FROM THE EDITORS VIRTUAL DESK
Hi everyone, welcome to this weeks newsletter. We are just 2 weeks away from the next major VMware event, VMworld Europe on the 12-15 October in Barcelona. We are all looking forward to the many announcements that will be part of this event. I will do my best to keep everyone informed every week via the newsletter of pre announcements and of course during the big event itself.
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Virtually Yours
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San Francisco, CA
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NEWS AND DEVELOPMENTS FROM VMWARE
We spoke to a lot of you at VMworld 2015 US about our certification programs and received a lot of feedback around the new programs, exam registration, and recertification. We take this feedback seriously. One of the things you asked for is an extension on taking the VCP5-DCV Delta exam . Some of...
Sep 25, 2015 7:25:04 PM
Did you miss VMworld US this year or need a recap? Join us for the next installment of the ViewPoint Webinar Series on Tuesday, September 29, 2015 at 8:00 a.m. PT / 11:00 a.m. ET. During this one-hour webinar, Andrew Ellwood, Senior Education Product Manager and John Hathaway, Senior Education Po...
Sep 25, 2015 3:00:55 PM
At VMworld 2015 in San Francisco we announced the VMware Validated Designs . At the time the program was so new that we didn’t even have a web page created for it. However, we promised folks that a web page was on its way and today I’m happy to announce that it’s up and running! At VMworld we als...
Sep 24, 2015 4:57:34 PM
Save 50% off the list price when you attend the beta version of our new training courses. VMware BETA courses gives you 50% off the same valuable VMware training for helping us finalize the nearly completed course. VMware vSphere: Skills for Operators [V6] San Francisco, CA, 28-29 October This tw...
Sep 24, 2015 3:53:58 PM
Before upgrading to vSphere 6 update 1, VMware would like everyone to read the following KB article for important information. Creating and recomposing linked clone desktops will fail on Horizon view... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Sep 24, 2015 1:01:42 PM
By Carl Olafson For those not familiar with vRealize Operations Manager (vROps), it delivers critical capacity management and performance monitoring capabilities. This provides a level of insight into your infrastructure that no business running on vSphere should function without. If you are goin...
Sep 23, 2015 8:22:51 PM
VMworld 2015 Europe is just a few weeks away! Now is the time to start thinking about which sessions and activities to attend. We have some terrific 30 minute Theatre Sessions planned in the VMworld Education and Certification Lounge (Located in Hall 7) each day. Be sure to add these to your pers...
Sep 23, 2015 4:50:44 PM
IEEE Hot Interconnects is the premier international forum for researchers and developers of state-of-the-art hardware and software architectures and implementations for interconnection networks of all scales, ranging from multi-core on-chip interconnects to those within systems, clusters, data ce...
Sep 23, 2015 2:38:59 PM
Exciting news for users of vRealize Operations Manager 6.1.0. We’ve been busy updating and creating new Knowledgebase articles to support the product. Enjoy! New: After cancelling the selected alerts... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Sep 23, 2015 2:28:28 PM
There has been a lot of buzz around vSphere Lifecycle since VMworld. My last few blog posts on VMware Tools have had a tremendous amount of traffic, so I decided to continue with the theme and give you all what it appears you want more of. So in this post, LET’S TALK TOOLS! I Feel Like VMware Too...
Sep 23, 2015 2:00:57 PM
Today we bring you a video which demonstrates downgrading from VMware Workstation Pro 12.x to VMware Workstation 11.x including changing the virtual hardware of your virtual machines. VMware... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Sep 23, 2015 12:36:20 PM
We are in the process of simplifying the registration and scheduling process for VMware Advanced exams (VCAP5-DCA, VCAP5-DCD or VCIX-NV) to eliminate the need for a second PearsonVue account. However, this entails some short term impacts to our registration process you should be aware of. From no...
Sep 22, 2015 3:06:46 PM
Back in March, we introduced vSphere 6.0 and the new architecture for vCenter Server. With this new architecture you learned about the Platform Services Controller, a new functional component of vCenter that moves beyond just Single-Sign On to include additional platform services such as: Licensi...
Sep 21, 2015 8:41:44 PM
TJ Vatsa is a Principal Architect and a member of CTO Ambassadors at VMware representing Professional Services organization. He has worked at VMware for the past 5+ years with over 20 years of experience in the IT industry. During this time he has focused on enterprise architecture and applied hi...
Sep 21, 2015 7:02:10 PM
Offer extended to December 18, 2015! There’s no better time than right now to discover the latest VMware technologies and solutions like vSphere 6, NSX, and vRealize Automation. And for a limited time, when you complete select VMware courses you will also get your choice of either a free Apple® W...
