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
-> Continue reading On Putting the User Back Into User Group
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
-> Continue reading On Putting the User Back Into User Group
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:
-> Continue reading Couch to OpenStack – Monitoring Follow-Up
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
-> Continue reading VMware Fusion 6 – Disable Promiscuous Mode Authentication
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.
-> Continue reading Couch to OpenStack – Troubleshooting Follow-Up
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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Here are these things in case I need to find them again: A link_to helper for Sinatrahttp://ididitmyway.herokuapp.com/past/2010/4/25/sinatra_helpers/ A flash[:something] gem for Sinatrahttps://github.com/SFEley/sinatra-flash OmniAuth for rails / rubyhttp://railsapps.github.io/tutorial-rails-mongoid-omniauth.html Twitter auth in Sinatrahttp://www.sitepoint.com/twitter-authentication-in-sinatra/
Another VMworld USA is over and we’re all slowly catching up on sleep. The vBrownBag Tech Talk videos are now up on YouTube, you can find links to all the videos either on the original schedule web page or on this YouTube playlist. Huge thanks go to the nearly forty community members who prepared and
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This post is by Cody Bunch This is the sort of post where one would say something about being tired, sore feet, or having the “VMworld crud”. While I've had a bit of all of those things, this is not that post. This post could also drone on and on about how despite the oddball
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The vBrownBag Team had a great time at VMworld 2013 with the live tech talks and with meeting many of our webcast attendees and listeners. The week before, though, a few of us actually attended another IT conference that happened in San Francisco: PuppetConf 2013. VMware’s vCloud Hybrid Service (vCHS) is leveraging Puppet in its
-> Continue reading #vBrownBag at PuppetConf 2013: Nick Weaver Interview
On the 27th of August 2013 Andrea Mauro covered VCAP-CIA – Objective 3 Manage vCloud Director Resources on the EMEA vBrownbag. The recording from the webinar is below EMEA vBrownbag with Andrea Mauro covering VCAP5-CIA Objective 3 Manage vCloud Director Resources from EMEA vBrownbag on Vimeo.
VMworld is under way and so the #vBrownBag activities are also underway. Starting Monday we will have the TechTalks happening in the communities lounge, behind the escalators in Moscone South. The TechTalks are also available streaming online for those not attending in person and (when I sort that out) on YouTube so you can view
-> Continue reading #vBrownBag treasure hunt at VMworld USA 2013
Just a quick quick update before I’m stuck at VMworld for the week: Kevin Jackson is a ROCK STAR The long and short of that is the Manuscript for The OpenStack Cloud Computing Cookbook – Grizzly Edition is now 100% complete. He did this, largely without my support these last two months due to some
-> Continue reading OpenStack Cookbook Update
Now that the manuscript for the OpenStack Cookbook has finished, or is in final edits all around, here are some of the books that I am either reading, or have in my backlog of things to read in the next few months. Reading List The Phoenix Project – Here – An interesting tale of IT
-> Continue reading Reading List – Late Summer / Early Fall 2013