VMware TAM Source 7.15

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Hi everyone, expanding the newsletter and providing as much useful information for you to digest each week is our goal. We are therefore really excited to announce that our webcast section has been extensively expanded. There is now many new sections and interesting links and information provided in this expanded section all geared towards helping you get the most out of VMware solutions in your organization.

We certainly hope that expanding this section will provide you with even more relevant information on VMware each week. This is a great resource for you and your organization and your TAM to discuss regularly.

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NEWS AND DEVELOPMENTS FROM VMWARE

GENERAL NEWS

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  Why VMware? (http://blogs.vmware.com/cio/?p=123)Why VMware By Bask Iyer, CIO, VMware Remember the CEO who said, “I loved the product so much that I bought the company”?  In a way I feel like Victor Kiam, that famous former owner of the New England Patriots football team who claimed he bought Remington (the company) because he loved their razors. I’ve […]

   

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  7 Tips on Leveraging a Change Agent Program to Boost Cloud Adoption (http://blogs.vmware.com/cloudops/?p=1492)By Pierre Moncassin In nearly every other discussion I have with customers about cloud adoption, I hear mention of their challenge with “mindset change.” That challenge is often faced on both sides of the consumer/provider equation, as users (IT consumers) and operators (internal providers) need to change their approaches in order to define, operate, and […]

   

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  vSphere Virtual Volumes Webinar Series: Hitachi (http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/?p=17110)On Wednesday April 15 Hitachi is hosting a one hour technical webinar event to discuss how Hitachi Storage for VMware Virtual Volumes can bring customers on a reliable enterprise journey to a software-defined, policy-controlled data center. The webinar covers more than just the technical aspects of Virtual Volumes but also the operational value and efficiency […]

   

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  SRM – Array Based Replication vs. vSphere Replication (http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/?p=16802)SRM supports two different replication technologies, Storage Array or Array-Based Replication and vSphere Replication. One of the key decisions when implementing SRM is which technology to use and for what VMs. The two technologies can be used together in an SRM environment though not to protect the same VM. Given that, what are the differences […]

   

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  Oracle Licensing Discussion – The Definitive Collateral Collection (http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/?p=17066)The Oracle licensing webinar was broadcast on Mar19, 2015 and the replay is available at the link below. The webinar and the link, hosted by Database Trends and Analysis (DBTA) was delivered as a collaborative effort between VMware and a number of VMware partners. Don Sullivan moderated the event which included individual presentations of approximately […]

   

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  Confessions of an Energy Consciousness Mind (http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/?p=16978)I have a confession.  My data center kit has been using too much energy. Having kit available at my disposable is great, but I have been wasting this resource when it’s not required by my workloads. And if there’s one thing I try to be conscious of, it’s energy consumption. Just ask my kids who […]

   

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  Top Posts from March: v5 to v6 Migration Paths, 50% off VCP-NV Exam, and More! (http://blogs.vmware.com/education/?p=5512)Catch up on last month's top posts from the VMware Education and Certification Blog.

   

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  3 New VCP Level Certifications Available (http://blogs.vmware.com/education/?p=5501)Today we are announcing the availability three new VCP level certification exams: VMware Certified Professional 6 — Cloud Management and Automation (VCP6-CMA) VMware Certified Professional 6 – Desktop and Mobility (VCP6-DTM) VMware Certified Professional 6 – Network Virtualization (VCP6-NV) Check out the requirements for new candidates and migration paths for current VCPs on our new website, where you can also […]

   

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  Why We do Beta Exams (http://blogs.vmware.com/education/?p=5476)You may have noticed that our recent VCP6-DCV certification announcement was a little different from in the past, namely that it is being released as a beta exam. We’ve always had beta versions of our exams, but this was the first time it was open to the public. So we wanted to explain a few […]

   

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  April 2015 Certification Website Changes (http://blogs.vmware.com/education/?p=5487)With the release of the version 6 certifications already beginning I thought that it would be good provide a short video update on the changes that we have recently made to the website with the addition of Certification and Exam Details pages. Please be sure to leave your comments below. Thank you! Paul Sorensen

   

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  Scheduled My VMware Maintenance (http://blogs.vmware.com/kb/?p=6526)My VMware will be undergoing a scheduled system maintenance on Saturday, April 11th, 2015.  During the time indicated below, you will not be able to place orders or download products.  myLearn login and class registrations will also be restricted. Begin: 02.00 PM PDT on Saturday, April 11 2015 End:    08.00:PM PDT on Saturday, April 11 2015 We apologize […]

   

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  KBTV Webinars – Introduction to vRealize Business Standard, Advanced and Enterprise editions (http://blogs.vmware.com/kb/?p=6520)This video is the fourth installment in a new series of free Webinars in which our Technical Support staff members present on various topics across a wide range of VMware’s product portfolio. The title for this presentation is Introduction to vRealize Business Standard, Advanced and Enterprise editions  and it provides an overview of the various versions/editions […]

   

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  Refresh: Top 20 Horizon with View KB articles (http://blogs.vmware.com/kb/?p=6516)Today we have refreshed our top 20 list of VMware View specific KBs. Some have dropped off the list while others are now trending upward.  Have a look and see if you are encountering any of these issues in View.   Manually deleting linked clones or stale virtual desktop entries from the View Composer database […]

   

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  What We Read This Week (http://blogs.vmware.com/tribalknowledge/?p=3827)Why VMware Acquired AirWatch, The 2015 Top 50 Channel Influencers list & Supporting Innovative Ideas with Technology ① Our latest ELI4 post deals with an innovative framework for IT security called micro-segmentation, enabled by the VMware NSX network virtualization platform. Blogs.VMware.com/TribalKnowledge> ② VMware’s SVP and General Counsel Dawn Smith talks to Modern Counsel about the AirWatch acquisition: “[Why AirWatch] […]

