VMware Newsletter 5.25

FROM THE EDITORS VIRTUAL DESK

Hi everyone, after such a hectic and exciting week last week this week has been rather more relaxing with a day off on Wednesday as a bit of a treat. I have been making some inroads on my learning path for VCP-DT and hope to have a lab running next week or so, watch this space. I have tried to expand the newsletter a bit more so even articles more related to VMware technology are being included,

His week I again have a guest post on security which really has become news for everyone with all the goings on in the spying world. Keeping our data and personal details safe and secure has become an important task. Read on for some further interesting information.

Have a great week.

Kind Regards

Neil Isserow

VMware Technical Account Manager and Newsletter Editor

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Utilising untapped resources to increase security

Customers have often been so focused on virtualising their server infrastructure that they have overlooked the other modules that are available to them.

Virtualising Security

Security for virtual environments needs to be adaptive and dynamic. This means that we need to promote employing products like vShield Endpoint so that we can offload Anti-Virus and Anti-Malware onto a dedicated virtual appliance, which increases security to the host and performance to the VM's.

The vShield Endpoint module is one module that is often overlooked by organisations because they think that their physical security appliances are performing the security role. It is also part of vSphere 5.1, so it can form part of any security strategy.

The best practise for securing the virtual environment is to have the security policy follow theapplication that needs protection. vShield App is designed to do just this function and will follow the application as it moves from host to host or cloud to host.

For more information, Contact your TAM or account rep.

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VMware Virtualization Management Blog: vCenter Operations Management Tech Tips: Tip #3 – Managing Attribute Packages and Setting KPIsHi folks, Here is the third post in the series – vCenter Operations Management Tech Tips. In this series, we will have short, bite-sized, under 5-minute videos for you with Tech Tips for vCenter Operations Management Suite, providing you useful technical information, and do that quickly and succinctly. In the last two posts, we gave you Tech Tip #1, which was focused on Creating Applications for vCenter Operations Manager – Advanced and Enterprise editions , and Tech Tip #2, which discussed the…

VMware vCloud Blog: Live Stream: Technical Deep-Dive into the New vCloud Hybrid ServiceOn July 16th at 11am PT, we’ll be live streaming the VMware vCloud Hybrid Service Google+ Hangout right here. Bookmark this page and stay tuned for a discussion you won’t want to miss! Have a specific vCloud Hybrid Service question you want answered? Tweet us at @vCloud with your questions using the hashtag #VMwareHybrid by Friday, July 12th, and we’ll select a few questions for Mathew and the panel to answer during the Google+ Hangout. For future updates, follow @vCloud on Twitter, and join the…

VMware for Small-Medium Business Blog: Watch How Acorda Therapeutics Cuts Disaster Recovery Costs by More Than Half!Post by Brandon Sweeney, Vice President U.S. Mid-Market Businesses Many businesses understand the importance of disaster preparedness in case of catastrophe, but few have achieved the level of preparedness and efficiency like Acorda Therapeutics. A mid-market biotech company specializing in neurological solutions, the company focused resources mostly on research and development in their earlier years. But in 2010, they realized they had a potentially ground-breaking solution for multiple sclerosis…

VMware Education & Certification Blog: Free Book Excerpt: VCDX Boot CampOur friends at VMware Press have made another book excerpt available, this time from the new VCDX Boot Camp: Preparing for the VCDX Panel Defense . The proficiency displayed in the application package determines whether a candidate is offered the opportunity to defend. Words and diagrams poured into the design are the first impression made to prospective panelists and the element that you have the most control over. Most critical is the architecture design document, the keystone piece that drives the other…

VMware vCloud Blog: Best VMware vCloud Sessions of VMworld 2013By David Davis The excitement of VMworld 2013 is building! In case you didn’t know, registration is open and the VMworld 2013 content catalog is now available . I’m registered and have started exploring the content catalog so that I know what sessions to register for as soon as the schedule builder is available. Undoubtedly, some of the most exciting sessions there will be around the VMware vCloud products. With the recent webinar about VMware’s upcoming vCloud Hybrid Service (vCHS) and more…

