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Just a reminder on the vSphere 6 Webcast series. The next webcast will be on the topic of vSphere 6 Security happening on June 16 at 9am PST. Security at the top of mind? Learn about security in vSphere 6 including considerations for Platform Services Controller. Mike Foley our security guru will...

Jun 12, 2015 6:27:43 PM

This Week in VMware News: The Future of the Data Center, Gartner's EMM Magic Quadrant, An Interview with VMware's CIO and more... Last week at the 2015 InformationWeek Conference (#IWConference), VMware’s EVP and GM of Cloud Services Bill Fathers joined Mike Stothers, IT Infrastructure Director a...

Jun 12, 2015 4:34:36 PM

If you’ve ever tried to watch a product demo video, or tried to use it to show a product to someone else, often times you find yourself trying to pause the video at the exact right moment, and then having scrub backwards or forwards because you missed the timing. At VMware we’ve created an altern...

Jun 12, 2015 4:12:21 PM

By Michael Gandy, Sr. Product Marketing Manager, EVO:RAIL, VMware In the spirit of competition, we are excited to announce the winners of the EVO:RAIL Hands-on Lab Challenge for May. In the contest, you are faced with three challenges and have 60 minutes to complete them. We have seen a lot of en...

Jun 12, 2015 3:37:46 PM

Our friends from around the VMware blogosphere publish everything from how-to content to put your skills to the test, to strategic concepts that can help you think differently about how you work. Check out the latest posts and try something new! vSphere Datacenter Design – vCenter Architecture Ch...

Jun 12, 2015 3:00:59 PM

In the first of this two-part edition of Leadership Perspectives, VMware CIO Bask Iyer talks to Tribal Knowledge about the biggest changes he's seen in the tech industry in the past 12 months. Comment below with your take on the biggest changes in the tech industry in the past twelve months. Then...

Jun 11, 2015 4:03:29 PM

You’re ready to reap the rewards. Is your organization ready to deliver? The technical and business advantages of the software-defined cloud era are well understood. But all too often a critical aspect of adopting the cloud model is overlooked: the organizational impact. The fact is the transitio...

Jun 10, 2015 5:09:35 PM

Maximize your VMworld 2015 EMEA experience with discounted training and certification offers. 1) Join us in Barcelona the week before VMworld and take advantage of these discounted pre-conference training courses. VMware vSphere: Optimize & Scale [V6] VMware NSX: Install, Configure, Manage [V6.0]...

Jun 10, 2015 4:44:04 PM

As we gear up for VMware’s Business Mobility Online Event next week, check out this new video featuring an interview with VMware EVP and General Manager of End-User Computing Sanjay Poonen. Maribel Lopez, Conference Chair of Lopez Research LLC guides the discussion with Sanjay in front of an audi...

Jun 10, 2015 4:00:16 PM

The transformation of the data center and the role of cloud services in the enterprise are front and center for every CIO. Last week at the 2015 InformationWeek Conference (#IWConference), VMware’s EVP and GM of Cloud Services Bill Fathers joined Mike Stothers, IT Infrastructure Director at Boein...

Jun 9, 2015 4:09:37 PM

vSphere 6.0 introduces a powerful new feature as part of vSphere HA called VM Component Protection (VMCP). VMCP protects virtual machines from storage related events, specifically Permanent Device Loss (PDL) and All Paths Down (APD) incidents. Permanent Device Loss (PDL) A PDL event occurs when t...

Jun 9, 2015 3:00:32 PM

I Know You’re Not Safe from a Cyber Attack By Bask Iyer, CIO, VMware Benjamin Franklin famously said, “…nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” I would add enterprise network breaches to that list. If you think “cyber-attacks can’t breach my network security,” or more humbly, ...

Jun 8, 2015 7:54:21 PM

By Mornay van der Walt, vice president, EVO:RAIL Group, VMware Since the general availability of VMware EVO:RAIL™, we have moved quickly to offer EVO:RAIL customers greater choice and value with new programs, functionality and scale capabilities. Today, we continue this trend. I’m happy to announ...

Jun 8, 2015 4:00:45 PM

The new vSphere Big Data Extensions Version 2.2 shipped on the 5th June 2015! Here is a quick summary of the new features that appear in the 2.2 release. This is an exciting and much-awaited release. As always, refer to the technical documents and the release notes to get more detail on these sub...

