VMware Wins Top Spot in CRN’s Annual Vendor Report Card, New Trust and Assurance Framework Announced + CIO Bask Iyer Keynotes the CIO 100 Symposium, This Week in VMware News   Earlier this month, solution providers across America graded their IT vendors across 22 product categories as part of CRN...

Aug 21, 2015 4:00:04 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! Copying App Volumes AppStacks Between Environments ...

Aug 21, 2015 3:00:34 PM

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Aug 20, 2015 8:41:10 PM

Enterprise IT is shifting in key ways, but many technology vendors are wrong about where the changes are headed and, consequently, send their customers down various wrong paths. Bask Iyer, VMware’s CIO and a veteran IT executive (Honeywell, GlaxoSmithKline, Johnson & Johnson, Microsoft), spoke re...

Aug 20, 2015 6:23:56 PM

Today we will highlight one of our KB articles that is getting some traction with our Horizon View customers. The issue can occur if the ADAM database contains an invalid entry for a persistent... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Aug 20, 2015 1:16:59 PM

By David Crane As many of you are aware the time for VMworld 2015 in San Francisco is fast approaching. It will be great to see past acquaintances again, I look forward to making new ones and having some great discussions with you all. It’s an old cliché but time really does fly. It doesn’t seem ...

Aug 19, 2015 8:11:50 PM

For today’s post, we’d like to focus on issues surrounding DB validation during upgrade. Many of you are running into one of the issues when moving to vSphere 6.0 Does anything here look... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Aug 19, 2015 6:09:11 PM

VMworld 2015 US is less than two weeks away! Whether you’re just starting to plan out your daily activities or waiting until you get to there to figure it out, be sure to leave room in your schedule for these top six suggestions from the VMware Education Services Team. 1) Save Time by Pre-enrolli...

Aug 19, 2015 3:00:29 PM

More and more data is generated every day, and the same is true for “virtual” content, such as VM templates, vApps, ISO images, and scripts. The industry is paying more attention to how to streamline maintenance procedures, distribute the content, and deal with emergencies. Now, imagine that you ...

Aug 19, 2015 1:57:36 AM

By Iain Mulholland, Engineering Trust & Assurance, VMware VMware is proud to announce the VMware Trust and Assurance framework. The framework – which consists of four key building blocks of reliability, integrity, security, and commitment – helps answer customer questions about our security and d...

Aug 18, 2015 6:04:47 PM

We’re excited to offer one of our most popular courses on demand. vSphere 6: Install, Configure, Manage is designed to give system administrators and systems engineers intensive, hands-on training for installing, configuring, and managing VMware vSphere® 6, including VMware ESXi™ 6 and VMware vCe...

Aug 18, 2015 3:00:44 PM

There will be a High Performance Computing in Research and Data Analytics Roundtable session held on Monday evening in conjunction with VMworld US in San Francisco. This session is a part of the Government & Education Roundtable Series and is intended primarily for those customers. Seating is lim...

Aug 16, 2015 7:37:02 PM

VMworld 2015 is right around the corner. You know which sessions you want to attend, who you want to meet, and what you’re having for lunch – but what are you doing right before the VMworld party? Mark your calendars! We’re excited to announce our fifth annual #Cloudtalk Tweetup Wednesday, Septem...

Aug 21, 2015 4:00:41 PM

By Nick Jeffries With a week to go to VMworld US, I thought it would be a good idea to highlight some amazing sessions we have in store for those of you with an interest in server-based computing. Whether you’ve got to roll-up your sleeves and start migrating users off your XenApp 5.0 server soon...

Aug 21, 2015 2:59:13 PM

By: Jim Armstrong All clouds are not created equal and when you choose to hand over your core infrastructure to a public cloud provider it is important to know exactly what you are getting from that service, both in terms of price and performance. VMware is sharing benchmarking results showing th...

Aug 20, 2015 8:26:23 PM

By: Cameron Jones, Blue Medora VMware added a number of new features to their monitoring platform with the release of VMware vRealize Operations 6.0. In addition to allowing VMware Administrators (vAdmins) to view metrics and analyze them, VMware added features like reporting, actions, and badges...

Aug 20, 2015 10:01:09 AM

“The customer’s perception is your reality.” Here at VMware, we constantly focus on customer feedback to improve products and meet the demands of the market to solve problems they are experiencing in the IT environment. To this extent, we recently commissioned a third-party tech research firm, Sc...

Aug 19, 2015 8:28:16 PM

It’s two days before launch and Gene needs to find a cloud service that will enable his team to develop and replicate test environments quickly. It seems like a nearly insurmountable task, but Gene knows the success of the launch is riding on his shoulders. So he sets off on an unexpected journey...

Aug 19, 2015 4:00:35 PM

By Jeremy Wheeler Recently while working onsite with a client I discovered they needed to have local Windows accounts created upon AppStack attachment as required by their application. The customer didn’t want to go through the process of recreating the AppStack to achieve this. I was able to sol...

