#vBrownBag Episodes

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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#vBrownBag Follow-up Automating View with PowerCLI with Brad Christian (@bchristian21)

Brad Christian (@bchristian21) presents on using PowerShell to automate VMware View Pool creation and user provisioning, including Floating Linked Clones, Replica Tiering, AD group creation and entitlements. This method can have a new PowerShell user automating VMware View in under an hour just by filling out a few variables in a spreadsheet. See http://vhipster.com/2013/03/28/vbrownbag/ for the slide
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ProfessionalVMware #vBrownBag LATAM 2013-mar-28 – HA alta disponibilidad c/ @elnemesisdivina

The following content is in Spanish, the language in which the webinar is presented. El 28 de marzo 2013 en ProfessionalVMware #vBrownBag LATAM se presentó el tema “HA alta disponibilidad”  por Raymundo Escobar Castañeda  @elnemesisdivina (tip: se puede ampliar a pantalla completa y cambiar la calidad de reprodución a HD 720p). vBrownBag en castellano es una expansión
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Nyan Nyan Nyan Batman!

A more practical (Ok, it’s not that practical) example of the multi provider vagrant file. I present ascii Nyan cat. From a box with either Fusion or Virtualbox: git clone https://github.com/bunchc/vagrant-nyancat.gitvagrant upvagrant sshtmux new-session -d ‘nyancat’ ; split-window -d ; attach Depending on the provider… wait 5 minutes, and then Nyan!

#vBrownbag Follow-Up Lawrence Kohan covering VCAP5-CID Objective 7

On the 26th of March 2013 Lawrence Kohan (@LawrenceKohan) covered objective 7 of the VCAP5-CID blueprint – Metering and Compliance on the EMEA vBrownbag. The video from the session is below EMEA vBrownbag with Lawrence Kohan covering VCAP5-CID Objective 7 – Metering and Compliance from EMEA vBrownbag on Vimeo.

Link Dump – Too many open links

Time machine hated me between moves: http://superuser.com/questions/35152/how-do-i-retrieve-files-from-time-machine-backups-from-another-computer Bash Pipes – http://spin.atomicobject.com/2011/11/23/considered-harmful/ Swift in Grizzly hated me – https://answers.launchpad.net/swift/+question/222292 Changing VMX boot order –  http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2011654 Installing Chef Server – http://openstack.prov12n.com/installing-chef-server-updated/ dnsmasq example config – http://www.thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/docs/dnsmasq.conf.example Quantum & Grizzly –  http://www.mirantis.com/blog/a-new-agent-management-approach-in-quantum-for-openstack-grizzly/ Availability Zones in Grizzly – http://www.sebastien-han.fr/blog/2013/03/18/grizzly-availability-zones/ Trust and RBAC for OpenStack –  http://adam.younglogic.com/2013/03/trusts-rbac/ Swift on the
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OpenStack #vBrownBag – Quantum and You

Last night we had on a coworker of mine (as in sits less than 8 feet away) on to talk about the state of networking and what Quantum (and SDN) can bring to the table. Note: We had a screen resolution mismatch. With luck you’ll be able to see it better on the recording: 2013-03-26
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#vBrownBag Presenter Spotlight: Nick Weaver

The week before VMware Partner Exchange 2013, Nick Weaver took time out of his busy schedule for the vBrownBag Presenter Spotlight. I think Nick is fairly well-known to our regular listeners, but in case you are new to vBrownBag, here’s a little background info about him: Nick is an Automation Architect for VMware where he
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#vBrownBag US Social Media open mic night with Matthew Brender (@mjbrender) Amy Lewis (@commsninja) and John Mark Troyer (@jtroyer) uncut

Yo DAWG! A social media round table with over 40 of our closest #vBrownBag friends including special guests Matthew Brender (@mjbrender) Amy Lewis (@commsninja) and John Mark Troyer (@jtroyer). ProfessionalVMware vBrownBag US uncut w Matthew Brender (@mjbrender) Amy Lewis (@commsninja) and John Mark Troyer (@jtroyer) from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo.

Quickly Backup ESXi Host Configuration with PowerCLI

Hey Peeps, vNoob Here! This is something that I think(not sure)  a lot of people are simply not aware exists. You can quickly backup esxi host configuration with PoweCLI. Before I jump into it, I would remiss if I didn’t mention Cody’s post on backing up ESXi host configurations with vMA/vCLI, which you can find
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