VMware Newsletter 6.15

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Hi everyone. I hope that you have all enjoyed the Easter break. I certainly have, it has been a great time to spend with Family and Friends. I must admit to eating more than my fair share of chocolate this weekend and awesome food and having loads of fun but that is what having bait of time off is for. With that in mind this weeks newsletter is a few days later than usual to coincide with the public holiday and allow me to get as much news to you as possible.

Please take particular note of the Heartbleed announcements and updates that VMware have been providing and ensure that you are discussing these with your teams and VMware as appropriate. As a reminder the link to the Heartbleed KB is here and has had updates for VMware solutions throughout the week as promised.:

VMware Response to OpenSSL security issue CVE-2014-0160/CVE-2014-0346 a.k.a: "Heartbleed" (2076225)

http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2076225

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VMware Bloggers

VMware vCloud Blog: OVF upload browser plug-in vulnerability (http://blogs.vmware.com/vcloud/?p=3411)As VMware previously noted in KB 2076225 , a component called ovftool is vulnerable to the Heartbleed OpenSSL bug. This tool is included in a browser plug-in used to upload OVF files (virtual machines) to vCloud Director 5.6, as used in vCloud Hybrid Service (vCHS). The affected component, the “VMware Client integration plug in 5.5”, can be downloaded if you choose to directly upload an OVF file using the vCloud Director user interface. To remediate, close your browser and uninstall the plug-in. The…

VMware Consulting Blog: How to Set Up a BYOD/Mobility Policy (http://blogs.vmware.com/consulting/?p=1391)By TJ Vatsa, Principal Architect, VMware Americas Professional Services Organization Smart phones have surpassed one billion worldwide for the first time in 2012 and that number will likely double by 2015, says Bloomberg . Smart phone sales are even surpassing desktop and laptop sales, according to IDC’s Worldwide Smart Connected Device Forecast Data . Rolling out a bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policy and infrastructure to handle the influx of personal devices can be a harrowing journey if it’s not…

VMware End User Computing: Safely Expanding Access to Applications (http://blogs.vmware.com/euc/?p=5700)Guest blog by Lori Mac Vittie, Senior Product Manager, Emerging Technologies #F5, #VMwareCloud and #Horizon6 are forcing us to think about access to what matters: applications. The industry often talks about how the data center perimeter is expanding, necessarily, due to technological shifts such as cloud and mobility and BYOD. But that isn’t really the case. If you look closely, you’ll see that the perimeter is actually shrinking, getting tighter and tighter around the data center. With just…

VMware Accelerate: CIO Survey Gives 4 Tips to Tech Execs (http://blogs.vmware.com/accelerate/?p=1956)This infographic distills InformationWeek’s 2014 Strategic CIO Survey results into top focus areas. Perhaps not surprisingly, for IT execs, cutting costs ranks at the top of the list. What else keeps your peers awake at night? Speed to market, insufficient budgets, and the skills gap. Scroll through the entire image for a final section of practical advice, and share your thoughts and tips in the comments.

VMware Support Insider: ALERT: vCAC 6.0.x tenants become inaccessible and identity stores disappear (http://blogs.vmware.com/kb/?p=6150)VMware has become aware of an issue that occurs after 90 days after deployment of a template in vCloud Automation Center (vCAC) 6.0.x, tenants become inaccessible and identity stores disappear due to expiration of the tenant admin password. For more information, see the article below. For further information and updates, please refer to KB article: vCloud Automation Center 6.0.x tenants become inaccessible and identity stores disappear (2075011) in your problem description. Note : Any updates to this…

VMware End User Computing: Unidesk Brings Enhanced VDI Management to Horizon 6 (http://blogs.vmware.com/euc/?p=5694)Guest blog by Tom Rose, Chief Marketing Officer, Unidesk Corporation Was it a coincidence that a new version of Unidesk was announced the same day as VMware Horizon 6 ? Or course not! Over 600 customers are using VMware Horizon with Unidesk, making us IT’s most popular virtual desktop infrastructure/management combo. Together, VMware Horizon and Unidesk simplify virtual desktops and applications for IT and make virtual desktops a fit for more users. So of course we’re going to be one of the…

