VMware TAM Source 7.28

VMware Named a Customer Experience Champion, A Look at VMware’s R&D Innovation Offsite, VSAN Reviews + more this week in VMware News VMware this week announced that it has centralized its business mobility sales team in Asia Pacific and Japan to address customer demand for a holistic approach to ...

Jul 17, 2015 4:10:44 PM

Some vSphere administrators utilize a storage feature called "raw device mapping" or RDM. There are two types of RDM - virtual RDM and physical RDM. For more information on RDM, please see the vSphere 6.0 Documentation Center . In general, I recommend using VMDK files or Virtual Volumes , but the...

Jul 17, 2015 3:49:12 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! Server Ops Troubleshooting 101: A Technical Account...

Jul 17, 2015 3:00:41 PM

Eiad Al-Aqqad is a Consulting Architect within the SDDC Professional Services practice. He has been an active consultant using VMware technologies since 2006. He is a VMware Certified Design Expert (VCDX#89), as well as an expert in VMware vCloud, vSphere, and SRM. In addition, he serves as a CTO...

Jul 17, 2015 3:00:14 PM

About Brian Graf Brian Graf is a Senior Technical Marketing Manager - Automation in the Cloud Infrastructure Technical Marketing group at VMware. Brian currently focuses on all of the vCloud Suite products as well as the Software-Defined Data Center. Previous to Technical Marketing, Brian worked ...

Jul 16, 2015 7:11:21 PM

By Sanjay Deshmukh, Vice President, End-User Computing, Asia Pacific & Japan at VMware VMware this week announced that it has centralized its business mobility sales team in Asia Pacific and Japan. The integrated go-to-market sales team will address customer demand for a holistic approach to mana...

Jul 16, 2015 5:01:58 PM

On September 21-25 in Chicago, Illinois, you have a unique opportunity to participate in the BETA version of our new VMware vSphere: Design and Deploy Fast Track [V6] course. This extended-hours training course equips you with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to design and deploy a VMware vSp...

Jul 16, 2015 3:53:59 PM

From the early days of VMware, it became clear that dealing with storage in efficient and scalable ways were key requirements for the success of virtualization in enterprise environments. Indeed, the storage stack of ESXi, including VMFS, played a key role in the proliferation of virtualization i...

Jul 16, 2015 1:27:09 AM

A new customer technical case study on Skyscape's use of vSphere as their platform for deploying Hadoop in the cloud was published recently. Skyscape, based in the UK, deploys Hadoop clusters on demand for their UK Government customers from the company's public cloud infrastructure. Citizen servi...

Jul 15, 2015 6:58:31 PM

This is the second video for today which was produced in conjunction with Mike Foley who is a Senior Technical Marketing Manager at VMware. These videos should be of some help to those of you that are faced with SSL certificate creation tasks relating to vSphere 6. This video discusses and demons...

Jul 15, 2015 5:48:54 PM

Today we have two new videos that we produced in conjunction with Mike Foley who is a Senior Technical Marketing Manager at VMware. These videos should be of some help to those of you that are faced with SSL certificate creation tasks relating to vSphere 6. This first video is based on VMware kno...

Jul 15, 2015 5:47:09 PM

The way customers now consume technology has changed significantly. They are becoming more comfortable using platforms such as e-commerce marketplaces. In the US markets alone, online sales are predicted to grow by almost 60% to over $400B by 2018. IT organizations are now aggressively trying to ...

Jul 15, 2015 4:51:36 PM

By Julie Roman Big Data Extensions 2.2 was released on June 5 th . This release can leverage Instant Clone technology when deployed on vSphere 6 for fast provisioning of virtual machines (VMs). In this article I’ll walk you through a basic lab setup using Instant Clone technology and provide some...

Jul 15, 2015 3:49:34 PM

We've released two new courses on vSphere v6 and a new EVO:RAIL course in the past few weeks. Check them out! VMware vSphere: Fast Track [V6] - This intensive, extended-hours and hands-on lab training course focuses on installing, configuring, managing and troubleshooting VMware vSphere 6, includ...

Jul 15, 2015 3:48:13 PM

VMware is committed to being an innovative place to work and the company’s R&D Innovation Offsite (more commonly referred to as “RADIO”) is one of the ways the company helps to make that vision a reality. RADIO helps foster discussion around unexplored ideas that would be impactful for the compan...

Jul 15, 2015 3:41:39 PM

A customer recently asked me “How do I replace the “external” SSL certificate of vCenter but still use VMCA in default mode?” Ever curious, I asked “Why?”. His security team required that any “externally” facing management web pages needed to have a custom certificate that chained up to the corpo...

Jul 14, 2015 7:29:09 PM

The demand for VMware NSX is growing. And while customers realize its potential, they are often unclear on the tangible business benefits made possible with VMware NSX. We sat down with Hatem Naguib, VMware Vice President, Network and Security , and asked him to share his insight on VMware NSX an...

Jul 14, 2015 4:09:42 PM

Compute accelerators -- whether they be GPUs, Intel Xeon Phi, or FPGAs -- are increasingly common in HPC and so it is important that we assess the use of such technologies from within VMware vSphere® as part of our efforts to virtualize research computing and other HPC environments. Last year whe...

