From the editors virtual desk
Hi everyone, I am really excited to be attending our annual VMware vForum along with thousands of other enthusiastic virtualisation specialists next week. This is the 5th event I have attended as a VMware employee and for me it is the best event of the year and such an awesome way to end a stellar year. I love being able to interact with the myriad of customers and partners at the VMware stand, discuss in depth technology issues with them and show them the amazing solutions we have to offer.
This year as usual I will be presenting session in what is called the All Access Pass area. This is an area for paid delegates and where we provide in depth sessions by subject matter experts in a much smaller forum where delegates can interact more with questions. I am looking forward to presenting my session details of which are below.
If you are at vForum this year in Sydney please send me an email to let me know and stop by the VMware stand and say hi.
And of course it is not too late to register and attend - http://info.vmware.com/content/APAC_ANZ_vForum
This week's newsletter has a focus on the coverage from VMworld Europe and is therefore an extended edition, lots to read and digest from an awesome event.
My Session details:
Date: Monday 21 October
Time: 1420 - 1500
Title: Pro-active solutions to ensure your VMware environment is stable and available 100% of the time
Synopsis: You rely on your entire enterprise being reliable and available. Running it on a VMware vSphere platform provides many benefits but there are still a number of tasks and solutions that we can use to ensure that everything stays up and working reliably. In this session, we will take a look at available solutions and pro-active tasks to assist with monitoring the environment, health assessments, regular benchmarking and metrics, patch management and working with VMware KB articles as tools to ensure your environment stays reliable and well maintained.
Virtually Yours
Neil Isserow
Senior Technical Account Manager
VMware Australia
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- VC Ops included in the VMware Horizon Suite 5.3 (http://www.yellow-bricks.com/?p=13835)I was reading up on the announcements published today during VMworld. When talking about VDI/EUC with customers, and I am not an EUC guy so try to avoid this when I can, a couple of things always stood… First one was storage problems and the second one was monitoring. I think the announcements done today […] " VC Ops included in the VMware Horizon Suite 5.3 " originally appeared on Yellow-Bricks.com . Follow me on twitter - @DuncanYB.
- VCA-Cloud Exam Review (http://www.boche.net/blog/?p=4805)Following up on my last post on the VCA-DCV Exam Review and in identical style, Friday evening I sat the VMware Certified Associate – Cloud (VCA-Cloud) exam (exam code VCAC510). VMware’s take on VCA-Cloud preparation: There is no training requirement, however there is a free, self-paced elearning class that can help you prepare. VMware summarizes the VCA-Cloud [...] Post from: boche.net - VMware Virtualization Evangelist Copyright (c) 2010 Jason Boche. The contents of this post may not be reproduced…
- Installing Open vSwitch on Ubuntu with Puppet (http://blog.scottlowe.org/?p=3311)Need to install Open vSwitch (OVS) on Ubuntu, but want to automate the process with Puppet? Here's some code that might help, but be sure to check my assumptions first. This article was originally posted on blog.scottlowe.org . Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies. Installing Open vSwitch on Ubuntu with Puppet
- All good things come to an end … (http://www.vmguru.nl/wordpress/?p=11942)It is done! VMworld 2013 in Barcelona is over and today I will fly back home. It was a great VMworld with a lot of announcement, releases and a lot of networking. For me it was a great educational experience and one of the few opportunities to meet up with the community friends I normally only chat or e-mail with. The things that really stood out for me and I can use in my daily work directly or start testing were: The new VMware Horizon View 5.3; The vSAN and vCOPS bundle with VMware Horizon View 5.3;…
- VMWorld TV: Wrap up VMworld Europe 2013 day 3 (http://www.vmguru.nl/wordpress/?p=11935)VMworld TV gives you a wrap up of all of VMworld Europe 2013 in Barcelona. If you want to know what happened in Barcelona check out the video below. Leave A Comment posted in VMware by Erik Scholten