   

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  Digitalrep scans grocery store data to determine where products go (http://blogs.vmware.com/tribalknowledge/?p=3823)This post was originally published on The Bridge. Have you ever walked down the soup aisle at your local supermarket and wondered how much thought goes into where each brand and type of soup is placed? If so, you may be surprised to learn that it ventures well beyond mere thought: It involves science, numbers and […]

   

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  VMware Innovation Series: Aaron Rosen (http://blogs.vmware.com/tribalknowledge/?p=3817)Tribal Knowledge is teaming up with the VMware Careers blog, to kick off the VMware Innovation Series. Each month we’ll be connecting with members of the VMware R&D Organization to get a behind-the-scenes look at some of the elements that help to create a culture of innovation at VMware and the people and teams driving them. This […]

   

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  Explain It Like I’m Four: Micro-Segmentation (http://blogs.vmware.com/tribalknowledge/?p=3812)For our inaugural “Explain it Like I’m Four” post, we took a look at Network Functions Virtualization (NFV). In case you missed the blog, take a minute to learn about one of the most disruptive trends currently taking place inside the data center. Our latest ELI4 post deals with an innovative framework for IT security […]

   

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  Managing VMware NSX Edge and Manager Certificates (http://blogs.vmware.com/consulting/?p=2161)By Spas Kaloferov di·ver·si·ty “Diversity” was the first word that came to my mind when I joined VMware. I noticed the wide variety of different methods and processes utilized to replace certificates on the different VMware appliance products. For example, with VMware vRealizeTM OrchestratorTM, users must undergo a manual process to replace the certificate, but […]

   

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  vCloud Air Expands Further to Australia (http://blogs.vmware.com/vcloud/?p=5221)We’re thrilled to announce the continued expansion of VMware vCloud® Air™ with the general availability of service in Australia. Complementing our vCloud Air Network of service providers, this new VMware-operated location provides customers with a local Asia Pacific infrastructure-as-a-service offering that can help address local compliance and data locality concerns. The expansion of vCloud Air […]

   

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  Don’t Miss the OVH World Tour on 4/23 in Toronto! (http://blogs.vmware.com/vcloud/?p=5200)The OVH World Tour is heading to Toronto, Ontario. We’re helping to sponsor the late April (04/23) event in Canada, where attendees have the opportunity to learn about the latest IT innovations through technical workshops, labs, and analysis of practical examples. Experts will be on hand to answer any questions you may have about any […]

   

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  Scale to 1000 VMs in 90 minutes with vCloud Air OnDemand (http://blogs.vmware.com/vcloud/?p=5177)If you think that VMware vCloud® Air™ is just about extending your data center or is only a place where you would instantiate one or two departmental virtual machines (VMs), you may want to think again. With vCloud Air, I was able to easily deploy 1000 VMs in less than 90 minutes. A few weeks […]

   

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  vRealize Automation – Extensibility (vraLive) Webcast (http://blogs.vmware.com/management/?p=6852)Mark your calendars for the next vRealize Automation “vRA Live!” session on April 17th, 1:00PM EST. This Webcast will be hosted by Jad El-Zein, VMware engineer and author of the  VirtualJad Blog (http://www.virtualjad.com/). REGISTER NOW vRA Live! – Extensibility This vRA Live! session will dive into the power of extensibility using these tools and will […]

   

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  vRealize Operations Manager Content Pack for Log Insight (http://blogs.vmware.com/management/?p=6819)Get ready, ops-heads… another exciting announcement from the VMware team. There’s now a formal content pack for vRealize Log Insight that will allow the import and visualization of the logs from vRealize Operations Manager 6.x. As an added bonus, if you are running vRealize Operations 6.0.1 or later – the Log Insight agent is already […]

   

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  vRealize Code Stream – Automating Build and Test Tasks with Jenkins (http://blogs.vmware.com/management/?p=6747)by Rich Bourdeau Many companies use build and continuous integration tools like Jenkins, Atlassian Bamboo, Microsoft TFS and others to run jobs that build or test new releases of their applications.  In this blog post we are going to explore how vRealize Code Stream works cooperatively with Jenkins to execute build and test tasks at various […]

   

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  DevOps in the Traditional Enterprise – Leap Ahead in Release Pipeline Management (http://blogs.vmware.com/management/?p=6670)Software release management is a challenging process for big enterprises. While most enterprise applications are critical to running the business, most often we see that the process of releasing and updating the application version is a painful and inconsistent. Let’s identify some of the causes of this situation: Low focus on automation: In most organizations, automation efforts […]

   

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  Virtual SAN 6.0 Performance with VMware VMmark (http://blogs.vmware.com/performance/?p=2314)Virtual SAN is a storage solution that is fully integrated with VMware vSphere. Virtual SAN leverages flash technology to cache data and improve its access time to and from the disks. We used VMware’s VMmark 2.5 benchmark to evaluate the performance of running a variety of tier-1 application workloads together on Virtual SAN 6.0. VMmark […]

   

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  VMware View Planner 3.5 and Use Cases (http://blogs.vmware.com/performance/?p=2297)by   Banit Agrawal     Nachiket Karmarkar VMware View Planner 3.5 was recently released which introduces a slew of new features, enhancements in user experience, and scalability. In this blog, we present some of these new features and use cases. More details can be found in the whitepaper here. In addition to retaining all […]

   

DESKTOP

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  VMware Horizon 6 Storage Considerations White Paper Now Available (http://blogs.vmware.com/euc/?p=7549)By Gary Sloane, Consulting Writer and Editor, VMware If you are reading this post, you probably know that storage has long been considered the foundation of any VDI implementation. In VMware Horizon 6 Storage Considerations, Kris Boyd takes a close look at the most important questions and challenges that face anyone tasked with designing a […]

   

