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Hi everyone, this will probably be the last newsletter that I send from the beautiful Tweed Coast in northern New South Wales as I will be heading back to Brisbane this week.
If you are VCP certified or thinking of becoming certified then please be aware of the changes to the certification program which are listed in the newsletter regarding re-certification requirement periods - http://blogs.vmware.com/education/?p=3886
It has been a great news week and there are tons of announcements, new produce and so on which feature prominently in the newsletter this week so please read on and enjoy.
Virtually Yours
Neil Isserow
Senior Technical Account Manager
VMware Australia
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- VMware vSphere Blog: vSphere HA VM Monitoring – Back to Basics (http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/?p=12076)In my experience as a customer, partner and working for VMware, I’ve found HA VM monitoring to be an incredibly helpful feature that I am consistently surprised is not used more. It is easy to turn on, provides an additional layer of protection for your VMs and just works. So why don’t more people use it? I am not going to be able to answer that question in this post, though I hope to provide enough information to get more people to try it out. First I’d like to briefly discuss what HA VM monitoring…
- VMwareTV: VMware vCloud Hybrid Services Demo at HIMSS 2014 (tag:youtube.com,2008:video:104CBf8A6m4)VMware vCloud Hybrid Services Demo at HIMSS 2014 Roberto Canton, Sr. Systems Engineer at VMware, walks us through the vCHS demo from HIMSS 2014. From: VMware Views: 1 0 ratings Time: 06:56 More in Science & Technology
- VMwareTV: AlwaysOn Point of Care Demo Station at HIMSS 2014 (tag:youtube.com,2008:video:5A6EgpsoPz0)AlwaysOn Point of Care Demo Station at HIMSS 2014 Rory Clements of VMware's End-User Computing BU walks us through the desktop, mobile, & printing capabilities of the AlwaysOn Point of Care Solution. See how... From: VMware Views: 0 0 ratings Time: 03:43 More in Science & Technology
- VMwareTV: Care Systems Analytics Demo Station at HIMSS 2014 (tag:youtube.com,2008:video:q0VEW6U6sqw)Care Systems Analytics Demo Station at HIMSS 2014 VMware's Scott Carpenter, Systems Engineer, talks about Care System Analytics capabilities for vCloud and explains how these functionalities are useful to He... From: VMware Views: 0 0 ratings Time: 02:26 More in Science & Technology
- VMware Education & Certification Blog: New Course VMware vSphere: Fast Track [V5.5] (http://blogs.vmware.com/education/?p=3898)Now available, VMware vSphere: Fast Track [V5.5] combines content from VMware vSphere Install, Configure, Manage with advanced tasks. Classes are available as instructor-led or live online around the world. Sign up today.
- VMware Accelerate: Taking IT Out of the Shadows (http://blogs.vmware.com/accelerate/?p=1916)by Barton Kaplan Wikipedia defines shadow IT as “systems and solutions built and used in organizations without explicit organizational approval…by departments other than the IT department.” It’s been a sore point for central IT organizations for a long time, and judging from the most recent data, it’s only getting worse. Gartner predicts that by 2015, 35 percent of technology spending will occur outside the central IT organization [1] . In a US$2.7 trillion industry [2] , that’s a big number.…
- VMwareTV: Installing and Configuring VMware vSphere Big Data Extensions (tag:youtube.com,2008:video:KMG1QlS6yag)Installing and Configuring VMware vSphere Big Data Extensions This demonstration shows the process for installing and configuring the vSphere Big Data Extensions feature. This is available as a free download with VMware... From: VMware Views: 0 0 ratings Time: 07:00 More in Science & Technology
- VMwareTV: Deploying an HBASE Cluster with the VMware vSphere Big Data Extensions (tag:youtube.com,2008:video:LwcM5GQSFVY)Deploying an HBASE Cluster with the VMware vSphere Big Data Extensions HBASE is a popular open source distributed columnar database that uses the MapReduce and HDFS features of Hadoop to manage its data. It is often in demand by... From: VMware Views: 0 0 ratings Time: 03:42 More in Science & Technology
- VMwareTV: Deploying a Basic Hadoop Cluster with the VMware vSphere Big Data (tag:youtube.com,2008:video:cp0WI5BGvvw)Deploying a Basic Hadoop Cluster with the VMware vSphere Big Data This demonstration shows the deployment of a basic Hadoop cluster with the vSphere Big Data Extensions. The Big Data Extensions feature is available as a fre... From: VMware Views: 0 0 ratings Time: 03:16 More in Science & Technology
- VMwareTV: Migrating Virtual Machines Across VMware Virtual SAN Clusters (tag:youtube.com,2008:video:Nv1BmAR3nd4)Migrating Virtual Machines Across VMware Virtual SAN Clusters This video demonstrates the ability to migrate virtual machines across different Virtual SAN clusters and VSAN datastores. From: VMware Views: 0 0 ratings Time: 02:25 More in Science & Technology
- VMware vSphere Blog: PVSCSI and Large IO’s (http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/?p=12145)Here’s a behavior that a few people have questioned me about recently: Why is PVSCSI splitting my large guest operating system IO’s into smaller blocks? By default ESXi’s behavior is to pass IO’s from the guest operating system as large as 32MB with the LSI vSCSI adapter (as long as the actual guest operating system doesn’t have a small default transfer size: http://kb.vmware.com/kb/9645697 ). However, the PVSCSI vSCSI adapter was designed to pass only 512KB IO’s, or smaller, so anything…
- VMware for Small-Medium Business Blog: VMware vSphere Data Protection Advanced – Top Questions from Our Recent Webcasts (http://blogs.vmware.com/smb/?p=2642)Do you have some basic and maybe even detailed questions around vSphere Data Protection Advanced ? You are in luck! Based on feedback from some of our most recent webcasts, we have compiled the most common questions around vSphere Data Protection Advanced. For example, you may be wondering: Can vSphere Data Protection Advanced perform critical data back-ups daily? Is it agent-less? Does it allow thin provisioning? Is it only available on vSphere 5.5? I was looking at vSphere Data Protection,…
