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From the editors virtual desk

Hi everyone, well this is the last “official” newsletter of 2013 before we take our annual break for the holiday season until January. Depending on the news there may be an interim newsletter that I will still deliver.

 

It has been a really good week for me and also a very sad week. Firstly my birthday this week, always a fun time spent with friends. I did work on my Birthday, my customers are awesome and I was so happy to see them as I have been with many of them for almost 5 years so they are considered very close colleagues.

 

It has also been a very sad week with the passing of Nelson Mandela. As many of you will be aware I was born in South Africa and moved to Australia only 8 years ago. I have written a small blog post titled “Remembering Nelson Mandela” if you wish to read it http://neil-isserow.blogspot.com.au/2013/12/remembering-nelson-mandela.html.

 

I wish everyone a happy, healthy and safe festive season. If I do not speak to you before I hope you are able to enjoy some time off with your family and friends and have an awesome festive season.

 

My best wishes to all of you and your families over this festive season. It has been my privilege to bring you another year of newsletters and I look forward to my 6th year at VMware and our 6th year of weekly newsletters.

 

Warm Wishes

Neil Isserow

Senior Technical Account Manager

VMware Australia

 

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VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V5.5] 16-20 Dec
VMware vCenter Operations Manager: Analyze and Predict [V5.x] 20-21 Jan
VMware vCenter Operations Manager: Advanced Usage and Dashboard Design [V5.x] 22-24 Jan
VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V5.1] 03-07 Feb
VMware vSphere: Fast Track [V5.1] 10-14 Feb

 

VMware Bloggers

 

  • VMware Accelerate: IT Is the New Black (http://blogs.vmware.com/accelerate/?p=1655)Leading enterprises are tapping into IT to drive innovation, bring them closer to customers, and distance themselves from the competition. Michael Hubbard , VP Enterprise Services, VMware North America, recently shared his insight on IT’s reinvention as a business innovator with CIOs and senior executives at the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2013 in Orlando. How can IT gain greater relevance, shift long-standing economic models, and focus on the investments and organizational changes that drive greater…

     

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    VMware Education & Certification Blog: New Releases Available from VMware Press (http://blogs.vmware.com/education/?p=3052)We’re happy to share several new resources from VMware Press . These books, digital downloads, and videos will help you dive deep into the opportunities presented by VMware vSphere and prepare for your VCP-Cloud certification exam. VCP-Cloud Official Cert Guide VCP-Cloud Official Cert Guide  focuses specifically on the objectives for the VMware Certified Professional – Cloud exam. VMware Certified Design Experts Tom Ralph and Nathan Raper share preparation hints and test-taking tips, helping you…

     

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    VMware Consulting Blog: Application Remediation for Windows Migration Got You Down? (http://blogs.vmware.com/consulting/?p=1138)By Oscar Olivo, Senior Consultant, VMware’s Professional Services With the expiration date for Windows XP looming—April 8, 2014—many IT organizations are looking for the most efficient path to migration. One potential stumbling block is that, when migrating to Windows 7/8, IT also needs to move from a 32-bit to a 64-bit operating system to provide greater performance and compatibility with newer software. The Problem This presents a problem from an application compatibility standpoint, as legacy…

     

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    Office of the CTO Blogs: Staying Connected – The VMware CTO Ambassadors (http://cto.vmware.com/?p=2464)One challenge facing technology companies is how to enable product architects and engineers to stay connected with their customers. It’s with strong customer connections that these architects and engineers can act as trusted advisors and help guide customers on their technology journey – addressing IT needs today and anticipating future trends and requirements. Staying connected with our customers is a top priority for VMware, and is the purpose of the VMware CTO Ambassadors program, run by our…

     

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    Workstation Zealot: VMware Workstation Updates Now Available (http://blogs.vmware.com/workstation/?p=956)VMware Workstation 10.0.1 is now available VMware Workstation 10.0.1 is a maintenance release that is a free update for all VMware Workstation 10.x customers. Read the Release Notes for more details. VMware Workstation 9.0.3 is now available VMware Workstation 9.0.3 is a maintenance release that is a free update for all VMware Workstation 9.x customers. Read the Release Notes for more details. How to get the updates VMware Workstation will prompt you to download the update the next time you run it.…

     

