Please come join us for the 2018 DFW VMUG – Lunch and Learn #1!
Featured Speaker VMware EUC Office of the CTO Brian Madden
Agenda
FREE Lunch Sponsored by:
FREE DFW VMUG Member Event!
What: Register for DFW VMUG #3 2018 – December 21st
When: Friday, May 18, 2018, 8:30 AM – 3:00 PM Central Time (US)
Where: Studio Movie Grill (SMG) – 10110 Technology Blvd W, Dallas, TX 75220
Right after the movie we will have our awesome vSocial from 3-7 pm right down the street at Humperdink’s North of SMG in the same center.
Meeting Event Highlights
Topics and Speakers:
WWT – Sean Hicks:
WWT – John Tejada and Tyler Warren:
SovLabs – Sid Smith:
Abstract: Learn how SovLabs can help dynamically drive workload deployments to decrease the overall number of vRA blueprints and reduce ongoing environment management and maintenance
VMware – Tim Davis:
Session Name: VMware Cloud Services / Cloud Automation Services:
Abstract: So you’ve been a vSphere admin for years, and one day your boss comes in and tells you that the CIO wants to go to the cloud. And they aren’t talking about the private cloud you’ve spent years building on prem. They mean the likes of AWS, Azure, and Google. What are you supposed to do? Start all over? Forget everything you’ve learned? Trust me, I’ve been in your shoes. It can be overwhelming. The great news is that your old friend VMware has a few new tricks up its sleeve. In this session we’re going to take a look at the VMware Cloud Services portfolio. What is VMware Cloud Services, you say? It’s the multitude of SaaS offerings aimed directly at how you Monitor, Manage, Analyze, an Automate your public cloud workloads. Let’s talk about it together!
Featured Member Speaker – Paul Bryant:
Let’s continue to work together to add outstanding value for all members and to continue to grow our DFW VMUG Community.
Stay connected with your fellow VMUG members in person and/or via our online forums listed:
The DFW VMUG Leadership Team Invites you to UserCon 2018!
What: DFW VMUG UserCon 2018
When: Tuesday, October 2, 2018
Where: Irving Convention Center
500 West Las Colinas Boulevard
Irving, TX 75039
The Dallas Fort-Worth VMUG UserCon is FREE for all VMUG members.
This one-day event provides:
Ray O’Farrell — VMware Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer
Duncan Epping — Chief Technologist of VMware Storage and Availability
Amy Lewis — Director of Influence Marketing at VMware
Come join the fun, network and learn how to enable your business for an outstanding hybrid cloud experience with VMware Cloud on AWS (VMConAWS) .
Join NEW VMUG VMConAWS Community!
We have started this *NEW* VMUG VMConAWS Community to help everyone get started on their hybrid cloud journey. Come join the community and lets learn together as you try out VMConAWS. We would love to make this a collaborative learning experience so once signed up please ask questions and provide feedback to let us know what you think about this hybrid cloud offering, what works and what needs work.
What is VMConAWS?
VMConAWS is a VMware Managed Service offering enabling VMware Customers to utilize their current VMware knowledge, expertise and custom scripts in the AWS Cloud. No need to retrain IT staff or convert virtual machines to a new format. Leverage the best of practices from the leading cloud leaders for the private cloud (VMware) and public (AWS) for providing a world class hybrid cloud solution that will save you time and money. This cloud solution is based on dedicated bare metal AWS servers running VMware Cloud Foundations (vSphere ESXi, NSX and vSAN).
Couple things about VMConAWS:
Please sign up for VMUG VMConAWS Community today!
You could be our next winner, sign up for a chance to WIN a free 30-day Single Host trial. First join the VMUG VMware Cloud On AWS Community, and then fill out the contest form. Winners are selected at random from the pool of entrants on a periodic basis.
This is quick post to document an error I had when trying to import an OVA into my VMware Workstation 14.
