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BrownBags are a series of online webinars held using GotoMeeting and covering various datacenter & datacenter Certification topics. These BrownBags are held live at various dates and times around the globe and each covers a different bit of datacenter related specialization.

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  1. VMware Hybrid Cloud by Sean Hicks

    Sean Hicks (@SeanHicks77) presents "VMware Anywhere - VMware on X" What kind of cool stuff can you do when you combine VMware and your favorite public cloud? Resources: https://vmc.vmware.com/ https://www.wwt.com/atc

  2. Frances Wong VCP-NV NSX-T 2.4 2V0-41.19 study guide

    Frances Wong @frances_wong on twitter shows the study guide she did for the VCP -NV based on NSX-T 2.4. She goes deep into her preparation, resources, material and even taking the test remotely. If you used her guide, let her know! Resources:...

  3. vSphere 7 Security News You Can Use presented by Bob Plankers

    Bob Plankers (https://twitter.com/plankers) continues our vSphere7 series with a look at new security features and guidance in vSphere 7. Resources: https://twitter.com/vSphereSecurity https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories.html...

  4. vSphere 7 with Kubernetes for the vSphere Admin presented by Mike Foley

    Mike Foley (https://twitter.com/mikefoley) continues our vSphere 7 series with a look at vCenter 7 with Kubernetes. Mike walks through some of the architecture and workflows of administering Kubernetes on vSphere 7. Resources: Mike Foley’s Blogs: https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/author/mike_foley...

  5. What's new with vCenter Server 7 presented by Nigel Hickey

    sNigel Hickey (https://twitter.com/vCenterNerd) kicks off our vSphere 7 series with a look at vCenter 7 server. Nigel will highlight both improvements to existing features as well as some new goodies! Resources: vSphere 7 blog - http://vmw.re/vsphere7 vSphere Upgrade Center -...

  6. VMware NSX over ACI fabric presented by Paul Mancuso

    Paul Mancuso (https://twitter.com/pmancuso) dives into the how and why of design decisions when deploying VMware NSX over Cisco ACI and other data center fabrics.

  7. VMware Cloud Foundation Lab Constructor (VLC) presented by Heath Johnson

    Heath Johnson (@heathbarj) presents on an amazing, quick way to spin up your VCF homelab! Resources: For obtaining VLC: http://tiny.cc/getVLC Joining the VLC Support : http://tiny.cc/getVLCSlack

  8. What's new in vRNI with Matt Just

    Matt Just @H1_TEK_matt gives an excellent update on What's new with vRealize Network Insight, both for on-premises and cloud hosted versions. He spends the majority of the episode showing the platform's capabilities in a live demo, which is always appreciated. You can read more about Network...

  9. What's new with VMware Cloud Foundation 4.0 with Kevin Tebear

    Kevin Tebear (https://twitter.com/ktebear) continues our series on VMware Cloud Foundation with a deeper look at the architecture and some details on new features in version 4.0 Resources: vmware.com/go/cloudfoundation-poster vmware.com/go/vcfhol vmware.com/go/cloudfoundation-community...

  10. HCX from Zero to Hero - Bilal Ahmed and Chris Noon

    VMware, HCX In this vBrownbag EMEA session, Bilal and Chris will give us an overall view about HCX and it will finish with a live demonstration of a migration.

  11. NSX Cloud and HCX with Britton Johnson

    Britton Johnson (https://twitter.com/vcixnv) continues our series on VMware NSX-T with a quick look at NSX Cloud before diving into the multiple use cases for VMware HCX Resources: https://cloud.vmware.com/vmware-hcx https://labs.hol.vmware.com HOL-2081-01-HBD-VMware HCX - Getting Started with...

  12. Introduction to VMware Cloud Foundation with Heath Johnson

    VMware Heath Johnson (https://twitter.com/heathbarj) gives us an introduction to VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), shows a few demos, and gives us a sneak peek of the newest version of VCF 4.0 Resources: vmware.com/go/cloudfoundation-poster vmware.com/go/vcfhol…

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  13. NSX-T Data Center Security and Distributed Firewall with Britton Johnson

    Britton Johnson (https://twitter.com/vcixnv) continues our series on NSX-T Data Center with a look at Security and Distributed Firewall. Britton dives deeper into the security features of the platform and shows us how security rules are evaluated. We also got a peek at vRealize Network Insight...