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    VMware Support Insider: Installing async drivers in ESXi 5.x (http://blogs.vmware.com/kb/?p=5910)One thing that catches a few customers up is the process of installing async drivers in their ESXi host … We have a KB article on the topic here , but there is more than one method to choose from and preparation steps involved. Since these steps might seem a little tricky, we decided a quick, live video explaining the topic might help many of you. We called upon Kiwi Ssennyonjo to walk us through the salient points. Again, the full KB article can be found here: Installing async drivers on ESXi…

     

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    VMware End User Computing: VMware has released the RDP VC Bridge SDK (http://blogs.vmware.com/euc/?p=4671)by Ben Chong, Product Management, End-User Computing, VMware We are thrilled to announce that VMware has released the RDP VC Bridge SDK. This SDK is intended for ISVs who have applications that today run on Microsoft RDP using the RDP WTS APIs. By simply recompiling and linking their code with the header and library files included in the SDK, ISVs can quickly enable their applications to run over the PCoIP protocol on VMware Horizon View . As VMware Horizon View is the VDI market leader, this opens up…

     

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    VMware Support Insider: New FREE Instructional Videos on SDDC, Horizon Suite and more (http://blogs.vmware.com/kb/?p=5905)In case you missed it, VMware Education Services has just posted ten new FREE instructional videos on varied topics that are now available for your viewing pleasure, specifically: Horizon Suite Overview Horizon Suite Administrator Experience Demo Horizon Suite User Experience Demo Horizon View Offline Demo VMware vCloud Automation Center VMware vSphere Data Protection 5.5 VMware vCenter Log Insight VMware vCenter Operations – Workload & Alerts VMware vCenter Operations Manager Dashboard…

     

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    VMware Security Blog: New VMware Security Advisory VMSA-2013-0014 (http://blogs.vmware.com/security/?p=930)Today VMware has released the following new advisory: VMSA-2013-0014 The advisory documents CVE-2013-3519 “VMware LGTOSYNC.SYS privilege escalation” which affects older Windows-based Guest Operating Systems. On ESXi and ESX, virtual machines running 32-bit versions of Windows 2000 Server, Windows XP or Windows 2003 Server are affected. On Workstation and Fusion, virtual machines running the 32-bit version of Windows XP are affected. Please sign up to the Security-Announce mailing list to receive new…

     

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    vSphere PowerCLI Blog: Using Tags with PowerCLI (https://blogs.vmware.com/vipowershell/?p=1543)The Tagging feature was introduced in vCenter Server 5.1 where custom defined tags can be categorized and added to any of your inventory objects in your environment. Tags can be quickly searched on and retrieved quickly. Multiple unique tags can be used on the same inventory object creating granular metadata that can easily be grouped and search on. As an example this is helpful for looking for all VMs tagged against a particular project or placing all departmental objects into groups, IE HR requiring not…

     

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    VMware vCloud Blog: What’s the Big Deal about Software-Defined Data Centers? (http://blogs.vmware.com/vcloud/?p=3033)It’s not that IT employees are especially cynical, but their finely tuned “fluff detectors” tend to activate when a fuzzily-defined technology term starts appearing everywhere.  The sudden proliferation of words like “Cloud,” “Big Data,” or “as a Service” invites suspicion that marketing folks have latched on to the term as a way to attract attention to their products and services.  Perhaps there’s more sizzle than meat. So what about “software-defined,” the latest darling of the…

     

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    VMware vCloud Blog: vCloud Hybrid Service Direct Connect Now Available (http://blogs.vmware.com/vcloud/?p=3024)We are happy to announce that VMware vCloud Hybrid Service now supports Direct Connect. On the heels of our UK data center announcement and the opening of our 4 th data center in the USA in Dallas, TX, we are excited to give you more options on how to connect to and leverage the cloud. By providing a dedicated and secure private line connection in addition to IPsec VPN, which is already available with each cloud service offering, VMware is making it easier for you to enjoy the benefits of hybrid cloud…

     

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    This week’s question comes from the SDDC Instructional Video series . Which of the following slows down provisioning Virtual Machines (VMs)? [a] Entering the VMs in to an asset management database manually [b] The need to configure network services such as load balancers, firewalls, etc. [c] Adding the VMs to Active Directory manually [d] All of the above Not sure of the answer?  Then watch Introduction to the Software-defined Data Center . [d] All of the above

     

