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Hi everyone, hope you are enjoying the final week of January 2014. It always seems to be such a short month because of the holidays and is over very quickly. For many it;s back to university and school time in your family and I suspect the traffic and transport will start to get back to normal again, no more easy drive to work.
This week I have been sent some information on the new updates VCP5-DCV exam which has just been released and I thought I would highlight this exam as for many it is the gateway into the world of VMware certification.
VCP5.5-DCV Exam Info:
http://mylearn.vmware.com/mgrReg/plan.cfm?plan=45082&ui=www_cert - Info Page
http://mylearn.vmware.com/register.cfm?course=198292 - New Blueprint
http://sostechblog.com/2014/01/21/vcp5-dcv-updated-for-vsphere-5-5-now-135-questions-and-two-hours/
I suggest checking out the information above if you are planning on taking the new 5.5 exam as there has been a substantial change to this extremely important exam.
I would like to wish all my Australian Colleagues a happy Australia Day.
Have a fantastic week everyone.
Virtually Yours
Neil Isserow
Senior Technical Account Manager
VMware Australia
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- VMware Hands On Labs Blog: Internet Explorer 10 Now supported – VMware Hands-on Labs (http://blogs.vmware.com/hol/?p=641)Folks, We are very proud to announce Internet Explorer 10 support for Hands-on Labs ! Enjoy your labs ! Self Register / Log in: http://labs.hol.vmware.com
- The Console: VMware Weekly News Recap: January 24 (http://blogs.vmware.com/vmware/?p=2147)VMware News On Wednesday morning, Sanjay Poonen and the End-User Computing team announced that VMware has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire AirWatch, the leading enterprise mobile management and security provider. Read the post on the VMware Company Blog … Continue reading →
- VMware Education & Certification Blog: VMware Lab Connect Available for VMware Horizon View: Install, Configure, Manage (http://blogs.vmware.com/education/?p=3601)Getting extra hands on practice time with course labs is an excellent way to dive deeper into features of interest, apply newly learned skills in an operational environment, and is especially valuable when preparing for your certification. VMware Lab Connect™ offers 30 days access to course labs or 30 hours of active lab time, whichever comes first. Now VMware Lab Connect is available for VMware Horizon View: Install, Configure, Manage [V5.2] offering access to the 18 course labs. See the all the …
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- By Michael Hubbard Cloud technology has matured in recent years, offering cost optimization, security, and quality of service for the full range of enterprise requirements, not just tactical needs. Yet many businesses have adopted cloud services in an ad hoc fashion with IT organizations tending to focus on the part of a cloud transformation that comes naturally to them—the technology. IT leaders shouldn’t forget that success equally depends on transforming how IT operates, factoring in people…
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- VMware for Public Sector Blog: VMware Government and Education Innovation Summit – Tallahassee, FL (http://blogs.vmware.com/publicsector/?p=193)On Wednesday, February 5, 2014 from 8:00am to 3:15pm Eastern, VMware, Carasoft and other co-sponsoring partners will conduct the Government and Education Innovation Summit. This premier education and training event in Tallahassee, FL is tailored to the unique interests of IT Management and Professionals in Public Sector. This is a great opportunity to hear VMware Experts deliver sessions on: Data center consolidation and automation Business continuity and disaster recovery Business agility and…
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- VMwareTV: VMware and AirWatch (tag:youtube.com,2008:video:qJe369xOVuM)VMware and AirWatch Sanjay Poonen, Executive Vice President and GM of End-User Computing at VMware, describes the market shift towards the mobile cloud era as VMware enters into... From: VMware Views: 2410 7 ratings Time: 02:44 More in Science & Technology
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- VMworldTV: VMworld 2013: Session VCM4528 - Tips and Tricks with vCenter Log Insight (tag:youtube.com,2008:video:XUF5h3hwDTU)VMworld 2013: Session VCM4528 - Tips and Tricks with vCenter Log Insight Would you like to use the existing log data across your environment to accelerate troubleshooting and reduce downtime across your entire stack? Think about t... From: VMworldTV Views: 129 0 ratings Time: 19:49 More in Science & Technology
