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Hi everyone, just a short intro this week as there is so much going on from VMworld that I don't want to take up any of your time that you could be reading the newsletter so enjoy the update from what was a spectacular VMworld 2013.
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- VMware Consulting Blog: 3 Steps to Put You on the Path to the Software-Defined Data Center (http://blogs.vmware.com/consulting/?p=801)The software-designed data center (SDDC) was the hot topic at VMworld 2013, which wrapped up this week. Our consultants and the VMworld speakers helped answer lots of SDDC questions, but we know that there are still plenty out there—especially for those of you who couldn’t join us in San Francisco. To begin at the beginning: How do we define the software-defined data center? As VMware Professional Services Chief Architect John Steiner points out in this video, SDDC is not just virtualization of…
- VMware Education & Certification Blog: New Course Available: VMware vCloud Automation Center 5.2 (http://blogs.vmware.com/education/?p=2349)Are you making the best use of your time and resources with the VMware vCloud® Automation Center ™? The platform allows for self-service provisioning of virtual, cloud, and physical machines—key for today’s IT organizations looking to create and manage on-demand multivendor cloud infrastructures. Learn everything you need to install, configure, and manage VMware vCloud Automation Center 5.2 in this new 3-day training course available in many delivery formats. Get started today!
- VMware Support Insider: KBTV live from VMworld 2013 – Customer Testimonial from Tony a.k.a @wonder_nerd (http://blogs.vmware.com/kb/?p=5574)Morning folks, Here we have another video live from VMworld 2013 featuring a VMware user from Kansas and he provides a quick testimonial and shares his thoughts concerning the VMware Knowledge Base. One of the great things about attending an event such as VMworld is that it allows people from different parts of the world to meet face-to-face with the people they interact with It on a weekly basis through the online Social Media channels. The KBTV team managed to catch up with Tony a.k.a …
- VMware Security Blog: New VMware Security Advisory VMSA-2013-0011 (http://blogs.vmware.com/security/?p=854)Today VMware has released the following new security advisory: VMSA-2013-0011 Please sign up to the Security-Announce mailing list to receive new and updated VMware Security Advisories. Customers should review the security advisory and direct any questions to VMware Support.
- VMworldTV: Exclusive Interview with Douglas Gourlay (tag:youtube.com,2008:video:UTN7z9mdGcg)Exclusive Interview with Douglas Gourlay From: VMworldTV Views: 0 0 ratings Time: 08:01 More in Science & Technology
- VMworldTV: Chad Sakac of EMC Shares His Thoughts on VMworld 2013 (tag:youtube.com,2008:video:3RvMiSJTqxU)Chad Sakac of EMC Shares His Thoughts on VMworld 2013 From: VMworldTV Views: 180 1 ratings Time: 08:55 More in Science & Technology
- VMworldTV: Wrapping up VMworld 2013 with VMworld TV! (tag:youtube.com,2008:video:Sr9PZlyJ38Q)Wrapping up VMworld 2013 with VMworld TV! From: VMworldTV Views: 0 0 ratings Time: 04:28 More in Science & Technology
- VMworldTV: VMworld TV Talks to Trend Micro About NSX Integration (tag:youtube.com,2008:video:R_KBd05l1w0)VMworld TV Talks to Trend Micro About NSX Integration From: VMworldTV Views: 1 0 ratings Time: 08:33 More in Science & Technology
- VMworldTV: NSX Partners Talk Exclusively About Working With VMware (tag:youtube.com,2008:video:Kgs9L0Vf0D4)NSX Partners Talk Exclusively About Working With VMware From: VMworldTV Views: 0 0 ratings Time: 04:18 More in Science & Technology
- VMworldTV: Eric Sloof Goes Behind the Scenes at the VMworld 2013 Hands On Labs (tag:youtube.com,2008:video:KhqyLGzQDDE)Eric Sloof Goes Behind the Scenes at the VMworld 2013 Hands On Labs From: VMworldTV Views: 0 0 ratings Time: 09:00 More in Science & Technology
- VMworld Blog: VMworld TV Highlights (http://www.vmworld.com/blogs/vmworld/2013/08/29/vmworld-tv-highlights)Catch a glimpse of session videos and onsite coverage... [stay tuned for more to follow soon] Tues General Session: > Playlist of General Sessions and Top 10 Session videoo on VMworld TV Daily wrap-up videos from VMworld TV Crew: > Playlist of VMworld TV Crew coverage, interviews and highlights
- VMworldTV: VMworld TV Day 3 Highlights (tag:youtube.com,2008:video:_eZ4Ti36ji4)VMworld TV Day 3 Highlights From: VMworldTV Views: 0 0 ratings Time: 06:36 More in Science & Technology
- VMworld Blog: Celebrating Makers at VMworld - Thursday General Session (http://www.vmworld.com/blogs/vmworld/2013/08/29/celebrating-makers-at-vmworld--thursday-general-session)The General Session Thursday at VMworld is all about innovation and celebrating makers. The video for the session is not available, but you can check out some of the audience's reactions to this inspiring and amazing session via Twitter on @VMworld . Here are also some videos featuring our speakers today. Jay Silver - Hack a Banana, Make a Keyboard Keller Rinaudo: A mini robot -- powered by your phone Bre Pettis - Making It
- VMware Accelerate: Are You Delivering Speed as a Service? (http://blogs.vmware.com/accelerate/?p=1225)Author: Joe Chenevey This week, VMware hosted its 10th annual VMworld in San Francisco. As a company. we’ve announced new products that broaden virtualization’s benefits beyond servers and into network and storage areas. When all data center infrastructure is virtualized, it can be delivered as a service much more completely than ever before. However, virtualizing all infrastructure does not constitute a software-defined data center (SDDC), and that’s key for executives to understand. When control of…
- VMware for Small-Medium Business Blog: Spotlight on SMBs: 4 Customers on Stage at VMworld (http://blogs.vmware.com/smb/?p=2054)At this year’s VMworld, four SMB customers took the stage to tell their stories on how a range of VMware solutions have helped them to overcome their varied IT challenges, from improving scalability for company growth to quickly troubleshooting problems in a complex virtual environment. Read on to see what these customers shared on stage. Name : Donald Wilkins, Director of IT Company : Navicure, Inc. – leading Internet-based medical claims clearinghouse that serves over 50,000 healthcare…
- VMworldTV: VMworldTV: Exclusive Interview with the Team Behind Brocade (tag:youtube.com,2008:video:zOVjvn5KnNE)VMworldTV: Exclusive Interview with the Team Behind Brocade From: VMworldTV Views: 1 0 ratings Time: 04:10 More in Science & Technology
- VMworldTV: VMworldTV: Learn More About F5 Networks (tag:youtube.com,2008:video:lP-3YgUVdj8)VMworldTV: Learn More About F5 Networks From: VMworldTV Views: 3 0 ratings Time: 07:57 More in Science & Technology
- VMworldTV: VMworldTV: Behind the Scenes at Simplivity's Stand (tag:youtube.com,2008:video:X4807rr7WWE)VMworldTV: Behind the Scenes at Simplivity's Stand From: VMworldTV Views: 15 0 ratings Time: 05:57 More in Science & Technology
- VMworldTV: VMworldTV: An Exclusive Demo of Cloud Physics (tag:youtube.com,2008:video:0HaGApo7cdo)VMworldTV: An Exclusive Demo of Cloud Physics From: VMworldTV Views: 6 0 ratings Time: 21:33 More in Science & Technology
- VMware Education & Certification Blog: VMware recieves 2013 Learning! Award (http://blogs.vmware.com/education/?p=2329)VMware named to the #8 position in the 2013 Learning! 100 awards . In its 3rd year, the Learning! 100 awards honor high performance, organizational culture, innovation and collaboration. The award recognizes VMware for Customer and Partner Programs calling out collaboration as an ‘Area of Excellence.’ Learning! 100 applicants are evaluated across three criteria: Aberdeen Group’s Best-in-Class Learning & Development assessment, EMG’s Learning Culture index, and overall organizational…