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    VMware vSphere Blog: Florida VMUG Meeting Tour (http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/?p=11131)I will presenting at a couple of upcoming VMware User Group (VMUG) meetings this week in Florida. I’ll be delivering a presentation on VMware’s Software Defined Storage Portfolio with focus on Virtual SAN (VSAN) recommended practices, use cases, and vCloud Suite interoperability capabilities. For those interested in pursuing the VCDX Certification, I will also be participating in the delivery of a VCDX Boot Camp along with Florida’s own local VCDX, Chris McCain (VCDX#79). On Tuesday, December 3rd,…

     

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    VMware Support Insider: Top 20 Articles for November 2013 (http://blogs.vmware.com/kb/?p=5899)Here is our Top 20 KB list for November 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. ESXi 5.x host experiences a purple diagnostic screen with errors for E1000PollRxRing and E1000DevRx (2059053) Troubleshooting Fusion virtual machine performance issues (1015676) Downloading and installing VMware Fusion (2014097) Troubleshooting networking and internet connection issues in VMware Fusion (1016466) …

     

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    VMware Education & Certification Blog: TODAY ONLY: 15% Off VMware Education Classes (http://blogs.vmware.com/education/?p=3148)UPDATE: Thank you for your interest in our Cyber Monday promotion. The offer is now closed. Click here  if you’d like to be notified about future offers and promotions.  The year 2013 is drawing to a close, and we have one more surprise for you before the new year dawns. For today only you can wrap up this year with more confidence in your skills, more opportunities in your career—and a little extra money in your wallet. Register today and save 15% off on VMware instructor-led training, On Demand…

     

External Bloggers

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    Removing a disk group from a VSAN host (http://www.yellow-bricks.com/?p=14034)I had been playing around with my VSAN cluster for a bit the last couple of weeks and it literally has become messy. I created many VMs and many snapshots and removed many of those again, all of this while pulling cables of servers and pulling disks. Basically stress testing VSAN while injecting faults to […] " Removing a disk group from a VSAN host " originally appeared on Yellow-Bricks.com . Follow me on twitter - @DuncanYB.

     

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    Automation–its not just a tick box! (http://www.virtu-al.net/?p=2988)During VMworld 2013 I presented together with Thomas Corfmat a session entitled “Automating the Software Defined Datacenter, How do I get started?” this was meant as a introduction on how someone who was interested in... Automation–its not just a tick box! is a post from: Virtu-Al . Virtu-Al is one of the authors of VMware vSphere PowerCLI Reference: Automating vSphere Administration" Buy it now from: Amazon USA Amazon UK Sybex

     

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    Technology Short Take #37 (http://blog.scottlowe.org/?p=3371)This is Technology Short Take #37, in which I discuss a random collection of articles, thoughts, and ideas about various data center-related technologies. Enjoy! This article was originally posted on blog.scottlowe.org . Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies. Technology Short Take #37

     

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    Divorcing Google (http://blog.scottlowe.org/?p=3375)A number of people have asked about my migration away from Google's online services, so here are some additional details. This article was originally posted on blog.scottlowe.org . Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies. Divorcing Google

     

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    [FIX] Outlook for Mac 2011 Won’t Start (http://techhead.co/?p=7771)Here’s a fix, or at least one possible method, for when your copy of Microsoft Outlook for Mac 2011 won’t start.  I have had this happen a few times now and the following steps have resolved it for me on each occasion – it would seem that the Outlook Database corrupts and needs rebuilding. The […] The post [FIX] Outlook for Mac 2011 Won’t Start appeared first on TechHead and was written by Simon Seagrave . Why not take a look at my other related posts?: Microsoft Outlook Error – “Cannot start…

     

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    VMware Horizon Suite Admin Consoles demo video (http://www.vladan.fr/?p=33327)Horizon Suite is an application suite which allows to manage virtual desktops (View) or physical desktops (Mirage), or access to files and applications (Workspace). Easy said, but those suites are very powerful and tighten together so you can for example use Mirage to protect (backup) not only physical desktops and laptops, but also VMware View […] You might also like: VMware Horizon Workspace Reviewer’s Guide – The… VMware Horizon View 5.2 – Installation of Horizon View VMware Released Horizon…

     

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    Automatic Workload Rightsizing and optimization – free PDF (http://www.vladan.fr/?p=33315)To determine which VMs are over provisioned on larger environments is time consuming. Such a VMs do have negative impact on overall performance of virtual infrastructure because they literally “eat” valuable resources, which could have been used better way otherwise. What I mean that your virtual infrastructure to perform optimal way, VMs should be always […] You might also like: Reducing the Cost of Delivering Compute Services in vCloud… VMTurbo Operations Manager 4.0 Available with new storage……

