From the editors virtual desk
Hi everyone, been a very hectic week for me this week. It seems like so much is going on before we head into what I hope will be a quieter period over December. I think this happens every year and I just forget that it does and am not prepared. I was at our local VMUG this week which was excellent and something I really enjoy. I look forward to our final meeting of the year in December and then a break until the January kick off again.
I hope your week has been good and you enjoy this weeks newsletter.
Virtually Yours
Neil Isserow
Senior Technical Account Manager
VMware Australia
Local Events (BRISBANE)
- TAM Day (November)
Local Training Classes
VMware Horizon View: Install, Configure, Manage [V5.2] 25 - 28 Nov
VMware vSphere: Optimize and Scale [V5.1] 09-13 Dec
VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V5.5] 16-20 Dec
VMware Bloggers
- VMware Virtualization Management Blog: Business Centric IT–A Great Idea! But How? (http://blogs.vmware.com/management/?p=2233)Becoming business centric is a key part of the mission of many IT organizations. The question is how to achieve this lofty goal. This Gartner research paper looks at the core capabilities necessary to achieve that goal. Business centric IT. What does it take? Most IT organizations are in some form of transition, from a world where they were the only source of IT services to one where they are part of a larger IT ecosystem where some percentage of IT services are now being delivered by 3 rd party SaaS…
- VMware for Small-Medium Business Blog: Back To Basics: Install VMware ESXi 5.5 (http://blogs.vmware.com/smb/?p=2258)Post By Mike Laverick, VMware, Senior Cloud Infrastructure Evangelist This is a repost from Mike Laverick’s blog,mikelaverick.com Since I stopped being an instructor in 2009, I found myself increasingly distanced from vSphere and core platform. That was partly because of circumstances. My last book was on vSphere4, and didn’t write a vSphere4.1 book because I personally felt that the changes weren’t that massively different. By then I was stuck deep into the VMware Site Recovery Manager 5.0 book,…
- VMware Education & Certification Blog: Welcome to new VCDX: Samir Roshan (http://blogs.vmware.com/education/?p=2932)Please join us in welcoming the newest VCDX – Samir Roshan, VCDX #124 . Samir has been working in IT industry from past 11 years and has experience in Enterprise Architecture, Virtualization & Cloud Computing, Datacenter migration, Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery. He has worked with technology leaders on likes of Unisys, IBM, EMC, Safenet and currently working for VMware in Professional Services team as Senior Technical Account Manager. He has held various roles through his career…
- VMwareTV: vSphere with Operations Management Overview (tag:youtube.com,2008:video:s7CKAXkPGQc)vSphere with Operations Management Overview Learn more about the benefits of VMware vSphere® with Operations Management™, the world's leading virtualization platform with insight to IT capacity and performance. From: vmwaretv Views: 24 1 ratings Time: 02:25 More in Science & Technology
- VMware Virtualization Management Blog: Cloud Operations with SAN Infrastructure Visibility – Brocade (http://blogs.vmware.com/management/?p=2206)As virtual infrastructure (VI) within the data center becomes a focal point of management from a business imperative operations management end, it is important to ensure all of the underlying hardware components that have impact on the performance of virtual machines, and the applications hosted on top of these, are integrated into the VI operational tools. Domain expertise is typically best left for those vendors who have deep customer experience such as Fibre Channel switching, SAN storage, purpose built…
- VMware Consulting Blog: The SDDC Seems Cool … But What Do I Do with It? (http://blogs.vmware.com/consulting/?p=1052)By David Gallant , VMWare Professional Services Consultant Lately I’ve been receiving requests from customers to talk to them about the software-defined data center (SDDC). So I start to explain software-defined networking, software-defined storage, automated provisioning, and self-service portals. And that’s when I notice the customer looking excited, but also slightly confused. Last week at SAP TechEd 2013 , I was in the middle of just such a talk when I decided to stop and I ask the customer why…
- VMware vSphere Blog: Upgrading vCenter when using vCenter Heartbeat, Part 2 (https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/?p=10805)In Part 1 I covered how to upgrade vCenter Heartbeat to version 6.6 which is required for vCenter 5.5. Once the Primary and Secondary nodes are upgraded to vCenter Heartbeat 6.6 we can begin upgrading to vCenter 5.5 and any optional components (such as VUM or AutoDeploy) that may be installed also. The first decision before we move on is if Single Sign-on (SSO) will be installed locally to the vCenter (recommended for most customers) or if SSO will be deployed in a centralized fashion (recommended for…
