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Greeting from New York City. Yes this week I am traveling and the newsletter is brought to you from the wonderful New York City instead of it’s usual home in San Francisco. This week we have a very informative posting by our Senior TAM Services Development Manager, Eric Crossley. As part of the VMware Technical Account Manager program there are a number of deliverables that we provide our customers. One of these is the collection and presentation of customer metrics. Eric provides an explanation of these in his blog post.
VMware Technical Account Manager Customer Intelligence Program (Part 1 of 2)
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 data, including infrastructure configuration, types of hosts, and core virtualization achievements, among many others. [Read more…]
Enjoy your week everyone and I look forward to bringing you more VMware news next week.
Virtually Yours
Neil Isserow
Staff Technical Account Manager, Team Lead
San Francisco, CA
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VMware TAM WEBCASTS
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Aug 30-Sep 3: VMworld 2015
On-Demand Webinars:
SDDC:
- On-Demand: The Software-Defined Data Center: the Future of IT
- On-Demand: A Practical Roadmap to Moving Beyond Server Virtualization
- Every Wednesday, 3pm EST: VMware Communities Roundtable
- What’s new in vSphere 6 Security? Learn here about the new security features in vSphere 6, and also the vSphere Hardening Guide.Top 5 Tips when considering vCenter Architecture Design in vSphere v6.0 are here.
- On-Demand: Getting More Out of vRealize Automation, No Scripting Required
- On-Demand: Log Insight Deep Dive
- On-Demand: Performance & Troubleshooting – Improving Quality of Service
- On-Demand: Operational Efficiency – Understanding Waste and Rightsizing your Environment
- On-Demand: vRealize Operations 6.0 Installation and the Migration from vCenter Operations v5.x
- On-Demand: What’s New in vRealize Operations 6.0
- On-Demand: vRealize Operations 6.0: Capacity Management and Planning
- On-Demand: Four Ways to Maximize the Value of VMware vRealize Operations Manager
- On-Demand: Take Virtualization to the Next Level with vSphere with Operations Management
- On-Demand: Take control of your vSphere environment with Operations Management
- VIDEOS: 50 new vRealize Operations 6 videos available on the vR Ops product website (on the Resources tab), covering Key Concepts, Use Cases, Installation, Analytics Badges, and How To & Tech Tips.
- New: VMworld! Choose from 17 sessions that include Log Insight here. Learn the breakdown of which sessions are being offered in this area here.
- New: Log Insight Ingestion API: Always using the Client Timestamp – click here
- New: How to change the default ports on Log Insight – click here
- There is a new Health Monitoring tool for vRealize Suite deployments called vRealize Production Test. This is an add-on component to the vRealize Suite that ensures the operational status of vRealize Suite deployments from their initial deployment stages to ongoing Production Testing. Emphasis was placed on vRA and vR Ops. Get it here. Read more about it here.
- On-Demand: 5 Ways Cloud Automation Drives Greater Cost and Operational Transparency – Led by Kevin Lees, VMware Principal Architect and Lead Architect for Global IT Operations Transformation.
- New:This infographic shows how automating private cloud infrastructure management can improve the efficiency of cloud operations, resource management, accelerated virtualization, and deliver enormous CapEx and OpEx savings.
- On-Demand: Introduction to NSX (VMware ViewPoint Training & Certification Webinar Series)
- On-Demand: VMware NSX – Technical Overview
- On-Demand: Listen to Martin Casado explain NSX and Microsegmentation
- On-Demand: A 3-minute summary of NSX and Microsegmentation
- Every other Tuesday, 1pm EST: VMware NSX. Learn how VMware has applied the industry’s leading virtualization operating model to the network through this bi-weekly webinar.
- New: Product walk-through demo on NSX can be found here.
- New: VMware is once again positioned as Visionary in Gartner’s 2015 Magic Quadrant for Data Center Networking! Read more here.
- New: There are security threats imminent for customers who will not migrate off of Windows 2003 by mid-July, when support ends. Read more here. You can use NSX help you through this transition.
- New: VMware is combining network virtualization with Enterprise Mobility Management. Read about it here.