Jul 14, 2015 3:27:56 PM

Horizon View Administrators continue to open support requests with issues surrounding SSL certificates in the product configuration. Nobody really enjoys setting up SSL and all the other security aspects that go along with it - it's a necessary evil. Maybe that explains why, when running into iss...

Jul 13, 2015 4:34:27 PM

By Jeffrey Davidson There has been a lot of focus on VMware UEM (formerly Immidio) in recent months since its acquisition and release as VMware User Environment Manager (UEM). In this blog entry I will walk through the process of capturing Google Chrome settings and incorporating that configurati...

Jul 16, 2015 2:42:28 PM

Leveraging VMware Software Defined Data Center and vRealize Automation, the California Natural Resource Agency delivered a multi-tenant private cloud that meets the unique needs of different groups within the agency. Consolidating Infrastructure Across Departments Like most government agencies, t...

Jul 16, 2015 10:33:02 AM

Give your VMware vCloud® Air™ the kick it needs with our new vCloud Air vTech Talk video series! Every Tuesday, we’ll publish a new video demonstration in the vCloud Air Community which will cover a wide range of cloud-related topics, including virtual to cloud conversions, vCloud Air sizing guid...

Jul 14, 2015 4:00:32 PM

by Rich Bourdeau Active Networks improves IT Service delivery while increasing data center security by leveraging VMware vRealize Automation and NSX. It’s all about delivering applications faster Increasingly it’s not sufficient for IT to just get faster at delivering compute, storage, security a...

Jul 14, 2015 11:54:03 AM

It’s a new cloud-driven world out there. Can your private or hybrid cloud deployment handle the pressure? How are your infrastructure resources? Do you have new cloud capabilities, but just seem to be short on capacity? In our upcoming webcast, you’ll learn from Taka Uenishi, Product Line Marketi...

Jul 13, 2015 9:10:51 PM

Wi-Fi Aware, Mobile World Congress Shanghai and a shopping experience through text messages. I’m Maddie Cook and this is your weekly recap of the AirWatch Blog. This week the Wi-Fi Alliance released a new technology called Wi-Fi Aware. Similar to iBeacons, Wi-Fi Aware is an app that accesses near...

Jul 17, 2015 6:07:42 PM

This past week, AirWatch and VMware attended Mobile World Congress Shanghai 2015. Hosted at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre, the event attracts industry professionals, analysts and journalists from around the region and world. Last year’s event had over 25,000 attendees and businesses,...

Jul 16, 2015 6:49:30 PM

By Nancy Beckus, Writer and Editor, End-User Computing Technical Marketing, VMware VMware Horizon Toolbox is a free-of-charge Web portal that acts as an extension to View Administrator for View virtual desktops in VMware Horizon 6 . Use the Horizon Toolbox to determine the correct system size and...

Jul 16, 2015 6:20:20 PM

The Presidential Precinct brings together young leaders from around the world to meet and collaborate with scholars, diplomats and private sector experts. Whether it is through a one-day program or a six-week program, Precinct participants make connections that drive change in their communities a...

Jul 16, 2015 3:00:59 PM

By Cedric Courteix, Partner Alliances Architect, VMware As we are heading out to Esri User Conference next week, I thought it would be appropriate to give you an update on how Esri--the leader in Geographic Information System (GIS) technology used by 300,000 organizations worldwide--NVIDIA, and V...

Jul 16, 2015 2:00:31 PM

Techaisle, a data-driven SMB IT market reasearch and industry analyst organization, recently conducted a global study to better understand key market trends, opportunities and IT priorities within SMB mobility solution users. The infographic summarizes the top benefits of mobility and identifies ...

Jul 15, 2015 8:18:18 PM

By Mark Margevicius, director of enterprise solutions, End-User Computing, VMware Microsoft’s forthcoming Windows 10 is a significant milestone for any enterprise customer today. With this release Microsoft has delivered a meaningful release that will have impact and value for many years to come....

Jul 15, 2015 7:32:53 PM

In 2014, the worldwide virtual client computing (VCC) software market totaled $3.0 billion, with a growth percentage of 6.9% from 2013. IDC sees the VCC market entering its maturity phase, encouraging vendors to expand capabilities to physical desktop management, enterprise mobility management an...

Jul 15, 2015 5:49:05 PM

By Jessica Chapin, Technical Writer and Editor, End-User Computing, VMware With significant contributions from Aaron Black, Product Manager, End-User Computing, VMware Many hands make light work, or so the saying goes. When the bulk of the workload is placed on one person, tasks take longer to co...

Jul 15, 2015 2:53:35 AM

By Andy Morris, Sr. Product Line Marketing Manager, Horizon FLEX, End-User Computing, VMware Type 2 hypervisors are cool. If you’re looking at the ones in Horizon FLEX then you should know that the core technology is the same as in vSphere - the solution that powers many of the world’s most in-de...

Jul 14, 2015 3:00:52 PM

Guest Blog by Will Wade, Director of GRID Product Management, NVIDIA If your business relies on Linux to run advanced applications, your life just got easier — thanks to VMware and NVIDIA. NVIDIA GRID technology powers the high-performance 3D graphics of VMware’s recently released Horizon 6 for L...

