VMware TAM Source 7.19

FROM THE EDITORS VIRTUAL DESK

Hi everyone, I hope you have had a fantastic week. This week I would like to remind everyone about VMworld and TAM Day which happens in San Francisco every year. As par to our regular VMworld event we also have a special day for our TAM customers. This event is only for TAM customers and is always a highlight of the event. Please can you ensure that if you are attending that you have registered for TAM day before spaces run out as they are very limited.

TAM DAY
SUNDAY, AUGUST 30, 2015
10:00 AM PST to 6:00 PM PST

Register Here: http://tinyurl.com/lomy6lf

These invitation-only, customer sessions will focus on the most timely and pressing business and technical issues. TAM Day is a great opportunity to:
  Interact with VMware experts and leaders
  Network with peers and industry professionals
  Learn about VMware best practices, future planning and strategies

I wish you all a fantastic week ahead, I hope you enjoy this weeks newsletter as much as we did putting it together for you.

Virtually Yours

Neil Isserow

Staff Technical Account Manager, Team Lead

San Francisco, CA

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VMware TAM WEBCASTS

NEWS AND DEVELOPMENTS FROM VMWARE

GENERAL NEWS

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  ALERT: Virtual Machines on VXLAN Wires may be unable to communicate across hosts with their Edges or Distributed Routers (http://blogs.vmware.com/kb/?p=6540)After upgrading to VMware ESXi 5.5 Patch 05 (build number: 2702864) with VMware NSX for vSphere 6.1.x your Virtual Machines on VXLAN Wires may be unable to communicate across hosts with their Edges or Distributed Routers. This is a known issue affecting VMware ESXi 5.5 Patch 5 For further diagnostic and mitigation information refer to […]

   

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  Top 5 Tips for Marketing Your Cloud Services (http://blogs.vmware.com/cloudops/?p=1533)By Alberto Martinez A couple of years ago when I was working in Australia, one of my customers was starting to deliver cloud services to its external customers—mainly infrastructure as a service (IaaS). It was not a very mature market at that time though they knew what they had to do to promote those services: […]

   

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  What We Read This Week: A VMware News Recap: May 8, 2015 (http://blogs.vmware.com/tribalknowledge/?p=3965)Securing Containers, #EMCWorld 2015 Wraps Up, the Double-Edged Sword of Self-Service in the Cloud This week, VMware introduced best practices and compliance solution for Docker Engine. The benchmarks created will help customers to manage and secure container environments. Read more in the blog post by Sajai Krishnan, VP of product marketing for VMware’s Cloud Management […]

   

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  The Self-Service Revolution: A Double-Edged Sword (http://blogs.vmware.com/tribalknowledge/?p=3959)By Bill Fathers, Executive Vice President and General Manager, Cloud Services, VMware The characteristics of cloud computing are many and varied, but the feature perhaps most responsible for its rapid adoption across organizations of all sizes is self-service procurement. The reason for this is fairly obvious: whereas interfacing with the IT department and waiting on approval […]

   

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  VMware Innovation Series: Chih Chi Hu (http://blogs.vmware.com/tribalknowledge/?p=3955)VMware is committed to being a great place to work and the VMwomen program is one of the ways the company helps to make that vision a reality. In this month’s edition of VMware’s Innovation Series, Tribal Knowledge talks to a member of VMware’s technical staff, Chih Chi Hu, who shares a little about her […]

   

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  WATCH LIVE at #EMCWorld 2015: “Redefine Next” with VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger (http://blogs.vmware.com/tribalknowledge/?p=3947)EMC World 2015 is in full swing and in just a few moments, VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger will join EMC CEO Joe Tucci and Pivotal CEO Paul Maritz on stage during the general session to talk about VMware, VMware’s role in the Federation, and the path to the software defined data center. "Every traditional industry […]

   

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  Showcasing VMware vCloud Air Object Storage powered by EMC at EMC World! (http://blogs.vmware.com/tribalknowledge/?p=3940)By Roshni Pary, Senior Product Marketing Manager, vCloud Air Product Marketing A quick update on VMware’s continued innovation and updates to our cloud platform.  Last year, we announced plans to launch VMware vCloud® Air™ Object Storage powered by EMC, and earlier this year, we announced a strategic partnership with Google that will include integration of VMware […]

   

