FROM THE EDITORS VIRTUAL DESK
Hi everyone, this week we are featuring the VMware User Group (VMUG). We have included a VMUG update section periodically over the past 7+ years of the newsletter and this is always one of our favorite sections. With VMworld Barcelona almost upon us our VMUG update this week is focused on happenings at this event. If you are heading to VMworld don't forget to visit the VMUG website for details on their events and keep checking our newsletter for more information on VMUG and VMworld.
I wish you a fantastic week.
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VMware TAM Team
TAM TWEETS OF THE WEEK (Editor: Daniel Mizrahi)
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Move a virtual machine to a given destination http://dlvr.it/MQX2N0
TAM BLOG (Editor: Kelly Dare)
VMUG UPDATE
Over 2100 VMUG members will be in attendance at VMworld Europe. Be sure to stop the VMUG Booth #V109 in the Solutions Exchange, is a great place to connect with the peers, play some games and enter to win prizes. Learn about VMUG Advantage exclusive access to 365-evaluation of VMware products.
The VMUG Member Party will be held at Club Catwalk, Roof Top Bar. The doors open at 20:00, come by at kick off the week with the VMUG community. It’s sure to be a fun evening with food, drinks, music and exciting entertainment. Register now
Stay up-to-date with all VMUG activities at VMworld with #RockOutVMUG. Please contact us at memberservices@vmug.com if you have any questions.
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NEWS AND DEVELOPMENTS FROM VMWARE
GENERAL NEWS
Big Data Performance and Best Practices: New Spark Application Measurements
The Performance Engineering team at VMware has produced another highly useful report and blog on best practice/performance work they have done in the Big Data area. This new report contains test result data from benchmark tests conducted using Spark-based as well as MapReduce applications. The re...
Oct 7, 2016 9:09:01 PM
They’re Back! Education Lounge Sessions at VMworld 2016 Europe
VMworld 2016 Europe is less than two weeks away! We wanted to make sure you knew about the learning opportunities available from the VMware Education Services team. We have four great VMworld Education Breakout Sessions planned on topics including vSphere and Horizon troubleshooting. And back by ...
Oct 7, 2016 12:31:34 PM
Students: Learn about Clouds and Win a Certification Exam Voucher!
The Academy Cloud Challenge is a fun activity where you accumulate “CloudCred” points by completing tasks, compete with other players, and earn a badge while learning about cloud computing. The Challenge runs through 30 November, 2016 and is open to post-secondary education students exploring or ...
Oct 6, 2016 4:21:02 PM
One of the things that make DRS so elegant is that is so simple to configure. There are not many knobs that an administrator needs to turn when enabling DRS, and for a majority of environments the default settings do not need to be changed. For other environments changing the DRS migration thresh...
Oct 6, 2016 9:15:20 AM
Tips and tricks on Ruby vSphere Console (RVC) for managing a Virtual SAN environment
In this latest KBTV Webinar you will learn some great tips and tricks you can use in Ruby vSphere Console (RVC) for managing a Virtual SAN environment. Covered in this video demonstration are various commands that can be used within Ruby vSphere Console (RVC), including: “vsan.disks_stats” Useful...
Oct 5, 2016 5:10:56 PM
Answering Questions About Certification Inheritance
There have been questions regarding our “inheritance” policy – if candidates who earn a second VCAP in a different technology track would “inherit” the VCP in that same track automatically. We wanted to explain our policy and how we arrived at it to give you some insight into the program. We met ...
Oct 5, 2016 4:13:12 PM
Top 20 vSAN articles for September 2016
Here is our Top 20 vSAN articles list for September 2016. This list is ranked by the number of times a VMware Support Request was resolved by following the steps in a published Knowledge Base article. Troubleshooting VSAN SSD congestion on vSphere 5.5 VSAN 6.2 hybrid disk group performance degrad...
Oct 5, 2016 4:06:21 PM
Top 20 vRealize Operations Manager articles for September 2016
Here is our Top 20 vRealize Operations Manager articles list for September 2016. This list is ranked by the number of times a VMware Support Request was resolved by following the steps in a published Knowledge Base article. Optimization of vRealize Operations Manager generated capacity planning m...
Oct 5, 2016 3:52:32 PM
Top 20 vRealize Automation articles for September 2016
Here is our Top 20 vRealize Automation (vRA) articles list for September 2016. This list is ranked by the number of times a VMware Support Request was resolved by following the steps in a published Knowledge Base article. Deleting an endpoint in vRealize Automation fails with the error: This endp...