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  VMware Mirage and Microsoft SCCM Working Side by Side (http://blogs.vmware.com/euc/?p=7541)By Karen Smith, Guest Writer, Former Technical Writer for End-User Computing Technical Marketing, VMware With significant contributions from Maor Kuriel, Product Specialist, Mirage Engineering, End-User Computing, VMware Many organizations use Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) for managing large groups of endpoint devices. In an ideal scenario, everything is operating smoothly, but sometimes things go […]

   

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  Results of VMware Workspace Portal 2.1 Tests Exceed Expectations (http://blogs.vmware.com/euc/?p=7529)By Nancy Beckus, Editor, VMware, and Rasmus Jensen, Senior End-User Computing Architect, EUC Technical Enablement, VMware This blog summarizes the results of functional and operational tests of Workspace Portal 2.1 running on top of VMware vSphere 5.x, as reported in the VMware Workspace Portal Reference Architecture. In this architecture validation, VMware performed tests to highlight […]

   

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  VMware Horizon 6 Offers Expanded RDSH Features (http://blogs.vmware.com/euc/?p=7517)By Tony Huynh, Product Line Manager, End-User Computing, VMware It has been almost a year since VMware released Horizon 6 with support for Remote Desktop Services Hosted (RDSH) desktops and applications. We could not be more pleased with the market adoption of our solution. With each subsequent Horizon release, we have added to the list […]

   

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  Horizon 6 Reference Architecture: Updated! (http://blogs.vmware.com/euc/?p=7506)By Jessica Chapin, Technical Writer and Editor, End-User Computing, VMware, and Matt Coppinger, End-User-Computing Architect, End-User Computing, VMware There is no denying that we live in a highly mobile world. Business is conducted on smartphones, tablets, and laptops on the go. The traditional desk worker sitting in front of a PC is virtually a legacy. With […]

   

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  Enterprise mobility news recap: April 6 – 10 (http://blogs.air-watch.com/?p=35713)This past week has been full of AirWatch announcements including the VMware Collaboration Bundle and the new series of #MobileGameChanger customer stories. In the industry, more companies are investing in smart automotive research and the Apple Watch is free to try-on. Since the last U.S. presidential election, many things have changed, and we’re not talking […]

   

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  Guest post: How to make boring topics interesting with video (http://blogs.air-watch.com/?p=35536)Videos are powerful communication tools. Showing, rather than telling, has proven time and again to be the best way of conveying a message or teaching something. Plus, video is a rich medium that packs in a lot of complex information. This allows your viewer to be as informed as possible in the most efficient way. […]

   

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  New AirWatch Mobile Game Changers illustrate mobile success in Europe (http://blogs.air-watch.com/?p=35467)Today AirWatch recognizes five European customers for their innovative use of mobile technology: Colegio Mirasur, Edison, Groupe BPCE, Girls’ Day School Trust and Universitätsspital Basel. These Mobile Game Changers demonstrate how mobility is changing the way people work around the world. While traditional technologies exist across every sector, mobility is bringing a fresh approach to […]

   

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  Event highlights report and video from AirWatch Connect at Mobile World Congress (http://blogs.air-watch.com/?p=35470)AirWatch Connect at Mobile World Congress 2015 was a record-breaking and award-winning year. The new AirWatch Connect at Mobile World Congress Event Highlights Report details the flagship mobility event and the AirWatch and VMware partnership built over the past year. At Mobile World Congress, AirWatch presented two keynote presentations and was also recognized at the […]

   

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  VMware launches Collaboration Bundle for content collaboration across AirWatch Content Locker, Socialcast and AirWatch Video (http://blogs.air-watch.com/?p=35461)Today VMware and AirWatch launched the VMware Collaboration Bundle, an integrated product offering that combines AirWatch Content Locker, Socialcast and AirWatch Video into one solution for customers. The Collaboration Bundle gives customers a simple, intuitive and secure solution to empower employees, drives business innovation and simplifies information technology. The innovations in the past decade have […]

   

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  AirWatch TV airs full sessions from AirWatch Connect Barcelona (http://blogs.air-watch.com/?p=35503)Coming this week, there won’t be as strong a need for Netflix. Recorded sessions and presentations of AirWatch Connect Barcelona 2015 are now available in the AirWatch TV app. If there’s a session you missed or would like to re-watch, download the video recordings from AirWatch TV and stream onto your device. AirWatch Connect Barcelona […]

   

PARTNER

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  New Process for Development Funds (http://blogs.vmware.com/partnernews/?p=1702)To learn more about the upcoming changes to the Partner Rewards Management tool – including the new optimized planning process for Development Funds and how these new changes will impact your fund requests this quarter and beyond – register now for the vmLIVE training session in your geography next week: AMER– April 15th EMEA — […]

   

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  The Price for Horizon Enterprise Increased (http://blogs.vmware.com/partnernews/?p=1700)Effective April 1st, the price of the Horizon Enterprise bundle increased to reflect the added value of App Volumes.

   

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  Get a Sneak Preview of our Q2 Launches (http://blogs.vmware.com/partnernews/?p=1697)Access the Quarterly Partner Briefing portal between April 8th – 20th for a sneak peek at the new videos and information. The official launch will occur on April 21st.

   

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  Attn: EMEA Partners – The Online Technology Forum is 15th April (http://blogs.vmware.com/partnernews/?p=1695)Register now, so you don’t miss it. It’s a free half-day online event where you will learn more about the Software-Defined Data Center, Hybrid Cloud, and Business Mobility portfolio – and how these solutions can help you deliver applications and services at speed and scale. Engage in live Q&A with VMware technical experts – including […]

   

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  Mobility Management Solution Competency Promo for Selling AirWatch (http://blogs.vmware.com/partnernews/?p=1693)Register now to increase your margins when selling AirWatch. Just take 4 of the 6 required courses for the Mobility Management Solution Competency before July 3rd and you will be granted provisional competency status until October 3, 2015. Plus you can earn rewards on your Mobility sales while taking training.