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- VMworldTV: VMworld 2013: Session STO4798 - Software-Defined Storage: The VCDX Way (tag:youtube.com,2008:video:92PThRfKGQw)VMworld 2013: Session STO4798 - Software-Defined Storage: The VCDX Way Storage is one of the key pillars within every datacenter. Leveraging software-defined storage is key to unleashing the full benefits of the software-defined... From: VMworldTV Views: 126 0 ratings Time: 01:03:23 More in Science & Technology
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- VMworldTV: VMworld 2013: Session VCM5048 - Automating the Software Defined Data Center: How Do I Get Started (tag:youtube.com,2008:video:Ou1kT5CTqFU)VMworld 2013: Session VCM5048 - Automating the Software Defined Data Center: How Do I Get Started Datacenter automation can be a pretty intimidating task. What should I automate? What product should I use? Just within the VMware product family, there are ... From: VMworldTV Views: 119 0 ratings Time: 45:06 More in Science & Technology
- VMworldTV: VMworld 2013: Session VSVC5280 - DRS: New Features, Best Practices and Future Directions (tag:youtube.com,2008:video:J_GYTzdHesY)VMworld 2013: Session VSVC5280 - DRS: New Features, Best Practices and Future Directions DRS is a flagship feature of VMware vSphere and is heavily deployed by enterprise customers for zero-touch management of clusters. It allows vSphere administ... From: VMworldTV Views: 121 0 ratings Time: 01:04:32 More in Science & Technology
- VMworldTV: VMworld 2013: Session OPT5215 - Organizing for Cloud Operations -- Challenges and Lessons Learned (tag:youtube.com,2008:video:S812TRJl0Dw)VMworld 2013: Session OPT5215 - Organizing for Cloud Operations -- Challenges and Lessons Learned To be successful in providing cloud-based services, IT faces several organizational and organizationally-related challenges. The way IT has evolved organizat... From: VMworldTV Views: 99 0 ratings Time: 01:00:52 More in Science & Technology
- VMworldTV: VMworld 2013: Session VSVC5635 - vSphere vCenter Single Sign-on Best Practices (tag:youtube.com,2008:video:-iiyKJGC018)VMworld 2013: Session VSVC5635 - vSphere vCenter Single Sign-on Best Practices With vCenter Single Sign On providing vCloud suite authentication in vSphere environments many unanswered questions exist with designing and deploying it pro... From: VMworldTV Views: 119 0 ratings Time: 58:24 More in Science & Technology
- VMworldTV: VMworld 2013: VCM5169 - How to Troubleshoot VM Performance Issues With vCenter Operations Management (tag:youtube.com,2008:video:Q6KyQJ92Zus)VMworld 2013: VCM5169 - How to Troubleshoot VM Performance Issues With vCenter Operations Management In this session, we'll do a live demonstration of a few scenarios on how to troubleshoot VM performance issues across applications, infrastructure and storag... From: VMworldTV Views: 105 0 ratings Time: 55:44 More in Science & Technology
- VMwareTV: Ensuring Data Protection with VMware (tag:youtube.com,2008:video:DgJDfUwWFSI)Ensuring Data Protection with VMware Rory Choudhuri, Sr. Product Marketing Mgr at VMware discusses options to protect your data with Data Protection from VMware. From: VMware Views: 1 0 ratings Time: 04:18 More in Science & Technology
- VMwareTV: Realizing the Full Benefit of VMware vSphere with Operations Management (tag:youtube.com,2008:video:mFdUU3XPlSg)Realizing the Full Benefit of VMware vSphere with Operations Management Rory Choudhuri, Sr. Product Marketing Mgr at VMware discusses how you can realize the full benefit of your vSphere environment with Operations Management. From: VMware Views: 2 0 ratings Time: 05:56 More in Science & Technology
- VMwareTV: Simplifying Disaster Recovery with VMware (tag:youtube.com,2008:video:5OaSemd8qAc)Simplifying Disaster Recovery with VMware Rory Choudhuri, Sr. Product Marketing Mgr at VMware discusses options to protect your IT infrastructure from any potential disasters. From: VMware Views: 414 0 ratings Time: 06:15 More in Science & Technology
- VMwareTV: Enabling Virtualization with VMware (tag:youtube.com,2008:video:S5w4MPlGTHM)Enabling Virtualization with VMware Rory Choudhuri, Sr. Product Marketing Mgr at VMware discusses how VMware can reduce costs while at the same time, improve reliability and efficiency in your ... From: VMware Views: 2 0 ratings Time: 06:14 More in Science & Technology