- VMware vSphere Blog: vSphere OpenStack Virtual Appliance (VOVA) Demo (http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/?p=10794)Since announcing of the release vSphere OpenStack Virtual Appliance (VOVA) earlier this summer at VMworld 2013 there has been a great amount of interest on this project. Since then, I have wanted to create a demonstration for VMware customers and the vSphere administrators interested in working with the OpenStack framework on vSphere. The demonstration below showcases the built-in integration between vSphere and the OpenStack projects Nova and Cinder. As of today, the vSphere OpenStack Virtual Appliance…
- VMwareTV: vSphere & OpenStack Framework Integration with the vSphere OpenStack Virtual Appliance (tag:youtube.com,2008:video:4Leaxe-DiJc)vSphere & OpenStack Framework Integration with the vSphere OpenStack Virtual Appliance In this demonstration In this demonstration we will showcase the integration capabilities between a vSphere infrastructure and the OpenStack framework by dep... From: vmwaretv Views: 4 1 ratings Time: 05:00 More in Science & Technology
- VMware Cloud Ops Blog: Task Automation vs. Process Automation: Join Us For #CloudOpsChat 11/13! (http://blogs.vmware.com/cloudops/?p=653)Here at VMware, we’re always talking about automation: Venkat Gopalikrishan detailed his success after automating the provisioning of business-critical application stacks, and Paul Chapman introduced VMware’s IT transformation story by highlighting the importance of automation and change management . We saw some fantastic insight on automation from many of you during our last #CloudOpsChat and wanted continue the conversation. For this month’s #CloudOpsChat, we’re specifically focusing on next…
- VMwareTV: Columbia Sportswear - IT Transformation leveraging vCloud suite (tag:youtube.com,2008:video:lUh4U6uUDgw)Columbia Sportswear - IT Transformation leveraging vCloud suite Columbia Sportswear discusses their VMware Cloud Journey highlighting their IT Transformation to support their business needs. From: vmwaretv Views: 5 0 ratings Time: 03:02 More in Science & Technology
- VMware Support Insider: New Horizon View poster available today! (http://blogs.vmware.com/kb/?p=5861)Remember the immensely popular Network port diagram for vSphere 5.x we released back in July? Many of you got your hands on a physical copy at VMworld that we were handing out at the Social Support booth in the Hang Space. Today we make good on a promise to release one for Horizon View 5.2 Click the image to be taken to the KB article which contains the pdf file. Network port diagram for Horizon View (2061913) Let us know what you think in the comment area below; we’re interested!
- VMTN Blog: VMware Communities Roundtable Podcast – 253 – vCenter Server (http://blogs.vmware.com/vmtn/?p=8133)Hosts John Mark Troyer, VMware @jtroyer Mike Laverick, VMware @Mike_Laverick Guests Justin King, VMware @vcenterguy News Is Your Cloud Ready for Big Data? vSphere Big Data Extensions Docker – Open source project to pack, ship and run any application as a lightweight container VMware vCenter Converter Standalone Around the Community vBrownbag Podcast VMUG Local Meetings – Check it today! AdaptingIT – Lauren Malhoit Podcast Virtualization Security Roundtable vCatchup Podcast – Craig Waters…
- VMware vCloud Blog: VMware vCloud Hybrid Service Direct Connect Primer (http://blogs.vmware.com/vcloud/?p=2998)By: Chris Colotti and Joe Carvalho Earlier this year at VMworld San Francisco, we announced a new offering with VMware vCloud Hybrid Service that will be called Direct Connect. Since announcing it there has been a lot of interest on it, so Joe Carvalho and I have decided to co-author this short primer to explain the offering. We will be adding more materials in the way of Technical Briefs that go deeper on the topic, but for now we decided it was time to at least explain what the offering is. …
- VMwareTV: VMware Customer Testimonials Live From HP Discover (tag:youtube.com,2008:video:aKyX6w28DGQ)VMware Customer Testimonials Live From HP Discover Hear amazing first-hand success stories from satisfied customers sharing their story on how VMware and HP provided integrated virtualization solutions spanning from the desktop, to the data... From: vmwaretv Views: 6 0 ratings Time: 04:51 More in Science & Technology
- VMware Virtualization Management Blog: vCenter Operations Management Tech Tips: Tip #15 – vCenter Configuration Manager Simplified Installation (http://blogs.vmware.com/management/?p=2189)Hi folks, Today’s vCenter Operations TechTip blog post, with Tip #15, comes to you from Hicham Mourad, Sr. Technical Marketing Manager focused on cloud operations management. Himanshu. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————– vCenter Configuration Manager is a component of the vCenter Operations Management Suite. It helps many of our clients manage change…
- VMware Education & Certification Blog: Europe: Save While Being the First to Train on 5.5 Courses (http://blogs.vmware.com/education/?p=2923)Save while being the first to train on VMware 5.5 with two new European courses: VMware vSphere: What’s New [V4.x to V5.5] VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V5.5] Enrol today for course completion by 31 December 2013 and SAVE 10% . See offer details in English , Français , or Deutsch .
