FROM THE EDITORS VIRTUAL DESK
Hi everyone and welcome to this weeks newsletter. This week’s I would like to introduce you to a new TAM Service offering we have called the NSX TAM. This has been captured in this weeks featured blog posting.
Ensuring Success with VMware NSX TAM Services
By Curtis Miller
For networking, VMware NSX is a game-changer in the same way VMware vSphere was for data center servers. NSX virtualizes and consolidates legacy networking functionality back into a hypervisor. As a result, adding or changing network capabilities no longer requires the costly replacement of networking gear. It’s all software based—so upgrades are now just a right-click away.
The resulting cost savings are dramatic because network hardware is replaced far less often and used more efficiently. Deployment times and scalability improve substantially because networks can be created in minutes instead of weeks; and if demand falls, those resources can just as easily be reclaimed. Enhanced security via NSX’s micro-segmentation capabilities is another important benefit as well.
I hope you have a very successful week everyone and I look forward to chatting to you all again next week.
Virtually Yours
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- Exam Retirement Announcement (http://blogs.vmware.com/education/?p=5289)Effective March 2, 2015 the following certification exams will be retired and no new registrations accepted: VCID510 – VMware Certified Advanced Professional 5 – Cloud Infrastructure Design VCIA510 – VMware Certified Advanced Professional 5 – Cloud Infrastructure Administration VDTA510 – VMware Certified Advanced Professional 5 – Desktop Administration VDTD510 – VMware Certified Advanced Professional 5 – […]
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- vCenter Server 6.0 Deployment Guide (http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/?p=16501)Over the course of the last few months I’ve been working on a pretty massive deployment guide for vCenter Server 6, the result turned into a 100 page guide. Before getting scared off by the size the guide it goes into details for installing and upgrading many different scenarios including new installs and upgrades from […]
- vSphere Replication 6.0 Compression (http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/?p=16477)VMware recently introduced vSphere version 6.0. One of the features of vSphere 6.0 is vSphere Replication 6.0, which is included in the Essentials Plus Kit and higher editions of vSphere. The reason I mention that explicitly is there are still many VMware customers and partners that do not realize they have access to a mature, […]
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- VMware NSX Webcast – Creating Agile Networks (http://blogs.vmware.com/networkvirtualization/?p=1813)You may have seen Joey Logano speed to his first Daytona 500 win this week. Keeping your network in racing shape takes a similar level of patience, stamina, and quick reflexes. Using VMware NSX network virtualization means that you can unlock the full potential of a Software-Defined Data Center, to create and run entire networks […]
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DESKTOP
- AirWatch Connect at Mobile World Congress – It’s a wrap! (http://blogs.air-watch.com/?p=34756)Last year at Mobile World Congress, we saw enterprise mobility emerge as a central theme, and it’s clear the enterprise space is only picking up steam. Many of this year’s biggest headline-makers, from device launches to educational sessions, demonstrated that enterprise demand is now driving the mobile market. As Forrester analysts note, it’s clear the enterprise mobile […]
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- VMware Mirage 5.3 Now Generally Available – Go Download Now! (http://blogs.vmware.com/euc/?p=7258)By Sachin Sharma, senior product marketing manager, End-User Computing, VMware A couple weeks ago, we announced the new VMware Mirage 5.3 solution and its new capabilities. Today, I’m happy to announce that VMware Mirage 5.3 is now generally available and current customers can download the solution from my.vmware.com. For those who want to try the […]
PARTNER
- We Will be at the HP Global Partner Conference – March 16-18th (http://blogs.vmware.com/partnernews/?p=1646)And you should join us! Don’t miss this golden opportunity to get key sales plays and marketing materials on joint VMware and HP solutions such as the the HP ConvergedSystem HC-200 for EVO:RAIL. Start building your schedule now.
- EMEA Partners, Don’t Miss these Next 2 EUC Spotlight Sessions (http://blogs.vmware.com/partnernews/?p=1643)End-User Computing (EUC) at VMware is constantly evolving, so we’ve dedicated the 2nd Tuesday of every month to help you understand the latest updates and how they affect your business. Register now for the 10th March session focusing on the Mirage Retail Solution. You’ll learn how VMware Mirage provides a proven, scalable and differentiated solution […]
- Partner Exchange 2015 Highlights (http://blogs.vmware.com/partnernews/?p=1641)Over 4,000 VMware partners, from over 80 countries around the globe, gathered together and Dared to Thrive in this ever growing and evolving high tech industry. Day one of Partner Exchange opened with a General Session keynote led by Pat Gelsinger, Carl Eschenbach, Bill Fathers, Raghu Raghuram, and Sanjay Poonen. They highlighted the importance of […]
- HP ProLiant Gen9 Servers Whitepaper (http://blogs.vmware.com/partnernews/?p=1639)If your customers are looking to adopt or enhance virtualization and cloud, be sure to point them to this in-depth review of how HP 3PAR StoreServ is designed to provide faster time-to-service.
