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  VMware NSX Insight From an Expert, Part 1 Check out the first part of our interview with Hatem Naguib, VMware Vice President, Network and Security, where he shares his insights on VMware NSX and the advantages it offers VMware customers. VMware NSX Insights From an Expert, Part 2 If you enjoyed...

Aug 14, 2015 3:00:21 PM

By: Kevin Lees VMworld is almost upon us. Technology continues, of course, to be a key enabler in helping IT on its transformation journey, whether that journey is to offering IT as a Service, moving more fully to Cloud, supporting cloud native applications and continuous delivery, DevOps, or any...

Aug 13, 2015 7:30:15 PM

New series of vSphere Web Client UI Deepdives With vSphere 6 adoption going up, the new features are helping our customers manage their environments better than ever before. vSphere Web Client is the most common way that these new features and enhancements are used, but sometimes the UI changes g...

Aug 12, 2015 6:37:57 PM

The Viewpoint Webinar Series has been bringing you one-hour sessions on some of the hottest VMware tech topics for several months now. Our most recent webinar was A Technical Overview of Virtual Volumes that talked about how Virtual Volumes (VVols) revolutionizes the storage industry by bringing ...

Aug 12, 2015 4:53:48 PM

By Adam Eckerle Technical Account Managers (TAMs) add value for their customers in many ways. Across our industry TAMs spend their days as sleuths determining the best ways to service their customers through activities such as product briefs, support escalations, and being that single point of co...

Aug 12, 2015 12:50:24 PM

Have you ever wanted to connect directly to your ESXi host via a web browser and take a quick look at the available resources on the host? How about checking on the status of the vCenter VM? Conduct host administrative tasks through the browser? Today I’m happy to introduce the vSphere Host Clien...

Aug 11, 2015 11:38:42 PM

The Office of the CTO here at VMware has been busy preparing for VMworld US later this month. Will you be joining us in San Francisco? If so, make sure you check out some of our happenings onsite. We’ve got some can’t-miss technical sessions on the docket from our people– check them out, add them...

Aug 10, 2015 3:54:29 PM

By Adam Eckerle Now that Schedule Builder is live everyone should have a general idea of the large amount of choices there are for sessions. Some sessions have already filled up and the waiting lists have started. Our friend and former TAM Jason Gaudreau has done some homework for our TAM custome...

Aug 10, 2015 3:01:12 PM

Want a chance at winning some great prizes? Then be sure to participate in our upcoming contest at VMworld 2015 US. How does it work? 1. Between Sunday, August 30 th and Thursday, September 3 rd , swing by one of the following VMworld 2015 US locations: VMworld Education & Certification Lounge (M...

Aug 10, 2015 3:00:57 PM

Back in July we had a post about using the ViewDbChk command to remove invalid linked clone entries, which applied to Horizon View 5.3 and later. Apparently a similar situation can arise in earlier... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Aug 10, 2015 1:53:22 PM

Are you ready to rock VMworld 2015? With more than 400 learning sessions featuring top-notch industry speakers and unlimited networking opportunities with 240 exhibitors , this year’s conference will offer a range of opportunities for any eager cloud connoisseur. Debuting this year, the VMworld D...

Aug 14, 2015 4:15:07 PM

Legacy Reserves LP is a master limited partnership headquartered in Midland, Texas, focused on the acquisition and development of oil and natural gas properties primarily located in the Permian Basin, Mid-Continent and Rocky Mountain regions of the United States. Their main business objective is ...

Aug 13, 2015 4:00:38 PM

By Jonathan McDonald Have you noticed the ever-changing VMware vSphere architecture with the introduction of new services and technologies? If you answered yes, you should already know that the architectural configuration details in an environment become instrumentally important to the Software-D...

Aug 13, 2015 3:00:14 PM

The journey to finding a cloud that meets all your business requirements can be tough at times. IT decision makers have to consider various aspects, such as security, reliability, compatibility, and data sovereignty, among other things. With VMware and the vCloud Air Network, it doesn’t always ha...

Aug 12, 2015 4:00:57 PM

by Rich Bourdeau You want implement more granular level security. See how utilizing VMware NSX and vRealize Automation together is the is the key to application level microsegmentation.   Why Network Micro-segmentation For most data centers, network security revolves around perimeter defenses. Fi...

