VMware Newsletter 5.26

FROM THE EDITORS VIRTUAL DESK

As I write this I am in the middle of building my new Horizon lab. I hope to have Horizon View, Mirage and Workspace up and running in the new lab by the time you are reading this weeks newsletter. I know many if you have been following what is my very slow progress with this task, with a number of false starts but with some spare time on my hands over the weekend my plans have started to come together.

It actually started earlier this week when I was privileged to join a number of my customers at the VMware conference in Brisbane and more specifically at the first Architects Bootcamp which was on our End User Computing solutions, namely the Horizon Suite. This kick started my lab into high gear after spending the day learning about our awesome tech and then having discussions later in the week with customers around this.

I will keep everyone updated but thus far progress and learning is on track and I am having loads of fun learning the new solutions.

You will also notice a few subtle changes to the newsletter from this week. Keen observers will notice a slight change in the formatting and also that then clickable titles also have the proper URL in them as well for reference or to make sure you can always get to the link from any device.

I hope these changes make the newsletter a bit easier to read and enjoy each week.

Kind Regards

Neil Isserow

VMware Senior Technical Account Manager and Newsletter Editor

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Testing your infrastructure! (http://www.yellow-bricks.com/?p=13087)Last week I was helping someone on the VMTN community forums. They were hitting what appeared to be strange HA behavior. After some standard questions this person told me that all VMs were powered down after a network outage. Sounds like a familiar problem? Yes I can hear most of you think: Isolation response set … … Continue reading → " Testing your infrastructure! " originally appeared on Yellow-Bricks.com . Follow me on twitter - @DuncanYB. Looking for a VMware Training ? Sign up for a…
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The new HP ProLiant MicroServer Gen8 - a great virtualization home lab server (http://vsphere-land.com/?p=3952)I’ve always liked the small size of the HP MicroServer which makes it perfect for use in a virtualization home lab, but one area that I felt it was lacking was with the CPU. The original MicroServer came with a AMD Athlon II NEO N36L 1.3 Ghz dual-core processor which was pretty weak to use with [...]
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Reducing the Friction: Processing E-Mail, Part 2 (http://blog.scottlowe.org/?p=3225)My "Reducing the Friction" series continues after a short hiatus with another look at processing e-mail. This article was originally posted on blog.scottlowe.org . Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies. Reducing the Friction: Processing E-Mail, Part 2
PuppetConf 2013 Ticket Giveaway (http://blog.scottlowe.org/?p=3223)Want to win a ticket to PuppetConf 2013? Read on for full details. This article was originally posted on blog.scottlowe.org . Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies. PuppetConf 2013 Ticket Giveaway
Application Licensing Barrier to Software-Defined Datacenter Reality (http://longwhiteclouds.com/?p=2168)When previous VMware CTO Dr. Steve Herrod coined the term Software-Defined Datacenter and presented the concept at VMworld 2012 a lot of people in the IT industry immediately jumped on the band wagon. The concept of Abstracting, Pooling, and Automating not just compute, but network, storage, security and compliance, make complete sense to many people. [...]
VMware Products Not Supported with SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Groups (http://longwhiteclouds.com/?p=2164)Recently I posted some updates to the supportability of Windows Server 2012 Clustering and SQL Server in particular in my articles titled Windows Server 2012 Failover Clustering Now Supported By VMware With Some Caveats and The Status of Microsoft Failover Clustering Support on VMware vSphere 5.1. VMware KB 1037959 Microsoft Clustering on VMware vSphere: Guidelines for Supported Configurations explains the configurations [...]
Passed my VMware Certified Professional 5 – Desktop exam (VCP5-DT) (http://www.vmguru.nl/wordpress/?p=11125)Many of you have heard of and probably even hold VCP certification. Five years ago this was the way to stand out of the crowd which was mainly dominated by people holding a Microsoft MCSE certification. Nowadays many IT professionals have a VMware VCP certification and you are just another certified professional in the crowd [...] Leave A Comment posted in ThinApp by Erik Scholten
DCI #7 – Data Center Insiders Podcast with Chad Sakac (http://techhead.co/?p=7560)In this episode of the Data Center Insiders podcast I speak with the one and only Virtual Geek, Chad Sakac. As always I enjoy my conversations with Chad and his excellent knowledge of technology and the IT industry on the whole. We cover a wide range of topics including: - Life after creating the vSpecialist [...] The post DCI #7 – Data Center Insiders Podcast with Chad Sakac appeared first on TechHead and was written by Simon Seagrave . Why not take a look at my other related posts?: Chad’s World –…
