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BrownBag - VCP5 Series #7 - Objective 7 with Brian Tobia It’s that time of week again! This time we’re finishing out the VCP5 Blueprint with @btobia. Brian Tobia is a technology consultant at RSA, The Security Division of EMC, with a specific focus on cloud and virtualization security. Previously, Brian has held various systems and network administration roles within VMware environments since the ESX 2.x days. He currently holds his VCP4 and VCP5 and is active in the VMware communities and can be found on Twitter via @btobia.

BrownBag - VCAP5-DCD Series #3 - Networking with Wee Kiong http://plain-virt.blogspot.com http://www.demitasse.co.nz/wordpress2/vcap-brownbags/ http://professionalvmware.com/brownbags/

Links http://www.vtesseract.com/post/17578945969/vcp5-section-6-troubleshooting http://professionalvmware.com/2012/02/brownbagvcp5-objective-6-josh_atwell/ http://damiankarlson.com/2012/02/13/brownbag-vcp-5-section-6-with-josh_atwell/

BrownBag - VCAP5-DCD Series #2 - Storage with Heeteck

BrownBag - VCP5 Series #5 - Objective 5 with David Davis

BrownBag - VCAP5-DCD Series #1 - Overview & Methodology with Alastair Cooke This first session for the VCAP5-DCD Hosted and Presented by @DemitasseNZ Slides are available here: http://portal.sliderocket.com/BLIHZ/VCAP5-DCD-BrownBag---Session-1

BrownBag - VCP5 Series #4 - Objective 4 with Jason Boche

VCP5 Objective 2, Networking BrownBag video featuring Scott Lowe (blog) along side our own Damian Karlson Show Notes Port mirroring with vDS http://blogs.vmware.com/networking/2011/08/vsphere-5-new-networking-features-port-mirroring.html http://jasonnash.com/2011/08/11/vsphere-5-how-to-series-vds-port-mirroring/ VMware whitepaper covering the migration from vds to vss http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/vsphere-vnetwork-ds-migration-configuration-wp.pdf http://www.valcolabs.com/2011/09/18/objective-2-3-%E2%80%93-configure-vss-and-vds-policies/ Note: There were no slides this time… Scott is just that hardcore, and worked directly from the Blueprint.

Thin on Thin? Where should you do Thin Provisioning – vSphere 4.0 or Array-Level? http://virtualgeek.typepad.com/virtual_geek/2009/04/thin-on-thin-where-should-you-do-thin-provisioning-vsphere-40-or-array-level.html Calculating Capacity of a VSA Cluster with RAID10 Configuration http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/topic/com.vmware.vsa.doc_10/GUID-8941D7EA-A876-4630-A165-80C46D81E219.html http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2011/02/18/blocksize-impact/ vStorage APIs for Array Integration FAQ http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1021976

After some time off from an amazing 2011, the BrownBags are back. This time with a series tracking the VCP5 Blueprint and timed to coincide with the VCP4 to VCP5 upgrade timeline. So if you are upgrading (or studying for the first time) be sure to sign up!

This week’s BrownBag is a revisit of the popular VMworld session of the same name (for reference: http://professionalvmware.com/2010/09/vmworld-2010-storage-super-heavyweight-challenge/). This time around, due to timing and finding representatives, we will only have EMC and NetApp available to throw down. That said, if you’ve followed either Chad Sakac or Vaughn Stewart on Twitter or the blogs for any length of time, you know it will be an entertaining show.

BrownBag - VCP5 with Gregg Robertson

This weeks BrownBag will feature Andre Leibovici who will be discussing VMware View & End User Computing Andre Leibovici I am currently working for EMC as Sr. vSpecialist. I have a background of over 15 years industry experience managing IT infrastructures in large organizations. For the last few years my passion has been around Virtualization, VDI and Cloud Computing. I also hold MCSE, VCP 3/4/5, VCAP4-DCA, VCAP4-DCD, VCA4-DT, VCP4-DT, VTSP4, ITIL V3 certifications and was awarded with the VMware Virtual Desktop Ingenuity Award’2009 and the VMware vExpert 2010/11.

This weeks BrownBag will feature an architectural Deep Dive of VMware’s vCloud platform covering the following areas: vCloud Architecture Deep Dive vCloud “Eco-System” of Components All the possible building blocks Importance of Orchestration Broad depth of knowledge for vCloud Architects and Administrators Scalable vCloud Production Architecture Example Based on vCAT 2.0 Published Catalog Considerations in a single vCloud/Multi-vCenter Design for Providers Based on 3-part “clone wars” blog posts Open Q&A on anything vCloud Your Hosts: Chris Colotti, VMware Global COE Consulting Architect VCDX #37 Twitter @CColotti vCD on Vblock / End to End Upgrade docs VMworld 2011 Presenter Blogger www.chriscolotti.us David Hill, VMware Global COE Senior Consultant CIM Lead UK Twitter @DaveHill99 vCAT 2.0 contributor VMworld 2011 Presenter Blogger www.virtual-blog.com

Han Yang on Twitter.http://twitter.com/#!/Official_1000V All things 1000v & VXLAN The 1000v Community on Cisco.com. Discussions, Docs, Webinars, etc: https://communities.cisco.com/community/technology/datacenter/nexus1000v Cisco Cloud Lab: https://cloudlab-us-west-01.cisco.com/+CSCOE+/logon.html