VMware vCloud Blog: Running vCloud Hybrid Service – Disaster Recovery Supporting Infrastructure (http://blogs.vmware.com/vcloud/?p=3398)by Chris Colotti With the new release of VMware vCloud Hybrid Service – Disaster Recovery there is one common question that people keep asking me, and that is “Where do I run needed supporting infrastructure like Active Director, DNS, and other things I need?” You may, or may not, have seen your Disaster Recovery resources are not “Always-On.” What I mean is you are getting them via a subscription that is only holding replicated placeholders on storage until you fail them over. The machines are…

VMware Company Blog: VMware Weekly News Recap, April 18 (http://blogs.vmware.com/vmware/?p=2446)VMware News This week in VMware news, Bill Fathers and the vCloud Hybrid Service team announced a new solution – VMware vCloud Hybrid Service – Disaster Recovery (DR). For far too long, enterprise-class IT business continuance and disaster recovery solutions have been out of reach for mid-size businesses. The new solution not only address this issue […]

VMware End User Computing: Delivering the Best Computing Platform for VMware Horizon 6 (http://blogs.vmware.com/euc/?p=5682)Guest Blog by Jim McHugh, Vice President, Marketing, Cisco Unified Computing System Last week’s announcemen t at VMware highlights the continued innovation seen in the end-user computing space, and how important our virtualized or remoted desktop and application solutions are to delivering enterprise workspace mobility, security and business agility. Industry-Leading Desktop Virtualization Delivering virtualized or remoted desktops and applications with an exceptional user experience that scales, is…

VMware Education & Certification Blog: Question of the Week: Horizon Mirage (http://blogs.vmware.com/education/?p=3973)This week’s question comes from the Horizon Mirage Installation video . a) Dual-Instance Storage b) Single-Instance Storage c) Local Cache d) Remote Cache Click through to the comments for the answer and watch Horizon Mirage Installation video for more information. Follow @VMwareEducation on Instagram to see more #TechTrivia every Friday and visual updates from the VMware Education and Certification community.

Team Fusion: VMware Fusion 6.0.3 Update (http://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/?p=1852)On April 17th we released VMware Fusion 6.0.3, a maintenance release. This update is recommended for all users of VMware Fusion 6 and Fusion 6 Professional. To download VMware Fusion 6.0.3, open VMware Fusion and select VMware Fusion > Check for Updates. For more details on Fusion 6.0.3, read the Release Notes . Thanks to the Fusion customers reporting these issues to Fusion Support and discussing them with the VMware Fusion Community . -The VMware Fusion Team

VMware Education & Certification Blog: Question of the Week: vCloud (http://blogs.vmware.com/education/?p=4042)This week’s question comes from the vCloud Concepts and Architecture module. a. Consolidating the workload onto individual hosts. b. Specifying the layer at which VMs run. c. Providing datacenter resources without binding them to a specific piece of hardware. d. Removing the dependency on vCenter. Click through to the comments for the answer. Follow @VMwareEducation on Instagram to see more #TechTrivia every Friday and visual updates from the VMware Education and Certification community.…

Workstation Zealot: VMware Workstation 10 and Player 6 Updates Now Available (http://blogs.vmware.com/workstation/?p=1234)VMware Workstation 10.0.2 Now Available VMware Workstation 10.0.2 is a maintenance release that is a free update for all VMware Workstation 10.x customers. Read the Release Notes for more details. VMware Player 6.0.2 Now Available VMware Player 6.02 is a maintenance release that is a free update for all VMware Player 6.x customers. Read the Release Notes for more details. How to get the updates VMware Workstation 10 will prompt you to download the update the next time you run it. You can manually…

