#vBrownBag Episodes

Some ngnix things

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Playing around with a few ideas for #vBrownBag tech talk voting, I was trying to deploy a ruby app with Puma and Ngnix. Here’s a number of the resources used: http://gerardmcgarry.com/blog/setting-a-virtual-host-nginx http://blog.andolasoft.com/2013/06/how-to-configure-rails-application-with-puma-and-ngnix-on-centos.html https://github.com/DruRly/reddit-in-sinatra http://www.drurly.com/blog/2012/06/30/build-reddit-in-sinatra-2/ http://www.drurly.com/blog/2013/06/09/sinatra-with-puma/ I also tied it in with Vagrant & the Rackspace provider. Depending on how things go, there will be a
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Getting Started with VMware Automation

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This post is by Cody Bunch. I’ve had a request or two recently on how to get started with VMware automation, what resources are there, and what tool should I use. This post aims to at least address two out of the three. That is, how to get started and what resources. Tool selection has
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OpenStack Link Dump 8/21/2013

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Doing some maintenance on my open-tabs, here is a dump of the OpenStack-ish things I’ve been looking at recently: http://my1.fr/blog/why-openstack-puppet-modules-did-not-have-vacation/ – Puppet Modules for OpenStack update http://www.blog.sandro-mathys.ch/2013/08/install-rdo-havana-2-on-fedora-19-and.html – RDO on Fedora 19 http://www.sebastien-han.fr/blog/2013/08/16/best-localrc-for-devstack/ – LocalRC settings for doing different DevStack things https://github.com/lorin/devstack-vm – Ansible & DevStack w/ Vagrant https://github.com/al3x/sovereign – Ansible Playbooks for OpenStack Private
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Couch to OpenStack Office Hours on August 20, 2013

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The next episode of the Couch to OpenStack Series will be an office hours session led by Eric Wright.  It will be a good opportunity for new and existing podcast viewers to reflect on what we’ve covered up to this point.  The goal is to clear up any questions that you may have on OpenStack.
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#vBrownBag Follow-up My Journey to becoming a VCDX with Brian Suhr (@bsuhr)

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Brian Suhr talks about some the requirements, and lessons learned as he works towards his VMware Certified Design Expert (VCDX) Certification and wraps up with a Q&A. #vBrownBag Follow-up VCDX Journey with Brian Suhr (@bsuhr) from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo.

#vBrownBag Tech Talks @VMworld 2013

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The Tech Talks for VMworld USA 2013 have concluded and are now available on YouTube, click the session to open the video. Alternatively you can get all the videos on this Playlist

A few of the videos aren’t here yet, they will be here soon.

  Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday
10:30 vExpert Daily vExpert Daily vExpert Daily
11:00 vExpert Daily Shannon Snowden – Zerto Edward Haletky – 10 Steps to Migrating to the Cloud
11:15 Colin McNamara – OpenStack for VMware admins Joerg Lew – Make your automation stopgaps enterprise ready (with vCO)
11:30 Jim Millard – Certificates 101 Edward Haletky – New way of looking at the Secure Hybrid Cloud Steve Flanders – Extend vCenter Log Insight with Content Packs
11:45 Shane Williford -vCD Networking Made Easy! Peter Flecha – Extending storage to remote offices and the cloud Keith Norbie – SDDC: Like a Harmony Remote Control
12:00 PHD Virtual Jeramiah Dooley – Does Hardware Matter Anymore? Anton Zhbankov – Cloud is people and process, not technology Gabriel Chapman – HyperConvergence – What Is It
12:15 Ashish Gupta – Architecting an all-flash cloud infrastructure YP Chien – Automating Application Server Deployment in vCloud with vCO, PowerShell & Group Policy Trevor Roberts Jr – Vagrant Up with VMware
12:30 Maish Saidel-Keesing – Cisco Chuck Mills – Top Mirage Use Cases Scott Hanson – Converged Infrastructure
12:45 David Espejo – The strange case of the PSOD Todd Mace – Why Flash technology is so disruptive
14:00 Rick Vanover – Veeam Jon Harris – vCAC: The power of custom properties
14:30 Blake Garner – Mac OS X guests in vCloud Infinio  Graham Breeze, Sr. Systems Engineer and vExpert, Tintri -See Zero Management Storage in Action
14:45 Tony Foster – A physical desktop lost in a virtual world.
15:00 Julian Wood – HP Virtual Connect Quick Deep Dive Chris Seline – Real world experience: low latency vSphere storage using VNX
15:15 Christopher Kusek – Using PowerCLI to support your mission; Lessons from the Warzone
15:30 Dwayne Lessner – Nutanix Timothy Patterson – Real Life Adventures with Auto Deploy
15:45 Chethan Kumar – Impact of Data Acceleration Tier on I/O Performance
16:00   David Davis-Trainsignal
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16:30 Eric Wright – Bridging the gap to Private Cloud  Larry Touchette – Accelerate Storage with Server Based Caching
16:45 Chris Gebhardt – Storage Innovations for VMware Horizon
17:00 Wen Yu – esxtop deep dive  Vaughn Stewart – Software Defined Storage: What, How & Why
17:15 Julian Wood – Help, my VDI project is hell!
17:30 Mike Ellis – SRM Lessons Learned

