Yo Dawg… (Obligatory vSphere 4.1 Post)

July 14, 2010

Instead of writing a 4.1 post, which seems to be all the rage, I’ll instead link you to a few of them that I have been reading (which are in turn links out to more documentation).

Eric Siebert – http://vsphere-land.com/news/vsphere-41-the-links.html
vChat (about 4.1) – http://www.techhead.co.uk/vchat-a-regular-virtualization-related-webcast
VMware 4.1 KB articles – http://blogs.vmware.com/kb/2010/07/useful-vsphere-41-knowledgebase-articles.html
ESXi “touchfree” installs – http://get-admin.com/blog/?p=1131
New HA maximums [...]

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BrownBag #12 – VCAP-DCA Security

July 14, 2010

You know you want it… We’ll be covering the security objective from the VCAP-DCA Blueprint. Likely with some live demos along the way. What’s that you say? “When? How? What"?
Details

Date/Time: Tuesday, July 20th @ 2PM CST
Registration: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/909625585
Note: If you have registered in the past, you ‘should’ not need to again.

Preparation:

VCAP-DCA Blueprint
About the VCAP-DCA

About the BrownBags
The [...]

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Roll-Dice – PowerCLI & Fun with VMware Snapshots

July 7, 2010

This post actually has it’s roots in a practical and useful change in VMware’s “delete all” snapshot functionality. For the details, I strongly suggest you go off to Duncan’s page and read all about it. It was that post that in turn generated quite a lot of twitter buzz around some additional features, or naming [...]

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Brown Bag #11 – Open Topic Tuesday

July 6, 2010

I am the King of Last Minute Scheduling… as such, this weeks Brown Bag will be a rambling open topic.We’ll talk VCP, VCAP, establishing trust between Management & Virtualization groups, and anything else that happens to come up.
The Details:
Date/Time: Today (7/6/2010) at 2PM CST Registration: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/909625585
Looking forward to seeing y’all there.

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Pre-Review Cisco UCS: Complete Reference

June 30, 2010

It’s summer reading time again! The first item on my reading list this summer is none other than the “Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) (Data Center): A Complete Reference Guide to the Cisco Data Center Virtualization Server Architecture (Networking Technology)” (A mouth and a half full).
From the first two chapters of the book, the [...]

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Useful Windows Commands for VM Administrators

June 24, 2010

Over the course of my travels, I’ve found that having a quick reference to random Windows commands is helpful. Here are two sets of commands I use often enough to be useful, but not often enough that I’ve committed them to memory:
Managing IP Addresses from the CLI
Netsh! – This one predates PowerShell on Windows boxes, [...]

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BrownBag #10 – Security Follow-Up

June 23, 2010

Thanks again to Ed Haletky (@Texiwill) for coming along and presenting this week. Here is the video from the session:

BrownBag #10 – Security Deep Dive from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo.
Links:

Virtualization Practice – Ed’s Blog
http://www.virtualizationpractice.com/blog/?file_id=41 – Resources!
Virtualization Security Roundtable

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Installing 3rd Party Drivers in ESX

June 16, 2010

With vSphere comes the ability for third parties to add hardware to the HCL without having to wait for an update to ESX for their drivers to be included. An excellent move on VMware’s part as this opened up the door hugely for 3rd parties to supply certified & updated drivers as well as provide [...]

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Brownbag #10 – Security Deep Dive

June 11, 2010

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 [...]

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VCP Brownbag #9: Fragmented Bendy Busses (Storage) Follow-up

June 9, 2010

Tuesdays Brownbag had a good turn out and also featured the excellent debut of our newest co-host: Guillermo Rodriguez. Guillermo (Gee yair mo) like many of the folks on the call is a budding VCP, having taken his class, studying for his exam and interested in helping others reach the same goal.
Video:
We had a great [...]

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