#vBrownBag Episodes

#vBrownBag Follow-up VMware Horizon Mirage with Chuck Mills (@vchuckmills)

In part 1 of a 2 part series Chuck Mills takes us through an overview of VMware Horizon Mirage and live demo.  Chuck will be back with us on July 24th to continue with the live demo and answer more of your questions.  Also a special thanks to Chris Halstead for support all the great
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#vBrownBag Podcast – Couch to OpenStack!

In the theme of Couch to 5k which is more or less a getting started with getting fit, I’ll be kicking off July 2013 with a “Couch to OpenStack” series of blog posts and podcasts. We’ll begin at the beginning with a quick overview of OpenStack and it’s varied projects. We will then begin a
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2013-06-13 ProfessionalVMware #vBrownBag LATAM #VCAP DCA 6.2 – Troubleshoot Memory Performance @elnemesisdivina

The following content is in Spanish, the language in which the webinar is presented. El pasado 13 de junio 2013 en ProfessionalVMware #vBrownBag LATAM @elnemesisdivina presentó el tema #VCAP DCA 6.2 – Troubleshoot Memory Performance Recursos y respuestas a algunas preguntas del público durante la sesión: A: Understanding Memory Resource Management in vSphere 5 http://blogs.vmware.com/performance/2011/09/understanding-memory-resource-management-in-vsphere-5.html
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Upcoming vCloud Automation Center Series with Jon Harris (@jonharrisnm) #vBrownBag

Building on the great feedback from the May 29th US #vBrownBag, Jon Harris will be scheduling several more including sessions on: Basic Install and Config of vCAC Install and Config for vCAC Endpoints/Agents (vCenter and vCD) Configuring Provisioning Groups, Blue Prints (vCenter/vCD), and Build Profiles Next vCAC session is scheduled for Wednesday June 26th at
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4 Tips for Using Get-Help in PowerCLI/PowerShell

Hey EveryOne! vNoob Back to hopefully drop a couple of knowledge bombs on you. Powershell/PowerCLI is really good at giving you the information you ask for…however, it isn’t always easy to know what to ask or how to ask. Hopefully these tips will help you get more of the information you want from Powershell/PowerCLI. 1.
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#vBrownbag Follow-Up Andrea Mauro Covering VCAP5-CIA Objective 1 – Configure and Maintain vCloud Director

On the 11th of June 2013 Andrea Mauro covered VCAP5-CIA Objective 1 – Configure and Maintain vCloud Director on the EMEA vBrownbag. The slides from the session can be found here and the video from the session is below: EMEA vBrownbag with Andrea Mauro covering VCAP5-CIA Objective 1 – Configure and Maintain vCloud Director from
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#vBrownBag Presenter Spotlight: Gurusimran Khalsa

Gurusimran Khalsa is the featured vBrownBag Presenter this week. Gurusimran, aka GS, is a Senior Consulting Engineer for Presidio. He has presented multiple times for the vBrownBag podcasts on the topics of Security as well as VCAP Exam experiences. In his free time, GS is one of the leaders of the New Mexico VMUG, and
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2013-06-06 ProfessionalVMware #vBrownBag LATAM #VCAP DCA 6.2 – Troubleshoot CPU Performance @elnemesisdivina

The following content is in Spanish, the language in which the webinar is presented. El pasado 6 de junio 2013 en ProfessionalVMware #vBrownBag LATAM @elnemesisdivina presentó el tema #VCAP DCA6.2 Troubleshoot CPU & Memory Performance

#vBrownBag Podcast Follow-ups

Sorry for the delay on some of these, it’s been an interesting few weeks. Here are the last bunch of #vBrownBag Podcast’s: Videos Puppet, DevOps, OpenStack, etc. 2013-05-28 20.04 #vBrownBag OpenStack – Puppet Labs, Config Management, DevOps, OpenStack from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo. OpenStack Monitoring with Sensu 2013-05-28 20.04 #vBrownBag Sack Lunch – OpenStack Monitoring (Sensu)
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Upcoming #vBrownBags with Nick Fritsch (@nfritsch) and Chuck Mills (@vChuckmills)

This coming Wednesday, June 12th Nick Fritsch (@nfritsch) will be presenting on Trend Micro Deep Security.  Does it really work as advertised?  Can a virus be detected on a virtual machine that isn’t running an anti-virus agent?  Come see for yourself as Nick shows us a demonstration of Trend Micro Deep Security.  Nick will also
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Sharing your AutoLab with a Friend

Hi readers.  Josh Atwell here.  Recently I had an opportunity to speak at the South Florida VMUG Users Conference.  This was a great event.  During my presentation I shared AutoLab and BareMetalCloud with the audience and was excited at the solid response I received from attendees.  One attendee, Azael Colon, shared with me something cool
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Upgrading vSphere 5.1 → 5.1U1a

BACKGROUND Upon arriving at my new organization the end of February of this year, a co-worker had already migrated most of our virtual infrastructure to vSphere 5.1, utilizing  SQL 2012 as the vCenter Server database. In doing so, they noticed some “bugginess” with the infrastructure – unable to log in using the ‘thick’ Client, the Performance tab →
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