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  HIPAA: A 20th-century law in a 21st-century world (http://blogs.vmware.com/tribalknowledge/?p=3938)This story was originally published on The Bridge. When healthcare-interested attendees gathered in Chicago for HIMSS 2015, few issues loomed larger than security and privacy concerns. In many ways, mobile healthcare apps have advanced far more rapidly than had been expected, enjoying an aggressive healthcare push by multiple hardware and software makers. The problem is […]

   

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  Top Posts from April: Recertification Deadline Discount, Certification Website Changes, and 3 New VCP Level Certifications (http://blogs.vmware.com/education/?p=5642)Catch up on the top VMware Education and Certification blog posts from April 2015

   

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  AirWatch Training Courses Available (http://blogs.vmware.com/education/?p=5633)Next-generation mobile solutions are unlocking new levels of workforce productivity, introducing new ways to connect and build relationships with customers while helping organizations to grow and transform their markets. AirWatch by VMware is the global leader in enterprise-grade mobility solutions across every device, every operating system and every mobile deployment. These training courses will give you […]

   

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  Why VMware Integrated OpenStack (http://blogs.vmware.com/cto/?p=3365)Jonathan Cham is a Global Solutions Consultant who helps global companies transform and accelerate the way IT is delivered to their customers. He focuses on open source, cloud operations and management solutions.  He currently consults with organizations on how to approach the software defined datacenter model and create business value for the IT organization.   Jonathan has a MS in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University and MBA from USC and has worked in various technical roles in his career.…

   

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  VMware Technical Account Manager Customer Intelligence Program (Part 1 of 2) (http://blogs.vmware.com/tam/?p=2094)By Eric Crossley VMware Technical Account Manager (TAM) Services customers have an opportunity that those without TAMs do not – most notable, participation in the TAM Customer Intelligence Program. Upon opting in (under NDA protection), your TAM will undertake a thorough yet unobtrusive infrastructure interrogation process. The goal is to gather a range of specific […]

   

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  SRM Protection Group Design Considerations (http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/?p=17107)When designing vCenter Site Recovery Manager environments the question of how to organize Protection Groups (PG) frequently comes up. In this post we'll review what a protection group is, where it fits in the context of SRM and the factors to keep in mind when deciding how to organize them. What is a Protection Group? […]

   

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  Using the ESXi 6.0 CPU Microcode Loading Feature (http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/?p=17279)Using the ESXi 6.0 CPU Microcode Loading Feature Authored By: Tim Mann Abstract: Occasionally ESXi users want to run updated CPU microcode that isn't yet available either from their hardware platform vendor in a BIOS update or bundled into ESXi. This article explains how to do that. Note: This procedure is not supported by VMware, […]

   

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  Federation Enterprise Hybrid Cloud 3: Software-Defined Data Center Made Easy (http://blogs.vmware.com/rethinkit/?p=510)By Wayne Pauley, Director, Business Development, Solutions Engineering, VMware Last year, VMware and EMC announced the Federation Enterprise Hybrid Cloud version 2.5. This was delivered as a fully engineered solution that included products from EMC and VMware as well as some secret sauce (software bits) that provided ready to use automation and workflows for provisioning […]

   

  
  

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  App Volumes: Storage Migration for AppStacks (http://blogs.vmware.com/consulting/?p=2236)By Jeremy Wheeler Inside of App Volumes you can accomplish a storage migration between different SANs using the feature called 'Storage Groups,' provided you have shared storage between App Volume Managers. If you don't, I recommend creating a temporary LUN/Volume to accomplish this migration. If you are performing a migration on a large scale, such […]

   

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  Using VMware NSX, Log Insight, and vRealize Orchestator to Improve Security (http://blogs.vmware.com/networkvirtualization/?p=1915)This post was written by Hadar Freehling, Security & Compliance Systems Engineer Specialist at VMware. The post originally appeared here on the dfudsecurity blog *** There is a lot of power in having security controls in software.  This is what I tell my customer, not just because I work for VMware. Why is that? The reason […]

   

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  10 Reasons Why You Should Attend VMware’s Largest Online Conference (http://blogs.vmware.com/vcloud/?p=5445)Looking to build organizational knowledge around new insights and tools from VMware—but can’t break away from your desk? vForum Online, VMware’s largest online conference, offers a wealth of information, technical chats and breakout sessions to help inspire IT innovation within your organization. What to expect vForum Online is a free, half-day virtual conference on May […]

   

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  Cloud-Based Disaster Recovery Basics in Three Minutes (http://blogs.vmware.com/vcloud/?p=5443)There is no debate that every company wants to protect their operations from downtime and loss of data. Floods, earthquakes, tornados and hurricanes, not to mention errant cups of coffee, are all capable of shutting down business critical applications and workloads at any time, unexpectedly. Unfortunately, many businesses don’t have the expertise or budget to […]