VMware Support Insider: Building a driver library in VMware Horizon MirageHere’s a guest post by Robert Tindall who explains the process one would go through to build a driver Library in Horizon Mirage. This is commonly done when working with Horizon Mirage Base Layers, Restores, and Reverting to snapshots. the following guides you through the process of extracting drivers from the manufacture and gives examples of how you can logically structure your device drivers folders for that manufacture, Model, OS Type etc. To add a driver to your driver library, we suggest you…

VMware End User Computing: VMware Horizon View 5.2 Feature Pack 2by Tony Hyunh, Product Management, End-User Computing Today, VMware is excited to announce that VMware® Horizon View™ 5.2 Feature Pack 2 is generally available. With this latest feature pack, customers have access to a comprehensive set of new features that enable new rich-media use cases. The two new features being introduced in Feature Pack 2 are “Real-Time Audio-Video” and “Flash URL Redirection” for live webcast video. Real-Time Audio-Video The “Real-Time Audio-Video” feature is a…

VMTN Blog: VMware Communities Roundtable Podcast 238 – IT Zombie Apocalypse, vCHS, vCloud Architecture Toolkit bookHosts John Mark Troyer, VMware @jtroyer Mike Gordon Laverick, VMware @mike_laverick Guests John Arrasjid, VMware @vcdx001 Dave Hill, VMware @davehill99 Chris Colotti, VMware @ccolotti News Don’t miss VMworld 2013 (10th annual) VMworld Content Catalog VMware Certification Exams 75% off During VMworld VMware Technical Journal, Summer 2013 VMworld Hotel & Travel Around the Community vBrownbag Podcast VMUG Local Meetings – Check it today! AdaptingIT – Lauren Malhoit Podcast Virtualization…

VMware End User Computing: Real-Time Audio-Video (RTAV) for Horizon ViewBy Peter Brown, Senior R&D Manager, and Tarique Chowdhury, Software Engineer Webcam support in VMware Horizon View is a feature that has frequently been requested. It is therefore with great pleasure that we are able to bring you Real-Time Audio-Video functionality. This functionality enables the support of webcams and audio-in and audio-out in Horizon View, without the need to use USB redirection. Analog audio-in devices are also supported! This blog gives a quick overview of the Real-Time…

VMware Education & Certification Blog: ViewPoint MagazineEducation ViewPoint Magazine mailer released, detailing VMworld promotions, new instructional videos and courses, pre-announcing the new self-paced offering of On Demand Classroom, and more! … check it out here.

VMware Virtualization Management Blog: VMware vCenter Log Insight – Now Available!We are excited to share that VMware vCenter Log Insight has reached general availability! This announcement was made earlier today by Rob Smoot, Senior Director, Cloud Management Marketing at VMware. In his blog post , Rob shared the differentiated benefits of vCenter Log Insight, and discussed how IT organizations can gain meaningful insights in real-time from the log data produced by all tiers of their IT infrastructure and applications. He shared details about vCenter Log Insight pricing, as well as…

VMware Education & Certification Blog: Two Special Cloud Offers for Asia PacificCertification builds the skills and experience you need to design, operate, and evolve your cloud environment. Now, if you register before Aug 30, 2013, you will receive (1) free exam preparation workshop and (2) a Free Exam Voucher. A pplicable to Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. See offer details . Learn to deliver secure desktop services from your cloud by completing a VMware course before Sept 21, 2013 and receive a…

