On 2/6 Shane Williford (@coolsport00) reviewed VM Host Tuning, objectives 3.1 and 3.2 of the VCAP-DCA. My favorite note – check the HCL! 2013-02-06 US #vBrownBag VMware VM Tuning VCAP-DCA Objective 3.1 and 3.2 with Shane Williford (@coolsport00) from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo.
On 1/30 Hersey Cartwright gave an overview and live demo for setting up VMware SRM using vSphere Host replication. Recording and slides below. 2013-01-23 US #vBrownBag VMware SRM with Hersey Cartwright (@herseyc) from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo.
Hi everyone! We’ll be having Zerto’s own Shannon Snowden on the US #vBrownBag podcast on February 13th, 2013 at 730pm CST. There were a number of questions regarding Zerto during a recent podcast with Hersey Cartwright on VMware SRM, and we thought it would be cool to have Shannon on for a technical deep-dive and live demonstration
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In this week’s installment of the #vBrownBag Presenter Spotlight, we are joined by the man behind the vCloud Link icon on Twitter, Jake Robinson! Jake is a Solutions Architect at Bluelock, where he specializes in infrastructure automation, cloud computing, and security. His credentials include the VCP, CISSP, and VMware vExpert recognition. Jake has presented at
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On the 5th of February 2013 Gregg Robertson presented his London VMUG VCAP5 presentation on the EMEA vBrownbag. The video from the session is below and all the resources and more that he covered in the presentation are listed on his blog here EMEA vBrownbag with Gregg Robertson Covering VCAP5 Study Materials and Experiences from
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This post is most decidedly not OpenStack related. However, it’s one of those “I am a grown up and work on grown up things” sorts of posts. When you are on a call with multiple other folks, there is a style and flow to the conversation, and while the phone allows for two way communication,
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The demo you have all been waiting for! Due to technical difficulties, the demo portion of the 1/23 #vBrownBag with Lawrence Kohan on Chargeback manager was cut out of the original recording but Lawrence re-recorded it with us for your viewing and learning pleasure! #vBrownBag Charge Backback Manager with Lawrence Kohan (@LawrenceKohan) from ProfessionalVMware on
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The following content is in Spanish, the language in which the webinar is presented. El 31 de enero 2013 en ProfessionalVMware #vBrownBag LATAM se presentó el tema “Almacenamiento NFS ¿Qué es y para qué sirve? por Larry González @virtualizeCR (tip: se puede ampliar a pantalla completa y cambiar la calidad de reprodución a HD 720p). También
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On the 29th of January 2013 Larus Hjartarson covered Objective 7 of the VCP5-IaaS blueprint on the EMEA vBrownbag 2013-01-29 18.59 ProfessionalVMware #vBrownBag EMEA from EMEA vBrownbag on Vimeo.
On the 15th of January 2013 Edward Haletky presented on Encryption up and down the Virtual/Cloud stack. EMEA vBrownbag with Edward Haletky covering Encryption up and down the Virtual/Cloud stack from EMEA vBrownbag on Vimeo.
A follow up to the excellent #vBrownBag two weeks ago. Lawrence dives deeper into business reasons and use cases for VMware Chargeback manager. The demo/live walk through at the end will be re-recorded and posted next week. Chargeback manager can be used for traditional corporate environments to help show the cost associated with maintaining infrastructure or in
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The following content is in Spanish, the language in which the webinar is presented. El 24 de enero 2013 en ProfessionalVMware #vBrownBag LATAM se presentó el tema AutoLab por Ariel Antigua @aantigua (tip: se puede ampliar a pantalla completa y cambiar la calidad de reprodución a HD 720p). Para no perder el webinar cada semana
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Hey Everyone! vNoob back for another post. Hope you aren’t tired of me yet! Although I have seen many tools out there that will check disk alignment, most of them require you to install or run some sort of program for it to do the checks. For this reason, I wanted to write a script
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This week’s spotlight features Kenny Coleman. You may know Kenny from his posts on vCloud Director and other vTopics at www.kendrickcoleman.com or from his appearances at the vBrownBags presenting vCloud Networking and VCAP DCA content. He is an infrastructure architect for VCE focused on enterprise datacenter technologies. In his daily role, he is responsible for being a
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On Wednesday January 16th 2013 Hersey Cartwright gave an overview and live demo of VMware Site Recovery Manager. 2013-01-16 20.31 ProfessionalVMware vBrownBag US with Hersey Cartwright (@herseyc) from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo.
I finally sat the VCAP5-DCA exam on Friday a week ago, way overdue and necessary before I can start teaching the vSphere Optimize and Scale course. My experience was similar to many others and similar to my experience with the version 4 exam. There are a heap of resources out there including the vBrownBags and
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It’s a fresh new year and so a new start for the APAC edition of the vBrownBag. I’ve decided to make VCDX a target for this year so thought I’d use the vBrownBag to document and support my application and defence process, maybe helping you along the road to VCDX too. This week I will
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The following content is in Spanish, the language in which the webinar is presented. El 17 de enero 2013 en ProfessionalVMware #vBrownBag LATAM se presentó el tema HomeLab por Álvaro Faúndez M. @alvaro_faundezm (tip: se puede ampliar a pantalla completa y cambiar la calidad de reprodución a HD 720p). Para no perder el webinar cada
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On the 18th of December 2012 Hugo Strydom from VMware did an EMEA vBrownbag slot on vCenter Operations Manager Design Considerations vCenter Operations Manager Design Considerations with Hugo Strydom EMEA vBrownbag from EMEA vBrownbag on Vimeo.
Just a few notes to help myself remember. To use a serial connection (Cisco / Arista) attached to a server:sudo screen /dev/ttyS0 9600 (Where ttyS0 is the port it’s attached to) ethtool – Because 10gig hates me:ethtool -s eth4 autoneg off speed 10000 duplex full On a new switch, remember to enable spanning tree on
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