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VMware Technology Alliance Partner Blog: VMware’s new Developer Center expands sample code coverage (http://blogs.vmware.com/tap/?p=827)We at VMware Developer Center have been busy expanding sample code coverage for programming with the vSphere SDKs. Working with William Lam, we’ve taken some of the examples from his virtuallyGhetto blog (http://www.virtuallyghetto.com/) and re-written them to help Java programmers. These samples range from getting a first connection to cloning and starting a number of VMs, with more on the way. Check them out at https://developercenter.vmware.com/samples

VMware vSphere Blog: Which vSCSI controller should I choose for performance? (https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/?p=11658)I wrote a blog article in Oct 2010 on this same topic that is still frequently referenced today so I figure it was due for an update. So what should I choose as my vSCSI controller and what are the differences between them? First, it’s important to remind everyone that when you select the Guest OS for a new virtual machine this automatically makes a selection for which vSCSI controller to use based on what drivers are available in the OS distribution. So be sure to select the correct Guest OS to…

VMware Hands On Labs Blog: The Many Clouds of Hands-on Labs (http://blogs.vmware.com/hol/?p=646)Behind the scenes of VMware’s Hands-on Labs, there is a lot of “care and feeding” of the lab infrastructure, manuals, and the lab environments themselves. You might be surprised at how much opportunity there is for things to stop working, even in environments that have been precisely configured and then effectively frozen in time. For example, SSL certificates and password expiration policies are the bane of my existence… On a call at the end of 2013, I demonstrated some of my maintenance…

VMware Consulting Blog: BCDR Strategy: Three Critical Questions (http://blogs.vmware.com/consulting/?p=1277)By Jeremy Carter , VMware Senior Consultant Organizations in every industry are increasingly dependent on technology, making increased resiliency and decreased downtime a critical priority. In fact, Forrester cites resiliency as the number three overall infrastructure priority this year. A business continuity solution that utilizes the virtual infrastructure, like the one VMware offers, can greatly simplify the process, though IT still needs to understand how all the pieces of their business continuity…

The Console: VMware Weekly News Recap: February 7 (http://blogs.vmware.com/vmware/?p=2189)VMware News In VMware News this week, CEO Pat Gelsinger participated in The Wall Street Journal’s CIO Network annual meeting in San Diego. Pat spoke with WSJ’s Jennifer Forsyth about how he acquired the skills he needed to go from engineer to the role of CEO and discussed what he calls a “tectonic shift” in […]

VMware Accelerate: 4 Ways to Build Better Roadmaps (http://blogs.vmware.com/accelerate/?p=1863)By Barton Kaplan Roadmaps are uniquely leverageable tools for IT leaders. They can be used to drive consensus among stakeholders, bridge strategic and operating plans, and provide a framework for multiyear investment decisions. But the current state of practice leaves a lot to be desired. According to a recent poll from best practices firm CEB [1] , 70 percent of IT professionals are either ‘somewhat’ or ‘highly dissatisfied’ with their roadmaps; only 3 percent are highly satisfied. In my…

VMware Virtualization Management Blog: vSphere ESXi 5 and Remote Syslog: Make Sure You Patch/Update (http://blogs.vmware.com/management/?p=2898)By Jon Herlocker One of the many substantial changes between VMware vSphere ESXi 4 and ESX5 was a rewrite of the syslog services, and the addition of features like support for TCP and SSL when sending logs to a remote target. However, the initial release of remote syslog support in ESX 5.0 had some significant limitations. The good news is that, as of January 2014, all of the major issues have been fixed in all versions of ESXi ESXi 5.0 to 5.5. If you are sending your ESXi 5 hosts to a remote syslog…

VMware ThinApp Blog: Performance considerations using AppLink (http://blogs.vmware.com/thinapp/?p=1679)Do the Application Linking feature (AppLink) affect performance? Unfortunately the answer is, it depends.. Using AppLink will merge two or more Data Containers together. During this merge of the virtual environments, AppLink does its conflict resolution (learn more about conflict handling in AppLink here: http://blogs.vmware.com/thinapp/2011/03/the-power-of-applink.html ) so yes, this will take some time to complete. Often this is not noticeable to the end-user though. One or two AppLinks are typically…