- VROOM!: VMware vSphere 5.5 Performs Well Running Big Data Scenario with Greenplum (http://blogs.vmware.com/performance/?p=1428)VMware recently released a white paper on the performance and best practices of running a Pivotal Greenplum database cluster in virtual machines. The paper reports the results of two studies. In each study, six physical machines are used in the Greenplum cluster. Three different big data workloads are run on the physical machines, and then on virtual machines in the same configuration. One experiment compares a physical setup to a virtual configuration for running Greenplum segment servers, one per host.…
- VMware vCloud Blog: VMworld 2013 Day 2 Wrap-Up (http://blogs.vmware.com/vcloud/?p=2834)By David Davis On day 2 of VMworld 2013, the day started off with the general session/keynote with VMware COO Carl Eschenbach. Carl announced that the official number of VMworld attendees hit a record this year with 22,500 (but he is rounding up to 23,000). He introduced VMware Senior Principle Engineer, Kit Colbert. I have met Kit a number of times, I know that he was one of VMware’s early employees, and he’s a very smart engineer. Carl and Kit went through the struggles happening in the…
- VMworldTV: VMworldTV: Aurelie Fonteny of Cumulus Networks (tag:youtube.com,2008:video:Hqy8sRf7O6M)VMworldTV: Aurelie Fonteny of Cumulus Networks From: VMworldTV Views: 14 1 ratings Time: 07:10 More in Science & Technology
- VMworldTV: VMworldTV Meets the Team Behind Nutanix (tag:youtube.com,2008:video:T56KBaB3OUk)VMworldTV Meets the Team Behind Nutanix From: VMworldTV Views: 12 0 ratings Time: 07:09 More in Science & Technology
- The Console: News and Announcement Highlights from VMworld 2013 (http://blogs.vmware.com/vmware/?p=1230)VMworld 2013 wraps up today and this year a record 23,000 attendees came to San Francisco for the 10th annual VMworld to learn how VMware is delivering innovation with the software-defined datacenter, hybrid cloud and end user solutions built for … Continue reading →
- VMware Support Insider: KBTV Live from VMworld 2013 – Apparently the VMware Knowledge Base Rocks! (http://blogs.vmware.com/kb/?p=5564)Here is another video coming to you from the KBTV team live at VMworld 2013. In this video you will hear from a VMware customer from Canada whose day job is a Systems Administrator and he provides a quick testimonial and shares his thoughts concerning the VMware Knowledge Base. And in his opinion the VMware Knowledge Base Rocks! What do you want to see us doing more of in the future? Let us know your thoughts by reaching out to us on our VMwareKB Facebook page or through Twitter .
- VMware for Small-Medium Business Blog: IT-as-a-Service: Day 2 At VMworld (http://blogs.vmware.com/smb/?p=2047)VMware President and COO, Carl Eschenbach, kicked off day two of VMworld 2013 with energy by reiterating the three imperative pillars of VMware’s vision: Virtualization extends to ALL of IT IT management gives way to automation Compatible hybrid clouds Carl’s main focus was around IT-as-a-Service, bringing VMware subject experts to the stage. First up was Kit Colbert, Principal Engineer at VMware. Kit drove a demo of vCloud Automation Center, showcasing: Project Vulcan on Private cloud / Public…
- VMworldTV: VMworld 2013: Session BCO5129 - Protection for All: vSphere Replication & SRM Technical Update (tag:youtube.com,2008:video:5m0JlCeGLvI)VMworld 2013: Session BCO5129 - Protection for All: vSphere Replication & SRM Technical Update In this session you will hear about the latest updates to the vSphere Replication and SRM technologies from VMware. Majority of this session will cover how a... From: VMworldTV Views: 271 1 ratings Time: 58:09 More in Science & Technology
- VMworldTV: VMworld 2013: Session NET5847- NSX: Introducing the World to VMware NSX (tag:youtube.com,2008:video:FHVm69YoKRs)VMworld 2013: Session NET5847- NSX: Introducing the World to VMware NSX This session will focus on introducing NSX. It will detail the product and its components, the key use cases, partner integrations and pricing and packaging. From: VMworldTV Views: 1492 6 ratings Time: 49:23 More in Science & Technology
- VMworldTV: VMworldTV Investigates VMTurbo (tag:youtube.com,2008:video:S0LowfbznHU)VMworldTV Investigates VMTurbo From: VMworldTV Views: 49 0 ratings Time: 04:35 More in Science & Technology
- VMworldTV: VMworld 2013: Session OPT5194 - Moving Enterprise Application Dev/Test to VMware's Internal Cloud (tag:youtube.com,2008:video:aC1JN2IO8-8)VMworld 2013: Session OPT5194 - Moving Enterprise Application Dev/Test to VMware's Internal Cloud The VMware IT team responsible for managing enterprise applications is moving all dev/test environments to our private cloud IaaS. We have achieved impressiv... From: VMworldTV Views: 0 0 ratings Time: 56:59 More in Science & Technology
- VMworldTV: VMworld2013: Session PHC5605-S - Everything You Want to Know About vCloud Hybrid Service (tag:youtube.com,2008:video:k4BN2RVJZpk)VMworld2013: Session PHC5605-S - Everything You Want to Know About vCloud Hybrid Service This is a spotlight session designed by you, for you. Over weeks of social media activities we solicited your content input to design a session dedicated to ... From: VMworldTV Views: 0 0 ratings Time: 51:39 More in Science & Technology
- VMware Education & Certification Blog: Scenes from the VCDX Party at VMworld (http://blogs.vmware.com/education/?p=2323)Pat Gelsinger awarding the “John Von Neumann VCDX Achievement Award” to Tomas Fojta, VCDX 099
- VMworldTV: VMworld 2013: Session VCM7369-S- Uncovering the Hidden Truth in Log Data (tag:youtube.com,2008:video:L4rW2Of2oss)VMworld 2013: Session VCM7369-S- Uncovering the Hidden Truth in Log Data Gigabytes and even terabytes of log data are generated everyday representing an untapped source of insight to help you identify and resolve problems. What if... From: VMworldTV Views: 92 0 ratings Time: 01:03:25 More in Science & Technology
- VMworldTV: VMworld 2013: Session VSVC4944- PowerCLI Best Practices: A Deep Dive (tag:youtube.com,2008:video:zoH4hwm1jYk)VMworld 2013: Session VSVC4944- PowerCLI Best Practices: A Deep Dive In previous years Alan and Luc showed you some of their best practices and how to take PowerCLI one step further. This year they will dive deeper and show yo... From: VMworldTV Views: 206 1 ratings Time: 01:00:29 More in Science & Technology
- VMware Support Insider: KBTV Live from VMworld 2013 – Customer Testimonial (http://blogs.vmware.com/kb/?p=5559)Good day KBTV fans! As you are probably well aware at this stage, VMworld 2013 is currently taking place this week in San Francisco. What you might not be aware of is that the KBTV team is recording live from VMworld. We very much enjoy attending this event every year and getting to spend time and interact with some of you guys in person. We bumped into one such person from California and he was nice enough to get in front of the camera and provide a quick testimonial and shares his thoughts concerning…
- The Console: The VMware Time Machine – Celebrating 15 years of Innovation (http://blogs.vmware.com/vmware/?p=1197)VMware was founded in 1998 in a small Palo Alto office, where our founders and early employees started a revolution with virtualization – a radical approach to computing that permanently changed the IT landscape. This year VMware is celebrating our … Continue reading →