- VMware Security Blog: Security Updates in vSphere 5.5 Update 1 + Hardening Guide news (https://blogs.vmware.com/security/?p=1048)5.5 Update 1 Release Notes vSphere 5.5 Update 1 was released on March 11th, 2014. The primary drivers for this release were lots of bug fixes and support for VSAN . At the risk of duplicating a huge amount of the release notes , please review in detail those things that are important to you. There’s a number of things in Upgrade and Installation and there’s a specific Security section that would be of interest. Also review the Known Issues section as there’s some interesting tidbits in there as well.…
- VMware vSphere Blog: Security Updates in vSphere 5.5 Update 1 + Hardening Guide news (https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/?p=12117)5.5 Update 1 Release Notes vSphere 5.5 Update 1 was released on March 11th, 2014. The primary drivers for this release were lots of bug fixes and support for VSAN . At the risk of duplicating a huge amount of the release notes , please review in detail those things that are important to you. There’s a number of things in Upgrade and Installation and there’s a specific Security section that would be of interest. Also review the Known Issues section as there’s some interesting tidbits in there as well.…
- VMware vCloud Blog: Take Our Short Survey, Get Coffee On Us (http://blogs.vmware.com/vcloud/?p=3295)It’s indisputable that the cloud is here to stay. It gives customers the flexibility to extend their workloads beyond their current data center, whether for dev/test, disaster recovery, or otherwise, and allows them to work more efficiently, reduce capital costs and much more. But in our latest survey , we want to know: why is your organization considering the cloud, and for what purposes? We’ve put together this quick six-question survey to get to know you, our vCloud audience, better. What role are…
- VMware vSphere Blog: vSphere OpenStack Virtual Appliance (VOVA): Product Walkthrough Demos (http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/?p=12101)I’ve created a new set of vSphere OpenStack Virtual Appliance (VOVA) walkthrough demos for vSphere admins that are interested in learning about OpenStack and what it can do. The walkthrough demos are available and accessible online, for everyone that is interested in learning about how the vSphere OpenStack Virtual Appliance (VOVA) works. I have even included a the vSphere OpenStack Virtual Appliance (VOVA) with VMware Virtual SAN for those of you looking for a storage solution. vSphere OpenStack…
- VMware Company Blog: Weekly News Recap: Pi Day Edition (March 14, 2014) (http://blogs.vmware.com/vmware/?p=2334)VMware News In VMware news this week, Sumit Dhawan and the end-user computing team announced Monday the arrival of VMware Horizon DaaS, a new cloud-based desktop service that delivers cost-effective enterprise-class virtual desktops running on VMware vCloud Hybrid Service. On Wednesday, John Gilmartin and the software-defined datacenter team announced a major milestone for VMware with […]
- VMware vSphere Blog: VMware Virtual SAN: 32 Node Scale Out Capability (http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/?p=12092)Virtual SAN is now available and officially supports up to 32 nodes per cluster. Configuring and managing clustered solutions comprised of 32 nodes can become operationally intensive, time consuming, and overwhelming for any environment over time. One of the key differentiating benefits of Virtual SAN is how it delivers an efficient operational model suitable for today’s datacenter demands for virtualization. It is important to point out and understand the operational benefits deliver by Virtual SAN…
- VMware Consulting Blog: Create a One-Click Cluster Capacity Dashboard Using vCOps (http://blogs.vmware.com/consulting/?p=1343)By Sunny Dua, Senior Technology Consultant at VMware It’s easy to set up a cluster capacity dashboard in just one click and I’ll show you how to do it with vCenter Operations Manager Custom Dashboards. In this two-part blog series, I’ll guide you through steps to get this dashboard installed in your environment and explain how to create the interaction XML. Let’s take a look at the final dashboard in the screenshot below, the problems it will solve, and its features. Then we’ll take a closer…
- VMTN Blog: VMware Communities Roundtable Podcast 269 – #VSAN VSAN VSAN /cc @wholmes (http://blogs.vmware.com/vmtn/?p=8331)Hosts John Mark Troyer, VMware @jtroyer Guests Wade Holmes, VMware @wholmes News REPLAY – VMware NOW: Virtual SAN Special Online Event Essential VSAN: Administrator’s Guide to VMware Virtual SAN VMware Launches VMware Horizon(TM) DaaS(R) to Enable Simple and Flexible Delivery of Desktops in the Cloud VMware Announces General Availability of VMware Virtual SAN Recertification Policy: VMware Certified Professional Around the Community vBrownbag Podcast VMUG Local Meetings – Check it today …
- VMware Company Blog: VMware Celebrates Community on Pi Day (http://blogs.vmware.com/vmware/?p=2323)By Nicola Acutt, Vice President, Philanthropy and Sustainability at VMware It’s Pi Day this week (3/14) and at VMware that means geeking out on giving back. Together with our extended community, VMware will celebrate Pi Day tomorrow with a Service Learning fair, where employees can build connections with local causes and learn more about how they […]