VMware Education & Certification Blog: Save 50% on VMware BETA Course (http://blogs.vmware.com/education/?p=3697)Save half on the VMware course price while being the first to train on VMware vCloud Automation Center [V6.0] . The course covers the configuration and use of the VMware vCloud® Automation Center platform self-service provisioning and creation of on-demand private and multivendor cloud services. BETA Locations include: Atlanta GA, USA 31 Mar – 4 Apr Munich, Germany 31 Mar – 4 Apr Frimley Surrey, UK 7 Apr – 11 Apr Enroll now as BETA courses fill up quickly. Beat the rush and sign up to be…

VMware Technology Alliance Partner Blog: vCenter Log Insight Content Packs bring new intelligence to your logs (http://blogs.vmware.com/tap/?p=824)The recent release of vCenter Log Insight 1.5 (http://blogs.vmware.com/management/2014/01/vmware-vcenter-log-insight-1-5-technology-and-features.html) added many great features to streamline building Content Packs. Many of you have asked how to get started developing them. Now VMware Developer Center can help. Developer Center is a one-stop home for developers to design solutions for the software-defined datacenter (SDDC) and it is full of tools, documentation, discussion forums and even sample code for…

VMware for Public Sector Blog: IPv6 and VMware Products (http://blogs.vmware.com/publicsector/?p=237)VMware is planning to extend support of IPv6 to the ESXi and vCenter Server management network, vSphere management features, and the vCloud Suite over the next several years. We are doing this in two steps, expected to start in 2015. First, support a pure IPv6 stack to ensure product performance and quality with no dependencies on IPv4. Second, support dual stack. The effort to support IPv6 will take place over multiple years, and we are working toward building quality VMware products running and…

VMware Education & Certification Blog: New Training Course Available: VMware vCloud Automation Center: Product Overview [V6.0] (http://blogs.vmware.com/education/?p=3714)Are you interested in implementing vCloud Automation Center? Are you an administrator of vCloud Automation Center who needs knowledge of vCloud Automation Center 6.0 and have little time to spare? VMware now offers a one-day product overview course – VMware vCloud® Automation Center™: Product Overview [V6.0] – focused exclusively on the features of VMware vCloud Automation Center version 6.0 and how vCloud Automation Center fits a cloud computing model. This product overview outlines features…

VMwareTV: Northrim Bank Reduces Costs, Keeps Compliance & Enables Always-on Access with VMware Horizon View (tag:youtube.com,2008:video:PNl6x5w0MWE)Northrim Bank Reduces Costs, Keeps Compliance & Enables Always-on Access with VMware Horizon View Northrim Bank believes that customers deserve the very highest level of service. VMware Horizon View is helping the bank meet its "Customer First Service" go... From: VMware Views: 2 0 ratings Time: 03:43 More in Science & Technology

VMTN Blog: vExpert 2014 applications are open (http://blogs.vmware.com/vmtn/?p=8281)Applications for the 2014 vExpert program are now open. Applications will be accepted up until March 6th at midnight PST. Applications received after the March 6th deadline will roll into the Q2 nomination & voting process. Each year, we bring together in the vExpert Program the people who have made some of the most important contributions to the VMware community. These are the bloggers, book authors, VMUG leaders, speakers, tool builders, community leaders and general enthusiasts. They work as IT…

VMwareTV: KishHealth System Chose VMware Horizon View for Security & Remote Location Performance (tag:youtube.com,2008:video:iBmPIlXfnRo)KishHealth System Chose VMware Horizon View for Security & Remote Location Performance KishHealth System Chose VMware Horizon View for Security & Remote Location Performance. From: VMware Views: 7 0 ratings Time: 03:36 More in Science & Technology

VMware for Small-Medium Business Blog: Moving to Hybrid Cloud: Top Considerations (http://blogs.vmware.com/smb/?p=2470)This post originally appeared on the VMware vCloud blog 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…