- VMware Cloud Ops Blog: Assembling Your Cloud’s Dream Team (http://blogs.vmware.com/cloudops/?p=780)By: Pierre Moncassin Putting together a Cloud Center of Excellence (COE) is not about recruiting ‘super-heroes’ – but a matter of balancing skills and exploiting learning opportunities. On several occasions, I’ve heard customers who are embarking on the journey to the cloud ask: “How exactly do you go about putting together a ‘dream team’ capable of launching and delivering cloud services in my organization ?” VMware Cloud Operation’s advice is fairly straightforward: put together a core…
- VMwareTV: VMware vCenter Operations Manager, Management Pack for Amazon Web Services (tag:youtube.com,2008:video:EHoqQL5TRgg)VMware vCenter Operations Manager, Management Pack for Amazon Web Services This video walks you through the features of this management pack and the benefits of seeing Amazon Web Services resources in vCenter Operations Manager. From: VMware Views: 10 0 ratings Time: 07:28 More in Science & Technology
- VMware vCloud Blog: Moving to Hybrid Cloud: Top Considerations (http://blogs.vmware.com/vcloud/?p=3161)Some of the public cloud’s most popular features include its agility and scalability, but unfortunately, some of its less popular aspects, such as security and complexity concerns, can be hard to ignore. Enter the hybrid cloud: a solution designed to help make meeting business demands not only easy, but secure as well. The hybrid cloud combines everything businesses love about the public cloud with manageable internal control systems. Is your organization ready to take the plunge into hybrid cloud? …
- VMware Education & Certification Blog: Question of the Week: vCloud Hybrid Service (http://blogs.vmware.com/education/?p=3570)This week’s question comes from the vCloud Hybrid Service Instructional Video Series . a) 20Gb RAM and 5Ghz CPU b) 40GB RAM and 10Ghz CPU c) 120GB RAM & 30Ghz CPU Click through to the comments for the answer and watch Introduction to vCloud Hybrid Service for more information. Follow @VMwareEducation on Instagram to see more #TechTrivia every Tuesday and visual updates from the VMware Education and Certification community.
- VMware vSphere Blog: When to Centralize vCenter Single Sign-On Server 5.5 (http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/?p=11487)While VMware highly recommends the deployment of all vCenter Server components into a single virtual machine (excluding the vCenter Server database), large enterprise customers running multiple vCenter Server instances within a single physical location can simplify the vCenter Single Sign-On architecture and management by reducing the footprint and required resources and specify a dedicated vCenter Single Sign-On environment for all local resources in each physical location. For vSphere 5.5 the VMware…
- VMwareTV: Experiential Showcase: A New Way of Working (tag:youtube.com,2008:video:5T--XmG111U)Experiential Showcase: A New Way of Working Four countries, four different needs and four different ways that VDI, Virtual Desktop infrastructure is being used to change the way we work, study and live... From: VMware Views: 655 0 ratings Time: 03:55 More in Science & Technology
- VMware Education & Certification Blog: Asia Pacific: Get Free VMware Lab Connect (http://blogs.vmware.com/education/?p=3542)Jan 24 Update: The VMware Lab Connect offer has been extended for additional ASEAN countries, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, and Vietnam. Get extra hands on practice time on VMware course labs, dive deeper into features of interest, and do it anytime from anywhere! VMware is offering FREE access to VMware Lab Connect™ when you complete one of the following VMware-delivered, instructor-led class in Australia or New Zealand by March 20, 2014. VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage…
- VMwareTV: VMware vCenter Log Insight 1.5 What's New Video (tag:youtube.com,2008:video:GuZkFhxFop0)VMware vCenter Log Insight 1.5 What's New Video https://bitly.com/log-insight This short video highlights the new features introduced in Log Insight 1.5. VMware® vCenter™ Log Insight™ delivers automated lo... From: VMware Views: 672 0 ratings Time: 05:28 More in Science & Technology
External Bloggers
- Openstack updates, open-source EMC drivers (http://virtualgeek.typepad.com/virtual_geek/2014/01/openstack-updates-open-source-emc-drivers.html)I’m seeing more and more Openstack in my interactions with customers. Personally, it increasingly “feels” like a two horse race at most of the customers where they are looking at/evaluating/using the vCloud Suite and/or Openstack (along with Puppet/Chef) as the...
