VMware Newsletter 5.43

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Hi everyone, the end of 2013 is fast approaching but I still have so much to do. It always seems like the business period just prior to the holidays and this year has been no exception. I have had a really good week spending time digesting some of the announcements around PAAS from pivotal and how it will impact the marketplace. I have also spent much time contemplating the operational requirements and the complexities involved for an organisation that has workloads in their private data centre and in the cloud. The governance issues are one thing but the ongoing operational management including performance is something else. I was in a customer meeting this week where we discussed the “Single Pane of Glass” for operations management and I commented that this has been the goal of IT Operations forever. I did not see that using current generation solutions would solve this problem and that I believed many vendors were using outdated technology built for a single service model in a more physical world and trying to bend it into a dynamic clue based virtual world.

I have a busy week, the TAM program is hosting a Webex this week which you (as a TAM customer) would have received an invite for if you are in our region. I am also very busy planning for the local Brisbane TA day which is now in it’s fifth consecutive year. I will provide more info on this even in the coming newsletters.

Have a great week everyone.

Virtually Yours

Neil Isserow

Senior Technical Account Manager

VMware Australia

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VMware Accelerate: An SDDC Helps IT and Marketing Meet in the Middle (http://blogs.vmware.com/accelerate/?p=1541)AUTHOR: Enrico Boverino Companies need to deploy a modern workplace and innovative infrastructure in order to digitize business processes, and that often calls for organizational and financial shifts in both the IT and marketing departments. Can a software-defined data center (SDDC)—which at first glance may appear to be purely a technology strategy—help CIOs and CMOs work together to deliver competitive business innovation while reducing budgets? I believe so. A standard definition of digital…

VMwareTV: Bringing Value to Virtualization with HP Converged Infrastructure & VMware (tag:youtube.com,2008:video:NZjXbx0Gz-0)Bringing Value to Virtualization with HP Converged Infrastructure & VMware Learn about the challenges customers are experiencing with virtualization and the joint value they bring with integrated systems and converged infrastructure. From: VMware Views: 0 0 ratings Time: 02:42 More in Science & Technology

VMware End User Computing: VMware Horizon View™ Clients Version 2.2 (http://blogs.vmware.com/euc/?p=4307)By Kristina De Nike, Sr. Product Manager, End-User Computing, VMware Watch out, the Horizon View team is letting the first horse out of the corral. Today we are releasing updates to all of the Horizon View Clients. The clients boast both refinements and new features and are updated to work with the latest operating systems. What’s more, over the weeks to come, the clients will deliver even more features as updates to the Horizon View Connection Server and Feature Pack arrive. Real-Time Audio-Video for…

The Console: VMware Weekly News Recap: November 15 (http://blogs.vmware.com/vmware/?p=1631)VMware News *** Updated: Don’t miss our live Google Hangout on Dec. 5 at 10 a.m. PST to talk about the future of IT with futurologist Paul Saffo, along with a number of influential industry veterans and journalists.*** In VMware news this … Continue reading →

VMware End User Computing: VMware Horizon View™ Client for Windows (http://blogs.vmware.com/euc/?p=4291)By Kristina De Nike, Sr. Product Manager, End-User Computing, VMware Toddlers often burst into tears when a parent gets a haircut. The updated exterior confuses the child into thinking he’s lost the person on the inside. This can happen even if it’s a very nice, perhaps even badly needed, haircut. VMware is introducing a completely updated Horizon View Client for Windows, and to cushion the blow, we’re going to walk you through it. First, why did we do it? The new client user interface is now…

VMware Consulting Blog: Quickly Calculate Bandwidth Requirements with New vSphere ‘fling’ (http://blogs.vmware.com/consulting/?p=1069)By Sunny Dua, Senior Technology Consultant at VMware With a number of my recent consulting engagements, I have seen an increasing demand for host-based replication solutions for data replication. In a few of my recent projects, I have implemented VMware Site Recovery Manager in combination with VMware vSphere Replication. I have written about vSphere Replication (VR) in the past and I am not surprised that a number of VMware customers are shifting focus from a storage-based replication solution to a…

VMware vSphere Blog: Announcing vCloud Tech Tips (http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/?p=10971)I’ve found VMware users enthusiastic and hungry for new, detailed information about virtualization technology. At VMware, we look to engage with our customers early and often about technology to help influence product direction. As one additional venue to bridge the gap, I’m pleased to announce the inaugural session of vCloud Tech Tips, “Affinity Rules!…and Anti-Affinity rules” November 15 at 11am PST. vCloud Tech Tips is a practitioner’s tutorial on a specific vCloud technology area…

The Console: Advancing Support for OpenStack (http://blogs.vmware.com/vmware/?p=1619)Last week, in conjunction with the OpenStack Summit in Hong Kong, VMware made two announcements that highlighted how the company is continuing to advance the OpenStack framework. In our first announcement, we highlighted our participation in the development and release … Continue reading →

VMware Security Blog: New VMware Security Advisory VMSA-2013-0013 (http://blogs.vmware.com/security/?p=923)Today VMware has released the following new advisory: VMSA-2013-0013 The advisory documents CVE-2013-5972 “VMware Workstation host privilege escalation vulnerability” which is also known as “slamware”. Please sign up to the Security-Announce mailing list to receive new and updated VMware Security Advisories. Customers should review the security advisories and direct any questions to VMware Support.