VMTN Blog: VMware Communities Roundtable Podcast – 264 – The coming “Server SAN” market with Wikibon’s Stu Miniman (http://blogs.vmware.com/vmtn/?p=8291)Hosts John Mark Troyer, VMware @jtroyer Mike Gordon Laverick, VMware @Mike_Laverick Guests Stuart Miniman, Wikibon @stu News VMware to Present at the Stifel Technology, Internet & Media Conference VMware to Present at the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference Cornerstone Home Lending, Inc. Standardizes on VMware vSphere With Operations Management VMware Partner Exchange Info Around the Community vBrownbag Podcast VMUG Local Meetings – Check it today AdaptingIT – Lauren Malhoit…

VMTN Blog: VMware Communities Roundtable Podcast – 263 – A Conversation with William Lam: vCAC, APIs, Flings, vSAN automation (http://blogs.vmware.com/vmtn/?p=8298)Hosts John Mark Troyer, VMware @jtroyer Mike Gordon Laverick, VMware @Mike_Laverick Guests William Lam, VMware @lamw News VMware Partner Exchange Info VMware to Acquire AirWatch VMware Reports Record Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2013 Results 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…

VMware vCloud Blog: Optimizing VMware vCloud Automation Center Integration with vCloud Hybrid Service (http://blogs.vmware.com/vcloud/?p=3179)The recently released vCloud Automation Center (vCAC) version 6 is a leap forward in the area of heterogeneous cloud provisioning. In addition to cross-platform cloud provisioning, vCAC also enables a true Hybrid Cloud approach by integrating off-premises infrastructure back into the data center and allowing users to provision workloads to the cloud in exactly the same way they provision to their existing private data center. When your off premises and on-premises infrastructure platform both support the…

VMware for Public Sector Blog: VMware Horizon Mirage – VMware and Carahsoft (http://blogs.vmware.com/publicsector/?p=235)On February 13, 2014 at 2:00 Pm EST / 11:00 Am PST VMware and Carahsoft will have an online seminar discussing VMware Horizon Mirage. VMware Horizon Mirage delivers a unique solution to organizations for managing laptops and desktops centrally, while providing full local functionality for end users. During the online seminar you will learn how VMware Horizon Mirage facilities: Windows 7 Migration – Simplify and automate migration at lower costs Desktop Recovery and Repair – Minimize end user downtime…

The Console: VMware Leads Cloud Management in Enterprise Customer Survey from 451 Research (http://blogs.vmware.com/vmware/?p=2181)By Ramin Sayar, senior vice president and general manager, Cloud Management Business Unit I’m happy to share that in a recent 451 Research CloudScape report on CloudManagement and Automation, IT practitioners selected VMware as the leading vendor in four of six categories measured in the report.1 The report showed that VMware topped competing software vendors in the […]

VMwareTV: Cornerstone Manages Its Entire Data Center w/ the Dashboard in vSphere with Operations Mgmt (tag:youtube.com,2008:video:mW0WVj5QSig)Cornerstone Manages Its Entire Data Center w/ the Dashboard in vSphere with Operations Mgmt See how Cornerstone Home Lending uses the dashboard daily in VMware vSphere with Operations Management to monitor the current health of clusters, identify ne... From: VMware Views: 0 0 ratings Time: 02:39 More in Science & Technology

VMware Technology Alliance Partner Blog: NDA Roadmaps for TAP Partners at PEX (http://blogs.vmware.com/tap/?p=812)The TAP team has organized NDA Roadmaps at VMware Partner Exchange (PEX). Register now to avoid disappointment. TEX3138 – vCloud Hybrid Service NDA Roadmap (TAP only) 2/11/2014 – (Tuesday) 1:00 PM Moscone West, Room 2012 This is the vCloud Hybrid Service Roadmap session, exclusively for Technology Alliance Program (TAP) partners. In this session, you’ll learn about the upcoming features and capability enhancements. The roadmap will cover the entire service definition along with add-ons that enable…

VMware Virtualization Management Blog: Free eBook: vCenter Log Insight (http://blogs.vmware.com/management/?p=2887)Understanding Real-time Log Analytics Whatever the work challenge, suffice to say that we all want to get it right the first time. No one enjoys repeating work because we missed seeing, hearing or understanding important data the first time. That’s one of the things that make products such as vCenter Log Insight so important to IT operations professionals. There’s first and foremost an opportunity to flag incoming system messages in real-time that identify immediate or potential problems; but…