- VMware Accelerate: How Virtualized Is Your Data Center? (http://blogs.vmware.com/accelerate/?p=1209)If you’re at VMworld San Francisco today, stop by the VMware Accelerate Advisory Services demo booth in the Solution Exchange, and meet Craig Stanley, Accelerate Benchmarking Practice lead, and Heman Smith, Accelerate Organization Transformation lead. They’ll take you through a software-defined data center (SDDC) education and evaluation process, show you aggregate industry peer results, and create a custom SDDC analysis that will be emailed to you right there on the show floor! If you’re not at…
- VMware Accelerate: VMware Cloud Compass Tool (powered by Alinean) (http://blogs.vmware.com/accelerate/?p=1179)Author: Thomas Pisello, Alinean CEO and founder It can be a challenge knowing which cloud solution is best for your particular workloads and business requirements: a private cloud, public cloud or hybrid solution? To help you determine the best option, VMware worked with the business value experts at Alinean to create the VMware Cloud Compass Tool. The VMware Cloud Compass Tool factors your unique workloads, budget goals, risk tolerance and desired business outcomes to provide a customized 3rd party…
- VMware vSphere Blog: vCloud Suite 5.5 – Click Thru Demos available online (http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/?p=9927)As part of the launch collateral for vCloud Suite 5.5, VMware’s Technical Marketing team has created a number of ‘click-thru’ demos. These have been used extensively at VMworld 2013, both in break-out sessions and in the VMware booth. However, these demos are also available online, and can be readily accessed by VMware customers who are interested in seeing some of the new features in version 5.5 first hand. The navigation is quite simple. The upper left hand corner, when clicked, will give you a…
- VMware Support Insider: VMware Technology Preview 2013 – Setting an expiration date for a virtual machine (http://blogs.vmware.com/kb/?p=5554)Last week we provided you with a video demonstrating how to download and install the VMware Workstation Technology Preview 2013 . Continuing on with our look at the VMware Workstation Technology Preview 2013, in this short video we demonstrate how to set an expiration date for a virtual machine . Enough chat, let’s get straight to the video!
- VMware Accelerate: The 3 Rules for Making Confident IT Decisions (http://blogs.vmware.com/accelerate/?p=1162)Author: Craig Stanley When presented with a choice between two solutions with an obvious difference in cost and value, you should always choose the cheaper one, right? We all know that’s not the case, as it’s just not that simple. In fact, many times the more expensive choice may be the right one when all factors are considered. But it’s important that the cost premium delivers a value that exceeds the cost differential and potential for failure. The other intangible factors that influence…
- VMware vCloud Blog: VMworld 2013 Day 1 Wrap-Up (http://blogs.vmware.com/vcloud/?p=2819)By David Davis VMworld 2013 actually got started on Sunday, August 25 with registration, hands-on labs, and certification exams started. That morning was the annual 5K run/walk down by San Francisco bay. However, Sunday night was the first time you saw the massive gathering of VMworld attendees when the welcome reception kicked off in the solutions exchange. With an estimated 22,000 attendees at VMworld this year, the crowd and the vendor booths were larger than every. With this being the 10 th…
- VMware Technical Account Manager Blog: VMworld 2013 Day One Recap (http://blogs.vmware.com/tam/?p=1301)VMworld 2013 – the 10 th annual – kicked off on Monday with the General Session and some epic announcements. But before we go deep and dive into the details… 2nd Annual TAM Customer Central The first day of the second annual TAM Customer Central was a resounding success. This exclusive TAM Customer-Only room was designed to ensure that TAM Customers have the best possible experience during the conference. On Monday customers had exclusive access to VMware product managers and experts for in-depth…
- VMware vCloud Blog: Another VMware Cloud – Myspace/SpecificMedia Runs Its Hybrid Cloud on VMware (http://blogs.vmware.com/vcloud/?p=2811)Myspace, a social networking site where users go to connect, discover and share music, and SpecificMedia, an ad solutions agency, were able to successfully leverage the flexibility of the vCloud Hybrid Service to expand and contract their business units based on seasonal or event needs. As a site that boasts the world’s largest digital music library of over 53 million tracks, Myspace was built to empower artists from all reaches, from Chart Toppers to new-age stars. However, the site, which has grown in…
- VMware Consulting Blog: Meet the Bloggers Today! (http://blogs.vmware.com/consulting/?p=794)Don’t forget to stop by the Professional Services booth at VMworld today from 4:15–5pm for our Meet the Bloggers event. Get in-person answers to all your pressing IT questions and meet the consultants and architects behind this blog and the VMware Accelerate Blog . If you can’t join us in San Francisco, we hope you’ll still join us here on the VMware Consulting Blog . We have lots of great posts scheduled for the coming months, including several by new bloggers. You won’t want to miss them!
- VMware for Small-Medium Business Blog: VMware Unveils 4 Major Announcements at VMworld (http://blogs.vmware.com/smb/?p=2033)It’s been 10 years and VMware continues our customers’ journey to the cloud by further enabling the software-defined data center. Yesterday at VMworld, we announced these exciting advances for delivering IT-as-a-service: 1.) Compute : More apps than ever before love VMware® vSphere® – in fact, 2X as many and 32X the data – supporting 64TB. VMware vSphere 5.5 extends support for business-critical applications and new workloads, including big data extensions 2.) Storage: Rapid scaling of compute…
- VMware vCloud Blog: Get on the Path to the Hybrid Cloud – See How VMware vCloud Service Provider Partners Can Help! (http://blogs.vmware.com/vcloud/?p=2805)With all the buzz around hybrid cloud, we’re happy to share that the VMware vCloud Service Provider ecosystem is continuing to grow, with over 250 vCloud Service Provider Partners offering vCloud Powered and vCloud Datacenter services in over 30 countries. That’s 100% year-over-year growth! We’re also pleased to reveal that the Cloud Credits Purchasing Program, which gives customers an easy on-ramp to the cloud, is also achieving rapid growth, with 25 VMware vCloud Service Provider redemption…
- VMware Virtualization Management Blog: What’s Behind the Numbers? Customers, Innovation and Partners (http://blogs.vmware.com/management/?p=1567)I’ve never experienced such rapid growth in my seven years at VMware since the early days of vSphere as I have with VMware Cloud Management. We’ve tripled the customer base since 2012 and are on track to double the number of cloud management partners this year! However, you’ve all heard the saying that numbers don’t tell the whole story and that’s why I’d like to share the story behind the story of our explosive customer and partner growth. It starts with customers like Intracom, Apollo Group,…
- VMware Education & Certification Blog: Design Your Learning Path Any Which Way (http://blogs.vmware.com/education/?p=2302)Last year we released a learning paths tool where users could design a learning path based on their IT role, Architect, Administrator, or Engineer. Feedback was tremendous! It was an easy way to see what VMware courses to take. But then the questions came … “What if I want to learn by a product-focus path for Horizon View ” or “What if I want a solution focus on Software-Defined Data Center ?” or “What if I want to focus on a specific certification for VMware Certified Advanced…