- VMware Education & Certification Blog: VMware Learning Specialists Enable Your Certification Success – Currently available in US, Canada and Latin America (http://blogs.vmware.com/education/?p=3894)Need guidance on selecting the right training module, your next class or even where to start with VMware training? VMware Learning Specialists are on hand and available in the US, Canada and Latin America to help you meet your training objectives. Learning Specialists have extensive background on the breath of courses available and can work with you to assess and develop a learning path that is specific to your certification goals. Check out our interactive map to find a VMware Learning Specialist near…
- VMware vSphere Blog: Join our VMware Hands-on Labs Online Workshop on Tuesday, March 25th 10:00 AM PDT (http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/?p=12077)Join our VMware Hands-on Labs Online Workshop on Tuesday, March 25th 10:00 AM PDT. In our vSphere with Operations Management 101 online workshop, you will learn first-hand how vCenter Operations Manager can help you manage your vSphere environments. We will walk you through the steps to access the live vCenter Operations labs. Using the Hands-on Labs online portal you will be able try vCenter Operations Manager and chat with our VMware experts who use this product to monitor the Hands-on Labs…
- VMwareTV: VMware Virtual SAN: Scale Up Storage Capacity (tag:youtube.com,2008:video:eYw0SuCxihQ)VMware Virtual SAN: Scale Up Storage Capacity This video demonstrates the scalable capabilities of Virtual SAN by increasing the capacity of the Virtual SAN distributed datastore by adding more magnetic ... From: VMware Views: 10 0 ratings Time: 02:15 More in Science & Technology
- Team Fusion: You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know (http://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/?p=1834)Could there be gaps in your understanding of VMware Fusion that may be preventing you from getting your maximum value? If you answered ‘yes’—or even if you answered ‘I don’t know’—help has arrived. Our colleague Michael Roy has published an eBook called Getting Started with VMware Fusion. It’s based on his 7+years of experience using Fusion and helping others use Fusion. Rather than trying to cover every Fusion feature, Mike chose to write in-depth descriptions of the Fusion features that…
- VMTN Blog: VMware Communities Roundtable Podcast #268 – Virtualization Security /cc @vSphereSecurity @PunchingClouds (http://blogs.vmware.com/vmtn/?p=8325)Hosts John Mark Troyer, VMware @jtroyer Guests Mike Foley, VMware @vSphereSecurity Rawlinson Rivera, VMware @PunchingClouds News VMware NOW: Virtual SAN Special Online Event Essential VSAN: Administrator’s Guide to VMware Virtual SAN VMware cuts price of hybrid cloud management tool to $0 Project VRC’s – State of the Desktop Virtualization Union 2014 Around the Community vBrownbag Podcast VMUG Local Meetings – Check it today AdaptingIT – Lauren Malhoit Podcast Virtualization…
- VMware vSphere Blog: Virtual SAN: Scaling Storage Capacity (http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/?p=12057)One of the most discussed topics about Virtual SAN has been around its scalable architecture design and the ability to scale up and scale out. In this article, I want to discuss and showcase the scale up capabilities of Virtual SAN. Virtual SAN’s disk support is based on hybrid disk model that uses flash and magnetic disks to provide performance and storage capacity. Magnetic disks are the only disks devices that count towards the usable storage capacity of the Virtual SAN datastore. Flash devices…
- VMware Virtualization Management Blog: vCenter Operations Management Tech Tips: Tip #24 – 1-Click Capacity Planning Custom Dashboard – Part 1 (http://blogs.vmware.com/management/?p=3063)Going back to the early days of virtualization, capacity planning always was a process needed to be done at some point. If you have embraced virtualization, you know what the benefits are and why it’s important to go through a thorough capacity planning process. However, sometimes it is hard to know what for or where to look and where to begin. During my day-to-day work I talk to a lot of customers who wish for this to be a much easier process, for me to tell them what to look for, and if they aren’t…
- VMware Education & Certification Blog: New Course Available: vCloud Automation Center App Services [V6] (http://blogs.vmware.com/education/?p=3892)A new course on vCloud Automation Center Application Services is now available. Gain a fundamental understanding of how to use vCloud Application Director with VMware vCloud Automation Center to configure and deploy complex applications that are portable across private and public clouds. The course contains five distinct modules: An introduction to VMware vCloud Application Director Installation and configuration Working with the catalog Creating application blueprints Managing deployments …
- VMware vCloud Blog: VMware Introduces Horizon Desktop-as-a-Service, Powered by vCloud Hybrid Service (http://blogs.vmware.com/vcloud/?p=3233)Customers are already leveraging the benefits of the vCloud Hybrid Service platform to extend the same applications, networking, management, operations and tools in both their public and private cloud environments. Now, those same customers can extend their Windows desktops and applications as a cloud service to any device, anywhere, for a low cost thanks to VMware’s new solution: Horizon Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS), built on vCloud Hybrid Service. Horizon DaaS simplifies the delivery of Windows desktops…
- VMware Hands On Labs Blog: Upcoming Maintenance window – March 19th 6:00 AM – 9:00 AM PST (http://blogs.vmware.com/hol/?p=861)Folks, Just wanted to make you aware of the planned Maintenance window coming up next week on March 19th. We will be adding some fixes and updates to Project NEE. During this time access to Hands-on Labs will be up and down Please do not schedule any critical meetings, workshops for this time period. Date : Wednesday March 19th Time : 6:00 AM – 9:00 AM PST What : NEE Portal will be going through updates / fixes you may experience HOLs going up and down. Regards VMware Hands-on Labs Team…
