#vBrownBag Episodes

#vBrownBag Follow-Up Automate ALL the Things Advanced vCO with Joerg Lew (@joerglew)

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

On the latest #vBrownBag Automate ALL the Things session, Joerg Lew gives a deep dive demo on some advanced features of VMware vCenter Orchestrator. Video You can find Joerg on Twitter @joerglew and his blog at http://www.vcoportal.de/ Sign up for the live ProfessionalVMware.com #vBrownBag broadcast at https://vbrownbag.comm/brownbags/ and follow some of our ongoing series such
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My First OpenStack Heat Template

Posted on March 20, 2014 by Cody Bunch

If you have followed some of my past work, you know I have a thing for automation and orchestration. Needless, I was super excited when I discovered OpenStack Orchestration (aka Heat). Don’t know what Heat is? The OpenStack Wiki page has a great explanation: Heat is the main project in the OpenStack Orchestration program. It
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#vBrownBags At the Atlanta Summit!

Posted on March 19, 2014 by Cody Bunch

Great news, the vBrownBag crew will be at the OpenStack Summit in Atlanta this May. We will be making TechTalks and generally helping people get the most out of the summit. If you’d like to present a TechTalk you can signup using this form here. Now that we are committed to being there we need
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Getting Started with SpiderFoot

Posted on March 19, 2014 by Cody Bunch

At some point in my past, I may or may not have done some InfoSec. As part of that role, “foot printing” a target was a tedious task. Basically, you would try to find anything and everything you could about said target, without actually engaging. When you consider the number of datasources available (Google, gmane.org,
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vBrownBag TechTalks at OpenStack Summit Atlanta

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

Restart VMware Fusion Networking from the Command Line

Posted on March 19, 2014 by Cody Bunch

Every now and again I run into issues using Vagrant and VMware Fusion togther. Specifically around starting VMNET-DHCP servers. The following commands have done wonders to fix that in a pinch: sudo /Applications/VMware Fusion.app/Contents/Library/vmnet-cli –configure sudo /Applications/VMware Fusion.app/Contents/Library/vmnet-cli –stop sudo /Applications/VMware Fusion.app/Contents/Library/vmnet-cli –start

Deploy Rackspace Private Cloud with Vagrant

Posted on March 14, 2014 by Cody Bunch

I know I’ve done a few of these before, but Mr. Thorne does a much much better job than I could. In addition, he has builds for VMware Fusion and VirtualBox. Also, scenarios with HA controllers, Neutron, and more. Go here and deploy: http://thornelabs.net/2013/12/17/deploy-rackspace-private-cloud-entirely-within-a-vagrantfile-on-virtualbox-or-vmware-fusion.html After the first 30 or so minutes you will have a
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#vBrownBag Follow-Up Automate All the Things PowerCLI Futures with Alan Renouf (@alanrenouf)

Posted on March 13, 2014April 2, 2016 by Philip McKraken

Alan Renouf from VMware demos new features of PowerCLI including a live demo for the Automate All The Things Series. Video You can find Alan on Twitter @alanrenouf and his blog at http://www.virtu-al.net/ Sign up for the live ProfessionalVMware.com #vBrownBag broadcast at https://vbrownbag.comm/brownbags/ and follow some of our ongoing series such as the Automate All
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How has the VMware community improved your career?

Posted on March 12, 2014April 2, 2016 by Damian Karlson

Hi everyone, Damian here. I’ve been asked to speak at the Seattle VMUG on April 1st, and Jonathan Frappier has been asked to speak at the Providence VMUG later in March. Our respective planned topics include a discussion around the VMware community (Twitter, the #vBrownBag, conferences, #vBeers, VMUGs, etc.) and its benefit to your career.
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VMware Re-Certification: Talking $$$

Posted on March 10, 2014April 2, 2016 by Josh Atwell

In my recent post about VMware’s addition of expiration to their certifications I received a great comment from Jay Moore. The primary comment being: “It may come down to $$$ for some people. As a VCP5, I can take the VCP-DT exam for free, but cannot take the VCP-Cloud for free. I could sit the
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VLAN Setup on Ubuntu 12.04

Posted on March 10, 2014 by Cody Bunch

Ran into a situation recently where I needed to set up provider_vlan within OpenStack as well as configure the VLANs on the underlying hosts. This being the first time I’ve done this in Ubuntu it needs to be written down: apt-get update && apt-get install -y vlan modprobe 8021q vconfig add bond0 100 vconfig add
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VMware’s New Re-Certification Policy – Some Thoughts

