Happy Friday, Clint here, it has been a month or so since we last met at VMworld in Las Vegas where vBrisket had a huge presence! Well we’re really excited to announce our next vBrisket Community event on Friday, November 4th 2016 at the Grist House in Pittsburgh, PA! Now, just like all things vBrisket this event will feature BBQ, Beer and NETWORK AUTOMATION! Our great supporters over at Ari... »
Happy Friday fellow vBrisketeers! In case you’ve been living under a rock for the last few months or maybe you’re not as active in the IT Community as you should be, we here @vBrisket are planning a really awesome set of events all tying to VMworld 2016. PART I The 2 week extravaganza will begin as a bus ride starting in Chicago on Tuesday, August 23rd and wrap up in Vegas on Saturday,... »
Happy Monday vBrisketeers, remember with all of this crazy weather that April showers bring May flowers! We hope everyone had a fantastic winter season and is ready for the first vBrisket event of 2016. It is truly amazing the reach that our small little Pittsburgh IT Community has. When Jaison, John, Gabe and myself were looking for potential speakers we’re constantly in search for the R... »
Let me show you how easy it is to get started with Rubrik, you may see a common theme here (Simplicity). Let’s log into the Rubrik HTML 5 interface, what no Java 🙂 You can also log into any node in the cluster, like I said, easy. After we successfully log in, we are presented with a nicely laid out dashboard with some very useful information. Now lets add a vCenter server to the Rubrik Clust... »
System Center Universe…aka – SCU for short, is a Microsoft focused Community Event that is held annually and sponsored by Catapult Systems. Previous years events were rock solid community focused days stacked full of Microsoft MVP’s from around this world, this year won’t disappoint. This is a unique community event, it’s run LIVE in Dallas, TX for folks to attend, ju... »
Cameron Fuller and I (Clint Wyckoff) are teaming up with Jose Mendoza and Shawn Lieu for “Veeam, Microsoft Hyper-V and System Center Are Better Together” on December 2nd (Wednesday) at 11:00 am (UTC -06:00). This should be a pretty awesome episode of VEEAM LIVE as Cam and I have been working on a whitepaper together focusing on this exact topic: Making Operations Manager Actionable! Highlights fro... »
Hey fellow vBrisketeers! I hope all is well, as we ramp up for our big event later this week at the Pittsburgh Beer Market (BTW, it’s not too late to REGISTER NOW) I’ve been spending time this past weekend playing with the latest Technology Preview (TP) #4 of Windows Server 2016. Well first off you need to visit the Windows Server TechNet Evaluation Site to register and download the la... »
For the last 10 days I’ve been busy traveling and attending Microsoft Ignite in Australia, which was an absolutely fantastic event! Many of you might have heard, but last Thursday Microsoft announced the much anticipated Technology Preview 4 (TP4) of Windows Server 2016! The upcoming release of Windows Server has many awesome features that the virtualization and cloud computing industry have... »
For those folks that have upgraded their environments to the latest release of vSphere ESXi (Version 6.0) critical issues are becoming to become quite the norm. For years VMware was known for their solid QC processes and their releasing of Production ready hypervisor releases…UNTIL vSphere 6. The latest issue was announced this past week and is contained within vSphere 6.0 Update 1a. VMware ... »
Everyone has a different definition Community just as your meaning of Community is different. A few weeks back I had the opportunity to participate in a Community Roadshow in Western Canada, MVP Days. Going into the event I was extremely nervous, I knew a couple of the guys but I really never met any of the core crew in person before (only chatted with on Twitter via #MVPHour). MVP Days is a 3 day... »