- VROOM!: VDI Performance Benchmarking on VMware Virtual SAN 5.5 (http://blogs.vmware.com/performance/?p=1790)In the previous blog series , we presented the VDI performance benchmarking results with VMware Virtual SAN public beta and now we announced the general availability of VMware Virtual SAN 5.5 which is part of VMware vSphere 5.5 U1 GA and VMware Horizon View 5.3.1 which supports Virtual SAN 5.5. In this blog, we present the VDI performance benchmarking results with the Virtual SAN GA bits and highlight the CPU improvements and 16-node scaling results. With Virtual SAN 5.5 with default policy, we could…
- VMware Security Blog: VMware Security & Compliance – “News Team Assemble!” (http://blogs.vmware.com/security/?p=1043)Hola Peeps! That’s right Ron Burgundy fans, news Team Assemble! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPpiCdt5aC8 It is great to be back at VMware and sharing with all of you once again after a wonderful year at EMC where I was rollin with the Elite – Cloud Business Director Team. My new role, Cloud Management Security & Compliance Evangelist. What have I been doing? Getting the Wolf Pack back together in a HUGE way at VMware with some key new additions like Tom Corn and my long time friend &…
- VMware Support Insider: New vSAN Resources (http://blogs.vmware.com/kb/?p=6093)Just hours ago VMware announced the General Availability (GA) of Virtual SAN (VSAN) 5.5. This new product is the cornerstone of our Software-Defined Storage strategy and a key pillar of our Software-Defined Data Center vision. In typical fashion, our Documentation and KB team have lots of fresh articles you may want to be aware of as you try this new and exciting product. Adding a host back to a Virtual SAN cluster after an ESXi host rebuild Enabling or capturing performance statistics using Virtual SAN…
- VMware ThinApp Blog: ThinApp delivery to non-domain members outside your Firewall (http://blogs.vmware.com/thinapp/?p=1692)Yesterday VMware Horizon Workspace 1.8 was released. While being a minor release it comes with some really nice ThinApp enhancements. Horizon Workspace has been able to deploy ThinApp packages from the very start. With 1.8 it takes a major leap forward supporting ThinApp delivery using HTTP and to non-domain members. Below is a list of the most important ThinApp enhancements in this release. Support for DFS Your ThinApp repository can now be a Microsoft DFS share. This greatly enhances your deployment…
- VMware Horizon Tech Blog: VMware Horizon Workspace 1.8 and what’s new (http://blogs.vmware.com/horizontech/?p=280)Last night Horizon Workspace 1.8 was released. While being a minor release it comes with some major new features and functionality. Citrix-based Application (XenApp) integration From the Horizon Workspace User Portal, users can now launch Citrix-based applications via XenApp 5.0, 6.0, and 6.5 using single sign-on. This feature requires Citrix Receiver to be installed on the client and supports Mac, PC, iOS and Android devices. Enhanced VMware ThinApp support Horizon Workspace now supports ThinApp 5.0…
- Office of the CTO Blogs: The Dawn of Virtual SAN (http://cto.vmware.com/?p=2613)Today I’m proud to announce the availability of VMware Virtual SAN 5.5. This milestone represents a disruptive event for the storage industry and a major achievement for VMware’s strategy. We are bringing together the key third block in the trio of virtualized compute, network and storage. With the fusion of these three resources upon industry standard server components, we can now fully realize a true software-defined data center. This fusion represents a significant milestone in simplification. To…
- VMware End User Computing: Horizon View 5.3.1 Is Here and Supports VMware Virtual SAN (http://blogs.vmware.com/euc/?p=5294)By Narasimha Krishnakumar, Product Management, End-User Computing, VMware On behalf of everyone in the End-User-Computing (EUC) team at VMware, I’m proud to bring to you an exciting product announcement from EUC, just in time for the other Virtual-SAN-related announcements from VMware! Today, VMware announced the General Availability (GA) of VMware Virtual SAN 5.5 and I’d like to take a moment to also introduce Horizon View 5.3.1. With this release, we are continuing the tradition of rapidly…
- VMware Company Blog: VMware Virtual SAN Now Available (http://blogs.vmware.com/vmware/?p=2311)By John Gilmartin, vice president and general manager, SDDC Suite Business Unit, VMware Today marks a major milestone for VMware with the general availability of VMware Virtual SAN, a new, radically simple storage solution optimized for virtual environments. With VMware Virtual SAN, VMware delivers its first Software-Defined Storage product. Setting the stage for today’s general […]
- VMware Virtualization Management Blog: VMware IT Streamlines Application Development with DevOps Automation (http://blogs.vmware.com/management/?p=3049)The DevOps chasm DevOps is a methodology that stresses increased collaboration between groups which although highly dependent on each other for success frequently operate as independent entities. Development relies on IT Operations to provision the development and test environments required to produce new applications and/or features that provide competitive differentiation. Operations relies on development to produce high quality applications that don’t break when used in production. Unfortunately,…
- VMware Security Blog: New VMware Security Advisory VMSA-2014-0002 (http://blogs.vmware.com/security/?p=1039)Today VMware has released the following new security advisory: VMSA-2014-0002 Among the fixed issues is CVE-2013-5211 “DDoS vulnerability in NTP third party library”. VMware Knowledge Base article 2070193 provides mitigation for this issue and documents when vSphere components are affected. Please sign up to the Security-Announce mailing list to receive new and updated VMware Security Advisories. Customers should review the security advisory and direct any questions to VMware Support.