  14. vExpert PRO 2020 Update with Tim Davis, Matt Crape, Matt Langguth, Joe Houghes, Ariel Sanchez

    A new crop of VMware vExpert PROs were awarded and we had some of them participate in a roundtable talking about what the program is about and how it helps others who aspire to get the vExpert award. Here's the announcement and their twitter accounts:...

  15. NSX-T Data Center Routing and Switching with Britton Johnson

    Britton Johnson (https://twitter.com/vcixnv) continues our series on NSX-T Data Center with a look at Routing and Switching. Britton gives us a deeper dive into the logical constructs within NSX-T as well as some topology examples and guidance on design. #NSX #VMware #Education Resources:...

  16. Unlocking the Potential of Events for SDDC Automation presented by Michael Gasch (@ebano1), William Lam (@lamw) and PK (@pkblah)

    Michael, William and PK join us to discuss how VEBA enables event based automation for vSphere. Every VI Admin knows that little toolbar in vCenter Server showing the Tasks and Events happening in their environment. This is commonly used to track progress of an operation and can also be used for...

  17. Introduction to NSX-T, presented by Britton Johnson

    VMware, VMware Network Virtualization Britton Johnson (https://twitter.com/vcixnv) begins our series on NSX-T with a look at the overall platform and its capabilities as well as resources for exam preparation and general learning. Resources: https://nsx.techzone.vmware.com/ https://www.dpdk.org

  18. Tips, Habits & Grit - What Successful Engineers do to Advance their Career presented by Nick Scuola

    Nick Scuola (nscuola) give us a great rundown of tips and habits that technical engineers can utilize to enable themselves to skill up and truly drive their careers Resources: https://spookysolutions.com/2019/10/11/tips-habits-grit-what-successful-engineers-do-to-advance-their-careers/...

  19. Falling from the Clouds - Basics, Pitfalls & What You Didn't Know About Azure & AWS

    Jason McMinn (@vm_jmcminn) will lead a discussion around Azure & AWS, where we'll cover some basics, pitfalls and the things we didn't know that we didn't know about Azure & AWS.

  20. A Tale of Trust presented by Benedikt Frenzel (@BenediktFrenzel)

    VMware, Security Benedikt Frenzel (@BenediktFrenzel) joins us to discuss how the Lookup Service works and how to fix Trust Anchor mismatches. Resources:

  21. Flask on AWS Farget by Michael Herman

    Michael Herman (@MikeHerman) continues our Python For DevOps series how to use Python, Docker, and AWS Fargate to run a Flask microservice! It's a lot of knowledge in 46 minutes to hang on tight! Resources: https://gitlab.com/testdriven/flask-tdd-docker/tree/aws-fargate...

  22. Learning Python: Foundations to Real World Projects by Eric Matthes

    Eric Matthes (@ehmatthes), author of the best seller Python Crash Course, continues our Python For DevOps series, shares baby pics of himself, and does a live coding exercise using the requests module and threading! Resources: https://ehmatthes.github.io/pcc_2e https://ehmatthes.github.io...

  23. Building and Deploying a Python Tool with Flask and vRA Cloud by Tom Burge

    Tom Burge (@vcixninja) continues our Python For DevOps series with a look at vRA Cloud, VMware CodeStream, & Flask Resources: https://github.com/tomburge/dice-data-collector https://github.com/tomburge/ https://tomburge.org/

  24. Use Python's async and await to boost DevOps by Michael Kennedy (@mkennedy)

    Michael Kennedy (@mkennedy), host of the Talk Python To Me Podcast (@TalkPython) continues our Python For DevOps series with a presentation on how to use the async and await keywords to increase performance! Resources: https://github.com/mikeckennedy/async-await-jetbrains-webcast...

  25. Visual Debugging with Games Presented by Paul Everitt

    Paul Everitt (@paulweveritt) continues our Python For DevOps series with a fantastic presentation on how to debug your code using a visual interface, and he uses a video game to demonstrate! Resources: https://github.com/pauleveritt/visual_debugging

  26. Python Pandas for Excel Presented by Katie Kodes

    Katie Kodes (@KatieKodes) continues our Python For DevOps series with an amazing discussion on methods for using Python and the Pandas Library to more easily get to the data you need! Resources: https://katiekodes.com/vbb19 https://repl.it https://codebunk.com/...

