On the 8th of January 2013 Andrea Mauro presented on objective 1 of the VCP5-DT blueprint. EMEA vBrownbag with Andrea Mauro covering VCP5-DT Objective 1 from EMEA vBrownbag on Vimeo. The slides from the webinar can be found here
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). Debido al crecimiento y la naturaleza dinámica de nuestro
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A great deep dive with Lawrence Kohan (@LawrenceKohan) on Chargeback Manager. This session included an overview of installation requirements and configuration. The session was so well received a follow-up session to cover configuration is being planned. 2013-1-09 19.31 Professional VMware #vBrownBag US with @LawrenceKohan from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo.
New for 2013! We are launching the vBrownBag Presenter Spotlight podcast series. Some of our vBrownBag Presenters recently sat down with us to share some of their insights on Virtualization and Cloud, and we’ll be posting these talks every other week. Our first victim volunteer is Chris Wahl. He is an IT industry veteran with
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Announcing the launch of Spanish language vBrownBag building upon the ProfessionalVMware platform for professional growth and contribution the VMware community of Spanish speaking professionals in Latin America, Spain and around the world. That’s right, 2013 is the year vBrownBag officially sweeps Around the World, like Daft Punk! With US & APAC going strong and the recent addition of EMEA, the
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On what could have been the last ever Professional VMware #vBrownBag Scott Lowe shares tips on how to be productive and effective in today’s world. Thankfully the Mayans were wrong (at least for 12/21/12) and we are all still here for 2013. 2012-12-19 ProfessionalVMware #vBrownBag US with Scott Lowe @scott_lowe from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo.
On the 13th of November Kenny Garreau presented on objective 4 of the VCP5-IaaS on the third EMEA vBrownbag EMEA vBrownbag with Kenny Garreau covering VCP5-Iaas Objective 4 from EMEA vBrownbag on Vimeo.
Hi everyone, first off, a huge thank you to our listener community and to the sponsors of this giveaway. We couldn’t do any of this without our listeners, presenters, supporters, and sponsors. THANK YOU! 🙂
Winners after the jump.
Cody blogged earlier regarding his Python solution to easily and fairly identifying #vBrownBag lottery winners. I chose to go the PowerShell route, but more as a fun little thing to do than anything. Ultimately it was Cody’s code that picked the winners. So here’s my solution using PoSH. $spreadsheet = Import-Csv c:\Users\damian\Desktop\vBrownBag_Giveaway.csv $prizes = @{“Trainsignal”
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D’oh! You just created a custom-based ESXi Install image with all the drivers and plug-ins then found out you missed a driver. Or, a new and very cool plug-in was just released by a vendor & you want to try it out. What is the best way to get this installed? Well, if you don’t
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In the spirit of open kimonos and such, here are some of the gory details behind the #vBrownBag contest this year: Form: Google Docs Winner chooser: Python (https://github.com/bunchc/PyContest/blob/master/pycontest.py) Special thanks to @mjbrender for the seed code. I can’t say that my Python is pretty, but it got the job done just fine. Total Entries: 440
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Had to do some ISO to USB image making today. Besides being slow going, there was nothing that indicated how much time I had left to get a coffee. Without further adieu: (pv -n ./startfile.iso | dd of=/output.file) 2>&1 | dialog –gauge “Running dd please wait…” 10 70 0 That will produce something like this:
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Had to do some ISO to USB image making today. Besides being slow going, there was nothing that indicated how much time I had left to get a coffee. Without further adieu: (pv -n ./startfile.iso | dd of=/output.file) 2>&1 | dialog –gauge “Running dd please wait…” 10 70 0 That will produce something like this:
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There are a lot of components to VMware View that are really cool features. One of the coolest in my opinion is the ability to set up Location-Based Printing based on where the client device is located. End users can use a workstation, thick client, or zero client Client device to connect to VM Desktops.
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Oh man oh man oh man. vNoob is back with another post! The title though certainly has a lot of big words, so let’s break it down. First what is crash-consistent quiescing? There are two types of quiescing, Application-Consistent and Crash-Consistent. Awesome! That explains everything right?? Application-Consistent snapshots means that the snapshot
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The 12/12/12 #vBrownBag featured Shane Williford (@coolsport00) presenting a session on VMware View SSL Certificates. Links to the slides and recording of the presentation for those who could not attend below. #vBrownBag US View SSL Certs with Shane Williford @coolsportoo from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo.
The third and final in the #VCDX BrownBag series with John Arrasjid (@vcdx001). This session provided a great overview of the types of troubleshooting scenarios you will see when going for your VCDX. Lots of great questions from the audience and feedback from both John and Mostafa Khalil (@MostafaVMW).
I heard you liked Cloud, so we put some cloud in your cloud… well, you get where that is going. Basically, nesting OpenStack inside OpenStack has some interesting use cases for development. That is, if you are running DevStack on the Rackspace OpenCloud, or if your project is a bit more sensitive and you are
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It’s that time of year again, where, in partnership with our amazing and ever supporting group of sponsors we line up some really cool stuff to give back to the community. This year, the list is at least as amazing as it was last year. Additionally, we’re doing this lottery style, so there are more
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The second in the #VCDX BrownBag series with John Arrasjid (@vcdx001). This session provided a great overview of the types of scenarios you will see when going for your VCDX. ProfessionalVMware #vBrownBag VCDX – Session #2 – John Arrasjid 11/28/12 from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo. #vBrownBag VCDX details Time: 7:30 PM CST The next VCDX BootCamp
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