Sep 21, 2015 4:29:57 PM
Exciting news for users of Log Insight 3.0.x. We’ve been busy updating and creating new Knowledgebase articles to support the product. New: 2123058 – Changing internal configuration... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Sep 21, 2015 2:47:34 PM
By: Michael Francis and RadhaKrishna (RK) Dasari The primary technological goal of any migration project is to transfer an existing compute resource/application from one environment to another, as quickly, efficiently, and cost effectively as possible. This is especially critical when considering...
Sep 25, 2015 9:18:48 PM
Teamwork makes the dream work. As it goes, the dream team of the vCloud Air Network and our service providers help to provide customers with the services they need. This month’s vCloud Air Network Service Provider Spotlight focuses on NTT Communications , a vCloud Air Network Premier Partner base...
Sep 25, 2015 4:15:22 PM
In this blog post I would like to talk about automated tests and specifically the challenges that arise when the automated tests are unstable. I will discuss this in the context of our development of Log Insight, and its agent. The Log Insight Agent development team has a large automated test sui...
Sep 24, 2015 7:01:38 AM
In the last few months we have been working with Ansible to develop a set of cloud modules that would allow mutual customers to get the benefits of the flexibility that Ansible provides paired with VMware vCloud® Air™ enterprise grade services. In particular we have developed a new cloud module f...
Sep 23, 2015 5:36:02 PM
by Rich Bourdeau The biggest challenge for most companies today is the ability to go faster than the competition. Competitive advantages that use to last decades can be lost in a matter of years or even months if companies fail to stay ahead of customer needs and what the competition can deliver....
Sep 23, 2015 10:00:56 AM
By Jonathan McDonald Picking up where Part 1 left off, I will now discuss the architecture decisions I have seen commonly used for the VMware Certificate Authority. This comes from many conversations with customers, VMware Professional Services, VMware Engineering and even VMware Support. In addi...
Sep 22, 2015 8:55:50 PM
By now, you’ve likely already heard about VMware vCloud® Air™. But if it’s still unclear how you can use it to benefit your company or organization, you’ll want to check out our latest vTech Talk video. In this episode of vCloud vTech Talk, our series highlighting tips, tricks and resources for a...
Sep 22, 2015 6:36:36 PM
This brief and high level implementation example will provide a sample use case for the utilization of VMware Virtual SAN in a vCloud Director for Service Providers environment. Outlined in the illustration below, each Provider Virtual Data Center / Resource Cluster has been configured with a Vir...
Sep 22, 2015 2:51:13 PM
Do you have a new VMware vCloud® Air™ subscription that you haven’t deployed? Or maybe you have an active subscription but haven’t fully adopted the service, or haven’t deployed many workloads. Here we’ll provide some key recommendations for getting started, and highlight some best practices for ...
Sep 21, 2015 5:23:21 PM
This month, we have feature enhancements for Town Hall speakers and Challenge moderators, as well new releases of our iOS and Android mobile app. Check out our updates for September* below: 1. Town Hall “Answered by Me” Filter We’ve seen a large uptick in the usage of Town Halls lately, especiall...
Sep 25, 2015 6:26:18 PM
Today was another exciting day at AirWatch Connect 2015! Keynote speakers included Adam Savage and Forrester Research’s Tyler Shields who both presented their perspectives on innovation during the keynote. Noah Wasmer started the day with an exciting update on the future of the AirWatch platform ...
Sep 24, 2015 4:56:44 AM
Welcome to AirWatch Connect 2015. I’m Maddie Cook and this is your daily recap of AirWatch Connect Atlanta! Today we started in high gear as AirWatch and VMware executives took the stage for the first keynote. John Marshall, Sanjay Poonen, Pat Gelsinger and Alan Dabbiere discussed the changes ove...
Sep 23, 2015 5:12:36 AM
By Gina Daly, Technical Writer for Technical Marketing, End-User Computing, VMware With significant contributions from Jason Marshall, Manager, Product Engineering, End-User Computing, VMware Growing up, we had a small flower garden, which my mother proudly kept. The rose bushes stand out in my m...
Sep 23, 2015 2:15:28 AM
In this third post in my series of advice on how to build a successful enterprise social network (ESN), I discuss the following important tip: Get executive buy-in and participation. I’ll illustrate this tip by sharing my company’s story. Our experience in this regard is a tale of two leaders – v...
