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Hi everyone, this week we are pleased to bring you a new VMware TAM Blog. This latest blog post is entitled "Documenting Your IT Security Posture”, by our Senior Technical Account Manager, Jason Gaudreau. Here is an excerpt.

The VMware Security Hardening Guides contain recommended processes for deploying and operating VMware products in a secure manner given a specified risk profile. You may not need, or may not be able, to follow each step in the security Hardening Guides because of the balance of operational efficiency, cost, risk tolerance and security requirements. The security hardening practices are recommended by VMware, but equally important is having a security controls document that incorporates VMware best practice recommendations combined with your specific security policies. It can be an invaluable tool during an audit.

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• 4 Steps to Better Market Your Cloud Services (http://blogs.vmware.com/cloudops/?p=1423)By Alberto Martinez Successful cloud providers invest in marketing their services: promoting them, showing the value to customers, implementing strong pricing campaigns—and they understand how to rapidly adapt to changing market demands. But what prevents your internal IT organization from defining an effective marketing strategy to be more competitive and foster your cloud investments? And […]

   

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  Relevance of POSIX in the Big Data Era? (http://blogs.vmware.com/cto/?p=3307)Let’s start with a thought exercise: imagine your application issues a write() call followed by a read(). What would you expect to get back in the read operation? Here are your options: Always get back the latest update Get back either the latest update or the previous value, but never partial updates Always get back the latest update if the read is issued from within the same session Once the latest value is returned by the read, the subsequent reads will never return the old stale value i.e., monotonic…

   

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  VMware Virtual SAN 6.0: Bootstorm Demonstration (http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/?p=16422)Since the official announcement of VMware Virtual SAN All-Flash architecture, most of the conversations have been focused about the solutions incredible performance capabilities and attributes with regards to IOPS, predictable performance, sub-millisecond latencies. All of those attributes are great and part of the reason as to why Virtual SAN 6.0 as a storage platform and […]

   

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  What’s All the Buzz About Software-Defined Storage? (http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/?p=16420)By now, you’ve more than likely heard something about Software-Defined Storage. With every mention of the term, you may be wondering, “What does it mean for me?” Wonder no longer! The VMware Software-Defined Storage approach enables a fundamentally more efficient operational model, driving transformation through the hypervisor, bring to storage the same operational efficiency that […]

   

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  vSphere 6 Feature Walkthroughs (http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/?p=16416)The Technical Marketing team has put out a series of vSphere 6 related feature walkthroughs. We’re covering vCenter Server install and upgrades for many different scenarios as well as vSphere Data Protection and vSphere Replication. These are available now here: vSphere 6 Feature Walkthroughs keep an eye out for many more to be added in the […]

   

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  Documenting Your IT Security Posture (http://blogs.vmware.com/tam/?p=1994)By Jason Gaudreau The VMware Security Hardening Guides contain recommended processes for deploying and operating VMware products in a secure manner given a specified risk profile. You may not need, or may not be able, to follow each step in the security Hardening Guides because of the balance of operational efficiency, cost, risk tolerance and […]

   

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  3 Common Myths About Training (http://blogs.vmware.com/education/?p=5286)It’s a busy world and training is often the last thing on your list. Who has the time or money when there’s so much else to do? The real question is, “Can you afford not to?” Training may be the most important thing you do this year and, with new options, it’s now faster and […]

   

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  Answering Your Questions about the Network Virtualization Certifications (http://blogs.vmware.com/education/?p=5264)Over the last couple of weeks there have been several questions raised about the Network Virtualization certifications that we wanted to address.   What’s the deadline for earning a VMware Network Virtualization certification holding a Cisco certification?   Due to its popularity, we have extended this program until January 31, 2016. You can earn your VMware Certified […]

   

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  Free Webinar: Designing a Virtual Infrastructure Architecture (http://blogs.vmware.com/education/?p=5279)Join a free VMware webinar on March 4 on designing a virtual infrastructure architecture

   

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  Congratulations to the Newest VCDXs (http://blogs.vmware.com/education/?p=5275)Congratulations to the four newest VMware Certified Design Experts (VCDXs): Richard Anderson, VCDX-Cloud Amanda Botsko-Wilson, VCDX-Cloud Thomas Brown, VCDX-DT Amin Naserpour, VCDX5-DCV VMware Certified Design Experts are part of an elite group of architects leading virtualization implementations around the world. The highest level of certification offered by VMware, the VCDX Program validates a candidates enterprise-class skills in […]

   