VMware Technology Alliance Partner Blog: VMware Developer Center – Simplifying and Accelerating Access to VMware Partner Programs (http://blogs.vmware.com/tap/?p=803)We are excited to share with you the general availability release of VMware Developer Center . With this release, Developer Center dramatically improves the overall experience of our certification and developer communities, by providing a single location for SDK’s, certification kits and tools, architectural overviews, a broad range of developer tools and recipes, plus a wealth of other information. Here’s how Mallik Mahalingam, CEO of Storvisor, put it: “Storvisor is extremely happy that VMware has…

Office of the CTO Blogs: Complexity is Great for Profits… Just Not Your Profits (http://cto.vmware.com/?p=2577)Many people who have seen me present over the past year have heard me discuss the notion of complexity and who truly benefits from it. Given the current state of IT budgets and resources, the time is ripe to take a closer look at this issue. Most organizations that I work with are grappling with mandates to be more efficient and responsive to business or department needs (said in another way, more agile) and to improve application availability, all while maintaining a flat budget. These mandates often lead…

VMware Virtualization Management Blog: Integrate Anything with Log Insight Using Syslog (http://blogs.vmware.com/management/?p=2867)Why did the Log Insight team choose syslog, invented way back in the 80s, as the input protocol for Log Insight? The 80s was the decade that brought us CD-ROMs, Doppler Radar and Digital Cell Phones. It’s hard to believe that the syslog protocol was only a part of sendmail at first. Now it is available for every operating system with commercial software available from multiple vendors. If you are wondering how syslog became so popular, it is because it is easy. I’ll show you how easy it is to…

VMware Network Virtualization Blog: Elephant Flow Mitigation via Virtual-Physical Communication (http://blogs.vmware.com/networkvirtualization/?p=1252)Note: this post was developed jointly by Justin Pettit of VMware and Mark Pearson of HP, with additional content from VMware’s Martin Casado and Bruce Davie. A recent Network Heresy post “ Of Mice and Elephants ” discussed the impact long-lived flows (elephants) have on their short-lived peers (mice). A quick summary is that, in a datacenter, it is believed that the majority of flows are short-lived (mice), but the majority of packets are long-lived (elephants). Mice flows tend to be bursty and…

VMware Education & Certification Blog: VMware Lab Connect Portfolio Expands (http://blogs.vmware.com/education/?p=3674)VMware Lab Connect™ continues to expands its portfolio, now offering VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V5.5] . This cloud-based lab environment includes the same 24 labs found in the VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V5.5] course. Get hands-on-practice time to prepare for certification or take extra time to play with key features or both when you sign up for VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V5.5] – Lab Connect . See all the VMware Lab Connect offerings and sign…

VMware Hands On Labs Blog: Join us at VMware Partner Exchange 2014 – Meet our Product Experts – Hands-on Labs (http://blogs.vmware.com/hol/?p=660)Folks, We are incredibly excited about bringing to our Partners the VMware Hands-on Labs – This is a superb opportunity for you to come in learn all about our products, take a lab and meet the actual people that built the labs. Please join us – looking forward to seeing you there ….

VMwareTV: VMware vCenter Ops: Dashboard & Settings, Part 1 of 2 (tag:youtube.com,2008:video:4sLZvk-QEWI)VMware vCenter Ops: Dashboard & Settings, Part 1 of 2 The vSphere Optimization Assessment is a 30-day evaluation of vCenter Operations Management Standard Edition that delivers an Optimization Assessment report ... From: VMware Views: 828 4 ratings Time: 25:30 More in Science & Technology

VMwareTV: VMware vCenter Ops: Dashboard & Settings, Part 2 of 2 (tag:youtube.com,2008:video:epseq3l7sGQ)VMware vCenter Ops: Dashboard & Settings, Part 2 of 2 The vSphere Optimization Assessment is a 30-day evaluation of vCenter Operations Management Standard Edition that delivers an Optimization Assessment report ... From: VMware Views: 25 0 ratings Time: 40:26 More in Science & Technology