- New:On-Demand: Managing Storage Policies with VMware Virtual SAN
- On-Demand: What’s All the Buzz about Software-Defined Storage? (Learn about Virtual SAN 6 and vSphere Virtual Volumes)
- On-Demand: What’s New in Virtual SAN v6.0 – Seeing What’s New in Storage
- On-Demand: Cloud-Based Disaster Recovery in Action
- On-Demand: Technical Demo: What’s New with vCloud Air Disaster Recovery
- On-Demand: Build Development and Testing Environments on VMware vCloud Air
- On-Demand: Set Your Cloud Agenda with VMware vCloud Air
- On-Demand: Scale Your Mobile App Development on vCloud Air
- New: Data Center Knowledge Report notes that VMware owns the private, on-premise space. Read more here.
- New:Here are Top 5 Tips for marketing your Cloud services.
- New: VMware channels the spirit of one cloud into new architecture here.
- Learn about VMware’s “One Cloud. Any Application. Any Device” value proposition here.
- On-Demand: VMware Horizon: Transforming Desktop and Application Delivery and Management
- On-Demand: Accelerate Your Desktop Transformation Strategy: Six New Additions to Horizon 6
- New: VMware workspace management tool now brings Citrix support. Read it here.
- On-Demand: Webinar on Troubleshooting VMware vSphere [V5.5], covering SSL certificates, networking, storage, VMware vCenter SSO, and more. Read more about it here. (VMware ViewPoint Training & Certification Webinar Series)
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- TAM Day: Sunday Aug 30th, 10am-6pm. These invitation-only, customer sessions will focus on the most timely and pressing business and technical issues. Select the TAM Day Package by entering TAM2015 in the promotion code section. Read more here.
- VMworld Session Voting is now open! Click here to vote on your favorite sessions. There are 1413 total sessions from which to choose. (Please vote for one of our local Raleigh teams —> 5675 Unleash the Power of vRealize Orchestrator for the Operations Team)
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Scheduled VMUG Webinar Events:May 19: Extend the Benefits of Workspace Environment Management to Virtual Desktops and Apps Using VMware App Volumes, UEM, vRealize Ops, and More (VMware)Jun 2: The Potential Business Value of Low-Latency Flash (tegile)Jun 4: Annual Carolinas VMUG Summit in Charlotte, NC. Agenda is here. VMware Education:
- New AirWatch training courses are now available. Read more here.
- New vSOM Product Walkthrough site. It includes videos for vSphere and vRealize Operations all in one place. You can access this great reference tool here.
- Learn about the Customer Intelligence Program that is included as part of the TAM Service here.
- VMware now supports Cisco Nexus 1000V with vSphere 6.0. (vSphere requires a minimum NX-OS release of 5.2(1)SV3(1.4). As in previous vSphere releases, Cisco Nexus 1000V AVS mode is not supported. Read more here.
- VMware Education Learning Zone subscribers enjoy continuous learning with 24/7 access to video-based training. Learn more here.
- VMware and NVIDIA joint solutions empower you to deliver high-performance 3D graphics. Watch this video to find out how you can leverage these solutions and deliver a secure, immersive, virtualized graphics environment to your customers.
- VMware just introduced new open source projects to enable the micro services future. Read more here and here. Read about Project Lightwave and Project Photonhere and here. In summary:
- Lightwave is an open-source container identity and access control solution.
- Photon is an open-source lightweight Linux container host runtime optimized for running containers optimized for VMware’s hypervisor.
- What is VMware’s vision on where security is going? Read about it here.
- Have you heard of Continuent yet? What can it do for you with respect to database clustering? Learn more about it inthis video.
- Here’s a great poster on cryptographic protocols and concepts.
- New Hands-on Lab for AirWatch! This new Hands-on Lab is designed to give you an introduction to AirWatch and Mobile Device Management (MDM). Read more about it here.
- New VMware Certified Associate (VCA) level certifications.
- VMware Certified Associate 6 – Data Center Virtualization (VCA6-DCV) - click here
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NEWS AND DEVELOPMENTS FROM VMWARE
GENERAL NEWS
- How to install vSphere 6 ESXi using the Interactive Installer (http://blogs.vmware.com/kb/?p=6559)Interactive installations are recommended for small deployments of four or less hosts. Installation using this method involves booting from the ESXi 6.0 installation media by inserting the media in to the host and following the prompts from the installation wizard to choose a destination disk in the host and begin the installation. Our video today […]
- Maintaining the vCenter Server Database (http://blogs.vmware.com/kb/?p=6555)This video is the seventh in a series of free webinars for you, our customer. This one is titled: Maintaining the vCenter Server Database. It provides a high level overview of the vCenter Server Database architecture as well as best practices and tips for maintaining the database. The video is roughly 15 minutes in length so […]
- Introduction to VMware vRealize Orchestrator 6 - KBTV Webinars (http://blogs.vmware.com/kb/?p=6551)This video is the sixth in a series of free webinars on various topics. This one is titled: Introduction to VMware vRealize Orchestrator 6. The video is roughly 40 minutes in length so it would be worth blocking out some time to watch it. To see the details of upcoming webinars in this series, see […]
- Get Tips for Talking Cloud Strategy at Your Organization—Plus More Top Posts from VMware Professional Services (http://blogs.vmware.com/education/?p=5681)Check out the latest posts from VMware professional services for how-tos and more!