VMware vSphere Blog: Effect of VAAI on cloning with All Flash Arrays: (http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/?p=12446)Cloning virtual machines is an area where VAAI can provide many advantages. Flash storage arrays provide excellent IO performance. We wanted to see what difference VAAI makes in virtual machine cloning operations for “All Flash Arrays”. For the test 500GB of random data on a VMDK was created on a Linux virtual machine. This virtual machine was then cloned with VAAI turned off and then on to study its impact. The results of the testing truly attest to the big benefits that VAAI bring to massive write…

VMwareTV: Dell Active Infrastructure and VMware vSphere with Operations Management (tag:youtube.com,2008:video:VaQ8pyIIBYo)Dell Active Infrastructure and VMware vSphere with Operations Management Dell Active Infrastructure with VMware vSphere Operations Management is a solution that provides the top-level streamlined control you need to manage the ent... From: VMware Views: 546 3 ratings Time: 01:41 More in Science & Technology

VMware End User Computing: The Speed of Life at the Scale of Enterprise (http://blogs.vmware.com/euc/?p=5675)Guest blog By Andy Fenselau, EMC XtremIO It’s all about the user experience. From its early days, IT has been all about keeping users happy. And now, more than ever, IT has to show its value to users—especially for desktop virtualization. “Users” are everyday people like you and me. In the past, users were tied behind their desk to isolated desktops with homogenous operating environments. Nowadays, we are mobile, use a wide variety of devices and applications, and expect access to services…

VMware Virtualization Management Blog: vCenter Operations Management Tech Tips: Tip #30 – Create a One-Click Cluster Capacity Dashboard – Part 1 (http://blogs.vmware.com/management/?p=3429)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 look at the process of designing this dashboard and the…

VMTN Blog: VMware Communities Roundtable Podcast 274 – VMware Horizon 6 @vmwarehorizon (http://blogs.vmware.com/vmtn/?p=8401)Hosts John Mark Troyer, VMware @jtroyer Guests Scott Lowe, VMware @scott_lowe Jared Cook, VMware News VMware vCloud Hybrid Service – Disaster Recovery, Available Now, Seamlessly Extends Disaster Recovery to the Public Cloud VMware Unleashes Horizon 6 – Delivering Published Applications and Virtual Desktops on a Single Integrated Platform Creating the Enterprise Cloud: A Q&A with VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger VMware preps public cloud-powered disaster recovery as a service Around the Community …

VMware End User Computing: VMware Horizon 6, Virtual SAN and Atlantis ILIO: The Convergence of Desktop Virtualization and Software-Defined Storage (http://blogs.vmware.com/euc/?p=5668)Guest blog by Seth Knox, VP Products, Atlantis Computing With the release of VMware Horizon 6 , VMware is delivering a unified platform for desktop and application virtualization that leverages the power and flexibility of the software-defined data center. By using Virtual SAN and Atlantis ILIO software-defined storage solutions, Horizon 6 significantly drives down the cost per desktop, while delivering an amazing user experience. A joint solution with VMware Horizon 6, Virtual SAN and Atlantis ILIO…

VMware End User Computing: Horizon 6 on Pure Storage: More affordable, scalable and simpler than disk (http://blogs.vmware.com/euc/?p=5664)Guest blog by Vaughn Stewart, Chief Evangelist, Pure Storage It’s amazing to reflect on how quickly our mobile work experience has evolved in such a short period. Over the past half dozen years, the world has advanced from remote calendars and email to the need for a rich, mobile end-user experience comprised of secure access to applications, files, and online services – all available anywhere, anytime and on any device. However, it can be challenging to provide a consistent user experience across…

VMware vCloud Blog: New Disaster Recovery to Cloud Tutorial Videos (http://blogs.vmware.com/vcloud/?p=3392)By Chris Colotti I wanted to take a few minutes to explain more about the eight new VMware vCloud Hybrid Service – Disaster Recovery tutorial videos that were recently published on http://vcloud.vmware.com/tutorials . There are approximately 8 videos that cover various areas in order of how you might setup the service. Although these are meant for someone to use after they have purchased the service, I feel that they can be very useful even if you just want to better understand how you do things…