- Automatically Connecting LXC to Open vSwitch (http://blog.scottlowe.org/?p=3398)In this post, I'll show you how to have LXC instances automatically attach themselves to an Open vSwitch (OVS) bridge for network connectivity. This article was originally posted on blog.scottlowe.org . Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies. Automatically Connecting LXC to Open vSwitch
- Awesome VSAN contest results (http://www.yellow-bricks.com/?p=14251)Every once in a while I have someone asking me how about VSAN scale? Typically the question is triggered by a conversation had with another storage vendor and either a misunderstanding or pure FUD that was spread. It is nice to see some of our beta testers showing the possibilities with VSAN. How about the […] " Awesome VSAN contest results " originally appeared on Yellow-Bricks.com . Follow me on twitter - @DuncanYB.
- Building a hyper-converged platform using VMware technology part 2 (http://www.yellow-bricks.com/?p=14193)In part 1 of “Building a hyper-converged platform using VMware technology” I went through the sizing and scaling exercise. In short to recap, in order to run 100 VMs we would need the following resources: 100 x 1.5 vCPUs = ~30 cores 100 x 5 GB = 500GB of memory 100 x 50 GB (plus […] " Building a hyper-converged platform using VMware technology part 2 " originally appeared on Yellow-Bricks.com . Follow me on twitter - @DuncanYB.
- Building a hyper-converged platform using VMware technology part 1 (http://www.yellow-bricks.com/?p=14164)I have been working on a slidedeck lately that explains how to build a hyper-converged platform using VMware technology. Of course it is heavily focusing on Virtual SAN as that is one of the core components in the stack. I created the slidedeck based on discussions I have had with various customers and partners who […] " Building a hyper-converged platform using VMware technology part 1 " originally appeared on Yellow-Bricks.com . Follow me on twitter - @DuncanYB.
- Startup News Flash part 12 (http://www.yellow-bricks.com/?p=14131)First edition of the 2014 of the Startup News Flash. I expect this year to be full of announcements, new rounds of funding, new products, new features and new companies. There are various startups planning to come out of stealth this year and all play in the storage / flash space, so make sure to […] " Startup News Flash part 12 " originally appeared on Yellow-Bricks.com . Follow me on twitter - @DuncanYB.
- Creating a manual VSAN Cluster with PowerCLI (http://www.virtu-al.net/?p=3082)In my previous post I showed how to create a datacenter, cluster, add hosts and create an automatic VSAN cluster allowing for the local SSDs and HDDs to be added to a new VSAN... Creating a manual VSAN Cluster with PowerCLI 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
- Creating a VSAN Cluster with PowerCLI (http://www.virtu-al.net/?p=3076)Recently there was a new fling released on the VMware Flings site, this enables us to use VSAN and VMware Flash Read Cache with PowerCLI, check out the site here for more details. I... Creating a VSAN Cluster with PowerCLI 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
- A Linux-based Domain Controller for a vSphere lab – part 4 (http://www.vreference.com/?p=2117)This is a four-part series of posts explaining how to install and configure a Linux-based appliance in your vSphere lab environment to take the role as a Windows Domain Controller. Part 1 – Why and what Part 2 – Deploying the appliance Part 3 – Selecting the roles and configuring the appliance [...]
- A Linux-based Domain Controller for a vSphere lab – part 3 (http://www.vreference.com/?p=2114)This is a four-part series of posts explaining how to install and configure a Linux-based appliance in your vSphere lab environment to take the role as a Windows Domain Controller. Part 1 – Why and what Part 2 – Deploying the appliance Part 3 – Selecting the roles and configuring the appliance [...]