VMware for Small-Medium Business Blog: Find the Right VMware Solution in 3 Minutes… by Trying the Virtualization Advisor Tool (http://blogs.vmware.com/smb/?p=2463)By walking through the advisor tool , you can quickly determine, in a few easy steps, a VMware solution or upgrade that can help you with your IT priorities. It’s a simple process, really; the advisor tool helps you to identify your IT objectives, your management needs and considers the size of your environment. For example, if you selected the need to better manage storage and networking for tier one applications, with a full time but limited staff, the advisor would suggest VMware Horizon View as an…

VMware Education & Certification Blog: IT Needs Self-Starters & Diverse Training to Close Skills Gap (http://blogs.vmware.com/education/?p=3671)By David Day, Director, Global Curriculum, VMware A report from late last year came across my desk recently, an analysis piece based on the Accenture 2013 Skills and Employment Trends Survey: Perspectives on Training . Its topic will be all too familiar to most IT hiring managers — the skills gap — but it points to a few bright spots and advice I thought were worth sharing. First, we have to admit there are some dark clouds on the horizon. Of the 400 executives surveyed, 46 percent say they “do not…

VMware Virtualization Management Blog: vCenter Operations Management Tech Tips: Tip #22 – Monitoring Microsoft Hyper-V with VMware vCenter Hyperic 5.8 (http://blogs.vmware.com/management/?p=2837)In my last installment “ vCenter Operations Management Tech Tips: Tip #20 – Monitoring Business Critical Applications with VMware vCenter Hyperic 5.8 ” I talked about how in vCenter Operations 5.8 we have introduced the first wave of out of the box Dashboards and adapter intelligence. I focused on how vCenter Operations Manager is being enhanced to quickly help Application owners to to monitor and manage Business Critical Applications like Microsoft SQL Server, and Microsoft Exchange. I also walked…

VMware Education & Certification Blog: Question of the Week: vCenter Orchestrator (http://blogs.vmware.com/education/?p=3577)This week’s question comes from the vCenter Orchestrator Instructional Video Series . a) The format of the vCenter Orchestrator database b) The actions to perform and the order in which to perform them c) The actions that users are prohibited from performing d) The logged actions that have been performed Click through to the comments for the answer and watch Introducing vCenter Orchestrator Overview for more information. Follow @VMwareEducation on Instagram to see more #TechTrivia every…

VMware Education & Certification Blog: Get 15% off On Demand Classroom PLUS a Free iPad Mini (http://blogs.vmware.com/education/?p=3666)In the U.S., Canada, and Latin America , you can now save 15% on your choice of On Demand Classroom courses and get a free iPad Mini. The VMware On Demand Classroom lets you learn at your own pace, when and where you like in a completely interactive setting. The offer is good through March 18 th , 2014 and you have access to the course and lab for up to 90 days after purchase. See Course Details to Register : - VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V5.1] - VMware Horizon View: Install, Configure,…

VMware Support Insider: Top 20 Articles for January 2014 (http://blogs.vmware.com/kb/?p=5998)Here is our Top 20 KB list for January 2014. 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 mentioning E1000PollRxRing and E1000DevRx (2059053) Unable to delete the virtual machine snapshot due to locked files (2017072) Downloading and installing VMware Fusion (2014097) Collecting diagnostic information for VMware ESX/ESXi using the vSphere Client (653) …

VMware Technology Alliance Partner Blog: VMware Developer Center Launch (http://blogs.vmware.com/tap/?p=799)VMware is pleased to announce the launch of Developer Center , the site for developers and partners delivering solutions for the software-defined data center. http://developercenter.vmware.com Developer Center provides one stop shopping for resources and information by aggregating content from several VMware Web sites and offers improved discoverability and navigation. Some of the many resources you will find on Developer Center are: • SDK’s • Sample Code • Community Forums • Certification…

VMwareTV: FAJ Extends Virtualization from Servers to Desktops with VMware (tag:youtube.com,2008:video:U0mYecr-Jas)FAJ Extends Virtualization from Servers to Desktops with VMware Flower Auction Japan began efforts to Server Virtualization in 2009 and is now migrated to a virtual environment for 80% of the physical server. As a result,... From: VMware Views: 579 0 ratings Time: 02:37 More in Science & Technology