- VMware vSphere Blog: New vSphere OpenStack Virtual Appliance (VOVA) – Havana Release (http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/?p=10789)Folks we are very excited to announce the release of new version of vSphere OpenStack Virtual Appliance (VOVA) based on the new OpenStack Havana release. This release contains several additional improvements over the previous VOVA version based on the Grizzly release. Below are some of the highlights included with the new release: Single Nova compute node can manage multiple clusters under single vCenter. VMDK driver for Cinder enables creation of volumes using vSphere datastores. This allows OpenStack…
- VMware vSphere Blog: VMware Communities Podcast – Hardening Guide and secure virtual appliances (https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/?p=10783)Tomorrow, November 6th, I’ll be hosting the VMware Communities Roundtable Podcast ! We’ll be talking about the recently released vSphere 5.5 Hardening Guide and the massive amount of work that’s been done to secure VMware virtual appliances ! Joining me will be Simon Mijolovic (we just call him “Simon”), the Staff Program Manager for virtual appliance security and Greg Murray, Product Manager for, among many things, virtual appliances at VMware. Simon will be going over the changes that were…
- VMwareTV: VMware Horizon View BYOD Solution for North Carolina State University (tag:youtube.com,2008:video:7oZlEggg4kA)VMware Horizon View BYOD Solution for North Carolina State University North Carolina State University is leveraging VMware Horizon View virtualized desktops to help address the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) challenge they face from students and faculty. This... From: vmwaretv Views: 4 0 ratings Time: 03:15 More in Science & Technology
- The Console: Join us for a live Google Hangout where industry luminaries will gaze into a crystal ball and predict the future of IT (http://blogs.vmware.com/vmware/?p=1556)In 10 years, will the world’s data centers be shuttered? In 20 years, will all technology be self healing, requiring no human interaction whatsoever? As a result of shifts in the IT industry, will CIOs stop worrying about infrastructure and … Continue reading →
- VMware vCloud Blog: What Makes a Cloud a Hybrid Cloud? (http://blogs.vmware.com/vcloud/?p=2989)By: Chris Colotti This is a repost from Chris Colotti’s blog, chriscolotti.us . Something I noticed I was talking about a lot at VMworld was the concept of what makes VMware vCloud Hybrid Cloud Service, really a “hybrid cloud”. The funny thing is, I asked The Google and TheHostingNews.com has some interesting cloud terms, but I pulled this one quote. Hybrid Cloud – In some situations, the customer may need both a local server running specific applications and a cloud service that…
- VMware End User Computing: VMware BYOD Solutions for Higher Education (and why some people hate the holiday season) (http://blogs.vmware.com/euc/?p=4277)by Geoffrey Murase, Solutions Marketing, VMware The Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) phenomenon is NOT restricted to the business world. It has already permeated college campuses around the world. More and more, students are bringing their own connected devices to school and expecting support from college IT departments. Whether it’s a tablet, smartphone, laptop or even gaming consoles or smart TVs, students need to be connected and have access to their applications and files. North Carolina State…
- VMware for Public Sector Blog: Software Defined Data Center Webcast – VMware and Carahsoft (http://blogs.vmware.com/publicsector/?p=105)On November 7, 2013 at 2:00 pm Eastern / 11:00 am Pacific, VMware and Carahsoft will have an online seminar on the Software Defined Data Center. During this session we will be covering the vCloud Automation Center and how it can help you: Automate the management and delivery of IT Services Optimize IT resource usage and compliance through policy-based governance Empower users through simplified self-service to gain access to personalized infrastructure and application services Consolidate cloud…
- VMware for Small-Medium Business Blog: Implementing Disaster Recovery Solutions: Navicure’s Case Story and Upcoming Webinar (http://blogs.vmware.com/smb/?p=2248)Post by Brandon Sweeney, Vice President U.S. Mid-Market Businesses As those in the health care field know, implementing a strong disaster recovery system is not only a business requirement for government compliance, it’s essential to ensure the health and safety of the end customer the business serves. I’d like to share the story of Navicure, a rapidly growing small company serving the health care industry, who turned to VMware to help meet the needs of their ever expanding business. “Basically, our…
- VMware Education & Certification Blog: Quiz Question of the Week: vCloud Networking and Security (http://blogs.vmware.com/education/?p=2864)This week’s Question of the Week comes from the Instructional Video VMware vCloud Networking and Security series. VXLAN requires the use of VMware vSphere Distributed Switch 5.1? [a] True [b] False ______________________________________________________________ Not sure of the answer? Then watch Overview of vCloud Networking. Answer: [a] True
- VMware Virtualization Management Blog: Help VMware Cloud Management Integrate With Your Technology StacksIn this blog I talked about how VMware’s manage product extensibility helps our customers automate and operate their technology stacks. Fill out this VMware Cloud Management Survey on 3rd Party Solutions (and enter a chance to win a new iPAD). This information will help the VMware’s Product Management Team design and execute the right extensibility and integration programs with our partners.