VMwareTV: Mecklenburg County Showcases Their Horizon View Implementation (tag:youtube.com,2008:video:fSC6ZGT7YhY)Mecklenburg County Showcases Their Horizon View Implementation Mecklenburg County, North Carolina chose to implement Horizon View and has reaped cost savings and avoidance of $1000 per user in anticipated upgrades and $... From: VMware Views: 2 0 ratings Time: 03:32 More in Science & Technology

The Console: Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS) goes mainstream (http://blogs.vmware.com/vmware/?p=1639)As you might have heard, Amazon recently announced a Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS) offering on AWS called Amazon WorkSpaces. It’s always exciting when new vendors enter into our market since it validates our vision so I’d like to take the opportunity to quickly touch … Continue reading →

VMwareTV: vSphere with Operations Management Preview (tag:youtube.com,2008:video:6Cu9MfDfPQk)vSphere with Operations Management Preview 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: 5 0 ratings Time: 00:14 More in Science & Technology

vCO Team: How to Enable vCO 5.1.x to log API requests (http://www.vcoteam.info/learn-vco/how-to-enable-vco-51x-to-log-api-requests.html)When working with new integrations that utilize the vCenter Orchestrator (vCO) REST API you may want additional logging on the vCO side to see what is happening. I came across this need on a recent project. By default, vCO is logging workflow and webview activities but not API calls. This short article walks you through the steps necessary to enable such logging. The following steps will enable additional logging on your vCO server. With these changes, be sure that you manage the log files that get…

VMware for Small-Medium Business Blog: Avoid Logging Chaos in Your Data Center. Join Us For 11/21 #vSMBChat on Log Management Best Practices! (http://blogs.vmware.com/smb/?p=2271)Does your IT organization take advantage of the benefits of log management? If the answer to that was, “No,” you’re not alone. Surprisingly, 75% of IT organizations do not practice log management in any real sense, despite the many benefits log management provides. So if you’re interested in gaining more visibility into your data and increasing the responsiveness of your IT environment, it may be time to start seriously thinking about implementing log management in your infrastructure. Join us on…

VMTN Blog: VMware Communities Roundtable Podcast – 255 – VCA – Education & Certification (http://blogs.vmware.com/vmtn/?p=8163)Hosts Mike Gordon Laverick, VMware @Mike_laverick Guests John Arrasjid, VMware @vcdx001 News VMware Tools for Nested ESXi VCA Certification Testimonial Pivotal Vies to Bring Parents EMC, VMware Into Cloud Software VMware spinoff Pivotal launches next-gen cloud dev platform Around the Community vBrownbag Podcast VMUG Local Meetings – Check it today! AdaptingIT – Lauren Malhoit Podcast Virtualization Security Roundtable vCatchup Podcast – Craig Waters Stu McHugh’s Virtualisation Blog – vNews…

VMware Education & Certification Blog: VMware Press Author Interview: John Arrasjid (http://blogs.vmware.com/education/?p=2887)Listen as John Arrasjid, VCDX #1, discusses his two new books: VMware vCloud Architecture Toolkit (vCAT): Technical and Operational Guidance for Cloud Success VCDX Boot Camp: Preparing for the VCDX Panel Defense

VMware vSphere Blog: vCenter Web Client Plug-in for OpenStack Demo (http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/?p=10893)Earlier this week I published an article announcing the availability of the new Havana version of the vSphere OpenStack Virtual Appliance and the vCenter Web Client Plug-in for OpenStack. For those of you that haven’t had the time to deploy the vSphere OpenStack Virtual Appliance and get some hands on experience with these tools and are curious to see the tools in action. The demonstration below showcases the plug-in’s configuration and working examples. The plug-in provides vSphere administrators the…

VMware Support Insider: Upgrading to VMware ESXi 5.5 using the Interactive Installer (http://blogs.vmware.com/kb/?p=5889)VMware ESXi 5.5 allows you to upgrade from previous ESXi versions using several different methods. These methods are described and outlined in VMware Knowledge Base article Methods for upgrading to ESXi 5.5 (2058352) . In this new video tutorial we demonstrate how you can upgrade from VMware ESXi 5.1 to ESXi 5.5 using the Interactive Installer that is supplied on the ESXi 5.5 Installation Media. We’ll show you the step-by-step procedure for performing a basic upgrade from ESXi version 5.1 to version…