Oct 5, 2016 2:50:59 PM
Top 20 vCenter Server articles for September 2016
Here is our Top 20 vCenter articles list for September 2016. This list is ranked by the number of times a VMware Support Request was resolved by following the steps in a published Knowledge Base article. Licensing VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager Resetting the VMware vCenter Server 5.x Invent...
Oct 5, 2016 2:37:27 PM
Top 20 NSX articles for September 2016
Here is our Top 20 NSX articles list for September 2016. This list is ranked by the number of times a VMware Support Request was resolved by following the steps in a published Knowledge Base article. Split-brain scenario on NSX/vShield Edge configured for High Availability (HA) Windows virtual ma...
Oct 5, 2016 2:26:27 PM
Discounted VCP7-DTM Beta Exam for a Limited Time
We need experienced and qualified people to participate and provide feedback on the new VMware Certified Professional 7 – Desktop and Mobility (VCP7-DTM) Beta Exam that is now available. There are so many reasons to be among the first to take the new VCP7-DTM Beta Exam! Get certified* on the new ...
Oct 4, 2016 6:30:36 PM
VMworld 2016 Barcelona: Breakout Sessions You Shouldn’t Miss
Download a handy guide. Learn from the Experienced VMware Advisory and Operations Transformation Teams at VMworld 2016 Barcelona VMworld 2016 Barcelona kicks off in less than two weeks on October 17th. Our Operations Transformation Services and Advisory Services teams will be there to extend thei...
Oct 4, 2016 5:49:10 PM
Building vSphere Plugins with the HTML Client SDK Fling
“If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.” — Lewis Carroll But… if you know you are heading toward the new HTML-based vSphere Client and you want to develop a plugin that is compatible with it, then the road you take is the new HTML Client SDK Fling! On August 3, 20...
Oct 3, 2016 11:45:38 PM
A Proactive Approach to Avoiding Chaos in the Data Center
The fast pace of today’s business environment means IT has to provide resources on-demand, quickly push new applications and updates, while still delivering on security, reliability, governance, and savings. Adding private, public, and hybrid clouds to the mix just increases the potential for cha...
Oct 3, 2016 2:52:15 PM
Top 20 Horizon View articles for September 2016
Here is our Top 20 Horizon View articles list for September 2016. This list is ranked by the number of times a VMware Support Request was resolved by following the steps in a published Knowledge Base article. Cannot detach a Persistent Disk in VMware View Manager 4.5 and later Provisioning View...
Oct 3, 2016 1:58:48 PM
Top 20 ESXi articles for September 2016
Here is our Top 20 ESXi articles list for September 2016. This list is ranked by the number of times a VMware Support Request was resolved by following the steps in a published Knowledge Base article. Recreating a missing virtual machine disk descriptor file Troubleshooting an ESXi/ESX host in no...
Oct 3, 2016 1:48:21 PM
Keeping busy business professionals productive is just one of the many reasons that savvy IT pros like you design data centers that provide a reliable, always-on user experience. But scaling up to meet seasonal demand, global expansion or an influx of new users can be an expensive, time-consuming...
Oct 7, 2016 4:58:41 PM
VMware Security Advisory VMSA-2016-0015
Greetings from the VMware Security Response Center! Today we released VMSA-2016-0015 which documents an Important severity issue in VMware Horizon View. During internal discussions the most common question I have been asked about CVE-2016-7087 is why the issue has been classified as Important rat...
Oct 7, 2016 2:28:04 PM
vCloud Air Network at VMworld Europe 2016 – Know Before You Go
With another successful VMworld US and VMware Partner Exchange in the books, the vCloud Air Network team is headed to Barcelona, Spain for VMworld Europe 2016 – held at the Fira Gran Via from 17-20 October. Things to know about before you go: VMware Partner Exchange @ VMworld Europe On Monday, 17...
Oct 6, 2016 5:00:06 PM
Machine Learning on VMware vSphere 6 with NVIDIA GPUs
by Uday Kurkure , Lan Vu , and Hari Sivaraman Machine learning is an exciting area of technology that allows computers to behave without being explicitly programmed, that is, in the way a person might learn. This tech is increasingly applied in many areas like health science, finance, and intelli...