- VMware vSphere Blog: vCenter Server 5.5 Update 1 Released (http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/?p=12042)As hinted throughout most of the day, the vCenter Server 5.5 Update 1 has been publicly released this evening. vCenter Server 5.5 Update 1 | 11 MAR 2014 | Build 1623101 vCenter Server 5.5 Update 1 Installation Package | 11 MAR 2014 | Build 1623099 vCenter Server Appliance 5.5 Update 1 | 11 MAR 2014 | Build 1624811 Whats New vCloud® Hybrid Service™ vSphere® Client Plug-in, is now available in vSphere Web Client vCenter Server is now supported on Windows Server 2012 R2 This release delivers a number…
- VMware Virtualization Management Blog: Automation’s Vital Role in Cloud Service Management (http://blogs.vmware.com/management/?p=3059)How do you convince IT, line-of-business units and finance teams to act in concert for the creation and management of a successful cloud service management program? The best way to unify diverse partners and collaborators is to deploy cloud automation software and to make both cloud cost and operational data visible to every stakeholder using IT Business Management. Learn how to initiate this transformative process in a FREE BrightTalk presentation entitled “5 Ways Cloud Automation Drives Greater Cost…
- VMwareTV: VMware Horizon Suite for First Responders (tag:youtube.com,2008:video:wc2CWPEwHnM)VMware Horizon Suite for First Responders When emergencies happen, every second counts. Get the mobility, real-time collaboration, and consistent access users demand, with the highest levels of secur... From: VMware Views: 917 8 ratings Time: 02:35 More in Science & Technology
- VMware for Small-Medium Business Blog: How to Make the Most of a VMware User Group (VMUG) Membership (http://blogs.vmware.com/smb/?p=2634)The VMware User Group (VMUG) is an independent, global, customer-led organization, created to provide our 80,000+ members VMware and partner solutions through knowledge sharing, training, collaboration, and events. Membership is free; click here to join VMUG today. Included in your free membership: VMUG Special Interest Groups (SIGs) bring together VMware customers, partners and employees with mutual interests in areas of different industries and VMware technology to discuss enhancements, uses or…
- VMware End User Computing: Choosing a Horizon View Virtual-Desktop Operations-Management Tool (http://blogs.vmware.com/euc/?p=5313)By David G. Wooten, End-User-Computing Product Line Manager, vCenter Operations Manager for Horizon View, VMware Have you ever tried to diagnose a VMware Horizon View end-user virtual desktop issue? If so, you’ll know that it’s difficult because there are so many data sources involved, and so many “subject matter experts” (SMEs) advising you about the problem and its solution! So what do you do? Many people have found success by using vCenter Operations Manager for Horizon View . But there are a…
- VMware Education & Certification Blog: Question of the Week: ESXi (http://blogs.vmware.com/education/?p=3820)This week’s question comes from the vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) video series . a. Third party reporting tools in the service console b. Third party agents running in the service console c. All of the above d. Third party management tools in the service console Click through to the comments for the answer and watch Install or Upgrade VMware ESXi 5.1 Overview for more information. Follow @VMwareEducation on Instagram to see more #TechTrivia every Tuesday and visual updates from the VMware…
- VMware Virtualization Management Blog: David Davis on vCenter Operations- Post #4 – Understanding VMware Center Operations Management Suite Editions (http://blogs.vmware.com/management/?p=3003)In my last article on Evaluating VMware vCenter Operations Management Suite , I covered how VMware vCenter Operations Management Suite stacked up to my list of 9 questions to ask when selecting any virtualization management tool. As I mentioned in that article, vCenter Operations is available in 4 different editions. In this article, I’d like to analyze each of those editions and the functionality gained by their advanced deployments to help you understand the differences as well as help you to make the…
- VMware vSphere Blog: Restricting Access to the ESXi Host Console – Revisiting Lockdown Mode (https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/?p=12012)I’ve had a number of requests for recommendations on the “best way” to restrict access to the ESXi host console. While this is easily done using the ESXi Lockdown Mode feature I’m finding there are some admins who are still under the impression that lockdown mode doesn’t work, and in order to prevent access to the host console you need to disable the console service. While there were some challenges with lockdown mode in the past, things changed in ESXi 5.1. Lockdown mode disables direct access…
- VMwareTV: VMware Launches VMware Horizon DaaS (tag:youtube.com,2008:video:U2YDlckKyrM)VMware Launches VMware Horizon DaaS Pat Gelsinger, CEO of VMware introduces VMware Horizon DaaS, a new cloud-based desktop service that delivers simple, cost-effective enterprise-class virtual ... From: VMware Views: 1517 8 ratings Time: 02:46 More in Science & Technology
- VMwareTV: VMware Horizon DaaS Demo (tag:youtube.com,2008:video:IcDqZiVUOE0)VMware Horizon DaaS Demo Demo of the VMware Horizon DaaS product. From: VMware Views: 1719 9 ratings Time: 05:13 More in Science & Technology
- VMwareTV: VMware Horizon DaaS Overview (tag:youtube.com,2008:video:jn6YtLS-sbU)VMware Horizon DaaS Overview Short video introducing desktops as a service (DaaS), and the VMware Horizon DaaS product. From: VMware Views: 31 3 ratings Time: 03:36 More in Science & Technology
- VMware Education & Certification Blog: New Recertification Policy Offers Growth Opportunities (http://blogs.vmware.com/education/?p=3886)Certifications are valuable assets for any IT professional. They validate your technical expertise. They demonstrate your ability to learn. And they prove that you have the initiative to invest in your future. If you’ve earned a VMware Certified Professional (VCP) certification, you have already demonstrated exceptional competence in employing current VMware products using best practices in operational environments. But maintaining currency in the expertise gained and proven by VCP certification is just…
- VMware End User Computing: VMware Horizon DaaS built on vCloud Hybrid Service, NOW AVAILABLE! (http://blogs.vmware.com/euc/?p=5287)By Dave Grant, Senior Director of Product Marketing for DaaS, End-User Computing, VMware Today I’m thrilled to announce the availability of VMware Horizon DaaS , built on vCloud Hybrid Service. VMware Horizon DaaS provides Windows desktops and applications as a cloud service, to any device, anywhere, with a predictable monthly subscription. Why DaaS? The demand for cloud-hosted virtual desktops has reached a tipping point. We’re seeing a variety of factors contribute to this demand. End users are…
- VMware Company Blog: VMware Delivers VMware Horizon DaaS (http://blogs.vmware.com/vmware/?p=2281)By Sumit Dhawan, VP and GM of Desktop Products, End-User Computing, VMware Today, I’m excited to announce the arrival of VMware Horizon DaaS, a new cloud-based desktop service that delivers cost-effective enterprise-class virtual desktops running on VMware vCloud Hybrid Service. I am confident that this new service is going to change the way customers look […]
- VMware vSphere Blog: Getting ready to upgrade production to vCenter Server 5.5? Make sure you’re using the correct deployment option (http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/?p=11962)Over the last few months, many customers have been testing and familiarizing themselves with vSphere 5.5 however deployment into a production environment is usually stalled until the availability of the first update or service pack. As we are nearing the typical time frame of when such an update or service pack may become available, I wanted to share some findings that may affect your deployment selection of vCenter Single Sign-On when deploying or upgrading to vCenter Server 5.5 During the installation of…
External Bloggers
- Some good VSAN related KB articles that you should read (http://vsphere-land.com/?p=4606)The VMware Knowledgebase is always a fountain of great information. Even if you don’t have a problem with vSphere, there are a lot of general purpose informational and how-to articles that can help you out and educate you. There are a number of KB articles related to VSAN that you should definitely check-out that contain [...]