Jun 6, 2015 1:25:13 AM

AirWatch Training Courses Available Register for the VMware AirWatch training courses where you’ll get access to hands-on labs and gain the skills and knowledge needed to address the most common issues of managing mobility. Registration is currently open for the following AirWatch Training Course...

Jun 5, 2015 3:00:21 PM

PaaS, BaaS, Microservices, APIs – Lessons learned in the past and how to apply them now By: Rahul Srivastava “History Repeats Itself” is not the catchiest heading for a blog. These are heady times in our industry and its much more exciting to talk about The Next Big Thing than revisiting the past...

Jun 12, 2015 4:00:31 PM

Written by Chima Njaka, vRealize Operations Product Line Manager Like many in the SF Bay Area, I’ve been caught up in the epic NBA Final championship series between the local Golden State Warriors and the Cleveland Cavaliers. As of this writing, 3 exciting games of the best-of-seven series have b...

Jun 12, 2015 10:00:08 AM

By: Mike Roy and Roshni Pary Last week in Part 1 of vCloud Air Dev/Test Blog Series , we saw how to easily perform upgrades to Windows Server 2003 VMs in an isolated VMware vCloud® Air™ Virtual Private Cloud OnDemand environment, without posing any risk to production apps or infrastructure. This ...

Jun 11, 2015 4:00:02 PM

In Part 5, I explained a new concept, where we use Contention as the basis of Capacity Management in SDDC. In Part 6, I provided the super metric equation for each charts. In this part, I will provide example of the super metric formula and dashboard screenshots. Tier 1 (Highest) To recap, we nee...

Jun 11, 2015 8:00:49 AM

Wondering how your business can tap into the flexible scalability of cloud-based IT while still maintaining data security and data sovereignty? You’re not alone. Like most IT professionals, your primary concern is still security. Join us Thursday, June 18 th from 11 AM – 1 PM (PST) as we demonstr...

Jun 10, 2015 4:24:39 PM

Today VMware has released the following new security advisory: VMSA-2015-0004 VMware Workstation, Fusion and Horizon View Client updates address critical security issues - CVE-2012-0897, CVE-2015-2336, CVE-2015-2337, CVE-2015-2338, CVE-2015-2339, CVE-2015-2340, CVE-2015-2341. Please sign up to th...

Jun 9, 2015 5:33:10 PM

By: David Hill Recently a new solution brief for VMware vCloud® Air™ Disaster Recovery was published on VMware.com. This solution brief talks specifically about how to build an end-to-end disaster recovery solution incorporating authentication and lookup. Here is a quick preview of what to expect...

Jun 9, 2015 11:21:35 AM

In the past, I have written about the Architecture of vRealize Operations Manager which allows you to have Master and Replica nodes in a vROps Cluster. This not only allows you to distribute the adapters or solutions to more than one collectors present on each host, but also gives you resiliency ...

Jun 9, 2015 10:00:42 AM

We are proud to shine the spotlight this week on a VMware customer success story. Here’s proof that even smaller organizations can benefit greatly by upgrading from a naked vSphere environment to vSphere with Operations Management. This is especially true for a company like ACI Specialty Benefits...

Jun 8, 2015 5:39:51 PM

VMware vCloud® Air™ is our premier public and hybrid cloud platform. Supporting over 5,000 applications and over 90 operating systems, its prominence in the IT industry is unsurpassed. And, now, we’re bringing it to the vCloud Air Network. That’s right: vCloud Air is now available for Managed Ser...

Jun 8, 2015 4:45:20 PM

Finding a car that’s right for you isn’t all that different from finding the right cloud that fits your business needs. You wouldn’t want to buy a car without taking a test drive first, would you? So, to make sure the service you want is the right one for you, take a test drive of the cloud from ...

Jun 5, 2015 4:00:17 PM

We're pleased to announce signups for the beta program for the vRealize Operations Management Pack for Storage Devices (MPSD), as reported on the VMware Storage Blog. This iterations of the program includes features to manage the latest version of Virtual SAN (VSAN). We're looking for folks who'd...

Jun 5, 2015 10:00:46 AM

by Rich Bourdeau Many companies use InfoBlox IP address Management (IPAM) to manage their IP addresses and DNS host records. InfoBlox has recently updated their vRealize Automation plug-in that allows IP Addresses and DNS configurations to be automatically assigned as part of the automated provis...