     

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    What’s your recovery time? – Free Utility called PHD RTA Calculator can help (http://www.vladan.fr/?p=33311)There is a new free utility RTA Calculator created by PHD Virtual, which allows to interact with your vCenter (ESXi) and to test the RTA – Recovery time Actual of selected VMs. It means how long it will take to boot up selected VMs in the right boot order to fully boot up (until VM tools […] You might also like: Flash VDI Calculator 2.8 for VMware View 5.1 released Linked Clone GUI Tool called LCTree – a Fling VDI Calculator Tool as a free offline utility – now… Read the full post What’s your…

     

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    vSphere 5.5 Power Management Enhancements – VMware PDF (http://www.vladan.fr/?p=33306)VMware vSphere 5.5 platfor introduced new power management technique to allow save power and manage more efficiently hosts with settings which allows saving energy via special settings in vSphere Host Power Management (HPM). The default HPM policy uses deep halt states (C-states) as an additional power saving model to the dynamic voltage and frequency scaling […] You might also like: VMware HA Cluster – how it works Default VM Compatibility Level in VMware vSphere 5.1 Disable hibernation on Windows 7…

     

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    Trilead VM Explorer 5.0 Release – support vSphere 5.5 and Hyper-V 2012 R2 (http://www.vladan.fr/?p=33295)Trilead is cost effective backup and replication solution for environments running VMware vSphere up to version 5.5 and Hyper-V 2012 R2 .Readers of ESX Virtualization know quite good this product which is unique by its licensing options in its category. You only need single license per site. No per VM or Per socket licensing here… […] You might also like: Trilead VM Explorer Updated Trilead 4.1 update with new Hyper-V 2012 support Trilead VM Explorer Updated to match compatibility with… Read the full…

     

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    ESXi 5.5 managed by VMware Workstation 10 – another possibility! (http://www.vladan.fr/?p=33291)VMware Workstation has evolved to a piece of software over the years. Recently I wrote also about sharing VMs and managing roles for accessing VMs in Workstation 10. The previous release of Workstation has brought up a different, not so known feature that might interest users of ESXi 5.5. It’s the remote management of VMs running […] You might also like: VMware Workstation 10 can also downgrade virtual hardware.… VMware Workstation 10 and VMware Fusion 6 Released! Virtual Hardware 10 Present in…

     

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    Free Screen Capture Utility which stands out from the crowd (http://www.vladan.fr/?p=33284)If you’re Snagit user then you might stick with Snagit as it’s a very good software. But Snagit is not free. When looking for Freeware application then you might be interested by ShareX which is a Free Screen Capture Utility with some huge amount of options. In fact, the tool has several built-in utilities in one. […] You might also like: PowerShell Plus 4.7 – Free tool to learn and master… VMware Mirage – Migrating XP to Windows 7 VMware Horizon Mirage Video – Migrating XP to Win 7 Read the…

     

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    Green Machines 5.5 Home Lab Update (http://kendrickcoleman.com/index.php/Tech-Blog/green-machines-55-home-lab-update.html)I know many of you are home lab junkies, and many of you out there replicated my home lab ( VMware vSphere Home Lab - "The Green Machines" ). This past week I made a dumb mistake. I completely jacked up my Active Directory server, and like a bad admin, I never took a backup and didn't even take a snapshot... Oh well, time to upgrade. Since everything was based on AD authentication, I came across many hiccups with security tokens and said 'screw it, start over'. I took this as an…

     

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    No Spindles Bro (http://www.2vcps.com/?p=1463)I was assisting one of my local team members the other day with sizing a VM for Microsoft SQL. I usually always fall back to this guide from VMware. So I started out with the basic seperation of Data and Logs and TempDB. Make it look like this: VM Disk Layout LSI SCSI Adapter C: […] Related posts: Equallogic, VAAI and the Fear of Queues ESX Commands – esxcfg-mpath

     

 

KB Articles

VMware ESX
Windows 2008 virtual machine loses network connectivity (2063631)
Date Published: 11/26/2013
VMFS5 does not mount (2064961)
Date Published: 11/26/2013
How can backup software read version 3 virtual disk? (2064959)
Date Published: 11/26/2013

