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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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**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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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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Note: This one will feel a bit live-blogish as well. It being written in a hurry and such. Today’s keynotes had a bit of a different flavor than yesterdays. While there were still user use cases up front, they took a slightly different tone. Keynote themes: There were a few themes that cut across the
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Note: This is a live blog, no formatting, no editing, etc. Just a collection of notes. Problems: New business line, super growth, 10x in next few years Cost down, availability up vDesktop, massive config changes, from IE to Chrome with a redeploy Win => KVM => DevStack => 12.04 Thin Client => Switch => VDI
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If this rambles, I apologize. What follows next, are my impressions, thoughts, and notes from Day 1 of the November 2013 Design Summit in Hong Kong. Keynotes: The user storys this time around focused on Media, both big and small, along with Concur, the Expense reporting / management company. While not as huge as some
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Note: This is a live blog. It lacks formatting, editing, or any of the usual quality control that goes into these things. Bridging the Gap: Explaining OpenStack to the VMware Admin Speaking: Kenneth Hui – Open Cloud Architect, Rackspace Scott Lowe – Engineering Architect, VMware Architecture Different origins. vSphere to emulate infrastructure; OpenStack to provide
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Note: This is a liveblog. I didn’t proof read / spellcheck etc. An Evaluation of OpenStack Deployment Frameworks Symantec has a diverse set of development needs across product lines, etc. Consolidation of those systems OpenStack and other OSS building blocks Desire to submit patches back to the project, security fixes, etc. Tried 5 different tools,
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Myself and Kevin Jackson will be at the Hong Kong Summit this week and we brought books. Lots of them. Specifically, we will be at the Rackspace Booth every day from 1 – 2PM (or until the books run out) handing out copies of the OpenStack Cookbook and talking OpenStack, Cloud, Rackspace, etc. Come find
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Andrew Leibovici talks about how you can start to automate VMware Horizon View, how it works, how to configure your environment, how to get-help and some examples. #vBrownBag Automate ALL the things – PowerCLI for the VDI geek with Andre Leibovici (@andreleibovici) from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo.
Wikipedia Rabbit Hole Warning! These links are provided with no context and no explanation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Disk_scheduling_algorithms http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noop_scheduler http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadline_scheduler http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anticipatory_scheduling http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CFQ http://www.mjmwired.net/kernel/Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt http://www.mjmwired.net/kernel/Documentation/block/as-iosched.txt http://www.redhat.com/magazine/008jun05/features/schedulers/ http://storageboy.com/2012/10/23/redhat-io-tuning-made-easy-centos-and-oracle-linux-too/ http://blog.mwpreston.net/2013/09/16/tuning-linux-debian-in-a-vsphere-vm-part-3-usrbinrandom/ http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/redp4285.html
Alan Renouf rolls the next Automate All the Things session, discussing PowerCLI for the infrastructure manager. He kicks off with requirements for PowerCLI as well as some basic commands to help get you started automating all the things. **First 35 seconds not edited, after all isn’t that what makes a #vBrownBag? Slides Video #vBrownBag Automate
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