FROM THE EDITORS VIRTUAL DESK
Hi everyone, welcome to the latest VMware TAM Source newsletter your weekly guide to all things VMware. There has been a lot of news regarding the Dell and EMC deal which I am certain many of you have been reading including the many interesting articles from Michael Dell himself as well as Joe Tucci from EMC and our own Pat Gelsinger. I encourage you to read these and discuss them with your VMware TAM or representative if you need any further information.
There is still much news from VMworld Europe that continues to be published and I will keep including these into the newsletter for your information.
This week I will also be starting a product focus section. This will be updated regularly and I hope provide you with information on the many VMware solutions we offer.
I hope you enjoy this weeks news, anything you need from VMware give your TAM a call and I am sure that they will be able to help you out.
Have a fantastic week.
Virtually Yours
Neil Isserow
Staff Technical Account Manager, Team Lead
San Francisco, CA
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SOLUTION FOCUS
VMware vRealize Business - http://www.vmware.com/products/vrealize-business
VMware vRealize Business provides transparency and control over the costs and quality of IT services enabling the CIO to align IT with the business and to accelerate IT transformation.
Gain Transparency
Understand the cloud resources and IT services you offer, as well as your costs, quality, users and consumption and see how you perform against peers to identify opportunities for improvement. With this transparency, enhance collaboration with users by providing them access to relevant IT cost data.
Align IT with the Business
Enable IT to meet the business expectations of the LOB relative to the portfolio of available services and their costs, shifting from a technical orientation to a business orientation.
Enable the CIO Transformation Agenda
Enable CIOs to show the value of new IT investments to accelerate business growth. Provides the baseline data necessary to understand ROI and TCO for complex initiatives, including application rationalization, data center consolidation, storage optimization, end-user computing and hybrid cloud services.
Control and Optimize IT Budget
Increase economies of scale, reducing IT unit costs and TCO, by establishing demand management. Improve analysis to drive fact-based vendor management and sourcing decisions around cloud resources and IT services.
NEWS AND DEVELOPMENTS FROM VMWARE
By Alberto Martinez As I visit customers, I have heard similar feedback about vRealize Operations (vROPs) : “I t’s a great product but we are not getting the best out of it. ” The unfortunate reality is that they are probably right! There is often a large gap between the wide range of possibiliti...
Oct 23, 2015 6:50:18 PM
VCP5-DCV Delta Exam Extended Great news! You can now recertify and keep your status as the VCP5-DCV Delta exam has been extended through December 31, 2015 . Two New Design Courses + VMware NSX V6.2 Training Check out this blog to see if the three highly anticipated training courses released in Au...
Oct 23, 2015 3:45:30 PM
Our new two-day VMware Site Recovery Manager: Install, Configure, Manage [V6.1] training course is designed for experienced vSphere administrators, architects, system engineers, and systems integrators who are responsible for deploying VMware Site Recovery Manager. You’ll gain the knowledge neede...
Oct 22, 2015 3:03:01 PM
By Peter van den Bosch In IT there have been a lot of changes in the last couple of years. Technical changes, for example, moving from legacy solutions to cloud-based solutions in all its different implementations: Software-defined compute, storage and network solutions where VMware is a ma...
Oct 20, 2015 6:23:00 PM
VMware is sponsoring Oracle Open World in San Francisco at the Mosconi Center starting Oct 26th. The following collateral will be of interest to all those attending OOW as well as any 2015-16 Oracle conference who are interested in VMware: VMware Business Critical Applications website – Oracle Se...
Oct 20, 2015 5:57:49 PM
I’ve been fielding some questions lately about the VMware Certified Professional (VCP) recertification policy from a lot of VCDX’s like myself that have been receiving emails. I can tell you I pretty much ignored them as they came in because the reality is, it does not affect your VCDX certificat...