   

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  New Video Overview of HP ConvergedSystem 200–HC EVO:RAIL (http://blogs.vmware.com/partnernews/?p=1691)Customers are curious about the speed, reliability, efficiency, and simplicity of the SDDC. VMware and HP are putting the SDDC within your customers’ immediate reach, with a fully tested and integrated hyper-converged building block for the SDDC that delivers time to value in just minutes from power-up. It’s available now, and suitable for use in […]

   

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  VMware Partner Network Spotlight Series- The Partner Demand Center (http://blogs.vmware.com/partner/?p=2435)Welcome to the second installment of the VPN Spotlight Series, where we bring you video content highlighting our top partners news and information from across VMware Partner Network. Here is the first post of that series. This month’s spotlight is all about the VMware Partner Demand Center, better known as the one stop shop for […]

   

MORE NEWS AND DEVELOPMENTS FROM AROUND THE WEB

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  A Very Special… THANK YOU. (http://virtualgeek.typepad.com/virtual_geek/2015/04/a-very-special-thank-you.html)Last of this short run “A Very Special” series (first one on the topic of “service” here; and the second one on the topic of “people” here). A huge “Thank you!” to all those that voted in the Top vBlog...

   

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  VMware Horizon 6 Storage Considerations (http://www.ntpro.nl/blog/archives/2891-guid.html)

   

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  How VMware Mirage Complements and Extends Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (http://www.ntpro.nl/blog/archives/2890-guid.html)

   

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  VMware has released 3 new certifications - VCP6-CMA, VCP6-DTM and VCP6-NV (http://www.ntpro.nl/blog/archives/2889-guid.html)

   

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  Limiting the DVUplink VLAN Range on a vSphere Distributed Switch (VDS) (http://wahlnetwork.com/?p=13119)A deep dive into the murky world of VLAN trunk ranges for DVUplink ports and port groups, how to adjust VLAN values, and why you would. The post Limiting the DVUplink VLAN Range on a vSphere Distributed Switch (VDS) appeared first on Wahl Network . Related posts: Protecting a Distributed Switch with Ephemeral Binding The 4 Step Migration from a Standard vSwitch to Distributed vSwitch with LACP Hands On With a Cisco SG300-52 Switch Duplicate MAC Address Between VMkernel Interfaces and Network Adapters…

   

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  Provisioning Clones using Modified Customization Specifications and Specific Port Groups (http://wahlnetwork.com/?p=13089)In this post, I walk through a simple example of using a serialized script to orchestrate the cloning, customization, and port group settings for a new VM. The post Provisioning Clones using Modified Customization Specifications and Specific Port Groups appeared first on Wahl Network . Related posts: Modified vCenter Single Sign-On (SSO) Options in 5.5 Update 2 The 4 Step Migration from a Standard vSwitch to Distributed vSwitch with LACP Automating vSphere Replication Bandwidth Limits with PowerCLI …

   

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  vCenter Server Appliance watchdog (http://www.yellow-bricks.com/?p=16098)Advertise here with BSA I was reviewing a paper on vCenter availability for 6.0 and it listed a watchdog service which monitors “VPXD” (the vCenter Server service) on the vCenter Server Appliance. I had seen the service before but never really looked in to it. With 5.5 the watchdog service (/usr/bin/vmware-watchdog) was only used to monitor vpxd and tomcat […] " vCenter Server Appliance watchdog " originally appeared on Yellow-Bricks.com . Follow me on twitter - @DuncanYB. Pre-order my…

   

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  Share your Orchestrator workflow through FlowGrab (http://www.yellow-bricks.com/?p=16129)Advertise here with BSA A while back when attending/presenting at some VMUGs I stumbled in to this company called FlowGrab. They are fairly new and pitched their solution to me and I must say it sounded very interesting. I guess if you want to dumb it down you can label it as a code repository solution for vRO/vCO. FlowGrab […] " Share your Orchestrator workflow through FlowGrab " originally appeared on Yellow-Bricks.com . Follow me on twitter - @DuncanYB. Pre-order my upcoming book Essential…

   

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  Implementing a Hybrid Cloud Strategy white paper (http://www.yellow-bricks.com/?p=16124)Advertise here with BSA Last week I already posted this up on the VMware Office of CTO blog, and I figured I would share it to my regular readers here as well. A couple of months ago I stumbled across a great diagram which was developed by Hany Michael, (Consulting Architect, VMware PSO) who is part of the VMware CTO […] " Implementing a Hybrid Cloud Strategy white paper " originally appeared on Yellow-Bricks.com . Follow me on twitter - @DuncanYB. Pre-order my upcoming book Essential Virtual…

   

   

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  Is it VVOLs or VVols? (http://vsphere-land.com/?p=5809)You have to love VMware’s acronyms and trying to figure out the proper case for them. vSAN or VSAN, vMotion or VMotion, VVols or VVOLs, the only consistency VMware has with case in their acronyms in being consistently inconsistent and every acronym is subject to change (and frequently does). So when I asked one of … Continue reading » [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

   

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  Steve Herrod on blogging (http://vsphere-land.com/?p=5807)I was digging through some old Top vBlog archives and came across the video that Steve Herrod recorded on blogging and thought I would share it. Years ago I wanted to do something special for the bloggers as part of the Top vBlog results announcement so I contacted Steve Herrod to see if he would … Continue reading » [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

   

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  Here’s your chance to help improve Top vBlog (http://vsphere-land.com/?p=5801)I’ve been running the annual Top vBlog voting for the last 6 years and as the process is very time-consuming I’m always looking for ways to improve and streamline things. I was recently reading a post from Rene which had some ideas including using stats to determine who the top bloggers. I don’t really like that idea … Continue reading » [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

   