VMware ESXi
Using esxcli in vSphere 5.5 to reclaim VMFS deleted blocks on thin-provisioned LUNs (2057513)
Date Published: 11/27/2013
Host disconnects from vCenter Server with the error: Got vmacore exception: SSL Exception: Unexpected EOF (2064246)
Date Published: 11/26/2013
Duplicate or missing virtual machines when monitoring virtual machines during a vMotion using the RetrieveProperties API (2064555)
Date Published: 11/26/2013

VMware Horizon Mobile
Validating Mobile Device Readiness for Horizon Mobile (2038119)
Date Published: 11/26/2013

VMware Horizon View
Silent installation of VMware View Persona Management Standalone edition fails (2063455)
Date Published: 11/26/2013
When the new user password entered via the View Client does not match the password policy requirements, error code 0x8007202f is reported, instead of 0x800708c5 (2063824)
Date Published: 11/26/2013
Unable to find State privilege when adding View Composer privileges for a vCenter Server user (2064713)
Date Published: 11/28/2013

VMware Service Manager
MMA URL intermittently fails to access the system when VMware Service Manager 9.x servers are load balanced (2046683)
Date Published: 11/26/2013
VMware Service Manager 9.x: reports the error: Error loading report from Stream. Error = Error reading infraReport.DefaultFileDeviceType: Property DefaultFileDeviceType does not exist (2055996)
Date Published: 11/26/2013
Selecting Activate Delegation in VMware Service Manager fails with the error: An application error has occurred (2064737)
Date Published: 11/25/2013

VMware ThinApp
Compatibility View in an Internet Explorer 8 ThinApp behaves differently than in native IE (2055629)
Date Published: 11/28/2013

VMware vCenter Configuration Manager
Installing VMware vCenter Configuration Manager fails with the error: Failure to install VCM API (2047610)
Date Published: 11/29/2013

VMware vCenter Infrastructure Navigator
Creating an Offline Update Repository for VMware Virtual Appliances (2064913)
Date Published: 11/26/2013

VMware vCenter Server
Installing VMware vCenter Single Sign-On 5.5 fails with the error: Site name already exists (2061900)
Date Published: 11/28/2013
Updated procedure to script the creation of the Oracle Database Schema for vCenter Server 5.1 (2063628)
Date Published: 11/26/2013
VMware vCenter Server fails on additional sites after installing Single Sign-On in Multi-Master mode in VMware vSphere 5.5 (2064418)
Date Published: 11/27/2013
Searching the vCenter Server Inventory using the vSphere Client times out or does not return any result (2064423)
Date Published: 11/26/2013
Cloning a virtual machine and removing the virtual Distributed Switch backed network adapter fails with the error: The resource ‘X’ is in use (2064681)
Date Published: 11/25/2013
OpenLDAP schemas supported in VMware vCenter Single Sign-On (2064977)
Date Published: 11/27/2013
Installing the VMware Site Recovery Manager 5.1 plugin fails with error 1606 (2053987)
Date Published: 11/26/2013

VMware vCenter Server Appliance
Emails alerts do not send after upgrading to VMware vCenter Server Appliance 5.5 (2064715)
Date Published: 11/27/2013

VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager
vCenter Site Recovery Manager service fails to start with the error: MsiGetActiveDatabase() failed. Trying MsiOpenDatabase(). (2047003)
Date Published: 11/29/2013

VMware vCloud Automation Center
Opening a VMRC Console from vCloud Automation Center to a vCloud Director virtual machine fails with the error: SSL verification failure for “virtual_console” due to a host thumbprint mismatch (2062425)
Date Published: 11/26/2013

VMware vCloud Director
Uploading or downloading an OVF in vCloud Director fails with the error: Failed to delete transfer session directory or transfer session directory does not exist (2048503)
Date Published: 11/29/2013
Adding the vCloud Agent to an Auto Deploy Image Profile (2064580)
Date Published: 11/26/2013

VMware vCloud Director Appliance
Monitoring vCloud Director MKS connections (2046719)
Date Published: 11/29/2013

VMware vSphere Big Data Extensions
Removing a Hadoop distribution from VMware vSphere Big Data Extensions / Serengeti (2062057)
Date Published: 11/26/2013
Deploying an incompatible YUM based Hadoop Distribution in Serengeti fails with a provisioning error (2062904)
Date Published: 11/26/2013

VMware vSphere Web Services SDK
Unable to access the vSphere Web Client Tagging feature when using VMware vSphere APIs (2064168)
Date Published: 11/26/2013

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