Oct 20, 2015 4:20:55 PM
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Oct 20, 2015 1:00:18 PM
Sometimes, it can be difficult to stay up-to-date with the latest tech news. Knowing that, we’ve made it easy for you to get caught up on all things VMware vCloud. From vTech Talks to expert-led demos, here’s the past week in review: vCloud Air vTech Talk: An Inside Look at vCloud Air Connector 2...
Oct 24, 2015 4:00:13 PM
VMware Integrated OpenStack is the fastest and most reliable way to run OpenStack and works better with VMware than any other technology. The VMware-centric approach is highly-efficient and time-saving. For a production-ready, highly-available configuration of OpenStack implemented manually, the ...
Oct 24, 2015 12:01:39 PM
That’s a wrap! VMworld Europe brought exciting announcements, inspiring sessions and unforgettable performances. Whether you want to relive the fun, or get caught up on all the action, check out a recap of our favorite moments below. vCloud Air Announcements: VMware announced several new capabili...
Oct 23, 2015 6:27:51 PM
Who saw it coming that segmentation would be a popular term in 2015?!? Gartner analyst Greg Young was almost apologetic when he kicked off the Network Segmentation Best Practices session at the last Gartner Security Summit. As a professional with a long history in the enterprise firewall space, I...
Oct 23, 2015 2:00:25 PM
A common use case for vRealize Automation API integrations is around provisioning and managing resources through the self-service catalog. While this is something that has long been supported in the product, it hasn’t always been as intuitive to achieve as it could be — until now. The vRealize Au...
Oct 23, 2015 1:27:55 PM
by Rich Bourdeau On October 13th VMware announced the latest version of its market leading cloud automation software. This latest version delivers simplified usability from initial configuration through service design including enhancements that make it even easier to integrate with your existing...
Oct 22, 2015 5:55:06 PM
The VMware vCloud Air Network is a large ecosystem of service providers offering validated cloud services built on VMware technology. With the vCloud Air Network, customers bet better security and compliance, better choice and flexibility and better breadth and depth of the applications and servi...
Oct 22, 2015 4:00:06 PM
In a previous blog, we began our series on getting started with cloud-based disaster recovery. In this post, we will feature the rest of the video tutorial series that provides more detail on setting up, configuring, and using vCloud Air Disaster Recovery. In these video tutorials, Senior Technic...
Oct 21, 2015 4:00:31 PM
One of the challenges in creating hybrid cloud is stitching different infrastructure fabrics into a unified infrastructure platform. The other challenge is achieving automation at infrastructure level as well as at application level. IBM and VMware have joined forces to address these challenges i...
Oct 20, 2015 7:42:13 PM
In this episode of vCloud Air vTech Talk, our series highlighting tips, tricks and resources for all thing vCloud Air, George Kobar, Senior Technical Marketing Manager for vCloud Air, explains the new enhancements to VMware vCloud® Air™ Connector 2.7. vCloud Connector is a free VMware tool allowi...
Oct 20, 2015 4:10:43 PM
By Travis Wood Last year the VCDX-DTM track was released and Simon Long, Ray Heffer and myself became the first to be certified in this new certification. Since then I have sat on several panels and fielded a lot of questions specific to the desktop certification track, so I wanted to answer so...
Oct 20, 2015 3:55:35 PM
Hi Everyone! For the month of October, we’ve released improvements around files and integrations*. We also have another version of the Android App available for the download, and an iOS App release coming out shortly. Check it out below: 1. List View for Files Based on overwhelming feedback, we’r...
Oct 23, 2015 5:54:10 PM
Just in time for Halloween, the big mobile news this week was all about cyber security and its impact on the enterprise. 10 things you need to know… October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month (say that five times fast), and we’ve boiled its impact down to the 10 things every enterprise ne...
Oct 23, 2015 4:31:57 PM
“Our business is based on patents and innovation, and ensuring the security of our intellectual property is always on top of our agenda.” —Wojciech Kulpa, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) With such pressing business requirements on large organizations operating in the highly regulated healthcare industry, c...