VMTN Blog: VMware Communities Roundtable Podcast – Show Notes 237 – Horizon MobileHosts John Mark Troyer, VMware @jtroyer Mike Gordon Laverick, VMware @mike_laverick Guests Srinivas Krishnamurti, VMware News Don’t miss VMworld 2013 (10th annual) VMworld Content Catalog VMware Certification Exams 75% off During VMworld VMware Technical Journal, Summer 2013 Around the Community vBrownbag Podcast VMUG Local Meetings – Check it today! AdaptingIT – Lauren Malhoit Podcast Virtualization Security Roundtable vCatchup Podcast – Craig Waters Stu McHugh’s Virtualisation Blog –…

VMware vCloud Blog: VMworld Attendees: Join vCloud Jump Start!You know that the vCloud Hybrid Service combines power with ease of use. You know that vCHS delivers the apps you need, when and where you need them. But do you know the ins and outs of the fastest path to cloud? For all you vSphere Administrators who are looking to become vCloud Hybrid Service experts, the vCloud Jump Start program is for you! A series of 5 informational sessions, the vCloud Jump Start program is designed to help you become an expert in using the vCloud Hybrid Service and learn how to…

VMware Support Insider: Installing VMware Tools in a Mac OS GuestGreetings KBTV fans! We have a new video today which will be of specific interest to any of our VMware Fusion users. In today’s video we discuss and demonstrate installing VMware Tools in a Mac OS guest operating system which is running inside of a VMware Fusion virtual machine. Mac OS Guests are only supported on Apple computers. You do not need a CD to install VMware Tools. The VMware Tools installer is embedded within the VMware Fusion application itself. For more information, see VMware Knowledge…

VMware for Small-Medium Business Blog: New Smart Bundle Solutions From HP and VMware Keep Virtualization Simple and AffordableVirtualization has been around long enough to be considered a “mature” technology, and at this point many organizations have taken advantage of virtualization to reduce costs, improve application availability and simplify IT management, among much else. Smaller businesses have typically been a bit slower to adopt virtualization, but that doesn’t mean you can’t benefit from virtualization—quite the contrary. Virtualization is effective not only for server consolidation, but also to reduce the cost…

VMware Accelerate: Handcrafted IT Infrastructure – Are You Still Relevant?Author: Joe Chenevey I’m a fan of George R.R. Martin’s best selling book series, A Song of Ice and Fire , as well as HBO’s television adaptation, A Game of Thrones . The first book in the series was published in 1996, and the current and fifth installment released in 2011. Five books in 15 years with two more planned! I imagine that when Martin started writing the first installment in the mid-90s, he used a desktop app on a PC, or perhaps he was still banging away on a Brother electronic…

VMware Education & Certification Blog: Question of the Week: VCP5-DCVThis week’s “Question of the Week” comes from the VMware Certified Professional 5-Data Center Virtualization (VCP5-DCV) Official Study Guide . Which of the following is not decided by DRS in Partially Automated mode, but is decided by DRS in Fully Automated mode? a. Initial placement b. Storage c. Network fault tolerance d. Load balancing See below for the answer Not sure of the answer? You can learn more about this topic in our VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage course. Answer: d. Load…

Virtualize Business Critical Applications Blog: Estimating Availability of SAP on ESXi Clusters – ExamplesThis is a follow up to the blog I posted in Jan 2013 which identified a generic formula to estimate the availability, expressed as a percentage/fraction, of SAP virtual machines in an ESXi cluster. The details of the formula are in this whitepaper . This blog provides some example results based on some assumed input data. I used a spreadsheet to model the equation and generate the results – this is shown at the end. The formula is based on mathematical probability techniques. The availability of SAP on…

VMware Consulting Blog: Start Your VMworld Schedule On The Right FootGetting excited about this year’s VMworld , August 25–29? We are—especially now that the full list of sessions has been posted. Breakout and panel sessions are at the heart of the VMworld experience, with dynamic speakers, rich content, and constructive discussions. With 350+ sessions this year, we imagine you’ll be carefully planning your schedule in the coming weeks. Here’s a great place to start: sessions led by our VMware Professional Services Consultants. We’ve collected a few from the…

VMware Technical Communications Video Blog: Deployment Options for vCenter Server in a Horizon View PodAndre Leibovici shows you how in Horizon View 5.2 you can use a single vCenter Server to manage up to 10,000 desktops in a single Horizon View Pod.