Sep 22, 2015 8:09:20 PM
By Matt Coppinger, Director Technical Marketing & Enablement and Tony Paikeday, Sr. Product Line Manager, EUC, VMware In our last post , we introduced how VMware Horizon with NVIDIA GRID is enabling the delivery of “serious workloads” like battlespace simulations that train civilian and military ...
Sep 22, 2015 2:00:39 PM
Today at AirWatch Connect, keynote presentations will highlight how to manage Windows 10 devices with the leading AirWatch Enterprise Mobility Management platform. AirWatch launched Windows 10 support on the first day the software was available, and today AirWatch is revealing even more ways cust...
Sep 22, 2015 12:01:35 PM
Today on the keynote stage of AirWatch Connect Atlanta, AirWatch and VMware executives will present that latest product innovations that will drive business innovation in organizations. The enterprise mobility market is rapidly evolving to a new set of needs, and mobile has matured from being a c...
Sep 22, 2015 12:00:34 PM
By Mimi Spier, Sr. Director Strategy and Business Development, Business Mobility at VMware Today, we’re excited to announce that SAP joined ACE (App Configuration for Enterprise) to simplify how their customers configure and deploy mobile apps. SAP and VMware will work to integrate the ACE approa...
Sep 22, 2015 12:00:26 PM
Written by Christopher Campbell, Product Marketing and Joseph Razavian, Strategic Alliances “A critical vulnerability at the heart of Android can open up 95 percent of all smartphones on that platform to devastating hacks with a single text message,” read the opening sentence of Wired Magazine’s ...
Sep 22, 2015 12:00:20 PM
Welcome to AirWatch Connect 2015. I’m Maddie Cook and this is your daily recap of AirWatch Connect Atlanta! Today AirWatch Connect kicked-off for its fourth consecutive year. Attendees gathered for a full day of pre-event activities that included industry workshops, Customer Advisory Board (CAB) ...
Sep 22, 2015 11:19:03 AM
By Andy Morris, Sr. Product Line Marketing Manager, Horizon FLEX, EUC, VMware It’s only been a few months since VMware acquired Immidio and we’ve readied yet another release for you to enjoy. You can download the new User Environment Manager 8.7 now. What will you get for your efforts? Quite a lo...
Sep 21, 2015 2:00:35 PM
The big buzz at last month’s F5’s Agility Conference was all about our collaboration on a next generation networking and security platform called VMware NSX Network Virtualization Platform. Using a holistic approach that vastly simplifies management and provisioning of the SDDC. This also extends...
Sep 25, 2015 3:33:54 PM
This year Partner Exchange is coming to VMworld 2015 Europe! Don’t miss this unique opportunity: register for Partner Exchange on Monday 12th October, the day before VMworld (for which you need to register separately). What can you expect? An event like no other, where the only focus is you, and ...
Sep 23, 2015 4:56:05 PM
Achieve your Software-Defined Storage Solution Competency accreditation by registering and completing this new Virtual SAN: Deploy and Manage 6.0 course. The course is available either as an instructor led or live online three day course. The post Virtual SAN: Deploy & Manage Course – Now Availab...
Sep 23, 2015 3:27:04 PM
With Q4 around the corner, now is a great time to drive demand, increase your customer share of wallet, and customer value with Enterprise mobility. Today, the only thing growing faster than the volume and variety of mobile devices is the expectation of users and lines of business for the impact ...
Sep 22, 2015 8:32:53 PM
You can now login to the Partner Demand Center using your current login information for Partner Central. These changes require you to have a valid Partner Central account. If you do not already have a Partner Central account, please register here . The post Partner Demand Center Single Sign-On En...
Sep 22, 2015 4:09:48 PM
MORE NEWS AND DEVELOPMENTS FROM AROUND THE WEB
In this session we'll dive deep into how the vSphere compute and memory schedulers work to provide the same level of performance as bare metal. Hosted by two outstanding performance engineers, they will review concepts like how and when vSphere schedules vCPUs, how virtual machines are idles, und...
Sep 24, 2015 2:55:00 PM
Many regular readers will know that we do not do read locality in Virtual SAN. For VSAN, it has always been a trade-off of networking vs. storage latency. Let me give you an example. When we deploy a virtual machine with multiple objects (e.g. VMDK), and this VMDK is mirrored across two disks on ...
Sep 24, 2015 1:00:52 PM
This week I had the opportunity to roll-out the HCIbench tool on one of my all-flash VSAN clusters (much kudos to my friends over at Micron for the loan of a bunch of flash devices for our lab). The HCIbench is a tool developed internally at VMware to make the deployment of a benchmark tool for h...