VMware Security Blog: VMware CP&C releases vSphere 5.5 Compliance Checker! (http://blogs.vmware.com/security/?p=914)VMware Center for Policy and Compliance (CP&C) team is pleased to announce the general availability of VMware vSphere 5.5 Compliance Checker – an excellent FREE tool to get you started with compliance assessment of your virtual infrastructure with respect to vSphere 5.5 hardening guide. The tool can be downloaded here . You can use this tool for vSphere 5.0, 5.1 and 5.5. While these simple Compliance Checkers provide some basic functionality and benefits, VMware also offers VMware vCenter…

VMwareTV: VMware vCenter Web Client Plug-in for OpenStack (tag:youtube.com,2008:video:e5tTLgrRjvA)VMware vCenter Web Client Plug-in for OpenStack The Havana version of the vSphere OpenStack Virtual Appliance includes the new vCenter Server Plug-in for OpenStack frameworks. The plug-in provides vSphere ... From: vmwaretv Views: 209 0 ratings Time: 03:41 More in Science & Technology

VROOM!: VMware vSphere 5.5 vMotion on EMC VPLEX Metro (http://blogs.vmware.com/performance/?p=1627)Each vSphere release introduces new vMotion functionality, increased reliability and significant performance improvements. vSphere 5.5 continues this trend by offering new enhancements to vMotion to support EMC VPLEX Metro, which enables shared data access across metro distances. In this blog, we evaluate vMotion performance on a VMware vSphere 5.5 virtual infrastructure that was stretched across two geographically dispersed datacenters using EMC VPLEX Metro. Test Configuration The VPLEX Metro test bed…

VMTN Blog: VMware Communities Roundtable Podcast – 254 – Hardening Guide, Appliances (http://blogs.vmware.com/vmtn/?p=8149)Hosts Mike Foley, VMware @mikefoley Guests Simon Mijolovic, VMware Greg Murray, VMware News VMworld 2013 Photos VMworld TV on YouTube Blog Posts from VMworld 2013 Blogger List Contributors vBrownBag Automation Track – Check the schedule Around the Community vBrownbag Podcast VMUG Local Meetings – Check it today! AdaptingIT – Lauren Malhoit Podcast Virtualization Security Roundtable vCatchup Podcast – Craig Waters Stu McHugh’s Virtualisation Blog – vNews Podcast Geek Whisperers Podcast…

VMwareTV: VMware Leadership Perspectives: Bill Fathers (tag:youtube.com,2008:video:K6N4qmsl-gg)VMware Leadership Perspectives: Bill Fathers Bill Fathers Senior vice president and general manager of the Hybrid Cloud Services Business Unit discussed his role at VMware, the current state of the cloud and what's next. From: vmwaretv Views: 11 0 ratings Time: 04:29 More in Science & Technology

VMworldTV: Wednesday General Session: VMworld 2013 Europe (tag:youtube.com,2008:video:VZK4rKTKZhc)Wednesday General Session: VMworld 2013 Europe Carl Eschenbach, Principal Engineer Kit Colbert and EMEA CTO Joe Baguley tag team the Day 2 Keynote demonstrating the power and value of the Software-Defined Data Center, VMware's End User... From: VMworldTV Views: 30 0 ratings Time: 01:28:50 More in Science & Technology

VMware vCloud Blog: The vCloud Team is off to AWS re:Invent! (http://blogs.vmware.com/vcloud/?p=3008)We’re heading to AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas from November 12 th -November 15! Visit the VMware booth to say hello and to see how we can help you manage your cloud with some of our great solutions: vCloud Automation Center Cloud sprawl got you down? vCloud Automation Center can help you address that! As part of the VMware vCloud Suite, the vCloud Automation Center provides your business with a flexible solution that gives IT the power to automate the delivery of IT services, making your business much…

The Console: Leadership Perspectives: Bill Fathers (http://blogs.vmware.com/vmware/?p=1602)In the first of a series of leadership perspectives videos, Bill Fathers, senior vice president and general manager of the Hybrid Cloud Services Business Unit discusses the emergence of hybrid cloud in the enterprise and his role at VMware. Check … Continue reading →

VMware vSphere Blog: Virtual SAN – Maintenance Mode Monitoring (http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/?p=10874)Over the past couple of days, I’ve been looking at the behavior of Virtual SAN (VSAN) from the context of placing a host into maintenance mode. With VSAN enabled on the cluster, the administrator is given a number of options to choose from: Ensure accessibility Full data migration No data migration The thing with VSAN is that although a virtual machine’s compute may not be on the host that is being placed into maintenance mode, there is still a strong possibility that part of the virtual machines…