- VMworld TV: Frank Denneman about Pernix Data (http://www.vmguru.nl/wordpress/?p=11311)Many may know Frank Denneman from VMware and his HA?DRS-book he wrote with Duncan Epping. Frank now works for Pernix Data and talks to VMworld TV to explain and demo the Pernix Data solution. Leave A Comment posted in VMware by Erik Scholten
- VMworld TV presents: SLOOFISMS (http://www.vmguru.nl/wordpress/?p=11922)Explore the unique world of superstar blogger Eric Sloof with this compilation of his one-of-a-kind vocabulary, known as ‘Sloofisms’. Leave A Comment posted in VMware by Anne Jan Elsinga
- VMworld TV: Wrap up VMworld Europe 2013 day 2 (http://www.vmguru.nl/wordpress/?p=11918)VMworld TV gives you a wrap up of all of VMworld Europe 2013 in Barcelona. If you want to know what happened in Barcelona check out the video below. Leave A Comment posted in VMware by Anne Jan Elsinga
- VMworld 2013 Europe – Party Impressions (http://www.vmguru.nl/wordpress/?p=11910)Last night was the VMworld 2013 Europe Party in the Fira Hall 6. In the slideshow below you will see an impression of last night. We had several good performances on stage, including Taio Cruz! Leave A Comment posted in VMworld by Edwin Weijdema
- VMworld: Innovation at the Solutions Exchange (http://www.vmguru.nl/wordpress/?p=11911)If you wandered through the halls of the congress complex you’ve probably also seen the Solutions Exchange. At the Solutions Exchange more than 125 exhibitors are showing their products or vision for the future. Some of these exhibitors are the ones you probably already know, like VMware, EMC, Cisco, Dell. HP. These exhibitors have a lot to show you. There is a lot of innovation going on right now. There are however exhibitors that aren’t that well-known. Most of their booths are smaller and are place…
- VMworld Europe 2013 – Technical Keynote (http://www.vmguru.nl/wordpress/?p=11880)Today’s General Session is all about the technology behind the solutions provided by VMware and the partner eco system. Featuring Carl Eschenbach, VMware’s President and COO, along with VMware’s engineering leaders they are showcasing state-of-the-art technology that is transforming IT by virtualizing and automating compute, storage, networking and security across private and hybrid clouds. It may be or is the largest IT event in Europe for a few years now. From 1.400 to 8.500+ now. Lets summarise…
- VMworld TV: Exclusive interview with VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger (http://www.vmguru.nl/wordpress/?p=11882)VMworld TV did a great interview with VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger. Do you want to know about VMware’s vision and the vacancy for VMware CTO? Check out the video below. Leave A Comment posted in VMware by Erik Scholten
- VMworld TV: Wrap up VMworld Europe 2013 day 1 (http://www.vmguru.nl/wordpress/?p=11879)VMworld TV gives you a wrap up of all of VMworld Europe 2013 in Barcelona. If you want to know what happened in Barcelona check out the video below. Leave A Comment posted in VMware by Erik Scholten
- Can’t establish connection to the server at 7331 (http://www.gabesvirtualworld.com/?p=3203)When trying to open the console of a VM using the vSphere Webclient with the VMware vCenter Server Appliance 5.5, I received the following error: “can’t establish a connection to the server at vcsa.vanzanten.local: 7331″. It took me some searching through the VMware KB and finally found it. I’m posting it here merely for my […] See full post at: Can’t establish connection to the server at 7331
- VMware vCloud Hybrid Service with Desktone DaaS Video (http://myvirtualcloud.net/?p=5511)This video demonstrates the power of the VMware vCloud Hybrid Service combined with the Desktone technology acquired and announced today at VMworld 2013 EMEA. The solution effectively delivers Multi-tenancy, Self Service, Grid-based architecture for elastic scalability and Low cost of delivery. Find out more about the Desktone acquisition reading the press release here. This article was first … Continue reading »
- Horizon View 5.3 and VMware VSAN Setup Video (http://myvirtualcloud.net/?p=5494)VSAN reduces CAPEX for Horizon View deployments by leveraging inexpensive server disks for shared storage, avoiding the capital expense of specialized hardware. VSAN helps to reduce OPEX by greatly simplifying, and in most cases eliminating, day-to-day storage configuration and provisioning activities, yet allowing administrators to scale Horizon View deployments on-demand by adding hosts on the … Continue reading »