Jun 5, 2015 8:00:33 AM

In Part 5, I explained a new concept, where we use Contention as the basis of Capacity Management in SDDC. In this part 6, I will now provide the super metric formula for each charts. We will cover Tier 1, followed by Tier 2 and 3. Tier 1 (Highest) To recap, we do not have […]

Jun 5, 2015 8:00:14 AM

This week, Gartner released its 2015 Gartner Critical Capabilities for Enterprise Mobility Management Suites report. AirWatch received the top score in the Global Enterprise Deployment use case, reflecting 1 of 6 use cases. The report analyzed identified critical use cases among the nine EMM vend...

Jun 12, 2015 3:02:55 PM

This past week was full of big events and announcements. Apple hosted developers from around the world at WWDC and unveiled its newest platforms, Gartner published its latest evaluation of EMM vendors and Box surprised Wall Street with stronger than expected Q1 results. Earlier this week, Apple h...

Jun 12, 2015 1:00:41 PM

Hello again, Andy here. Last time I showed you how to build a Horizon FLEX image for mass sharing. This time, I’m going to show you the simple steps needed to ensure that image is securely used. You’ll be happy to note that there’s significantly less of my shiny red face in this video. The video ...

Jun 11, 2015 3:00:04 PM

Guest Blog by Justin Venezia, Sr. Solutions Architect - VMware Alliances, F5 Networks VMware and F5 are proud to announce the availability of one of the first partner-centric labs utilizing VMware’s global Hands-On-Lab infrastructure. In close collaboration with the VMware End-User Computing Tech...

Jun 11, 2015 2:00:56 PM

VMware recently hosted a webcast featuring Sanjay Poonen, VMware executive vice president and general manager of End-User Computing (EUC) alongside customers during the “What’s New at VMware?” investor relations call. The call focused on VMware’s vision of software innovation and customers who sa...

Jun 11, 2015 1:00:30 PM

Mac World Party At WWDC 15 It was a great honor to be able to support the Apple Developer's Community by sponsoring last night's Macworld party at WWDC 15 . It's great to meet so many developers keen to build future Apple based products. And humbling to hear stories of how many of them used Fusio...

Jun 10, 2015 4:46:25 PM

Guest Blog by Justin Venezia, Sr. Solutions Architect - VMware Alliances, F5 Networks Customers who leverage Access Policy Manager (APM) for remote access to VMware Horizon 6 (formerly known as VMware View) typically have some level of two-factor authentication (2FA) as an added layer of authenti...

Jun 10, 2015 2:00:52 PM

AirWatch will be attending HITEC 2015 this June 15-18. The Hospitality, Finance and Technology Professionals will be hosting the event in Austin, Texas at the Austin Convention Center. To learn about AirWatch’s innovations and solutions for the hospitality industry, visit the AirWatch by VMware B...

Jun 10, 2015 1:01:24 PM

Industry analyst firm Gartner positioned AirWatch as a leader in the 2015 Enterprise Mobility Management Suites Magic Quadrant. AirWatch has been named a ‘Leader’ since the inception of the report in 2011. Out of the 12 vendors evaluated, Gartner positioned AirWatch highest on the ability to exec...

Jun 9, 2015 6:50:16 PM

Hi, I’m Andy from VMware. Today I’d like to show you something exciting from VMware that may not have made it on to your radar – remotely managed policies for Fusion users! Back in December we launched a new product called Horizon FLEX. The concept behind FLEX is simple, Fusion is fantastic for y...

Jun 9, 2015 3:00:59 PM

Guest Blog by Sachin Chheda, Director of Product Marketing, Nutanix The Swedish language has a word “lagom” that means “not too much, not too little”, or loosely interpreted as “just right.” There is probably not a better word out there to describe IT architects’ and administrators’ goals for the...

Jun 9, 2015 2:00:20 PM

AirWatch Connect is back on September 21-24 in Atlanta to provide IT pros with tools and technology to drive innovation across their business and create opportunities to stregthen mobile ecosystems. The leading event in enterprise mobility allows attendees to gain insight from key players and mob...

Jun 9, 2015 12:13:53 PM

By Debra Perrin Coltoff, Technical Writer, End-User-Computing Technical Marketing, VMware You already have a Citrix XenApp implementation, and it is working for you. Why not maximize the return on that investment by using XenApp with VMware ThinApp ? Paired, the two solutions solve many of the pr...