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Couch to OpenStack – Quantum Follow-Up

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Thanks everyone for coming along last night. To recap, we: Used git to clone the Couch to OpenStack repo Used Vagrant to stand up the ‘controller’, ‘compute’, ‘cinder’, and ‘quantum’ VMs Used the Vagrant shell provisioner to install Ubuntu Grizzly repos MySQL KeyStone Glance Nova Cinder Quantum Setup .stackrc with environment variables Discussed the OpenStack
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#vBrownbag Follow-Up Seb Hakiel and Grant Friend covering pain points and lessons learnt from a 4k seat VDI deployment

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On the 13th of August 2013 Seb Hakiel and Grant Friend covered pain point and lessons learnt from a 4000 seat VDI deployment. The recording form the webinar is below EMEA vBrownbag with Seb Hakiel and Grant Friend 4k seat VDI deployment from EMEA vBrownbag on Vimeo.

#vBrownBag Follow-up Stretched Cluster with Joey Ware (@joey_vm_ware)

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Joey Ware gives an overview of how University of Oklahoma’s Shared Services group is using a stretched cluster for their private cloud utilizing state fiber for sub 5ms speeds. #vBrownBag Follow-up Stretched Cluster Deployment with Joey Ware (@joey_vm_ware) from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo.

Infinio use case

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I wrote a few weeks ago about Infinio and their NFS acceleration product for NFS datastores on vSphere.  Since then I realised that one of the clients I’m working at is an ideal candidate for the product.  The customer has an aged VDI environment containing some old ESXi hosts and backed by an old low spec NetApp array. The performance of the VDI desktops is limited by the amount of RAM in the ESXi servers and the speed of the storage. 

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Couch to OpenStack – Cinder Follow-Up

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Thanks everyone for coming along last night. To recap, we: Used git to clone the Couch to OpenStack repo Used Vagrant to stand up the ‘controller’, ‘compute’, and ‘Cinder’ VMs Used the Vagrant shell provisioner to install Ubuntu Grizzly repos MySQL KeyStone Glance Nova Cinder Setup .stackrc with environment variables Discussed the OpenStack Block Storage
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#vBrownbag Follow-Up Sean Duffy covering the Xtravirt vPi

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On the 6th of August 2013 Sean Duffy covered the Xtravirt Advantage vPi on the EMEA vBrownbag. The recording from the webinar is below The presentation can be downloaded here: http://www.shogan.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/download-monitor/download.php?id=vPi.pptx EMEA vBrownbag with Sean Duffy covering the Xtravirt vPi from EMEA vBrownbag on Vimeo.

Couch to OpenStack – Nova Follow-Up

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Thanks everyone for coming along last night. To recap, we: Used git to clone the Couch to OpenStack repo Used Vagrant to stand up the ‘controller’ and ‘compute’ VMs Use the Vagrant shell provisioner to install Ubuntu Grizzly repos MySQL KeyStone Glance Nova Setup .stackrc with environment variables Discussed the OpenStack Compute services and scenarios
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Couch to OpenStack – Glance Follow-Up

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Thanks everyone for coming along last night. To recap we: Used git to clone the Couch to OpenStack repo Used Vagrant to stand up the ‘controller’ VM Use the Vagrant shell provisioner to install Ubuntu Grizzly repos MySQL KeyStone Glance Setup .stackrc with environment variables Discussed OpenStack Image services and the integration with Compute For
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Ubuntu 12.04 Cloud Archive, OpenStack, and Puppet

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When working with the Puppet modules for OpenStack, it turns out that if you’re working with Ubuntu 12.04, you need the Ubuntu Cloud Archive added in order for things to run smoothly. To do that, add the following bits for each node in your site.pp manifest: node /puppet-controller.puppet.lab/ { class { ‘openstack::repo::uca’: release => ‘grizzly’,
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Couch To OpenStack – The Path Forward

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Howdy Couch to OpenStackers! There have been some things happening in “the real world” that require me to be away for an extended period. Thus, I’ll be stepping back from this series of podcasts for a bit. That said, you are in amazing hands: I’d like to take a moment to introduce Trevor Roberts, Jr. and Jonathan
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