This BrownBag went deep ++ on the fundamentals of storage and how storage is handled in a vSphere environment. Again, sorry for the delay on this one, we had some… technical difficulties. iTunes:http://t.co/07DLlqC3Podcast Feed: http://t.co/2FigEC96 Video Slides
Sorry for the delay folks. Don’t forget, we’re on iTunes: http://t.co/07DLlqC3 and the podcast feed: http://t.co/2FigEC96 Video Slides
I’ve again hit the point where Chrome was eating up too much memory. Thusly, here’s what is currently in my open tabs: PCoIP, Win 8, iPad – http://myvirtualcloud.net/?p=2984 Resource Pool Shares & vCD – http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2012/02/28/resource-pool-shares-dont-make-sense-with-vcloud-director/ vBenchmark – http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2012/02/29/cool-tool-vbenchmark-fling/ Building Block Scaling – http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2012/03/02/scale-out-building-block-style-or-should-i-say-yellow-brick-style/ Use vCO to manage View – http://cloudnutz.com/2012/03/07/using-vmware-vco-to-manage-vmware-view/ vCenter 5 API for Guest
-> Continue reading Link Dump – 3/12/12
March is storage month for the US vBrownBags. While storage itself can be a huge topic, we’ve lined up some experts to talk about storage in the context of virtualization. vBrownBag Storage Month Line-Up Name Topic Date Ravi Venkat Pt 1 – Host Centric Storage 3/7/12 Hersey Cartwright Datastore Clustering 3/14/12 Gabe Chapman IO Analyzer
-> Continue reading vBrownBag – Storage Month
So, a lot… and I mean a LOT of work goes into producing the content you find in the BrownBags, and well, I’ve not been able to go it alone. In fact, for at least the last 6 months, and maybe the next 6 as well, I’ve had a scheduling conflict with school and have
-> Continue reading Behind the BrownBags
That time again… time to close out a metric boat load of tabs. In no particular order: vCO.Next Sneak peak – http://www.vcoportal.de/2012/02/sneak-peek-on-upcoming-vco/ Mike Laverick’s VCP5 experience – http://www.rtfm-ed.co.uk/2012/02/28/passing-vcp5-just/ An evolved “enable FT” PowerCLI function –http://vniklas.djungeln.se/2012/02/25/vmware-vsphere-ft-fault-tolerance-function-for-powercli/ ESX System Analyzer (Pre-ESXi Upgrades, etc) – http://labs.vmware.com/flings/esx-system-analyzer MMM Numa Numa Numa – http://virtualtoddsbigblog.blogspot.com/2012/02/numa-performance-considerations-on.html Some vSphere/ESXi 5 Lab experiences –
-> Continue reading Open Tabs – Week ending 3/2/2012
This week being a bi-week for the BrownBags to give y’all a chance to cram for the fast approaching 29th deadline, I’ve taken the time to put the VCP5 BrownBags into order around the blueprint objectives. Special Thanks again to Damian Karlson for making these happen. VCP-510 Playlist Objective 1https://vimeo.com/34952699 Objective 2https://vimeo.com/35771934 Objective 3https://vimeo.com/35297839 Objective
-> Continue reading VCP5 BrownBag Playlist
Well, honestly I’m not sure if shipping is the right word for an electronic book, but nevertheless, the electronic editions of vCO Book are now shipping. Kindle If you have it, drop a line, or link a picture & tell me what you think.
Two bits of BrownBag news this week. First, there is no BrownBag this week. Figured after the VCP5 Cannon-Ball run, we’d give you a chance to digest and take the exam. Second, we need to know a bit about how to make the BrownBags better, so tell us what you think: http://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/832843/Do-you-BrownBag-copy-February-27-2012 If survey’s aren’t
-> Continue reading The BrownBags Need Your Help
Video Slides Links http://www.vhersey.com/2011/08/access-the-esxi-direct-console-user-interface-dcui-over-ssh/ http://www.lucd.info/category/vsphere/event/ http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2011/08/10/vcenter-appliance/ http://www.virtuallyghetto.com/2011/07/new-vsphere-5-cli-utilitiestricks.html http://www.vbeers.org/2012/02/21/vbeers-seattle-wa-wednesday-march-7th-2012/ http://www.yellow-bricks.com/esxtop/ http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/topic/com.vmware.ICbase/PDF/vsphere-esxi-vcenter-server-50-monitoring-performance-guide.pdf http://www.amazon.com/Storage-Design-Implementation-vSphere-VMware/dp/0321799933/ref=sr_1_11?ie=UTF8&qid=1329962282&sr=8-11 http://communities.vmware.com/community/vmtn/server/vsphere/automationtools/vima
This week Alastair Cooke will be covering Availability and DR design on the APAC BrownBags. Register here: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/505624097
It’s that time of week again! This time we’re finishing out the VCP5 Blueprint with @btobia. Brian Tobia is a technology consultant at RSA, The Security Division of EMC, with a specific focus on cloud and virtualization security. Previously, Brian has held various systems and network administration roles within VMware environments since the ESX 2.x
-> Continue reading BrownBag – VCP5 Objective 7 with @btobia
The Video The Slides
Last night’s (Early morning maybe?) APAC BrownBag covered the VCAP5-DCD Networking topic. VCAP-DCD Networking Video ProfessionalVMware BrownBag VCAP-DCD – Network Design Part 1 from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo. Notes Kendrick Coleman & Spanning Tree – http://kendrickcoleman.com/index.php?/Tech-Blog/vmware-networking-dont-forget-stp.html Cisco Networking Forums on RSTP – https://learningnetwork.cisco.com/thread/5691 Brad Hedlund on UCS & vSphere – http://bradhedlund.com/2010/09/15/vmware-10ge-qos-designs-cisco-ucs-nexus/ The vSphere Design book –
-> Continue reading [APAC] BrownBag Follow-Up – VCAP-DCD Networking Design
I’ve been slacking quite a bit in not having announced this. The BrownBags are now international, with Alastair Cooke hosting these in an APAC friendly timezone. To get the latest on what topics they’ll be covering, check the APAC BrownBag site here. This week they will be covering Network design. Be sure to register here.
This week we continue down the road of VCP5 prep with Josh Atwell (Blog / Twitter) who will be covering Objective 6 on the VCP5 blueprint. For more info on Josh, I’d encourage you to follow his blog, or ping him on Twitter. He’s a really smart guy! BrownBag VCP5 Objective 6 Details Date/Time: 2/15/2012
-> Continue reading BrownBag–VCP5 Objective 6 (@Josh_Atwell)
Yes, it’s only Tuesday, but I need to get some of these tabs closed if for nothing else but to reclaim the memory. That said, there are some good ones. 24% of IT shops, no performance monitoring – http://reports.informationweek.com/abstract/5/8658/Cloud-Computing/research-2012-state-of-cloud-computing.html vSphere Alarms & PowerCLI (This area needs much more coverage) Setting alarms with PowerCLI http://www.seancrookston.com/2012/02/13/setting-vcenter-alarms-with-powercli/ More
-> Continue reading Open Tabs–Week ending 2/17/2012
Video Also, not much in the way of show notes for this one. Enjoy!
Video Not much in the way of show notes otherwise this weekend.