VMware Network Virtualization Blog: What is a Distributed Firewall?In the post “ What is Network Virtualization? ” I described a model where the application’s complete L2-L7 virtual network is decoupled from hardware and moved into a software abstraction layer for the express purpose of automation and business agility. In this post I’ll focus on network security, and describe an imminent firewall form factor enabled by Network Virtualization — the Distributed Firewall. ALL YOUR PACKET ARE BELONG TO US If InfoSec ruled the world … well, OK, maybe not the…

VMware Support Insider: NetApp’s new YouTube ChannelAnyone who uses VMware’s datacenter products has surely heard of NetApp. They provide data storage solutions including virtualized environments. NetApp has recently launched a new YouTube channel, NetApp KB TV . From their channel: NetApp KB TV is a channel hosting procedural / instructional videos based on NetApp products. To know more about our products, visit our Knowledgebase at https://kb.netapp.com We recommend you check out their new channel and subscribe. We noticed a couple of videos of…

VMwareTV: VMware Horizon Suite: The Power to EmpowerVMware Horizon Suite: The Power to Empower We invented Desktop Virtualization and now we're perfecting the Virtual Workspace. Total freedom and accessibility for end users, total security and control ... From: vmwaretv Views: 14 0 ratings Time: 02:25 More in Science & Technology

VMware vCloud Blog: vCloud Hybrid Service Achieves ISO 27001 CertificationBy: Tony Savoy, Director of Risk and Compliance at VMware We are happy to announce that VMware has been awarded ISO/IEC 27001 certification for its information security management system supporting vCloud ® Hybrid Service™. ISO/IEC 27001:2005 is a globally recognized standard for the establishment and certification of an information security management system (ISMS). The standard maintains the requirements for implementing an ISMS, which include a detailed risk assessment, internal audit, and…

VMware Education & Certification Blog: New VCDX Defense Date AddedDue to popular demand we have added another date for VCDX candidates to defend their design: October 28-30 in Singapore . If you are interested in participating, applications will be due by August 30. Defenses will be scheduled for VCDX4-DCV , VCDX5-DCV , and VCDX-Cloud . Visit the program web site for more details.

VMware Cloud Ops Blog: Rethinking IT for the Cloud, Pt. 1 – Calculating Your Cloud Service CostsBy Khalid Hakim So you’re the CIO of an organization and you’ve been asked to run IT like a business. What do you do? You can start by seeing IT as a technology shop, with “services” displayed on its shelves. Each service is price-tagged, with specs printed on the back-tag. A service catalog is available for customers to pick up and request services from. Each service or set of services is managed by the “service manager/owner” role. Your IT shop would have an Income Statement (Profit-Loss…

VMware Virtualization Management Blog: vFabric Application Director 5.2 Automates the Deployment & Lifecycle Management of Applications on vSphereThe market for IT service delivery automation is accelerating rapidly and the lines between tools that automate infrastructure, applications and other IT services are blurring. Companies are looking for a single solution to help automate the delivery of any IT service. VMware’s product vision and strategy empower IT to rapidly transform existing compute resources into scalable infrastructure, application, database or platform services in the shortest time with the least amount of risk. In order to…

EXTERNAL BLOGGERS

ScaleIO–the inside scoopToday – EMC acquired a small startup called ScaleIO that joins our Flash business unit – welcome to the folks there! You can read about that here: http://www.emc.com/about/news/press/2013/20130711-01.htm It’s in the family of distributed storage stacks (think of the storage...