- Incentives to Advance Your Skills – Act Now (http://blogs.vmware.com/partnernews/?p=1637)Register for one of our most popular Open Enrollment courses and, for a limited time only, you will receive an Apple iPad Air in addition to your standard partner discount. These offers are only valid until March 20th.
- Post Partner Exchange 2015 Wrap-Up (http://blogs.vmware.com/partner/?p=2400)Partner Exchange 2015 has come and gone, but not without making it the most successful partner event to date. We hope you enjoyed the increased high-touch opportunities, enabling you to interact with VMware executives, and the tailored content necessary to accelerate your business. With unique Hands-on Labs, Boot Camps, 170+ Breakout Sessions, General Sessions and […]
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- In Kernel or Not In Kernel – This Is The Hyperconverged Question (http://longwhiteclouds.com/?p=10647)The hot question at the moment in hyperconvergence (solutions that combine compute and storage into a distributed solution to run VM’s) appears to be this: Is running storage services in the hypervisor kernel the best solution or superior to running storage services in user space. I strongly believe the answer is no, in kernel is […]
- 10,000 Tweets: How Twitter Changed My Life…and the World (http://datacenterdude.com/?p=2420)I wanted to do something special for my 10,000th tweet. It's been sitting there for a couple of days while I've tossed around ideas in my head of what to do.
- Snapshots & Polaroids: Neither Lasts Forever (http://datacenterdude.com/?p=2398)Snapshots aren't really a concept that is unique to NetApp, but they do have a unique approach that's different from the typical copy-on-write style. Oh, and well, we do also hold the registered trademark on the name. Lots of other vendors use their own version of Snapshots - Microsoft, VMware, CommVault, to name a few. NetApp Snapshots are fast to generate and restore from. They don't hurt system performance, and they don't eat up a lot of space. Allow me to explain...
- Introduction to the Cisco Nexus 1000v (http://datacenterdude.com/?p=2148)A brief introduction to the Nexus 1000v and it's deployment...
- Voting Open for Top Virtualization Blogs! (http://datacenterdude.com/?p=2388)Thanks to everyone for participating! It keeps our voice loud and strong in the community and motivates us to continue to create excellent content for you! Get out there and Vote!
- #70 Live Long, Llamas, Cloud, & Customers (http://datacenterdude.com/?p=2376)http://media.blubrry.com/netapp/content.blubrry.com/netapp/70-LiveLongLlamasCloudCustomers.mp3 The Internet loses its mind over llamas and dresses, FCC passes Net Neutrality, and we talk about some new developments around Steelstore and some updates to FlexPod.
- Top vBlog 2015 Voting Open - Payback Time! (tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47060994419129287.post-3967504609458447777)Time of the year when Eric Siebert of vsphere-land.comfame opens up the Top Virtualization Blog voting on his portal. Needless to say that each blogger listed in this ballot has spent hours of his... Click on the title to continue reading the post..
- 2015-marzo-5 #vBrownBag LATAM #VMware Network Virtualization #NSX– @wmichel (http://professionalvmware.com/?p=5339)The following content is in Spanish, the language in which the webinar is presented. El pasado 5 de marzo 2015 en ProfessionalVMware #vBrownBag LATAM se presentó el tema: VMware Network Virtualization – @wmichel Esta presentación es una continuación de la serie #vBrownBag, en Español sobre la certificación VMware Certified Professional – Network Virtualization (VCP-NV) Blueprint v 1.2 Detalles: […]
- #vBrownBag Follow Up – The Art of IT Infrastructure Design (http://professionalvmware.com/?p=5334)On the 3rd of March 2015 , the EMEA #vBrownbag welcomed the authors of the soon to be released "The Art of IT infrastructure Design" book, John Arrasjid @vcdx001 Mark Gabryjelski @MarkGabbs & Chris McCain @hcmccain onto the podcast to discuss their new book and talk about IT architecture in general.The session was hosted by […]
- #vBrownBag DevOps Follow-Up ELK with Larry Smith (@mrlesmithjr) (http://professionalvmware.com/?p=5321)Larry Smith shows you how to leverage elastisearch, logstash, and kibana to create a robust syslog solution. ELK Video You can find Larry on Twitter @mrlesmithjr and his blog http://everythingshouldbevirtual.com/ Originally published at http://ProfessionalVMware.com– Sign up for the live #vBrownBag broadcast at http://professionalvmware.com/brownbags/ where you can also get updates and view our past series […]
- SQL AlwaysOn Availability Group support in VMDKs on NFS Datastores (http://www.joshodgers.com/?p=3268)Recently I had a customer contact me about doing SQL Always-On Availability Groups on Nutanix and they were wondering if it was supported due to the fact Nutanix recommend and run by default NFS datastores. The customer did the right … Continue reading →
