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El 23 de mayo en ProfessionalVMware.com #vBrownBagLATAM @VirtualizeCR presentó el tema VCAP DCA Objetivo 3.1 “Tune & Optimize vSphere Performance”

Jim Millard talks certificates, what they are, why you need them and why you should love them.

How I learned to love the CSR with Jim Millard (@millardjk) ProfessionalVMware #vBrownBag US from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo.

GS talks about his experiences with the VMware VCAP-DCA and VCAP-DCD exams, shares some best practices and tips for taking and preparing for the exam.  We also get an overview of the Virtual Design Master contest which will be running through and concluding at VMworld.

VMware VCAP Exam Experience with GS-Gurusimran Khalsa (@gurusimran) ProfessionalVMware #vBrownBag US from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo.

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El 16 de mayo en ProfessionalVMware #vBrownBag LATAM, @kylemurley presentó el tema: VCAP-DCA Sección 6.1 — Configurar,administrar y analizar archivos log de vSphere

EMC World 2013 features some of the latest advancements in storage technologies and their applications for virtualized workloads.  There was the big announcement regarding Project ViPR, and it will be interesting to see how it will allow storage allocations to be more agile.  Of course, we don’t want Storage Sprawl.  So, it will be important to have a good set of reporting tools and showback\chargeback capabilities to properly manage storage usage.

Other interesting technologies to check out are the offerings from the Xtrem Team as well as EMC’s integration efforts with OpenStack.  If you’re at the show, make sure to check out the Solutions Pavilion!

The Hands On Labs (HOL) is my favorite part of the show, and I happened to run into Jase McCarty who is serving as Proctor Manager for the labs.  Jase was kind enough to give us some information about EMC World’s HoL as well as his thoughts on the show.

Click the media player below for our interview with Jase (Firefox users may need to click HERE).

You can also download the interview from the vBrownBag iTunes Podcast.

Phillip Jaenke (@rootwyrm) reviews considerations for building your own own home lab and VMware ESXi servers.  Don’t forget to check the HCL!

DIY VMware Hardware and Labs Phillip Jaenke (@rootwyrm) ProfessionalVMware #vBrownBag US from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo.

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El 02 de mayo en ProfessionalVMware #vBrownBag LATAM @kylemurley presentó el tema @VMwareHOL

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El 25 de abril en ProfessionalVMware #vBrownBag LATAM @aantigua presentó el tema @cloudphysics

Hey Peeps vNoob here

This happens to me ocassionally so naturally I assume everyone else is plagued by the same issue.

Every once and a while I need to “archive a VM” from one of my environments. Essentially this means that we no longer need the VM but we just don’t want to outright delete. At the same time it is taking up storage space and backup space, so we don’t want to just leave it turned off.

In these instance we choose to copy all of the VM files, vmdks, vmx etc etc to a physical server that has massive storage where all our archived files go to spend the rest of their days.

Most times I just turn off the VM and copy all the files using the vSphere Client GUI, but recently I just wanted to script it out.

I did the script because, A. I wanted to and B. I wanted it to take into account if the VM files are spread across more than one datastore, so I wouldn’t have to hunt any of the files down.

Anyway here is the script.

$fromvcenter=”vCenterName”
$vm=”VMName1, VMName2″
$local=”LocalStorage Location”

Disconnect-viserver * -confirm:$false -ErrorAction silentlycontinue

Connect-VIServer -Server “$fromvcenter”
$vmbases=get-vm $vm
ForEach ($vmbase in $vmbases)
{
$vmdisks=$vmbase |Get-HardDisk
$vmfolder=$vmdisks[0].fileName.Split(” “)[1].split(“/”)[0]
$vmdatastore=$vmbase|Get-Datastore
$local=”$local” + “\” +”$vmfolder” +”\”

FOREACH ($vmstore in $vmdatastore)

{
Remove-PSDrive -Name fromds -ErrorAction silentlycontinue
New-PSDrive -location ($vmstore) -Name fromds -PSProvider VimDatastore -Root “\”
Copy-DatastoreItem -Item fromds:\$vmfolder\* -Destination $local -Force
}
}

A couple things about this script. Just replace the 3 variables at the top with what you want and you are good to go. Secondly, because you are potentially copying big files, this could take a long time. Plan accordingly and make sure the place your are running the script from will be online long enough and be sure to run the script from a location which will expedite the files being transferred.

I love that this script will grab all the files from potentially several datastores, however, it will only do this if the VM Folder name is consistent across the datastores.

Also using the Copy-DatastoreItem cmdlet, it automatically gives you a nice progress bar…

So it is nice to know where you stand.

Hope this helps everyone!!!!

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A technical deep dive on vCenter 5.1 including SSO, inventory service and focus on the vSphere Web Client.

2013-04-17 20.34 ProfessionalVMware #vBrownBag US with Justin King (@vCenterGuy) from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo.