#vBrownBag Episodes

OpenStack Cookbook Update

A while back I met with Kevin Jackson (http://uksysadmin.wordpress.com/, @itarchitectkev) and gently (or not so gently) nudged him into updating the existing OpenStack Cookbook to Girzzly. As part of this we wanted to introduce new content (Quantum, Cinder, Automated / DevOps installations) etc. Because I pushed, I also inadvertently ended up under the bus for
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Link Dump

Too many tabs open to function otherwise. Here’s a quick dump of what has been going on. Most of it OpenStack Summit related. http://www.siliconloons.com/?p=448 – Good summit wrap up http://technicae.cogitat.io/2013/04/openstack-developer-summit-heat-followup.html http://www.danplanet.com/blog/2013/04/22/dans-partial-summary-of-the-nova-track/ http://fewbar.com/2013/04/the-rocket-ship-to-havana-openstack-summit-spring-2013/ https://region-a.geo-1.objects.hpcloudsvc.com/v1/42841271810042/Docs/OpenStackSummit_HeatOpenStackManagement.pdf http://dreamhost.com/dreamscape/2013/04/24/openstacknetworkingproject/ https://www.openstack.org/summit/portland-2013/session-videos/?day=1 < Videos Triple O – https://github.com/tripleo/incubator/blob/master/README.md Baremetal OpenStack – https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Baremetal

#vBrownBag Follow-up vCenter 5.1 Technical Deep Dive with Justin King (@vCenterGuy)

A technical deep dive on vCenter 5.1 including SSO, inventory service and focus on the vSphere Web Client. 2013-04-17 20.34 ProfessionalVMware #vBrownBag US with Justin King (@vCenterGuy) from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo.

OpenStack Summit – Summary pt 2

This post here is a quick wrap of the sessions I presented as well as relevant links to the hands on bits: Hands on with OpenStack Cinder & OpenStack Networking Slides Do it yourself https://github.com/bunchc/summit_hands_on If you find an error, have any questions, etc. Drop me a line. PCI-DSS and Practical OpenStack Hardening Slides

OpenStack Summit – Summary part 1

Tell you what. I am still so tired after the summit I can barely person properly three days later. So instead of trying to put together all my thoughts, I’ll leave you with some from folks who were thinking clearly: http://robhirschfeld.com/2013/04/03/devops-upgrade-cube/ http://robhirschfeld.com/2013/04/10/openstack-interop/ http://swiftstack.com/blog/2013/04/15/openstack-summit-extending-swift-acls-and-metadata/ http://www.enovance.com/fr/blog/5594/openstack-havana-design-summit-in-portland-day-4 http://www.enovance.com/fr/blog/5567/openstack-havana-design-summit-in-portland-day-3 http://www.enovance.com/fr/blog/5550/openstack-havana-design-summit-in-portland-day-2 http://blog.hendrikvolkmer.de/2013/04/12/there-will-be-no-reliable-cloud-part-3/ (This was pre-summit iirc) If you have any
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2013-04-18 ProfessionalVMware #vBrownBag LATAM – VMware Studio vApps p/ @kylemurley @vBrownbagLATAM

The following content is in Spanish, the language in which the webinar is presented. El 18 de abril 2013 en ProfessionalVMware #vBrownBag LATAM se presentó el tema “VMware Studio vApps” p/ @kylemurley @vBrownbagLATAM RECURSOS VMware Studio 2.0 – Build vApps and Virtual Appliances Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvvItDArStg Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6LAMyv5dac VMware Studio Sharepoint Windows vApp Demo:
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OpenStack Summit 13.04 Day 1: Cloud Foundry – Your PaaS on OpenStack

This session is being led by Ferran Rodenas of VMware and Dekel Tankel of Cloud Foundry They’ll be working us through a deep dive into CF and CF-Bosh on OpenStack as well as the integration work they’ve done for CF and OpenStack. Cloud Foundry has moved to Pivotal, a joint effort outside VMware & EMC
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2013-mar-11 ProfessionalVMware #vBrownBag LATAM @Alex_Emulex discusión métodos a comprobar rendimiento CNA/FC/iSCSI

The following content is in Spanish, the language in which the webinar is presented. El 11 de abril 2013 en ProfessionalVMware #vBrownBag LATAM @Alex_Emulex presentó el tema discusión métodos a comprobar rendimiento CNA/FC/iSCSI Recursos adicionales: Mencionado en #vBrownbagLATAM @alex_emulex blog de @bacon_is_king “IO Analyzer 56k no way!”bit.ly/GJfrEF @vbrownbag     Mencionado en #vBrownbagLATAM @alex_emulex TuningESXi
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#vBrownBag Follow-up Technical Overview of VMware Horizon Mirage with Thomas Brown (@thombrown)

The April 10th #vBrownBag featured Thomas Brown covering a technical overview of VMware Horizon Mirage as well as a live lab of Horizon Mirage.  The Mirage Admin Console is covered in detail followed by a live XP to Windows 7 migration. VMware Mirage with Thomas Brown (@thombrown) ProfessionalVMware #vBrownBag US from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo.

VCAP5-DTD Exam Experience

Hi everyone, it’s Alastair here, @DemitasseNZ. I missed out on the chance to do the VCAP5-DTD beta exam at the end of last year, primarily because New Zealand shuts down from Christmas for a couple of week as it’s the middle of our summer. So when the exam was released to general availability last week I wanted to get it booked and sat as quick as possible.  This morning was the appointed time so I went down to my local Person VUE testing centre and spent a while staring at a screen.

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#vBrownBag Presenter Spotlight: Randy Keener

This week’s guest is Randy Keener.  If you have been to either of the 2012 VMworlds, you will recognize Randy from the #NotSupported Tech Talks.  These sessions were a huge hit in San Francisco and Barcelona, and I’m confident that we will see them again at future VMworlds. For this week’s interview, Randy had some
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2013-04-04 ProfessionalVMware #vBrownBag LATAM – #CloudCred @vBrownbagLATAM @VirtualizeCR @kylemurley

The following content is in Spanish, the language in which the webinar is presented. El 4 de abril 2013 en ProfessionalVMware #vBrownBag LATAM se presentó el tema “Cloud Credibility”  por Larry Gonzalez  @virtualizeCR (tip: se puede ampliar a pantalla completa y cambiar la calidad de reprodución a HD 720p). https://www.cloudcredibility.com  vBrownBag en castellano es una expansión
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