- VMware Consulting Blog: Get Your Hands on the Data Center of the Future (http://blogs.vmware.com/consulting/?p=753)By John Steiner, Eric Ledyard and Shaun Millin Today’s software-defined data center (SDDC) is helping IT organizations meet business demands by automating and managing a growing range of data center functions, freeing up resources for new projects that support IT as a service. From talking to VMware customers, we know that up to 80% of deployment time has nothing to do with physical equipment—it’s all about the orchestration between the technology, the people and the migration process. Thus,…
- VMware vSphere Blog: What’s New in vSphere 5.5 Storage (http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/?p=9853)As with any vSphere launch, there are a bunch of new storage related features announced. This year is a little different as there are some considerable updates which I wanted to share with you. Virtual SAN (VSAN) VMware has made a public beta announcement on VSAN. While it is not yet GA, it is almost there and vSphere 5.5 will enable you to try it out first hand. VMware is taking a software-defined approach with VSAN and providing a product that is radically simpler, more scalable and agile, and lower-cost…
- The Console: Day Two At VMworld: EUC and Management Momentum + What to Watch For (http://blogs.vmware.com/vmware/?p=1027)Day one at VMworld was exciting and there’s a lot of buzz around the software-defined data center and vCloud Hybrid Service. Today be on the lookout for news coming from our management and end user computing business units. Accelerating Momentum … Continue reading →
- Office of the CTO Blogs: Next Generation Virtual Desktop as a Service (http://cto.vmware.com/?p=2186)Welcome to VMworld 2013 and Imagine Dragons. Love that “ Radioactive ” song! Oops, sorry, wrong blog. ;-) Seriously, I want to share with you some powerful developments in the evolution of End User Computing that I’m discussing at VMworld this week. The first topic is a milestone in the evolution of VDI, what I view as the new generation of Virtual Desktop Infrastructure – “VDI 2.0”. I’m referring to a set of developments at both VMware and the industry that dramatically reduce the complexity…
- VMware End User Computing: VMware Advances EUC Strategy with New DaaS Offering and Mobile Updates (VMworld 2013) (http://blogs.vmware.com/euc/?p=3541)By Erik Frieberg, vice president, product marketing Today VMware made an announcement that showcases the strides we’ve been making in the End-User Computing group. It has only been six months since we first launched Horizon Suite and we are already advancing the suite with new product capabilities and partnerships that will help make supporting the mobile workforce easier for IT. Updates to Horizon View The first piece of exciting news is that VMware has decided to offer desktop as a service on VMware…
- VMware End User Computing: LG G2: First Smartphone Available on all Major U.S. Carriers to Launch VMWare Privacy and Business Mobile Virtualization Solution (VMworld 2013) (http://blogs.vmware.com/euc/?p=3602)By Leon Bian, Director of Mobile Phone Enterprise Solutions, LG Electronics LG G2 smartphone Today, we’re excited to announce that LG’s new flagship smartphone, the LG G2 just unveiled, will offer Privacy and Business (P&B) Mobile Virtualization, powered by the VMWare Horizon Workspace, on all four major U.S. wireless carriers at launch this fall. The LG G2 joins the LG Intuition among the leading breed of mobile devices that enable secure separation of personal and work spaces on the same device…
- Office of the CTO Blogs: New VMware Ready Devices (http://cto.vmware.com/?p=2190)At VMworld this week you’ll hear a lot of exciting news coming from VMware on the mobile side and today I’m very excited to announce the immediate availability of several new VMware Ready devices and give you an update on our mobile efforts. The new DROID lineup from Verizon Wireless – Motorola DROID Maxx, Motorola DROID Ultra and Motorola DROID Mini – is VMware Ready. These new devices are available in the market starting Aug 19 th . HTC One on Verizon Wireless is also VMware Ready and is…
- VMware End User Computing: Why I’m Excited About End-User Computing (VMworld 2013) (http://blogs.vmware.com/euc/?p=3597)By Sanjay Poonen, EVP and GM, End-User Computing, VMware This is my second week at VMware, and I for one am very excited about the future of the company. This is a company that has had a huge emphasis placed on INNOVATION. Engineers are proud of the great products they have pioneered that have practically made VMware a household name in the data center and the go to market team is proud of the success they’ve created with customers and the channel. The recent recognition of VMware as the third most…
- vCenter Orchestrator Blog: VMware vCenter Orchestrator makes a splash at VMworld US 2013 – Day 1 (http://blogs.vmware.com/orchestrator/?p=495)VMworld US 2013 kicked off Monday with a keynote by Pat Gelsinger , CEO of VMware , mentioning the importance of management and automaton in the Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC). Also mentioned was the inclusion of vCloud Automation Center (vCAC) in the Standard, Advanced and Enterprise editions of the upcoming vCloud Suite release. With bidirectional integration between vCenter Orchestrator (vCO) and vCAC, native vCO workflows can be coupled with resources managed by vCAC, either as part of the…
- VMwareTV: VMworld 2013 Tech Preview: Project Orcha (tag:youtube.com,2008:video:Kmy_35HwdcQ)VMworld 2013 Tech Preview: Project Orcha Project Orcha is a technique that automatically and seamlessly enables access to a file within Horizon Workspace while on a tablet that is incompatible with ... From: vmwaretv Views: 1143 5 ratings Time: 03:29 More in Science & Technology
External Bloggers
- VMworld 2013: STO5638-SDS the multivendor view (http://virtualgeek.typepad.com/virtual_geek/2013/08/vmworld-2013-sto5638-sds-the-multivendor-view.html)This session was the joint NetApp and EMC around Software Defined Storage – what are we doing, how are we adapting and evolving? While Vaughn and I agree on far more than we disagree on…. There were two things in...
- VMworld 2013: STO5464-“SDS the tech kitchen sink” (http://virtualgeek.typepad.com/virtual_geek/2013/08/vmworld-2013-sto5464-sds-the-tech-kitchen-sink.html)This session was all about what EMC is doing in the SDS domain. Across architectures, across use cases. Everything including the kitchen sink. Well, perhaps not EVERYTHING :-) WINK WINK. Follow #Speed2Lead and tune in on Sept 4th (register here)...
- VMworld 2013: STO5420–SDS the big picture (http://virtualgeek.typepad.com/virtual_geek/2013/08/vmworld-2013-sto5420sds-the-big-picture.html)This session (presented on Monday) was all about the broad topic of “what the heck is going on” in the land of SDS (and by analogy SDN) – and aims to answer these questions: Control Plane and Data Plane –...
- VMworld 2013: XtremAwesome! (http://virtualgeek.typepad.com/virtual_geek/2013/08/vmworld-2013-xtremawesome.html)Flash is changing everything about storage. Sounds like hyperbole? It's not. Sometimes people don't "get it". Flash is like someone coming along and saying "I have a new car on the market. It's pretty awesome. It fits in your pocket,...
- VMworld 2013: VNX Rockies. #Speed2Lead! (http://virtualgeek.typepad.com/virtual_geek/2013/08/vmworld-2013-vnx-rockies-speed2lead.html)It’s the worst-kept secret in storage land – EMC has something BIG coming. In FACT, at the AWESOME EMC Customer Appreciation Party last night at VMworld, I ran into MANY customers that already HAD purchased this new thing :-) I’ve...
- VMworld 2013: Next-Gen Backup (http://virtualgeek.typepad.com/virtual_geek/2013/08/vmworld-2013-next-gen-backup.html)The amount of work that the EMC backup team does with VMware directly and with VMware customers is pretty cool if you ask me. While it’s early days of VDP still, the idea of “native and integrated” backup in vSphere...