- VMware Named to 2015 Learning! 100 (http://blogs.vmware.com/education/?p=5658)VMware has been named to 2015 Learning! 100 by Elearning! Media Group for a third time. “The Learning! 100 recognizes the top 100 global learning organizations for high performance. These organizations are innovative, collaborative and have a truly immersive learning culture,” reports Catherine Upton, Award Chairperson. In its fifth year, the Learning! 100 includes 60 corporate […]
- Get Virtually Fit with vSphere 6 Boot Camp (http://blogs.vmware.com/education/?p=5669)When VMware introduced vSphere 6 in February, it was one of the most anticipated product launches in VMware’s history. This new version of vSphere came loaded with over 650 new features. VMware vSphere 6 delivers powerful capabilities. You need to be trained to take advantage of them. That’s why we’ve introduced the VMware vSphere 6 Boot […]
- Special VMworld 2015 US Training Offers (http://blogs.vmware.com/education/?p=5650)Make the most of your VMworld 2015 US experience with our special training offers and hone your skills on the latest VMware technologies and solutions. 1) Get to the event early and take advantage of our pre-conference training courses at 25% off the regular price. VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V6] VMware NSX: Install, Configure, Manage [V6.0] […]
- VMware Technical Account Manager Customer Intelligence Program (Part 2 of 2) (http://blogs.vmware.com/tam/?p=2107)By Eric Crossley In a previous post, I introduced the Technical Account Manager (TAM) Customer Intelligence Program, some benefits of participating, and one of the key deliverables: the Customer Intelligence Dashboard. It’s worth reading that post if you haven’t already. In this blog I am introducing another important deliverable of the TAM Customer Intelligence Program: […]
- vSphere Replication Without DNS (http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/?p=17321)I believe most individuals know proper DNS configuration is essential to a smooth operating VMware environment - or pretty much any environment, for that matter. However, there are a few cases where certain components must be deployed to an environment that does not have DNS servers. I had a question about this specific to vSphere […]
- Big Data on vSphere : Two Customer Case Study White Papers Published (http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/?p=17303)Two new white papers are now available on the work done at Adobe on virtualizing Hadoop. The VMware-authored paper, Adobe Deploys Hadoop as a Service on VMware vSphere, focuses on the business background and justifications for virtualizing the workload. It also talks about implementing Hadoop-as-a-Service by the central Technical Operations function to satisfy the needs of the business units […]
- What We Read This Week: A VMware News Recap: May 15, 2015 (http://blogs.vmware.com/tribalknowledge/?p=3985)Project Enzo, NSX Momentum and Expanding Classroom Borders with vCloud Air If you could start from scratch and develop an innovative, bold new solution that could transform the way IT deploys and manages virtual workspaces with greater speed, flexibility and cost savings, what would it look like? That was the question the VMware End-User Computing […]
- [VIDEO] Cloud-Native Apps Partner Panel: Security, Containers and More (http://blogs.vmware.com/tribalknowledge/?p=3982)This week, the Cloud Foundry Summit 2015 gathered developers, operators and managers leveraging the open source platform-as-a-service. More than 1,500 attendees gathered, highlighting the growing popularity of platform-as-a-service options. VMware CTO Kit Colbert delivered a keynote talk on how businesses can make developers a first-class user of the datacenter by reshaping infrastructure to support Cloud-Native Apps alongside […]
- Another VMware Cloud in Action – VIF International Education Expands Classroom Borders with vCloud Air (http://blogs.vmware.com/tribalknowledge/?p=3980)This post was originally published on the VMware vCloud Blog. Founded in 1987 and headquartered in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, VIF International Education partners with more than 200 school districts to help prepare teachers and students for success in an interconnected world. For over 25 years, VIF has built many global education programs, ranging from […]