Oct 6, 2016 3:43:15 PM
VMware Validated Design for SDDC 3.0 – Now Available!
By Jonathan McDonald I mentioned all the fun details on the VMware Validated Design in my previous blog post. I am happy to report that we have just released the next revision of it, version 3.0. This takes what everyone already knew and loved about the previous version—and made it better! In cas...
Oct 6, 2016 2:40:45 PM
VMware vForum Live is Coming to Toronto on 11/9 & Houston on 11/17!
Attention IT professionals – want to discover the benefits of network virtualization, mobility, and cloud? You can at VMware vForum Live! Join our experts in-person for an interactive, all-day event that will take you through technical deep dives of VMware solutions. Sign up today for vForum Live...
Oct 6, 2016 2:00:35 PM
Can’t make it to VMware vForum Live Near You? Tune in to vForum Online Nov 3rd!
We get it, you can’t make it to a vForum Live in your town, but you still wish you could tap into the latest technical deep dives through VMware solutions across the hybrid cloud, software-defined data center, and end user computing. vForum Online makes that possible! In total, vForum online offe...
Oct 5, 2016 4:00:35 PM
Your Enterprise VMs Are in the Cloud: Now What?
By Gary Chen, Research Manager, Cloud and Virtualization System Software, IDC In the last post , we looked at the initial issues around getting existing VMs converted and transferred to a public cloud. Now that the VMs have been successfully moved to the cloud, what other issues do customers enco...
Oct 4, 2016 4:00:43 PM
Moving Enterprise VMs to the Cloud
By Gary Chen, Research Manager, Cloud and Virtualization System Software, IDC Virtual machines (VMs) are the most common way of consuming Infrastructure-as-a-Service. Some VMs are born on the cloud, as in they are designed from day one to be operated in a cloud environment. But there is a huge ba...
Oct 3, 2016 4:23:49 PM
Automated Deployments of vRealize Automation for vCloud Air Network
In the previous blog post “ Leveraging vRealize CloudClient with vRealize Automation deployments for vCAN ”, we explored the use of VMware vRealize ® CloudClient for the automated configuration of VMware vRealize Automation™ on a per-tenant basis to speed up the deployment of per-tenant instances...
Oct 3, 2016 4:10:59 PM
END USER COMPUTING
Top Mobile News This Week: BI, Smart Glasses at Work, Augmented Reality & MORE!
Connect Atlanta 2016 was huge—the biggest ever—with more than 1,800 attendees across a range of industries and business sizes. The show was packed with education, networking and, of course, big announcements from the VMware AirWatch team. Here’s a top mobile news wrap up of the top 10 announcemen...
Oct 7, 2016 2:22:02 PM
5 Connect Atlanta Attendees Share Their Big Takeaways
We’ve talked a lot this week at Connect Atlanta about what we learned and what excited us most. Now, what did you , Connect attendees, get out of this year’s enterprise mobility event? Take a look at these mini interviews from our woman on the ground at Connect and head of social media, Chelsea C...
Oct 6, 2016 2:20:45 PM
Hack Away with VMware’s Little IoT Agent (Liota) at ELCE in Berlin
Talk about the Internet of Things (IoT) is everywhere! VMware is taking on IoT, and we invite you to join us on this journey. WHAT: VMware is hosting a hackathon around our Little IoT Agent, Liota. Our goal is to introduce developers to the capabilities of the library, to have some fun and to spa...
Oct 6, 2016 2:12:50 PM
Windows 10 Optimization Test Results for View Desktops in VMware Horizon 7
Written in conjunction with Gary Sloane, Consulting Editor, VMware If you have been thinking of upgrading your virtual desktop environment from Windows 7 to Windows 10—or if you have a need for optimization, or further optimization—you should definitely take a look at Windows 10 Optimization Test...
Oct 5, 2016 9:02:46 PM
10 Things We Learned Today at Connect Atlanta
Gargantuan disruption on the way, new analytics technology, working with smart glasses—here are today’s top 10 takeaways from Connect Atlanta . 1. Swift, Sweeping Change Coming We are entering into the fourth industrial revolution, said Noah Wasmer today, head of mobile products at VMware AirWatc...