Aug 18, 2015 9:06:54 PM

Recently, we announced few changes to the VMware vCloud® Architecture Toolkit (vCAT). These changes come as VMware expands and diversifies its product portfolio, especially with regards to cloud operations and hybrid cloud products. This new version of vCAT focuses on helping to guide our partner...

Aug 18, 2015 6:00:12 PM

No one likes racking up unexpected charges. Whether it’s because you left your car running, your air conditioning on or because you forgot to turn something off, discovering you’ve suddenly accrued a ton of costs is always an unpleasant experience. Thankfully, VMware vCloud® Air™ users don’t have...

Aug 18, 2015 4:00:08 PM

The latest version of the Management Pack for Storage Devices for vRealize Operations (MPSD) is available now. Try it now. vRealize Operations Management Pack for Storage Devices provides you with a complete view of your entire storage topology from your host, through your storage network, and ou...

Aug 18, 2015 3:54:13 AM

by Rich Bourdeau Many of VMware’s customers have deployed private or hybrid clouds and automated the delivery of Infrastructure as a Service. While this accelerates the delivery of individual machines from days to hours and minutes, it only addresses about 10% of the overall business agility prob...

Aug 17, 2015 10:52:36 AM

Welcome back to the weekly recap. I’m Maddie Cook and today we’re going to cover a new AirWatch partnership with an IoT research center, some IDC report results about Chromebook performance and share some sneak peeks of AirWatch Connect Atlanta product sessions! Last week, AirWatch announced its ...

Aug 22, 2015 2:20:21 PM

By Pam Takahama, Director of Vertical Solutions, EUC, VMware VMware has just announced a new offering for Federal mobile employees that provides the freedom, flexibility and ease of using mobile devices in the field with the efficiency, rapid scalability and mobile extensibility of cloud service...

Aug 21, 2015 4:04:13 PM

This year at AirWatch Connect, workshops will be hosted on Monday, September 21. During this time executives, sales account executives, sales engineers and product managers will gather for vertically focused programming. Programming for each industry workshop includes customer panels, opportuniti...

Aug 20, 2015 8:11:03 PM

Last week, AirWatch announced its sponsorship of the Center for the Development and Application of Internet of Things Technologies (CDAIT) at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech). As one of the initial founding members, AirWatch will partner with CDAIT (pronounced sedate) to help id...

Aug 20, 2015 2:00:16 PM

Curious to learn about speaking sessions at AirWatch Connect Atlanta? Check out the below Q&A profiles with AirWatch speakers. AirWatch Connect Atlanta is about a month away! For more information on the event, visit the AirWatch Connect website.

Aug 19, 2015 10:48:14 PM

By Patric Chang, Senior Director, SanDisk Imagine being able to run View desktops with the speed of all-flash shared storage, without the cost and complexity of a dedicated all-flash array. Today, all-flash Virtual SAN clusters from SanDisk make it a reality. In collaboration with VMware, Avago, ...

Aug 18, 2015 10:56:00 PM

By Tisa Murdock, Director of Industry Solutions, VMware and Farid Agahi, Business Strategist Industry Solutions, VMware The term ‘mission critical’ in IT has been synonymous with major business applications that perform core functions within an enterprise. However, we are starting to see that ter...

Aug 18, 2015 2:29:02 PM

This year at AirWatch Connect, workshops will be hosted on Monday, September 21. During this time executives, sales account executives, sales engineers and product managers will gather for vertically focused programming. Programming for each industry workshop includes customer panels, opportuniti...

Aug 17, 2015 7:48:04 PM

We’re excited to launch a new blog series entitled Fearlessly Innovating with Socialcast showcasing the successes of Socialcast as part of the broader VMware community. Socialcast by VMware, a leading enterprise social networking platform, is used by thousands of VMware employees each and every d...

Aug 17, 2015 3:31:50 PM

By Chris Dong, Business Analyst & End User Experience Intern, VMware We’re excited to launch a new blog series entitled Fearlessly Innovating with Socialcast showcasing the successes of Socialcast as part of the broader VMware community. Socialcast by VMware, a leading enterprise social networkin...

Aug 17, 2015 2:00:10 PM

Our Global Diamond Sponsor, HP, is offering these multiple in-depth sessions on how to shape your software-defined enterprise to radically simplify IT and deliver services at the speed of business. Consider adding these sessions to your agenda along with the Top 10 Things You MUST Know Before Imp...

Aug 19, 2015 11:13:04 PM

As you use Schedule Builder to create your Partner Exchange @ VMworld 2015 conference schedule for Sunday (August 30th), be sure to add these recommended management, sales, and technical sessions: Business Track 8:30 – 9:30 AM — [PAR6387] What’s New with vSphere with Operations Management 1:30 – ...

Aug 17, 2015 9:45:08 PM

Hey Management Partners — Have you built out your Partner Exchange @ VMworld 2015 conference schedule? If not, be sure to add the recommended management, sales & technical sessions below to your Sunday (8/30), Partner Exchange agenda. Business Track 8:30 – 9:30 AM PAR6387 What’s New with vSphere ...

Aug 17, 2015 6:16:09 PM

Advertise here with BSA Some of you may have noticed that this week I posted my first article on the VMware Virtual Blocks blog . In the future you will see me posting there more frequently. Of course I will also stay posting here, but some more VSAN evangelism related stories will probably go to...

