VCP Brown Bag #8 – Jon Hall Returns!

May 12, 2010

After the excellent conversation we had last time, we’ve scheduled Jon Hall to come talk VMware Certification again this week. If you were there for the last one, you know you won’t want to miss this. If this is your first time… you will want to make every effort to be there, trust us.
Critical Details:
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VCDX Brown Bag #6 Follow-up

May 12, 2010

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 [...]

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VCP Brown Bag #7 Follow-up

May 12, 2010

The show notes for this are more or less lost at this point. Whoops. That said, the video is online. This one felt more like teaching a class than a discussion around certification, but as awkward as that was for us to handle, I think we did “ok”. You tell me.

VCP Brown Bag #7 – [...]

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VCDX Brown Bag #6 – Rapid Provisioning

May 10, 2010

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 [...]

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How To Backup ESXi Configuration – The Missing Piece

May 6, 2010

This came up on #VMware on Freenode this weekend. Basically the concern was “How do I Backup my ESXi USB Key?” Other than ripping the USB key out of a production machine… how was the user to do this? Well, vMA and the vCLI provide a method for this:
Backing up your ESXi Configuration:
To backup your [...]

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Small, Sleek, and Sexxy – New EMC Celerra VSA

May 5, 2010

Nick Weaver, posted an update to the EMC Celerra VSA, or Virtual Storage Appliance. The build has rightfully been dubbed the -Uber edition. Here are a summary of his changes:
1. Completely automated install: On first boot a configuration wizard will ask a few questions and automatically reboot. On second boot everything is configured and ready [...]

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VCDX Brown Bag #5 – Follow-up

May 4, 2010

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 [...]

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VCP Brown Bag The Seventh – Networking for the Win!

May 3, 2010

I believe we’ve covered networking before, but alas, that was before we started recording these. So… for the sake of completeness we will cover it this time around.
First the critical call details: Date: May 4, 2010 @2PM CST Registration: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/875600073
Note: VMware has a Free VCP Voucher offer, check here for [...]

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Private VLAN Resources

April 29, 2010

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 – Cisco.com
““Private VLANs” – [...]

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VCDX Brown Bag #5 – Open Topic

April 26, 2010

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 [...]

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