VMware for Public Sector Blog: vCloud Suite brings a new Full Time Equivalent (FTE) to your Public Sector Team (http://blogs.vmware.com/publicsector/?p=162)In Public Sector today, the budget needed to hire additional Full Time Equivalents (FTE) have either drastically decreased or is non-existent. Having an investment in the vCloud Suite potentially adds a new member to your internal IT staff and begins the first step towards the Software-Defined Data Center. We will call this new team member E.V.A. (Engineering Virtualization Assistant) and the core responsibilities of EVA lie in automation, management, and operations. So combined with the vCloud Suite, how…

External Bloggers

Nominations for the 2014 Top Blog voting categories are now open! (http://vsphere-land.com/?p=4448)It’s time to do the annual top blog voting, last year we had over 1,300 votes that shaped the top 50 list that is published on my vLaunchPad. Just like last year in addition to the traditional top 50 voting I’m opening it up to allow voting in specific categories as well to help distinguish certain types [...]

New VMware Product Walkthroughs (http://www.ntpro.nl/blog/archives/2570-guid.html)

VMware vCAC 6.0 - Basic Hypervisor Blueprint by Yves Sandfort (http://www.ntpro.nl/blog/archives/2569-guid.html)

VMware vCloud Application Director - Basic Configuration by Matthias Eisner (http://www.ntpro.nl/blog/archives/2568-guid.html)

Free e-learning course - VMware Log Insight Fundamentals (http://www.ntpro.nl/blog/archives/2567-guid.html)

vSphere HA and VMs per Datastore limit! (http://www.yellow-bricks.com/?p=14261)I felt I would need to get this out there, as it is not something many seem to be aware off . More and more people are starting to use storage solutions which offer 1 large shared datastore, examples are solutions like Virtual SAN, Tintri and Nutanix. I have seen various folks saying: unlimited number […] " vSphere HA and VMs per Datastore limit! " originally appeared on Yellow-Bricks.com . Follow me on twitter - @DuncanYB.

Virtual SAN Compatibility Guide updated! (http://www.yellow-bricks.com/?p=14263)For those looking to start configuring hardware for VSAN / Virtual SAN infrastructures, the VMware Compatibility Guide just got updated! VMware VSAN Beta HCL updated: http://t.co/oCop26WrDs#vsan @PunchingClouds @wholmes — Kiran Madnani (@kmadnani) February 2, 2014 Personally I find the new section on disk controllers very useful as it shows whether the controller is supported in […] " Virtual SAN Compatibility Guide updated! " originally appeared on Yellow-Bricks.com . Follow me on twitter -…

Technology Short Take #38 (http://blog.scottlowe.org/?p=3400)This is Technology Short Take #38, the latest in my irregularly-published series of articles, links, and thoughts on various data center technologies. Here's hoping you find something useful! 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 #38

CBRC-like Functionality For Any VDI Solution with Nutanix (http://myvirtualcloud.net/?p=5856)It is amazing when your world turns upside down and a technology that used to be awesome becomes mostly irrelevant. It amazes me how fast technology evolves and help organizations to achieve better performance and lower OPEX. For a long time I have discussed the benefits of CBRC (Content Based Read Cache) available with … Continue reading »

Nutanix Prism GUI Interactive Mock-Up Available (http://myvirtualcloud.net/?p=5844)Nutanix Sr. Systems Engineer, Tim Federwitz (@VirtuallyGeeky), created a nice interactive mock-up of the Nutanix Prism Administrative Interface. In Tim’s own words, “I have created a VERY simple, but somewhat functional, slightly interactive look at the Nutanix Prism GUI (the Nutanix Web Console). You can use it from pretty much any device, including mobile … Continue reading »

VMware vExpert Program now with quarterly nominations (http://www.vladan.fr/?p=33900)vExpert program nominations is here again. This year change is that new vExperts can get nominated through the year and every quarter the application will be re-examined to perhaps let you in. The are now quarterly nominations into the 2014 vExpert program. We will leave the application open year round and at the end of […] Read the full post VMware vExpert Program now with quarterly nominations at ESX Virtualization . Featured Paper : Top Seven Networking Concepts Every Virtualization Administrator…

