You know an idea has merit when someone else sees the value in it and wants to take it to the next level. I had a personal conflict with the BrownBag schedule over the next bunch of weeks, and while at VMworld chatting with some really great folks (Sean Crookston, Bill Hill, and Kanuj Behl)
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So we’re going to have a special one-off Brown Bag to do a Technical Deep-Dive with the one, the only, Duncan Epping (Of yellow-bricks fame) and Frank Denneman (here). Who is Duncan? Well, I figure most of y’all know this already, but here is the Bio: Duncan Epping is Principal Architect in the Technical Marketing
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For those that couldn’t make it to the live show, be heartened to know that what we did was a live version of this BrownBag. If that’s not enough… brace yourself for some really awesome stuff, right here: The Slides They’re not much to look at because well, it was a demo heavy session. That
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Every year at VMworld, in addition to the great content, there are a host of other great activities going on. However, in order to keep up with them you’d need to look a bit like the guy on the left: <—– Yes, a robot with a time machine. That, or take copious amounts of some
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Will you be at VMworld? I will! In fact, Glenn Sizemore and I will be rocking and rolling for a Wednesday PowerCLI 101 session. If you’re thinking about PowerShell, PowerCLI or just beginning to automate your environment, we’ll take you over some of the most basic basics. There are actually a number of really good
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Wednesday, 11A VMworld time: Hope to see you there!
Woot! Excellent BrownBag, Excellent Presenter, Excellent Participation. Sorry the follow-up post took a bit longer than usual. We covered VCAP-DCA objective 2 – Networking, with live demos some good lecture, slides, and follow-up resources. Video: ProfessionalVMware BrownBags – VCAP DCA Objective 2 – Networking from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo. Slides ProfessionalVMware VCAP BrownBag Section 2 View
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Was surprised this wasn’t here by default, but alas, out of the box vCO does not ship with a workflow to manage an NFS datastore. Thanks to the VMware communities for a bit of scripting, I was able to put one together. First we’ll break out the components, then show you how it runs. Finally
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ZOMG It’s that time of week again! The time where we announce the speaker and topic for this week’s BrownBag! Topic: VCAP-DCA Objective 2 – vNetwork Distributed Switches Speaker: Damian Karlson (@sixfootdad) who blogs here. Will be presenting this weeks BrownBag. Damian is VMware Certified Professional (VCP4), a VMware vExpert for 2011, and am currently
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This is not so much a post of any real substance, more a: “Hey, I just noticed this cool thing here” or so in the vCO interface. Specifically, the last time a specific job/workflow ran: While selecting the workflow would seem a fairly obvious choice, it’s nice that it’s right there, and will tell you
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So, TrainSignal FTW! That is all. About 3 weeks back now we had David Davis on the BrownBags, and while the Video has been up on Vimeo I’ve been lax in getting it posted. One of those things that if I don’t take care of it right away I seem to forget. Not that David
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On 8/3 we talked vSphere performance as it relates to the VCAP-DCA exam. Specifically objective 6.2 on the exam blueprint. We also had special guest Hersey Cartwright along for the ride. First the Video, then some of the links: The Video ProfessionalVMware BrownBag – VCAP-DCA Objective 6.2 from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo. The Links Generating Load
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For this week’s BrownBag we’ve scored Hersey Cartwright to come talk to us about vSphere performance as it relates to the VCAP-DCA. Hersey has a little over 20 years experience in system and network administration. Currently he is the Network Operations Manager for a community Credit Union located in Southeastern, VA. he is responsible for
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As much as I’ve harped on installing and running stuff with vCO, the one thing I haven’t touched on much to date has been where to get the bloody download bits. Unfortunately as I’m writing this there is not a product specific download page for vCO. Rather you will need to download the entire vCenter
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Since vSphere added the ability to have oddly numbered non power of two vCPU configurations, I’ve wondered what it’d be like to run a VM with an odd number. Will Windows react oddly? etc? I also had some curiosity around doing similar for non standard amounts of ram (non power’s of two or multiples of
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Just wanted to make a quick note to John Troyer, the man, myth, and legend behind the awesomeness of the VMware communities on his birthday to say “Thanks” for everything. Really! Some of John’s efforts that I’ve had some real life benefit from: Blogger/Press pass @ VMworld. vExpert 3 years running (vExpert is the VMware
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We’ll skip the reason you need tools installed. We’ll also skip a bit on the other ways to do this in PowerCLI. Rather, we’ll bring you a way to do this in Orchestrator. Note: If you’re not using vCO, you should be. Why? I covered that here. Additionally, there are some excellent vCO resources here.
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Hello and welcome to the ProfessionalVMware BrownBag! Yes, that’s right, join us on July 20 @ 7P CST to chat all things vSphere, vSphere Training, and more with David Davis. David Davis (CCIE #9369, vExpert, VCP, CISSP, MCSE) has been in the IT industry for 15+ years. He has authored over 300 articles, 6 video
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I’ve not had a good chance to process the entirety of the flood that has been the vSphere 5 release. Let alone think on the implications of the licensing change. So a summary post will be forth coming at some stage (maybe). Until then, here are a bunch of links that I gathered in or
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The Summary! No, it’s not that I was too lazy to fill out the template for the post, really. In fact, it was an excellent call with Julian Cates from NetApp. All in all a pretty good discussion. Video ProfessionalVMware BrownBags – NetApp & Virtualization Storage from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo. Summary So there we go,
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