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  So VMware Virtual Volumes (VVols) is here, when will people start using it (http://vsphere-land.com/?p=5787)After many years in the making VMware’s new storage architecture, Virtual Volumes (VVols) is finally available as part of vSphere 6.0. VVols certainly looks cool but does the old adage hold true, if you build it will they come? In this post I’ll take a look at some reasons why people may want to wait … Continue reading » [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

   

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  2015 Top 50 vBloggers sign up now to get your gift courtesy of Infinio (http://vsphere-land.com/?p=5758)Those who made the Top 50 this year get a free commemorative coin courtesy of Infinio. If you made the top 10 you get gold, 11-25 silver and 26-50 copper. Sign up to get it by filling out the form below so I have your shipping info. Since international addresses can be challenging please include … Continue reading » [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

   

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  vBlogger Spotlight: Eric Sloof (http://vsphere-land.com/?p=5751)Follow @esloof Top vBlog 2015 is over but I’m still continuing my vBlogger Spotlight series to shine the spotlight on several prominent bloggers in the community to give you some insight into their experiences with blogging. Today’s spotlight is on Eric Sloof, aka Mr. Scoop due to his keen ability to post news about VMware before … Continue reading » [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

   

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  Top vBlog 2015 Full results (http://vsphere-land.com/?p=5743)So the voting has ended, the results have been tabulated and here they are. There were almost 90 new blogs on the ballot this year and 3 new blogs to make the top 25. This year there was over 2200 votes compared to around 1400 last year. You can read more stats about this years voting … Continue reading » [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

   

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  Announcing the Top vBlog 2015 results (http://vsphere-land.com/?p=5729)Below are the results for the overall voting for the Top 25, full results will be published soon: And below are the winners of the individual categories:   [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

   

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  What Virtual Volumes does not support (http://vsphere-land.com/?p=5732)VMware finally released the list of supported and non-supported vSphere features and VMware products with their new Virtual Volumes  (VVols) storage architecture. I’ve been looking for this in their documentation for VVols and have not found it so I’m glad to see it’s finally available so you can see exactly what is supported and more … Continue reading » [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

   

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  And the winners of Top vBlog 2015 are… (http://vsphere-land.com/?p=5719)…not ready to be revealed yet, you’ll have to wait until tomorrow to find out. I’ve tabulated all the votes and applied points to the votes and have computed the results. We’ll announce the winners on a special live Google Hangout tomorrow with David Davis, Rick Vanover, Simon Seagrave, John Troyer and Scott Davis from Infinio. Go here … Continue reading » [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

   

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  Critical VMware Security Patches Released (http://www.derekseaman.com/?p=2788)Advertise here with BSA In case you missed it, VMware has released a number of product updates to address critical vulnerability in JRE. JRE is used in many products, so a wide range of products are affected. You can read the full bulletin here. The bulletin details which product version you need to be running to be patched. In […] The post Critical VMware Security Patches Released appeared first on Derek Seaman's Blog .                     Related Stories Critical ESXi 5.5 Patch Released…

   

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  Critical ESXi 5.5 Patch Released (http://www.derekseaman.com/?p=2787)Advertise here with BSA Hot off the presses is a critical patch for ESXi 5.5, dated March 7, 2015. This addresses two VSAN patches: Upgrading from VMware ESXi 5.5, Patch Release ESXi550-201502001 (Build 2456374) or VMware ESXi 5.5, Patch Release ESXi550-201501001 (Build 2403361) to vSphere 6.0 might result in VMware Virtual SAN (VSAN) Data Unavailability. See VMware Knowledge base […] The post Critical ESXi 5.5 Patch Released appeared first on Derek Seaman's Blog .                     

   

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  vSphere 6.0 Installation Pt. 14: Install Windows vCenter (http://www.derekseaman.com/?p=2513)Advertise here with BSA Now that we are pretty far into this series, we can finally install our Windows vCenter. This will leverage our external PSC, for maximum scalability. Depending on your environment size, you may need to scale up the VM’s hardware specs for optimal performance. Consult VMware documentation for sizing guidance. In this exercise we will configure 2 vCPUs […] The post vSphere 6.0 Installation Pt. 14: Install Windows vCenter appeared first on Derek Seaman's Blog .        …

   

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  vSphere 6.0 Pt. 13: VMware Directory Svc Certificate (http://www.derekseaman.com/?p=2765)Advertise here with BSA One of the lesser known SSL certificates in the vSphere 6.0 product is called the VMware Directory Service certificate. This is used by the built-in LDAP server for authentication and encryption. It’s most an internal use only certificate, and one that some customers may not worry about replacing. In fact, per VMware support, a lot of […] The post vSphere 6.0 Pt. 13: VMware Directory Svc Certificate appeared first on Derek Seaman's Blog .                    …

   

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  Publishing vSphere 6.0 VMCA Signing Certificate (http://www.derekseaman.com/?p=2774)Advertise here with BSA As mentioned in my vSphere 6.0 installation series, you can configure the new VMCA to be a subordinate to your enterprise CA. This is great, and opens up new certificate management options for organizations that wish to use trusted SSL certificates. However, you may run into a situation where this new root certificate is not […] The post Publishing vSphere 6.0 VMCA Signing Certificate appeared first on Derek Seaman's Blog .                     Related Stories vSphere…

   

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  vSphere 6.0 Pt. 12: PSC Machine Certificate (http://www.derekseaman.com/?p=2745)Advertise here with BSA Back in Part 11 of this series we configured the VMCA to be a subordinate CA to our enterprise CA. This ensures that all certificates which get used by vCenter components are automatically trusted. But as previously mentioned, not all organizations can use the VMCA. The US Federal Government would be a prime example, where […] The post vSphere 6.0 Pt. 12: PSC Machine Certificate appeared first on Derek Seaman's Blog .                     Related Stories vSphere 6.0…

   