- VMware Hands On Labs Blog: 2012 Hands-on Labs End of Life December 1st 2013 (http://blogs.vmware.com/hol/?p=607)Folks, Just wanted to make sure everyone was aware that we have started the End of Life process for our 2012 Hands-on Labs Catalog. The great news is that our new 2013 catalog covers the same products plus all the new and exciting labs we recently announced, NSX, vCAC, Openstack, vCloud Suite and many more. If you have not already seen the latest labs please visit http://labs.hol.vmware.com List of labs to be removed December 1st, 2013 5:00 PM PST HOL-APP-01 – Manage Your vCloud Suite Applications…
- VMware Education & Certification Blog: Save 50% on VMware vCloud Automation Center: Extensibility for Administrators BETA (http://blogs.vmware.com/education/?p=2895)North America: Be the first to train while saving 50% on BETA course: VMware vCloud Automation Center: Extensibility for Administrators BETA Location: Morrisville, NC, United States Time: Dec 16- Dec 17 @ 9 AM to 5 PM EST See Course Description and Register Today Don’t delay as BETA courses fill up quickly! Sign up to receive notification as soon as a future BETA course becomes available in your area.
- VMware Support Insider: Top 20 Articles for October 2013 (http://blogs.vmware.com/kb/?p=5857)Here is our Top 20 KB list for October 2013. This list is ranked by the number of times a VMware Support Request was resolved by following the steps in a published Knowledge Base article. Troubleshooting Fusion virtual machine performance issues (1015676) Installing async drivers on ESXi 5.0/5.1/5.5 (2005205) Broadcom 5719/5720 NICs using tg3 driver become unresponsive and stop traffic in vSphere (2035701) Re-pointing and re-registering VMware vCenter Server 5.1 / 5.5 and components (2033620) …
- VMware Support Insider: Manually collecting diagnostic logs from the Android VMware switch (http://blogs.vmware.com/kb/?p=5854)In today’s new video tutorial, we discuss and demonstrate the process for manually collecting diagnostic logs from the Android VMware Switch . The normal method to collect the logs from a VMware Ready device is using the VMware Horizon Mobile Server console or through the Horizon Workspace console to which the device is connected. However, if the device fails to connect to the server, you may have to collect the logs from the device itself. This video provides steps to collect the logs from a VMware…
- vSphere PowerCLI Blog: VSAN and vSphere Flash Read Cache cmdlets (https://blogs.vmware.com/vipowershell/?p=1536)Today a new VMware fling has been released, and it’s fantastic! By now I am sure you have probably heard all the buzz from VMworld and with the 5.5 release and announced betas. Two of the most talked about technologies are vSphere Flash Read Cache (vFRC) released in the new vSphere 5.5 version and also VSAN which was announced as a beta. Today a new VMware fling was added to the site called “ PowerCLI Extensions ” here which allows you to use both VSAN and vFRC from PowerCLI, this gives you the…
- VMware ThinApp Blog: ThinApp 5.0 Quick Facts and Answers (http://blogs.vmware.com/thinapp/?p=1643)By Tina de Benedictis, Senior Technical Marketing Manager, End-User Computing, VMware VMware ThinApp 5.0 released two days ago , and here are some quick facts and answers to commonly asked questions. Quick Facts To virtualize a 64-bit application with ThinApp, you must Use ThinApp 5.0 for capture Use a 64-bit Windows 7 capture machine Deploy the ThinApp package to a 64-bit Windows 7 machine If you virtualize a 32-bit application on a 64-bit capture machine, you must also deploy to a 64-bit Windows 7…
