Sorry about the last few weeks of last minute cancellations. I feel about like the dude in the picture above. That said, I do have at least the next three weeks lined up: Date Topic Who 3/19 OpenStack Ops OpenStack Ops 3/26 Open @rackerhacker 4/2 Quantum @mestery / @marktvoelker These will still be taking place
-> Continue reading OpenStack #vBrownBag Schedule
At some point in the last few weeks, Rackspace released an update to their OpenStack Private Cloud distro. This time around setting it up is straight forward, a line or two of copy & paste bash script. However, being as lazy as I am, I wanted to be able to build a cluster of these
-> Continue reading Vagrant and Multi-Node Rackspace Private Cloud
VCDX Chris Colotti reviews how to leverage Software Defined Data Center (SDDC), or cloud, resources with vCloud partners from the perspective of enterprise customers. 2013-03-06 VMware Hybrid Cloud Professional VMware #vBrownBag US with Chris Colotti (@ccolotti) from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo.
If you don’t already know there is an EMEA version of the vBrownbag webinar being run every Tuesday at 7PM GMT out of western Europe. We have already covered a number of topics and have done objectives from the VCP5-DT, the VCP5-IaaS and most recently the VCAP5-CID blueprints. But the reason for this posting is
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The following content is in Spanish, the language in which the webinar is presented. Desde que se anunció el lanzamiento de los vBrownBag en castellano como expansión de la plataforma ProfessionalVMware.com venimos grabando las presentaciones realizadas cada jueves a las 6:00 pm hora pacífico (PST) (02:00 UTC). Feliz de anunciarles que finalmente hemos logrado publicar las grabaciones de las
-> Continue reading #vBrownBag LATAM en español videos disponibles ya
It’s time for another episode of the vBrownBag Presenter Spotlight series! This week’s guest is Hersey Cartwright. Hersey is a Senior Virtualization Engineer for ABS Technology Architects specializing in VMware vSphere and holding the VCAP-DCA Certification. He recently presented a vBrownBag showcasing VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) running on top of AutoLab! When Hersey is not
-> Continue reading #vBrownBag Presenter Spotlight: Hersey Cartwright
After our first two successful podcasts with Mike Metral (@mikemetral) we are continuing the series and diving into some more hands on driven OpenStack with Wayne Walls (@waynewalls) OpenStack #vBrownBag Podcast Details: Date/Time: Tuesday, 8PM CSTRegister: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/760886393 If you are interested in presenting, please drop a line.
At the suggestion of someone in the office that I look into using Vagrant in conjunction with a project, I started digging… and digging. Here are some links: http://docs.vagrantup.com/v1/docs/provisioners/shell.html http://docs.vagrantup.com/v1/docs/multivm.html http://docs.vagrantup.com/v1/docs/getting-started/ports.html http://blog.codenut.org/?p=91 http://www.bluebox.net/about/blog/2013/01/provisioning-with-razor-and-chef-an-interactive-demo/ Now, those links, and likely a number I’ve closed and lost, along with some of these for Chef: http://www.opscode.com/chef/install/ http://docs.opscode.com/knife.html http://docs.opscode.com/config_rb_client.html https://github.com/rcbops/chef-cookbooks
-> Continue reading Vagrant, Chef, and the last 72 Hours
Mike Ellis (@v2Mike) presents on the newly released VMware Horizon suite which includes VMware View, Horizon Mirage and Horizon Workspace packaged per user. 2013-02-27 VMware Horizon ProfessionalVMware vBrownBag US with Mike Ellis (@v2mike) from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo. Slides available at http://bit.ly/Wpth8y
