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Introducing Repo: A community repository for infrastructure blueprints
We are very pleased to announce the availability of Ravello Repo. Repo is a library of public blueprints shared by experts in the infrastructure community (individuals and companies), for the benefit...
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Ravello’s Free Lab Service for all 2015 vExperts
Dear vExperts, You are the pioneers of learning and sharing your knowledge to guide the entire VMware community. In order to support and accelerate innovation in the virtualization community, Ravello...
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Splunk demo, PoC, training environments with L2 networking on Google & AWS
Splunk is a SIEM market leader with an active ecosystem of resellers, application developers, partners, customers – all of which need a Splunk lab for sales demos, customer PoCs, training and...
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OpenStack Revisited – Kilo Ravello blueprint to build lab environments on AWS...
Author: Michael J. Clarkson Jr. President at Flakjacket Inc., Michael is Red Hat Certified Architect Level II (E,I,X,VA,SA-OSP,DS,A), Cloudera Certified Administrator Apache Hadoop OpenStack Kilo...
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Skyhigh Networks – On-demand customer PoC environments on AWS & Google Cloud
Author: Dr. Nate BradySystems Engineering Manager at Skyhigh Networks Nate is a Systems Engineering Manager at Skyhigh Networks managing a growing team of SEs based out of US. Nate is an expert in...
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My Virtual Way: Lab to migrate a VM with vMotion (and still without hardware)
The last time I started learning what VMware was all about, I stopped at the high-level theoretical overview of the availability, scalability, management and optimization challenges that VMware...
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How to emulate DCs in public cloud and connect them using Cisco CSR 1000v?
Author: Mirko Grabel Mirko Grabel is a ‘Kick-Ass’ Technical Marketing Engineer with Cisco, and an active CCIE certified speaker at Cisco Live. He has global technical responsibility for ISR, CSR and...
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Migrating dev & test workloads from VMware to AWS
I was on the phone with Chris Porter today (side note - I was quickly impressed with his knowledge) and he made an interesting point about running dev/test workloads in the cloud. “If my production is...
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The future of training is here: Self paced learning with just-in-time lab...
There is a funny analogy between TV and self paced learning. How many of you are still watching only regular cable - without any DVR, without any on-demand content? Very very few, I bet. And I’m sure...
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How to setup DHCP for 2nd level guests running on ESXi in Ravello
As most of you probably know besides implementing a hypervisor merely capable of running regular VMs, we’ve also implemented a CPU virtualization extensions called VT-I for Intel or SVM for AMD cpus....
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My Virtual Way: VCA and VCP certification exam prep: Lab setup – Getting started
There are many great guides out there to study for the the VCA and VCP exam, but many of us don’t have access to a proper lab setup to train on. Especially now with VCP6, often times it’s tough to...
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ManageIQ user day and lab at the OpenStack summit
Author: Geert Jansen The product owner of CloudForms, Geert's areas of expertise include tinkering with all new technologies, developing extensions and modules to contribute on the GitHub. ManageIQ is...
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Mirantis OpenStack 6.0 Lab on AWS and Google Cloud
Author: Stacy Véronneau Lead OpenStack architect with CloudOps, Stacy has extensive experience in Cloud & classic infrastructures, operations management across multiple technologies & IT...
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VirtualBox to Vagrant to Ravello Smart Labs – Software Development...
VirtualBox and Vagrant are popular tools in the development & test community because of their ease of use and simplicity - but developers want more. This post discusses when to use Virtual Box,...
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How to use Veeam Cloud Connect for DR: backup and restore with nested ESXi on...
The topic of Enterprise Disaster Recovery in the "Cloud" often comes up when I am working with Ravello customers. Since Ravello can create high-fidelity on-demand copies of your VMware and KVM...
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Nested ESXi on AWS – say what!?
I still love this story from Maish Saidel-Keesing where he talks about how everybody vividly remembers the first time they saw vMotion in action and instantly realised that it would change the way...
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Ravello VM Import Tool – Best Practices and Tips
Ravello’s VM Import Tool Ravello offers an import tool that enables organizations to easily upload their VMware and KVM VMs to Ravello’s platform in a variety of ways - directly from vCenter or...
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VMware ESXi on Ravello – beta tech chat with product team. Episode #4
We held our VMware ESXi on Ravello tech chat earlier this week - we will soon update this post with the recording. You can also sign up for our next product tech chat and join us for an interactive...
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Software training portal: creating courses, classes and student labs using...
To make the set-up, administration and delivery of classroom training, instructor-led training and self-paced training sessions, Ravello created an easily configurable training portal. The training...
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Continuous integration testing with ESXi labs on AWS and Google cloud for...
Author: Vivek Nair Interests include geeking out about virtualization & building complex distributed systems. Previously worked at Asana and on the Local Law Enforcement team at Palantir...
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