- A Linux-based Domain Controller for a vSphere lab – part 2 (http://www.vreference.com/?p=2141)This is a four-part series of posts explaining how to install and configure a Linux-based appliance in your vSphere lab environment to take the role as a Windows Domain Controller. Part 1 – Why and what Part 2 – Deploying the appliance Part 3 – Selecting the roles and configuring the appliance [...]
- A Linux-based Domain Controller for a vSphere lab – part 1 (http://www.vreference.com/?p=2099)This is a four-part series of posts explaining how to install and configure a Linux-based appliance in your vSphere lab environment to take the role as a Windows Domain Controller. Part 1 – Why and what Part 2 – Deploying the appliance Part 3 – Selecting the roles and configuring the appliance [...]
- VMware acquires AirWatch (http://www.vmguru.nl/wordpress/?p=12155)VMware and AirWatch just announced that they have signed a definitive agreement under which VMware will acquire AirWatch. Airwatch is a leading provider of enterprise mobile management and security solutions. VMware will acquire AirWatch for approximately $1.175B in cash and approximately $365M of installment payments and assumed unvested equity. AirWatch is a leading provider of enterprise solutions for Mobile Device Management, Mobile Application Management and Mobile Content Management with 1.600…
- Hands Down the Ultimate VDI/DaaS platform – Persistent Desktops (http://myvirtualcloud.net/?p=5727)A while back I wrote an article entitled “Open letter to non-persistent VDI fanboys…”. In the article I provided reasons to why persistent VDI makes more sense nowadays for the large majority of use cases. A number of community members have chimed in, and that culminated into a live debate during VMworld 2013 that was … Continue reading »
- VMware VCP-DCV Preparation Workshop – free Online (http://www.vladan.fr/?p=33783)Recently I’ve published link to a VCP and VCAP (un)official study guides. Those excellent guides Josh Cohen (@joshcoen) and Jason Langer (@jaslanger) with screenshots strictly follow the blueprints and present only what’s required to pass the exam. If you missed that post, check check it out here. VMware on the other hand offers free 4 hours online course […] Read the full post VMware VCP-DCV Preparation Workshop – free Online at ESX Virtualization . Featured Paper : Top Seven Networking…
- New VCP Exam VCP550 based on vSphere 5.5 is available (http://www.vladan.fr/?p=33775)Just to let you know that it’s now possible to get certified on vSphere 5.5. VMware has released new certification exam yesterday which allows to pass an exam based on vSphere 5.5. So the new certification exam VCP550, is based on VMware vSphere 5.5 but earns you still a VCP5-DCV certification only. The same certification […] Read the full post New VCP Exam VCP550 based on vSphere 5.5 is available at ESX Virtualization . Featured Paper : Top Seven Networking Concepts Every Virtualization…
- New Free VMworld Sessions are Online (http://www.vladan.fr/?p=33767)VMworld TV has put on a new VMworld sessions freely available on YouTube. If you haven’t attended VMworld or if you have missed some of those sessions, you now have the chance to check them out. There is 11 of those sessions available. I see couple of good ones, for example already the first one […] Read the full post New Free VMworld Sessions are Online at ESX Virtualization . Featured Paper : Top Seven Networking Concepts Every Virtualization Administrator Should Know
- Free E-Learning for VDP Advanced available (http://www.vladan.fr/?p=33754)VMware vSphere 5.5 brought vSphere Data Protection (VDP) and also VDP advanced (as separate product). Both backup products which are tightly integrated with web based vSphere console offers backup/replication and recovery of VMs, individual OS files or (for VDP advanced) AD/Exchange/SQL/Sharepoint Objects. There is a new Free E-Learning for VDP Advanced called VDP Advanced Fundamentals 5.5 […] Read the full post Free E-Learning for VDP Advanced available at ESX Virtualization . Featured Paper : Top…