Aug 12, 2015 10:14:45 AM

VMware is pleased to announce the availability of automated compliance assessment toolkit for Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) security policy in VMware vRealize Configuration Manager (VCM) . The toolkit aligns with CJIS Security Policy version 5.3 and maps to 92 checks on various MS-...

Aug 12, 2015 5:31:24 AM

Keeping your data center’s virtual machines running and ready to go is a full time job, but that doesn’t mean it has to be a hard job. With VMware vCloud® Air™, you have a full suite of management and automation tools ready to make your job easier. In this episode of our vCloud vTech Talk video s...

Aug 11, 2015 4:00:59 PM

This article is a preview of a section from the Hybrid Cloud Powered Automation and Orchestration document that is part of the VMware vCloud® Architecture Toolkit – Service Providers (vCAT-SP) document set. The document focuses on architectural design considerations to obtain the VMware vCloud Po...

Aug 11, 2015 2:12:11 PM

By Bekah Suttner, Blue Medora Database administrators (DBAs) can spend countless hours chasing down the root cause of slowdowns within their database landscapes. While many monitoring platforms help significantly reduce this downtime, communication between teams can still force DBAs to spend a si...

Aug 11, 2015 10:03:44 AM

By: Chris Alleaume, Trimax Americas / Dataglove Inc. INTRODUCTION In particular use cases, customers using vRealize Automation either decide not to use IPAM or perhaps have an isolated environment while there is a need to integrate with Microsoft DNS Servers directly. Throughout the last few year...

Aug 10, 2015 8:08:32 PM

You’ve virtualized your onsite data center and seen the benefits. Maybe you’ve even invested in a private cloud. Looking at the long term, though, you’d like an alternative that takes advantage of a public cloud. Or you may be looking at options for cloud bursting – the on-demand access to a very...

Aug 10, 2015 4:30:35 PM

With a new AirWatch release and Socialcast Integration Store, there have been many updates in the past two weeks. In the mobile technology industry, Google is also rearranging some letters in its alphabet and UPS is deploying autonomous vehicles. This year at AirWatch Connect Atlanta, industry wo...

Aug 14, 2015 6:21:44 PM

This year at AirWatch Connect, industry focused workshops will take place on Monday September 21. During this time executives, sales account executives, sales engineers and product managers will gather for vertical focused programming. Programming for each industry workshop includes customer pane...

Aug 13, 2015 9:45:59 PM

Washington State University (WSU) is a nationally recognized research university providing world-class education to more than 26,000 undergraduate, graduate, and professional students enrolled in ten different colleges. As part of their Senior Design Curriculum, students from WSU’s School of Elec...

Aug 13, 2015 8:49:45 PM

This past August 3 rd , Socialcast released its latest feature, Socialcast Chat, providing users with a reliable and secure instant messaging tool. The new Socialcast Chat is updated to deliver a more lightweight and responsive chat tool that customers can use daily for business communication. So...

Aug 13, 2015 2:00:27 PM

Socialcast has a new feature called the Socialcast Integration Store that brings together Socialcast, VMware vCenter Server and industry-leading DevOps applications and services. Socialcast is an enterprise social networking tool that unites organizations and enables collaboration among an organi...

Aug 11, 2015 12:30:48 PM

Today, VMware released the Socialcast Integration Store . For years, the tried and trusted Socialcast Reach integration capability has allowed customers to embed Socialcast collaboration into various different applications – such as Microsoft SharePoint and Salesforce.com. Figure 1: Socialcast em...

Aug 11, 2015 12:00:50 PM

By Jens Koerner, Director of Product Management, Socialcast Today, VMware released the Socialcast Integration Store . For years, the tried and trusted Socialcast Reach integration capability has allowed customers to embed Socialcast collaboration into various different applications – such as Micr...

Aug 11, 2015 12:00:08 PM

Earlier this year, VMware unveiled the VMware Collaboration Bundle which brings together content and collaboration tools AirWatch Content Locker, Socialcast and AirWatch Video. A new 451 Research report studied the content collaboration products in a report titled “VMware: capitalizing on its col...

Aug 10, 2015 8:37:52 PM

With Partner Exchange nearly two weeks away, everyone at VMware has been busy getting ready for the IT event of the year. To further add to our excitement, Partner Exchange will be the perfect platform for you to meet VMware’s new Channel Chief, Ross Brown, SVP of the Worldwide Partner Organizati...