VMware Virtualization Management Blog: vCenter Operations Management Tech Tips: Tip #29 – vCloud OvDC Admin vCOps Custom Dashboard – Part 2 (http://blogs.vmware.com/management/?p=3435)In the first part for this series we’ve installed and configured vCloud adapter for vC Ops. The OvDC Admin Custom Dashboard includes many elements related to one another which are mostly rely on Super Metrics. In this post we will create the Virtual Machine related Super Metrics. Super Metrics As I mentioned in my previous post , OOTB the vCloud adapter will not show performance metrics for vCloud resource kinds, it will only show the logical structure. PvDC > OvDC > vApp > VM >…

VMwareTV: IBM x86 Systems and VMware Virtual SAN™ (VSAN) Deliver Cost Savings and Ease of Doing Business (tag:youtube.com,2008:video:Sp04ZM82Ji8)IBM x86 Systems and VMware Virtual SAN™ (VSAN) Deliver Cost Savings and Ease of Doing Business Alex Yost, VP of IBM Strategy and Alliances, discusses how IBM x86 systems and Virtual SAN deliver robust and stable platform that customers can scale, grow ... From: VMware Views: 404 4 ratings Time: 02:02 More in Science & Technology

VMware Hands On Labs Blog: Hands-on Labs: Importing vPodsThis is the fourth in my series on managing content for VMware Hands-on Labs. You can find the previous posts in the following locations: Part 1 – The Many Clouds of Hands-on Labs Part 2 – Synchronizing Cloud Catalogs Part 3 – Exporting vPods The next phase of our multi-cloud vPod management process is sometimes a data replication, but there are times when we have multiple clouds at the same physical location. In that case, the next phase is simply an import to the target cloud. Doing this by hand…VMware for Small-Medium Business Blog: Announcing VMware vCloud Hybrid Service – Disaster Recovery: Making DR Simple and Affordable for Businesses (http://blogs.vmware.com/smb/?p=2762)

This post originally appeared on the VMware vCloud blog The vast majority of IT applications are not protected by Disaster Recovery because it’s too expensive and too complicated – that changes today with the availability of vCloud Hybrid Service Disaster Recovery. A worrying minority of applications, both Tier 1 and Tier 2, are protected by DR because of that cost and complexity. vCloud® Hybrid Service™ – Disaster Recovery is simple to install and operate, and costs just $835 per month for: …

VMware End User Computing: Building VDI Solutions to Meet Heightened Customer Expectations (http://blogs.vmware.com/euc/?p=5659)Guest blog by Patric Chang, Sr. Director Global Alliances, Fusion-io In the new VDI world, customer expectations have progressed from robust, snappy virtual desktops to having ready access to corporate and personal applications, using multiple rich media on preferred devices to easily access content from any location. Satisfying customers requires using highly efficient and scalable infrastructure to deliver VDI on premise or on public or hybrid clouds. IT professionals can address heightened customer…

VMware End User Computing: VMware Horizon and Trend Micro team up for secure, agile end-user computing (http://blogs.vmware.com/euc/?p=5651)Guest blog by David Silverberg, Global Alliances Director, Trend Micro In today’s high pressure, ultra-competitive business environment, organisations are demanding smarter, more mobile ways of working. Gone are the days of monolithic Windows desktop environments where costs were predictable and securing corporate data relatively straightforward. These changes brought with them a whole new set of challenges for IT departments tasked with delivering end-user computing in an efficient, agile and secure…

VMware Education & Certification Blog: New Course Available: VMware vCloud Automation Center: Install, Configure, Manage [V6.0] (http://blogs.vmware.com/education/?p=4039)New Course VMware vCloud Automation Center: Install, Configure, Manage [V6.0] is now available for experienced system administrators, cloud administrators, system integrators, and operational developers. The course covers the configuration and use of the vCloud Automation Center platform, including self-service provisioning and the creation of multivendor cloud services. This 5 day course is currently available in two cities as an instructor-led workshop or globally, as a live online class where you can…

