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
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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).
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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
Video #vBrownBag OpenStack – Hands on with OpenStack Networking and Cinder from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo.
Video #vBrownBag OpenStack – Opscode Chef, Matt Ray, DevOps and the state of OpenStack from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo. Links http://www.amazon.com/Chef-Definitive-Guide-Stephen-Nelson-Smith/dp/1449327443/ http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Installing%20Omnibus%20Chef%20Client%20on%20Linux%20and%20Mac http://www.amazon.com/Instant-Chef-Starter-John-Ewart/dp/1782163468/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1368569194&sr=8-1&keywords=chef https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/IRC http://www.slideshare.net/mattray/chef-for-openstack-grizzly-roadmap http://www.opscode.com/blog/2012/06/27/chef-for-openstack/ http://docs.opscode.com/ https://learnchef.opscode.com/ http://chefconf.opscode.com/ http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ74G2gKXdpwZkXEsclzcrA Stupid Youtube paste thing is broken, here’s the link https://github.com/mattray http://www.slideshare.net/mattray http://community.opscode.com/users/mray http://www.slideshare.net/mattray/chef-and-openstack-workshop-from-chefconf-2013 Chef resources: https://learnchef.opscode.com/ https://docs.opscode.com Omnibus: https://github.com/opscode/omnibus-ruby https://twitter.com/RubyLeaders/status/334329015022284800 #openstack-chef on irc.freenode.net groups.google.com/group/opscode-chef-openstack @chefopenstack StackForge https://github.com/stackforge/cookbook-openstack-common/
-> Continue reading #vBrownBag – Chef & OpenStack
In the last post we talked about what it is we are building as well as built the Chef Server that will service the remainder of the environment. As before, this work is being done in conjunction with the upcoming updated release of the OpenStack Cookbook with Kevin Jackson. In this part we will cover
-> Continue reading Chef, Razor, OpenStack – Part 2
EMC World 2013 features some of the latest advancements in storage technologies and their applications for virtualized workloads. There was the big announcement regarding Project ViPR, and it will be interesting to see how it will allow storage allocations to be more agile. Of course, we don’t want Storage Sprawl. So, it will be important
-> Continue reading #vBrownBag at #EMCWorld 2013 – Jase McCarty Interview
Disclaimer: Before we get into this, please know that Dell provided a unit for review. That said, while they have seen this post before hand, I am still posting it with the good bad and ugly. Unboxing That’s a lot of pics. Sorry. What you’re looking at in the first bunch of shots, is the
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You know, for when your laptop can’t drive your lab anymore or something. Either way, here’s a quick overview of how I OpenCenter (and the rest of the Rackspace Private Cloud stack) running on “the cloud”. I followed the guide here: http://docs.python-guide.org/en/latest/dev/virtualenvs.html to get python & virtual environments going. Additionally, from a command line: virtualenv cd OpenCenter
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Phillip Jaenke (@rootwyrm) reviews considerations for building your own own home lab and VMware ESXi servers. Don’t forget to check the HCL! DIY VMware Hardware and Labs Phillip Jaenke (@rootwyrm) ProfessionalVMware #vBrownBag US from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo.
Automated OpenStack Installs you say? Build my own Private Cloud you say? DevOps, Hybrid, and the intercloud? Ok, so, now that we’ve scored buzzword bingo, what am I talking about? Edits in Mace-Windu After you get Chef going… Part 2 – Installing and configuring Razor with Chef: http://openstack.prov12n.com/chef-razor-openstack-part-2/ Part 3 – Bringing it all together, installing
-> Continue reading Chef, Razor, OpenStack – Part 1