VMware TAM Source 7.36

You read it right. As of vSphere 6.0 Update 1, the vSphere Update Manager (VUM) now has it’s interface fully-integrated in the vSphere Web Client! What does this mean for you? Now you truly have no excuse not to ditch the c# client and move directly into the Web Client! Getting Started To be able...

Sep 11, 2015 4:42:16 PM

VMWorld 2015 Session Recap I’m almost fully recovered from VMWorld, which was probably one of my busiest and most enjoyable VMWorld’s I’ve had in my 6 plus years at VMware because of the interaction with attendees, customers, and partners. I’ll be doing a series of Post-VMWorld Blogs focused on m...

Sep 11, 2015 3:17:03 AM

For those of you who attended my VMworld sessions with Salil Suri, we dropped a hint that there are things happening with Open-VM-Tools (OVT). We at VMware know that vSphere lifecycle is a difficult task to take on and that updating VMware Tools across hundreds or thousands of virtual machines is...

Sep 10, 2015 7:52:35 PM

Approximating staffing ratios in a cloud organization as a logarithmic function of infrastructure metrics. By Pierre Moncassin Customers who want to establish true cloud services based on VMware’s SDDC solution (or any other provider for that matter), realize that in order to fully leverage the t...

Sep 10, 2015 7:10:14 PM

Before upgrading your environment to vSphere 6.0 Update 1, VMware would like everyone to read the following KB article for important information. Please proceed to KB article: ESXi 6.0 network... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Sep 10, 2015 5:03:24 PM

By Toby Luscher Q : Toby, can you tell us a little about the TAM program in EMEA? Toby : When I joined nine years ago, I was the 18 th TAM in EMEA. Today, we have 136 and counting — all pretty evenly distributed across the Northern, Central, and Southern sub-regions. We’ve experienced incredible ...

Sep 10, 2015 3:45:04 PM

An announcement we made during our repeat session “INF5123 – Managing vSphere Deployments and Upgrades – Part 2” at VMworld last week, was that VMware Tools 10.0.0 was released and is available for download in MyVMware. Wait… I thought VMware tools only shipped with each ESXi build…? Good news. W...

Sep 10, 2015 2:54:29 PM

By Adam Eckerle What an amazing week! VMworld is now officially behind us, and we wish everyone safe travels back to wherever you call home. As the dust is settling, let’s reflect on some of the key takeaways from this year’s event. First, we should all have a clear understanding of the VMware vi...

Sep 9, 2015 4:31:08 PM

As was mentioned in a previous blog post , accelerator cards are becoming increasingly common in HPC environments and so it is important that we assess the performance of such cards with ESX. Thank you very much to Na Zhang for all of her work on the following. In this post, we share the results ...

Sep 8, 2015 7:26:48 PM

Thanks to everyone who participated in our VMworld Photo Contest! We received some great entries over the last week, and we couldn’t be more thrilled that you all found a VMware Education and Certification phrase that resonated with you. The following Daily Prize Winners will each receive a one-y...

Sep 8, 2015 3:00:09 PM

VMware Global Cloud Architect Tomas Fojta had the opportunity to test a complex architecture involving NSX, multiple vSphere 6 racks, and vCloud Director version 8. Read about his set up below, and be sure to check out Tom Fojta’s Blog for more virtualization and VMware vCloud® Air™ computing tip...

Sep 11, 2015 8:47:55 PM

By Jeremy Wheeler User Environment Management is the concept of managing a user’s persona across devices and locations. Using dynamic contextual policy control, VMware User Environment Manager gives IT a comprehensive profile management tool that supports physical, virtual, and cloud-hosted deskt...

Sep 11, 2015 8:08:33 PM

We are excited to announce that vRealize Code Stream v1.2 is now GA and available for download. Here is an overview of the latest features in this release- Conditional execution of pipeline tasks Continue pipeline execution on task failure Integration with Microsoft Team Foundation Server Jenkins...

Sep 10, 2015 5:00:12 PM

By Jeffrey Davidson In this blog entry I will talk about App Volumes and things to check when you are having trouble logging in. There are times when a user may not be able to login to the App Volumes Manager Server. Users might get a message similar to “You must be in the Administrators group to...

Sep 10, 2015 4:15:45 PM

VMware vCloud Director orchestrates the provisioning of hybrid/public cloud services as complete virtual data centers that provide virtualized compute, networking, storage, and security capabilities. Through simplifying the provisioning of these services, VMware enables Service Providers in the v...

Sep 10, 2015 4:00:17 PM

We recently met with some of our customers to hear, in their own words, why they use VMware cloud services and how they have embraced a unified hybrid cloud strategy. Greater scalability and the ability to draw from a single pool of resources for hybrid application deployment were communicated as...