Free Utility: Thinapp Configuration Editor (http://www.vladan.fr/?p=33893)New free utility which has just been released by loginconsultants.com called Thinapp Configuration Editor allows to modify, build and export their virtual VMware ThinApp applications. Especially useful for complicated applications which needs otherwise to be tweaked and edited via Notepad. The utility has been created by Ralph Jansen and is provided as freeware (registration is required) by […] Read the full post Free Utility: Thinapp Configuration Editor at ESX Virtualization . Featured Paper : Top…

VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V5.5] – Lab Connect to prepare VCP 5.5 if you don’t have homelab (http://www.vladan.fr/?p=33888)If you don’t own homelab or Powerfull PC, or you cannot break production environment (obviously in most cased you can’t) you have another option to prepare for your VCP exam. This offering is called VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V5.5] – Lab Connect allows to get 30 hours of preconfigured lab environment Online. The lab environment consists […] Read the full post VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V5.5] – Lab Connect to prepare VCP 5.5 if you don’t have homelab at ESX…

Unitrends Entreprise Backup Free version offers to backup 8 VMs – with no time expiry (http://www.vladan.fr/?p=33875)Unitrends Enterprise Backup has an offering which might interest very small shops running VMware or Microsoft Hyper-V hypervizors in their environments. The company offers free edition of their backup software which allows to protect 8VMs in virtual environment running VMware vSphere (or standalone ESXi) or Microsoft Hyper-V. The backup product deploys as a virtual appliance for […] Read the full post Unitrends Entreprise Backup Free version offers to backup 8 VMs – with no time expiry at ESX…

VMware vCenter Support Assistant 5.5 updated to match the latest vSphere 5.5 (http://www.vladan.fr/?p=33867)VMware has released recently the latest update to vCenter Support Assistant 5.5, which is a virtual appliance (650 Mb) allowing to configure. The product is free to download, but can only be used for clients on active SNS or for clients buying support per-incident. vCenter support shows as a vCenter plugin through vSphere web client and […] Read the full post VMware vCenter Support Assistant 5.5 updated to match the latest vSphere 5.5 at ESX Virtualization . Featured Paper : Top Seven Networking…

Automate All The Things #vBrownBag Follow Up – Hardcore vCAC with Jon Harris (@ThevCACguy) (http://professionalvmware.com/?p=4180)Jon Harris, @thevcacguyon Twitter joins the ProfessionalVMware.com #vBrownBag to present the next session in the Automate All The Things series on vCloud Automation Center (vCAC) where he covered IT Business Management suite standard and the vCAC 6 Advanced Services Designer. Video You can sign up for the ProfessionalVMware.com #vBrownBag at http://professionalvmware.com/brownbags/ and check out our Automate […]

2014-febrero-06 ProfessionalVMware #vBrownBag LATAM @DavidMirror vCloud Director Upgrades Parte Dos (http://professionalvmware.com/?p=4178)The following content is in Spanish, the language in which the webinar is presented. Parte 2: Parte 1: 2014-enero-30 ProfessionalVMware #vBrownBag LATAM @DavidMirror vCloud Director Upgrades Parte Uno

Annual Review Time! Are you Ready? (http://professionalvmware.com/?p=4172)It’s that time of year where we all get to engage in the annual review. During this time managers talk with us individual contributors about what we accomplished the previous year and look to the future. These session generally focus on your job performance and your professional growth goals. I’m pretty confident we all have […]

UCS Manager Plugin 0.9.2 (beta) for VMware vCenter (tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5819640694385843490.post-4865890563729505231)From the official blurb.. Cisco UCS vCenter Plug-in is an extension for the vSphere Web Client v5.1 or higher. It enables virtualization administrators to view, manage and monitor various aspects of Cisco UCS physical infrastructure. The result is... This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more!..

VMware KB Digest – New KB articles published for week ending 2/1/14 (http://vmwaretips.com/wp/?p=2264)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. My VMware How to view user permissions in My VMware (2070468) Date Published: 1/31/2014 How to edit user permissions in [...]

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