- Horizon View support and interoperability with Horizon Mirage (http://myvirtualcloud.net/?p=5487)It took a little while, but the Horizon Mirage support for Horizon View is here! In the context of VDI, Mirage offers centralized image management, and end-point backup and restoration, but it is important to remember that Mirage is also a great tool to manage physical end-points. Let’s go back to virtual desktops… In … Continue reading »
- What’s New in VMware Horizon View 5.3 (Beyond Marketing) (http://myvirtualcloud.net/?p=5490)It’s that time again! VMware just announced VMware Horizon View 5.3 and has also lifted the NDA. Despite being only a ‘dot’ release the Horizon View team added a significant number of features that provide improvements in the areas of performance, user experience and management. Following the format of my previous articles “What’s New (Beyond … Continue reading »
- Server Side Caching – PernixData at VMworld Barcelona 2013 (http://www.vladan.fr/?p=32543)I’ve met Poojan Kumar at the PernixData booth to do a quick interview. Readers of my blog knows well PernixData as a Server side caching solution from some articles and interviews where I showed the UI and talked about the benefits of server side caching as an incredible performance boost for users and administrators wanting to “boost” […] You might also like: New PernixPro™ Program from PernixDATA offers NFR software PernixData Launches Flash Virtualization Platform 1.0 (FVP) PernixData Flash…
- My VCAP5-DCD Barcelona Experience (http://www.vladan.fr/?p=32553)As you might already know if you follow me on Twitter, I tried to pass my VCAP5-DCD exam during the VMworld Barcelona 2013 event. I’d like to share my experience from the exam. The fact that the exam is actually during the conference event isn’t really the best option (next time I’ll avoid that) because […] You might also like: VCAP5-DCD Official Cert Guide, Premium Edition eBook and… My VCAP5-DCD experience VCAP5-DCA – VMware vSphere 5 Data Center Administrator Read the full post My VCAP5-DCD…
- Ultra-compact Quad Core Xeon Server DS6100 from WD (http://www.vladan.fr/?p=32533)I’ve passed by the WD booth to see their latest baby – a quad core Xeon server DS6100 which can be loaded with up to 32Gb of RAM. There are WD Se enterprise-class 3.5-inch hard drives offering up to 16 TB, which handles the storage and two additional boot drives configured in RAID 1 (mirror). The […] You might also like: VMworld 2013 Server Side Caching – PernixData at VMworld Barcelona… ESXi 5.5 Free Version has no more hard limit 32GB of RAM Read the full post Ultra-compact Quad Core Xeon…
- vCloud Automation Center 6.0 (VCAC) Details Unveiled (http://www.vladan.fr/?p=32466)VMware VCAC 6.0 has been announced during VMworld Barcelona 2013. vCloud Automation Center is automation product for cloud infrastructures, which allows through policy based blueprint, an automatic delivery of multi-tier applications or rather services, based on a catalog. Those services are self-service based and offers to the IT provide to through the catalog, a personalized services […] You might also like: vCloud Automation Center Introduced by VMware vCloud Automation Center (vCAC) videos VMware…
- vCenter Log Insight 1.5 Brings Enhanced Content Packs and More (http://www.vladan.fr/?p=32411)vCenter Log insight is quite a young product in the VMware product line, which got introduced through my article - Easy Install, clean Interface…vCenter Log Insight. The product allows collect, analyse and search logs and unstructured, machine generated data. vCenter Log Insight 1.5 gets tighter integration with VCOPS and it’s optimized for VMware environments with built-in […] You might also like: Easy Install, clean Interface…vCenter Log Insight… vCenter Operation Management Suite 5.6 –…
- vCOPS 5.8 – vCenter Operations Suite 5.8 Announced during VMworld 2013 Barcelona (http://www.vladan.fr/?p=32393)VMware has announced vCenter Operations Management Suite 5.8. (vCOPS 5.8) The product isn’t available for download yet (shall be out mi-november), but we already know what’s new in vCOPS 5.8. vCOPS 5.8 uses intelligent operations with policy-based automation, where the automation engine is self-learning and regulates and drives remediation actions continuously. Intelligent Operations - capacity managment […] You might also like: vCenter Operation Management Suite 5.6 – What’s… vCenter Log…
