Today was quite the eventful day, what with arriving and having “interesting” travel arrangements. There was some pretty amazing things that happened. More specifically: I found these guys: You can to, we’ll generally be wearing these: and these things: And packed them here for transport. Find us tomorrow in the communities lounge / hang space
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Last night, around 8 or 10pm CST, not really sure… I saw a tweet come up from a vExpert and friend Dave Hill: It led to this little bit of text here: I need your help For anyone who follows my blog, or twitter you probably know that I recently had major surgery on my
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So, @cxi had said… “Pics or it didn’t happen”. Only pics I have right now are of the USB keys of awesomeness: Excited? Me too!
It’s Alastair here again, one of the many cool things that is going on in the community area of VMworld next week is Randy Keener’s Unsupported sessions. These are a forum to advance the community’s knowledge of how do do things that VMware never thought you’d want to do with their products. The sessions run
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First, before we go into what is in this thing… we need to thank some folks for making this happen. In no particular order, our “premium”, “platinum”, or “company that is really awesome you should check out their booth!” folks: TrainSignal Veeam TinTri Cisco Without their support, there would be no #vBrownBags, let alone swag
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In playing around with the OpenStack Private Cloud distro (here), it comes with two Linux distributions by default. However, having come from a Windows background, I needed to get that going. In order to do that, I first had to convert one of my existing Windows images to a KVM format, that is what follows:
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Here is a quick summary of the activities and places you’ll be able to find the #vBrownBag folks at VMworld: Tech Talks Powered by the #vBrownBags All week at the show, the #vBrownBags will be rocking out Tech Talks in the Communities / Bloggers lounge. For an idea of how awesome this will be, take
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While news links are insanely easy to find around OpenStack these days, the technical content is not quite as easy. I’m not going to try to come up with say a top 25 OpenStack bloggers list. Rather, I’m going to dump a bunch of links from sites that I now follow that call out interesting
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First Post! Now, with that out of my system, I’ve found that running the just published OpenStack Private Cloud on bare metal to be a bit out of reach for my homelab. That said, I did find that it runs exceedingly well as a nested hypervisor on ESXi (use the tools I’ve got) and all.
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Just a quick heads up, that the US #vBrownBags are taking a pre-VMworld break to prepare for the show. That said, the APAC show still goes on, at least night his week, with a show tomorrow. More here
Alastair Cooke just released AutoLab v1.0 to production, and I wanted to talk a bit about the automation that went into the vCloud Director portion of the AutoLab. Before I get started, I’d like to point out a quote that’s attributed to Sir Isaac Newton, “If I have seen further, it is by standing on
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Hello everyone – my name is Damian Karlson, and I’m pleased to announce that I’ll be blogging a bit on professionalvmware.com as time allows. You may (or may not) know me from the #vBrownBag US podcast, of which I am pleased to be a sometimes-host and a occasional presenter. Perhaps you know me from Twitter
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Hi everyone, it’s Alastair again with more AutoLab news. Today we have released version 1.0 of the AutoLab which is a huge leap. As you may have seen on my Demitasse blog the AutoLab has a sponsor, Veeam are helping make the AutoLab better. In AutoLab 1.0 we not only have the complete vSphere lab in a box but now also the ability to add Veeam Backup and Replication and Veeam ONE into the lab. This allows evaluation testing and training on these products without deploying onto your production vSphere.
Had to configure a Cisco firewall for the first time in literally YEARS today and ran into a few small hurdles. Mostly, my MacBook doesn’t have a serial port nor a HyperTerminal like program. Never fear, however, there are USB to Serial adapters out there that have OSX drivers… that’s where we meet challenge the
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It’s Alastair here with the latest AutoLab automation post, this one is a little about the PowerShell automation that helps bring the pieces together. The first AutoLab automation post is here, the second here and the third here.
One of my favourite automation tools for vSphere is the PowerCLI snapin to Microsoft PowerShell. If you are a Windows guy working in Virtualization then you should get to know PowerCLI. I consider myself a real beginner with PowerCLI, I use it when I have a task to repeat but it’s not where I work all day. There are some awesome scripters who are more comfortable on a command prompt than with a GUI, these are the guys whose scripts I have hacked to make my script and you can start by doing the same. If you are a skilled scripter you may despair at my scripts, feel free to email me to recommend better ways.
It’s been longer than I’d have liked to put some stress on the OCP box. For some history my home lab, thanks to some kind folks, inherited a G1 Intel OCP Platform. I’ve posted about it a few times: Open Compute and vSphere 5: https://vbrownbag.comm/2012/03/open-compute-platform-vsphere-5/ The lab setup: https://vbrownbag.comm/2012/04/vsphere-on-open-compute-part-1-lab-setup/ In that second post I promised
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This week Hersey Cartwright (@herseyc) finished up the VCAP5-DCA series (I think), by rounding out Objective 1.2 and 1.3. VCAP-DCA Objective 1.2 & 1.3 Slides Video Show Notes So, @chriswahl has put together an AMAZING study guide… get it here. More #vBrownBag Goodness iTunes: http://t.co/07DGNQsTFeedburner: http://t.co/2Fic71ZW
Last week the US vBrownBags had Josh Atwell pulling double duty on hosting and presenting the vBrownBag covering the VCAP-DCA Blueprint Objective 8.1. He also had the pleasure of announcing the VMware Communities Tech Talks powered by the vBrownBags at VMworld US (more on this in a bit). The APAC vBrownBags also knocked it out
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You heard it first tonight on the #vBrownBag with Josh Atwell. The entire #vBrownBag will be on the ground at VMworld San Francisco and we’ll be rocking out some awesome sauce in the communities lounge. How awesome? Well, all week at VMworld we will be having a number of Lightning Tech Talks with folks who
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Links! Lots of them. Here we go again: http://www.rtfm-ed.co.uk/2012/07/17/whats-not-so-new-in-vsphere5-part2-vm-management/ Not Virt specific, but applies to all vendors/products/brands in the virt space: http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2012/07/its-easier-to-love-a-brand-when-the-brand-loves-you-back.html Oh NOES you’ve been haxed! – https://shouldichangemypassword.com/ ESXi Builds in AutoLab – https://vbrownbag.comm/2012/07/autolab-automation-uncovered-esxi-builds/ Windows Builds in AutoLab – https://vbrownbag.comm/2012/06/autolab-automation-uncovered-windows-builds/ vCenter Ops Fundamentals Class – http://virtualization.info/en/news/2012/07/vmware-vcenter-operations-manager-fundamentals.html VCAP-DCA5 is now available – http://vmwaretraining.blogspot.com/2012/07/vcap5-dca-registration-is-now-open.html Is CLI
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