Posted on March 10, 2014April 2, 2016 by Josh Atwell

Last week VMware announced changes to the longevity of their certifications by placing expiration dates on them. Anyone who obtained a VCP prior to March 10, 2014 will now notice on their transcript that their VCP expires on March 10, 2015. Before anyone panics (I know, too late) they also updated the options to recertify,
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#vBrownBag Follow-Up Using #vCO to manage Active Directory and Exchange with Sean Massey (@seanpmassey)

Posted on March 6, 2014April 2, 2016 by Philip McKraken

VMware’s vCenter Orchestrator is usually thought of as a tool for automating VMware environments. But when vCO is combined with PowerShell, it can be used to automate and manage Microsoft applications as well. In this installment of Automate All the Things Sean Massey (@seanpmassey) will talk about how to automate Active Directory and Exchange using
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#vBrownbag Follow-Up Frank Buechsel Covering Technical Deepdive of SSL Certificates in vSphere 5.5

Posted on February 28, 2014April 2, 2016 by Gregg Robertson

On the 18th of February 2014 Frank Buechsel covered Technical Deepdive of SSL Certificates in vSphere 5.5.The recording from the webinar is below: EMEA vBrownbag with Frank Buechsel Covering Technical Deepdive SSL Certificates in vSphere 5.5 from EMEA vBrownbag on Vimeo.

#vBrownBag Follow-Up Home Lab builds with Mark Gabryjelski (@markgabbs)

Posted on February 27, 2014April 2, 2016 by Philip McKraken

Mark Gabryjelski dropped in on the #vBrownBag to give some tips and tricks on building a home lab capable of running nested ESXi servers. You can find additional videos from Mark about this build at http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLQ3sn5-bIVgJ69HsGPm9-58E4hzjxtq2&app=desktop Video You can sign up for the live ProfessionalVMware.com #vBrownBag broadcast at https://vbrownbag.comm/brownbags/ and follow some of our ongoing
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#vBrownBag Follow-Up Virtualizing Latency Sensitive Apps in vSphere with Anthony Elizondo (@complex)

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

Anthony Elizondo discusses the features available in vSphere that allow you to virtualize latency sensitive applications and services such a VOIP. You can find Anthony on Twitter @complex Video You can sign up for the live ProfessionalVMware.com #vBrownBag broadcast at https://vbrownbag.comm/brownbags/ and follow some of our ongoing series such as the Automate All The Things
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Top Blog and Podcast Voting Open

Posted on February 22, 2014April 2, 2016 by Josh Atwell

The annual vSphere-Land.com voting for top blogs and podcasts is now open. Eric Siebert’s annual community vote allows virtualization content consumers an opportunity to share who they think have provided them the most value. Naturally the team here at vBrownBag and ProfessionalVMware.com hope our community efforts have provided you great value. If you have an
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#vBrownbag Follow-Up Conquering Storage Performance w Vishal Misra (@vishalmisra) and Jonathan Klick (@jonathanklick)

Posted on February 13, 2014April 2, 2016 by Philip McKraken

Stand back! Vishal Misra (@vishalmisra) and Jonathan Klick (@jonathanklick) join the ProfessionalVMware.com #vBrownBag to try science! Vishal and Jonathan talk about the science behind storage performance, providing an understanding of how IOPS and throughput can effect latency, then wrap up with a review of how server side caching vendors such as Infinio, PernixData, Proximal Data
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User Review – Pearson IT Certification’s VMware vSphere 5 Jump Start Training via Rob Nelson (@rnelson0)

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

This post is by Rob Nelson, one of the winners from our end of year prize giveaway which Pearson Pearson sponsored. Pearson had no input into the contents of the post. You can find Rob on Twitter @rnelson0 or his blog rnelson0.com. Thanks to the vBrownBag December 2013 giveaway, I received a free copy of
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#vBrownbag Follow-Up Frank Buechsel Covering VCAP-CID Objective 2 -Create a vCloud Logical Design

Posted on February 10, 2014April 2, 2016 by Gregg Robertson

On the 28th of January 2014 Frank Buechsel covered VCAP-CID Objective 2 -Create a vCloud Logical Design.The recording from the webinar is below: EMEA vBrownbag with Frank Buechsel Covering VCAP-CID Objective 2 -Create a vCloud Logical Design from EMEA vBrownbag on Vimeo.