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)
-> Continue reading #vBrownBag Podcast Follow-ups
As is usually the case a heap of great sessions didn’t make the cut for presentation at VMworld, commiserations to all disappointed submitters. As we did last year the vBrownBag crew want to help get some of those great sessions from the community in front of the people who will benefit from them. Yes we
-> Continue reading vBrownBag TechTalks at VMworld US 2013
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
-> Continue reading Upcoming #vBrownBags with Nick Fritsch (@nfritsch) and Chuck Mills (@vChuckmills)
What is SDN? How does SDN work? Why should you care? Christopher Hoff covers SDN architecture, security implications including some you may not be hearing about. Oh and cars. #vBrownBag Follow-up SDN & Security with Christopher Hoff (@beaker) from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo.
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
-> Continue reading Sharing your AutoLab with a Friend
On the 30th of April 2013 Phil Monk covered VCAP5-CID Objective 4 – vCloud Security on the EMEA vBrownbag. The video from the session is below: EMEA vBrownbag with Phil Monk covering VCAP5-CID Objective 4 – vCloud Security from EMEA vBrownbag on Vimeo.
The following content is in Spanish, the language in which the webinar is presented. el 30 de mayo 2013 en ProfessionalVMware #vBrownBag LATAM @virtualizeCR presentó el tema #VCAP DCA obj.3.2 optimizar recursos en máquinas virtuales
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 →
-> Continue reading Upgrading vSphere 5.1 → 5.1U1a
This week was the announcement for the vExpert program’s 2013 members and I’m pleased to say that the vBrownBag crew were again awarded vExpert status. In addition the majority of the presenters of vBrownBags in 2012 were also awarded vExpert status. This shouldn’t surprise anyone, the vBrownBags are a community built resource for the community
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vExpert Jon Harris reviews the features of VMware vCloud Automation Center and deep dives into use case scenarios and configuration options. If you take nothing else from the presentation (and I would be hard not to be wowed by vCAC), please know that it is pronounced “veeCake“! Jon also has several blog posts on vCAC
-> Continue reading #vBrownBag Follow-up vCloud Automation Center with Jon Harris (@jonharrisnm)
Joe Clark reviews design considerations for blade versus rackmount servers in vSphere 5.x with a focus on HP Virtual Connect. Designing Virtual Connect for vSphere 5.x Joe Clark (@elgwhoppo) ProfessionalVMware #vBrownBag US from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo.
The OpenStack Cookbook needs you! As you may or may not have heard, Kevin Jackson and I are updating his ever popular but Essex based OpenStack Cookbook to Grizzly. This also means we’re including things like Cinder, “The project formerly known as Quantum”, as well as some major updates to monitoring and identity services. We’re
-> Continue reading We Need Reviewers!
When OpenStack is deployed, it can grow to be quite complex and have any number of service interdependencies which makes monitoring it difficult. The Mirantis blog does a much better job of describing this than I could. This series will cover installing and configuring Sensu & it’s respective checks to monitor your OpenStack installation. This
-> Continue reading OpenStack Monitoring – Part 1 Installing Sensu
The vBrownBag Presenter Spotlight is back after a brief hiatus. This week, we have Shane Williford (aka Mr. CoolSport00) joining us! Shane is a Sr. Systems Engineer for the Kansas City School Systems who enjoys sharing his insights on implementations and various topics that might frustrate other users (ex: SSL Certificates, Location-based printing for VDI).
-> Continue reading #vBrownBag Presenter Spotlight: Shane Williford
The following content is in Spanish, the language in which the webinar is presented. El 23 de mayo en ProfessionalVMware.com #vBrownBagLATAM @VirtualizeCR presentó el tema VCAP DCA Objetivo 3.1 “Tune & Optimize vSphere Performance”
Ok, we’re now really deep into things. Because I’ve been a few weeks in getting this post out there, and because the material is deep in places, you may want to review: Part 1 – Installing Chef and importing cookbooks. Part 2 – Using Chef to bootstrap Razor Back with us? Ok! So, our current state
-> Continue reading Chef, Razor, OpenStack – Part 3
Jim Millard talks certificates, what they are, why you need them and why you should love them. How I learned to love the CSR with Jim Millard (@millardjk) ProfessionalVMware #vBrownBag US from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo.
OpenStack GhettoSAN on Raspberry Pi “GhettoSAN” originally started out back when I wore a VMware hat more consistently and was a project born to answer: “I have 400,000 USB keys from a trade show, now what”. At first we ran Nexenta as a storage platform and while that ran well, however as it scaled up,
-> Continue reading OpenStack Swift, Raspberry Pi, 23 USB Keys – aka GhettoSAN v2
GS talks about his experiences with the VMware VCAP-DCA and VCAP-DCD exams, shares some best practices and tips for taking and preparing for the exam. We also get an overview of the Virtual Design Master contest which will be running through and concluding at VMworld. VMware VCAP Exam Experience with GS-Gurusimran Khalsa (@gurusimran) ProfessionalVMware #vBrownBag
-> Continue reading #vBrownBag Follow-up VCAP Exam Experience with GS-Gurusimran Khalsa (@gurusimran)
The following content is in Spanish, the language in which the webinar is presented. El 16 de mayo en ProfessionalVMware #vBrownBag LATAM, @kylemurley presentó el tema: VCAP-DCA Sección 6.1 — Configurar,administrar y analizar archivos log de vSphere