In the spirit of all things Brownbag, we’re branching out beyond certification to include several “Deep Dive” technical podcasts with industry leading experts. Mind, we’ll still keep to our certification roots, but the Brownbag format lends itself well to doing technical deep dives as well. As such, our first topic will be Virtualization security, and our special guest will be Edward L. Haletky (Texiwill), one of the Virtualization industry’s leading security experts. Ed is also the author of “VMware vSphere and Virtual Infrastructure Security: Securing the Virtual Environment” (Our review here). Ed is also the host of the Virtualization Security podcast and is an author at The Virtualization Practice blog.

Critical Details:

• Registration: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/909625585
• Date/Time: Tuesday June 22, 2010 @ 2PM CST
• Note: If you registered for the last one, you are registered for this one.
• Recording will be made available within 48 hours after broadcast.

Submit Your Questions!

If you have questions for Ed, but won’t be able to make the Brownbag, drop a line in the comments section of this post. The more the better!

About Ed:

Edward L. Haletky graduated from Purdue University in 1988 with a degree in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering. Since then, he has worked with programming graphics and other lower-level libraries on various UNIX platforms. When at Hewlett-Packard, Edward worked in the Virtualization, Linux, and High-Performance Technical Computing teams. He owns AstroArch Consulting, Inc., providing virtualization, security, and network consulting and development. Edward is very active on the VMware Communities Discussion Forums providing answers to security and configuration questions and is also one of the VMware Communities User Moderators and Guru. In addition, Edward has earned his LPI, RHCE and VCP certifications. Lastly, Edward is a very active blogger in the virtualization space.

Following up on the interest from our last post, Tom Howarth and I will be running the first of what should become a series of VCDX Enterprise Admin Brown Bag sessions. The topic this week will be the CLI.

We’re going to give this a shot with DimDim, and can accept a total of 25 folks. In other words, please sign up only if you have been accepted into the VCDX process, or have already taken and passed your Enterprise Admin Exam. Also note, the time below is in CST.

Questions? Hit me up on Twitter or in the comments. Look forward to seeing you there!

The deadline to upgrade from VCP3 to VCP4 is fast approaching. While there are plenty of good resources out there for studying, nothing beats playing 20 questions with a group of your peers. As such, ProfessionalVMware will be hosting a 1 hour WebEx study group so we call all help one another pass.

Important information:

Date: 12/17/2009 (Thursday, December 17, 2009)
Time: 2:00 PM CST
Registration: Go here!

Agenda:

Bring your questions, and be prepared to answer some! Group participation is strongly encouraged.

After the success of the VCP4 beta study call I am thinking that a Podcast would be a good idea. The difficulty is:

• Would you come?
• What subjects would you like covered?
• How often?
• Live show? Recorded? Both?
• Call-in show?

I figure I can answer some of these, however, as the show is for YOU I figure it is best that I let YOU decide. Drop your thoughts in the comments.

The link over on the VMTN blog is a bit off and identifies this as #32, but I assure you, this was the VMTN podcast #33, discussing the VITK 1.5 release, and a few other things.

TalkShoe Link

Edward Haletky, a regular on VMTN, and the VMTN round table podcasts, is starting his own spinoff, the “Virtualization Security Round Table Podcast”

The first show, scheduled for Thursday at 2:30p EST, is going to feature the following topics:

• Use of Virtualization in a DMZ.
• Review of security lockdown standards/benchmarks and tools
• Virtualization Security in shared and dedicated hosting environments
• Providing VaaS (VMware as a Service) securely to SMBs for DR.
• How virtualization security relates to cloud computing security
• Top 3 security issues
• Optimal Network configuration and design for security
• How to accommodate small / medium and home businesses
• Disaster recovery options – small, medium, large businesses
• VLANs as a Security measure with vSwitch Security
• many others…

This will be presented using Talkshoe

This particular topic comes up from time to time in discussions. Yes it is OK to run Exchange on VMware, and Exchange 2007 on VMware is a supported configuration… for more info, follow the links below:

The Podcast – Wednesday, Jan 14, for another round of the VMware Communities Roundtable podcast

The Webinar – Jan 15: Exchange 2007 on VMware: Technical Case Study.

The White Paper – Deploying Exchange Server 2007 on VMware Infrastructure: A VMware Internal Case Study

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