Oct 22, 2015 1:48:00 PM
Mobile security is in its infancy, yet this universal threat is one of the most dynamic, rapidly changing concerns in the modern connected enterprise. Understanding where we came from is important to knowing where mobile security is going in the future. In an exclusive webinar, guest leading mobi...
Oct 21, 2015 5:32:32 PM
This is part 7 of a 12-part series on building a successful enterprise social network (ESN). These 12 tips are ones I promote as vital to the success of the ESN I’ve managed for Humana the past 5+ years, and I believe they have applicability to other organizations as well, large and small. Here’s...
Oct 20, 2015 9:54:57 PM
“Stop. Think. Connect.” President Barack Obama designated October as National Cyber Security Awareness Month in an effort to educate U.S. citizens and businesses on the growing threat of cyber crime. According to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) website, tens of millions of Americans int...
Oct 20, 2015 4:17:07 PM
Watch and share this video as SFS Intek, a global manufacturer, describes the benefits of building a private cloud with VMware and Hitachi Data Systems. The fully-automated and integrated converged solution lets them provision virtual resources in just 2 hours—instead of 2 days. The post Your Cus...
Oct 24, 2015 3:00:17 PM
Replay this vmLIVE to find out how VDI solutions, featuring VMware Horizon and NVIDIA GRID vGPU on the new HP ConvergedSystem 700, allows customers in graphics-intensive industries to provide a true PC experience on any device. The post Learn More About VDI Solutions on HP ConvergedSystem 700 for...
Oct 23, 2015 2:46:37 PM
Now VMware customers can now easily find the Web Client Plug-ins that partners have developed for vCenter in the VMware Solution Exchange (VSX).This new section of the VSX, where partners can post their Web Client Plug-ins, is located within the Cloud Marketplace. Take a look at how other partner...
Oct 22, 2015 6:08:29 PM
Watch these video clip sessions to get an overview of the strategic direction of our company, products, and solutions. Understanding our vision will help you to address how together we can help your customers with their strategic initiatives. Plus, if you earn the VMware SIO Achievement badge, yo...
Oct 22, 2015 5:18:04 PM
SAP HANA customers can significantly reduce provisioning time and costs by virtualizing with VMware on Hitachi Data Systems Unified Compute Platform (UCP). Read and share this Infosys case study. The post Reduce Costs and Provisioning Times with VMware Virtualized SAP HANA on HDS UCP appeared fir...
Oct 21, 2015 7:51:26 PM
Start using these new programs today. The Hybrid Purchasing Program allows customers to purchase credits that can be redeemed for both licenses and subscription services. The Subscriptions Purchasing Program now offers Subscription Purchasing Program-Monthly in addition to SPP-Prepaid. The post P...
Oct 20, 2015 4:32:23 PM
The product now features a new set of enterprise-level capabilities that can enable users to move applications at scale between sites without any downtime or data loss – making it the industry-leading solution to enable application availability and mobility in private cloud environments. Read thi...
Oct 19, 2015 6:18:29 PM
MORE NEWS AND DEVELOPMENTS FROM AROUND THE WEB
I just wanted to give everyone a quick heads up that version 3 of the awesome Embedded Host Client Fling has just been released! In addition to all the new features and bug fixes which you can find more details below, there is now also an offline bundle for ESXi 5.x as well as ESXi 6.x […]
Oct 23, 2015 5:43:27 PM
A couple of weeks back I had spent some time setting up several VSAN Stretched Clusters in my lab for some testing and although it was extremely easy to setup using the vSphere Web Client, I still prefer to stand up the environment completely automated In looking to automate the VSAN Stretched Cl...
Oct 23, 2015 5:30:26 PM
It’s been a busy two weeks since the Dell/EMC announcement on Monday last week - hundreds of phone calls, two town halls with all the EMC SEs, VMworld Barcelona starting the day after the announcement, and then to Singapore for time with APJ VMware and EMC teams, then to Chicago for time with mor...