Sep 9, 2015 6:56:32 PM

Last week at VMworld, Pat Gelsinger made a statement that got folks buzzing. During his keynote, he said that integrating security into the virtualization layer would result in organizations being twice as secure at half the cost. As a long-time security guy, statements like that can seem a littl...

Sep 9, 2015 12:00:11 PM

Keeping legacy applications online and available in a fast-moving industry is no easy feat. But VMware vCloud® Air™ can help by extending on-premises subnets to vCloud Air. In this episode of vCloud vTech Talk, our series highlighting tips, tricks and resources for all thing vCloud Air, Jenny Fon...

Sep 8, 2015 6:33:44 PM

The team here at VMware were very proud to see Fusion 8 outperform Parallels 11 and VirtualBox 5 in a recent battery of tests performed by TekRevue.com “[…] Fusion 8 is the clear winner, taking 11 out of 18 tests and pushing on three more.”   VMware Fusion came through on top largely due to our n...

Sep 10, 2015 12:42:37 PM

Apple CEO Tim Cook took the stage today and opened the list of latest announcements with, “The only thing that’s changed is everything.” The key announcements that are poised to impact the enterprise include new products: iPad Pro, iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus; and new features such as the Apple ...

Sep 9, 2015 11:47:02 PM

By Mark Benson, Senior Architect and Senior Staff Engineer, End-User-Computing CTO Office, VMware In this post I will give an overview of Access Point, the new VMware virtual appliance introduced with Horizon 6 version 6.2. I will describe the main features and then drill down a little into deplo...

Sep 9, 2015 11:21:46 AM

Last year I had the opportunity to present a session at the J. Boye Web and Intranet Conference in Philadelphia. The session was about building a successful enterprise social network (ESN) – an internal social network used by employees within a business. This has been my profession and passion fo...

Sep 8, 2015 11:07:07 PM

By Pam Takahama, Director Solutions Marketing, EUC, VMware With standing room only, the “Embracing Federal Mobility” session demonstrated how pioneers in federal IT are driving transformation within their agencies. In the few minutes leading up to the session, attendees shared a glimpse into fede...

Sep 8, 2015 4:00:00 PM

By Simon Le Comte, Sr. Manager Horizon Air Architects Team, EUC, VMware We’re excited to have announced the Summer 2015 update to Horizon Air. For the Summer 2015 update, we really wanted to focus on enhancing the user experience and improving IT administration time. Let’s take a look at the new ...

Sep 8, 2015 2:00:59 PM

By Josue Fontanez, Sr. Product Line Marketing Manager, Horizon Air, EUC, VMware It’s been exactly 18 months since we GA’d Horizon Air, VMware’s desktop-as-a-service offering and WOW!, has it been an amazing ride. We’ve been really focused on making improvements in our service, adding new capabili...

Sep 8, 2015 2:00:49 PM

You can’t afford to miss out on the newly refreshed VMware vSphere with Operations Management (vSOM) campaign. With an opportunity to capture a larger share of wallet and help your customers deliver more value to their businesses, this is one campaign worth its weight in gold. Plus, it’s a Power ...

Sep 11, 2015 4:15:01 PM

Get your opportunities across the finish line …the final incentive is around closing the most revenue by September 30th. Opportunities that were approved with the opportunity source code: VMware Prospecting Activity Call Campaign can qualify. The post Q3 Velocity to Millions: Final Incentive appe...

Sep 10, 2015 4:00:02 PM

Are you ready for a brave new model of IT? If so you must join us at VMworld 2015 Europe 12-15 October as our extended VMware community comes together in Barcelona with our One Cloud, Any Application, Any Device architecture. Get ready for a unified hybrid cloud that helps you innovate like a sta...

Sep 10, 2015 10:00:08 AM

Download the game to your mobile device (iOS and Android supported) and take on the role of the Cloud Seeker, on a mission to discover your ideal public or hybrid cloud with the vCloud Air Network. This is an exciting and informative adventure to the Cloud that you can even encourage your custome...

Sep 10, 2015 12:28:00 AM

Advertise here with BSA I had the honour and pleasure to have been asked for a “rock star” interview at the VMware Theatre at VMworld in the Solutions Exchange. I am not a big fan of the use of the term “rock star” as I am not Dave Grohl or Eddie Vedder, just one of the geeks. Nevertheless it was...