- ESXi 5.x – Managing and troubleshooting NAS/NFS datastores via CLI (http://www.vladan.fr/?p=33727)One of the topics to master for VCAP-DCA exam (but not only) is to handle some CLI commands which enables NFS management. Those commands can list existing connected NFS storage, Add new storage or delete NAS file system. Those commands are also useful when you troubleshoot your NFS storage or when your NFS server has […] Read the full post ESXi 5.x – Managing and troubleshooting NAS/NFS datastores via CLI at ESX Virtualization . Featured Paper : Top Seven Networking Concepts Every Virtualization…
- VMware vCenter Server 5.1 Update 2 – what’s in (http://www.vladan.fr/?p=33732)VMware has released few days back a vCenter Server 5.1 Update 2 (vCenter Server 5.1 Update 2 | Build 1473063). This update brings customization for Windows 8.1, Windows 2012 R2 and SLES 11 SP3 plus more. Also there has been multiple fixes released which might interest you or your clients if they run on 5.1. To […] Read the full post VMware vCenter Server 5.1 Update 2 – what’s in at ESX Virtualization . Featured Paper : Top Seven Networking Concepts Every Virtualization Administrator Should Know
- JumpSquares v1.2 - Nmap XML Parsing (http://www.kendrickcoleman.com/index.php/Tech-Blog/jumpsquares-v12-nmap-xml-parsing.html)Over the past 2 weeks I've been working on implementing a new feature that was requested by Christian Mohn ( @h0bbel ) on the the vSoup Podcast . This new feature will hopefully allow you to create more JumpSquares faster. Version 1.2 (1.9.14) Added Nmap Scan XML functions. Upload Nmap XML file to create JumpSquares quickly. Changed a bunch of deprecated Rails 3 warnings to be Rails 4 compliant. Uploaded new wiki appliance with all new functionality and Debian Wheezy patches Fixed bootstrap modal…
- VMware and the Public Cloud – Frenemies (tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5819640694385843490.post-8672719055560508931)Historically, VMware – the pioneer in virtualization – has always been a software/solutions vendor. They were never in the business of selling hardware, they left that to the hardware vendors. With the advent of the cloud, VMware established... This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more!..
- Adopting the Cloud? Importing vs. Building Your Enterprise VMs (tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5819640694385843490.post-4234154363152080851)This is a re-post of my article, originally published on The Ravello Blog. The cloud has brought a change in how we view and manage virtualization, especially for enterprises that need to deploy their sophisticated enterprise workloads around the... This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more!..
- Reference Architecture – vCloud Automation Center (vCAC) 6.0 Distributed Environment – Part 1 of 2 (http://www.hypervizor.com/?p=1476)In this two-part blog post, I will try to cover as much details as possible for a fully distributed and highly available vCAC 6.0 architecture. As I always like to introduce this type of architectures, I want to stress on some facts first: Your milage may vary and the requirements from one customer to another
- Survey Reveals Evolving Role of IT – Emphasis on Cloud and Mobile (http://www.vcritical.com/?p=4528)New survey acknowledges importance of mobile device management in the enterprise, which is obviously why VMware acquired AirWatch.
- VMware KB Digest – New KB articles published for week ending 1/18/14 (http://vmwaretips.com/wp/?p=2257)In our effort to provide our viewers with up to the minute information on VMware related news and topics, we’re posting the following list of new KB Entries for this week, direct from VMware Support. VMware ESX 4 concurrent vMotion Migrations per host when using VMware vSphere Distributed Switch or Cisco Nexus 1000v (2068664) Date [...]
