#vBrownBag Episodes

Automate ALL The Things #vBrownBag Follow Up – vCAC 6.0 Install with Jon Harris (@ThevCACGuy)

Jon Harris helps you get a jump on installing and configuring vCAC 6.0 along with the necessary components and appliances such as SSO. Video #vBrownBag Automate ALL the things – vCAC 6.0 Installation with Jon Harris (@ThevCACGuy) from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo.

EMEA #vBrownBag Follow Up – Italian Version Episode 3 with Andrea Mauro, Giuseppe Guglielmetti and Pietro Piutti

The following content is in Italian, the language in which this series of webinars is presented. Il 27 Novembre 2013 Andrea Mauro, Giuseppe Guglielmetti e Pietro Piutti fatto il terzo di una serie di lingua italiana vBrownbags EMEA. La registrazione del webinar è qui sotto: EMEA vBrownbag Italian Version Episode 3 from EMEA vBrownbag on
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EMEA #vBrownBag Follow Up – Italian Version Episode 2 with Andrea Mauro, Giuseppe Guglielmetti and Pietro Piutti

The following content is in Italian, the language in which this series of webinars is presented. Sul 20 novembre, 2013 Andrea Mauro, Giuseppe Guglielmetti e Pietro Piutti fatto il secondo di una serie di italiano vBrownbags lingua EMEA. La registrazione del webinar è qui sotto: EMEA vBrownbag Italian Version Episode 2 from EMEA vBrownbag on
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OpenStack on Raspberry Pi: Part 2 – Getting Started

In part 1 we talked about the “Why” behind this project. In this, we start talking about the “How”. In this post, the “How” that we will cover, will get us from “Ok I have a rPI” to where we’re ready to install OpenStack. We’ll cover: What we’re building Getting an OS onto the rPI
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#vBrownBag Follow Up – VCAP Design Bootcamp Part 2 with John Arrasjid, Linus Bourque and Jon Hall

In part 2 of the VCAP Design Boot Camp, John Arrasjid, Linus Bourque and Jon Hall review the various types of questions you will see on the VCAP Design exams as well as reviews examples of each type of question. Video #vBrownBag VCAP Design Boot Camp Part 2 with John Arrasjid (@vcdx001), Linux Bourque (@linusbourque)
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Automate ALL The Things #vBrownBag Follow Up – PowerCLI for the Infrastructure admin with Alan Renouf (@alanrenouf)

Alan Renouf returns for another #vBrownBag PowerCLI session, helping you Automate All The Things.  Alan shows us how to leverage PowerGUI to create PowerCLI to build scripts to monitor and automate your VMware infrastructure. Video #vBrownBag Automate ALL the things – PowerCLI for the infrastructure manager with Alan Renouf (@alanrenouf) from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo.

EMEA #vBrownBag Follow Up – Italian Version Episode 1 with Andrea Mauro, Giuseppe Guglielmetti and Pietro Piutti

The following content is in Italian, the language in which this series of webinars is presented. Il 12 Novembre ho dovuto 2013 Andrea Mauro, Giuseppe Guglielmetti e Pietro Piutti ha fatto il primo della serie di lingua italiana EMEA vBrownbags. La registrazione del webinar è qui sotto: EMEA vBrownbag Italian Version Episode 1 from EMEA
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OpenDaylight Lab in 15 Minutes or Less

Turtles on Rocks! After spending half the night up reading and watching various videos around SDN and the varied options out there, I stumbled on this great post by Brent Salisbury on working with Mininet and OpenDaylight. It was however a bit manual for spinning up more than a handful of times, so I threw
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2013-nov-14 ProfessionalVMware #vBrownBag LATAM #Puppetize c/ @DevOps_ES @edransIT y @puppetlabs

The following content is in Spanish, the language in which the webinar is presented. El pasado 14 de noviembre en ProfessionalVMware #vBrownBag LATAM se presentó el tema #Puppetize c/ Pablo Wright @DevOps_ES @edransIT y @puppetlabs Pablo D. Wright, Technical Operations www.edrans.com   Algunos recursos en inglés: http://docs.puppetlabs.com/ https://ask.puppetlabs.com/questions/ IRC: freenode #puppet Google group: puppet-users@googlegroups.com   En
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#vBrownBag Follow Up – VCAP Design Bootcamp with John Arrasjid, Mostafa Khalil and Linus Bourque

In part one of a two-part VCAP Design Boot Camp, John Arrasjid, Mostafa Khalil, Linus Bourque and JonHall reviewed the blueprints for the VCAP-DCD, VCAP-CID and VCAP-DTD exams.  On Tuesday November 19th, they will dive back in and review test examples to help you prepare for the exam. Video #vBrownBag VCAP Design Boot Camp with
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EMEA #vBrownbag goes to Italy

The EMEA #vBrownbag covers a very large region and unlike the US version it supplies places with a multitude of languages with many of them being second or even third language English speaking. After several discussions at VMworld EMEA with Andrea Mauro and several other high profile Italian vExperts the VMUG.IT guys have agreed to
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20% off OpenStack Cookbook

If you're at the OpenStack summit, and missed your chance to pick up a copy of the OpenStack Cookbook from the Rackspace booth, all is not lost. You can still pick up a copy directly from Packt pub, and for the duration of the Summit, get an additional 20% off: Go here: http://www.packtpub.com/openstack-cloud-computing-cookbook-second-edition/book At checkout,
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OpenStack Summit LiveBlog – Swift Disk design session

Note: Live blog, blah blah, formatting, blah Disintermediated Hardware, that is, remove the middle layers between the application and the disk. Optimize the disk for object storage. “Why did you go down this particular path?” – Other approaches got us only part way. Let me ask you, “Why does swift use filesystems?” The world has
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OpenStack Summit LiveBlog – R&D DevOps on OpenStack

Note: This is a liveblog, no edits. @Aethylred: R&D infrastructure highly variable and generates data at unpredictable rates. DevOps and #OpenStack allows researchers to control scaling. The DevOps session, Redmine for bugs, Chef/puppet, OpenLdap, svn & git, its a good OSS stack. Single portal, elastic cloud I think, for single pane for engineering, flexibility w/o
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#vBrownBag US VCAP Design Bootcamp with John Arrasjid (@vcdx001) Tuesday 11/12 and 11/19 [Updated!]

**Update – The boot camp will be focused on the VCAP Design exam, not VCDX – sorry for the confusion** The VCAP Design Bootcamp is coming to the #vBrownBag!  John Arrasjid (@vcdx001) will be presenting two special #vBrownBag US shows on Tuesday 11/12 and 11/19.  The regularly scheduled OpenStack show will return after the VCAP
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OpenStack LiveBlog – TaskFlow and OpenStack

Note: This is a live blog, I've not spent time editing, formatting, etc TaskFlow answers the “Statemanagement” issue. Workflows w/o state makes recovery an issue. Also reliablility can be an issue. Race conditions Manager <-> API Boundary undefined states Why does state matter? Reliability, consistency Upgrades, or recovering from the upgrades Easy to understand workflows
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