Jun 9, 2015 1:21:30 AM

Today’s WWDC 2015 keynote brought together Apple’s vision of a unified ecosystem across platforms. With the combination of OS X, iOS and watchOS, Apple is more tightly integrating the experience between a user’s computer, tablet, phone and watch. Here’s a rapid reaction to the WWDC keynote. Craig...

Jun 8, 2015 9:02:41 PM

By Josue Fontanez, Sr. Product Line Marketing Manager, Horizon Air The coming of summer makes me think of that big truism “the only constant is change,” and its counterpart, “it’s how you handle change that matters.” When it comes to IT infrastructure, the ability to effectively manage unforeseen...

Jun 8, 2015 5:00:00 PM

By Pat Lee, Senior Director of Product Management, End-User Computing, VMware I am pleased to announce the general availability of VMware Horizon 6 for Linux. The release of VMware Horizon 6 for Linux builds on the success of our Early Access program where over 400 customers were able to test and...

Jun 8, 2015 12:00:58 PM

By Shankar Iyer, VP of Product Management, Desktop Solutions, End-User Computing, VMware It’s not yet summer but we’re already serving up some hot updates to several EUC products. We introduced VMware Horizon 6.1 last quarter and we’re back on our regular quarterly cadence of updates with innovat...

Jun 8, 2015 12:00:17 PM

Supporting Temporary Use Cases with Desktops-as-a-Service (DaaS) The coming of summer makes me think of that big truism “the only constant is change,” and its counterpart, “it’s how you handle change that matters.” When it comes to IT infrastructure, the ability to effectively manage unforeseen b...

Jun 8, 2015 12:00:00 PM

Welcome back to AirWatch Weekly Recap! Today we will review the upcoming Business Mobility event, spotlight a few of the Windows 10 enterprise features and share a company’s use of MDM for the household. To start off the recap today, let’s talk about the VMware Business Mobility Summit. Business ...

Jun 5, 2015 9:41:52 PM

451 Research released its report titled “The top five enterprise mobility management vendors: product focus and financials” that analyzes the largest enterprise mobility management (EMM) vendors by revenue. The IT research company detailed the leading vendors in the EMM market that exceeded $150 ...

Jun 5, 2015 2:00:00 AM

Watch and share this video featuring Jim Greaney (VMware) and Rick Boyett (HP) to learn how together, we are putting the Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) within your customers’ immediate reach, with the new Global Innovation Center. From End User computing solutions to the new SDDC, the Innova...

Jun 12, 2015 3:19:03 PM

Act on these promos now... the 25% off promotion for upgrading from vSphere to the equivalent or higher edition of vSphere with Operations Management ends 24 June, 2015. You can also earn up to 20% in additional partner incentives through 30 June, 2015 for selling vSphere. And, if your customers ...

Jun 12, 2015 8:00:13 AM

Increase your pipeline and win rate of Converged & Hyper-Converged Infrastructure projects with Fujitsu. This recently released sales playbook is a comprehensive tool designed by sales for sales.

Jun 11, 2015 2:58:46 PM

View the agenda and register today for the upcoming online event. There's an exciting world of new opportunities evolving—a world where early movers can take advantage and winners will be defined by mobile-first or mobile-only strategies. VMware has created a comprehensive, secure business mobili...

Jun 10, 2015 9:29:31 PM

Join us to learn how you can deploy scalable micro-segmentation and use a unified policy model to enable advanced security services to move with your customers’ specific application workloads anywhere in the data center. The Software Defined Data Center with VMware NSX network virtualization plat...

Jun 10, 2015 9:27:43 PM

Join us at VMworld Europe 2015 in Barcelona, Spain, 12-15 October to gain the essential tools, partner roadmap, training, and real solutions you need to innovate and excel with VMware. Register now and save €200 with our Early Bird pricing. Don’t miss these NEW and improved content areas at this ...

Jun 10, 2015 8:46:03 PM

Visit the Partner Demand Center to learn more about our syndication tools. 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 mos...

Jun 9, 2015 6:25:33 PM

Register and join Vice President Frank Rauch, along with other key Business Unit leaders tomorrow, for our quarterly virtual Town Hall. They'll share the latest news in terms of strategy, programs, and incentives to help you win more business.