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  Celebrating Engineers Week 2015 | #eweek2015 (http://blogs.vmware.com/tribalknowledge/?p=3673)Happy Engineers Week! Here at Tribal Knowledge we believe that Engineers Week is more than a single event. It’s a year-round commitment to celebrate how engineers make a difference in our world. In partnership with the VMware Careers Blog, Tribal Knowledge is using this special week to kick off the VMware Innovation Series. Each month we’ll […]

   

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  VMware Heads to Mobile World Congress (http://blogs.vmware.com/tribalknowledge/?p=3677)If you happen to find yourself in Barcelona next week, the lineup for Mobile World Congress this year includes Mark Zuckerberg and Tom Wheeler, as well as industry leaders like Samsung and Nokia. In addition to stalwarts of the mobile world, VMware will again be participating in 2015, with a number of exciting announcements. Last […]

   

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  New Research Report: The Strategic Impact of Mobile Transformation on Business Value (http://blogs.vmware.com/tribalknowledge/?p=3668)Navigating the Future of Work amid Cultural and Technological Shifts in the Mobile Enterprise The rise of mobile and cloud computing is driving a cultural and technological transformation in which people expect anytime, anywhere access to colleagues, products and services. To react to this transformation, companies have to rethink the tools and business processes they provide […]

   

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  The Payment Industry Enters Technology Revolution Akin to the 1990’s Internet (http://blogs.vmware.com/tribalknowledge/?p=3661)By Sanjay Poonen, EVP and GM, End-User Computing, VMware The payment industry is at a crossroads today as the traditional players face a choice to reinvent themselves or risk being displaced through a metronomic drift from relevance. Similar to the early days of the Internet where the promise and possibilities were evident but the broader […]

   

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  Disrupt Panel: Innovation Across Industries (http://blogs.vmware.com/tribalknowledge/?p=3656)Coinciding with VMware’s One Cloud, Any Application launch event on Feb. 2, CEO Pat Gelsinger joined thought leaders from across industries to delve into the topic of market disruption. The panel, moderated by Quentin Hardy, deputy tech editor for the New York Times, also included Geoffrey Moore, managing director of Geoffrey Moore Consulting, Casey Gerald, […]

   

   

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  Use Horizon View to Access Virtual Desktops Remotely – Without a VPN (http://blogs.vmware.com/consulting/?p=2075)  By Eric Monjoin and Xavier Montaron VMware Horizon View enables you to access a virtual desktop from anywhere, anytime. You can work remotely from your office or from a cybercafé, or anywhere else as long as there is a network connection to connect you to Horizon View infrastructure. It’s an ideal solution – but […]

   

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  SDDC Architectures: Faster and Reliable BCDR for your cloud using NSX, SRM and vRealize Suite (http://blogs.vmware.com/management/?p=6166)This is a repost from Hany Michael‘s personal blog, Hypervizor.com. Nearly six years ago, when VMware first introduced Site Recovery Manager (SRM), it was quite a big hit in the world of enterprise customers. Being a VMware customer myself at that time, I remember how this represented a significant improvement in how we handle our DR scenarios. Specifically, we […]

   

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  Abu Dhabi Department of Transport Accelerates IT Service Delivery (http://blogs.vmware.com/management/?p=6051)by Rich Bourdeau The Abu Dhabi Department of Transport (DoT) was established to deliver an effective transport system that contributes to the economic growth, quality of life and environmental sustainability of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi. DoT serves the public interest by enhancing mobility and delivering safe, secure and environmentally responsible aviation, maritime, public transport […]

   

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  Exploring the vRealize Automation 6.1+ Content Pack for Log Insight (http://blogs.vmware.com/management?p=6058&preview_id=6058)The recently released vRealize Automation 6.1+ Content Pack was designed based on versions 6.1 and 6.2. See the announcement made by Steve Flanders last week. Given the many different possible components of a vRealize Automation implementation, collecting and collating logs can be a challenge. This content pack will help bring views of all logs together and […]

   

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  Arista Network Log Management with vRealize Log Insight Content Pack (http://blogs.vmware.com/management/?p=6133)One of the biggest challenges for virtual and network administrators is monitoring and analyzing the status of their network; specifically for detecting any impacts to their virtual servers. The Arista Networks Log Insight Content Pack gives operators a powerful tool to monitor their Arista network with vSphere specific event triggers. Using the powerful graphing and […]

   