VMware vCloud Blog: vCloud Hybrid Service Expands Support for Healthcare Customers (http://blogs.vmware.com/vcloud/?p=2982)To help our healthcare customers take advantage of the agility and flexibility of vCloud Hybrid Service while meeting the obligations defined by the US Department of Health and Human Services, VMware is happy to share three important milestones: Completion of an examination of our information security program against essential elements of HIPAA and HITECH, Availability of a Business Associate Agreement (BAA), Availability of a whitepaper to support customers looking to achieve HIPAA/HITECH compliance …

vCO Team: Run a program in guest from vCloud Automation Center (http://www.vcoteam.info/learn-vco/run-a-program-in-guest-from-vcloud-automation-center.html)vCloud Automation Center is the VMware hybrid cloud self-service provisioning portal. It can be customized to extend its OOTB functionality. The following tutorial shows how from the vSphere web client create a menu operation to run a program in a guest or how to do it automatically once the VM has been provisioned. This does not involve any scripting ! Prerequisites vCenter Orchestrator configured with: vCenter plug-in (with the same host used in vCAC) vCAC plug-in 5.2 (with the vCAC host) vCloud…

VMware Cloud Ops Blog: The Critical Element of Service Delivery in the Cloud Era: Join our Webcast 11/14 (http://blogs.vmware.com/cloudops/?p=660)As more companies aim to build the software-defined datacenter (SDDC), the importance of service definition continues to grow. Running a successful SDDC strategy means understanding service offerings, for sure. But it’s also about standardizing those offerings to achieve agility and efficiency. So where do you start? How do you know what services your company can best provide? Join Product Manager Jason Holmberg and Business Solutions Architect Rohan Kalra on Thursday, November 14 th at 10am PT for…

VMware for Small-Medium Business Blog: Discover How You Can Leverage the Power of Hybrid Cloud for Your Small-to-Midmarket Business! (http://blogs.vmware.com/smb/?p=2266)Is it time for your organization to make the move to hybrid cloud? Hybrid cloud has quickly emerged as the future of IT and offers key benefits essential for small-to-midmarket IT departments, especially the power, security and reliability needed to meet growing business demands. On Tuesday, November 19 at 9 am PT / 12 pm EST , join VMware as we launch our new data centers and broadcast an exclusive webcast event on leveraging the power of hybrid cloud for your small-to-midmarket business. Hear from…

VMware Security Blog: VMware CP&C releases Microsoft Security Advisory 2896666 toolkit for VCM! (http://blogs.vmware.com/security/?p=910)The VMware Center for Policy & Compliance (CP&C) is pleased to announce the availability of The Microsoft Security Advisory 2896666 toolkit for VMware vCenter Configuration Manager (VCM), a key component in the VMware vCenter Operations Suite for all Windows platforms. The toolkit verifies that the Tiff Codec is disabled within the operating system thus eliminating the possibility of the system being vulnerable. For detailed information on the Microsoft Security Advisory 2896666 go to…

VMware Virtualization Management Blog: vCAC 6.0 – Accelerate Application Deployment and Management with VMware and Puppet (http://blogs.vmware.com/management/?p=2279)Building multi-tier business applications has just become easier. Here’s how vCloud Automation Center’s Application Director and Puppet can help by simplifying and automating the deployment and ongoing management of complex multi-tier application topologies. Many companies rely on new or updated applications to enable new business opportunities or drive competitive advantage. As with most companies, this means shorter release cycles required to support agile development and DevOps processes. …

VMware vCloud Blog: Discover the Power of Hybrid Cloud – Register for the 11/19 Events! (http://blogs.vmware.com/vcloud/?p=3003)Recently on the vCloud blog, we’ve been discussing hybrid cloud – talking about everything from why hybrid cloud is good for IT , what makes a cloud a hybrid cloud , and why users should consider hybrid cloud . It can be argued that hybrid cloud is the future of IT – more and more, organizations require speed, agility, and the ability to innovate. The vCloud Hybrid Service enables organizations to dynamically scale IT infrastructure without changing the way they run it. Since announcing the general…

VMware for Public Sector Blog: vCenter Site Recovery Manager Webcast – VMware and Carahsoft (http://blogs.vmware.com/publicsector/?p=123)On November 21, 2013 at 2:00 Pm Eastern / 11:00 Am Pacific VMware and Carahsoft will have an online seminar discussing VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager (SRM). With SRM, any size organization can achieve reliable protection, with minimum hassle, at the lowest possible cost. A solution that is built with SRM can reduce the costs of disaster protection by 30% or more compared to conventional disaster recovery practices. During this online seminar, we will be discussing how SRM provides: Centralized…