- New PernixPro™ Program from PernixDATA offers NFR software for IT professionals (http://www.vladan.fr/?p=32519)PernixDATA has announced today a new Program for IT professionals, vExperts, VMUG leaders, analysts, and bloggers. All those people, but not only, as other individuals can also apply, will be able to have access to NFR software from PernixData, network with other technical specialists, see some deep dives demos or get hand on latest promotions. Also with this […] You might also like: Server Side Caching – PernixData at VMworld Barcelona… PernixData Launches Flash Virtualization Platform 1.0 (FVP)…
- Pass a Second VMware Exam for Free or get a second chance Free if you have failed (http://www.vladan.fr/?p=32513)There is a possibility to pass second VMware exam for free or to reschedule the exam you missed for a second chance – free. In fact VMware has put on an offer which allows to schedule free exam by 31st of March 2014! If you’re fortunate enough to live in one of those countries which […] You might also like: VMware Desktop Certification announced St Valentine Promo at VMware VCAP-CIA – vCloud VCAP exam available Read the full post Pass a Second VMware Exam for Free or get a second chance Free if you…
- SEsparse Disk Format vs VMFSsparse – VMware performance study (http://www.vladan.fr/?p=32493)While the new SEsparse disk format introduced in vSphere 5.1 for Horizon View based workloads only, the VMFSsparse is used for snapshoting or linked clones too. SEsparse Disk Format vs VMFSsparse are compared and tested in this study. The SESparce VMDK virtual disk format – Space Efficient Sparse Disk Format. This disk format has a new granular block allocation size […] You might also like: View 5.2 Best Practices PDF – Optimizing W7 and W8… VMware vSphere 5.5 Storage New Features VMware…
- VMware VSAN during VMworld Barcelona (http://www.vladan.fr/?p=32481)I just wanted to point out to sessions and group discussions that will discuss VMware VSAN. As you know, the sessions are recorded, but the discussions are not. So it’s a probably smart move for some to attend the group discussions instead of the actual session as the recording will be available online after VMworld. […] You might also like: VMware VSAN Beta Community opens the doors VSAN Observer – upcoming tool for monitoring VSAN… VMware VSAN Video Read the full post VMware VSAN during VMworld…
- Getting Ready for VMworld in Barcelona (http://www.2vcps.com/?p=1449)My planing for VMworld in Barcelona began right after Speed 2 Lead Megalaunch from EMC. First came the meetings about who should be staffing the booth. In years past EMC would staff the booth with mainly BU (business unit) experts. Great people, but this really made for a product centric style in the booth. Some […] Related posts: Get Ready for the vHunt at VMworld with some bonus prizes The Philosophy of Cloud VMworld Sunday and Monday – Monkeys Fly
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Trend Micro Deep Security 9 VMware vCloud Networking and Security, VMware vShield Endpoint Support Matrix (2061878)
Date Published: 10/10/2013
Socialcast On Premise v2
Assemble the Socialcast OP Riak cluster after experiencing filesystem problems (2041907)
Date Published: 10/10/2013
Virtual Disk Development Kit
Virtual machines with the same disk signature generate Windows Event messages during backup (2061781)
Date Published: 10/11/2013
VMware ESXi
Adding a host to Active Directory fails and creates an entry with a different name in ESXi 5.0 and 5.1 (2047602)
Date Published: 10/9/2013
vCenter Server Alarm on an ESXi host reports the message: Error (1) saving state to /bootbank (2057826)
Date Published: 10/10/2013
Configuring Virtual Flash Read Cache for VMDKs larger than 16TB fails with the error: The disk size not supported (2059206)
Date Published: 10/7/2013
Windows 2000 Server Service Pack 4 virtual machine with 8 vCPU or more blue screens: PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA (2059810)
Date Published: 10/7/2013
vMotion bandwidth requirements (2059921)
Date Published: 10/10/2013
Error when downloading some Documentation Center PDFs from Firefox and opening PDFs locally (2061697)
Date Published: 10/9/2013
Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP) connections may not work on ESXi 5.5 (2061834)
Date Published: 10/9/2013
vMotion fails at 14% despite vmkping succeeding from source to target IP address (2042654)
Date Published: 10/9/2013
Cannot start the snmpd service from VMware vCenter Server 5.0 / 5.1 (2056832)