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  vSphere 6.0 Install Pt. 11: VMCA as Subordinate (http://www.derekseaman.com/?p=2675)Advertise here with BSA As mentioned in my vSphere 6.0 install part 3, VMware has introduced a new certificate option in this release. You can now make a built-in VMware certificate authority (VMCA) a subordinate to your enterprise CA. This is great news, as it will allow some automation of the certificate deployment process. However, there are certainly some […] The post vSphere 6.0 Install Pt. 11: VMCA as Subordinate appeared first on Derek Seaman's Blog .                     Related…

   

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  Top vBloggers Announced! (http://www.derekseaman.com/?p=2732)Advertise here with BSA Each year Eric Siebert from vSphere-Land.com has an annual voting for the top vBloggers in the world. Competition is fierce and back in 2013 I was honored with getting position #24, for which I was thrilled. Then came along more SSL woes with vSphere 5.5, and my vCenter Toolkit was born. In 2014 I then […] The post Top vBloggers Announced! appeared first on Derek Seaman's Blog .                     Related Stories vSphere 6.0 Pt. 9: SSL Templates 

   

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  vSphere 6.0 Install Pt. 10: Install VCSA PSC (http://www.derekseaman.com/?p=2693)Advertise here with BSA New to my vSphere installation series is using the pre-packaged vCenter appliance (VCSA). Now that the VCSA is on par with the Windows vCenter server, I suspect more and more people will migrate to the appliance. So to that end, let’s install an external PSC using the VCSA. If you are using a Windows-based external […] The post vSphere 6.0 Install Pt. 10: Install VCSA PSC appeared first on Derek Seaman's Blog .                     Related Stories vSphere 6.0…

   

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  vSphere 6.0 Pt. 9: SSL Templates (http://www.derekseaman.com/?p=2709)Advertise here with BSA VMware has provided new SSL template guidance for vSphere 6.0. New to vSphere 6.0 are machine SSL certificates, solution user certificates, and using the VMCA as a subordinate CA. If you are using an enterprise Microsoft CA, then this article is for you. I’ll show you how to create the new templates and publish them […] The post vSphere 6.0 Pt. 9: SSL Templates appeared first on Derek Seaman's Blog .                     Related Stories vSphere 6.0 Install Pt. 11:…

   

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  vSphere 6.0 Install Pt. 8: Toolkit Configuration (http://www.derekseaman.com/?p=2662)Advertise here with BSA Now that we have the PSC installed, it’s time to configure the variables for the Toolkit script, and also make sure we can download our root certificates. Depending on your configuration, you may need to manually download your root public certificates. VMware needs certificates in a specific format, and they need the full certificate chain. […] The post vSphere 6.0 Install Pt. 8: Toolkit Configuration appeared first on Derek Seaman's Blog .                    …

   

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  BlueMedora – a new vcdx56 sponsor (http://vcdx56.com/?p=5388)I’m happy to announce that Blue Medora has decided to become a vcdx56 blog sponsor. Blue Medora was founded back in 2013 and they operate in the analytics & monitoring space with focus on the development and distribution of product extensions for IBM Tivoli Monitoring (ITM), Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM), and VMware vCenter Operations (vC Ops)  Below is … Continue reading »

   

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  Heads up! Critical Security Patches released by VMware (http://vcdx56.com/?p=5381)I know it’s a few days late but i wanted to make a short blog post about this anyway. 2015-04-02 VMware released a security advisory (VMSA). The VMSA addresses the critical vulnerability in JRE which is used in many VMware products. Some of the affected products includes Horizon View 6.x or 5.x Horizon Workspace Portal Server  … Continue reading »

   

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  Top vBlog 2015 results are out (http://vcdx56.com/?p=5372)A few weeks back the yearly top vBlog voting hosted by Eric Siebert at vSphere-land and sponsored by Infinio started and this Tuesday, (March 31) the results were announced during a live session which you can watch here in case you missed it.   Simon Seagrave, John Troyer  and Scott Davis partivipaded in the live session were the … Continue reading »

   

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  vCenter Orchestrator workflow search result not complete (http://vcdx56.com/?p=5289)Today i ran into a situation i have not seen in the past. I was using the vCenter Orchestrator (vCO) version 5.5.2 and the vCO plugin vCenter Orchestrator Plugin for Horizon View version 1.1 which can be found here When configuring the connection between vCO and Horizon View you need to run the workflow “Add Delegated … Continue reading »

   

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  #76 VMware Virtual Volumes with Rawlinson Rivera (http://www.datacenterdude.com/?p=2803)Rawlinson Rivera joins us to go over VMware Virtual Volumes, give us a deep dive on the architecture, the history that led to the biggest innovation in storage since VMFS, and why you should get them implemented to leverage a policy-based management style.

   

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  NetApp Virtual Storage Console and VASA Provider 6.0 (http://www.datacenterdude.com/?p=2783)I'm happy to announce the availability of the latest VMware plugins from NetApp: VSC 6.0 and VASA Provider 6.0 which brings along support for VMware's latest storage innovation ... VVols

   

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  History and Future of the NetApp Communities Podcast (http://www.datacenterdude.com/?p=2771)I've received an overwhelming amount of questions on the NetApp Communities Podcast. And it's not what you would expect ... the questions were more along the lines of the history, how it is actually run, and how big is the team that puts it on every week.

   

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  Replication in NetApp Clustered Data ONTAP (http://www.datacenterdude.com/?p=2739)Data protection is one of the most critical aspects of any storage infrastructure. When data is lost it almost always translates directly into money lost and time lost.

   

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  #75 vBlog Results, Azure, & Super Capacitors (http://www.datacenterdude.com/?p=2757)We review the results of the Top vBlog 2015 contest, spend some time reviewing what is going on at Microsoft Azure, and geek out on some new high-tech known as "Supercapacitors."

