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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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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.
On the 14th of January 2014 Frank Buechsel covered VCAP-CID Objective 5-Create Extended vCloud Designs.The recording from the webinar is below: EMEA vBrownbag with Frank Buechsel Covering VCAP-CID Objective 5 Create Extended vCloud Designs from EMEA vBrownbag on Vimeo.
Jon Harris, @thevcacguyon Twitter joins the ProfessionalVMware.com #vBrownBag to present the next session in the Automate All The Things series on vCloud Automation Center (vCAC) where he covered IT Business Management suite standard and the vCAC 6 Advanced Services Designer. Video You can sign up for the ProfessionalVMware.com #vBrownBag at https://vbrownbag.comm/brownbags/ and check out our Automate
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The following content is in Spanish, the language in which the webinar is presented. Parte 2: Parte 1: 2014-enero-30 ProfessionalVMware #vBrownBag LATAM @DavidMirror vCloud Director Upgrades Parte Uno
It’s that time of year where we all get to engage in the annual review. During this time managers talk with us individual contributors about what we accomplished the previous year and look to the future. These session generally focus on your job performance and your professional growth goals. I’m pretty confident we all have
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The following content is in Spanish, the language in which the webinar is presented.
John Arrasjid and Mostafa Khalil from VMware join the ProfessionalVMware.com #vBrownBag to present the VMware Certified Advanced Professional Administration Bootcamp. The bootcamp covers considerations, challenges and blueprints for all 3 VCAP Administration exams (VCAP-DCA, VCAP-CIA, VCAP-DTA). You can find John on Twitter @vcdx001 and Mostafa at @MostafaVMW. Video Sign up for the ProfessionalVMware.com #vBrownBag at
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Join John Arrasjid, Mostafa Khalil, Linus Bourque, Jon Hall and Mark Brunstad on Wednesday January 29th at 8:30PM EST / 7:30PM CST for a VMware VCAP Administration boot camp. The bootcamp will cover considerations, challenges and blueprints for all 3 VCAP Administration exams (Data Center, Cloud, Desktop). If you are not already registered, go to https://vbrownbag.comm/brownbags/
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Over the past bunch of months, the Razor project has been evolving, going through some changes and the like. I have not been as close to it as I would like. However, one of my fellow Rackers has and has put together a number of really good write-ups: http://anystacker.com/2014/01/new-razor-server-vs-old-razor-and-what-does-the-rewrite-mean-to-you/ http://anystacker.com/2014/01/vagrant-up-razor-server/ http://anystacker.com/2014/01/razor-server-chef-broker/ https://github.com/eglute/razor-server-vagrant The first one
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