Oct 5, 2016 8:12:20 PM
Must-Watch Video: 3 Questions with David Pogue & Sanjay Poonen
At Connect Atlanta 2016 this week, we had the opportunity to watch Yahoo Tech founder David Pogue sit down with VMware’s Sanjay Poonen. Great news for us all: we caught this powerful moment on camera. In this must-watch video for all end-user computing enthusiasts, David and Sanjay talk about how...
Oct 5, 2016 7:44:06 PM
Getting Familiar with Windows Unified Endpoint Management
Greetings from the largest Connect ever! If you have been following us since VMworld in Vegas and Microsoft Ignite in Atlanta, you heard us talk about our new Windows unified endpoint management (UEM) capabilities. At the Connect Atlanta keynote address, Blake Brannon—VMware End-User Computing (E...
Oct 5, 2016 4:00:07 PM
Big Reveal: VMware’s Vision for AirWatch Analytics & Business Intelligence
What if you could intelligently analyze your company’s entire usage history of an enterprise app? What if you could understand which rugged devices or apps in your warehouse use the most battery and optimize replacements accordingly? What if you could analyze the time your top performing students...
Oct 5, 2016 11:58:12 AM
My Top 10 Mobile Moments So Far at Connect Atlanta
It’s the official opening day of our fifth Connect Atlanta , and I am delighted to finally reveal the many product updates we’ve been working hard to perfect at VMware AirWatch . Here are my top 10 favorite moments so far at Connect. 1. First, I had the pleasure and the honor of kicking off this ...
Oct 4, 2016 6:48:33 PM
AppConfig Community Adds New EMMs to Help Accelerate Business Apps Adoption
When we made the official announcement at Mobile World Congress in February, the AppConfig Community stood at around 60 ISV partners and four major enterprise mobility management (EMM) providers, including: IBM MaaS 360 JAMF Software MobileIron VMware AirWatch Today at Connect Atlanta 2016, the A...
Oct 4, 2016 4:39:23 PM
5 Major Announcements out of Connect Atlanta 2016
UEM, IoT, AR, BYOD, EMM—read about all of the innovations and buzzy acronyms coming out of VMware’s huge end-user computing event. Connect Atlanta 2016, one of the biggest annual events in enterprise mobility from VMware AirWatch , is underway. Today was packed with announcements, breaking news a...
Oct 4, 2016 1:26:51 PM
Monumental AirWatch 9.0 & Workspace ONE Updates Bring the Digital Workspace to Life
Connect Atlanta always serves as the launch pad for new innovations in the world of business mobility. 2016 is no different. In fact, this might be our most memorable Connect ever. Today at Connect Atlanta 2016, we revealed so many new updates and features that I’m floored by the work our R&D tea...
Oct 4, 2016 12:01:00 PM
VMware Offers Safe Passage to BlackBerry Good for Enterprise Customers
VMware today announced an expansion of our Safe Passage Program to Good for Enterprise organizations. This program helps you perform due diligence and plan your migration. We also announced a mobile device management (MDM) migration tool and service to help IT migrate from Good for Enterprise to ...
Oct 4, 2016 12:00:37 PM
Smart Glasses at Work: AirWatch Unified Endpoint Management Now Supports Wearables
Smart glasses and augmented reality (AR) have tremendous potential in the enterprise. Forrester projects that 14.4 million users will use smart glasses in their jobs by 2025. Within that time, organizations would have spent $30 billion on hardware. This revolution is happening today. Early adopte...
Oct 4, 2016 12:00:28 PM
New MDM Migration Tool Automates Transition from Legacy Vendors to AirWatch EMM
Migrating from legacy mobile device management (MDM) to enterprise mobility management (EMM) is a painful process. Often that pain blocks IT from moving to a desired, next-gen EMM platform. To help IT get the EMM tools they need without the hassle, VMware today announced a new automated MDM migra...
Oct 4, 2016 12:00:00 PM
Top 10 Takeaways on Industry Day at Connect Atlanta 2016
Mobile devices and apps fundamentally changed the way we consume services across every industry: retail, healthcare, education, aviation, financial services and even government. For IT, this means “we have to think differently,” said Sumit Dhawan, senior vice president for VMware End-User Computi...
Oct 3, 2016 8:15:29 PM
Did you know… VMware Fusion is a fantastic tool to have in your toolbox if you’re an IT Professional. Why’s that you ask? Take a look at this video and find out… The post Fusion for IT appeared first on VMware Fusion Blog .
Oct 3, 2016 6:49:00 PM
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