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  VMware pushes the envelope with vSphere 6.0 vMotion (http://blogs.vmware.com/performance/?p=2128)vMotion in VMware vSphere 6.0 delivers breakthrough new capabilities that will offer customers a new level of flexibility and performance in moving virtual machines across their virtual infrastructures. Included with vSphere 6.0 vMotion are features – Long-distance migration, Cross-vCenter migration, Routed vMotion network – that enable seamless migrations across current management and distance boundaries. For the first […]

   

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  Changes to Transparent Page Sharing completed and updated VMware Security Advisories (http://blogs.vmware.com/security/?p=1317)As previously posted (Oct 16, Nov 24, Dec 4 and Jan 27), VMware has introduced new TPS (Transparent Page Sharing) management options. Today’s ESXi 5.0 patch restricts TPS to individual VMs and disables inter-VM TPS by default unless an administrator chooses to re-enable it. Please see KB 2097593 for full details on the functionality. Additionally VMware has today updated advisory VMSA-2015-0001.1. Customers should review […]

   

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  From Your Workstation to the Cloud (http://blogs.vmware.com/vcloud/?p=4754)If you’ve used VMware Workstation lately you might have noticed something a bit new since version 11 was released: native, built-in integration with VMware vCloud® Air™. A little while back I wrote a post on how to migrate a VM built in VMware Fusion to vCloud Air.  In this post, I’ll be doing something similar, […]

   

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  Powered by VMware, Singtel Delivers a Scalable, Safe Solution to Singapore’s Leading Federation of Trade Unions (http://blogs.vmware.com/vcloud/?p=5003)Today’s businesses must be able to provide their consumers with the information they need whenever and wherever they request it. That means utilizing a powerful, flexible network capable of deploying services as they’re needed. To power that on-demand capability businesses require today, service providers are offering VMware-based public and hybrid cloud services through the VMware […]

   

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  Get Started with VMware vCloud Air: Extend Existing Applications to the Cloud (http://blogs.vmware.com/vcloud/?p=4823)In our last segment in this series, we discussed how you can use VMware vCloud® Air™ for various dev/test scenarios. Now, we’ll explain how you can extend existing packaged applications to vCloud Air, to deliver applications more efficiently and cost-effectively. Packaged applications are critical to supporting business processes and operations, but they are often not […]

   

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  Delivering Secure and Scalable Desktop as a Service (http://blogs.vmware.com/euc/?p=7113)Guest Blog by Dwayne Lessner, Technical Marketing Engineer, Nutanix, @dlink7  Security and flexibility don’t often end up in the same sentence, especially when it comes to delivering IT as a service. But VMware Horizon Air and Nutanix hyper-converged infrastructure together are able to deliver the same value proposition with our validated reference architecture for desktop […]

   

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  Workspace Environment Management with Horizon (http://blogs.vmware.com/euc/?p=7193)By Sachin Sharma, Product Marketing, End-User Computing, VMware A constant theme I hear when talking to customers about managing their virtual, physical, and cloud-hosted environments tends to center around the challenges they face with applications and users. In particular, the questions that customers are looking to solve are ones like how can I simplify management […]

   

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  Finding the Ideal Match With A New Desktop Assessment Service for VMware Horizon (http://blogs.vmware.com/euc/?p=7167)By Ben Goodman, VMware Horizon evangelist, End-User Computing, VMware When looking to make an important investment such as buying a house, having informative data matters. Web-based solutions like Realtor.com, Trulia and Zillow offer information that helps people make intelligent buying decisions. These tools take into consideration a variety of variables such as location, the number […]

   

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  Socialcast and the Annual Performance Review (http://blogs.vmware.com/euc/?p=7162)by Inna Fabrikant, Sr. Client Development Manager, Socialcast With 2014 in our rearview mirrors, many workplace conversations are turning to performance reviews. Employees are racking their brains trying to document all of their accomplishments over the past 12 months, while managers have the equally daunting task of acknowledging the successes of all direct reports. At […]

   

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  Five Analytics Features Every Socialcast Admin Should Use (http://blogs.vmware.com/euc/?p=7151)by Jeff Sato, Sr. Business Intelligence Analyst- Statistician Social Business Intelligence (SBI), Socialcast’s in-app analytics platform, is enabled for all Socialcast communities and has many great features that add tremendous value for community administrators. Today, we would like to highlight some of the most useful SBI features that we think every admin should leverage to increase […]

   