- VMworld 2013: The Intersection of SDN and SDS (http://virtualgeek.typepad.com/virtual_geek/2013/08/vmworld-2013-the-intersection-of-sdn-and-sds.html)The concepts of abstraction, pooling, automation and therefore the full virtualization of the network is what SDN is all about. While the biggest impact will surely be in the normal domain of networking people think of first, there will also...
- VMworld 2013: EMC Cloud Shop (http://virtualgeek.typepad.com/virtual_geek/2013/08/vmworld-2013-emc-cloud-shop.html)VMworld traditions are awesome! (v0dgeball, vbeers, vunderground, etc). Here’s another one: Silly/stupid EMC fun videos. WE DO NOT TAKE OURSELVES SERIOUSLY :-) The people in these come from the EMC SE team, all sorts of roles, and cameos from friends...
- VMworld 2013: vVol update and VM-granular storage–NOW. (http://virtualgeek.typepad.com/virtual_geek/2013/08/vmworld-2013-vvol-update-and-vm-granular-storagenow.html)A topic on everyone’s mind is – what’s the latest on VM-granular storage? vVols remain the plan on how to get there, but have pushed into future vSphere releases as people heard in today’s keynote. EMC, BTW is committed to...
- VMworld 2013: EMC Hadoop Starter Kit with VMware Serengeti (http://virtualgeek.typepad.com/virtual_geek/2013/08/vmworld-2013-emc-hadoop-starter-kit-with-vmware-serengeti.html)This is a really cool initiative that starts with a small group of folks (congrats guys!). I've been so happy to see the vSpecialist crew we started 4 years ago go on to do so many awesome things: Nick Weaver...
- VMworld attendance continues to climb, when will it peak? (http://vsphere-land.com/?p=4040)This year VMware announced record attendance of over 22,000 people that attended VMworld. While their news release said over 22,000 at one of the keynotes it was stated their were 22,500 attendees. If you look at the graph below you can see every year is a record attendance for VMworld except for 2009 when it [...]
- vSphere 5.5 nuggets: changes to disk.terminateVMOnPDLDefault (http://www.yellow-bricks.com/?p=12499)Those who were in the vSphere 5.5 beta program might have noticed it but I am suspecting many did not. With vSphere 5.5 there is finally an advanced setting to enable Disk.terminateVMOnPDLDefault. This advanced setting was introduced with vSphere 5.0 and unfortunately needed to be enabled in a file (/etc/vmware/settings); which was inconvenient to say […] " vSphere 5.5 nuggets: changes to disk.terminateVMOnPDLDefault " originally appeared on Yellow-Bricks.com . Follow me on twitter - @DuncanYB.…
- vSphere 5.5: platform scalability (http://www.yellow-bricks.com/?p=13077)One of the things that always keeps people busy are the “max config” numbers for a release. I figured I would dedicate a blog post to vSphere 5.5 platform scalability now that it has been released. A couple of things that stand out if you ask me when it comes to platform scalability: 320 pCPUs […] " vSphere 5.5: platform scalability " 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…
- Startup News Flash part 4 (http://www.yellow-bricks.com/?p=13360)This is the fourth part already of the Startup News Flash, we are in the middle of VMworld and of course there were many many announcements. I tried to filter out those which are interesting, as mentioned in one of the other posts if you feel one is missing leave a comment. Nutanix announced version […] " Startup News Flash part 4 " 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!
- vSphere 5.5 nuggets: vCenter Server Appliance limitations lifted! (http://www.yellow-bricks.com/?p=12967)For those who haven’t seen it… the vCenter Server Appliance limitations that there were around the number of virtual machines and hosts are lifted. Where the vCenter Server Appliance with the embedded ternal database used to be limited to a maximum of 5 hosts and 50 virtual machines this has been increased with vSphere 5.5 […] " vSphere 5.5 nuggets: vCenter Server Appliance limitations lifted! " originally appeared on Yellow-Bricks.com . Follow me on twitter - @DuncanYB. Looking for a VMware…
- 2013 VMware Fling Contest – Join in on the fun! (http://www.yellow-bricks.com/?p=13368)Last year VMware organized the very first VMware Open Innovation Contest and it was a very successful contest which resulted in an awesome fling called “pro-active DRS“. The Open Innovation Contest is back again in 2013 but now called the 2013 VMware Fling Contest. Now lets get those creative juices flowing again, think about the […] " 2013 VMware Fling Contest – Join in on the fun! " originally appeared on Yellow-Bricks.com . Follow me on twitter - @DuncanYB. Looking for a VMware Training…
- Introduction to vSphere Flash Read Cache aka vFlash (http://www.yellow-bricks.com/?p=13035)vSphere 5.5 was just announced and of course there are a bunch of new features in there. One of the features which I think people will appreciate is vSphere Flash Read Cache (vFRC), formerly known as vFlash. vFlash was tech previewed last year at VMworld and I recall it being a very popular session. In […] " Introduction to vSphere Flash Read Cache aka vFlash " originally appeared on Yellow-Bricks.com . Follow me on twitter - @DuncanYB. Looking for a VMware Training ? Sign up for a Free 3 day…
- Introduction to VMware vSphere Virtual SAN (http://www.yellow-bricks.com/?p=12620)Many of you have seen the announcements by now and I am guessing that you are as excited as I am about the announcement of the public beta of Virtual SAN with vSphere 5.5. What is Virtual SAN, formerly known as “VSAN” or “vCloud Distributed Storage” all about? Virtual SAN (VSAN from now on in […] " Introduction to VMware vSphere Virtual SAN " 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…
- A Look At vCenter 5.5 SSO RC Installation (http://www.boche.net/blog/?p=4767)This week at VMworld 2013, I attended a few sessions directly related to vCenter 5.5 as well as its components, one of which is vCenter Single Sign On (SSO): VSVC5234 – Extreme Performance Series: vCenter of the Universe VSVC4830 – vCenter Deep Dive First of all, both sessions were excellent and I highly recommend viewing [...] Post from: boche.net - VMware Virtualization Evangelist Copyright (c) 2010 Jason Boche. The contents of this post may not be reproduced or republished on another web page or…
- Thinking Out Loud: DIY Network Virtualization? (http://blog.scottlowe.org/?p=3262)Is it possible to build your own open source network virtualization solution? Possibly, but is it really worth it to your business? Here are some thoughts. This article was originally posted on blog.scottlowe.org . Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies. Thinking Out Loud: DIY Network Virtualization?