Aug 22, 2015 2:39:07 PM

I’m really excited to see a new dot release for VMware NSX with version 6.2 ! Mainly due to the idea of stretching the logical configuration across multiple vCenter Servers (realistically, sites) using Cross vCenter NSX . This is where logical switches, distributed logical routers, and distribute...

Aug 21, 2015 4:59:48 PM

The automation of virtual environments has become the focus of many endeavors. VMware vRealize Orchestrator is a tool that enables you to automate not only your VMware environments, but also the surrounding hardware and software infrastructure. Orchestrator is also a central tool in the VMware cl...

Aug 21, 2015 7:43:00 AM

I just wanted to give everyone a heads up that we have a minor update to the VMware Tools for Nested ESXi Fling (esx-tools-for-esxi-9.7.2-0.0.5911061.i386.vib) and you can find the list of changes below. What's new in version 1.2: Larger resource pool for programs started using the VIX/Guest Oper...

Aug 20, 2015 8:34:53 PM

Advertise here with BSA Last week I had the pleasure of catching up with Tintri. It has been a while since I spoke with them, but I have been following them from the very start . I met up with them in Mountain View a couple of times when it was just a couple of guys on a rather empty floor with a...

Aug 20, 2015 3:00:20 PM

I really enjoy hearing from my readers, especially when they share some of the unique challenges they have come across or boundaries they have pushed with our VMware software. Several weeks back I received an interesting email from a reader named John Clenenen who was able to get ESXi 6.0 running...

Aug 20, 2015 2:57:52 PM

Advertise here with BSA This week I was playing with the VM-Host rules in my environment. In this particular environment I had DRS disabled and I noticed some strange things when I created the VM-Host rules. I figured it should all work in a normal way as I was always told that VM/Host rules can ...

Aug 20, 2015 7:56:54 AM

VMware NSX for Horizon brings speed and simplicity to VDI networking. Within seconds, IT administrators can create policies that dynamically follow virtual desktops, without the need for time-consuming network provisioning. Extending security policy from the data center to the device, this joint ...

Aug 19, 2015 4:44:00 PM

Advertise here with BSA Today the Rubrik 2.0 release was announced. I’ve written about who they are and what they do twice now so I am not going to repeat that. If you haven’t read those articles please read those first. ( Article 1 and article 2 ) Chris Wahl took the time to brief me and the fir...

Aug 19, 2015 1:14:31 PM

Rubrik, who exited stealth only a few months ago, and launched their r300 series of converged data management appliance, have just announced version 2.0. Y ou can read up of the Rubrik launch here . The 2.0 version has a new service called “Unlimited Replication” and a new appliance to the r300 s...

Aug 19, 2015 1:05:13 PM

Today, my team at Rubrik is pretty stoked to announce the release of version 2.0 of Rubrik Converged Data Management ( PR ). For those playing the at-home game, you might recall that Rubrik went Generally Available (GA) with version 1.0 back in May of this year. Not three months later, we’ve alre...

Aug 19, 2015 1:00:41 PM

Get ready for an exciting and informative adventure to the cloud. The hero is under your command as you dodge obstacles such as cloud security thieves, become invincible with the security shield, use the monitoring tool to stop your enemies, grab the themed collectibles for special powers, and mo...

Aug 19, 2015 4:56:00 AM

If you followed my previous blog post on How to audit VM reconfigurations and see what exactly changed, you may have concluded that historical VM configuration events may potentially be unavailable by the time you need to perform an audit. The reason for this is that the VM Events tables may have...

Aug 18, 2015 4:54:15 PM

Today sees the release of the vRealize Operations Management Pack for Storage Devices (MPSD) version 6.0.2. This is exciting for me as it means that vROps now has management and monitoring features for Virtual SAN 6.0. The management pack comes with a set of default dashboards for Virtual SAN clu...

Aug 18, 2015 3:50:42 PM

Advertise here with BSA Clearly VMworld is around the corner as many new products, releases and company announcements are being done this week and next. Last week I had the opportunity to catch up with Sirish Raghuram, Platform9 ‘s CEO. For those who don’t know who/what/where I recommend reading ...

Aug 18, 2015 10:45:19 AM

Since I spend a lot more time on Slack , I figured it would be handy to write a PowerShell script that can pass along chat messages to various channels, groups, and users to notify when certain events occur in the lab or elsewhere. Although I did find some examples floating around on the web, the...

Aug 17, 2015 3:20:02 PM

Advertise here with BSA Over the last couple of months I have been talking to many Virtual SAN customers. After having spoken to so many customers and having heard many special use cases and configurations I’m not easily impressed. I must say that half way during the conversation with Steffan Haf...

Aug 17, 2015 2:03:19 PM

The VMware App Volumes Technical FAQ addresses technical questions from administrators and users of App Volumes. Questions and answers are divided into the following topics: App Volumes Requirements and Maximums App Volumes Installation and Configuration App Volumes Storage App Volumes Management...

Aug 17, 2015 9:49:00 AM