- Creating the next-generation clinical workspace (http://blogs.vmware.com/tribalknowledge/?p=3977)This post was originally published on The Bridge. Having virtualized their datacenters and clinical care applications, providers are now focused on leveraging these investments to help them transform the delivery of patient care. One of Healthcare IT’s many new challenges is improving caregiver productivity. Mobile and wearable technologies, for example, will play a key role […]
- 12 Reasons Why You Should Use The Log Insight Forwarder (http://blogs.vmware.com/management/?p=6969)In Log Insight 2.5, a forwarding option was introduced, which provided similar capabilities to a syslog aggregator. I have been asked a few times why you should use the Log Insight forwarding option. I would like to cover 12 reasons in this post. Forwarders support sending events over syslog (TCP only) and over Log Insight’s […]
- So You Virtualized Your Desktop Environment. Now what? (http://blogs.vmware.com/consulting/?p=2254)By Mike Marx Most of my customers start with a low-risk user group consisting of a large number of users with identical application requirements. This is the common scenario when starting out on the virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) journey and 'testing the waters.' With proper design efforts, initial implementations are highly successful. I spend the […]
- VCDX-NV Interview: Nemtallah Daher Discusses VMware NSX Certification (http://blogs.vmware.com/networkvirtualization/?p=1889)Nemtallah Daher is Senior Network Delivery Consultant at the consulting firm AdvizeX Technology. Recently he took some time out of his day to talk with us about why, as a networking guy, he thinks learning about network virtualization is critical to further one’s career. *** I’ve been at AdvizeX for about a year now. I […]
- On a Journey with VMware NSX Customers (http://blogs.vmware.com/networkvirtualization/?p=1920)Playing a part in the transformation of the networking industry has been one of the most rewarding opportunities of my career. On top of that I get the privilege of leading a team that continues to amaze me in their ability to execute. You’ve heard us talk about the more than 400 VMware NSX customers […]
- Expand your offerings with the VMware vCloud Air Network Managed Services Provider Model (http://blogs.vmware.com/vcloud/?p=5459)Service providers are always looking for new opportunities to expand their offerings. To supply them with those opportunities, we’re now including a Managed Services Provider model with the VMware® vCloud Air™ Network Program. With VMware’s new Managed Services Provider model, service providers can leverage vCloud Air as their core infrastructure while differentiating with managed services. […]
- Prove Your Cloud Expertise and You Could Win An Apple Watch! (http://blogs.vmware.com/vcloud/?p=5454)Earlier this year, we announced the general availability of our highly anticipated on demand cloud service offering. Now, just your credit card and web browser give you instant access to a scalable, flexible, pay-as-you-go public cloud. With VMware vCloud® Air™ Virtual Private Cloud OnDemand, moving to the cloud has never been easier. To celebrate, we’re […]
- Another VMware Cloud in Action – VIF International Education Expands Classroom Borders with vCloud Air (http://blogs.vmware.com/vcloud/?p=5449)Founded in 1987 and headquartered in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, VIF International Education partners with more than 200 school districts to help prepare teachers and students for success in an interconnected world. For over 25 years, VIF has built many global education programs, ranging from professional development and curriculum to language immersion and cultural exchange […]
- Deep Dive into Advanced Networking Services with vCloud Air (http://blogs.vmware.com/vcloud/?p=5451)Earlier this year, we announced the upcoming release of VMware vCloud™ Air® Advanced Networking Services. Powered by VMware NSX™, these new services offer enhanced security controls and routing and network scaling capabilities in the cloud. This allows you to achieve seamless environment extensions, fewer network or architectural conflicts and the ability to run any application […]
DESKTOP
- AirWatch Container provides secure containerized profiles across iOS and Android devices (http://blogs.air-watch.com/?p=36544)AirWatch Container version 2.0 recently hit the Apple and Google Play stores. Formerly known as AirWatch Workspace, AirWatch Container allows IT to deploy secure profiles on devices to protect corporate resources while maintaining employee privacy. The updated application simplifies the enrollment process for end users and provides IT with flexibility in EMM deployments across device […]