The Console: Pivotal CF on VMware vSphere: Making it Easier for Developers to Build and Deploy Modern Applications Using Platform as a Service (http://blogs.vmware.com/vmware/?p=1592)Posted by Michael Adams Pivotal today announced the availability of Pivotal CF along with the launch of Pivotal One Services (click here for more details). I am excited to announce that we will begin to resell Pivotal CF in Q4 of … Continue reading →

VMware vSphere Blog: Pivotal CF (http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/?p=10845)Today Pivotal announced the availability of Pivotal CF. Jointly developed with VMware, the Pivotal CF product includes a packaged and supported version of the Cloud Foundry open PaaS for VMware vSphere. In April 2011 VMware first launched Cloud Foundry, an Apache-licensed open source Platform as a Service (PaaS) and an associated vSphere-based public cloud service. A year later, in April 2012, we announced a DevOps toolchain called BOSH, used to deploy and manage Cloud Foundry at scale on virtualized…

VMware Education & Certification Blog: Quiz Question of the Week: Software-defined Data Center (http://blogs.vmware.com/education/?p=2973)This week’s quiz question comes from the instructional videos series Software-defined Data Center. When users perceive IT to be a bottleneck, how do they respond? [a] They circumvent IT [b] They deploy their workloads in public clouds [c] They take IT out of the loop [d] All of the above _____________________________________________________ Not sure of the answer? Then watch Introduction to the Software-Defined Data Center. Answer: [d] All of the above.

vCO Team: Working with vCloud Automation Center IaaS entities (http://www.vcoteam.info/learn-vco/working-with-vcloud-automation-center-infrastructure-as-a-service-entities.html)vCloud Automation Center has several constructs such as blueprints, business groups, reservations to manage the virtual machines lifecycle and governance policies. While most customers will use vCloud Automation Center out of the box some have several use cases for automation and integration. This is where vCenter Orchestrator comes into the picture. The vCloud Automation Center Infrastructure as a service data model (vCAC IaaS) vCAC IaaS has an extensible model consisting of different metamodels. Here…

VMware for Public Sector Blog: VMware vSphere 5.5 Hardening Guide Compliance Toolkit (http://blogs.vmware.com/publicsector/?p=118)I was recently asked on Twitter when the vSphere 5.5 Hardening Guide would be available as a compliance toolkit. I wanted to make sure that everyone knew this is currently available and can be downloaded using the CCW tool. Some information regarding this release : 4 versions to pick from (full, profile 1, profile 2, and profile 3) 1 collection filter set containing 18 collection filters 28 ruler groups 8 templates

VMware Support Insider: VCA Certification Testimonial (http://blogs.vmware.com/kb/?p=5869)Have you heard about VMware’s new associate certifications? Dena Tooma, a technical writer at VMware says it took less than a day to both study and write her VCA exam. Watch as she tells us how she has more confidence dealing with her peers now that she understands more of the terminology and concepts around VMware products. Certification is not just for the hard-core IT nerds anymore. Whether you’re looking for your first certification or branching into new areas of expertise, VMware Certified…

VMware Education & Certification Blog: Say Hello to the World’s Youngest VMware Certified Associate (http://blogs.vmware.com/education/?p=2940)The photo Christian tweeted of a happy Fredrik after passing his VMware Certified Associate exam. When we saw Christian Mohn’s tweet about his 16-year-old son passing the VMware Certified Associate (VCA) exam after VMworld Barcelona, we had to find out more. The VCA is designed to offer a more affordable entry point for VMware certifications, but it’s by no means a cakewalk. Christian found that out when he took the exams for VCA–Data Center Virtualization and VCA–Workforce Mobility himself…

VMware Virtualization Management Blog: vCenter Operations Management Tech Tips: Tip #16 – vCenter Configuration Manager – Configuring Data collections from the vSphere environment (http://blogs.vmware.com/management/?p=2256)Hi everyone! As promised in my previous post Tech Tip #15 , I wanted to follow up on the next topic which is configuring vCenter Configuration Manager 5.7 (VCM) to collect data from the vSphere environment so we can see this data in the VCM Console slider. In brief to do this you need to configure VCM in the administration slider to license the vCenter Server(s). Once this is completed successfully, you can start to collect data, and of course schedule collection jobs to take place at the desired time…

VMware vSphere Blog: vCenter Web Client Plug-in for OpenStack (http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/?p=10830)Last week right before the start of the OpenStack Summit the Team OpenStack at VMware released a new version of the vSphere OpenStack Virtual Appliance (VOVA) based on the stable Havana release to the VMware and OpenStack communities. The new version of the appliance provides a relatively easy and out of the box sort of experience for vSphere and OpenStack integration for compute (Nova) and Storage (Cinder) via the vSphere driver and vSphere datastore driver. But there was another great feature included…