Date Published: 10/10/2013
VMware Horizon View
Granting domain administrators access to redirected folders for View Persona Management (2058932)
Date Published: 10/9/2013
Cannot delete a disposable disk when the virtual machine is powered off in VMware Horizon View 5.0 / 5.1 / 5.2 (2061131)
Date Published: 10/11/2013
Installing VMware Horizon View Connection Server fails with the error: Error 1720 (2055807)
Date Published: 10/9/2013
VMware Horizon Workspace
Logging in to Horizon Workspace Administrator Web interface fails with the error: 404 Page not found (2057305)
Date Published: 10/10/2013
VMware vCenter Configuration Manager
vCenter Configuration Manager collector machine status is marked as Installation Delegate by default (2053965)
Date Published: 10/7/2013
Errors occur when a CSIRegistry Locale is not saved after upgrading VCM agent from pre-unicode compliant to compliant (2053966)
Date Published: 10/7/2013
Logging in to VMware vCenter Configuration Manager web console fails with an existing account after upgrading from VCM 5.6 to 5.7 in 2-tier installation (2053968)
Date Published: 10/7/2013
Installing the vCenter Configuration Manager agent fails on a RHEL 6.3 64-bit target machine without a 32-bit glibc (2057314)
Date Published: 10/7/2013
Web console fails to launch after installing VMware vCenter Configuration Manager (2057317)
Date Published: 10/7/2013
Windows patching in VMware vCenter Configuration Manager fails to deploy patches on target machine (2057318)
Date Published: 10/7/2013
VMware vCenter Operations Manager (Standalone)
VMware vCOPs Manager generic scoreboard displays the error: java.lang.NumberFormatException: For input string: XX,XX (2058431)
Date Published: 10/8/2013
VMware vCenter Operations Manager (vApp)
Tags to filter configuration information disappears from the vCenter Operations Manager 5.7 Health Status widget ation information (2061627)
Date Published: 10/11/2013
VMware vCenter Server
Cannot change the password of administrator@vsphere.local from the vSphere Web Client pulldown menu (2060010)
Date Published: 10/7/2013
Upgrading from vCenter Single Sign-On 5.1 to 5.5 fails after accepting the End User Licensing Agreement (2061404)
Date Published: 10/9/2013
Cannot log in or add users from a Single Label Domain in VMware vCenter Server 5.5 (2061561)
Date Published: 10/7/2013
Logging in to VMware vCenter Server 5.5 using the Web Client fails with Error #1009 (2061667)
Date Published: 10/7/2013
VMware vCenter Server Appliance
Redeploying vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) 5.1 Update 1a or 1b fails with the error: vc_db_schema_version mismatch (2054966)
Date Published: 10/11/2013
VMware vCenter Server Heartbeat
vCenter Server Heartbeat console displays the alert: File Filter Discovery: Failed ‘File Filter Discovery’ after 103ms with status Plug-in task failed (2061548)
Date Published: 10/7/2013
VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager
SRM Performance is Slow with EMC VNX 5700 Storage (2058987)
Date Published: 10/7/2013
SRM operations fail because vSphere Replication cannot open the disk file of a virtual machine (2059375)
Date Published: 10/7/2013
VMware vCloud Director
VMware vCloud Director vApp fails to start with HTTP NFC Error: Cannot Deploy Package (2058394)
Date Published: 10/10/2013
Support for the StorageCapacity XML element in vCloud Director 5.1 (2060915)
Date Published: 10/10/2013
Uncatalogued vApp templates and media unusable after upgrade to vCloud Director 5.5 (2061765)
Date Published: 10/9/2013
VMware vCloud Hybrid Service
Unable to add or edit firewall exceptions for ICMP protocol in VMware vCloud Hybrid Service 1.0 (2056947)
Date Published: 10/9/2013
VMware vSphere Data Protection
Microsoft Clustering Services: Unable to backup Virtual Machines after resolving 100% capacity ( Read-only mode) by reducing storage to a functional level. (2051233)
Date Published: 10/8/2013
VMware vSphere Storage Appliance
Deploying VMware Virtual Storage Appliance remotely with locally copied VMDK files fails (2053809)
Date Published: 10/10/2013
VMware vSphere Update Manager
Unable to implement CA signed SSL Certificates with vCenter Server 5.1 components when distinguished names are not unique (2060055)
Date Published: 10/8/2013
VMware vSphere Web Client
vSphere Web Client displays incorrect Korean translation for the All and Actions keywords when a Web plug-in is deployed using SDK (2061315)
Date Published: 10/10/2013