Jul 14, 2015 2:00:19 PM

451 Research recently released a report that recaps VMware’s Business Mobility event last month in San Francisco. The report, titled “VMware expands its reach into the mobile enterprise,” details the event news and VMware’s mobility leadership position, strategy and momentum. According to the rep...

Jul 14, 2015 12:24:40 PM

Type 2 hypervisors are cool. If you’re looking at the ones from VMware ( Fusion Pro, Fusion, Workstation & Player Pro ) then you should know that the core technology in those is not only the same, but it’s the same as in vSphere - the solution that powers many of the world’s most in-demand and hi...

Jul 13, 2015 11:47:21 PM

The TAP Team is pleased to announce that we have rescheduled our additional NDA Roadmap Session . This additional session will be available online via WebEx on Thursday, August 6th. This brief session will run from 10 a.m. until 12 p.m. PDT. This session will include discussions on SDDC Developin...

Jul 17, 2015 8:47:32 PM

We are excited to announce that we are holding one-on-one partner meetings at VMworld US 2015. If you are interested in meeting with the TAP program managers, please take a moment to fill out the appropriate application . Please understand that these meetings are first come, first serve and as ti...

Jul 17, 2015 8:38:49 PM

Calling all NORAM and EMEA Partners! VMware is about to make your life even easier. The new vSphere Optimization Assessment (VOA) trial is now available through Website Content Syndication on Partner Demand Center . This Demand Center offering provides partners with an easy and automatic way to f...

Jul 17, 2015 7:46:28 PM

VMware education has released three new training courses, which are still in beta right now.  There is some limited availability to attend these new beta courses. Please follow the link if you’re interested. VMware Cloud Automation: Design and Deploy Fast Track [V6.0] This training course focuses...

Jul 19, 2015 11:40:00 AM

Onyx for the Web Client is a Fling that translates actions taken in the vSphere Web Client to PowerCLI.Net code. This Fling was the winning entry in last year’s 2014 Fling Contest . It’s an update, of sorts, to the Onyx fling, as it allows for similar functionality in the web client. The Onyx for...

Jul 19, 2015 11:24:00 AM

Advertise here with BSA It seems Virtual SAN is on fire… I’ve been getting emails about VSAN configurations on a daily basis from partners, VMware field and customers. More and more customers seem to be looking at deploying Virtual SAN with a high number of disks and this week I ran in to somethi...

Jul 17, 2015 5:41:31 PM

Earlier this week I received a question from a customer who was interested in creating a custom ESXi VIB that could execute a specific script within the payload as part of the installation and only running it once. This was a fairly common request that I have seen in the past and as far as I […]

Jul 16, 2015 3:55:39 PM

Advertise here with BSA Are you attending VMworld and are you a big fan of Neon Trees and/or Alabama Shakes? The VMworld team was kindly enough to provide me with a VIP ticket with the opportunity to meet Neon Trees and Alabama Shakes at the VMworld Party in the AT&T Park. Awesome location and gr...

Jul 15, 2015 3:35:06 PM

This VMware Mirage implementation case study documents the IT objectives achieved at a large public-sector organization with 10,000 users distributed over 400 remote offices. Users were connected to the data center via a low-bandwidth network. The objectives were met with little to no disruption ...

Jul 15, 2015 8:00:00 AM

In my opinion, the Guest Operations API in vSphere is still one of the most powerful Virtual Machine capabilities that is available to vSphere Administrators and anyone else who integrates with the vSphere Platform. The Guest Operations API allows users to perform guest operations (running comman...

Jul 14, 2015 9:04:56 PM

Welcome to Technology Short Take #52, the latest collection of news, links, and articles from around the web on data center technologies. Networking Want to know a bit more about how OVN (Open Virtual Network) plans to integrate support for containers? See this . You might also find it useful to ...

Jul 14, 2015 7:00:00 PM

At VMworld 2014 - we announced and then released RecoverPoint for VMs - a simple, easy, purely software-based replication tool for VMware customers that need to start small but be ready to scale up. RecoverPoint for VMs (RP4VM) = enterprise-class remote replication and DR that is software only + ...

Jul 14, 2015 2:45:48 PM

In my previous blog post I walked you through what happens when adding an additional EVO:RAIL appliance to an existing deployment or cluster. Now I want to look at the next important workflow. You could relate this to the issue of serviceability. There are a number of scenarios that need to be co...

Jul 13, 2015 4:22:38 PM

There’s a joy to using RESTful APIs to programmatically talk with different systems to build something useful, such as my Grafana dashboard . As I dive deeper into my new gig , I’ve been attempting to learn more about communicating with RESTful services using different methods. This includes meth...

Jul 13, 2015 2:30:47 PM

This past week, our daughter turned 4 months old and this meant another routine visit to the pediatrician office for her vaccinations. It started out like any other visit. The medical assistant took her weight and measurements, and reviewed the vaccines that were due this visit. She noted that ou...

Jul 13, 2015 1:44:17 AM