KB Articles
VMware ESX
4 concurrent vMotion Migrations per host when using VMware vSphere Distributed Switch or Cisco Nexus 1000v (2068664)
Date Published: 1/14/2014
Hardware faults on ESXi hosts (2069475)
Date Published: 1/17/2014
VMware ESXi
Starting an ESXi host that has custom defined resource pool with predefined memory reservation might result in failure after an upgrade (2066894)
Date Published: 1/17/2014
Network coredump in host profile breaks networking configuration (2068603)
Date Published: 1/14/2014
ESXi 5.0 host reports the error: Unable to parse MaxRam value (2033095)
Date Published: 1/17/2014
VMware ESXi 5.1, Patch ESXi510-201401202-UG: Updates ESXi 5.1 tools-light vib (2062302)
Date Published: 1/17/2014
VMware ESXi 5.1, Patch ESXi510-201401204-UG: Updates ESXi 5.1 net-e1000e vib (2062304)
Date Published: 1/17/2014
VMware ESXi 5.1, Patch ESXi510-201401205-UG: Updates ESXi 5.1 scsi-rste vib (2062305)
Date Published: 1/17/2014
VMware ESXi 5.1, Patch ESXi510-201401206-UG: Updates ESXi 5.1 scsi-mpt2sas vib (2062306)
Date Published: 1/17/2014
VMware ESXi 5.1, Patch ESXi510-201401101-SG: Updates ESXi 5.1 esx-base vib (2062307)
Date Published: 1/17/2014
VMware ESXi 5.1, Patch ESXi510-201401103-SG: Updates ESXi 5.1 esx-xlibs and esx-xserver vib (2062309)
Date Published: 1/17/2014
VMware ESXi 5.1 Patch Image Profile ESXi-5.1.0-20140102001-no-tools (2062311)
Date Published: 1/17/2014
VMware ESXi 5.1 Patch Image Profile ESXi-5.1.0-20140101001s-no-tools (2062313)
Date Published: 1/17/2014
Unmounting a datastore used for Host Cache on ESXi 5.5 fails with the error: Cannot unmount volume <datastore_name> because file system is busy (2069171)
Date Published: 1/14/2014
Unable to extend the partition using the guest Disk Utility after extending the disk of a virtual machine running Mac OS X (2069255)
Date Published: 1/14/2014
Deleting the VMDK disk fails with the error: This operation not allowed in the current state (2066983)
Date Published: 1/14/2014
ESXi Hostd crashes while attempting to map a NULL value from serial0.fileName (2069234)
Date Published: 1/14/2014
VMware ESXi 5.1, Patch ESXi510-201401207-UG: Updates ESX 5.1 sata-ata-piix vib (2065609)
Date Published: 1/17/2014
VMware ESXi 5.1, Patch ESXi510-201401208-UG: Updates ESX 5.1 sata-ahci vib (2065610)
Date Published: 1/17/2014
Cannot enable or test SNMP on an ESXi 5.1 host (2036910)
Date Published: 1/17/2014
VMware ESXi 5.1, Patch ESXi510-201401201-UG: Updates ESXi 5.1 esx-base vib (2062300)
Date Published: 1/17/2014
VMware ESXi 5.1, Patch ESXi510-201401203-UG: Updates ESXi 5.1 net-tg3 vib (2062303)
Date Published: 1/17/2014
VMware ESXi 5.1, Patch ESXi510-201401102-SG: Updates ESXi 5.1 tools-light vib (2062308)
Date Published: 1/17/2014
VMware ESXi 5.1 Patch Image Profile ESXi-5.1.0-20140102001-standard (2062310)
Date Published: 1/17/2014
VMware ESXi 5.1 Patch Image Profile ESXi-5.1.0-20140101001s-standard (2062312)
Date Published: 1/17/2014
VMware ESXi 5.1, Patch ESXi510-Update02: ESXi 5.1 Complete Update 2 (2062314)
Date Published: 1/17/2014
ESXi 5.0/5.1 host disconnects during vApp operation or randomly in a vCloud environment (2065197)
Date Published: 1/13/2014
Microsoft Windows 8.1 and Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 guest operating options are not available in vSphere 5.x (2067000)
Date Published: 1/15/2014
Quiesced snapshots fail on a Windows Server 2012 virtual machine with Microsoft Exchange 2013 (2068653)
Date Published: 1/13/2014
VMware Fusion
After upgrading from Mac OS X 10.8.4 to 10.8.5, VMware Fusion fails with the error: Unable to retrieve kernel symbols (2061791)
Date Published: 1/17/2014
VMware Horizon View
Microsoft Office requests reactivation each time it logs off the VMware Horizon View 5.2.x desktop (2057720)
Date Published: 1/13/2014
Compatibility Matrix for Horizon View Components During an Upgrade to Horizon View 5.3 (2069327)
Date Published: 1/15/2014
VMware IT Business Management Suite
Online help is not accessible in VMware IT Business Management v8.0.0 (2066988)
Date Published: 1/15/2014
Cannot move the textbox framelet freely on a dashboard in VMware IT Business Management Suite 8.x (2069482)