Product Rebranding: Iomega – Now Lenovo EMC (http://techhead.co/?p=7558)The joint venture between EMC and Lenovo, which saw the Iomega range of products fall under the new LenovoEMC company, have announced a rebranding of the Iomega portfolio of products including the popular Network Attached Storage (NAS) IX and PX StorCenter devices. This is a logical move as it will closer align the branding and [...] The post Product Rebranding: Iomega – Now Lenovo EMC appeared first on TechHead and was written by Simon Seagrave . Why not take a look at my other related posts?: Iomega IX2…
Big Data Storage Guide for Dummies–Free Download (http://techhead.co/?p=7553)Want to find out more about what the various aspects of Big Data Storage? If so then check out this free Big Data Storage for Dummies Guide which has been sponsored by EMC. I’ve had a read through the guide and can confirm it hits on many of the main “must know” areas around Big Data [...] The post Big Data Storage Guide for Dummies–Free Download appeared first on TechHead and was written by Simon Seagrave . Why not take a look at my other related posts?: Book – Free Dummies Guide to HP…
Horizon View now creates a folder for your replicas (http://myvirtualcloud.net/?p=5261)Sometimes small changes and improvements can go unnoticed by me until I actually get hands on and deploy the new release of the product in my lab. Today I noticed something that you may have already noticed if you are a Horizon View administrator. I’m not sure if this improvement has been included in Horizon … Continue reading »
Demystifying CPU Ready as a Performance Metric (http://www.vladan.fr/?p=30967)CPU ready metrics is often overlooked or not understood correctly. CPU ready is when VM waits in a ready-to-run state to be scheduled on one or more of the physical CPUs by the hypervisor. Ready-to-run state means usually when the VM has something to work on, but can’t because it’s waiting for the necessary resources to [...] Read the full post Demystifying CPU Ready as a Performance Metric at ESX Virtualization . Featured Paper : Top 6 Tips for Configuring vSphere Resource Pools
Top 10 Ways that Foglight for Virtualization, Free Edition Can Help You (http://www.vladan.fr/?p=30908)Foglight for Virtualization is a free tool that I reported about not so long ago. This free tool is actually a software suite, which has built in several free utilities, that can be used to optimize, check and improve the efficiency of virtual infrastructures running under VMware vSphere, Hyper-V or other hypervisors platforms, like RHEV [...] Read the full post Top 10 Ways that Foglight for Virtualization, Free Edition Can Help You at ESX Virtualization . Featured Paper : Top 6 Tips for Configuring…
Nakivo Backup and Replication 3.2 Released with WAN acceleration (http://www.vladan.fr/?p=30888)Nakivo continues its rapid development with another update – Nakivo 3.2, which adds WAN acceleration support, vCloud Director support and also the possibility to be installed in Linux Suse or Redhat. The Ubuntu installations was supported already in previous releases. Also some enhancements were added when managing the backup repositories, like the possibility to delete [...] Read the full post Nakivo Backup and Replication 3.2 Released with WAN acceleration at ESX Virtualization . Featured Paper : Top 6…
Blog Giveaway - Win a Copy of VMware vSphere Design 2nd Edition! (http://kendrickcoleman.com/index.php/Tech-Blog/blog-giveaway-win-a-copy-of-vmware-vsphere-design-2nd-edition.html)UPDATED WITH WINNER AT BOTTOM... It's that time again!! Every year I always get to do a giveaway on my blog. Fortunately, the publishers over at Sybex have given me a copy of the latest published book from Scott Lowe, Forbes Guthrie, and yours truly, V Mware vSphere Design 2nd Edition. V Mware vSphere Design 2nd Edition Abstract: What You Need to Make the Right Design Decisions vSphere is the most robust and sophisticated hypervisor product available today. It is the de facto…
2013-7-18 ProfessionalVMware #vBrownBag LATAM #VCAP DCA5 obj4.2 Deploy & Test VMware Fault Tolerance por Walter Solano Sanchez (http://professionalvmware.com/?p=3706)The following content is in Spanish, the language in which the webinar is presented. 2013-7-18 ProfessionalVMware #vBrownBag LATAM #VCAP DCA5 obj4.2 Deploy & Test VMware Fault Tolerance por Walter Solano Sanchez Mencionado hoy en #vBrownbag: ¿Qué es VMware Fault Tolerance? http://t.co/ORYjFf4GAl VMware Fault Tolerance FAQ http://t.co/bIVJDzGtn5 Processors and guest operating systems that support VMware Fault Tolerance [...]
VCP5-DT Study Guide (http://professionalvmware.com/?p=3690)Cheers! Today I sat & passed the VCP5-DT exam. DT is a cert I’ve been procrastinating in attaining, so I’m glad I finally hunkered down & got it out of the way. As with other VCP-level exams, the DT has 85 questions & you have 90 minutes to finish. An additional 15 minutes is allotted [...]
VMware KB Digest – New Articles Published for Week Ending 7/13/13 (http://vmwaretips.com/wp/?p=2086)In our effort to provide our viewers with up to the minute information on VMware related news and topics, we’re posting the following list of new KB Entries for this week, direct from VMware Support. VMware ESX After upgrading to vCenter Server 5.0 Update 2 or 5.1, the Hardware Status tab reports: No alerts or [...]