- VMworld 2013 Day 2 Keynote (http://blog.scottlowe.org/?p=3257)This is a liveblog from the general session on day 2 of VMworld 2013 in San Francisco. This article was originally posted on blog.scottlowe.org . Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies. VMworld 2013 Day 2 Keynote
- Announcing Mastering VMware vSphere 5.5 (http://blog.scottlowe.org/?p=3253)Mastering VMware vSphere 5.5 isn't just a new edition of the book, but a new direction for the series. This article was originally posted on blog.scottlowe.org . Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies. Announcing Mastering VMware vSphere 5.5
- VMworld 2013 Day 1 Keynote (http://blog.scottlowe.org/?p=3255)This is the liveblog for the day 1 keynote of VMworld 2013. This article was originally posted on blog.scottlowe.org . Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies. VMworld 2013 Day 1 Keynote
- VMworld 2013 USA – Day 3 – Pictures and slides (http://www.vmguru.nl/wordpress/?p=11497)The last day of VMworld. Check out the slides of the Best Practices for 3D in Horizon View. We’ll be following up on that here on VMguru.nl with our own tests. Leave A Comment posted in Events by Alex Muetstege
- VMworld TV: A wrap up of VMworld 2013 (http://www.vmguru.nl/wordpress/?p=11491)VMworld TV gives you a wrap up of all of VMworld 2013 in San Francisco. If you want to know what happened in San Francisco and on the VMworld Party, check out the video below. Leave A Comment posted in VMware by Erik Scholten
- VMworld TV: The highlights of VMworld 2013 day 3 (http://www.vmguru.nl/wordpress/?p=11490)VMworld TV gives you a wrap up of day three of VMworld 2013 in San Francisco. If you want to know what happened today and see Eric & Jeremy battle it out on the Solution Exchange floor, check out the video below. Leave A Comment posted in VMware by Erik Scholten
- VMworld 2013 USA – Day 2 – Pictures and Slides (http://www.vmguru.nl/wordpress/?p=11483)These are the impressions of day 2 of VMworld 2013 in San Francisco Leave A Comment posted in Events by Alex Muetstege
- VMworld TV: The highlights of VMworld 2013 day 2 (http://www.vmguru.nl/wordpress/?p=11485)VMworld TV gives you a wrap up of day two of VMworld 2013 in San Francisco. If you want to know what happened today and how a SDDC in Lego looks like check out the video below. Leave A Comment posted in VMware by Erik Scholten
- VMworld 2013 Technical keynote (http://www.vmguru.nl/wordpress/?p=11479)Traditionally, the day 2 keynote is the technical presentation and demo of the new products. Until last year the day 2 keynote was Steve Herrod’s playground. Steve’s technical keynote speeches were epic, but unfortunately he left VMware. This year Carl Essenbach – VMware President and Chief Operating Officer – did the day 2 keynote in […] Leave A Comment posted in VMware by Erik Scholten
- VMworld TV: Check out the VMworld 2013 Hang Space (http://www.vmguru.nl/wordpress/?p=11467)VMworld TV gives you a look around the hang space at VMworld 2013 in San Francisco. Maybe you recognize the vCelebrity in the background at 1:15 and 1:29 . Leave A Comment posted in VMware by Erik Scholten
- VMworld TV: The highlights of VMworld 2013 day 1 (http://www.vmguru.nl/wordpress/?p=11459)VMworld TV gives you a wrap up of day one of VMworld 2013 in San Francisco. They also introduced the Sloof-CAM, if you want to know what that is check out the video below. Leave A Comment posted in VMware by Erik Scholten
- Review: Thecus N4520 – Part 1 (http://www.vmguru.nl/wordpress/?p=11422)Last year Edwin did a review of the Thecus TopTower N8850, a beautiful enterprise grade NAS with a lot of features. So when the friendly people at Thecus send us the Thecus N4520 to review it was my turn. Thecus positions the N4520 as “the ultimate home and SMB NAS for any user who manges […] Leave A Comment posted in Hardware by Anne Jan Elsinga
- VMworld 2013 USA – Keynote day 2 (http://www.vmguru.nl/wordpress/?p=11395)Day 2 kicks off with a keynote by Carl Eschenbach, who is the EVP of VMware. Traditionally, the keynote of day 2 is the technical presentation and demo of the new products. This is my fourth VMworld and I only know the very dynamic presentations and demos done by Steve Herrod. Steve’s technical keynote speeches […] Leave A Comment posted in VMware by Alex Muetstege
- New book: Mastering VMware vSphere 5.5 (http://www.vreference.com/?p=1971)It’s great to announce the release of the new Mastering vSphere 5.5 book. This is the updated version of Scott’s long revered mastering title, with all-new content covering vSphere 5.5. In this latest revision, industry leading virtualization experts explain [...]
- Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Memory Limits (http://techhead.co/?p=7680)The following is a useful summary table that outlines the physical memory limits found with Microsoft Windows Server 2012 (W2K12). Just as a reminder Windows Server 2012 is only available as an X64 distribution. Although I’m not a big fan of the new user interface I will be starting to move my virtualization lab based […] The post Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Memory Limits appeared first on TechHead and was written by Simon Seagrave . Why not take a look at my other related posts?: Microsoft Windows…
- Mastering VMware vSphere Book Updated for vSphere 5.5 (http://techhead.co/?p=7677)VMware vSphere author, blogger and all-round aficionado, Scott Lowe, is releasing an update to his highly popular “Mastering VMware vSphere” book. This time he is joined by fellow blogger Nick Marshall in updating “Mastering VMware vSphere” to reflect all the latest vSphere 5.5 changes and updates. I definitely can recommend “Master VMware vSphere” as an […] The post Mastering VMware vSphere Book Updated for vSphere 5.5 appeared first on TechHead and was written by Simon Seagrave . Why not…
- VMware vSphere 5.5 Physical Host Maximums (http://techhead.co/?p=7676)The release of VMware vSphere 5.5 has seen a number of enhancements to the underlying hypervisor (ESXi), and as with every major release of vSphere there is an increase in it’s capabilities around CPU, Disk and/or memory. Probably the most significant in the VMware vSphere 5.5 release is the increase in VMDK file size that […] The post VMware vSphere 5.5 Physical Host Maximums appeared first on TechHead and was written by Simon Seagrave . Why not take a look at my other related posts?: VMware vSphere…
- VMworld 2013 End-User Computing Rundown (http://myvirtualcloud.net/?p=5383)The normal VMworld pattern is that the keynote on Day 1 (Mon) is all about virtualization and Cloud, and Day 2 covers End-User Computing and other areas. vSphere and vCloud were covered on Day 1, but there was also quite a bit on the new vCloud Hybrid Service (vCHS) offering, initially in North America and in other parts … Continue reading »
- Persistent vs. Non-Persistent Debate Video (http://myvirtualcloud.net/?p=5381)Gunnar Berger, research director for Gartner’s IT Professionals service, mediated a debate yesterday at VMworld based on my article Open letter to non-persistent VDI fanboys…. Here is the full video recording This article was first published by Andre Leibovici (@andreleibovici) at myvirtualcloud.net.