Video #vBrownBag Sack Lunch – OpenStack pt 2 from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo. Links These are in reverse order of how they were mentioned in the show. http://www.openstack.org/summit/san-diego-2012/openstack-summit-sessions/ http://www.openstack.org/summit/portland-2013/ http://devstack.org/ http://www.discoposse.com/index.php/2013/02/10/openstack-lab-on-vmware-workstation-setting-up-the-all-in-one-vm/ https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Quantum http://openstack.prov12n.com/vbrownbag-w-mikemetral/ http://docs.openstack.org/trunk/openstack-network/admin/content/nvp_plugin.html http://www.rackspace.com/knowledge_center/article/implementing-openstack-cinder-with-netapp-storage-on-the-rackspace-private-cloud-software http://www.rackspace.com/knowledge_center/article/implementing-openstack-cinder-with-emc-storage-on-the-rackspace-private-cloud-software http://www.youtube.com/user/openstackfoundation http://docs.openstack.org/trunk/openstack-network/admin/content/demo_routers_with_private_networks_installions.html
Last night the EMEA vBrownbag started their series covering the VCAP5-CID (Cloud Infrastructure Design) and the first presenter was Philip Monk from VMware covering objective 3 of the blueprint which is vCloud Physical Design. The video from the session is embedded below and next week one of the co-hosts of the EMEA vBrownbag Arjan Timmerman
-> Continue reading VCAP5-CID now being covered on the EMEA #vBrownbag
Noise isolating, noise canceling, or just having your music too loud can lead to interesting situations:
The February 20th #vBrownBag featured Anthony Elizondo covering host profiles both best practices, as well as things to look out for when using them. Don’t forget your licensing – you need Enterprise Plus to have Host Profiles. One interesting tip I read in the VMware Press Managing and Optimizing VMware book; if you are deploying
-> Continue reading #vBrownBag US Host Profiles with Anthony Elizondo (@complex)
A while ago, in conjunction to some work with Razor and the Chef Broker for Razor, I needed to setup a Chef Server (here). This has recently become much much simpler: On a fresh Ubuntu 12.04 install, the following will turn it into a Chef Server running Chef 11. # Update the systemsudo apt-get update
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Video: #vBrownBag – Sack Lunch #1 – OpenStack with @mikemetral from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo. Notes: [Corrected] At 23 minutes Mike states Quantum was not a core project in Folsom, this is incorrect, and Quantum is indeed a core project. He meant to say that it’s not a core requirement of OpenStack yet and has not
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Ravi Venkat was part of the vBrownBag Month of Storage with, not just one, but two segments in March 2012. He agreed to sit down with us and to share more of his industry insights in a vBrownBag Presenter Spotlight session. If there was a Who’s Who for the Virtualization & Cloud community, you might
-> Continue reading #vBrownBag Presenter Spotlight: Ravi Venkat
Hey All, vNoob Here! Out on those interwebs there are a lot of VCAP-DCA Study guides out there, all with varying levels of completeness. In fact Chris Wahl has a list of several of them here. A few of those are completed or very close to completion. Langer and Coen however have just put out their own
-> Continue reading An UnOfficial VCAP-DCA 5 Study Guide Now Available for Download
Shannon Snowden from Zerto joined the #vBrownBag with a overview of the design/architecture, demo and Q&A on Zerto’s disaster recovery product. 2013-02-13 20.30 Professional VMware US #vBrownBag with Shannon Snowden (@shannonsnowden @Zerto ) from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo.
Starting next week, and running for as long as I can find presenters, I’m kicking off a series of OpenStack Podcasts under the #vBrownBag umbrella. To kick things off, we’re having Mike Metral on to initiate us in all things OpenStack. From there, who knows? Details: One-Off, Open Topic. Currently OpenStackDate/Time: Tuesday, 8PM CSTRegister: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/760886393
-> Continue reading OpenStack Podcasts – #vBrownBag
In the last 12 months the #vBrownBag podcast has expanded quite a bit. Specifically, we’ve re-launched an EMEA localized podcast, APAC is picking back up, and we’ve also added a spanish speaking LATM podcast. Basically, we’re in your timezone, being driven by your local community. Here’s how the new show’s break down: US #vBrownBag Current
-> Continue reading #vBrownBags – Updates and Announcements (Sack Lunches)