- VMware End User Computing: ThinApp 5.0 Quick Facts and Answers (http://blogs.vmware.com/euc/?p=4251)By Tina de Benedictis, Senior Technical Marketing Manager, End-User Computing, VMware VMware ThinApp 5.0 released two days ago , and here are some quick facts and answers to commonly asked questions. Quick Facts To virtualize a 64-bit application with ThinApp, you must Use ThinApp 5.0 for capture Use a 64-bit Windows 7 capture machine Deploy the ThinApp package to a 64-bit Windows 7 machine If you virtualize a 32-bit application on a 64-bit capture machine, you must also deploy to a 64-bit Windows 7…
- VMworldTV: Kieran Harty speaks exclusively to VMworld TV (tag:youtube.com,2008:video:kVcmDTTo7ew)Kieran Harty speaks exclusively to VMworld TV From: VMworldTV Views: 75 0 ratings Time: 09:26 More in Science & Technology
- VMware Accelerate: Is Your Organization Ready for the New Wave of IT? (http://blogs.vmware.com/accelerate/?p=1445)While most IT organizations have a high-level vision for their end-state cloud, and they have the people needed to implement the technology, many are missing the strategy to connect the two. What do you execute, at what stage, and how do the people and processes need to change to support that? The video below provides a strong starting point. Don’t miss Accelerate Advisory Services strategist Padmaja Vrudhula’s great explanation of a service-based approach to change management. She provides tangible…
- VMware Security Blog: vSphere Security Blog Update (http://blogs.vmware.com/security/?p=904)Hi, Those of you that follow the vSphere Security blog are probably wondering why there hasn’t been much information posted here. I have been posting in the vSphere Blog in order to get more eyes on the security messaging of vSphere. I would encourage you to follow me there or at @vSphereSecurity on Twitter for more frequent updates. Please note that the big news is the release of the vSphere 5.5 Hardening Guide. This release comes less than 3 weeks after the general availability of vSphere 5.5. If you…
- VMware vSphere Blog: Updated vCenter Server 5.5.0a Released (http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/?p=10765)A minor update to the vCenter Server 5.5 has been released VMware vCenter Server™ 5.5.0a | 31 OCT 2013 | Build 1378901 vCenter Server Appliance 5.5.0a | 31 OCT 2013 | Build 1398493 Issues resolved with this release are as follows Attempts to upgrade vCenter Single Sign-On (SSO) 5.1 Update 1 to version 5.5 might fail with error code 1603 Attempts to log in to the vCenter Server might be unsuccessful after you upgrade from vCenter Server 5.1 to 5.5 Unable to change the vCenter SSO administrator…
- The Console: VMware Weekly News Recap: November 1 (http://blogs.vmware.com/vmware/?p=1543)VMware News This week, VMware founder Diane Greene spoke at Y Combinator’s Startup School 2013. Green talks about the early days of VMware and how the company moved from start-up to a billion dollar company, touching on funding, business model, … Continue reading →
External Bloggers
- One perspective on the Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure launch... (http://virtualgeek.typepad.com/virtual_geek/2013/11/one-perspective-on-the-cisco-application-centric-infrastructure-launch.html)FWIW - a disclaimer: I wouldn't read too much into this blog post. I have perhaps some situational perspective - no more, no less. Today was Cisco's Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) launch - something many of us in the industry...