VMware Accelerate: The 4 Components of a Service-Focused Culture (http://blogs.vmware.com/accelerate/?p=1480)Author: Alex Salicrup I have made bold observations in my recent blogs about the need for a cultural shift to that of a service-driven culture. This is a culture with a strong focus on customer needs, customer services, and meeting deadlines. This type of culture also allows the IT organization to scale and adapt to changing business needs rather than rigidly following old strategies. Although a cultural shift like this might seem an insurmountable task, I’ve seen it occur—and faster than you might…

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XtremIO: Taking the time to do it right. (http://virtualgeek.typepad.com/virtual_geek/2013/11/xtremio-taking-the-time-to-do-it-right.html)Today, the EMC XtremIO system became GA. There will be a lot of back-and-forth in the industry on this topic. There will be us singing high praises (with customers of course), and then a lot of mud slinging from many...

VMware vSphere 5.5 vMotion on EMC VPLEX Metro (http://www.ntpro.nl/blog/archives/2526-guid.html)

Video - Bitdefender Security for Virtualized Environments (http://www.ntpro.nl/blog/archives/2525-guid.html)

Free VMware Certified Associate Certification Extended (http://www.ntpro.nl/blog/archives/2471-guid.html)

VSAN performance: many SAS low capacity VS some SATA high capacity? (http://www.yellow-bricks.com/?p=13941)Something that I have seen popping up multiple times now is the discussion around VSAN and spindles for performance. Someone mentioned on the community forums they were going to buy 20 x 600GB SAS drives for their VSAN environment for each of their 3 hosts. These were 10K SAS disks, which obviously outperform the 7200 […] " VSAN performance: many SAS low capacity VS some SATA high capacity? " originally appeared on Yellow-Bricks.com . Follow me on twitter - @DuncanYB.

Using IP Based vMSC storage and the Distributed Switch with 5.1? (http://www.yellow-bricks.com/?p=13962)There is something you might want to look at when you are using an IP based vMSC storage solution… One of our customers recently ran in to an issue where a fail-over went wrong. They recently were running vSphere 5.1 and used the Distributed Switch. When the vSphere Metro Storage Cluster needed to fail-over, in […] " Using IP Based vMSC storage and the Distributed Switch with 5.1? " originally appeared on Yellow-Bricks.com . Follow me on twitter - @DuncanYB.

VSAN and Network IO Control / VDS part 2 (http://www.yellow-bricks.com/?p=13948)About a week ago I wrote this article about VSAN and Network IO Control. I originally wrote a longer article that contained more options for configuring the network part but decided to leave a section out of it for simplicity sake. I figured as more questions would come I would publish the rest of the […] " VSAN and Network IO Control / VDS part 2 " originally appeared on Yellow-Bricks.com . Follow me on twitter - @DuncanYB.

VMworld PowerCLI Group Discussion–Part 4–Advanced tools and scripting (http://www.virtu-al.net/?p=2976)This is part 4, the last and final post covering what we discussed at VMworld in the PowerCLI group discussion. As always thanks goes out to Nigel Boulton who’s blog can be found here for helping me out taking such great notes. The other posts in this series can be found below: Getting Started with […] VMworld PowerCLI Group Discussion–Part 4–Advanced tools and scripting is a post from: Virtu-Al . Virtu-Al is one of the authors of VMware vSphere PowerCLI Reference: Automating vSphere…

Single Sign-On Warning 25000 (http://www.boche.net/blog/?p=4856)Up to this point, I’ve deployed several net new instances of vCenter Server 5.5 and of course its essential components including Single Sign-On, Inventory Service, next generation Web Client, and the legacy vSphere Client. Most of these deployments leveraged the vCenter appliance. Using the appliance is a very easy to deploy vCenter because all of [...] Post from: boche.net - VMware Virtualization Evangelist Copyright (c) 2010 Jason Boche. The contents of this post may not be reproduced or…

Making JSON Output More Readable with BBEdit (http://blog.scottlowe.org/?p=3328)If you work regularly with JSON-serialized data, you're probably going to want to find a way to make it a bit more readable by humans. Here's one way if you're a BBEdit user. This article was originally posted on blog.scottlowe.org . Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies. Making JSON Output More Readable with BBEdit

Live Migration of Monster Oracle RAC Nodes without Client Disruption? Easy as VMware vSphere! (http://longwhiteclouds.com/?p=2495)Those that are familiar with VMware technology will know vMotion well, and how reliably it works. VMware has worked hard on this for many years. But when talking to customers running traditional Unix systems for their Oracle databases, especially RAC, especially when under high load, and when the system is a monster, sometimes they are […]