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Book “Learning PowerCLI” is now available for pre-order

VCP5-DV Practice Test - VCP5-Datacenter Virtualization

Cool Tool - Rufus: The Reliable USB Formatting Utility

My VMworld San Francisco session recommendationsEvery year I do this blog post with recommendations, I hadn’t yet this year and several people started asking for it so I figured it was about time. People always complain sessions aren’t technical enough, and my answer typically is: then you have been attending the wrong sessions… So if you were one of those … … Continue reading → " My VMworld San Francisco session recommendations " originally appeared on Yellow-Bricks.com . Follow me on twitter - @DuncanYB. Looking for a VMware…

Network port diagram for vSphere 5.xSomehow I missed this one, but as I reviewed the diagram and helped selecting the right format I figured I would still share it. This Network port diagram for vSphere 5.x is one awesome resource for those folks who want to get to the bottom of how components interact with each other. I don’t think … … Continue reading → " Network port diagram for vSphere 5.x " originally appeared on Yellow-Bricks.com . Follow me on twitter - @DuncanYB. Looking for a VMware Training ? Sign up for a Free 3…

Prepare for the worst…Over the last couple of months I have been contacted by various folks who thought long and hard about their Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery design. They bought a great backup solution which integrated with vSphere and they replicated their SAN to a second site. In their mind they were definitely prepared for the worst… … … Continue reading → " Prepare for the worst… " originally appeared on Yellow-Bricks.com . Follow me on twitter - @DuncanYB. Looking for a VMware Training ?…

Cool Tool: VisualEsxtopMy ESXTOP page is still one of the most visited pages I have, it actually comes in on a second spot just right after the HA Deepdive. Every once in a while I revise the page and this week it was time to add VisualEsxtop to the list of tools people should use. I figured … … Continue reading → " Cool Tool: VisualEsxtop " originally appeared on Yellow-Bricks.com . Follow me on twitter - @DuncanYB. Looking for a VMware Training ? Sign up for a Free 3 day Trial today on Train Signal!

You don’t need any brains to listen to music pt IVIt has been a while since I have done one of these articles (1, 2, 3). Last one was in 2010 and it started in 2009. (If you only want to read technical / IT related articles, don’t bother continuing reading this one…) Let me quote my first post in 2009 so those who are … … Continue reading → " You don’t need any brains to listen to music pt IV " originally appeared on Yellow-Bricks.com . Follow me on twitter - @DuncanYB. Looking for a VMware Training ? Sign up for a Free 3 day Trial…

Unmounting datastore fails due to vSphere HA?On the VMware Community Forums someone reported he was having issues unmounting datastores when vSphere HA was enabled. Internally I contacted various folks to see what was going on. The error that this customer was hitting was the following: The vSphere HA agent on host '' failed to quiesce file activity on datastore '/vmfs/volumes/' … … Continue reading → " Unmounting datastore fails due to vSphere HA? " originally appeared on…

Hell must of frozen over……because I actually got a VMworld session approved! I last had a VMworld session approved (2 of them) in 2010 for my Deep Dive on Virtualization and Building a Home Lab sessions. I’ve really given up hope in recent years of getting another one due to the sheer number of submissions and because VMware has [...]

Keeping up on blogs with PowerShellRecently the top virtualization blogs were announced and updated on Eric Sieberts page here: http://vlp.vsphere-land.com This is a great place to check out for all sorts of virtualization links. The great thing about this site is that it also gives us a chance to mess with the Invoke-WebRequest and Invoke-RestMethod cmdlets which allow us to [...] Keeping up on blogs with PowerShell is a post from: Virtu-Al . Virtu-Al is one of the authors of VMware vSphere PowerCLI Reference: Automating vSphere…

VMworld 2013 Bloggers List Registration OpenAre you a blogger and attending VMworld 2013? If so then you may want consider signing up on the VMworld 2013 bloggers list which is now open for registrations. Click here for more information, and to sign up. Also, if this is your first time to VMworld as a blogger then be sure to keep [...] The post VMworld 2013 Bloggers List Registration Open appeared first on TechHead and was written by Simon Seagrave . Why not take a look at my other related posts?: TechHead Makes vSphere Land Top 25…

