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Vedran Dakic
Vedran Dakic
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Vedran Dakic

Vedran Dakic is a master of electrical engineering and computing and an IT trainer, covering system administration, cloud, automatization, and orchestration courses. He is a certified Red Hat, VMware, and Microsoft trainer. He's currently employed as head of the department of operating systems at Algebra University College in Zagreb. As part of this job, he's a lecturer for 3- and 5-year study programs in system engineering, programming, and multimedia tracks. Also, he does a lot of consulting and systems integration for his clients' projects – something he has been doing for the past 25 years. His approach is simple – bring real-world experience to all the courses that he teaches as it brings added value to his students and customers.
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Humble Devassy Chirammal
Humble Devassy Chirammal
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Humble Devassy Chirammal

Humble Devassy Chirammal works as a senior software engineer at Red Hat in the Storage Engineering team. He has more than 10 years of IT experience and his area of expertise is in knowing the full stack of an ecosystem and architecting the solutions based on the demand. These days, he primarily concentrates on GlusterFS and emerging technologies, such as IaaS, PaaS solutions in Cloud, and Containers. He has worked on intrusion detection systems, clusters, and virtualization. He is an Open Source advocate. He actively organizes meetups on Virtualization, CentOS, Openshift, and GlusterFS. His Twitter handle is @hchiramm and his website is http://www.humblec.com/.
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Prasad Mukhedkar

Prasad Mukhedkar is a senior technical support engineer at Red Hat. His area of expertise is designing, building, and supporting IT infrastructure for workloads, especially large virtualization environments and cloud IaaS using open source technologies. He is skilled in KVM virtualization with continuous working experience from its very early stages, possesses extensive hands-on and technical knowledge of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization. These days, he concentrates primarily on OpenStack and Cloudforms platforms. His other area of interest includes Linux performance tuning, designing highly scalable open source identity management solutions, and enterprise IT security. He is a huge fan of the Linux "GNU Screen" utility.
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Anil Vettathu
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Anil Vettathu

Anil Vettathu started his association with Linux in college and began his career as a Linux System Administrator soon after. He is a generalist and is interested in Open Source technologies. He has hands on experience in designing and implementing large scale virtualization environments using open source technologies and has extensive knowledge in libvirt and KVM. These days he primarily works on Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, containers and real time performance tuning. Currently, he is working as a Technical Account Manager for Red Hat. His website is http://anilv.in.
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Configuring Open vSwitch

Imagine for a second that you're working for a small company that has three to four KVM hosts, a couple of network-attached storage devices to host their 15 virtual machines, and that you've been employed by the company from the very start. So, you've seen it all – the company buying some servers, network switches, cables, and storage devices, and you were a part of a small team of people that built that environment. After 2 years of that process, you're aware of the fact that everything works, it's simple to maintain, and doesn't give you an awful lot of grief.

Now, imagine the life of a friend of yours working for a bigger enterprise company that has 400 KVM hosts and close to 2,000 virtual machines to manage, doing the same job as you're doing in a comfy chair of your office in your small company.

Do you think that your friend can manage his or her environment by using the very same tools that you're...

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Vedran Dakic

Vedran Dakic is a master of electrical engineering and computing and an IT trainer, covering system administration, cloud, automatization, and orchestration courses. He is a certified Red Hat, VMware, and Microsoft trainer. He's currently employed as head of the department of operating systems at Algebra University College in Zagreb. As part of this job, he's a lecturer for 3- and 5-year study programs in system engineering, programming, and multimedia tracks. Also, he does a lot of consulting and systems integration for his clients' projects – something he has been doing for the past 25 years. His approach is simple – bring real-world experience to all the courses that he teaches as it brings added value to his students and customers.
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Humble Devassy Chirammal

Humble Devassy Chirammal works as a senior software engineer at Red Hat in the Storage Engineering team. He has more than 10 years of IT experience and his area of expertise is in knowing the full stack of an ecosystem and architecting the solutions based on the demand. These days, he primarily concentrates on GlusterFS and emerging technologies, such as IaaS, PaaS solutions in Cloud, and Containers. He has worked on intrusion detection systems, clusters, and virtualization. He is an Open Source advocate. He actively organizes meetups on Virtualization, CentOS, Openshift, and GlusterFS. His Twitter handle is @hchiramm and his website is http://www.humblec.com/.
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Prasad Mukhedkar

Prasad Mukhedkar is a senior technical support engineer at Red Hat. His area of expertise is designing, building, and supporting IT infrastructure for workloads, especially large virtualization environments and cloud IaaS using open source technologies. He is skilled in KVM virtualization with continuous working experience from its very early stages, possesses extensive hands-on and technical knowledge of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization. These days, he concentrates primarily on OpenStack and Cloudforms platforms. His other area of interest includes Linux performance tuning, designing highly scalable open source identity management solutions, and enterprise IT security. He is a huge fan of the Linux "GNU Screen" utility.
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Anil Vettathu

Anil Vettathu started his association with Linux in college and began his career as a Linux System Administrator soon after. He is a generalist and is interested in Open Source technologies. He has hands on experience in designing and implementing large scale virtualization environments using open source technologies and has extensive knowledge in libvirt and KVM. These days he primarily works on Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, containers and real time performance tuning. Currently, he is working as a Technical Account Manager for Red Hat. His website is http://anilv.in.
Read more about Anil Vettathu