   

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  3CX Phone System – Installation (http://vinfrastructure.it/?p=16197)In the previous post I’ve talk about 3CX and their main product (3CX Phone System), its characteristics and the different users cases. Now it’s the turn to describe the installation, that it’s really simple, easy and fast, and also well describe in the Administrator Manual. As written this product require a Windows operating system, but it support several version, included client edition of Windows. From NT 6.1 (Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2) almost are supported, but installations on Microsoft…

   

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  3CX Phone System – Introduction (http://vinfrastructure.it/?p=16173)3CX is a company, founded in 2006 by Nick Galea, with a simple and clear scope: build a software PBX for Microsoft Windows platform. Could be a strange choice, considering that most of PBX are based on Linux (and there are also a lot of distributions or virtual appliance already targeted for the PBX and VoIP world), but the company as grow in those years. They develop 3CX Phone System, the software-based PBX for Microsoft Windows which not only replaces proprietary phone systems, but it also delivers a…

   

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  Login PI 1.0 (http://vinfrastructure.it/?p=16290)LoginVSI announce that Login PI 1.0, a real-world performance insights on Virtual Desktops, is available and you can start your trial today. Login PI is a new way to measure the user experience of your VDI environment. More than just measuring performance counters, Login PI reports on how the environment is really performing – how long does it take to log in, and what’s the response time of apps. Typical user cases for Login PI are: Monitor the end user experience, without affecting end-user…

   

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  Microsoft unveils new container technologies for the Next Generation Cloud (http://vinfrastructure.it/?p=16230)Last October, Microsoft and Docker, Inc. jointly announced plans to bring containers to developers across the Docker and Windows ecosystems via Windows Server Containers, available in the next version of Windows Server. This was for sure a big announce, considering also the containers momentum, but was just an announce, considering that no details was avaiable (and of course none is available yet in the the beta code of Windows Next). But finally there are the first details about this new technology and how…

   

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  vCommunity thoughts (http://vinfrastructure.it/?p=16163)In those days there were some interesting threads directly or indirectly about the vCommunity, the value of it, the credibility and also the criteria of “election” in it for the Top  Blog (but also for the vExpert). They have started independently one from Christian Mohn (The “vCommunity”) and one from Rene Van Den Bedem (#TopvBlog2015 Analysis Part 2) but in both there are some interesting topics (although I don’t agree with all of them). Let’s start from the second one that seems more simple…

   

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  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…

   

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  An introduction to vRA Application Services – part 1 (http://www.viktorious.nl/?p=5275)The post An introduction to vRA Application Services – part 1 appeared first on viktorious.nl - Virtualization & Cloud Management . VMware is all about decoupling. Decoupling servers from your hardware by using vSphere, decoupling the network by using NSX and implementing VSAN to decouple your storage. In the world of automation & orchestration we can decouple an application from the underlying operating system with vRA Application Services. Lately I've been working on some automation…

   

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  Austin VMUG Preso–Disruption (http://www.vtexan.com/?p=3458)  I had the absolute pleasure of delivering the lunch keynote at the April 7th VMware UserGroup Conference in Austin.  I always enjoy presenting and love it even more when I can be vendor neutral and talk about things that are passionate to me.  This presentation is focused on disruption, which interestingly enough is something […]

   

KB ARTICLES

Datacenter
Following upgrade to or installation of ESXi 5.1, repeated message: “SSL_VerifyCbHelper: Certificate verification is disabled, so connection will proceed despite the error” in the host-probe.log (2104475)
Date Published: 3/31/2015

VMware ESX
Two or more virtual machines with the same name appear in the vCenter Server inventory (2108769)
Date Published: 4/1/2015

VMware ESXi
Powering on a virtual machine fails with the error: Could not open/create change tracking file (2111608)
Date Published: 3/31/2015
A ESXi 5.5 host entering maintenance mode fails at 67% (2112142)
Date Published: 3/30/2015
Installing VMware Tools on a Solaris 10 virtual machine fails with the error: Could not read vmwlegacy_drv.so (2109829)
Date Published: 4/3/2015
During packet tracing, ESXi 5.5 host halts with purple screen showing error: “@BlueScreen: PANIC bora/vmkernel/main/dlmalloc.c:4892 – Usage error in dlmalloc” (2105711)
Date Published: 3/30/2015
VMware vCenter Server reports the event: Alarm Host error on ‘server’ changed from Gray to Gray (2108884)
Date Published: 4/1/2015
Virtual Volumes and VMware Certificate Authority (VMCA) (2111731)
Date Published: 4/1/2015

VMware Horizon
Video playback performance issue with hardware version 11 VMs in 2D mode (2109650)
Date Published: 3/30/2015

VMware Horizon View
If you attempt to launch a video in full screen mode on a View desktop using PCoIP with the default video RAM, a blank screen is displayed. (2040603)
Date Published: 3/30/2015

VMware IT Business Manager Standard
IT Business Management Standard and vRealize Business Standard JRE update to include a fix for CVE-2014-6593 (2111802)
Date Published: 4/2/2015
Collecting vRealize Business Standard logs (2107649)
Date Published: 4/2/2015

VMware NSX for vSphere
Adding or Removing single Static Routes using API on VMware NSX for vSphere 6.x Edge routers (2111244)
Date Published: 3/30/2015

VMware ThinApp
Thinapp Visio 2013 is not able to save file on a Persona Management Redirected share (2109979)
Date Published: 3/30/2015
Adobe Captivate 8 crash after Adobe License warning message (2109996)
Date Published: 3/30/2015

VMware vCenter Configuration Manager
VMware vRealize Configuration Manager patch exception results fail (2109668)
Date Published: 4/1/2015

VMware vCenter Hyperic Agent
vRealize Hyperic 5.x JRE update to include a fix for CVE-2014-6593 (2111337)
Date Published: 4/2/2015