Sep 24, 2015 1:00:08 PM
In this post, I’m going to show you how to use Docker Machine with OpenStack . This is something I’ve been interested in testing for a while, and now that I finally have my test lab back up and running, I was able to spend some time on this. I’ll spend some time later in the post covering my reas...
Sep 24, 2015 12:00:00 AM
This post walks through the process of adding storage capacity to a Linux server using LVM. There’s nothing new, revolutionary, or cutting-edge about this post—honestly, it’s really more for my own reference than anything else. Adding logical volumes is something that I do so infrequently that it...
Sep 24, 2015 12:00:00 AM
The VCS (Windows VC) to VCSA Migration Fling has been out for a little over 6 months and the response from customers thus far has simply been phenomenal. We have also received some great feedback (200+ comments) from customers who have tried out the Fling in either a Dev/Test environment and some...
Sep 23, 2015 6:25:17 PM
Welcome to Technology Short Take #54! In this episode, I’ve gathered an odd collection of links and articles about key data center technologies. Without further ado, let’s get to the content. Networking Not sure if this link belongs in Networking or in Virtualization, but we’ll stick it here sinc...
Sep 23, 2015 4:25:00 PM
Advertise here with BSA There is a lot of material on stretched clusters already out there but somehow it seems that is hasn’t reached everyone yet. Last couple of weeks I spend a lot of time on the phone with different customers in the various countries/regions talking about designing a Virtual ...
Sep 23, 2015 2:43:13 PM
Another of the break-out sessions that I presented at VMworld 2015 in San Francisco on Virtual SAN (VSAN) has been recorded and is now available on the VMworld site. I co-presented “STO6228 Monitoring and Troubleshooting Virtual SAN, Current and Future” with Christian Dickmann of VMware, who did ...
Sep 23, 2015 1:00:17 PM
Working at VMware, I get the opportunity to collaborate with some of the most passionate Engineers, Technologists and Customer Advocates around. In addition to solving hard and technical problems for our customers, my colleagues are also very passionate philanthropists who are always looking for ...
Sep 22, 2015 6:23:11 PM
VMware’s latest 6.0 version of the vSphere Distributed Switch (VDS) provides unparalleled networking features, control mechanisms, and new ways to construct a LAN topology. In this year’s version of one of the highest rated VMworld sessions, you’ll get front row seats to a deep dive on the VDS in...
Sep 22, 2015 1:40:00 PM
The more observant of you may have observed the following entry in the VSAN 6.1 Release Notes : Virtual SAN monitors solid state drive and magnetic disk drive health and proactively isolates unhealthy devices by unmounting them. It detects gradual failure of a Virtual SAN disk and isolates the de...
Sep 22, 2015 1:00:50 PM
Spousetivities returns to VMworld EMEA this year with a new set of activities. If you haven’t registered yet, here’s a quick look at the pretty impressive set of tours and activities that are planned. Montserrat and Wine Country: The famous Monastery of Montserrat, one of the black Madonnas of Eu...
Sep 22, 2015 12:00:00 AM
In vSphere 6.0 Update 1, one of the new features that is available for both the vCenter Server for Windows and vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) is the ability to "repoint" the vCenter Server to a new or existing Platform Services Controller (PSC). The process is pretty straight forward and is nice...
Sep 21, 2015 5:45:15 PM
The recorded videos for the VMworld 2015 US sessions just went live last week and I just started to catch up on some of the sessions that I could not attend. Having only watched a couple of sessions, I was not a fan of the site navigation and the various pop-ups that were required to watch the vi...
Sep 21, 2015 2:04:38 PM
I’m delighted to say that the two sessions that I co-presented at VMworld in San Francisco last month are also going to be delivered at VMworld in Barcelona next month. STO4572 – Successful Virtual SAN Evaluation/Proof-Of-Concepts Tuesday, Oct 13, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM I’ll be co-presenting this se...
Sep 21, 2015 1:00:48 PM
Being in IT doesn’t always mean that you will only be working with routers or switches. With the increased use of Virtualization, you now longer have rows and rows or rack and racks of servers. If you have used something like Virtualbox, you have dealt with virtualization. Using VMware is doing i...
Sep 21, 2015 11:42:00 AM
Since NSX was launched in 2013, we have seen a steady expansion in the use cases that are addressed by network virtualization. Our initial focus was automation and reducing provisioning complexity in public and private clouds, and this continues to be a significant driver of adoption. The last 18...
Sep 21, 2015 11:18:00 AM