VMware End User Computing: Horizon 6.0 – Introducing Virtual SAN Integration (http://blogs.vmware.com/euc/?p=5644)By Narasimha Krishnakumar, Director, Product Management, End-User Computing, VMware On behalf of everyone on the End-User Computing (EUC) team at VMware, I’m proud to bring you another exciting product announcement from EUC. View 5.3.1 was introduced early in the first quarter of 2014 to support Virtual SAN 5.5 GA. As you may have read recently, VMware announced the release of Horizon 6 (with View). With this release, we are continuing to expand the Virtual SAN integration capabilities delivered by…

VMwareTV: An Introduction to vCloud Hybrid Service - Disaster Recovery (tag:youtube.com,2008:video:cQiG2UdtOpc)An Introduction to vCloud Hybrid Service - Disaster Recovery This tutorial provides an introductory overview of vCloud Hybrid Service - Disaster Recovery. This tutorial covers how to configure a site, how to configure ... From: VMware Views: 1045 4 ratings Time: 06:06 More in Science & Technology

VMwareTV: vCloud Hybrid Service - Disaster Recovery: Advanced Concepts (tag:youtube.com,2008:video:Yl2Fni9vl9g)vCloud Hybrid Service - Disaster Recovery: Advanced Concepts This is the seventh and last tutorial in the series to help you get started with Disaster Recovery. This tutorial covers advanced concepts in more detail tha... From: VMware Views: 182 2 ratings Time: 12:23 More in Science & Technology

VMwareTV: vCloud Hybrid Service - Disaster Recovery: Failing Back to vSphere On Premises (tag:youtube.com,2008:video:NSbk7m7Bhdo)vCloud Hybrid Service - Disaster Recovery: Failing Back to vSphere On Premises This is the sixth of seven tutorials designed to help you get started with Disaster Recovery. This tutorial covers failing back from the cloud to your vSpher... From: VMware Views: 586 2 ratings Time: 11:20 More in Science & Technology

VMwareTV: vCloud Hybrid Service - Disaster Recovery: Performing A Planned Failover (tag:youtube.com,2008:video:6yXl9foWFd8)vCloud Hybrid Service - Disaster Recovery: Performing A Planned Failover This is the fifth of seven tutorials designed to help you get started with Disaster Recovery. This tutorial covers how to perform a planned failover, includi... From: VMware Views: 171 0 ratings Time: 05:49 More in Science & Technology

VMwareTV: vCloud Hybrid Service - Disaster Recovery: Performing a Test Failover (tag:youtube.com,2008:video:kOVWuDcNjyw)vCloud Hybrid Service - Disaster Recovery: Performing a Test Failover This is the fourth of seven tutorials designed to help you get started with Disaster Recovery. This tutorial covers how to perform a test failover of a virtu... From: VMware Views: 151 0 ratings Time: 06:40 More in Science & Technology

VMwareTV: vCloud Hybrid Service - Disaster Recovery: Configuring Virtual Machine Replication (tag:youtube.com,2008:video:afwKd5Gnzvg)vCloud Hybrid Service - Disaster Recovery: Configuring Virtual Machine Replication This is the third of seven tutorials designed to help you get started with Disaster Recovery. This tutorial covers how to configure virtual machine replicati... From: VMware Views: 149 1 ratings Time: 05:39 More in Science & Technology

VMwareTV: vCloud Hybrid Service - Disaster Recovery: Configuring the Remote Site (tag:youtube.com,2008:video:gr9FIJvxfMw)vCloud Hybrid Service - Disaster Recovery: Configuring the Remote Site This is the second of seven tutorials designed to help you get started with Disaster Recovery. This tutorial covers how to get the service up and running, in... From: VMware Views: 121 0 ratings Time: 04:58 More in Science & Technology