Upon importing the virtual machine, I got the following message:
Invalid target disk adapter type: pvscsi.
I was able to get this to work after googling around and indirectly applying a tip from William Lam’s Blog, “Workarounds for deploying PhotonOS 2.0 on vSphere, Fusion & Workstation“.
The secret sauce was to use the “ovatool “, using it I was able to extract and convert the OVA to an OVF.
C:\Users\Wences Michel\Documents\vmw\vmc\t1>”C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware Workstation\OVFTool\ovftool” –allowExtraConfig t1.ova t1.ovf
Opening OVA source: t1.ova
The manifest validates
Warning:
– Line -1: Unsupported value ‘vmware.tools.internalversion’ for attribute ‘key’ on element ‘ExtraConfig’.
– Line -1: Unsupported value ‘vmware.tools.requiredversion’ for attribute ‘key’ on element ‘ExtraConfig’.
Opening OVF target: t1.ovf
Writing OVF package: t1.ovf
Transfer Completed
Completed successfully
Then I was able to use my editor to search for “VirtualSCSI” and edit the OVF, changing a line in the file to reflect “lsilogic” instead.
Line Before Change: <rasd:ResourceSubType>VirtualSCSI</rasd:ResourceSubType>
Line After Change: <rasd:ResourceSubType>lsilogic</rasd:ResourceSubType>
You will then need to delete the .mf file as original checksum has changed since you edited the file. I then recreated the OVA and successfully imported the OVA.
C:\Users\Wences Michel\Documents\vmw\vmc\t1>”C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware Workstation\OVFTool\ovftool” –allowExtraConfig t1.ova t1.ovf
Opening OVA source: t1.ova
The manifest validates
Warning:
– Line -1: Unsupported value ‘vmware.tools.internalversion’ for attribute ‘key’ on element ‘ExtraConfig’.
– Line -1: Unsupported value ‘vmware.tools.requiredversion’ for attribute ‘key’ on element ‘ExtraConfig’.
Opening OVF target: t1.ovf
Writing OVF package: t1.ovf
Transfer Completed
Completed successfully
I then opened VMware Workstation and opened the OVA and it imported with no issue.
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Meeting Event Highlights
Thanks to our Event Sponsors!
What: Register for DFW VMUG #2 Event
When: Friday, May 18, 2018, 8:30 AM – 3:00 PM Central Time (US)
Where: Studio Movie Grill (SMG) – 10110 Technology Blvd W, Dallas, TX 75220
Right after the movie we will have our awesome vSocial from 3-7 pm right down the street at Humperdink’s North of SMG in the same center.
Also stay connected with your fellow VMUG members in person and/or via our online forums listed:
The DFW VMUG Leadership Team invites you to attend a half day morning meeting composing of 3 sessions running concurrently at the VMware offices:
Overview of VMware Certifications
Date:
April 25th 9:00 AM – 11:30 AM
Location:
1503 LBJ Parkway
Suite 700
Farmers Branch, TX 75234
Track 1 – vRealize Orchestrator Lab – Ingenuity Room
This educational session will take a hands on approach to vRealize orchestrator. It will consist of a thirty minute overview of development in orchestrator followed by a one and a half hour guided lab. The content has been developed by a VCDX-Cloud certified engineer to introduce infrastructure professionals to the world of site reliability engineering and automation. Due to the limits of the lab this session has a maximum of 25 people per lab. The instructor will be available post lab for questions and assistance with individual challenges. Participants should bring their own laptop with Java preinstalled.
Track 2 – Upgrading to vSphere 6.5 whiteboarding – Fortitude Room
This session will focus on the architecture for vSphere 6.5 and whiteboarding upgrade paths it will be an interactive session to help individuals upgrade to 6.5.
Track 3 – Overview of VMware certifications and Q & A – Dignity Room
This session will focus on VMware certification paths. Education experts will present on the topic and be available to answer questions.
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