   

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  Creating Custom Dashboards in vRealize Operations with 3rd Party Integrations (http://blogs.vmware.com/management/?p=7047)vRealize Operations has a number of management packs that extend the core capability of the platform and enable comprehensive visibility into your IT Infrastructure. We discussed relationship mapping in the last blog post, which enables instant visibility into different components of your virtual environment by mapping out the relationship between each resource kind within vRealize Operations. This isn’t […]

   

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  VMware Introduces Best Practices and Compliance Solution for Docker Engine (http://blogs.vmware.com/management/?p=7038)By Sajai Krishnan, vice president of product marketing, Cloud Management Business Unit Lately, I’ve been asked by customers how we can help them to manage and secure container environments. We have spent years working closely with our customers to develop best practices around securing virtual machines even for the most stringent production workloads.  However, given […]

   

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  VMware Releases Security and Compliance Solution for Docker Containers (http://blogs.vmware.com/security/?p=1397)As more of VMware’s customers look to run containerized applications, some have raised the question of securing containers in their environments. In partnership with the Center for Internet Security (CIS), Docker and others, VMware has developed a security configuration benchmark for Docker containers that you can download from here. In all, six parties came together […]

   

  
  

DESKTOP

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  Jazz-Up XenApp – Taking A Closer Look at Applications with VMware App Volumes and WEM (http://blogs.vmware.com/euc/?p=7661)By Harry Labana, vice president, products, End-User Computing, VMware  Recently we announced the VMware Horizon® Application Management™ Bundle, which is included in VMware Horizon 6 Enterprise and available to Citrix customers, who we also love! Today I’d like to double-click on the Horizon Application Management Bundle to explain a bit more how it addresses many […]

   

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  Planning and Implementing a Horizon Virtual Desktop Solution for a Healthcare Provider (http://blogs.vmware.com/euc/?p=7647)By Nancy Beckus, Writer and Editor, End-User-Computing Technical Marketing, VMware Stephane Asselin, Senior Architect, End-User-Computing Technical Enablement, VMware Chi Chung Wong, End-User-Computing Architect, VMware In the fall of 2013, Carroll Hospital Center (CHC), a Maryland healthcare provider, faced a challenge: It needed to transform its end-user desktops to a secure, centralized desktop environment for local […]

   

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  VMware NSX - Customer Imperatives for Desktop Transformation Security (http://blogs.vmware.com/euc/?p=7633)Tony Paikeday, Sr. Product Line Manager, End-User Computing, VMware Customers share perspectives on what drives them to deploy NSX for securing virtual desktops and apps I recently had the opportunity to attend RSA, and present at our breakout session “Limiting the Spread of Threats: A Data Center for Every User”. Here we explored the use […]

   

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  Manually Copying an App Volumes AppStack (http://blogs.vmware.com/euc/?p=7621)By Gina Daly, Technical Writer for Technical Marketing, End-User Computing, VMware, and Dean Flaming, Sr. Technical Marketing Manager | Lighthouse and End-User-Computing Enablement, VMware Perhaps you have migrated or installed a new App Volumes Manager server, and want to know how you can import or share AppStacks. There are two scenarios to consider. Scenario 1: […]

   

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  Watch video: Enterprise mobility news recap: May 4-8 (http://blogs.air-watch.com/?p=36340)Welcome back to the AirWatch weekly recap! Today we will discuss a new mobile enrollment program, mobile shopping trends in retail and a data collection tool that has the potential to shift the traditional patient to physician visit in healthcare. MDM enrollment just got easier. Samsung Mobile KNOX Enrollment is now available to further simplify […]

   

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  AirWatch among crowd of government innovators at 5th Annual MobileGov Summit (http://blogs.air-watch.com/?p=35821)Last month in Washington D.C., the Newseum hosted the 5th Annual MobileGov Summit. The Fedscoop summit welcomed 20 speakers across the federal government. Speakers at the event included David Bray, CIO of the Federal Communications Commission, Sonny Hashmi, CIO of General Services Administration and David Cotton, Deputy CIO for Information Enterprise at the Department of Defense. […]

   