- Building a hyper-converged platform using VMware technology part 3 (http://www.yellow-bricks.com/?p=14526)Considering some of the pricing details have been announced I figured I would write a part 3 of my “Building a hyper-converged platform using VMware technology” series (part 1 and part 2) Before everyone starts jumping in on the pricing details, I want to make sure people understand that I have absolutely no responsibilities whatsoever […] " Building a hyper-converged platform using VMware technology part 3 " originally appeared on Yellow-Bricks.com . Follow me on twitter - @DuncanYB.
- Rebuilding your Virtual SAN Lab? Wipe the disks first! (http://www.yellow-bricks.com/?p=14521)Are you ready to start rebuilding your Virtual SAN lab from beta builds to GA code, vSphere 5.5 U1? One thing I noticed is that the installer is extremely slow when there are Virtual SAN partitions on disk. It sits there at “VSAN: successfully initialized” for a long time and when you get to the […] " Rebuilding your Virtual SAN Lab? Wipe the disks first! " originally appeared on Yellow-Bricks.com . Follow me on twitter - @DuncanYB.
- Virtual SAN GA aka vSphere 5.5 Update 1 (http://www.yellow-bricks.com/?p=14511)Just a quick note for those who hadn’t noticed yet. Virtual SAN went GA today, so get those download engines running and pull-in vSphere 5.5 Update 1. Below the direct links to the required builds: vCenter Server Update 1 downloads | release notes ESXi 5.5 Update 1 | release notes Horizon View 5.3.1 (VSAN specific […] " Virtual SAN GA aka vSphere 5.5 Update 1 " originally appeared on Yellow-Bricks.com . Follow me on twitter - @DuncanYB.
- VSAN Design Consideration: Booting ESXi from USB with VSAN? (http://www.yellow-bricks.com/?p=14499)One thing most probably won’t realize is that there is a design consideration with VSAN when it comes to installing ESXi. Many of you have probably been installing ESXi on USB or SD and this is also still supported with VSAN. There is one caveat however and this caveat is around the total number of […] " VSAN Design Consideration: Booting ESXi from USB with VSAN? " originally appeared on Yellow-Bricks.com . Follow me on twitter - @DuncanYB.
- PowerCLI 5.5 R2 Released (http://www.virtu-al.net/?p=3117)Just in case you don’t read the vSphere PowerCLI Official Blog I thought I would let you know that the latest version of PowerCLI greatness is out and its pretty awesome! In this release... PowerCLI 5.5 R2 Released 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
- Automated deployment & configuration of Log Insight with PowerCLI (http://www.virtu-al.net/?p=3103)As part of my datacenter build I needed to install and configure Log Insight automatically, this is easier than it sounds, its easy enough to deploy and OVA file with PowerCLI but the configuration... Automated deployment & configuration of Log Insight 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
- Failed to connect to VMware Lookup Service (http://www.boche.net/blog/?p=4908)Judging by the search results returned by Google, it looks like my blog is among the few virtualization blogs remaining which does not have a writeup on this topic. It’s Friday so… why not. Scenario: vSphere 5.5 Update 1 VMware vSphere Web Client fails to log into vCenter Server (appliance version) with the following error [...] Post from: boche.net - VMware Virtualization Evangelist Copyright (c) 2010 Jason Boche. The contents of this post may not be reproduced or republished on another web page…
- VMware Releases vSphere PowerCLI 5.5 R2 (http://www.boche.net/blog/?p=4903)I stumbled across some interesting news shared by Alan Renouf on Facebook this morning – an R2 release of vSphere PowerCLI 5.5 (Build 1649237). New in R2 per the release notes: Access to the vCenter Server SRM public API (Connect-SRMServer and Disconnect-SRMServer cmdlets) – an exciting addition for sure Support for adding and removing tags and [...] Post from: boche.net - VMware Virtualization Evangelist Copyright (c) 2010 Jason Boche. The contents of this post may not be reproduced or republished…
- Learning NSX, Part 11: Reviewing OpenStack Integration Basics (http://blog.scottlowe.org/?p=3421)Part 11 in the series provides some foundational and fundamental concepts on integrating NSX into OpenStack. This article was originally posted on blog.scottlowe.org . Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies. Learning NSX, Part 11: Reviewing OpenStack Integration Basics
- A Quick Introduction to Docker (http://blog.scottlowe.org/?p=3418)In this post, I provide a quick introduction to Docker, an open source project that promises a new way to containerize and packages applications in cloud environments. This article was originally posted on blog.scottlowe.org . Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies. A Quick Introduction to Docker
- @VMware Completes Software Defined Enterprise and Shakes Up Software Defined Storage (http://longwhiteclouds.com/?p=3022)The last week has been big in the world of Software-Defined Storage. VMware has launched the final pillar of the Software Defined Enterprise, Virtual SAN, and just the day after Nutanix announced that it had been granted the patent for its ground breaking software defined storage technology. The VMware launch completes its vision of the […]
- Using Nutanix Container Reservations and a FreeSpace Container for Availability and Capacity Planning (http://longwhiteclouds.com/?p=3011)Over the past week I was discussing vSphere 5.5 best practices with regards to Nutanix with Josh Odgers (Fellow VCDX and member of the Nutanix Solutions and Performance Engineering Team), who is putting together a comprehensive paper on vSphere 5.5 best practices for Nutanix. One of the topics that came up in our discussions was availability […]
- VMware Virtual SAN (vSAN) is available now! (http://www.vmguru.nl/wordpress/?p=12228)Today VMware announced the general availability of VMware Virtual SAN, a new and radically simple storage solution optimized for virtual environments. This was done during a VMware Virtual SAN online event of which you can view the replay here. It includes a demonstration of the product, experiences of beta customers, and highlighted performance and scalability details. For those of you who don’t know Virtual SAN, Virtual SAN is an object based storage system and a platform for VM Storage Policies…
- Win a trip around the world with Veeam (http://www.gabesvirtualworld.com/?p=3297)Veeam is about to get its 100,000th customer and is launching an interactive contest for a chance to win a trip around the world and other prizes (Google Glass, iPad and Microsoft Surface). To participate, visitors need to register and predict the location of Veeam’s 100,000th customer on the interactive map. The closer you are to the […] See full post at: Win a trip around the world with Veeam
- Field Day delegates descend on Coho Data (http://www.vreference.com/?p=2220)I posted my first official post on Coho Data’s blog page. It’s all about the Virtualization Field Day ( #VFD3 ) experience last week. Jump on over here to read the details: http://www.cohodata.com/blog/2014/03/07/field-day-delegates-descend-on-coho-data/ Remember, there’s less than a week left to vote for the best virtualization blogs . Perhaps you want to add some [...]