- VMware Tech Preview: Project Orcha (http://myvirtualcloud.net/?p=5379)After the announcement I’m now allowed to talk about one of the technologies I have been working on in the Office of the CTO EUC at VMware. Project Orcha is a technique to automatically and seamlessly enable access to any file or document within Horizon Workspace while on a tablet or a laptop/desktop computer using … Continue reading »
- VSAN Observer – upcoming tool for monitoring VSAN performance (http://www.vladan.fr/?p=31844)VMware VSAN which has been introduced during VMworld 2013 in SF allows to use local disks together with local SSDs (for acceleration) to create a pool of storage visible to all hosts in the cluster as a shared datastore. The product is not available yet. Here are some news about some cool management tools are showing […] You might also like: vSphere 5.5 VMworld 2013 General Session – Lot’s of demos… Free VMworld 2013 Session – The Next Phase in the… Read the full post VSAN Observer – upcoming…
- VMworld 2013 Highlights and HyperConvergence (http://www.vladan.fr/?p=31829)It’s the last day of VMworld 2013 in San Francisco and I’d like to show some of the highlights which took my attention by not being there by myself, but found bits and pieces around the internet. With so many new enhancements to VMware vSphere 5.5 (which got twice stronger, or twice more in config […] You might also like: VMworld 2013 Why No SAN Solutions for Virtualization will be a success Nutanix NX-1000 and NX 6000 – Technology for SMBs and… Read the full post VMworld 2013 Highlights and…
- vSphere 5.5 demos – New Interactive Product Walkthroughs (http://www.vladan.fr/?p=31817)VMware vSphere 5.5 announced earlier this week during VMworld 2013 in San Francisco just got about twice robust than the 5.1 release. The enhancements are and innovations at multiple levels. There is a new website which allows to see interactive vSphere 5.5 demos. One of the speakers during the keynote said that VMware is contributing 70% […] You might also like: vSphere 5.5 VMworld 2013 General Session – Lot’s of demos… Installation of ESXi 5.5 in VMware Workstation Read the full post vSphere 5.5…
- VMworld 2013 General Session – Lot’s of demos and fun (http://www.vladan.fr/?p=31811)The second day general session from VMworld 2013 is online. You can check also my VMworld 2013 page for other videos. In the session there is a lot of demos. The presenters, Carl Eschenbach, Kit Colbert and Joe Baguley. There is 22 500 attendees this year at VMworld. This year its vSphere 5.5, IT as a Service […] You might also like: Free VMworld 2013 Session – The Next Phase in the… VMworld 2013 vSphere 5.5 demos – New Interactive Product… Read the full post VMworld 2013 General Session –…
- vCenter Server Appliance 5.5 (vCSA) – Installation and Configuration Video (http://www.vladan.fr/?p=31796)Here is another video I’ve recorded during the beta phase of VMware vSphere 5.5. Its an installation and configuration of the vCSA, together with DNS and IP configuration. As you could already read on one of my posts about vSphere 5.5, the vCenter Server Linux Appliance (vCSA) 5.5 has now more robust features which supports […] You might also like: vCenter Server Appliance Upgrade Process Video VMware vCenter Orchestrator Overview Configuration VMware vCenter Server 5.5 Enhancements – Linux version…
- Free VMworld 2013 Session – The Next Phase in the Evolution of Enterprise Storage (http://www.vladan.fr/?p=31780)There is over 22 000 attendees this year at VMworld 2013 San Francisco, for the 10th VMworld! This is a new record, certainly, but I think that there is many more people which still could not attend. For different reasons, financial, time, work, family… I’m trying to cover the event remotely too, as I’m planning […] You might also like: VMworld 2013 General Session – Lot’s of demos… VMworld 2013 Highlights and HyperConvergence VMworld 2013 Read the full post Free VMworld 2013 Session – The…
- ESXi 5.5 Free Version – no more hard limit 32GB of RAM (http://www.vladan.fr/?p=31754)ESXi 5.5 Free version is no more limited to 32 GB of physical RAM only! VMware has introduced the new enhanced version of VMware vSphere 5.5 yesterday during VMworld 2013 in SF. So this kind of information interests the whole virtualization ecosystem. But concerning virtualization at home, and all Home users, the IT enthusiasts, IT […] You might also like: ESXi 5 Free – what’s the limitations? ESXi Free vs Paid – What are the differences? ESXi 5.1 Free with no vRAM limit but physical RAM limit of……
- Installation of ESXi 5.5 in VMware Workstation (http://www.vladan.fr/?p=31743)Hi all. This is a simple demo of installation of the latest build of ESXi 5.5 (build 1198610) in VMware Workstation, as the product will be released in couple of days. The latest improvements of VMware vSphere 5.5 offers twice as more (x2) everything (vCPU, Memory, storage), 62TB virtual disks, vSAN, vFlash, AppHA…. ++++. The latest […] You might also like: Installation of VMware ESXi 5 inside of VMware Workstation 8 vSphere 5.5 Create bootable ESXi 5 memory Stick by using Free Unetbootin Read the…
- Mastering VMware vSphere 5.5 – New Book (http://www.vladan.fr/?p=31731)VMware vSphere 5.5 has been announced, but it’s not available yet. New release of popular vSphere Book – Mastering VMware vSphere 5.5 has been announced and also only in pre-order at Amazon for now. I believe that everyone else lives on What’s happening during VMworld 2013 San Francisco, right? Check out my VMworld 2013 Blog Page! I […] You might also like: Mastering VMware vSphere 5 released Virtualizing Microsoft Business Critical Applications on… VMware vSphere Design Book – 2nd Edition…
- VMware vSphere 5.5 Low Latency Applications Enhancements (http://www.vladan.fr/?p=31181)vSphere 5.5 introduces new features for Low latency applications which can be like databases, high performance computing (HPC) or stock trading systems. Those applications and latency sensitive workloads, where the network packets cannot have delay. Usually a in-memory database applications or trading applications. Requirements: Fast response time Predictable response times (jitter) VMware vSphere 5.5 Low […] You might also like: vSphere 5.5 Difference between USB device pass-through and VMDirectPath……
- Key VMworld 2013 Sessions Already on YouTube (http://kendrickcoleman.com/index.php/Tech-Blog/key-vmworld-2013-sessions-already-on-youtube.html)The VMworldTV crew must have been hard at work and you can watch some keynotes and sessions on YouTube. Most of these sessions cover the broad spectrum of everything that was announced. Check them out VMworld 2013: General Session - Tuesday, August 27th Read more...
- vCD To Die A Slow and Painful Death after 5.5 (http://kendrickcoleman.com/index.php/Tech-Blog/vcd-to-die-a-slow-and-painful-death-after-55.html)Just like a 2010 Mercedes SL550 being crashed into a wall, the parts are being scrapped and re-purposed into other applications. I knew this was a speculated announcement coming up at VMworld, but kept heads down until I heard it was true. Yesterday, there was an article detailing all of this information by Beth Pariseau from TechTarget that detailed everything extremely well, VMware splits vCloud Director into vCenter, vCloud Automation Center . Here are my thoughts. While I enjoyed working with vCloud…
- 5.5 SSO and All You Need To Know (http://kendrickcoleman.com/index.php/Tech-Blog/55-sso-and-all-you-need-to-know.html)Today, you are probably going to see a lot of discussion around the completely re-vamped vSphere 5.5 Single Sign On (SSO) experience. Most blogs will get very lengthy and technical, I'm going to do the exact opposite. So you've heard the announcement, now here's the 30,000 foot summary. What's New with vCenter Single Sign-On 5.5 (the short short version) Improved Architecture Multi-master Built-in replication Site awareness Database There is no database!!! Installation One deployment model…
- Hadoop Starter Kit and EMC Solutions Insiders Episode 2 (http://www.2vcps.com/?p=1334)EMC Solutions Insiders is a tool to help enable and educate EMC and Partner field technical pre-sales people. We were lucky enough to catch up with James Ruddy (@darth_ruddy) with the EMC Office of the CTO. James created a pretty nice starter kit to help people get up and going with Hadoop on VMware using […] Related posts: EMC Solutions Insiders – Episode 1 SDDC More on the EMC, Cisco and Citrix 5000 on vSphere CVD (Cisco Validated Design) in 30 minutes Get Ready for the vHunt at VMworld with some…
- VMware KB Digest – New KB articles published for week ending 8/24/13 (http://vmwaretips.com/wp/?p=2140)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 ESXi Cold storage migration of virtual machine data is slow with the log entry: VMB: 1104: ignoring range (2051887) [...]
- VMworld 2013 San Francisco – Live Blogging (http://vmwaretips.com/wp/?p=2125)All Systems Go. VMworld 2013 has kicked off and things are in full swing. We’re about 10 minutes away from the Monday morning General Session beginning and there is definitely an excitement in the air. We have bloggers, analysts, customers, partners, attendees that have been to all 10 VMworlds (including myself) all standing around, mingling [...]