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  VMware NSX – Customer imperatives for desktop transformation security (http://blogs.air-watch.com/?p=36265)Written by Tony Paikeday, Sr. Product Line Manager, End User Computing, VMware Customers share perspectives on what drives them to deploy NSX for securing virtual desktops and apps I recently had the opportunity to attend RSA, and present at our breakout session “Limiting the Spread of Threats: A Data Center for Every User.” Here we […]

   

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  Apple ResearchKit and its role in healthcare mobility (http://blogs.air-watch.com/?p=36226)As we’ve seen with wearables like the Apple Watch, FitBit and the Moto360 there is a plethora of useful information that these additional appendages can provide. More than ever, the collection of this data is leading to intriguing analytics and with the March announcement of ResearchKit, Apple is applying the same idea. Like the Apple […]

   

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  Watch video: Last week’s enterprise mobility news recap: April 27 – May 1 (http://blogs.air-watch.com/?p=36196)To begin today’s enterprise mobility headlines we will cover what’s new in government mobility and the mobile to desktop trend. Blogtalkradio recently hosted Paul Brubaker on air for a podcast. Brubaker is Director of Government Solutions at AirWatch and spoke about the importance of unified endpoint management and mobile security in the government sector. Brubaker says […]

   

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  AirWatch supports Samsung KNOX Mobile Enrollment (http://blogs.air-watch.com/?p=36178)Samsung has announced KNOX Mobile Enrollment. This enrollment program will allow IT administrators to program devices into an MDM system in bulk. Prior to this setup IT administrators were tasked with setting up each individual device separately. Each device had to be unpacked, charged and connected to Wi-Fi. After these steps, the MDM software had […]

   

  
  

PARTNER

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  VMware App Volumes...Why Care? (http://blogs.vmware.com/partnernews/?p=1748)View these couple of slides highlighting the primary reasons and resources to get you started. The tremendous partner opportunity available right now should pique your interest.

   

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  Introducing...VMware Collaboration Bundle (http://blogs.vmware.com/partnernews/?p=1744)Read up on how this will help your customers embrace the mobile cloud era by bringing secure content collaboration to their work place. This powerful integration of Socialcast by VMware, AirWatch Video, and AirWatch Content Locker aggregates content, drives organizational alignment, discovers experts, and connects applications and people with content, social networking, and video services. ​

   

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  Attn EMEA Partners - vRealize Operations Video Localized (http://blogs.vmware.com/partnernews/?p=1746)This short video is now available in DE, FR, IT, ES, and RU. VMware vRealize Operations delivers intelligent operations management, controlling performance, capacity, and configuration.

   

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  A Valuable Partner Success Story Video (http://blogs.vmware.com/partnernews/?p=1742)Hear from Phoenix Software Ltd, one of the UK’s leading providers of IT infrastructure services, how vSphere with Operations Management helps their customers and how the vSphere Optimization Assessment (VOA) tool helps them to upsell these customers further to increase their profitability.

   

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  Provide High-Performance IT with PRIMEFLEX for VMware Virtual SAN (http://blogs.vmware.com/partnernews/?p=1740)Check out this video to find out how Fujitsu partners can deliver PRIMEFLEX for VMware Virtual SAN to ensure customers can lower their TCO (total cost of ownership) for IT by up to 50 percent.  Help your customers reap the rewards of a cost-effective, high-performance data center with this offering.

   

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  Grab Your Windbreaker Because VMworld 2015 U.S. Registration is Now Live (http://blogs.vmware.com/partner/?p=2476)In case you missed it, VMworld 2015 U.S. registration is now live. This means it’s time to start booking your trip to San Francisco for the tech conference that is going to take your summer by storm! Join us at VMworld 2015 in San Francisco this August 30 - September 3 to gain the essential […]

   

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  Flex Your Marketing Muscles with The VMware Marketing Services Store (http://blogs.vmware.com/partner/?p=2471)Meet the protein powder to your marketing roadmap. The VMware Marketing Services Store, otherwise known as “The Store”, is an integrated component of the VMware Partner Demand Center. It is an online catalog of service offerings that showcases VMware-vetted agencies that offer best-in-class marketing services with pre-negotiated packages and pricing. Consider them your personal trainers. The […]

   

  
  

MORE NEWS AND DEVELOPMENTS FROM AROUND THE WEB

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  EMC World 2015: A Humorous Interlude, Part 4 (http://virtualgeek.typepad.com/virtual_geek/2015/05/emc-world-2015-a-humorous-interlude-part-4.html)As always – it’s healthy to never take yourself too seriously. Speaking of healthy…. During the general session on Day 3, we wanted to demonstrate the things we’re working on in the Emerging Technology Division, and decided the best way...