- DaaS is a Non-Starter (http://myvirtualcloud.net/?p=6067)A while back I published articles describing guidelines to what DaaS architectures should observe. My articles focused on Secure Multi-Tenancy, Elastic Resources, Automated Provisioning, Identity Management, Federation and Role Management, Self-Service Portals, and Reporting and Metering. I was mostly focused on DaaS aspects that relate to large service providers’ implementations. However, the reality is that … Continue reading »
- Join me for the Varrow Madness (http://myvirtualcloud.net/?p=6062) Varrow Madness 2014 If you are not sure what to do next week you should register and attend the Varrow Madness in Charlotte, NC. The event is happening on March 20th. If you are not familiar with Varrow you should check out their website. In a nutshell, “Varrow provides world-class technology solutions … Continue reading »
- Understanding Web-Scale Properties (http://myvirtualcloud.net/?p=6030)Last week Gartner released an article saying that by 2017, Web-scale IT will be an architectural approach found operating in 50 percent of global enterprises. Gartner Says By 2017 Web-Scale IT Will Be an Architectural Approach Found Operating in 50 Percent of Global Enterprises Web-scale IT is more than just a buzzword, it is the … Continue reading »
- PowerCLI 5.5 R2 Released – Download your free copy (http://www.vladan.fr/?p=34263)Alan Renouf has announced through the PowerCLI blog the news few days back when the main news about VSAN and vSphere 5.5 U1 release. There is a new release of PowerCLI 5.5 R2 (Build 1649237 is VMware vSphere PowerCLI 5.5 Release 2) which brings many new support for different products and vSphere. The latest PowerCLI 5.5 […] Read the full post PowerCLI 5.5 R2 Released – Download your free copy at ESX Virtualization . Featured : VMware vSphere Editions - Make your choice
- VMware VSAN Datastores supported on Horizon View 5.3.1 (http://www.vladan.fr/?p=34259)With the GA release of VMware VSAN, the latest update of Horizon View 5.3.1 now supports VSAN datastores as location of Horizon View desktops (full and linked-clones). There is no other enhancements or new features in Horizon View 5.3.1, just the VSAN support, which allows running VDI workflows on VSAN clusters. By default VSAN does […] Read the full post VMware VSAN Datastores supported on Horizon View 5.3.1 at ESX Virtualization . Featured : VMware vSphere Editions - Make your choice
- VMware Virtual SAN (VSAN) 1.0 GA – FAQ, Pricing and Design Options (http://www.vladan.fr/?p=34239)As I already reported today, VMware has released vSphere 5.5 Update 1 which introduced VMware Virtual SAN (VSAN). Some folks call it version 1.0 of VSAN, but it’s VSAN, it’s GA product and it scales up to 32 nodes. In this post I’ll try to look first at the pricing options which had been unveiled […] Read the full post VMware Virtual SAN (VSAN) 1.0 GA – FAQ, Pricing and Design Options at ESX Virtualization . Featured : VMware vSphere Editions - Make your choice
- VMware vSphere 5.5 Update 1 Released (http://www.vladan.fr/?p=34231)VMware has released their latest update to vSphere 5.5 Update 1. This update includes most of the vCloud Suite products, including VMware Virtual SAN (VSAN). VMware VSAN (detailed post here: VMware Virtual SAN (VSAN) 1.0 GA – FAQ, Pricing and Design Options) has been long awaited storage feature which is “baked” into the hypervizor and which enables […] Read the full post VMware vSphere 5.5 Update 1 Released at ESX Virtualization . Featured : VMware vSphere Editions - Make your choice
- Synology Disk Station Manager 5.0 download available (http://www.vladan.fr/?p=34222)Many homelabs do use Synology NAS devices for virtualization, but not only. Synology has just released a new update enhancing the DiskStation Manager to version 5.0. It’s the latest operating system that is used all range of NAS devices. One of the new features is a new user interface that comes with a high-resolution mode for Ultra […] Read the full post Synology Disk Station Manager 5.0 download available at ESX Virtualization . Featured : VMware vSphere Editions - Make your choice
- New Visio Stencils for VMware and Hyper-V from Veeam – free download (http://www.vladan.fr/?p=34212)If you often creating diagrams, you might want to check New Visio Stencils for VMware and Hyper-V from Veeam. Can be used in Viso 2003 – 2013. There are 2D and 3D versions available at Veeam. The download is free, but registration is required. The 2D version got updated to the Metro style so you […] Read the full post New Visio Stencils for VMware and Hyper-V from Veeam – free download at ESX Virtualization . Featured : VMware vSphere Editions - Make your choice
- VCP for life – are you in? (http://www.vladan.fr/?p=34193)Catchy title for not so catchy problem. VMware has announced yesterday a new recertification policy - Recertification Policy: VMware Certified Professional. The news came out from a fellow blogger Christian Mohn (@vninja). He posted the details on his blog and I reacted on the announce by posting two comments. I had a mixed feeling… Feeling that […] Read the full post VCP for life – are you in? at ESX Virtualization . Featured : VMware vSphere Editions - Make your choice
- VMware KB Digest – New KB articles published for week ending 3/8/14 (http://vmwaretips.com/wp/?p=2295)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 ESXi ESXi 5.5 Uplink Port flaps when connected to a vSphere Distributed Switch (2065183) Date Published: 3/5/2014 vCenter Site [...]