Jun 8, 2015 6:39:41 PM

Early Bird pricing for VMworld 2015 US ends on June 9. This is your last chance to save $300 on the virtualization and cloud technology event of the year– Register now . You can't afford to miss out on the inaugural Partner Exchange @ VMworld 2015. This two-day event will serve up all the Boot Ca...

Jun 5, 2015 9:26:39 PM

http://media.blubrry.com/packetpushers/p/content.blubrry.com/packetpushers/Datanauts_001-Hyper_Convergence_with_Scott_D_Lowe.mp3 In a recent release of Tech Reckoning , John Troyer states that “ podcasts and newsletters in 2015 feel a lot to me like blogs in 2005 ” due to their personal and intim...

Jun 13, 2015 3:37:19 PM

The Rough Cuts service from Safari Books gives you exclusive access to an evolving manuscript that you can read online or download as a PDF and print. A Rough Cuts book is not fully edited or completely formatted, but you'll get access to new versions as they are created. This is the only complet...

Jun 12, 2015 6:28:00 AM

I recently received a question from one of my readers who was looking to migrate from ESXi 4.1 to newer version and one of the challenges they faced was around their ESXi scripted installs, better known as ESXi Kickstart. Previously, they had relied on using a custom syslinux boot menu to be able...

Jun 11, 2015 4:26:34 PM

Virtual SAN already has a number of features and extensions for performance monitoring and real-time diagnostics and troubleshooting. In particular, there is VSAN Observer, which is included as part of the Ruby vSphere Console (RVC). Another new feature is the Health Check Plugin , which was rece...

Jun 11, 2015 1:05:24 PM

Advertise here with BSA This week I had the pleasure to talk to John Nicholson who works for one of our partners (Synchronet out of Houston). John has been involved with various Virtual SAN implementations and designs and I felt that it would make for an interesting conversation. John in my opini...

Jun 11, 2015 9:40:47 AM

VMware NSX with Horizon and App Volumes enables desktop IT to realize the efficiency and savings of a single pool of users combined with role-based security and real-time app delivery.

Jun 10, 2015 10:35:00 AM

This free eLearning course describes the key benefits of VMware User Environment Manager and how it can benefit an organization.   Students will get an overview of the installation and configuration process as well as insight into the key elements of the user interface. At the end of this course,...

Jun 9, 2015 6:49:00 PM

After publishing my last article around the topic of Automating SSO Admin configurations using some simple LDAP commands which is applicable for both vSphere 5.5 and 6.0. It was pointed out to me by my buddy G. Blair Fritz who works over in our GSS Organization that another handy operation to sha...

Jun 9, 2015 5:04:38 PM

Yesterday, I posted about using Vagrant to learn Ansible , in which I showed you one way to combine these two tools to make it easier to learn Ansible . This is a combination I’m currently using as I continue to explore Ansible. Today, I’m going to expand on yesterday’s post by showing you how to...

Jun 9, 2015 2:15:00 PM

Earlier this month, I shared a post about my experiences with deploying VIO, VMware integrated OpenStack . One of the issues I highlighted was the fact that when I tried to create a network, it failed with a very unhelpful error message. The reason the network creation failed was due to a limitat...

Jun 9, 2015 1:19:03 PM

I’ve been spending some time with Ansible recently, and I have to say that it’s really growing on me. While Ansible doesn’t have a steep learning curve, there is still a learning curve—albeit a smaller/less steep curve—so I wanted to share here a “trick” that I found for using Vagrant to help wit...

Jun 8, 2015 11:20:00 PM

A couple of months back I ran into an issue while trying to upload a couple of files to VMware's internal OneCloud environment which uses vCloud Director. The issue that I encountered was that our OneCloud environment no longer supported basic username/password authentication, which I hoping to a...

Jun 8, 2015 5:25:15 PM

I received an email asking how to perform a batch import of orphaned VMware Template files into a vSphere environment. You may recall that template files have an extension of VMTX and offer some minor benefits for administrators looking to solidify a golden master virtual machine. I’m not a fan o...

Jun 8, 2015 2:20:41 PM

VMware has launched a vRealize Operations Management Pack for VSAN Beta early interest signup page. The beta program is designed to give you early access to the new vROPS management pack designed for advanced introspection of VSAN clusters. The management pack will provide: Advanced analytics Rap...

Jun 7, 2015 10:30:00 AM