Oct 23, 2015 11:03:20 AM
While I’m not at Dell World 2015 (travelling all around the globe - busy!!) we do have a couple EMCers (Brian Carpenter - @intheDC, and Brent Piatti - @BrentPiatti) there, and they’ve been blogging on their experience. They cover the subjective (culture, feeling), innovation (including the DSS, F...
Oct 23, 2015 9:59:23 AM
Welcome to Technology Short Take #55! Here’s hoping I’ve managed to find something of value and interest to you in this latest collection of links and articles from around the web on networking, storage, virtualization, security, and other data center-related technologies. Enjoy! Networking I rec...
Oct 22, 2015 4:30:00 PM
For customers who are running Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks) or newer in a Virtual Machine, you may have noticed that you can no longer set a custom display resolution beyond the default 1024x768 in either VMware Fusion and vSphere, regardless of the amount of video memory that has been allocated. The...
Oct 22, 2015 4:18:53 PM
Advertise here with BSA I am doing some simple tests at home and I am running the vCenter Server Appliance 6.0 in Fusion. In order to get it working there are a couple of tricks I have to perform, I find myself resorting to the same blogs over and over again so I figured I would just put it all o...
Oct 22, 2015 2:05:25 PM
Whew, it’s been an interesting couple of weeks! I’ve migrated off my longtime hosting provider, A Small Orange, due to site traffic increases (a good problem to have, but one that needed to be addressed) and am now over at WebSynthesis. Kudos to the Fantasktic folks for making that a relatively s...
Oct 22, 2015 11:02:51 AM
In this post I’ll share a few commands I found for adding a network interface to an OpenStack instance after launching the instance. You could, of course, simply launch the instance with multiple network interfaces from the very beginning, but these commands are handy in case you messed up or in ...
Oct 21, 2015 6:30:00 PM
This is something I’ve had the pleasure of organizing at VMworld over the last couple of years, and I’d like to start doing it at the OpenStack Summits as well. So, next week in Tokyo, I’d like to offer Christians attending the Summit the opportunity to gather together for a brief time of prayer ...
Oct 21, 2015 4:30:00 PM
A number of customers have experienced some issues with getting the Virtual SAN (VSAN) health check to work correctly in their environments. The most common issues have been permissions and certificates. In this post, I want to highlight these issues and any associated KB articles, and call out t...
Oct 21, 2015 2:15:36 PM
Advertise here with BSA Last week at VMworld when presenting on Virtual SAN Stretched Clusters someone asked me if it was possible to “disable the fail-over of VMs during a full site failure while allowing a restart during a host failure”. I thought about it and said “no, that is not possible tod...
Oct 21, 2015 11:01:59 AM
Regular readers of this site know that my wife, Crystal, organizes spouse activities (aka “Spousetivities”, like the combination of “spouse” and “activities”) at conferences. This year she’s adding activities in Tokyo, Japan, in conjunction with the Fall OpenStack Summit! Here’s a quick look at w...
Oct 20, 2015 4:00:00 PM
We did it again, 40 videos is just 4 days. This is a picture of the VMworld TV team who really did their utmost at the VMworld 2015 in Barcelona. I would like to thank the editors and camera guys for their hard work (day and night) and especially my co-host Jeremy van Doorn . Also thanks go out t...
Oct 20, 2015 10:55:00 AM
This video shows how to use vSphere Integrated Containers to run Docker with MSDOS running the original DOS version of Prince of Persia.
Oct 19, 2015 11:23:00 AM
Prior to vSphere 6.0, in order for multiple Virtual Machines to share a VMFS-backed VMDK, the Multiwriter VMDK flag must be enabled, which is accomplished by adding a specific VM Advanced Setting as shown in this VMware KB 1034165. For customers who were accustomed to this old method, you may hav...
Oct 19, 2015 7:51:03 AM