How to: Install VMware NSX (http://www.vmguru.nl/wordpress/?p=12027)Hany Michael from Hypervizor.com, has made series of videos showing the installation ease of VMware NSX. Unfortunately NSX is not GA yet, but in the videos you can see how the installation goes. Check these out: Deploying the NSX vAppliance Deploying the NSX Controllers Preparing ESXi hosts Configuring a Logical vSwitch Leave A Comment posted in How To by Erik Scholten

VMGuru at Geek Whisperers (http://www.vmguru.nl/wordpress/?p=12019)Way back in time, when we started VMGuru, we actually had no idea what we were getting ourselves into. Full of ideas and energy we went to all the events (VMworld Cannes, Copenhagen, Barcelona, Dutch VMUG, Belgian VMUG, etcetera), packed with laptops, photo- and videocameras and went to work like a bunch of crazy nerds. Most of you who have seen us, know the picture. Four guys, packed with gear, typing like mad in the community lounge, asking questions in sessions, attending demo’s at the Solutions…

Amazon vs VMware, how VMware empowers the UX! (http://myvirtualcloud.net/?p=5579)If you are an avid reader of my blog you will know that for the most part I don’t publish competitive analysis or talk about VMware competitors. However I feel that I need to give some attention to this subject and make you aware of the major end-user experience differences between running pure PCoIP and … Continue reading »

PernixData FVP accelerate your Horizon View deployment (http://myvirtualcloud.net/?p=5561)I recently spent couple days testing PernixData FVP caching solution in my home lab. Before I talk about FVP let me talk about my home lab. My home lab is not very fancy if compared to some of my vExpert colleagues, especially since it’s three years old hardware. It’s a white-box with a Gigabyte X58A-UD5 … Continue reading »

Don’t dismiss the huge benefits of Linked Clones! (http://myvirtualcloud.net/?p=5571) Did you know that the quote ‘With great power comes great responsibility” is not an original quote crafted by Ben, the uncle of our Spidey friend? In fact, the quote was first coined by François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire) in 1832. It has come my attention that VDI … Continue reading »

VCAP Diary – VMware vSphere ESXi Image Builder (http://www.vladan.fr/?p=33043)VMware vSphere ESXi Image Builder hasn’t been covered yet on my blog. I think it’s time. Once you understand how to put all the bits and pieces (Image builder, Host profiles and Autodeploy) together, than you can make your super homelab run even more “sexy” with autodeployed ESXi hosts – now even with VMware Tools for […] You might also like: How to install VIB on VMware ESXi How-to Build a custom ISO with VMware tools for Nested ESXi A nugget – VMware tools for Nested ESXi Read the full…

Veeam Backup & Replication 7.0 R2 update released (http://www.vladan.fr/?p=33033)Veeam has released important update for the latest Veeam 7 which finally allows backing up vSphere 5.5. The new update is so important that Veeam releasing it as an “R2″ – Veeam Backup & Replication 7.0 R2 update. Veeam is the first backup vendor to support VMware vSphere 5.5 and Microsoft Hyper-V 2012 R2. In fact […] You might also like: Veeam Backup and Replication 6.5 has been released Veeam 7 Tape Support Veeam Backup & Replication v 7.0 Released! Read the full post Veeam Backup &…

How-to Build a custom ISO with VMware tools for Nested ESXi (http://www.vladan.fr/?p=33023)Yesterday’s post about VMware Tools for Nested ESXi hosts (a VIB – vSphere Installation Bundle) – which allows installing VMware tools in VM running nested ESXi is an exciting functionality for home labbers and people struggling to get more physical hosts to play with in the lab. The VMware Tools for Nested ESXi adds possibility to […] You might also like: A nugget – VMware tools for Nested ESXi VCAP Diary – VMware vSphere ESXi Image Builder How to setup nested vSphere Lab on a PC by using…

A nugget – VMware tools for Nested ESXi (http://www.vladan.fr/?p=33003)During VMworld Barcelona the news about upcoming VMware tools for Nested ESXi first came out. And after a quick confirmation with @lamw while there that a new cool fling was born, it’s a good news for the whole virtualization community. For many of you that are using nested ESXi, for learning or demoing VMware solutions, the […] You might also like: How-to Build a custom ISO with VMware tools for Nested ESXi VCAP Diary – VMware vSphere ESXi Image Builder How to check if your host is capable to run…

New PowerCLI Cmdlets for VSAN and vFlash Read Cache and how to install (http://www.vladan.fr/?p=32972)VMware Flings is awesome resource of small free software applications which enhances functionality of VMware products. Recently another free “Fling” has been released, which is actually a PowerShell module with PowerCLI cmdlets for managing vSphere Flash Read Cache and VMware Virtual SAN. Those PowerCLI Cmdlets for VSAN and vFlash Read Cache allows retrieving and managing VSAN […] You might also like: PowerCLI 5.1.0 Release 2 has been released How to run vCheck – to get you started PowerCLI 5.1 –…

