On the 11th May, we had our VCDX brownbag on Rapid provisioning. now those of you who checked in will know we has some technical issues with the lab, and I had issues with my Microphone, my Skype is playing up, but ,my issues are not pertinent to this discussion so without further ado, lets run thought rapid provisioning 3.5 style.
In this iteration of the bi-weekly VCDX brown-bag, Cody and I will be dealing with ESX Rapid provisioning,or to be precise objective 8 from the Enterprise Admin Blueprint.
We are hoping to build a kickstart script, don’t worry we will explain each section and the commands that make the up. Finally we will run a scripted ESX install using it. This will either be so cool you wont need a fridge, or just serious car crash 
. So click on the link below to register and join the fun, and hopefully we will all learn something.
Date/Time: May 11, 2010 @ 2P CST (8pm BST, 9pm CET)
Registration*: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/602230081
International Numbers are available, if you need a number for your region, please Email
Remember If you registered for #5 you don’t need to re-register this time.
There are some things you will want to have read before joining up on the call, here are some of those things:
Once again it is with a warm thank you to TrainSignal, without whom we would not be able to bring you this session via “GotoMeeting”
ProfessionalVMware VCDX Brown Bag #5 from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo.
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
This week it is VCP week and even though I am pretty certain that we have covered networking before, that was before we started recording these, so to remedy this omission we are repeating the exercise.
We will be deal the Standard vSwitch, the Distributed vSwitch and cover the creation of portgroups and PVLANs, all good stuff and a major section of the VCP Exam.
Now for the important call details:
Date: May 4, 2010 @2PM CST the is 8PM BST and 9PM Central European
Registration: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/875600073
Even better we now offer international dialling numbers for several countries including the UK, Netherlands and Norway.
As an aside: VMware has a Free VCP Voucher offer, check here for details.
This bi-weekly’s brownbag hosted by Cody Bunch and myself is to cover DRS Clusters & Performance Monitoring, and hopefully we will have some fun while we’re at it.
As usual the necessary details are as follows:
Date/Time: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 @ 2PM CST (8pm BST 9pm CET)
Registration: Here!
Bring any questions you may have, regarding the topic, or anything you can think of surrounding the VCDX process and we will attempt to cover them all. Looking forward to seeing you there!
Thank you once again to our sponsors TrainSignal.