Aug 14, 2015 5:21:52 PM

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Aug 13, 2015 9:40:31 PM

Register now for this 1-hour live and online training session on 3 Sept. at 9am CET to learn how to take advantage of our demand generation campaigns available in the Partner Demand Center to promote VMware Operations Management solutions and the vSphere Optimization Assessment (VOA). We will cov...

Aug 12, 2015 4:58:05 PM

Read the data sheet to learn more about the VSP-Mobility training requirement to access AirWatch Cloud/SaaS SKUs. Effective July 1, 2015, the training requirements for access to AirWatch On-Premise SKUs and to achieve the Mobility Management Competency will remain the same.

Aug 11, 2015 10:06:55 PM

This year at VMworld 2015, the Partner Exchange Lounge will be bigger and better than ever. It will also be bursting at the seams with some exciting opportunities planned specifically with partners in mind. For those that have purchased the Partner Exchange add-on pass, you are welcome to visit t...

Aug 11, 2015 9:32:33 PM

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Aug 10, 2015 6:50:09 PM

This Fling is a stand-alone, cross-platform VNC implementation based on the remoting technology found in vSphere and VMware Workstation. It allows remote access to a desktop session running on another native system, or inside of a virtual machine. The tools are offered as command-line utilities w...

Aug 15, 2015 8:49:00 AM

It’s that time of year again—time for VMworld ! And along with VMworld comes another highly-anticipated event: Spousetivities ! That’s right, Spousetivities is back again this year for another set of outstanding activities organized for spouses traveling with conference attendees. If your spouse ...

Aug 14, 2015 4:00:00 PM

I’ve been involved in a few conversations recently regarding how VSAN trace files are handled when the ESXi host that is participating in a VSAN cluster boots from a flash device. I already did a post about some of these considerations in the past, but focused mostly on USB/SD. However SATADOM wa...

Aug 14, 2015 1:00:47 PM

This version of the ESXi Embedded Host Client is written purely in HTML and JavaScript, and is served directly from your ESXi host and should perform much better than any of the existing solutions. Please note that the Host Client cannot be used to manage vCenter. Currently, the client is in its ...

Aug 14, 2015 11:05:00 AM

Last year, a group of believers gathered for a brief time of prayer while at VMworld 2014. This year, I’d like to again offer believers attending VMworld 2015 the same opportunity to gather together for a time of prayer before starting the day. If you’re interested in attending, here are the deta...

Aug 13, 2015 11:00:00 PM

A question that I almost always see come up on a regular basis is around the topic of auditing or understanding what configuration changes were made to a given Virtual Machine. Today, the process of identifying this information is actually quite difficult at least without resorting to a custom bu...

Aug 13, 2015 8:03:49 PM

Advertise here with BSA A long long time ago I stumbled across a project within VMware which allowed you to manage ESXi through a client which was running on ESXi itself. Basically it presented an html interface for ESXi not unlike the MUI we had in the old days. It was one of those pet-projects ...

Aug 13, 2015 1:17:00 PM

How many of you remember the old WebAccess interface that came with classic ESX 2.0? I know I sure do! It was a very useful interface that allowed administrators to easily manage their ESX hosts through a web browser that provided basic VM creation, troubleshooting and most importantly initial bo...

Aug 11, 2015 10:41:31 PM

One of the best enhancements I’ve used for PowerShell is called ISESteroids . Much like the name implies, it wraps a great number of features and functionality around the standard PowerShell ISE. I’d suggest downloading a trial to see if it blows your mind. Note that I had some issues with my PSM...

Aug 11, 2015 2:20:30 PM

Are YOU READY FOR ANY? We are now in the final mad, mad rush to VMworld 2015 in San Francisco ! Along with EMC World in May, this is always a nuts time of year - I can tell by the feeling of constantly being behind schedule, and like I’m dropping balls :-) I think people might be shocked at how m...

Aug 11, 2015 9:25:32 AM

PowerShell stores paths in PSModulePath to locate modules. While installing ISESteroids on my Surface Pro 3 (for writing code on the go), I noticed that the module’s Start-Steroids cmdlet failed to launch because a path to my user profile could not be found. Upon further investigation, I noticed ...

Aug 10, 2015 2:20:42 PM