Be carefull with VMware SSO Master password bugThis week I installed a fresh vSphere 5.1 Update 1 environment and I wanted to configure it will real world certificates to get rid of all those “Do you really really reeeeeally accept this insecure website” messages. Using the VMware SSL Certificate Automation Tool I generated all the new certificates and then started changing the certificate [...] See full post at: Be carefull with VMware SSO Master password bug

Cisco UCS: What’s the maximum bandwidth per blade?As I already mentioned in this article, Cisco UCS is a complex combination of components. With the release of the M3 type Cisco UCS blades the number of components have increased and so did the complexity. The result is that I receive calls from colleagues/customers on a regular basis, complaining about the amount of bandwidth [...] Leave A Comment posted in Best Practices by Erik Scholten

Deployment Options for vCenter Server in a Horizon View Pod [video]Starting in Horizon View 5.2, you can use a single vCenter Server to manage up to 10,000 desktops in a single Horizon View pod. VMware delivered this innovation in response to multiple requests from customers and partners. Using a single vCenter Server, you can build a simple infrastructure that provides a single place to manage … Continue reading »

My VMworld 2013 Sessions and CommentsThe VMworld 2013 Content Catalog is out now and speakers are starting to gear up for the conference, preparing their decks, demos and rehearsing their talks. One thing that not many know is that VMware is offering a special speaker’s training for Non-VMware employees with selected sessions. So, as always, I expect sessions to have … Continue reading »

Reducing the Cost of Delivering Compute Services in vCloud EnvironmentsvCD adds an additional layer of complexity when it comes to managing VMs and vApps belonging to vCD. Those VMs and resources to be cost effective, must be right sized, placed on the right tier of storage to match business needs and SLAs, and at the same time achieve this with least administrative effort. Why [...] Read the full post Reducing the Cost of Delivering Compute Services in vCloud Environments at ESX Virtualization . Featured Paper : Top 6 Tips for Configuring vSphere Resource Pools

vSphere Big Data Extensions Beta 1.0 – Hadoop on VMwareVMware has announced recently a new extension for Big Data called vSphere Big Data Extensions. Currently in public Beta, the product allows the integration between Project Serengeti and vSphere. The in-between layer is the vSphere Big Data Extensions, which is visible in vSphere via a plugin through a vSphere Web client. The vSphere Big Data [...] Read the full post vSphere Big Data Extensions Beta 1.0 – Hadoop on VMware at ESX Virtualization . Featured Paper : Top 6 Tips for Configuring vSphere Resource…

PernixData Flash Virtualization Platform in my labI’ve been testing PernixData Flash Virtualization Platform since some time now. FVP dramatically accelerates shared storage used by virtual infrastructures running VMware vSphere as it offloads the writes destined to the SAN by using local SSD storage in each host. FVP creates a pooled flash layer which allows to write to locally attached SSDs before sending [...] Read the full post PernixData Flash Virtualization Platform in my lab at ESX Virtualization . Featured Paper : Top 6 Tips for Configuring…

#vBrownBag Follow-up VMware Log Insight Manager with Steve Flanders (@smflanders)Steve Flanders covers the installation, configuration and use cases for the newly released VMware Log Insight Manager #vBrownBag Follow-up VMware Log Insight Manager with Steve Flanders (@smflanders) from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo. You can find this and other recordings on iTunes or your favorite RSS feed

Infinio, cache in your ESXi server for your NFS datastoresAt Tech Field Day 9 last month Infinio came out of stealth mode and showed their upcoming storage acceleration product for the first time. The product places a caching appliance on each ESXi host to accelerate reads from NFS datastores. For server virtualization this can be a huge help as usually around 80% of VM [...]

