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
-> Continue reading Couch to OpenStack – Cinder Follow-Up
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.
Seems my most successful posts so far are the Couch to OpenStack bits followed closely by the series of posts on Chef, Razor, and OpenStack. However, Chef isn’t the only way to get OpenStack installed. In fact, Puppet Labs have a set of manifests / modules that work quite well as well. This post will
-> Continue reading Puppet, OpenStack, Hiera, with Vagrant
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
-> Continue reading Couch to OpenStack – Nova Follow-Up
Chuck Mills is back with a follow-up to the extremely informational and popular session from June 20th. #vBrownBag Follow-up VMware Mirage with Chuck Millis (@vChuckMills) from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo.
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
-> Continue reading Couch to OpenStack – Glance Follow-Up
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’,
-> Continue reading Ubuntu 12.04 Cloud Archive, OpenStack, and Puppet
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
-> Continue reading Couch To OpenStack – The Path Forward
The following content is in Spanish, the language in which the webinar is presented. 2013-7-18 ProfessionalVMware #vBrownBag LATAM #VCAP DCA5 obj4.2 Deploy & Test VMware Fault Tolerance por Walter Solano Sanchez Mencionado hoy en #vBrownbag: ¿Qué es VMware Fault Tolerance? http://t.co/ORYjFf4GAl VMware Fault Tolerance FAQ http://t.co/bIVJDzGtn5 Processors and guest operating systems that support VMware Fault Tolerance
-> Continue reading 2013-7-18 ProfessionalVMware #vBrownBag LATAM #VCAP DCA5 obj4.2 Deploy & Test VMware Fault Tolerance por Walter Solano Sanchez
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 Setup .stackrc with environment variables Discussed OpenStack Identity authentication and authorization process flow Discussed OpenStack Concepts
-> Continue reading Couch to OpenStack – Keystone Follow-Up
Cheers! Today I sat & passed the VCP5-DT exam. DT is a cert I’ve been procrastinating in attaining, so I’m glad I finally hunkered down & got it out of the way. As with other VCP-level exams, the DT has 85 questions & you have 90 minutes to finish. An additional 15 minutes is allotted
-> Continue reading VCP5-DT Study Guide
2013-07-11 ProfessionalVMware #vBrownBag LATAM VCAPDCA5 obj4.1 Implement & Maintain HA por Walter Solano Sanchez 2013-mar-28 ProfessionalVMware #vBrownBag LATAM – HA alta disponibilidad c/ @elnemesisdivina http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8ibpi_LsTo (tip: se puede ampliar a pantalla completa y cambiar la calidad de reprodución a HD 720p). vBrownBag en castellano es una expansión de la plataforma ProfessionalVMware.com para el crecimiento profesional
-> Continue reading 2013-07-11 ProfessionalVMware #vBrownBagLATAM #VCAP DCA5 obj4.1 Implement & Maintain HA
Steve Flanders covers the installation, configuration and use cases for the newly released VMware Log Insight Manager #vBrownBag Follow-up VMware Log Insight Manager with Steve Flanders (@smflanders) from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo. You can find this and other recordings on iTunes or your favorite RSS feed
Now that we have Vagrant up and running and a good understanding of how to bring a vagrant box up and down, let’s take this next week and do the following for homework: Sign up for a GitHub account Fork the Couch_to_OpenStack repo (https://github.com/bunchc/Couch_to_OpenStack/) Review the guide here: http://docs.openstack.org/grizzly/basic-install/apt/content/basic-install_controller.html#basic-install_controller-common Install MySQL and Keystone Submit Changes to
-> Continue reading [Couch to OpenStack] Homework Assignment – Github, Install MySQL / Keystone
Last night Mr. VMTrooper himself (@VMTrooper) walked us through the basics of Vagrant. That is, we started with nothing, installed Vagrant and VirtualBox. From there we spun up the first VM. Then we delved into some of the various provisioners, scripts, and more advanced multi-vm vagrant environments. If you are following along and get stuck,
-> Continue reading Couch to OpenStack – Vagrant Primer Follow-up
At Tech Field Day 9 last month Infinio came out of stealth mode and showed their upcoming storage acceleration product for the first time. The product places a caching appliance on each ESXi host to accelerate reads from NFS datastores. For server virtualization this can be a huge help as usually around 80% of VM
-> Continue reading Infinio, cache in your ESXi server for your NFS datastores
On the 2nd of July 2013 Prasenjit Sarkar covered VCAP5-CIA Objective 2: Manage vSphere Resources on the EMEA vBrownbag. The slides from the session are available here : EMEAvBrownbagvStretchCloud and the video from the session is below. EMEA vBrownbag with Prasenjit Sarkar covering VCAP5-CIA Objective 2 – Manage vSphere Resources from EMEA vBrownbag on Vimeo.
On the 9th of April 2013 Michael Webster covered VCAP5-CID Objective 6: vCloud Availability on the EMEA vBrownbag. Unfortunately due to unexplained reasons the video corrupted and only the last twenty minutes recorded and are available (the irony is noted) ProfessionalVMware #vBrownBag EMEA 09-04-13 20.16 from EMEA vBrownbag on Vimeo.
G’day – @coolsport00 here sharing my recent process in studying for the VCP-IaaS exam, which I sat and thankfully passed yesterday afternoon. As a matter of fact, I achieved the highest score of any exam I’ve taken, VMware or otherwise. To start off, let me share the resources I used, and indeed what I recommend
-> Continue reading VCP-IaaS Study Guide PDF
Part of the pre-work / homework for next weeks “Couch to OpenStack” program is to get a Vagrant environment going on your laptop (or wherever else you choose to run these things). We’re not going to go into the “Why Vagrant” or “What is Vagrant” questions. Those are better answered elsewhere. What follows are the
-> Continue reading Getting Started with Vagrant & VirtualBox