- Xpect more… Put an "X" on November 14th (http://virtualgeek.typepad.com/virtual_geek/2013/11/xpect-more-put-an-x-on-november-14th.html)14 NOVEMBER 2013 @ 11:00 AM EST/8:00 AM PST (this will be facemelting :-)
- VMworld PowerCLI Group Discussion–Part 3–Launching and Using (http://www.virtu-al.net/?p=2968)Following on from the previous posts in this series, this post will take us through the group discussion held at VMworld this year and expand on the items noted during the session. This post will focus on what people in the session used PowerCLI for and also the various ways people used to launch the […] VMworld PowerCLI Group Discussion–Part 3–Launching and Using is a post from: Virtu-Al . Virtu-Al is one of the authors of VMware vSphere PowerCLI Reference: Automating vSphere Administration" Buy…
- VMware VCAP5-DCA Exam Experience (http://www.boche.net/blog/?p=4839)For quite some time I’ve had it on my agenda to sit the VMware Certified Advanced Professional Datacenter Administrator (VCAP5-DCA) exam. It was starting to bother me and since I hadn’t sat a VCAP5 exam since June of last year (the DCD) and because I didn’t want to let the upgrade path lapse, it was [...] 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 web site without…
- Announcing the Mastering vSphere 5.5 Book Winners (http://www.boche.net/blog/?p=4832)Upon returning from VMworld 2013 San Francisco, I kicked off a contest with an award pool containing five copies of the upcoming Mastering vSphere 5.5 book. Amazon is reflecting an in-stock date of November 3rd and I’ve seen at least one mention on Twitter from an author that he has received his hard copy. My [...] 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 web site…
- Startup News Flash part 8 (http://www.yellow-bricks.com/?p=13848)Part 8 already of the Startup News Flash. It is just a short one, not too many new things but some worth mentioning in my opinion. Infinio just announced Infinio Accelerator 1.0. I wrote about what Infinio is and does in this article, in short: Infinio has developed a virtual appliance that sits in between your […] " Startup News Flash part 8 " originally appeared on Yellow-Bricks.com . Follow me on twitter - @DuncanYB.
- Learning NVP, Part 7: Handling the NVP to NSX Transition (http://blog.scottlowe.org/?p=3322)This is part 7 of the "Learning NVP" series, in which I discuss how I will handle the transition from NVP to NSX. This article was originally posted on blog.scottlowe.org . Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies. Learning NVP, Part 7: Handling the NVP to NSX Transition
- vSphere Metro Stretched Cluster with vSphere 5.5 and PDL AutoRemove (http://longwhiteclouds.com/?p=2483)In my article vSphere 5.5 Jumbo VMDK Deep Dive I covered the new PDL AutoRemove feature of vSphere 5.5 briefly, including it’s impact on vSphere Metro Stretched Cluster Configurations (vMSC). The reason I’m writing this article is to let you know that there are some impacts to vMSC configurations with the default settings, and in these types […]
- Need a ‘Cloaked’ Private, Hybrid or Public Cloud? (http://www.vmguru.nl/wordpress/?p=12000)Where Cloud visibility and control meets security. HyTrust Acquires HighCloud Security! Last year I had a very nice conversation with Eric Chiu about everything in the datacenter moving into software and the risky things around that move, today HyTrust Inc., the Cloud Security Automation Company, announced that it has acquired HighCloud Security, a leader in cloud encryption and key management software. By combining HyTrust’s powerful administrative visibility and control with HighCloud’s strengths in…
- VMware NSX Distributed Services (http://www.vmguru.nl/wordpress/?p=11972)This article is number two of a series about the upcoming network virtualization spree, specifically the one coming from VMware. Check out the first article in this series, ‘Introduction to VMware NSX‘. Traditional network services have evolved over the last years. Introducing more advanced firewalling, loadbalancing and remote access services. Typically, datacenter networks architecture these days look somewhat look this: The routers can be virtualized inside a physical box, using either VRFs or vendor…
- Introduction to VMware NSX (http://www.vmguru.nl/wordpress/?p=11969)This article is number one of a series about the upcoming network virtualization spree, specifically the one coming from VMware. I spent 14 to 17 October at VMworld 2013 in Barcelona, basically getting my mind blown by the futuristic possibilities of network flexibility. Things are changing for the network, flattening the entire stack, distributing network services throughout the virtual network (instead of the monolithic central hardware), lowering network costs and making it more flexible and simple to…