- VMworld 2013 Itinerary (http://vmwaretips.com/wp/?p=2111)An event 10 years in the making! 2013 marks the 10th VMworld Conference here in the US and it has officially begun. I arrived into San Francisco yesterday and have already reconnected with some vFriends, had a great dinner with an awesome customer and even was involved in a high-speed chase (ask me to tell [...]
- VMworld 2013 Wrap Up (http://professionalvmware.com/?p=3830)This post is by Cody Bunch This is the sort of post where one would say something about being tired, sore feet, or having the “VMworld crud”. While I've had a bit of all of those things, this is not that post. This post could also drone on and on about how despite the oddball [...]
- #vBrownBag at PuppetConf 2013: Nick Weaver Interview (http://professionalvmware.com/?p=3801)The vBrownBag Team had a great time at VMworld 2013 with the live tech talks and with meeting many of our webcast attendees and listeners. The week before, though, a few of us actually attended another IT conference that happened in San Francisco: PuppetConf 2013. VMware’s vCloud Hybrid Service (vCHS) is leveraging Puppet in its [...]
- #vBrownbag Follow-Up Andrea Mauro covering VCAP-CIA Objective 3 (http://professionalvmware.com/?p=3812)On the 27th of August 2013 Andrea Mauro covered VCAP-CIA – Objective 3 Manage vCloud Director Resources on the EMEA vBrownbag. The recording from the webinar is below EMEA vBrownbag with Andrea Mauro covering VCAP5-CIA Objective 3 Manage vCloud Director Resources from EMEA vBrownbag on Vimeo.
- #vBrownBag treasure hunt at VMworld USA 2013 (http://professionalvmware.com/?p=3794)VMworld is under way and so the #vBrownBag activities are also underway. Starting Monday we will have the TechTalks happening in the communities lounge, behind the escalators in Moscone South. The TechTalks are also available streaming online for those not attending in person and (when I sort that out) on YouTube so you can view [...]
KB Articles
VMware ESXi
Cold storage migration of virtual machine data is slow with the log entry: VMB: 1104: ignoring range (2051887)
Date Published: 8/20/2013
Running a backup using a backup software reports the warning: vmProtect.Fault.Message : Message (2053765)
Date Published: 8/19/2013
ESXi 5.1 Update 1 host fails with the purple diagnostic screen with an error related to the DevFSFileClose function (2054287)
Date Published: 8/23/2013
Hostd agent stops running after changes to proxy.xml file in VMware ESXi 5.0 (2057020)
Date Published: 8/22/2013
Shutting down or rebooting an ESXi 5.0 host via the DCUI fails (2055034)
Date Published: 8/20/2013
Installing or upgrading VMware Tools fails with the error: Cannot complete signature verification on the required VMware Tools ISO image (2053663)
Date Published: 8/19/2013
Software iSCSI datastores are not visible after a host reboot when using LACP for VMware ESXi 5.1 (2057606)
Date Published: 8/20/2013
Exiting full screen mode on a virtual machine console fails after shutting down guest operating system (2057832)
Date Published: 8/22/2013
VMware Horizon Workspace
Attempting to log into VMware Horizon Workspace 1.0 fails with error: The user could not be authenticated (2051201)
Date Published: 8/23/2013
VMware Service Manager
All security roles are not visible after changing a customer to an officer in VMware Service Manager (2056403)
Date Published: 8/20/2013
Imported reports in VMware Service Manager do not show custom field data (2056771)
Date Published: 8/20/2013
Approve and Reject buttons in the VMware Service Manager approval task outbound email sends an email to approve or reject even if an incoming email is not defined (2056778)
Date Published: 8/20/2013
VMware vCenter Configuration Manager
ECMXA heartbeat job fails to complete for VMware vCenter Configuration Manager 4.0 and 5.0 (2043417)
Date Published: 8/20/2013
VMware vCenter Infrastructure Navigator
Accessing vCenter Infrastructure Navigator in vSphere Web Client fails with the error: Error while retrieving data from Infrastructure Navigator server (2044117)
Date Published: 8/23/2013
VMware vCenter Log Insight
Collecting diagnostic information for VMware vCenter Log Insight (2056760)
Date Published: 8/21/2013
Email alerts are not sent from vCenter Log Insight (2056981)
Date Published: 8/21/2013
VMware vCenter Operations Manager (vApp)
Cannot access Resource Kind dropdown when configuring a Heat Map widget in VMware vCenter Operations Manager (vApp) 5.x (2056972)
Date Published: 8/20/2013
VMware vCenter Operations 5.7 and 5.7.1 incorrectly reports total virtual machine size rather than VMDK file size (2057556)
Date Published: 8/19/2013
KPI HT Breach alerts are generated for values over 100% on the Guest File System: Aggregate of all instances | Guest File System (%) metric (2057558)
Date Published: 8/19/2013
VMware vCenter Server
Logging in to vCenter Server fails with the error: No ManagedConnections available within configured blocking timeout (2055448)
Date Published: 8/19/2013
Determining Single Sign-On and Inventory Service version numbers (2057466)
Date Published: 8/20/2013
Virtual machine memory usage alarm (2057846)
Date Published: 8/22/2013
Virtual machine CPU usage alarm (2057830)
Date Published: 8/22/2013
VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager
VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager service on the recovery site fails while running a Recovery Plan Test or Disaster Recovery with an XMLParseException error (2055186)
Date Published: 8/21/2013
VMware vCloud Automation Center
Cannot join a virtual machine to a domain when using vSphere and vCloud Automation Center Network Profiles to assign static IP’s from a pool (2056290)
Date Published: 8/20/2013
VMware vCloud Connector
Testing VMware vCloud Connector 2.5.x connectivity using cURL commands (2054083)
Date Published: 8/20/2013
Collecting diagnostic information for VMware vCloud Connector 2.5x (2057022)
Date Published: 8/20/2013
VMware vCloud Director
Creating an external network in vCloud Director fails with the error: Failed to create external network as port group dvportgroup-XXX or its VLAN ID XXX is in use (2042474)
Date Published: 8/21/2013
VMware vCloud Director sends email alerts about VPN connectivity every 8 hours (2057205)
Date Published: 8/20/2013
Increasing VMware vCloud Director database performance (2056557)
Date Published: 8/20/2013
VMware vFabric Data Director
Collecting diagnostic information for VMware vFabric Data Director (2057153)
Date Published: 8/20/2013
VMware vFabric Hyperic Agent
Agent resource error after successfully adding a new platform: Agent monitor ‘agent.commandListener’ does not have a MinRequestTime value Please turn on the server, or fix its Configuration” (2055659)
Date Published: 8/20/2013
VMware vShield
Best practices when working with VXLAN PortGroups on a VMware virtual distributed switch (2057011)
Date Published: 8/19/2013
VMware vSphere Data Protection
Limitations of vSphere Data Protection (VDP) File Level Restore (FLR) (2053871)
Date Published: 8/21/2013
VMware vSphere Management Assistant
Running vma-support script does not reconstruct VA support bundle (2054109)
Date Published: 8/20/2013
An esxcli command fails with the error: locale.Error: unsupported locale setting (2056635)
Date Published: 8/23/2013
VMware vSphere Storage Appliance
Installing or upgrading vSphere Storage Appliance fails with the error: Error applying transforms. Verify that the specified transform paths are valid (2053327)
Date Published: 8/19/2013
VMware vSphere Web Client
Unable to install Flash on Windows Server 2012 for use with the vSphere Web Client (2054049)
Date Published: 8/21/2013