Date Published: 1/15/2014
Flat file adaptor saves Template Type incorrectly in VMware IT Business Management Suite v8.0.0 (2066992)
Date Published: 1/15/2014
Cannot drilldown to reports in VMware IT Business Management Suite 8.x even when the security option for dimension is disabled (2069483)
Date Published: 1/15/2014
VMware Service Manager
Network hyperlinks are converted to file:// or http:// links when added to fields in VMware Service Manager 9.x (2068735)
Date Published: 1/13/2014
VMware vCenter Configuration Manager
Patching Bulletins do not display and downloaded patching content does not parse correctly in VMware vCenter Configuration Manager (2053975)
Date Published: 1/16/2014
VMware vCenter Converter
Logging into P2V conversion of Red Hat Linux 5.7 fails with the error: Network driver cannot bind a name to the port (2005314)
Date Published: 1/16/2014
VMware vCenter Converter Standalone
Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion using VMware vCenter Converter Standalone fails with the error: Unable to obtain hardware information for the selected machine (2059581)
Date Published: 1/15/2014
Converting a Linux Machine results in the error: Unable to obtain the IP address of the helper virtual machine (2066956)
Date Published: 1/13/2014
VMware vCenter Lab Manager
Cloning, consolidating, or ssmove migrations convert thin-provisioned disks to thick-provisioned (2004731)
Date Published: 1/16/2014
VMware vCenter Server
Backing up the VMware vCenter Inventory Service database fails with an Authentication Error (2068719)
Date Published: 1/14/2014
ESXi host with ATS disabled cannot access files on ATS-Only mounted VMFS volumes and vCenter Server displays incorrect datastore values (2067686)
Date Published: 1/13/2014
Connecting to vCenter server 5.0 Update 3 from Citrix ZenDesktop Studio fails with the error: Desktop Studio has detected an unexpected error (2069149)
Date Published: 1/13/2014
Installing vCenter Single Sign-On fails with the error: The TCP/IP connection to the host 192.168.1.104, port 1433 has failed (2040068)
Date Published: 1/17/2014
VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager
VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager service takes a long time to start (2068329)
Date Published: 1/14/2014
VMware vCenter Update Manager
VMware Update Manager upgrade installation fails with the error: 25127 setup failed to upgrade the VMware vCenter update manager database (2030970)
Date Published: 1/14/2014
VMware vCloud Application Director
Security Guidelines for VMware vCloud Application Director 6.0 (2069352)
Date Published: 1/14/2014
VMware vCloud Automation Center
When configuring endpoints, you only see VMware vCloud Director and VMware vCenter Server options (2068707)
Date Published: 1/13/2014
VMware vCloud Automation Center for Server
VMware vCloud Automation Center tasks fail to time out causing inactive vCAC agent service (2069267)
Date Published: 1/15/2014
Machine name custom property appears duplicated on a request form in VCAC 6 (2069347)
Date Published: 1/14/2014
VMware vCloud Director
vCloud Director 5.5 catalogs show status: UNKNOWN (2066989)
Date Published: 1/14/2014
VMware VirtualCenter
Cannot update to vCenter Server 2.5 Update 6c from a previous localized version of vCenter Server 2.5 Update 6 (2068967)
Date Published: 1/14/2014
VMware vSphere Big Data Extensions
Invalid random password displayed for cluster nodes with custom password (2065595)
Date Published: 1/17/2014
Clusters created in the vSphere Web Client with custom number of CPUs or amount of RAM have default values (2068861)
Date Published: 1/17/2014
VMware vSphere Big Data Extensions
Big Data Extensions vApp upgrade fails (2068859)
Date Published: 1/17/2014
VMware vSphere Storage Appliance
VSA Profile does not allow you to run the product on this system (2057935)
Date Published: 1/19/2014
VMware vSphere Web Services SDK
Unable to edit endpoints.conf using VI editor in VMware vSphere WebService SDK (2069670)
Date Published: 1/17/2014
VMware vSphere Web Services SDK
FibreChannel HBA speed measured in Gb in VMware vSphere Web Service SDK (2069354)
Date Published: 1/15/2014