Sep 12, 2015 12:32:54 PM

For those of you who recently updated to Chrome 45, which apparently I did as well or more likely it automatically did it for me. You may have noticed that the Client Integration Plugin (CIP) for the vSphere Web Client no longer function when you try to upload an OVA or trying to use the Windows […]

Sep 11, 2015 11:10:47 PM

One of the most exciting new feature in VSAN 6.1 is the new Stretched Clustering capability which also provides support for a 2-Node ROBO deployment. If you are interested in learning more about the new VSAN 6.1 capabilities, be sure to check out Duncan's blog post here as well as a video on how ...

Sep 11, 2015 2:32:45 PM

As part of the Virtual SAN 6.1 announcements at VMworld 2015, VMware announced two new, eagerly anticipated features. The first of these is VSAN stretched cluster, allowing you to protect your virtual machines across data centers, not just racks. And the second is 2-node VSAN, which will be an ex...

Sep 11, 2015 1:00:55 PM

This technical note describes the command-line deployment and upgrade processes of the VMware vCenter Server Appliance. The vCenter Server Appliance is a preconfigured Linux-based virtual machine that is optimized for running vCenter Server. The command-line installer is intended for advanced use...

Sep 11, 2015 6:52:00 AM

I have seen quite a few questions come in on how to properly upgrade from an existing vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) 5.x and/or 6.x environment to the latest vSphere 6.0 Update 1 which was just released today. Before I jump straight into the process, I think its worth covering on how updates (pa...

Sep 11, 2015 1:49:08 AM

Advertise here with BSA What more do I need to say? vSphere 6.0 U1 was released today and it ships with Virtual SAN 6.1. By now you’ve all seen my posts on what’s new for VSAN 6.1 and you’ve hopefully seen the demo we created for stretched clustering. If you want to play with 6.1 yourself then yo...

Sep 10, 2015 8:24:18 PM

While at VMworld 2015 in the US, I delivered a brief presentation that outlines my usage of PowerShell ISE profiles and the Git Shell (for Windows) to version my PowerShell scripts entitled Scripting and Versioning with PowerShell ISE and Git Shell . Since this is focused on being an introduction...

Sep 10, 2015 1:46:25 PM

As part of the Virtual SAN 6.1 announcements at VMworld 2015, possibly the most eagerly anticipated announcement was the support for a VSAN stretched cluster configuration. Now VSAN can protect your virtual machine across data centers, not just across racks (which was achievable with fault domain...

Sep 10, 2015 1:00:19 PM

Advertise here with BSA I posted about HA/DRS settings for VSAN Stretched Clustering yesterday and posted an intro to 6.1 and all new functionality which includes stretched clustering. As part of our VMworld session Rawlinson Rivera recorded a nice demo. We figured we should share it with the wor...

Sep 10, 2015 12:39:07 PM

Last week at VMworld, I co-presented a Technical Deep Dive on vSphere's Content Library feature (INF5106) which was first introduced in our vSphere 6.0 release. One of the demos that I showed case was the 3rd Party Content Library capability which allows you to publish your own Content Library wi...

Sep 9, 2015 3:37:38 PM

Advertise here with BSA This question is going to come sooner or later, how do I configure HA/DRS when I am running a Virtual SAN Stretched cluster configuration. I described some of the basics of Virtual SAN stretched clustering in a what’s new for 6.1 post already, if you haven’t read it then I...

Sep 9, 2015 12:31:55 PM

Advertise here with BSA I just posted the slidedecks that I presented at VMworld on Virtual SAN up on slideshare. The recording and the slides will probably at some point also show up on vmware.com but as I had many requests from people to share the material I figured I would do that straight aft...

Sep 9, 2015 8:03:32 AM

A couple weeks back I had teased out the #migrate2vcsa hashtag on Twitter and said to stay tune for folks planning to attend VMworld US in person. If you attended VMworld last week, you may gotten more details during TAM Day, at the VMware Booth or in either of the VCSA breakout sessions INF5975 ...

Sep 8, 2015 4:10:04 PM

I just found out this week after reading Eric Siebert blog post here, that a select number of VMworld 2015 US sessions have been made available to the general public on YouTube. I thought this was a very nice and pleasant surprise, especially for those who could not attend VMworld to be able to g...

Sep 8, 2015 4:05:07 PM

One of the break-out sessions that I presented at VMworld 2015 on Virtual SAN (VSAN) has been recorded and is now available on YouTube. I co-presented “STO4572 Conducting a Successful Virtual SAN Proof of Concept” with Julienne Pham of VMware, who did the initial part of the session. Julienne exp...

Sep 8, 2015 8:30:13 AM

Advertise here with BSA I was at VMworld last week and bumped in to the Nexenta team. They told me about this great promotion they are running (limited time!) for NexentaConnect . NexentaConnect provides you NFS storage on top of VSAN, Cormac wrote an article about it a while back which I suggest...

Sep 8, 2015 7:23:31 AM