- Watch video: Enterprise mobility news recap: May 11-15 (http://blogs.air-watch.com/?p=36520)Welcome back to the AirWatch Weekly Recap! I’m Maddie Cook and today we will highlight a multi-billion-dollar acquisition, a new award recognizing Content Locker and recap the seven Microsoft 10 editions. No hotel key necessary for many Starwood Hotels! Starwood Hotels is pressing forward to enable guests’ smartphones to replace hotel room keys. So far […]
- Watch the video: First annual AirWatch Hackathon spurs creativity among employees (http://blogs.air-watch.com/?p=36427)AirWatch recently hosted the first annual hackathon challenge for employees at its Atlanta-based headquarters. During the first weekend of May, more than 100 employees competed to develop applications and create innovative ways to improve mobility at work. The hackathon brought together software developers, designers, project managers and members from other departments to collaborate and transform […]
- Watch the video: Veracode and AirWatch address the mobile application landscape (http://blogs.air-watch.com/?p=36379)Deploying applications is a crucial stage in activating an enterprise mobility program. A mobile workforce is successful thanks to business-critical public and internally developed applications. Securing corporate applications is vital, but in today’s world of expanding application stores and BYOD deployments, it can be nearly impossible to regulate the vast field of applications that make […]
- Universitätsspital Basel designs patient communication and doctor collaboration with mobility (http://blogs.air-watch.com/?p=36361)As one of the largest medical centres in Switzerland, Universitätsspital Basel (University Hospital Basel) is known for leading internationally recognised standards in medicine. To improve medical decision making and speed up access to patient data, the healthcare institution introduced AirWatch-managed iPads equipped with a mobile application that gives doctors instant electronic access to patient medical […]
- Creating a Customized App Volumes AppStack Template VMDK (http://blogs.vmware.com/euc/?p=7679)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 Would you like to optimize your App Volumes environment? Perhaps your current infrastructure is restricting performance. You may notice that it can take time to initialize the AppStack template. The default […]
PARTNER
- Are you ready for VMworld 2015? (http://blogs.vmware.com/partnernews/?p=1763)Get pre-registered today for VMworld 2015 US and Europe, the #1 cloud and virtualization technology conference. Join us to gain the tools and knowledge you need to transform conventional remedies into seamless, agile solutions. This year we will focus on real solutions, celebrating the latest innovations and showcasing some jaw-dropping new technologies.
- New Open Source Projects to Accelerate Enterprise Adoption of Cloud-Native Apps (http://blogs.vmware.com/partnernews/?p=1760)Read the press release to learn more about how these open source projects are designed to help enterprise developers securely build, deploy, and manage cloud-native applications. Project Lightwave is an identity and access management project that will extend enterprise-scale and security to cloud-native applications. Project Photon is a lightweight Linux operating system optimized for cloud-native […]
- Create New Sales Leads with VOA (http://blogs.vmware.com/partnernews/?p=1757)Take full advantage of this vSphere with Operations sales methodology, now localized in 10 languages, that is helping hundreds of partners create solid sales leads. The vSphere Optimization Assessment (VOA) has been updated with VMware's latest vRealize Operations Management 6.0 capabilities that allow you to customize reports for your partners. The power of a customer seeing their […]
- Deliver Next-Generation Desktop Architecture and Enterprise Mobility with New End-User Computing Solutions (http://blogs.vmware.com/partnernews/?p=1755)View the End-User Computing playbook to find out how to help customers establish a next-generation desktop architecture and achieve business mobility with these new solutions: VMware User Environment Manager VMware Horizon Application Management Bundle VMware Horizon 6 for Linux Capitalize on this $7 Billion market1 opportunity now by addressing your customers' needs from data center […]
- Maximize Your Marketing Efforts with the Demand Center (http://blogs.vmware.com/partnernews/?p=1752)Strengthen your marketing efforts by leveraging our syndication tools now on the Demand Center. Social Media Syndication offers daily social content that is published directly to your corporate Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn accounts. The Website Content Syndication module makes it easy to showcase the latest and most accurate VMware information on your website. Just set […]
