Greetings all! vNoob Here! I am going to be doing some blog posts for vBrownbag. If we haven’t met yet you can find me on twitter or on my website. Anyway let’s get started. One thing I noticed lately is there really isn’t an easy or quick way to check out what the current memory statistics are
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As with my previous post for the DCD, the PDF below is a compilation of notes I took while studying for the VCAP5-DCA exam. It covers each section of the Blueprint provided by VMware. In addition to my own studies, there are several great resources in the Community that I used & I reference those
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A very quick posting to invite all the VDI and vCloud guru’s out there to present on the EMEA #vBrownbag that is run every Tuesday at 7pm GMT. You can present on either the VCP5-DT or the VCP5-IaaS blueprint objectives and show the world your skills and give back to the community at large. We
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In the PDF below is a compilation of notes I took while studying for the VCAP5-DCD exam. It covers each section of the Blueprint provided by VMware. If there is anything else you would like to see added, let me know & I’ll be more than happy to modify the document. Hope it helps in
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On the 6th of November 2012 Larus Hjartarson presented on Objective 3 of the VCP5-IaaS blueprint for the EMEA vBrownbag Video EMEA vBrownbag with Larus Hjartarson covering VCP5-Iaas Objective 3 from EMEA vBrownbag on Vimeo.
On the 30th of October Kenny Garreau presented on objective 6 of the VCP5-IaaS on the first EMEA vBrownbag Video EMEA vBrownbag with Kenny Garreau covering VCP5-Iaas Objective 6 from EMEA vBrownbag on Vimeo.
A bit different than the last time around where all manner of things needed to be adjusted to use the Rackspace Private Cloud Dsitro. Specifically, to get going, you need to follow these steps: Download the distro form here. While that take’s it’s sweet time, spend a moment to look over the getting started guides.
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Which is a good thing, mind. A good friend of mine, the “Any Stacker” (blog, twitter) has been working on and has a functioning prototype for a Chef Broker in Razor (github link). As it gets a bit more functional, I’ll put together some videos on usage and the like. However, it looks like my
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Which is a good thing, mind. A good friend of mine, the “Any Stacker” (blog, twitter) has been working on and has a functioning prototype for a Chef Broker in Razor (github link). As it gets a bit more functional, I’ll put together some videos on usage and the like. However, it looks like my
-> Continue reading [Razor] Suddenly, A Chef Broker
Today marks the first day in what will be the start of the #VCDX BrownBag series with John Arrasjid (@vcdx001). For those of you who have been with us from the VCP to the VCAP-DCA & DCD series, having a VCDX specific series has always been a dream of ours, and having John on the
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Ran into some issues over the weekend getting Chef Server installed using apt on 12.04. Starting with the directions here. I started having issues trying to bring up the webui and chef-server after the apt install of those packages. More specifically: $ sudo service chef-server-webui start * Starting chef-server-webui ~ In 22617 [fail] This led
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Deciding to restart the series the day before the show lead to a small crowd and not a lot of questions.
Follow on below for the Slides and links from the conversation
After a long hiatus due to multiple VMworlds and the backlog of things that needed to be done it is time to restart the APAC vBrownBag. The VCAP5-DCA prep wasn’t lighting me up so I’ve decided to return to what we do best, design. I think that there are a few areas of design that
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There are a large number of ways you can go down the path of getting OpenStack and it’s components installed. For my lab I chose to get familiar with a few new technologies along the way, as well as have some of these steps be something that can be extracted back into a production environment.
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Spent last few weeks neck deep in Razor, and actually made my first pull request. Here are some other handy things for working with Razor daily. Most of these are handy for working with a larger number of nodes/policies/active models… as well, things get unwieldy past the first 10-15 nodes. Some of these will likely
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Hello readers! Josh Atwell here. The #vBrownBag crew here at ProfessionalVMware.com has been extremely blessed in 2012 with amazing community support for what we organize on the podcast. In 2012 we’ve managed to produce a VCP5 Series, VCAP5-DCA, VCAP5-DCD series as well as months focused on storage and security. We’ve expanded into APAC, now starting
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First, some background on Razor: http://nickapedia.com/2012/05/21/lex-parsimoniae-cloud-provisioning-with-a-razor/ http://purevirtual.eu/2012/07/02/how-to-get-started-with-razor-and-puppet-part-1/ http://www.virtuallyghetto.com/2012/05/how-to-deploy-esxi-5-using-razor-puppet.html Take the time to read those over, install it, work with it a bit in VMs or so, as this takes off with the assumption that you already have a working Razor installation. 1) Rebuilding the razor.ipxe file:razor config ipxe > /var/lib/tftpboot/razor.ipxe 2) Alternative DNSMASQ for chain
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Design in quotes, because, like all good plans, it’s only good until I start laying the bits down. So far: Gear My old VMware lab comprised a number of things: 3x “Baby Dragon” compute nodes 1x Open Compute Gen1 Intel (dual hexcore, 48GB) 1x Iomega ix4-200d 1x “FrankenStor” Nexenta box After the transition, I hope
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I’m a big fan of simple vSphere network configurations, one vSwitch with a small number of fast uplinks. This has been my stance since ESX 3 and I think it’s still a good starting point for a network design. I have had some concerns about the vNetwork Distributed switch (vDS) with it’s management through vCentre
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As part of my transition at work from VMware related technologies into the wonderful OpenSource world of OpenStack, over the next few days and weeks I’ll be tearing down quite the extensive VMware lab, and rebuilding with OpenStack. I’ll keep you posted on the progress.