- #vBrownBag Follow-Up Automate All the Things PowerCLI Futures with Alan Renouf (@alanrenouf) (http://professionalvmware.com/?p=4279)Alan Renouf from VMware demos new features of PowerCLI including a live demo for the Automate All The Things Series. Video You can find Alan on Twitter @alanrenouf and his blog at http://www.virtu-al.net/ Sign up for the live ProfessionalVMware.com #vBrownBag broadcast at http://professionalvmware.com/brownbags/ and follow some of our ongoing series such as the Automate All […]
- How has the VMware community improved your career? (http://professionalvmware.com/?p=4257)Hi everyone, Damian here. I’ve been asked to speak at the Seattle VMUG on April 1st, and Jonathan Frappier has been asked to speak at the Providence VMUG later in March. Our respective planned topics include a discussion around the VMware community (Twitter, the #vBrownBag, conferences, #vBeers, VMUGs, etc.) and its benefit to your career. […]
- VMware Re-Certification: Talking $$$ (http://professionalvmware.com/?p=4245)In my recent post about VMware’s addition of expiration to their certifications I received a great comment from Jay Moore. The primary comment being: “It may come down to $$$ for some people. As a VCP5, I can take the VCP-DT exam for free, but cannot take the VCP-Cloud for free. I could sit the […]
- VMware’s New Re-Certification Policy – Some Thoughts (http://professionalvmware.com/?p=4243)Last week VMware announced changes to the longevity of their certifications by placing expiration dates on them. Anyone who obtained a VCP prior to March 10, 2014 will now notice on their transcript that their VCP expires on March 10, 2015. Before anyone panics (I know, too late) they also updated the options to recertify, […]
KB Articles
VMware ESXi
ESXi 5.5 Uplink Port flaps when connected to a vSphere Distributed Switch (2065183)
Date Published: 3/5/2014
vCenter Site Recovery Manager 5.5 VMFS.UnresolvedVolumeLiveCheck setting (2074046)
Date Published: 3/7/2014
The VMkernel log contains the warning message: Truncated Port name for LRO for port (2040148)
Date Published: 3/4/2014
Warning after the vMotion appears in the vmkernel log: Unable to set NUMA affinity mask for world (2071235)
Date Published: 3/3/2014
Purple Diagnostic Screen Exception 14 in SEsparse and LibAIO (LibAIODrainMergeQueue, LibAIOMergedIODone, SESparseAsyncDataDone) (2073516)
Date Published: 3/4/2014
VMware Horizon View
Unity Touch feature is not active in VMware Horizon View (2069383)
Date Published: 3/5/2014
Sound issues occur with Horizon View Client for Windows Store on a Surface Pro 1 (2072918)
Date Published: 3/8/2014
Analysing View Persona Management event log information (2073750)
Date Published: 3/5/2014
VMware IT Business Management Suite
Unable to set the Default Context when adding a user in VMware IT Business Management Suite 8.x (2071232)
Date Published: 3/5/2014
VMware vCenter Converter Standalone
Logging in to a destination virtual machine after a P2V conversion fails with the error: This copy of Windows must be activated with Microsoft before you can continue (2055280)
Date Published: 3/4/2014
VMware vCenter Server Heartbeat
Replacing a Windows 2008 server with vCenter Server Heartbeat installed in Non-Identical mode (2073808)
Date Published: 3/4/2014
VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager
Rapid Deletion and Recreation of SRM Placeholder Virtual Machines Results in an Error (2073868)
Date Published: 3/6/2014
IPv6 Customization Is Not Applied Correctly to Redhat Virtual Machines After SRM Test Recovery (2073865)
Date Published: 3/6/2014
VMware vCenter Support Assistant
Unable to access multiple vCenter Servers from within VMware vCenter Support Assistant (2073251)
Date Published: 3/4/2014
VMware vCloud Automation Center for Server
When upgrading from VMware vCloud Automation Center 6.0 to 6.0.1, the IaaS upgrade installation can fail silently (2073862)
Date Published: 3/5/2014
VMware vFabric Hyperic Server
Metrics collected per minute displays higher than expected in VMware vFabric Hyperic Server HQ-Health Report (2071094)
Date Published: 3/5/2014
VMware vSphere Data Protection
After creating a role with the specific permissions defined in the VMware vSphere Data Protection 5.5 Administration Guide, logging in to the vSphere Web Client does not display the VDP Plug-in (2073229)
Date Published: 3/5/2014
VMware vSphere PowerCLI
vSphere PowerCLI Commandlets Get-Task and New-VM fail with the error: An item with the same key has already been added (2074044)
Date Published: 3/7/2014
VMware vSphere Replication
VMware vSphere Replication appliance no longer able to communicate with the VMware vCenter Server after changing the vCenter certificates (2063955)
Date Published: 3/5/2014
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