MORE NEWS AND DEVELOPMENTS FROM AROUND THE WEB
- My VMUG, My VMUG (http://www.mikelaverick.com/?p=6131)This little post to tell you about the stuff I’m doing to support the VMUG. You know I really don’t enough, you see. North East England VMUG Meeting – 21th May I’m speaking at a couple of VMUGs this year and my first date is with a location that close to my heart in the […]
- EVO:RAIL – The vSphere Environment – The Metadata (Part1) (http://www.mikelaverick.com/?p=6122)One of the most common questions I get is what the vSphere environment looks like after EVO:RAIL has done its configuration magic. I think this is quite understandable. After all many of us, including myself, have spent many years perfecting the build of the vSphere environment and naturally want to know what configuration the EVO:RAIL […]
- Using Mr Meeseeks as an Operations Automation Model (http://wahlnetwork.com/?p=13285)What can Mr Meeseeks, a magical cartoon gummy guy, teach us about operations automation? Find out in this wacky post! The post Using Mr Meeseeks as an Operations Automation Model appeared first on Wahl Network . Related posts: vRealize Automation and Operations Play Nice Together Using GitHub for your PowerCLI Scripts Automating and Enforcing a Consistent vSphere Configuration The Bajillion Spiffy Upgrades to vRealize Operations 6.0 Thoughts on vSphere DRS and Data Center Load Balancing
- Synology’s Snazzy New DSM 5.2 is Now Available (http://wahlnetwork.com/?p=13276)Make sure to upgrade to Synology DSM 5.2 to take advantage of all the nifty new packages and features! The post Synology’s Snazzy New DSM 5.2 is Now Available appeared first on Wahl Network . Related posts: Running GitLab and Jenkins Containers on Docker in Synology DSM 5.2 Cloud Sync to Google Nearline with Synology’s DSM 5.2 Beta Combining ioSafe and Synology DSM 5.1 for Versioned Network Backups Protecting your Synology NAS from SynoLocker First Glance: Synology’s Sleek New DS414slim…
- Automating and Enforcing a Consistent vSphere Configuration (http://wahlnetwork.com/?p=13232)Here's a little bit of PowerShell code that can be used to enforce a consistent set of configuration values for your vSphere environment. The post Automating and Enforcing a Consistent vSphere Configuration appeared first on Wahl Network . Related posts: Automating vSphere Replication Bandwidth Limits with PowerCLI Using GitHub for your PowerCLI Scripts Using Try and Catch with PowerShell’s Invoke-WebRequest Use a Synology NAS to Syslog All The Things Common Information Model (CIM) Data for…
- VMworld voting has started… (http://www.yellow-bricks.com/?p=16221)Advertise here with BSA Every year a percentage of VMworld sessions is selected based on community voting. This voting process has started this week and as I submitted a couple of sessions myself I would like to draw some attention to them and ask you to consider voting for them… that is, if you like the session of course. […] " VMworld voting has started… " originally appeared on Yellow-Bricks.com . Follow me on twitter - @DuncanYB. Pre-order my upcoming book Essential Virtual SAN via…
- Lego Datacenter (http://www.yellow-bricks.com/?p=16213)Advertise here with BSA I am at a VMware R&D offsite this week and I saw an awesome thing I wanted to share (unfortunately the only thing I can share). Our architecture team had a booth which displayed a datacenter created from Lego. Yes someone spent some serious time building this during the weekend considering the detail that went in […] " Lego Datacenter " originally appeared on Yellow-Bricks.com . Follow me on twitter - @DuncanYB. Pre-order my upcoming book Essential Virtual SAN via…
- Public voting for VMworld 2015 sessions now open! (http://vsphere-land.com/?p=5903)VMware just opened the public voting on session submissions for VMworld 2015. The way sessions are usually approved is via an independent content committee that reads through and scores each session submission, the ones with the highest scores make it in. I did it one year and it was a very tedious job and it was … Continue reading » [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