- And I thought “The Cloud” was just a fad….. (http://www.simonlong.co.uk/blog/?p=4909)It’s true, I actually wrote that in a blog post back in March 2010 called Is It A Bird? Is It A Plane? No, It’s….The Cloud! Until now I’ve not really given it to much thought. Obviously, working at VMware I needed to understand vCloud Director, but that was only really from a functionality/design perspective. However since [...] " And I thought “The Cloud” was just a fad….. " originally appeared on The SLOG . - Follow Simon Long on Twitter: @SimonLong_ Related posts: Onwards…
- vCloud Director Backups: The VMs are the easy part! (http://myvirtualcloud.net/?p=5550)Sponsored Article There is one thing that we all can agree on, vCloud Director is materially different from what we’ve done in vSphere by itself. With the rich capabilities of self-provisioning, virtual data centers, additional storage options and more; there is more than just getting a virtual machine stood up. The vCloud Director constructs such … Continue reading »
- PowerCLI for the VDI geek with Andre Leibovici – Automate ALL the things #vBrownBag (http://myvirtualcloud.net/?p=5546)Last week the team over at vBrownBag invited me to talk about VMware Horizon View and the PowerShell integration during their webcast. During the live session I was able to cover the basic architecture, the PowerCLI implementation and also provide some simple examples. Thanks to the vBrownBag crew for having me over. Watch now … Continue reading »
- VMware Fusion 6.0.2 Update Released (http://techhead.co/?p=7756)VMware have just released a maintenance update (6.0.2) for their Mac based Fusion product. Although a minor update it does address a number of bug fixes to the recently released Fusion 6.x virtualization product. If you are running Fusion 6.x then the next time you start it up you should receive a notification window that […] The post VMware Fusion 6.0.2 Update Released appeared first on TechHead and was written by Simon Seagrave . Why not take a look at my other related posts?: VMware vCenter 2.5…
- VMware vCenter Server Update 5.5.0a Update Available (http://techhead.co/?p=7753)VMware have released an update to the vCenter Server 5.5 product. This new release is numbered 5.5.0a and addresses a number of vCenter released bug fixes, predominantly around the area of vCenter SSO (Single Sign-On). Based on the bug fixes found in this release I’d definitely recommend you take a look, download, test and update […] The post VMware vCenter Server Update 5.5.0a Update Available appeared first on TechHead and was written by Simon Seagrave . Why not take a look at my other related…
- VMware vSphere 5.5 Hardening Guide Now Available (http://techhead.co/?p=7746)The VMware vSphere 5.5 Hardening Guide is now available for download. If you’re thinking about, or have already, updated your VMware vSphere infrastructure to v5.5 then I recommend you take a look and familiarise yourself with this informative security hardening guide. It is full of useful vulnerability avoidance know-how and contains best practices around the […] The post VMware vSphere 5.5 Hardening Guide Now Available appeared first on TechHead and was written by Simon Seagrave . Why not take a…
- Horizon View Free Poster – Network Ports (http://www.vladan.fr/?p=32935)If you administering VMware Horizon View solutions or architecting them, then you might welcome this very cool poster of network ports used by VMware Horizon View 5.2 which has been published by VMware KB guys. It’s a great way to visualize all opened port at the different parts of the infrastructure (External, DMZ or Internal) and […] You might also like: Free videos for VMware Horizon View 5.2 – User… VMware Horizon View 5.2 Blast Client and Demo VMware Horizon View 5.2 – MAC client update and…
- HyTrust Acquires HighCloud Security to add encryption and key management capabilities (http://www.vladan.fr/?p=32909)HighCloud security has an offering which allows to encrypt VMware vSphere, vCD public or private based workloads. The technology will be able to protect data by encrypting data at rest, where HyTrust was offering up to now, a security and hardening of the whole vSphere infrastructure via policies which for example are used to setup a […] You might also like: Highest-Level Security Certification for vSphere 5 VMware Free Training for Security – 1h Online,… Stratogen Opens New Datacenter in New York…
- How to quickly check ESXi logs from web browser (http://www.vladan.fr/?p=32914)There is many ways to check ESXi logs. You can SSH to your host (if SSH enabled) and check the logs through Putty for example, or you can generate log bundle via your vSphere Windows C# client (Adminsitration > Export system logs) to check them out after extracting those out from the zipped bundle. Logs […] You might also like: ESXi scratch partition – how to enable and why? VMware VDP logs – locate and troubleshoot vSphere Web Client – New in VMware vSphere 5.1 Read the full post How to quickly…
- VMware Virtual SAN (VSAN) Free VMworld Session (http://www.vladan.fr/?p=32900)Another free session I want to point out is the VSAN session by Vijay Ramachadran and Christos Karamanolis from VMware. You’ll learn how VSAN works and see some under the covers functions that makes VSAN so exciting new technology for the near future. They also brings the topic of price you’re paying for magnetic disks […] 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 Virtual SAN (VSAN)…