  27. Python for PowerShellers presented by Kyle Ruddy

    Kyle Ruddy (@kmruddy) continues our Python For DevOps series and discusses the differences in the Python & PowerShell languages, focused towards those using PowerShell Resources: https://www.kmruddy.com https://github.com/kmruddy

  28. Moving Past Tutorials in Python presented by Ali Spittel (@ASpittel)

    Ali Spittel (@ASpittel) continues our Python For DevOps series and discusses how to get practical with your code Resources: https://www.alispit.tel/ https://dev.to/aspittel https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/every-time-you-build-a-to-do-list-app-a-puppy-dies-505b54637a5d/

  29. Learning & Teaching Python with Sean and Kelly! Presented by Sean Tibor & Kelly Schuster-Paredes (@smtibor @kellyPared)

    Sean Tibor & Kelly Schuster-Paredes (@smtibor @kellyPared) continue our Python For DevOps series and discuss methods for learning more effectively, increasing retention, and stuffing more info into your head! Resources:...

  30. Python Debugging with PDB by Chrissy Wainwright @cdw9

    Chrissy Wainwright (@cdw9) continues our Python For DevOps series and shows us how to use the built in debugger to step through our code! Resources: https://www.slideshare.net/cdw9/debugging-with-pdb https://pymotw.com/3/pdb/ https://pyvideo.org/pycon-us-2014/in-depth-pdb.html

  31. Building Small, Sharp Tools with Python by Keith Thompson @keiththomps

    Keith Thompson continues our Python for DevOps series and shows us one of his upcoming projects that he's written as an instructor for LinuxAcademy.com Resources: linuxacademy.com coderjourney.com *About vBrownBag* SUBSCRIBE! http://bit.ly/vBBYoutube Socials: Twitter…

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  32. "Intro to CI/CD with Python" presented by Chris Arceneaux

    Chris Arceneaux (@chris_arceneaux) continues our Python For DevOps series and discusses how to use the CI/CD platforms Travis CI & Gitlab Resources: https://www.arsano.ninja/ https://github.com/carceneaux/travis-ci-python-demo https://github.com/carceneaux/gitlab-ci-python-demo *About vBrownBag*...

  33. HashiCorp Tools - Overview, Workflow & Demo with @gmaentz

    Gabe Maentz, fellow long time vCommunity and member and co-founder of vBrisket gives us a "speed-dating" introduction of all the more famous HashiCorp tools: Vagrant, Packer, Terraform, Vault and Consul. He ties it all in really nicely in his demos by using the https://nifi.apache.org/ OSS...

  34. Governing your Microsoft Azure Environment with Phoummala Schmitt

    As a conclusion to our 2019 Azure series, Phoummala Schmitt discusses how Microsoft takes the pain out of Azure governance using policies and blueprints. Reach Phoummala at twitter.com/ExchangeGoddess or by email at ExchangeGoddess @ microsoft.com All Azure Governance documentation can be found…

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  35. #vBrownBag US Scaling Microsoft Azure for Growth and Resiliency w Jeramiah Dooley

    All links from the show are available at https://www.theurlist.com/rsfrnha Join us to look at how one of the fundamental tasks every admin has to handle works in Azure. Weâ??ll cover the basics about how and when to scale, options for VMs and App Services,...

  36. #vBrownBag US - Microsoft Windows Server 2019 Next Level Hybrid Cloud w/ Thomas Maurer

    Thomas Maurer returns to the Azure series to discuss Windows Server 2019 and its hybrid cloud functionality. The Microsoft TechCommunity blog is at ITOpsTalk.com Thomas is on twitter at https://www.twitter.com/ThomasMaurer Thomas's website is www.thomasmaurer.ch Join this session for the best of...

