#vBrownBag Episodes

#vBrownBag – VCAP-DCA Objective 1 w/ Hersey Cartwright

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Tonight, #vBrownBag regular Hersey Cartwright (blog | twitter) will be presenting on the VCAP5-DCA Objective 1. Hersey is a long time presenter, and his sessions are always informative. Heck, don’t take my word for it, you can find all his old sessions here. Critical Details Topic: VCAP-DCA Objective 1Date/Time: 6/20/2012 @ 7PM CSTRegister: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/613559281 About
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AutoLab automation uncovered, Windows builds

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Hi, it’s Alastair again, this is the second post uncovering the automation that is in the AutoLab, if you don’t know what the AutoLab is then head to my AutoLab announcement post. If you missed the first article on AutoLab automation then you can head there now, before returning here.

This article is all about how the windows servers in the AutoLab are built, there were a lot of Yaks to Shave before you can install the VMware goodness.

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APAC vBrownBag returning in July

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The APAC series of BrownBags will return at the start of July.  This series will focus on the What’s New of VCAP5-DCA as well as looking at a few other VMware products in real world use.  The schedule ahead is maintained on my blog and you can signup for the new series here: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/885241632 Get
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AutoLab Automation outline

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This is another post from Alastair. Just a reminder that Cody is no longer alone in posting on ProfessionalVMware.com. Earlier this month the AutoLab was announced right here on ProfessionalVMware and released on LabGuides.com. We’ve had a huge number of downloads and a great response.  For those who missed it the AutoLab is a package
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Link Dump – 5/25/12

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This also notes the first post made from a Win7 instance running on the OCP box via VMware View! Also, I don’t have cats, but I blame my excessive amount of open tabs on them: Links VCAP-DCA Obj 9 follow-up http://www.vhersey.com/2012/05/vbrownbag-vcap5-dca-objective-9/ Big Iron hatin on Cloud Storage: http://dataontop.com/doing-their-very-best-to-stall-cloud-storage/ Razor! – Read, watch the videos… then
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[US] #vBrownBag Follow-Up – VCAP-DCA Objective 9 (w/ @herseyc)

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Video Slides Links http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.vmware.vsphere.upgrade.doc_50%2FGUID-9040F0B2-31B5-406C-9000-B02E8DA785D4.html http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.vmware.vsphere.install.doc_50%2FGUID-980D9E38-633E-4557-9144-AC422FA239C5.html http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2011/09/05/cheat-sheet-auto-deploy/ http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/topic/com.vmware.ICbase/PDF/vsphere-esxi-vcenter-server-501-auto-deploy-guide.pdf http://www.gabesvirtualworld.com/my-first-auto-deploy-design-for-real-production-environment/ http://jeremywaldrop.wordpress.com/2010/11/11/cisco-ucs-service-profile-coolness/ http://communities.vmware.com/thread/328034 http://download3.vmware.com/software/vmw-tools/autodeploygui/VMwareAutoDeployGUIPracticalGuide5.pdf http://blogs.vmware.com/esxi/2011/09/sample-scripts-for-automating-auto-deploy.html

Installing TwinStrata – iSCSI Cloud Array

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As with the Oxygen post, I’ve been playing with the idea and a few Cloudy storage options in the Homelab for a bit. This week, with a well known storage conference going on, I’ve been installing and testing TwinStrata’s CloudArray. As a side note, when did we stop removing spaces and capitalizing compound words? About
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Link Dump 5/19/12

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It’s time for yet another round of ‘close ALL the tabs’. Made even better this time by some random mixup by which some apps open links in FireFox tabs, others in Chrome. Instead of fixing it, it makes for a nice organization system. http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/05/please-dont-learn-to-code.html – To code or not to code. Some decent arguments both
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Link Dump – 5/6/2012

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Last week was entertaining, what with a laptop rebuild and knocking out some Orchestrator work in preparation for VMworld. (More on that later). Here’s the tabs I currently have open: VDDK API Reference – http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.vmware.vddk.pg.doc_50%2FvddkPreface.html Enabling CBT with PowerCLI: http://www.vmguru.com/articles/powershell/23-cbt-tracker-powershell-script-now-with-more-zombie Doing the above for a number of VMs at once: http://jpaul.me/?tag=change-block-tracking More of the same:
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[APAC] #vBrownBag Follow-Up – VCAP-DCD VM Design

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Video Slides Links Windows 7 Optimization guide.  Think about applying these to your servershttp://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/VMware-View-OptimizationGuideWindows7-EN.pdf vSphere HA Application monitoringhttp://www.yellow-bricks.com/2011/08/11/vsphere-5-0-ha-application-monitoring-intro/ Remove non-present devices after P2V using scripthttp://www.boche.net/blog/index.php/2011/06/11/scripted-removal-of-non-present-hardware-after-a-p2v/ Kendrick Colemans’s VM Advanced ISO. Free Tools For Advanced Taskshttp://kendrickcoleman.com/index.php?/Tech-Blog/vm-advanced-iso-free-tools-for-advanced-tasks.html