the vBrownBag team. I’m happy to announce that it appears that the entire vBrownBag team has received the vExpert award for 2014. I have also noted that a high percentage of people who present and participate with the podcast have also been selected. Well done everyone! This recognition
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The #vBrownBag crew enjoys what we do and the impact you tell us we have on your professional development. As such, we’re continuously looking for new ways to serve the community. Today we’re excited to announce a new program and podcast as part of the #vBrownBag lineup, #vBrownBag Jr. This new program, a natural offspring
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I’m delighted to welcome HP to the vBrownBag sponsor list. HP are the first sponsor to signup to support the vBrownBag TechTalks at the OpenStack Summit in Atlanta. The TechTalks are taking the place of the lightning talks that happened at previous summits. We are mainly adding recording/streaming as well as the structure. The aim
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Dear Virtualization Community, It is my profound pleasure to write this letter to you as tremendous thank you for your continued support. This week Eric Siebert of vSphere-Land.com revealed the results of his annual Top Blog vote. A subcategory of this vote is the top virtualization podcast. The vBrownBag crew, myself included, are extremely humbled
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In the first of 3 shows dedicated to the VMware Certified Advanced Professional – Desktop Design, Adam Eckerle reviews design considerations for pods and blocks, support infrastructure such as Active Directory, DNS and DHCP and also ThinApp. Video Slides You can find Adam on Twitter @eck79 and his blog at http://ecktech.me/ and request a copy of
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Hey, you guyyyys! 🙂 As you may be aware, a number of friends of the #vBrownBag podcast and friends within the overall virtualization community have written books for Packt Publishing. I recently found out that they’re celebrating their 2,000th title by offering a Buy One Get One Free deal. This is a limited time offer
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Starting on March 26th, we will have 3 shows to help you prepare for your VMware Certified Advanced Professional in Desktop Design (VCAP-DTD). The series will be broken into 3 sections to cover the various parts of the VCAP-DTD Blueprint. You can get up to speed on the blueprints and format of the exam thanks
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