   

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  EMC World Day 3: OnRack (http://virtualgeek.typepad.com/virtual_geek/2015/05/emc-world-day-3-onrack.html)Embedded in the Monday VxRack tech preview and the Wednesday Project Caspian tech preview – there was an interesting tidbit: OnRack. What the heck is OnRack? Answer: a thin, low-level hardware abstraction layer (HAL) for all sorts of industry standard...

   

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  EMC World Day 3: Project Caspian (http://virtualgeek.typepad.com/virtual_geek/2015/05/emc-world-day-3-project-caspian.html)In a nutshell: Today we announced and demonstrated “Project Caspian”. What is it?: Project Caspian is intended to be the best industrialized software stack – offered in software-only, and industrialized converged infrastructure to deploy “cloud native applications” for customers pursuing...

   

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  EMC World Day 3: DSSD Tech Preview (http://virtualgeek.typepad.com/virtual_geek/2015/05/emc-world-day-3-dssd-tech-preview.html)Today, we also revealed more to the world about DSSD – which is positively face-melting :-) What is DSSD? It is NOT a storage array in the traditional sense – but is a persistence target. It IS an insane dense...

   

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  EMC Day 3: ScaleIO – Unleashed for the world! (http://virtualgeek.typepad.com/virtual_geek/2015/05/emc-day-3-scaleio-unleashed-for-the-world.html)I won’t “bury the lead” here. The big news is that ScaleIO is available for frictionless and free unlimited download and use. I’ll say that again: The industries BEST, Most PERFORMANT, Most SCALABLE, Most BROADLY APPLICABLE, Most FEATURE RICH, OPEN...

   

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  EMC World 2015: A Humorous Interlude, Part 3 (http://virtualgeek.typepad.com/virtual_geek/2015/05/emc-world-2015-a-humorous-interlude-part-3.html)As always – it’s healthy to never take yourself too seriously :-) Brought to you by the great partner and good sports at Brocade – we give you “Between Two Clouds” In “Between Two Clouds”, Jason Nolet (Brocade), SVP of...

   

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  EMC World Day 2: Data Lakes + Splunk + Hadoop + EMC = Awesome. (http://virtualgeek.typepad.com/virtual_geek/2015/05/emc-world-day-2-data-lakes-splunk-hadoop-emc-awesome.html)On Day 2 at EMC World 2015 (and frankly – the whole week), we were joined by friends from Cloudera, from Hortonworks, from Splunk, from Pivotal – and many many others in the Big Data Ecosystem. “Big Data” is not...

   

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  EMC World Day 2: Federation Enterprise Hybrid Cloud 3.0 (http://virtualgeek.typepad.com/virtual_geek/2015/05/emc-world-day-2-federation-enterprise-hybrid-cloud-30.html)The Enterprise Hybrid Cloud is the packaging of an engineered, tested hybrid cloud stack built around the Federation stack: with vSphere and the vRealize suite at the center, vCloud Air as the public cloud target, ViPR as the storage abstraction/automation...

   

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  EMC World Day 2: ViPR Controller is now Open-Source. (http://virtualgeek.typepad.com/virtual_geek/2015/05/emc-world-day-3-vipr-controller-is-now-open-source.html)Drops mike. Hello… what’s THAT all about? While I suspect this won’t get the big press at EMC World (likely will go to VxRack, XtremIO 4.0 – all great stuff, no doubt) – to me, this is perhaps the biggest...

   

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  EMC World 2015: A Humorous Interlude, Part 2 (http://virtualgeek.typepad.com/virtual_geek/2015/05/emc-world-2015-a-humorous-interlude-part-2.html)As always – it’s healthy to never take yourself too seriously :-) Brought to you by the great partner and good sports at Brocade – we give you “Between Two Clouds”. The first episode if you missed it is here....

