BrownBag Blow-Out Videos – Paul Smith (The Winner)
By popular demand, I’ll be posting videos publically as I get permission from the respective submitters. Here is Paul’s:
BrownBag Blow-Out Winner – Paul Smith
Paul Smith, Come on down. Actually, we’ve been in contact and the various bits will begin shipping over the next bunch of days/weeks. Paul Smith is an IT professional of 13 years in Canada who got quite a not happy x-mas message, re: being laid off. So, the BrownBags are going to attempt to make
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BrownBag Blow-Out Update (12/17)
Did not mean to leave y’all hanging… some of these things took longer than we had thought. Current Status Sorry judging took so long, the thing about asking for video submissions, is you have to well, watch each one to be fair. However, we have indeed picked a winner and have contacted them, If all
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Open Tabs 12/13
In a not so regular thing, I often find myself with a metric boat load of open tabs related to all things VMware, Virtualization, and cloud. Some of them are even worth sharing, so that’s what follows: VMware IO Analyzer http://gabrielchapman.com/?p=82 – This is well worth a read. Basically VMware has released a fling to
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BrownBag Follow-Up – Storage Smackdown 2011
This time around, it’s audio only, so either view/listen below, or pick us up on iTunes. Recording Follow-Up Questions There is one round of questions that made it’s way on to the web:http://virtualistmanifesto.com/2011/12/06/storage-smackdown-brownbag-127-a-call-for-questions/ There may yet be more. If anyone feels like transcribing, drop me a line.
BrownBag Blow Out – vSphere Lab Give Away
Update – 12/17 So, the decision process took longer than I had anticipated, however we have selected and are contacting the winner. We will post when we have permission for the video and confirmation that he can indeed receive the gear. So, here’s the dealy-yo. The BrownBags have grown HUGELY this year, and we’ve had
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BrownBag – Storage “Smackdown”
This week’s BrownBag is a revisit of the popular VMworld session of the same name (for reference). This time around, due to timing and finding representatives, we will only have EMC and NetApp available to throw down. That said, if you’ve followed either Chad Sakac or Vaughn Stewart on Twitter or the blogs for any
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BrownBag Follow-Up: VCP5 with Gregg Robertson
BrownBag Follow-Up VCP5 – Video
BrownBag – Week of November 21, 2011
Just a note that there is no BrownBag this week as we’ll be celebrating the Thanksgiving holiday here in the US. All is not lost however, as we have almost 45 hours of BrownBags in the archives covering a range of vSphere certification and Deep Dive topics. In fact, here are the Top 10 according
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vCenter Orchestrator (vCO) Happenings
While I’ve been head down in the final edits for the vCO book (Pre-Order here), a few things happened in the vCO community. vCO Happenings vCO Training! – vcoteam.info Unattended vCO vApp deployment – vcoteam.info (manual deployment here) Getting started with vCO – PhilipSellers.com, a good getting started piece. vCO Training Videos – vmware.com More
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BrownBag Follow-Up: VDI, View & End User Computing
Wow… this one ran into the 2 hour range. VDI is apparently awesome, in demand, or both. The Video: The Slides: iTunes http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/professionalvmware-brownbags/id468638808 Want to Present at a BrownBag? If you’d like to present a BrownBag, drop me a line!
BrownBag – VMware View & End User Computing
This weeks BrownBag will feature Andre Leibovici who will be discussing VMware View & End User Computing. Who? Andre Leibovici I am currently working for EMC as Sr. vSpecialist. I have a background of over 15 years industry experience managing IT infrastructures in large organizations. For the last few years my passion has been around
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BrownBag Follow-Up – vCloud Architecture
Yesterday we dove deep into VMware’s vCloud and it’s associated architecture. Check out the video here: vCloud Architecture Video Slides vCloud Architecture BrownBag View more presentations from ProfessionalVMware. iTunes We’re now on iTunes too! http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/professionalvmware-brownbags/id468638808 Links! Sysprep KB’s: http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1026614http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1026317http://4sysops.com/archives/skiprearm-use-vista-indefinitely-long-without-activation/ Maximums: http://www.virtual-blog.com/2011/08/vmware-vcloud-director-1-5-config-maximums/http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere5/r50/vsphere-50-configuration-maximums.pdf vCloud Cloning series: http://www.chriscolotti.us/vmware/vcloud/gotcha-vcloud-director-clone-wars-part-1-overview/http://www.chriscolotti.us/vmware/vcloud/gotcha-vcloud-director-clone-wars-part-2-deep-dive/http://www.chriscolotti.us/vmware/vcloud/vcloud-director-clone-wars-part-3-design-considerations/ vCloud “Eco-System” http://www.virtual-blog.com/2011/10/vcloud-ecosystem-components-explained/http://www.chriscolotti.us/vmware/vcloud/components-for-a-vcloud-deployment/ (A bit older was my original cut
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BrownBag – vCloud Architecture Deep Dive
This weeks BrownBag will feature an architectural Deep Dive of VMware’s vCloud platform covering the following areas: vCloud Architecture Deep Dive vCloud “Eco-System” of Components All the possible building blocks Importance of Orchestration Broad depth of knowledge for vCloud Architects and Administrators Scalable vCloud Production Architecture Example Based on vCAT 2.0 Published Catalog Considerations in
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BrownBag Follow-Up: Networking & VXLAN
The Video: The Links: Han Yang on Twitter.http://twitter.com/#!/Official_1000V All things 1000v & VXLAN The 1000v Community on Cisco.com. Discussions, Docs, Webinars, etc: https://communities.cisco.com/community/technology/datacenter/nexus1000v Cisco Cloud Lab: https://cloudlab-us-west-01.cisco.com/+CSCOE+/logon.html
Pre-Review – Mastering VMware vSphere 5 (Scott Lowe)
Hot on the release of vSphere 5, Scott Lowe has released an update to one of the best general vSphere books on the market, Mastering VMware vSphere 5. Pre-Review I pulled down the kindle edition of this one about a week ago and moving through at a pretty good clip and wanted to share my
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BrownBag – Networking VXLAN
Hot on the heels of last week’s vCloud Networking discussion with Kendrick Coleman (web / twitter), we have another networking special, VXLAN. This is going to be brought to you by Han Yang from Cisco. Han will be on to share an introduction to VXLANs – and hopefully we’ll be able to cover some of
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BrownBags – Now on iTunes (aka Thanks Nick Marshall)
Before announcing this weeks BrownBag, I wanted to give a huge THANKS to Nick Marshall for getting the BrownBags onto iTunes. So, to Nick: Picture via: vistamommy
BrownBag Follow-Up: vCloud Networking (Kendrick Coleman)
Video – vCloud Networking (Kendrick Coleman) ProfessionalVMware Technical BrownBag – vCloud Networking from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo. Slides – vCloud Networking (Kendrick Coleman) BrownBag – vCloud Networking View more presentations from ProfessionalVMware.
BrownBag – vCloud Networking w/ Kendrick Coleman
This week we get to rock out with Kendrick Coleman who is a BrownBag veteran. BrownBag – vCloud Networking This time around Kendrick (web/twitter) will be joining us on the Brownbag to talk about VMware vCloud networking. If you’re interested in deploying VMware vCloud Director within your environment, or simply learning more about how VMware
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