I found myself digging for resources about Private VLANs this last weekend and found some of the following useful: Wikipedia FTW! Eric Sloof’s Private VLAN Training: Online Training – Configure Private VLAN IDs from Eric Sloof NTPRO.NL on Vimeo. Cisco “Lan Security” – PVLANS – Cisco.com “Understanding Private VLANS” – Cisco.com Nexus 1000V PVLAN information
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Welcome back my friends, to the show that never ends… This week’s VCDX Brown Bag will be an open topic discussion of all things VCDX. If we luck out, we’ve got VCDX #16 (Least I think that’s his number) Russell Pope. Call details: Date/Time: April 27, 2010 @ 2PM CST Registration: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/602230081 Changes: Based on
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No really, it is seriously awesome. Eric Sloof from NTPRO.nl has published a video that runs you through a little utility he wrote called “vmFilemanager”, then further shows you how to create such a utility using the free edition of Visual Basic 2008. Online Training – Automating vSphere with the VIX API from Eric Sloof
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This weeks call with Jon Hall was full of interesting folks and even more interesting information about the VMware certification tracks. Note: Due to the content of the video VMware kindly requested I remove it until they make their official announcements in the not too distant future. I want to thank again everyone for coming
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Well, this took quite a bit of time to get posted. I blame solar flares! Professional VMware VCDX Brown Bag #4 from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo. I also blame the solar flares for the missing show-notes this week. Whoops! Hope you enjoy the video, and as always, thanks to TrainSignal for making this possible.
Note: The follow-up video has been posted here. The video suffered, but the audio is what you’re after. It’s that time again. Time for another VCP Brown Bag. This time, we’ll also have a special guest: VMware’s Certification Tsar, Jon Hall. We’ll go over some of the recent certification news, VMware’s different tracks, and anything
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Got a comment on my share and share alike post that covered setting up shared VMDK files on VI3 / ESX 3.x. Seemingly it didn’t work any longer. Work or not, I figure it’s time to revisit this in a new way, using vCLI(rCLI)! This will require the following steps: Download & install the vCLI
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This is a story, all about how, my cluster got flipped and turned upside down. Now I’d like to take a minute, to invite you to the next VCDX Brown Bag, where we’ll cover DRS Clusters & Performance Monitoring, and have a bit of fun while we’re at it. The critical details: Date/Time: Tuesday, April
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For those of you who don’t have a copy of Hal’s PowerCLI book (if you don’t, you should)… and for those that do, but would like a supplemental reference for the VMware PowerCLI cmdlets, check VMware’s PowerCLI cmdlet reference. Have already used it to good ends this week. Example: New-VM added a DiskStorageFormat parameter… completely
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We had an excellent turn out this time, and hope to see some more folk continue to join us. In addition to the illustrious Tom Howarth of PlanetVM.net, we also had Jason Boche of Boche.net, who has become a regular at these. A great thanks goes out to both of these folks, as well as
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Being that I will have quite a bit of downtime in the near future (a broken arm will do that). Here is what is currently on my reading list: Tribes – Seth Godin Not exactly virtualization, but as a blogger it applies. In sum: “Stop waiting, start doing.” Presentation Zen – Garr Reynolds Again, not
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Growing up in VI3 I became accustomed to using the default inventory view. While effective for most tasks, you miss out on quite a bit of what the interface has to offer. What so i mean? Take this question for example: “What is my storage capacity, and how much of that do I have provisioned?”
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In this edition of the VCP Brown Bag we’ll have an open topic session.Bring any questions you have about the VCP certification, and we’ll try to get them answered. The critical details for this Brown Bag: Date: April 6, 2010 Time: 2PM CST Registration: Here! Hope to see you there!
This came up on Twitter Sunday, and having happened upon it in the past, I thought I’d share the solution that Ed Haletky (Blue Gears) and I came to. Basically it boils down to the service start order for the vCenter and related services. Specifically the order should be: SQL (MS SQL, Oracle, etc) ADAM
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Being that I’ll be going under the knife to have my elbow fixed, I don’t have anything specific set up for tomorrow. Bring your questions, experiences, and lunch for this weeks VCDX discussion led by Tom Howarth of PlanetVM, and Rob Markovic an independent virtualization consultant (contact). Details: Time: 2:00 PM CST Date: March 30,
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Lacking a service console, ESXi needs to be approached differently when performing common troubleshooting tasks. One of these, like the title states, is to find the CPU Ready values for a particular VM. There are more than a few ways to skin this particular cat, but in this case I’ll show you two: The vSphere
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In this edition of the VCP Brown Bag we’ll cover the requirements for objective 5 of the VCP4 Exam Blueprint (Here). This will include the installation and configuration of virtual machines and vApps. The critical details for this Brown Bag: Date: March 23, 2010 Time: 2PM CST Registration: Here! Hope to see you there!
Hot on the heels of yesterday’s call, and subsequent "lab fail” we’ve got today’s follow-up post. The topic we covered was storage, however that didn’t stop us from rambling into other areas. First, the links: Virtualization Team Study Guide iSCSI Management from the CLI (JFVI) VMware Communities Study Guide Software iSCSI (that isn’t Openfiler) VMware
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For those of you following along with or VCDX Brown Bag series, we figured you might be interested in the “Lab” architecture used during our discussions. This is in the hopes that y’all will benefit from it, suggest improvements, etc. The Hardware: Surprisingly there isn’t much to it in this case. The lab is running
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Welcome back my friends, to the show that never ends… we’re so glad you could attend, step inside, step inside. It’s time again for the next VCDX Brown Bag. This one will focus around the storage requirement of the VMware Enterprise Admin exam. To prep, please pull down and review the Enterprise Admin Blueprint from
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