   

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  New Training Course - VMware AirWatch: On-Premises Deployment (http://www.ntpro.nl/blog/archives/2912-guid.html)

   

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  New Training Course - VMware AirWatch: Cloud Deployment (http://www.ntpro.nl/blog/archives/2911-guid.html)

   

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  Cool Tool - Virtual SAN Health Check Plugin (http://www.ntpro.nl/blog/archives/2910-guid.html)

   

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  Video - vSphere High Availability Enhancements: APD and PDL (http://www.ntpro.nl/blog/archives/2909-guid.html)

   

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  Video - Configuring VMware Virtual SAN (http://www.ntpro.nl/blog/archives/2908-guid.html)

   

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  VMUG Wiki Update and Thank You (http://www.mikelaverick.com/?p=6113)This blogpost is really one long thank you to individual who helped me get the VMUG Wiki of the ground. His name is Jack Collins and I met him via friend of mine in the town where I live. Jack’s been very helpful to me and the VMUG Wiki project by painstakingly converting the many […]

   

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  New Skinny Linux Distro Available – Includes VMware Tools (http://www.mikelaverick.com/?p=6108)I have a new skinny linux distribution available on my site. I’m not the author of this release, but a colleague of mine Doug Baer orginally put it together. It’s used primarily in our hands-on-lab environment where you need some small VMs to run on top of nested vESX environment. These nested VMs that run […]

   

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  Bonjour, je m’appelle EVO:RAIL (http://www.mikelaverick.com/?p=6102)One of my favorite gags at UK VMUGs when I’m asked to present on EVO:RAIL is to start a demo off in a different language. It’s largely to put the wind up my fellow Brits, as we are somewhat notorious for not being able to speak other European languages. Generally, the British response to being […]

   

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  vSphere 6.0 Storage Features Part 8: VAAI UNMAP changes (http://cormachogan.com/?p=5023)A few weeks, my good pal Cody Hosterman over at Pure Storage was experimenting with VAAI and discovered that he could successfully UNMAP blocks (reclaim) directly from a Guest OS in vSphere 6.0. VAAI are the vSphere APIs for Array Continue reading →

   

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  Announcing the Virtual SAN 6.0 Health Check Plugin (http://cormachogan.com/?p=5026)Today VMware announces the Virtual SAN 6.0 Health Check Plugin, a feature that will check your Virtual SAN configuration, both proactively and re-actively, and highlight any abnormal conditions found in the cluster. This is available to all our VSAN customers Continue reading →

   

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  DevOps, Python, Ansible, and Sleuthing: A Review of Interop Las Vegas (http://wahlnetwork.com/?p=13208)Some of the key takeaways from snazzy workshops and sessions during the 2015 Interop conference in Las Vegas The post DevOps, Python, Ansible, and Sleuthing: A Review of Interop Las Vegas appeared first on Wahl Network . Related posts: Join Me at Interop in Las Vegas 2015

   

  
  

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  Introducing the Top vBlog 2015 Virtual Coin (http://vsphere-land.com/?p=5879)The physical Top vBlog 2015 commemorative coins are being mailed out to the Top 50 winners this year. If you don’t have your coin yet you should in the next 1-2 weeks. I’ve had people ask about logos to display on their blogs so I’ve hired a graphic designer to P2V the coins for me. … Continue reading » [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

   

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  Upcoming webinar: Boosting Storage Performance from the Server Side (http://vsphere-land.com/?p=5882)Join Infinio and the mad chief scientist from Deep Storage himself, Howard Marks for a webinar on May 7th at 10:00am PST to find out how using compute server resources to accelerate storage access can bring greater levels of storage performance and flexibility to the modern data center while simultaneously helping to keep costs under control. The always … Continue reading » [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

   

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  vBlogger Spotlight: Jason Boche (http://vsphere-land.com/?p=5875)Follow @jasonboche 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 Jason Boche, a good friend of mine from way back to the days when we were VMTN … Continue reading » [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

   

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  Silently installing Veeam v8 Update 2 – at scale with vRO (http://blog.mwpreston.net/?p=4463)It’s no surprise that most Veeam customers live with one or two Veeam Backup and Replication consoles – hey, it’s easier to manage, easier to report on, and easier to upgrade come update time if you keep your footprint to a minimum.  That said, I’m not most customers   I have multiple Veeam B&R consoles

   

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  Scheduling Veeam Backup Free Edition backups (http://blog.mwpreston.net/?p=4441)As you might be aware Veeam has released Update 2 for it’s Backup and Replication software.  With that comes a slew of updates, integration with Endpoint Backup, vSphere 6 support, features, enhancements, bug fixes – you know the usual suspects that you might find inside of an update pack – you can see them all

   

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  VXLAN on Ravello between Google and Amazon EC2 (http://blog.mwpreston.net/?p=4429)A week or so ago I did a post around a cross vCenter vMotion lab that I had setup utilizing both Amazon EC2 and Google Cloud through Ravello Systems new beta which allows us to run nested ESXi.  It was a fun project to work on, migrating VMs back and forth through the clouds, but

   