Privacy Manager for Chrome might be your interest (http://www.vladan.fr/?p=32976)Privacy Manager is a Chrome extension which allows quickly tweak your privacy settings. In a small window you can quickly setup the basic, but also more advanced options. You can control the downloads, cleaning startup options, delete junk files, manage cookies and network traffic. All this in very cool manner – from a small pop-up […] You might also like: RSS Feed Reader for Google Chrome – cool extension ESX Virtualization Has a Chrome App and Extension -:) vSphere Web Client – New in VMware…

VMware vSphere 5 Memory Management and Monitoring poster (http://www.vladan.fr/?p=32960)There is a cool poster available, together with a video explaining memory management in vSphere 5. The VMware vSphere 5 Memory Management and Monitoring diagram explains not only the four principal memory management techniques that vSphere 5 uses, but the video points out also another aspect which is important – memory overhead. Memory overhead depends how […] You might also like: Top 20 VMware Performance Metrics You Should Care About Memory Management Metrics for VMware Environments Top 5 VM…

Razor - DHCP and TFTP (tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5819640694385843490.post-6394422652741408947)This is part 2 of a series of posts on the new version of razor-server 1. Installing Razor - Yes the New Version.. 2. Razor - DHCP and TFTP In the previous part we installed the razor-server component. But what use is razor without TFTP and DHCP... This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more!..

Installing Razor - Yes the New Version.. (tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5819640694385843490.post-537271051976406119)This is part 1 of a series of posts on the new version of razor-server 1. Installing Razor - Yes the New Version.. 2. Razor - DHCP and TFTP I assume that some of you are familiar with Razor - the provisioning system that was open sourced by EMC... This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more!..

2013-nov-14 ProfessionalVMware #vBrownBag LATAM #Puppetize c/ @DevOps_ES @edransIT y @puppetlabs (http://professionalvmware.com/?p=4054)The following content is in Spanish, the language in which the webinar is presented. El pasado 14 de noviembre en ProfessionalVMware #vBrownBag LATAM se presentó el tema #Puppetize c/ Pablo Wright @DevOps_ES @edransIT y @puppetlabs Pablo D. Wright, Technical Operations www.edrans.com Algunos recursos en inglés: http://docs.puppetlabs.com/https://ask.puppetlabs.com/questions/ IRC: freenode #puppet Google group: puppet-users@googlegroups.com En […]

#vBrownBag Follow Up – VCAP Design Bootcamp with John Arrasjid, Mostafa Khalil and Linus Bourque (http://professionalvmware.com/?p=4048)In part one of a two-part VCAP Design Boot Camp, John Arrasjid, Mostafa Khalil, Linus Bourque and JonHall reviewed the blueprints for the VCAP-DCD, VCAP-CID and VCAP-DTD exams. On Tuesday November 19th, they will dive back in and review test examples to help you prepare for the exam. Video #vBrownBag VCAP Design Boot Camp with […]

JumpSquares.net - a new kind of bookmark (http://kendrickcoleman.com/index.php/Ruby-on-Rails-Projects/jumpsquares-a-new-kind-of-bookmark.html)I've been working on this project for about 1.5 months and I'm very happy that I can finally share it. So... what is a JumpSquare? Let's start off with Why... We've all been there before: You start a new job and have no idea where anything is located A contractor comes on site and you have to point them to every application You are constantly sending emails asking where an application has been installed because you never bookmarked it You have a very large datacenter environment and…

VMware KB Digest – New KB articles published for week ending 11/9/13 (http://vmwaretips.com/wp/?p=2218)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. http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/VmwareKnowledgebaseWeeklyDigest?d=yIl2AUoC8zA VMware ESXi H3C S1010V Virtual Switch for vSphere 5.0 and 5.1 (2063676) Date Published: 11/8/2013 VMware Horizon View Network [...]

KB Articles

VMware ESXi
H3C S1010V Virtual Switch for vSphere 5.0 and 5.1 (2063676)
Date Published: 11/8/2013

VMware Horizon View
Network port diagram for Horizon View (2061913)
Date Published: 11/6/2013
Desktop launch fails due to an SSL error in View Client for Windows (2062507)
Date Published: 11/7/2013

VMware Horizon Workspace
Resetting root and sshuser passwords in Horizon Workspace after login fails with the error: incorrect password (2061194)
Date Published: 11/5/2013
Manually collecting diagnostic logs from the Android VMware switch (2058741)
Date Published: 11/4/2013