- 16 vCPU VMs for Fault Tolerance (http://www.vladan.fr/?p=32882)How cool it is to have 16vCPU in a VM for Fault Tolerance? I remember when first introduced, FT had the same magic as vMotion. But limitations to 1vCPU VMs and other limitations concerning backups were factors that this feature is not widely uses, even if the configuration at the vSphere level is minimal. For […] You might also like: VMworld 2013 General Session – Lot’s of demos… VMware Virtual SAN (VSAN) Free VMworld Session VMware NSX Product Walkthrough and details from the UI Read the full post…
- Virtualizing Microsoft SQL Server 2012 with VMware 5.x – Free E-learning (http://www.vladan.fr/?p=32877)There is a new Free E-learning course provided by VMware Education, which allows you to follow online training called Virtualizing Microsoft SQL Server 2012 with VMware. It’s a 3 hours long training which gives you a good overview on how to architect a deployment of Microsoft SQL Server in vSphere environments considering SQL licensing policies and […] You might also like: Virtualizing Microsoft Business Critical Applications on… vCloud Director 1.5 Self Paced Training from VMware… VMware View Free…
- vSphere 5.5 Hardening Guide Available – Free Download (http://www.vladan.fr/?p=32856)New updated release of vSphere 5.5 Hardening Guide – to match the latest VMware vSphere 5.5 – is out. This guide as in its previous releases gives you some good tips to secure your vSphere environments. As I reported already in the past on this guide – here is the vSphere 5.1 article, the format is […] You might also like: vSphere 5 Security Hardening Guide vSphere 5.1 Hardening Guide Released Mobile version of vSphere 5.1 Hardening Guide Available Read the full post vSphere 5.5 Hardening Guide…
- OpenStack Israel Sessions - Cast your Vote! (tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5819640694385843490.post-5587334287076310531)I would like to ask your assistance in voting for one of the sessions I proposed for the upcoming OpenStack Israel conference next month. You can cast your vote here - http://www.openstack-israel.org/#!call4paper/cf4g The three sessions I... This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more!..
- EMEA #vBrownbag goes to Italy (http://professionalvmware.com/?p=4042)The EMEA #vBrownbag covers a very large region and unlike the US version it supplies places with a multitude of languages with many of them being second or even third language English speaking. After several discussions at VMworld EMEA with Andrea Mauro and several other high profile Italian vExperts the VMUG.IT guys have agreed to […]
- #vBrownBag US VCAP Design Bootcamp with John Arrasjid (@vcdx001) Tuesday 11/12 and 11/19 [Updated!] (http://professionalvmware.com/?p=4037)**Update – The boot camp will be focused on the VCAP Design exam, not VCDX – sorry for the confusion** The VCAP Design Bootcamp is coming to the #vBrownBag! John Arrasjid (@vcdx001) will be presenting two special #vBrownBag US shows on Tuesday 11/12 and 11/19. The regularly scheduled OpenStack show will return after the VCAP […]
- Automate ALL the things #vBrownBag Follow Up – PowerCLI for the VDI geek with Andre Leibovici (@andreleibovici) (http://professionalvmware.com/?p=4028)Andrew Leibovici talks about how you can start to automate VMware Horizon View, how it works, how to configure your environment, how to get-help and some examples. #vBrownBag Automate ALL the things – PowerCLI for the VDI geek with Andre Leibovici (@andreleibovici) from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo.
- Automate ALL The Things #vBrownBag Follow Up – PowerCLI for the VM admin with Alan Renouf (@alanrenouf) (http://professionalvmware.com/?p=4026)Alan Renouf rolls the next Automate All the Things session, discussing PowerCLI for the infrastructure manager. He kicks off with requirements for PowerCLI as well as some basic commands to help get you started automating all the things. **First 35 seconds not edited, after all isn’t that what makes a #vBrownBag? Slides Video #vBrownBag Automate […]
- Solution Architecture – VMware NSX 6.0 with vCloud Director – Part 2 of 2 – Remote VPN Access (http://www.hypervizor.com/?p=1404)In this second part of the NSX 6.0 solution architectures series, we are building up on the pervious blog post. If you haven’t already done so, please take a few minutes to read that post at this link. In this solution, we are changing the way the end-users are accessing the cloud services. In the […]
- VMware KB Digest – New KB articles published for week ending 11/2/13 (http://vmwaretips.com/wp/?p=2213)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. Virtual Disk Development Kit Best Practices for performing a self-backup of a proxy virtual machine using VMware Virtual Disk Development [...]