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  Keep your workforce productive, even when disaster strikes (http://blogs.vmware.com/euc/?p=7143)If there’s one thing that’s certain, besides death and taxes, it’s the unpredictability of Nature. I was reminded of this recently, when my colleagues in Boston were buried under piles of snow, and thousands of people couldn’t drive into the office. Has your organization ever experienced anything like this? Has a storm, earthquake, power outage or […]

   

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  Maximizing Use of vRealize Operations for Horizon 6.0: Newly Updated Deployment Guide (http://blogs.vmware.com/euc/?p=7133)By Cindy Heyer, Technical Writer, Technical Marketing, End-User Computing at VMware The newly updated Maximizing the Use of VMware vRealize Operations for Horizon 6.0 (formerly the VMware vCenter Operations for View Deployment Guide) is now available. The new version is full of tips on how to make the most out of your Horizon with View […]

   

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  See How VMware is Keeping your workforce productive, even when disaster strikes ()Keep your workforce productive, even when disaster strikes If there’s one thing that’s certain, besides death and taxes, it’s the unpredictability of Nature. I was reminded of this recently, when my colleagues in Boston were buried under piles of snow, and thousands of people couldn’t drive into the office. Has your organization ever experienced anything like this? Has a storm, earthquake, power outage or cybersecurity attack ever separated your workers from their desktops and applications? No…

   

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  Enterprise mobility news recap: Feb 23 – 27 (http://blogs.air-watch.com/?p=34732)The hourly countdown has begun for Mobile World Congress as technology journalists line up their predictions for new releases and anticipate keynote sessions from Mark Zuckerberg and Tom Wheeler of the FCC. The public sector had its fair share of industry news considering new FCC regulations and the U.S. Department of Treasury’s newly accepted monetary […]

   

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  AirWatch to integrate with Android for Work (http://blogs.air-watch.com/?p=34693)AirWatch is working with Google to integrate with Android for Work, a Google program that brings together OEMs, ISVs and EMMs to ensure organizations can confidently manage devices running Android. Android for Work securely separates business and personal data and applications – and simplifies management of work-related policies, profiles and data – on tablets and […]

   

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  VMware and AirWatch, one year later (http://blogs.air-watch.com/?p=34624)Today marks the one year anniversary of VMware’s acquisition of AirWatch. Over the past year, AirWatch and VMware have integrated across mobile and desktop to deliver a unified end-user computing solution – one of many industry trends VMware is helping shape, as highlighted earlier last year. In the Q4 VMware earnings call last month, VMware […]

   

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  Introducing AirWatch 8 (http://blogs.air-watch.com/?p=34615)Whether you use AirWatch’s administrative console to secure and manage your company’s mobile fleet or you rely on it to get work done on your mobile devices, AirWatch 8 will help you be more productive. The latest version of the enterprise mobility management platform — the most significant update since VMware acquired AirWatch a year […]

   

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  Lenovo’s Acquisition of IBM x86 and VMware (http://blogs.vmware.com/partnernews/?p=1634)With Lenovo’s acquisition of the IBM x86 server portfolio effective January 1, 2015, we now have the opportunity to deliver a wider scope of joint solutions to our customers. Learn more.

   

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  The Americas Virtual Partner Town Hall is March 4th @ 8am PT (http://blogs.vmware.com/partnernews/?p=1631)If you haven’t already, register now to join this virtual Town Hall.  Frank Rauch, VP Americas Partner Organization, and other key Business Unit leaders will share product updates and key announcements released at Partner Exchange. They will also cover the 2015 selling motions and how your company can drive revenues and increase profitability within these […]

   

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  You May be Grand-fathered into the SDS Competency…. (http://blogs.vmware.com/partnernews/?p=1629)If you earned both the Desktop and the Business Continuity competencies prior to Sep. 30, 2014, then you have been automatically grand-fathered in to the Software-Defined Storage Solution Competency. You will have until Sep. 30, 2015 to complete the competency requirements.

   

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  Extending the Value of vCloud Air Services (http://blogs.vmware.com/partnernews/?p=1627)Read the press release to find out how you can now drive adoption and optimize consumption with the new Disaster Recovery features, the general availability of Virtual Private Cloud On Demand, and the enhanced networking and security capabilities.

   

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  Workspace Suite Extended to the Channel (http://blogs.vmware.com/partnernews/?p=1623)With the rising customer demand for a holistic end-user computing solution, Workspace Suite is a profitable addition to your portfolio. It combines AirWatch’s leading enterprise mobility management platform and the latest release of Horizon to power virtual workspaces. Start selling today.

