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VCDX Brown Bag #7 – Open Topic

bunchc — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 03:07:40 +0000

With the long weekend here in the US I about forgot to put this post out. Tomorrows VCDX Brown Bag, due to a complete lack of show prep on my side will be Canceled. Those of you who registered should have received a notice. Sorry for doing this at the 11th hour, but please stay tuned for some of our future changes.

Note:

This is the last VCDX Brown Bag in this series. What does that mean? Well a few things:

We’ll be on hold until the VCAP materials are released
You will need to re-register for the new series
The downtime will give us some time to re-tool

Details:

Date/Time: Canceled
Registration: Canceled.

Final words:

These have been the most exciting of the two series of Brown bags. However, there is always room for improvement. If there are some things you would like to see, or would like to see changed, drop us a line in the comments.

VCP/VCDX Brown Bag Scheduling Changes

bunchc — Mon, 17 May 2010 14:17:00 +0000

Due to a change in Jon Hall’s schedule, the VCP Brown Bag for May 18th has been canceled and moved to the 25th. This also means that I had to push the VCDX Brown Bag on the 25th out to June 1st. Those of you registered should have received notifications, those of you not registered for May 25th, you will want to. Big things from Jon Hall & VMware coming.

Here is a break down of the changes:

VCDX Brown Bag

Date/Time: June 1, 2010 @ 2PM CST
Registration: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/602230081

VCP Brown Bag – Jon Hall Edition

Date/Time: May 25, 2010 @ 2PM CST
Registration: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/486185192

Sorry for any confusion this may have caused.

VCDX Brown Bag #6 Follow-up

bunchc — Wed, 12 May 2010 15:41:59 +0000

We had a good time this call. You’ll be able to tell from the recording though that we are still very much armatures playing in this space. Outside a minor emergency and Tom having some audio difficulty, we had a great discussion around rapid provisioning ESX servers.

Video:

VCDX Brown Bag #8 – Rapid Provisioning from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo.

You can also get the full size wmv from here.

Notes:

VCDX Brown Bag #6 – Rapid Provisioning

bunchc — Mon, 10 May 2010 17:59:43 +0000

This week we’ll be talking ESX Rapid provisioning, specifically objective 8 from the Enterprise Admin Blueprint. We’ll then take the discussion and build kickstart script, finishing with a scripted ESX install. Sound like fun? You know it will be.

Here are the critical details:

Date/Time: May 11, 2010 @ 2P CST
Registration*: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/602230081

* Note: If you registered for #5 you don’t need to re-register this time.

Background reading:

There are some things you will want to have read before joining up on the call, here are some of those things:

Enterprise Admin Blueprint
B3RG’s Breakdown of Objective 8 – Rapid Provisioning

Thanks again to the awesome folks at Train Signal for making this possible.

VCDX Brown Bag #5 – Follow-up

bunchc — Tue, 04 May 2010 16:53:08 +0000

Firstly, the video! In the spirit of the changes this webinar announced, we’ll also try some changes with the video. First embedded:

ProfessionalVMware VCDX Brown Bag #5 from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo.

And then, a link where you can download the high quality .mov file. Yes, yes… I can re-encode again to m4v if there is enough demand. The last step in this, are the show notes links, blatantly copied from Tom Howarth’s Site:

Here are a couple of links relating to the show

http://linux.about.com/library/cmd/blcmdl1_fuser.htm
http://linux.about.com/library/cmd/blcmdl1_last.htm
http://linux.about.com/library/cmd/blcmdl1_w.htm
http://linux.about.com/library/cmd/blcmdl1_who.htm
http://linux.about.com/od/commands/l/blcmdl1_dd.htm

One thing to note is that even the so called experts can and do get it wrong we all agreed the w is an alias of who but as the above link shows that is not the case LOL

As always, thanks to Trainsignal for making this happen.

VCDX Brown Bag #5 – Open Topic

bunchc — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 12:58:58 +0000

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 the feed back from the last few of these, we decided to make a few small changes. Not too many, and with luck they’ll help more of you join up.

International Dial-In numbers – With luck there is now a number available near you to join the call.
Sign up once for the series – So you don’t have to keep registering sign up for this or any other in the series and you will be notified for all of them. The current series is set to run till May 25th.

About Russell:

Russell brings 15 years of computing experience to his Consultant role at 4Base Technology with a focus on platform virtualization. As a member of 4Base’s Virtualization Practice, Russell is able to leverage his strong experience in all three pillars of server virtualization architecture; systems, networking and storage.

VCDX Brown Bag #4 – Performance – Follow-Up

bunchc — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 13:41:00 +0000

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.

VCDX Brown Bag #4 – DRS Clusters and Performance Monitoring

bunchc — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 15:05:25 +0000

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 13, 2010 @ 2PM CST
Registration: Here!

Bring any questions you may have, generally or about our topic of choice and we’ll do what we can to get them covered. Looking forward to seeing you there!

VCDX Brown Bag #3 – Open Topic

bunchc — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 18:09:29 +0000

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, 2010
Register: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/922910152

Drop a line with any comments or questions.

VCDX Brown Bag #2 Follow-Up

bunchc — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 01:16:46 +0000

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:

Another follow-up post can be found here and here (RTFM-ed.co.uk).

Last but not least the video from the session.

2010-03-16 14.14 VCDX Brown Bag 2 Storage from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo.

Speaking of next time. Drop a line in the comments with anything you’d like to see or talk about.