VMware vCenter Infrastructure Navigator
vSphere Infrastructure Navigator 5.7.x JRE update to include a fix for CVE-2014-6593 (2111334)
Date Published: 4/2/2015

VMware vCenter Operations Manager (Standalone)
vCenter Operations Manager 5.7.4 and 5.8.5 JRE update to include a fix for CVE-2014-6593 (2111172)
Date Published: 4/2/2015

VMware vCenter Server
VMware vCenter Server login fails and panic halt occurs with the error “Unable to retrieve schema information” in vpxd.log (2104222)
Date Published: 4/2/2015
Customization of RHEL6 does not update gateway (2111070)
Date Published: 3/30/2015
Troubleshooting the vSphere 6.0 Client Integration Plugin when it fails to function (2112086)
Date Published: 4/1/2015
Adding a VMware ESXi host to VMware vCenter Server fails with the error: “Unable to perform the operation. There is no available vRAM capacity.” (2110307)
Date Published: 4/1/2015
Manually reviewing certificates in VMware Endpoint Certificate Store for vSphere 6.0 (2111411)
Date Published: 3/31/2015
Replacing a vSphere 6.0 Machine SSL certificate with a Custom Certificate Authority Signed Certificate (2112277)
Date Published: 3/30/2015
Replacing the vSphere 6.0 Solution Users certificates with a Custom Certificate Authority signed certificates (2112278)
Date Published: 3/30/2015
Replacing the vSphere 6.0 Machine SSL certificate with a VMware Certificate Authority issued certificate (2112279)
Date Published: 3/30/2015
Regenerating the vSphere 6.0 certificates using a new self-signed VMware Certificate Authority certificate (2112283)
Date Published: 3/30/2015
How Virtual Volumes and UNMAP primitive interact? (2112333)
Date Published: 4/2/2015
After replacing the vCenter Server certificates in vSphere 6.0, the ESX Agent Manager solution user fails to log in (2112577)
Date Published: 4/1/2015

VMware vCenter Server Appliance
Upgrading the VMware vCenter Server Appliance 5.x to vCenter Server 6.0 hangs during the “Connect to source appliance” validation (2112302)
Date Published: 4/1/2015
vCenter Server Appliance 6.0 displays the warning: VMware Postgres service memory usage has exceeded allocated quota (2112606)
Date Published: 4/1/2015
Reclaiming space on vPostgres databases within the VMware vCenter Server Appliance fails with error: domain socket “/tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432 (2111236)
Date Published: 3/30/2015
VMware vCenter Server Appliance fails due to high memory usage (2112303)
Date Published: 4/1/2015
Modifying the VMware vCenter Server 6.0 landing page links (2111215)
Date Published: 4/1/2015
Replacing the vSphere 6.0 Solution User certificates with VMware Certificate Authority issued certificates (2112281)
Date Published: 3/30/2015
The vSphere Web Client 6.0 displays an internal error after upgrading to vSphere 6.0 when using vCenter Support Assistant 5.5 (2112292)
Date Published: 4/1/2015

VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager
Create protection group option is grayed out in Site Recovery Manager (SRM) 5.8 (2105351)
Date Published: 4/2/2015

VMware vCloud Automation Center for Server
[Security VMRC proxy] – Implement Console Proxy (VMRC and WebMKS) for vSphere for vRA 6.1/6.1.1 (2112382)
Date Published: 3/30/2015

VMware vCloud Director
Accessing media in VMware vCloud Director fails with the error: The VCD entity (com.vmware.vcloud.entity.media:xxxx) does not exist (2112532)
Date Published: 4/2/2015
Managing the List of SSL Protocols Allowed by vCloud Director (2112282)
Date Published: 3/30/2015

VMware View
Unable to assign desktop even when unassigned desktops in manual pool are present (2111621)
Date Published: 4/3/2015

VMware View Manager
VMware Horizon View Composer help center (2087379)
Date Published: 3/31/2015
Auto-fitting the guest display sometimes does not work when you rotate the iPad (1035510)
Date Published: 3/30/2015

VMware Virtual SAN
Upgrading from VMware vSphere 5.5 EP06 or 5.5 P04 to vSphere 6.0 GA can cause VMware Virtual SAN (VSAN) Data Unavailability (DU) (2113024)
Date Published: 4/3/2015

VMware vRealize Application Services
vCloud Application Director and vRealize Automation Application Services JRE update to include a fix for CVE-2014-6593 (2111981)
Date Published: 4/2/2015

VMware vRealize Automation
Upgrading VMware vRealize Automation from vCenter SSO 5.5 to Platform Services Controller (PSC) 6.0 makes Tenants inaccessible (Linux-based SSO only) (2112030)
Date Published: 3/31/2015

VMware vRealize Operations Manager
Change the IP address on a vRealize Operations Manager single-node deployment (2108696)
Date Published: 4/3/2015

VMware vSphere App HA
vSphere AppHA 1.1.x JRE update to include a fix for CVE-2014-6593 (2111336)
Date Published: 4/2/2015

VMware vSphere Data Protection
Configuring the vSphere Data Protection (VDP) Appliance fails during Test Connection with error “Modify your network settings or VDP credentials” (2106706)
Date Published: 3/31/2015

VMware vSphere Replication
Enabling SSH on the VMware vSphere Replication 6.0.x Appliance (2112307)
Date Published: 4/2/2015
vSphere Replication 5.6.0.3 Express Patch Release (2112025)
Date Published: 4/2/2015
vSphere Replication 5.8.0.2 Express Patch Release (2112022)
Date Published: 4/2/2015

VMware vSphere Storage Appliance
Installing vSphere Storage Appliance (VSA) 5.5 fails with error: Cannot create VSA cluster: ESXi host XXX has running VMS that are using CPU features not supported by other ESXi hosts. (2104168)
Date Published: 3/31/2015

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