  37. #vBrownBag US - Microsoft Windows Server 2008 End of Life: Know Your Options with Phoummala Schmidt @ExchangeGoddess

    Phoummala Schmidt joins vBrownbag to discuss options for End of Life for Windows Server 2008 and SQL 2008 Reach out to Phommala Schmidt on twitter at https;//www.twitter.com/ExchangeGoddess Visit the End of Support resource center: www.microsoft.com/2008-eos

  38. #vBrownBag US - Azure Stack Your Cloud Your Datacenter with Thomas Maurer @thomasmaurer

    Thomas Maurer joins vBrownbag to discuss Azure Stack and Azure Stack HCI. To learn more check out the following links aka.ms/tm-azs aka.ms/tm-azs-hci aka.ms/azops-azs

  39. #vBrownBag US - Building apps that can see with AWS Rekognition and Python - Kunal Batra (@kunal732)

    Kunal Batra (@kunal732) continues our Python for DevOps series and we learn how to create Lambda functions, troubleshoot AWS Rekognition, and find out if Chris Williams is really Chris Williams!

  40. #vBrownBag US - VMware vRealize Operations and Orchestrator Compliance with John Dias @JohnDDias

    John Dias joins vBrownbag to discuss compliance and remediation with vRealize Operations and vRealize Orchestrator

  41. #vBrownBag US - Building a Python SDK For Cloud Automation Services w @CodyDeArkland

    Cody De Arkland joins us to discuss building Caspyr, a friendly python sdk to control VMware Cloud Automation Services.

  42. #vBrownBag US - Adding intelligence to applications with Python, Boto3, and Machine Learning APIs with Randall Hunt

    Randall Hunt (@jrhunt) continues our Python for DevOps series and we learn how to troubleshoot, import Boto3, and use AWS Rekognition!

  43. #vBrownBag US - Test-driven development in Python presented by Alex Linck

    Alex Linck (@alex_linck) continues our Python For DevOps series with an excellent introduction to unit testing and why you should be doing during *before* you write your production code!

  44. #vBrownBag US - How I started a VPN service with WordPress, Python scripts, and Vultr servers

    Reilly Chase continues our series on PythonForDevOps! resources: https://github.com/reillychase https://www.twitch.tv/reillychase https://shipstreams.com https://pynet.twb-tech.com/blog/automation/netmiko.html http://www.paramiko.org/

  45. #vBrownBag US - Deploying to AWS with Python, Boto3, and CI/CD presented by Chris Plankey

    Chris Plankey talks about using CI/CD & Boto3 on AWS to bring your Python to the next level in this continuation of the Python for DevOps series! Resources: https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/using-branches https://docs.pylint.org/en/1.9/tutorial.html...

  46. #vBrownBag US - AWS APIs with Boto3 presented by Calvin Hendryx-Parker

    @calvinhp brings the knowledge in this fantastic continuation of the Python for DevOps series! Resources: https://github.com/calvinhp/2019_AWS_Boto3_vBrownBag

  47. #vBrownBag US - Automating Sysadmin Tasks with Python with Gina Bueno

    Gina Bueno (@ginrubu) continues the vBrownBag #PythonForDevOps series with simple automation processes that she uses in her day-to-day! Gina's code example repo: https://github.com/ginathegenius/vbrownbag-demo Resource recommendations: https://www.codecademy.com/ https://codingbat.com/python...

  48. #vBrownBag US - Puppet Bolt with Lucy Wyman and Alex Dreyer

    Lucy Wyman and Alex Dreyer join us to introduce Puppet Bolt. Lucy is on twitter at https://www.twitter.com/LucyCWyman The bolt project is available at https://github.com/puppetlabs/bolt The demo from this vBrownbag presentation is available at https://github.com/puppetlabs/brownbag-demo/ Official...

  49. #vBrownBag US - Vendor neutral backup considerations for vSphere with Charles Adams

    In this edition of vBrownBag we hosted vExpert Charles Adams https://twitter.com/whitehattechs who has made his career as a backup engineer. He has lessons learned from managing several large backup solutions in multi-site companies and he has delivered his talks in 3 Usercons in the US in 2018.…

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  50. #vBrownBag US - Python 4 DevOps basics with Chris Williams @mistwire

    Chris Williams kicks off the Python 4 DevOps series discussing the basics Resources: Automate the Boring Stuff by Al Sweigart https://www.twitter.com/AlSweigart Modern Python 3 Bootcamp (Colt Steele) - Udemy Python for Everybody - py4e.com https://www.twitter.com/drchuck Python Crash Course (Eric...

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BrownBags are a series of online webinars held using GotoMeeting and covering various datacenter & datacenter Certification topics. These BrownBags are held live at various dates and times around the globe and each covers a different bit of datacenter related specialization.

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