Hello, vBrisket Community! We are excited to announce our next gathering and that we are teaming up with the Pittsburgh VMUG to bring you a summer community event you will not want to miss. Along with the BBQ, beer, fun and networking – we are excited to welcome Bryan Krausen to lead us in a discussion that we have entitled ‘Success in a Mulit-Cloud World.’ Bryan is a fellow vE... »
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,... »
vBrisket embodies the IT Community, our goal is to provide all of our members with premiere access to the best and brightest from around the world along with giving our members the opportunity to have their voice heard. That’s what community is all about! With VMworld 2016 and Las Vegas just a few months away, we’re getting closer to our #vBrisket Community Extravaganza! Are you active... »
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... »
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 ... »
As vBrisket’ers, I think we can confidently say that virtualization is the foundation of our community and the glue that holds us together. More specifically, I think we can say that x86/Hypervisor based virtualization is the foundation/glue. That being said, I find myself looking at some of the major advancements in “cloud” technologies and I start to question the typic... »
A few weeks ago the Western PA VMUG leaders decided to get together and talk about our local group and things that we each were concerned about. The leadership team consists of Eric Kubla, David Hewett, Thomas Higgins, Eric Pond and myself with Alex Musicante being our primary contact with VMware (he was also a a very dedicated leader before working for VMware). We needed to discuss the upcoming ... »
In case you haven’t noticed, VMware is not the only game in town anymore in the hypervisor space. Take it from me, I was all VMware all the time, but I think it is time for me to take a step back and look at the competition. Microsoft and Hyper-V are making a push and it is now a viable solution with more enterprises running it in a production environment. This led me to watch a Hyper-V cou... »