[APAC] #vBrownBag Follow-Up – VM Design

April 26, 2012

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#vBrownBag Follow-Up – Cloud Security w/ @Texiwill

April 26, 2012

Video Slides Don’t have the slides for last night yet, however we’ll update once they’re in hand.

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vSphere on Open Compute – Part 1 Lab Setup

April 26, 2012

This is part one of a few part series on the test I’m going to put the OCP Platform through. This first test will describe how the lab is setup. Next will be some basic “ghetto” load tests. Finally, we’ll throw some VDI at it. The Hardware Compute For compute, we’ll be using the v1.0 [...]

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vCenter Server Fell Out of Linked Mode

April 24, 2012

In prepping for the vCO book, one of the things I tested out was Linked-Mode vCenters. Once I discovered the vCO plug-in would not support linked-mode vCenters in the way I was expecting, I deleted the VM that was hosting vCenter02… this lead to the following in my vSphere client: vCenter Server not connected What? [...]

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Migrating to OxygenCloud

April 24, 2012

So, this last weekend I’ve decided that I needed to get a bit more secure and a bit more proactive in how data is handled at ProVMware. I’ve been a DropBox customer for years, and likely will stay that way, as it has some great features. However, for everything else, I’ve now got a private [...]

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#vBrownBag Security w/ @texiwill (4/25/12)

April 23, 2012

We’ve had Ed on the #vBrownBags a number of times. This time, like the past, we’ll be talking security, with an added twist. Ed is also putting on a hardcore tech conference in Austin, Tx, the vScience Conference. So, expect the #vBrownBag to be a preview of the sort of material, depth, and quality you [...]

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Resource Pool Pie – The Warning

April 20, 2012

Was segregating out some of my home lab stuff from some of the nested things in the lab and came across this when dropping a VM into the vApp: Basically telling me that this single VM will eat all of the Resource Pool Pie. Not familiar with the resource pool pie? Check out this post [...]

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Open Tabs 4/20/12

April 20, 2012

It’s that time again. Here are some of the interesting happenings of the past week: EVC Mode – http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1003212 Virtualization Practice (@texiwill) on what OpenStack is not: http://www.virtualizationpractice.com/openstack-what-it-is-not-15670/ How Rackspace used Continuous Delivery to rebuild the cloud: http://www.rackspace.com/blog/how-rackspace-re-wrote-the-cloud-with-openstack-continuous-delivery/ VCAP5-DCA Training – http://vmwaretraining.blogspot.com/2012/04/vsphere-5-training-that-will-help.html Sean Crookston & Harley Stagner’s new book: http://www.seancrookston.com/2012/04/17/new-book-optimizing-vsphere-deployments/ vCloud Networking explained – http://www.ntpro.nl/blog/archives/2024-vCloud-networking-explained-in-1-slide-and-52-animations.html [...]

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Did My Virtual Machines Dance? – DRS History

April 16, 2012

Once you turn DRS on and set it to fully automatic, unless you have some affinity / anti-affinity rules in place, your VMs will get up and dance around your cluster. In most cases this is fine and dandy. However, occasionally there are times where you will want to know where the VM was, where [...]

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#vBrownBag Follow-Up – PowerCLI 201 w/ Jake Robinson

April 12, 2012

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