- Book review: VMware vRealize Operations Performance and Capacity Management (http://vinfrastructure.it/?p=15674)As you probably know, VMware vRealize Operations is a suite of products that automates operations management using patented analytics and an integrated approach to performance, capacity, and configuration management. This suite derive from the VCOPS (vCenter Operations Mananagement) core and has been recently rebranded in the new vRealize suite name. The new v6 of this suite bring not only a new name, but also a lot of changes and improvements and a good book that cover this aspect are more than welcome.…
- Voting for the 2015 top VMware & virtualization blogs (http://vinfrastructure.it/?p=15519)Eric Siebert (from Sphere-Land.com) has open again (see the related post of previous year), a contest for voting the ‘Top VMware & Virtualization Blogs’. This contest is becoming a recurring and estemeed in the VMware & virtualization world (see also the history of the top blog voting over the years). Last year over 1400 people voted from 60 different countries, with over 320 blogs dedicated to VMware and Virtualization – this is definitely an impressive number which is a real indication…
- VMware vSphere 6 – Availability (http://vinfrastructure.it/?p=15013)With the new VMware vSphere 6.0 there are several improvement in the availability related features. Although the vSphere HA apparently has not changed so much (of course now support a bigger cluster with 64 nodes), there several aspects that have been improved or changed: New MSCS capabilities New vSphere VM Component Protection (VMCP) Network partition manament New VMware FT-SMP For more information see also: What’s new for HA in vSphere 6.0? vSphere 6 Availability Enhancements MSCS capabilities…
- VMware vExpert 2015 benefits (http://vinfrastructure.it/?p=15230)The primary reason for becoming vExpert certainly should not be related to any possible benefits of the program. And once confirmed (for me is the sixth year in a row) you have to think more about what you can give rather to what is to be expected. But I’d be a hypocrite to deny that there are also practical advantages in being a vExpert! Officially, VMware, according with the vExpert FAQ, say that the biggest benefit of the award is the public recognition as a VMware vExpert Award winner. But benefits…
- March 2015 IT events (http://vinfrastructure.it/?p=15546)Interesting European IT events: Mobile World Congress 2015 – Barcelona (March, 2-5) Cloudscape VII – Brussels (March, 9-10) Cloud Expo Europe & Data Centre World – London (March, 11-12) SMAU Berlin – Berlin (March, 12-13) CEBIT 2015 – Hannover (March, 16-20) Gartner CIO Leadership Forum – London (March, 16-18) V6 World 2015 – Paris (March, 17-18) De Nederlandse VMUG User Conference – Hertogenbosch (March, 19) SambaXP 2015 – Göttingen (March, 19-21) WHD.global 2015 – Europa-Park,…
- First Nutanix .NEXT event (http://vinfrastructure.it/?p=15098)Nutanix is a well know hyper-converged company founded in 2009 with the vision of bringing the benefits of web-scale IT to the masses. They have changed the rules of traditional storage (on 2009 mostly SAN based) and become the pioneer of concepts like no-SAN and no-LUNs, hyper-converged and web-scale storage. Recently they have also reach five years of history, were they have made significant progress in their products and solution (and also partnership). And some months ago they have also announced their…
- E2EVC 2015 Berlin (http://vinfrastructure.it/?p=14174)After the E2EVC 2014 Brussels and E2EVC 2014 Barcelona events, the next European E2EVC event (and the first one for 2015 year) will be in Berlin: The next Spring E2EVC Virtualization Conference in Europe in summer 2015 will take place in Novotel Berlin Mitte Hotel, Fischerinsel 12, 10179, Berlin, Germany. E2EVC Virtualization Conference is an independent, non-commercial, virtualization community event build from experts to experts. Started in 2003 with just 4 people and after 23 very successful events grown…
- June VCDX Defense Contingency Plan For Desktop and Cloud (http://www.chriscolotti.us/?p=4629)A couple days ago as many people know VMware Education announced the immediate retirement of certain VCAP exams for desktop and cloud. The announcement retired the following exams: VCID510 – VMware Certified Advanced Professional 5 – Cloud Infrastructure Design VCIA510 – VMware Certified Advanced Professional 5 – Cloud Infrastructure Administration VDTA510 – VMware Certified Advanced ... The post June VCDX Defense Contingency Plan For Desktop and Cloud appeared first on Chris Colotti's Blog…
- It’s time for the annual vBlog voting! (http://www.viktorious.nl/?p=5198)The post It’s time for the annual vBlog voting! appeared first on viktorious.nl - Virtualization & Cloud Management . It's time for the 2015 Top vBlog Voting. Take a minute or 2 to let Eric Siebert know what your favorite blog is! Last year over 1400 people voted on the 320 different blogs, all devoted to VMware & virtualization. For an overview of all the blogs, take a look at the vLaunchpad .All blogs that are included in the vLaunchpad are participating in the voting. For some more…
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