   

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  VSPEX BLUE, the new Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Appliance (http://blogs.vmware.com/partnernews/?p=1621)During Partner Exchange 2015, EMC launched VSPEX BLUE powered by VMware EVO:RAIL. EMC VSPEX BLUE redefines simplicity by delivering compute and storage virtualization in an agile, scalable, easy to manage hyper-converged infrastructure appliance. EMC VSPEX BLUE offers the fastest, lowest-risk path to the private/hybrid cloud.

   

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  F5 – Technical Partner of the Year ! (http://blogs.vmware.com/tap/?p=1002)At VMware Partner Exchange 2015 earlier in February, F5 was named the “Technical Partner of the Year” for both the Americas Geo and Globally. This award and recognition is for Partners that have demonstrated excellence and achievement throughout the year. As an Elite member of TAP, F5’s list of achievements spans all VMware business units, […]

   

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  How do I get to the next level? (http://www.yellow-bricks.com/?p=15941)Advertise here with BSA Every week I get an email from someone asking if I can mentor them, if I can help them get to the next level, if I can help them become a VCDX, if I can explain to them what I did to progress my career. I figured I would write an article for those who wonder what I […] " How do I get to the next level? " originally appeared on Yellow-Bricks.com. Follow me on twitter - @DuncanYB. Pre-order my upcoming book Essential Virtual SAN via Pearson today!

   

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  Virtual Volumes and queueing (http://www.yellow-bricks.com/?p=15936)Advertise here with BSA I was reading an article last week by Ray Lucchesi on Virtual Volumes and queueing. In that article (and podcast) Ray (and friends on the podcast) describe Virtual Volumes and the benefits they bring but also a potential danger. I have written about Virtual Volumes before and if you don’t know what it is or does then I recommend reading […] " Virtual Volumes and queueing " originally appeared on Yellow-Bricks.com . Follow me on twitter - @DuncanYB. Pre-order my…

   

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  Trouble in the Federation re ScaleIO and VSAN? (http://virtualgeek.typepad.com/virtual_geek/2015/02/trouble-in-the-federation-re-scaleio-and-vsan.html)Is there fighting in the family? Actually, that’s just an intentionally inflammatory, eye-ball grabbing headline – everything is actually great, and even getting better :-) I just wanted to try on for size how it would feel to build a...

   

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  Last chance before Top vBlog begins – don’t miss out (http://vsphere-land.com/?p=5483)  The vLaunchpad is all up to date with additions and changes so if you are not listed on there right now you won’t be part of the voting so make sure you go look. Note I did add a few late additions to the bottom of the Virtualization Blogs column that are out of … Continue reading » [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

   

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  You might have 99 problems but vSphere 6 links ain’t one… (http://vsphere-land.com/?p=5478)My vSphere 6 link collection continues to grow so get caught up on everything you need to know about this exciting new release before vSphere 6 GA’s soon.   [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

   

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  SDDC Architectures: Faster and Reliable BCDR for your cloud using NSX, SRM and vRealize Suite (http://www.hypervizor.com/?p=1525)Nearly six years ago, when VMware first introduced Site Recovery Manager (SRM), it was quite a big hit in the world of enterprise customers. Being a VMware customer myself at that time, I remember how this represented a significant improvement in how we handle our DR scenarios. Specifically, we shifted from long and exhausting runbooks

   

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  2015-feb-26 #vBrownBag LATAM #VMware Network Virtualization #NSX– @ercruzv Randall Cruz (http://professionalvmware.com/?p=5316)The following content is in Spanish, the language in which the webinar is presented. El pasado 26 de febrero 2015 en ProfessionalVMware #vBrownBag LATAM se presentó el tema: VMware Network Virtualization – @ercruzv Randall Cruz Esta presentación es una continuación de la serie #vBrownBag, en Español, LATAM, podcast, professionalvmware.com, recording, Spanish, vbrownbaglatam2015feb19, Virtualization, VMware Originally […]

   

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  #vBrownBag DevOps Follow-Up Provision VM’s in vCenter using Ansible w Jonathan Frappier (@jfrappier) (http://professionalvmware.com/?p=5308)#vBrownBag crew member Jonathan Frappier demos using Ansible to provision virtual machines to vCenter. Ansible supports creating, cloning, and reconfiguring virtual machines in vCenter. Example playbooks can be found at www.virtxpert.com& github Ansible & vCenter Video You can follow Jonathan on Twitter @jfrappier and his blog www.virtxpert.com   Originally published at http://ProfessionalVMware.com– Sign […]

   

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