- Some Virtual Volumes (VVols) news and tidbits (http://vsphere-land.com/?p=5899)I’ve been collecting VVols information and links to add to my VVols link page and ran across some interesting items that I thought I would share. Let’s start with events: Taneja is doing a deep dive webinar with Dell into their implementation on VVols on May 14th at 9:00am PST as a follow-up to the other … Continue reading » [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
- Running Docker on VMware Photon on VMware vCloud Air OnDemand (http://kendrickcoleman.com/index.php/Tech-Blog/running-docker-on-vmware-photon-on-vmware-vcloud-air-ondemand.html)Fret not, everyone! VMware still has a chance! I was given the opportunity to get $500 in free credits for vCloud Air OnDemand and decided to put them to use. By the way, if you want $300 in free credits sign-up using this referral link using code Influencer2015 . For everyone that signs up through this referral link , you will be put in a drawing to win an additional $200 in free credits. 1 person signing up each week will win an EXTRA $200 in credits chosen by MKG Marketing . Use promo code…
KB ARTICLES
Datacenter |
VMware products not affected by CVE-2015-3456, aka VENOM (2117469) |
Date Published: 5/16/2015 |
VMware App Volumes |
Creating a new App Volumes AppStack template VMDK smaller than 20 GB (2116022) |
Date Published: 5/15/2015 |
VMware Continuent for Analytics and Big Data |
The command tungsten_provision_thl fails when using Percona Server (2111054) |
Date Published: 5/12/2015 |
Date Published: 5/12/2015 |
A VMware Continuent process reports an Out Of Memory error (2111511) |
Date Published: 5/14/2015 |
Unable to update the configuration of an installed directory (2111868) |
Date Published: 5/12/2015 |
Installing VMware Continuent fails with the Segmentation Fault (2115619) |
Date Published: 5/14/2015 |
VMware Continuent for Replication |
Continuent Replicator is in OFFLINE:ERROR state due to OutOfMemoryError (2111515) |
Date Published: 5/14/2015 |
VMware ESXi |
Date Published: 5/11/2015 |
Date Published: 5/14/2015 |
VMware ESXi 6.0, Patch ESXi600-201505401-BG: Updates esx-base (2116126) |
Date Published: 5/14/2015 |
VMware ESXi 6.0, Patch ESXi-6.0.0-20150504001-no-tools (2116129) |
Date Published: 5/14/2015 |
Trouble Deploying OVF Template from vSphere datastore (2117310) |
Date Published: 5/12/2015 |
ESXi 5.0 host fails with purple diagnostic screen reporting E1000FinalizeZeroCopyPktForTx (2115113) |
Date Published: 5/14/2015 |
Date Published: 5/14/2015 |
Date Published: 5/11/2015 |
Date Published: 5/11/2015 |
Date Published: 5/11/2015 |
VMware ESXi 6.0, Patch ESXi-6.0.0-20150504001-standard (2116127) |
Date Published: 5/14/2015 |
Date Published: 5/13/2015 |
VMware Horizon DaaS |
Show all records in Users Mapping Report displays only 100 results in Horizon DaaS (2116393) |
Date Published: 5/15/2015 |
VMware Integrated OpenStack |
VMware Integrated Openstack plug-in is not visible in the vSphere Web Client (2112339) |
Date Published: 5/11/2015 |
VMware Mirage |
Best practices for Mirage managed VMware View desktops (2104176) |
Date Published: 5/15/2015 |
VMware NSX for vSphere |
Date Published: 5/11/2015 |
VMware User Environment Manager |
Date Published: 5/15/2015 |
VMware vCenter Infrastructure Navigator |
VMware vRealize Infrastructure Navigator 5.8.4 shows IIS 8.0 or higher as Unknown (2112456) |
Date Published: 5/11/2015 |
VMware vCenter Operations Manager (vApp) |
Date Published: 5/14/2015 |
VMware vCenter Server |
Date Published: 5/12/2015 |
Disabling Fault Tolerance manually on the ESXi host when vCenter server is not available (2116110) |
Date Published: 5/11/2015 |
Date Published: 5/14/2015 |
Date Published: 5/15/2015 |
Date Published: 5/13/2015 |
VMware vCenter Server Appliance |
Date Published: 5/12/2015 |
VMware vCenter Update Manager |
Date Published: 5/13/2015 |
VMware vCloud Automation Center |
Logging out of the VMware vRealize Automation portal generates a HTTP Status 403 error (2114612) |
Date Published: 5/11/2015 |
VMware vCloud Director |
Attaching an External Network to an Edge in VMware vCloud Director causes packet loss (2117748) |
Date Published: 5/15/2015 |
Enabling HA on a VMware vShield Edge in vCloud Director causes Packet Loss (2117744) |
Date Published: 5/15/2015 |
Adding an Address to a Sub Allocated IP Pool for a Edge in vCloud causes Packet Loss (2117751) |
Date Published: 5/15/2015 |
VMware Virtual SAN |
Date Published: 5/12/2015 |
VMware vRealize Automation |
Date Published: 5/12/2015 |
VMware vRealize Log Insight |
Date Published: 5/14/2015 |
VMware vRealize Operations Manager |
Date Published: 5/11/2015 |
Date Published: 5/11/2015 |
Date Published: 5/12/2015 |
Date Published: 5/14/2015 |
Date Published: 5/11/2015 |
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