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  Tweeting Photo Booth using Node.js for EMC World 2015 (http://kendrickcoleman.com/index.php/Node.js-Projects/tweeting-photo-booth-using-node-js-for-emc-world-2015.html)Copy/Pasta from  The Tweeting Photo Booth on the EMC {code} Blog TL;DR –  https://github.com/emccode/photobooth   The months leading up to a big conference is usually when the ideas need to start churning. @gracelyb had an idea for a unique way to keep people entertained while showcasing some technologies from EMC as well as showing how it can integrate with APIs from different companies. That’s where the EMC {code} Photo Booth originated.   The Photo Booth is a MEN (minus the A) stack…

   

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  Persistent Data on Docker Containers from EMC {code} (http://kendrickcoleman.com/index.php/Tech-Blog/persistent-data-on-docker-containers-from-emc-code.html)Docker containers are architected to be ephemeral, meaning the entire container can be wiped out and no harm is done. But what about containers that you are using for databases such as PostgreSQL and MongoDB? What about containers that need access to backend storage. There are tricks that can be done such as using LVM to mount volumes, or using something like NFS or Amazon's new elastic NFS services to automatically mount those shares on docker run. But what about creating those volumes directly from…

   

KB ARTICLES

VMware App Volumes
Installation prompt appears when browsing SharePoint WebApp Components for Office (2111247)
Date Published: 4/28/2015
Manually copying an AppStack to a new or migrated App Volumes Manager server (2115440)
Date Published: 4/28/2015
App Volumes Manager fails to launch after initial install with remote SQL Database using Windows Authentication (2108131)
Date Published: 4/28/2015

VMware Continuent for Analytics and Big Data
Continuent Replicator fails to connect after updating replication user’s database password (2111395)
Date Published: 4/30/2015
Preparing Triggers for Row-Based Replication (2112599)
Date Published: 4/30/2015
The Continuent Replicator service fails with the error: Event application failed: Error writing file (2113223)
Date Published: 4/30/2015

VMware Continuent for Disaster Recovery
VMware Continuent process fails to start and does not write anything to the log file (2112233)
Date Published: 4/30/2015

VMware ESXi
Quiescing operations cause a Windows virtual machine to panic with a Stop 24 error on ntfs.sys (2115997)
Date Published: 4/30/2015
VMware ESXi 5.5, Patch ESXi550-201504401-BG: Updates esx-base (2114246)
Date Published: 4/30/2015
VMware ESXi 5.5, Patch ESXi550-201504403-BG: Updates net-ixgbe (2114248)
Date Published: 4/30/2015
VMware ESXi 5.5, Patch ESXi-5.5.0-20150404001-standard (2114251)
Date Published: 4/30/2015
VMware ESXi 5.5, Patch ESXi550-201504101-SG: Updates esx-base (2114255)
Date Published: 4/30/2015
Implementing vSphere Metro Storage Cluster using Hitachi Storage Cluster for VMware vSphere and the Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G1000 (2115494)
Date Published: 4/29/2015
Creating a quiesced snapshot of a Windows 2012 R2 virtual machine generates Event ID157 (2115932)
Date Published: 4/30/2015
VMware ESXi 5.5, Patch Release ESXi550-201504002 (2114245)
Date Published: 4/30/2015
VMware ESXi 5.5, Patch ESXi550-201504402-BG: Updates tools-light (2114247)
Date Published: 4/30/2015
VMware ESXi 5.5, Patch ESXi550-201504404-BG: Updates misc-drivers (2114250)
Date Published: 4/30/2015
VMware ESXi 5.5, Patch ESXi-5.5.0-20150404001-no-tools (2114253)
Date Published: 4/30/2015
VMware ESXi 5.5, Patch ESXi-5.5.0-20150401001s-standard (2114256)
Date Published: 4/30/2015
VMware ESXi 5.5, Patch ESXi-5.5.0-20150401001s-no-tools (2114257)
Date Published: 4/30/2015
ESXi 5.5 host loses network connectivity with Broadcom 10 GB Nics and bnx2x driver loaded (2114957)
Date Published: 4/30/2015
Creating a VMFS volume using the Add Storage wizard times out on a SolidFire iSCSI SSD Array (2115292)
Date Published: 4/28/2015

VMware EVO:RAIL
Updating a license on a second VMware EVO:RAIL appliance (2101839)
Date Published: 4/28/2015
Configuring VMware EVO:RAIL fails at 96% with the error: “An error has occurred: Try again.” (2108787)
Date Published: 4/28/2015
Replacing a hardware component in VMware EVO:RAIL does not reset the hardware alarm (2113427)
Date Published: 4/28/2015

