I hope everyone is locked and ready to go next week, VMworld Europe is a great event and I’m personally disappointed that I’m going to be asleep in New Zealand while my buddies are having fun in Barcelona. The #vBrownBag crew will be there, Gregg has the shortest trip and will be joined by Kyle,
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The following content is in Spanish, the language in which the webinar is presented. El pasado 10 de octubre en ProfessionalVMware #vBrownBag LATAM se presentó el tema Privilegios y roles en VMware vCenter por Randall Cruz Vega @ercruzv .
Below is the schedule for the #vBrownBag TechTalks in Barcelona. We are still receiving new submissions so keep an eye on it as we approach the event for updates. See you all soon! Time Monday Tuesday Wednesday 10:30 – 11:00 vExpert Hour vExpert Hour vExpert Hour 11:00 – 11:15 Joerg Lew – Make your automation stopgaps
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Todd Lewey (@tlewey) covers the installation and configuration of Autolab which will be used through out the Automate All the Things series. Getting Started with Autolab You can download Autolab here (http://www.labguides.com/) Google+ Community If you need help, have other questions or want to keep the conversation going, you can join the G+ Automate All
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Here at vBrownBag global HQ we are hard at work plotting to make vBrownBag more awesome. One thing we know is that the most awesome thing about vBrownBag is you, the community, so it’s time to ask what you think. Please take two minutes to fill in the quick survey we’ve put together and let
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This post is by Cody Bunch Well, not sure if they’re hacks, but they are some handy VMX file settings that can, at least marginally improve the performance of your VMs. VMX Settings v.vmx[“logging”] = “FALSE”v.vmx[“MemTrimRate”] = “0”v.vmx[“MemAllowAutoScaleDown”] = “FALSE”v.vmx[“mainMem.backing”] = “swap”v.vmx[“sched.mem.pshare.enable”] = “FALSE”v.vmx[“snapshot.disabled”] = “TRUE” v.vmx[“isolation.tools.unity.disable”] = “TRUE”v.vmx[“unity.allowCompostingInGuest”] = “FALSE”v.vmx[“unity.enableLaunchMenu”] = “FALSE”v.vmx[“unity.showBadges”] = “FALSE”v.vmx[“unity.showBorders”]
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Tonight we had on Josh Atwell and 50ish of our closest #vBrownBag friends to kick off our next few months of vSphere and Infrastructure automation. The video is below: Video #vBrownBag Automate ALL the things – Introduction from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo.
This one is a bit outside our Couch to OpenStack series but touches on something that has been tickling the back of folks minds for a while. VMware has jumped into the OpenStack ecosystem. What does that mean? How does that work? OpenStack on vSphere This week we had on Scott Lowe from VMware to
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Part of the work around the upcoming OpenStack Cookbook involved a refresh of the chapter on Monitoring. Specifically, we wanted to deliver an updated section with some tool changes that would reflect the current state of things in terms of OpenStack monitoring. That said, after spending weeks and weeks exploring other options, we came back
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This post is by Cody Bunch Following on Scott’s commitment to the community, I would like to announce that I too will be accepting five folks (VMware, OpenStack, Unix, etc…) who are willing to step up, volunteer, and speak for the first time at your local user group (be it VMUG or otherwise). So what
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This post is by Cody Bunch Before we get into the results, a few thanks need to go out to the folks at VMware that made this happen for the second year in a row, as well as our various #vBrownBag swag sponsors. If you didn’t get in on the swag scavenger hunt, no worries,
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Following on Scott’s commitment to the community, I would like to announce that I too will be accepting five folks (VMware, OpenStack, Unix, etc…) who are willing to step up, volunteer, and speak for the first time at your local user group (be it VMUG or otherwise). So what does this mean? I will help
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Thanks again for everyone coming along for the Nagios ride. To recap we: Reviewed the requirements for monitoring. Installation of the NPRE agent Other monitoring solutions, and why we chose Nagios Installation of Nagios How to monitor certain services How to quickly and easily install and configure dashboards Here are the resources from the show:
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Nick Marshall, author of Mastering vSphere 5.5, reviews the configuration and use of the new VMware vSphere 5.5 vFlash Read Cache. 2013-09-11 Professionalvmware.com #vBrownBag vSphere 5.5 vFlash Read Cache with Nick Marshall (@nickmarshall9) from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo.
Nick Marshall, author of Mastering vSphere 5.5, reviews the requirements, installation and configuring of VMware’s new VSAN offering which was announced at VMworld along with vSphere 5.5. 2013-09-04 Professionalvmware.com #vBrownBag VMware VSAN with Nick Marshall (@nickmarshall9) from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo.
Wow, it’s been an amazing first 24 hours or so. Earlier this week a fellow community member Gabriel Chapman @Bacon_Is_King tweeted about having lost his father to cancer a year ago and now his mother’s was spreading. Shortly after Trevor Pott @cakeis_not_allie started to engage the community and seeing what we could do. Myself and
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The following content is in Spanish, the language in which the webinar is presented. El pasado 12 de setiembre en ProfessionalVMware #vBrownBag LATAM se presentó el tema VMware Virtual SAN ¿Qué es y cómo uso #VSAN? VSAN agrupe en clústeres los discos de los servidores a fin de crear un almacenamiento compartido de máxima simplicidad
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The question came up during a #vBrownBag: “How do you disable that annoying little popup for promiscuous mode”. If you have worked with Autolab, you will have seen it too. About 8 times each Autolab build (4 for each nested esxi host). To bypass it in Fusion 6, there are two methods: Disabling Promiscuous Mode
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Thanks again for everyone coming along last night. To recap we: Pushed Monitoring back a week. Discussed OpenStack logging Dug into various service log files Enabled additional logging Showed how to restart various services Discussed OpenStack as a complex system Thanks again to Eric Wright (@discoposse) and Trevor Roberts (@VMTrooper) for presenting and hosting respectively.
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With VMworld 2013 under our belts and all the vBrownBag sessions available online here, it’s time to pick your favorites. This lets us, and your favorite presenters know what you want more of, or the corollary, what there should be less of. Head on over to vote.professionalvmware.com, log in with your twitter account, and let
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