#vBrownbag Follow-Up Prasenjit Sarkar covering VCAP5-CIA Objective 2 – Manage vSphere ResourcesOn the 2nd of July 2013 Prasenjit Sarkar covered VCAP5-CIA Objective 2: Manage vSphere Resources on the EMEA vBrownbag. The slides from the session are available here : EMEAvBrownbagvStretchCloud and the video from the session is below. EMEA vBrownbag with Prasenjit Sarkar covering VCAP5-CIA Objective 2 – Manage vSphere Resources from EMEA vBrownbag on Vimeo.

#vBrownbag Follow-Up Michael Webster covering VCAP5-CID Objective 6: vCloud AvailabilityOn the 9th of April 2013 Michael Webster covered VCAP5-CID Objective 6: vCloud Availability on the EMEA vBrownbag. Unfortunately due to unexplained reasons the video corrupted and only the last twenty minutes recorded and are available (the irony is noted) ProfessionalVMware #vBrownBag EMEA 09-04-13 20.16 from EMEA vBrownbag on Vimeo.

Automating VMware Tools install on Ubuntu 12.04Include VMware Tools during Ubuntu PXE installs by adding a few lines to the preseed configuration.

EMC and ScaleIO – Give me your flashSo today EMC announced the acquisition of ScaleIO. So before you start talking about Amazon be sure the read the announcement, closely. Pool your Flash This is s slide from the release of all the new flash products earlier this year. Remember XtremSW? Well see that grey pooling area? Yeah just imagine how ScaleIO will [...] Related posts: Storage Caching vs Tiering Part 1 Storage Caching vs Tiering Part 2 Extents vs Storage DRS

Virtual Storage Integrator – VSI 5.5Actually using the Virtual Storage Integrator (VSI) from EMC will simplify the complex environments used to create virtual data centers and private clouds. Wanted to bring to your attention some of the new features in the VSI What is new? A little deeper Demo from my good friend Itzik Reich @itzikr Itzik shows off how [...] Related posts: You down with VDP? Yeah you know me! Storage Caching vs Tiering Part 1 Storage Design and VDI

VDI Calculator for VNXBiggest question around sizing your VDI usually comes down to sizing the storage. Some of the solutions team created a pretty cool sizing whitepaper a few months back. Which inspired me to create this web based calculator. It is not meant to do everything in the whole world. Just give a quick and easy VNX [...] Related posts: More on the EMC, Cisco and Citrix 5000 on vSphere CVD (Cisco Validated Design) in 30 minutes ESX Commands – esxcfg-info Ask Good Questions

KB DIGEST ARTICLES

VMware ESX
After upgrading to vCenter Server 5.0 Update 2 or 5.1, the Hardware Status tab reports: No alerts or warnings out of 0 sensors (2041590)
Date Published: 7/5/2013
VMware Tools fail to start after a Linux guest operating system kernel upgrade (2050592)
Date Published: 7/5/2013
Shell logs are diverted to /dev/tty1 and are displayed in DCUI console of ESX/ESXi hosts (2052510)
Date Published: 7/5/2013

VMware ESXi
Multiple issues when running the vSphere 5.1 version of the vSphere Client on a Japanese locale (2035979)
Date Published: 7/4/2013
When testing path redundancy with the Emulex OneConnect 10GbE FCoE HBA, the ESXi host fails with a purple diagnostic screen and reports the error: PCPU 8: no heartbeat (2052729)
Date Published: 7/1/2013
Device Status might be displayed as Unknown in PCI passthrough configuration page (2052730)
Date Published: 7/3/2013
Cannot add an RDM LUN to the second node in the MSCS cluster (2054897)
Date Published: 7/4/2013
Creating a VMkernel port and enabling vMotion (2054994)
Date Published: 7/4/2013
Virtual machine network adapters not taking the right order to boot (2008425)
Date Published: 7/6/2013
Log error when using the esxcli command: GetPrimitiveParam: Cannot find (help) (2053961)
Date Published: 7/3/2013