VMware Horizon 6
Ctrl + Alt + Insert is not sent to the View Agent (2113860)
Date Published: 4/27/2015
Unable to retrieve a license for the display protocol. Please contact your system administrator (2114579)
Date Published: 4/29/2015

VMware Horizon Mirage
Mirage Management/Mirage Server fails to install because of FIPS compliant algorithms group policy (2110171)
Date Published: 4/29/2015
Mirage Client Service starts and stops immediately due to .NET Framework bitness misconfiguration (2110436)
Date Published: 4/30/2015

VMware IT Business Management Advanced
Cannot change the length property of UDF field Phone Number for Object user in VMware IT Business Management Enterprise (2114739)
Date Published: 4/28/2015

VMware Mirage
Mirage endpoint machines with Sophos SafeGuard may display blue diagnostic screen with error 0x0000007B (INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE) after Pivot (2111573)
Date Published: 4/29/2015
Mirage logs auto uploaded to FTP using WinSCP (2115300)
Date Published: 4/29/2015

Mirage Client removal with the cleanstate option may cause permission change in folders (2113859)
Date Published: 4/29/2015

VMware NSX for Multi-Hypervisor
VMware NSX for Multi Hypervisor 4.x Manager Updates section displays Current Version: Unknown (2111196)
Date Published: 4/28/2015

VMware NSX for vSphere
NSX Manager version 6.x becomes non-responsive (2115459)
Date Published: 4/30/2015

VMware ThinApp
Testing a native application with a virtual command prompt (2114114)
Date Published: 4/28/2015

VMware User Environment Manager
In the VMware User Environment Manager Management Console text-less buttons appears on Native Asian Windows installation (2115814)
Date Published: 4/29/2015
Fulfillment of VMware User Environment Manager 8.6 for Horizon 6 Enterprise Edition Customers (2115597)
Date Published: 4/29/2015

VMware vCenter Server
Launching a console connection to a virtual machine fails with the error: Unable to connect to the MKS: Could not connect to pipe \\.\pipe\vmware-authdpipe within retry period (2115126)
Date Published: 4/28/2015
Upgrading VMware vCenter Server with an Oracle Database from 5.x to 6.0 fails with the error: The user associated with the DSN has insufficient privileges (2115398)
Date Published: 4/28/2015
Storage DRS automation task reverts disk rules to default (2112843)
Date Published: 4/27/2015
Upgrading to vCenter Server 6.0 fails with the error: “Source vCenter Server schema validation found an issue.” (2113439)
Date Published: 4/27/2015

VMware vCenter Server Appliance
The Autodeploy TFTP Service is unreachable on vCenter Server Appliance 6.0 (2116018)
Date Published: 5/1/2015

VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager
Heartbeat datastores get unmounted during a VMware Site Recovery Manager failover operation causing a HA error (2115919)
Date Published: 5/1/2015

VMware vCloud Automation Center
Running Data Collection on a new VMware vRealize Orchestrator endpoint in VMware vRealize Automation fails with the error: full authentication is required to access this resource (2112093)
Date Published: 4/29/2015

VMware vCloud Networking and Security
vShield Manager version 5.5.4.x becomes non-responsive (2114813)
Date Published: 4/30/2015
VMware vFabric Hyperic Server
Configuring Oracle 11g for monitoring in VMware vCenter Hyperic Server and VMware vFabric Hyperic Server (2114740)
Date Published: 4/28/2015

VMware vRealize Business Advanced
Redirecting an HTTP page to HTTPS in VMware vRealize Business Advanced/Enterprise (2115573)
Date Published: 4/29/2015

VMware vRealize Operations Manager
VMware vRealize Operations Manager performs unreliably after a data node crashes (2116021)
Date Published: 5/1/2015
VMware vRealize Operations Manager SCOM 3.1 adapter fails collecting for all objects with the CommVault alert reporting as: :{0} (2115866)
Date Published: 4/30/2015

VMware vRealize Orchestrator
WebViews missing from VMware vRealize Orchestrator 6.x (2114405)
Date Published: 4/29/2015

VMware vShield Edge
Enabling and disabling SSLv3 encryption on VMware vShield Edge (CVE-2014-3566) (2115288)
Date Published: 4/30/2015

VMware vSphere Data Protection
Collecting VMware vSphere Data Protection 6.x diagnostic information (2115293)
Date Published: 5/1/2015

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