VMwareTV: vCloud Hybrid Service - Disaster Recovery: Pre-Requisites (tag:youtube.com,2008:video:Qw_HIJ-Sr7s)vCloud Hybrid Service - Disaster Recovery: Pre-Requisites This is the first of seven tutorials designed to help you get started with Disaster Recovery. This tutorial covers the minimum requirements you will need to ... From: VMware Views: 103 1 ratings Time: 04:15 More in Science & Technology

VMwareTV: vCloud Hybrid Service - Disaster Recovery at Planview (tag:youtube.com,2008:video:qJjbELr8jlc)vCloud Hybrid Service - Disaster Recovery at Planview Discover how Planview uses VMware vCloud Hybrid Service -- Disaster Recovery to provide disaster recovery services to their customers without building, manag... From: VMware Views: 368 0 ratings Time: 03:29 More in Science & Technology

VMware Virtualization Management Blog: David Davis on vCenter Operations- Post #7 – Adding Your License in vCenter Operations Manager (http://blogs.vmware.com/management/?p=3354)In my last article in this series, Installing vCenter Operations Manager , I walked you through the three steps that you’ll take to install VMware’s vCenter Operations Manager. With over 30 graphics, I hope that you found it to be a very helpful post (or, if nothing else, at least it was visually appealing). Now that you have vC Ops up and running, I’d like to use this article to talk about licensing vCenter Operations Manager. vCenter Operations Manager – Foundation vs Standard With vCenter…

VMware Company Blog: Introducing VMware vCloud Hybrid Service – Disaster Recovery: Making Cloud DR Simple and Affordable (http://blogs.vmware.com/vmware/?p=2426)By Bill Fathers, SVP & GM, Hybrid Cloud Services Business Unit, VMware For far too long, enterprise-class IT business continuance and disaster recovery solutions have been out of reach for mid-size businesses. Today, I am excited to announce a new solution – VMware vCloud® Hybrid Service™ – Disaster Recovery, that not only address this issue […]

VMware vCloud Blog: Announcing VMware vCloud Hybrid Service – Disaster Recovery: Making DR Simple and Affordable for Businesses (http://blogs.vmware.com/vcloud/?p=3383)The vast majority of IT applications are not protected by Disaster Recovery because it’s too expensive and too complicated – that changes today with the availability of vCloud Hybrid Service Disaster Recovery. A worrying minority of applications, both Tier 1 and Tier 2, are protected by DR because of that cost and complexity. vCloud® Hybrid Service™ – Disaster Recovery is simple to install and operate, and costs just $835 per month for: 1TB of storage 20GB of RAM 10 GHz of stand-by capacity …

VMware Security Blog: New VMware Security Advisory VMSA-2014-0004 (Heartbleed) (http://blogs.vmware.com/security/?p=1075)Today VMware has released the following new security advisory: VMSA-2014-0004 This advisory list the VMware product updates and patches that address the OpenSSL Heartbleed issue, CVE-2014-0160 . It is only the first release of the advisory with several more to come, as we will release more product updates and patches this week. In order to remediate the issue, follow these steps: - Deploy the VMware product update or product patches that address CVE-2014-0160 - Replace certificates - Reset passwords The…

VMware vSphere Blog: App HA 1.1 Released – Now available for download (http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/?p=12357)The latest version of App HA, 1.1, was released last week and is now available for download. This release has a number of cool new features that will greatly increase the usability of App HA. I will do additional post(s) on these in the next few weeks. More applications: Oracle (10g & 11g) and PostgreSQL (8.x & 9.x) Support for custom services: Any service Hyperic agents are currently able to start/stop Increased interoperability with vSphere: now supporting both vSphere 5.5 and 5.1 More…

VMware Technology Alliance Partner Blog: Bridging the Gap between Virtual and Physical with VMware Cloud Management Integrations with Cisco UCS (http://blogs.vmware.com/tap/?p=864)When we speak to joint VMware and Cisco customers who have built their data centers based on our virtualized infrastructure solutions, it is very clear what it takes for them to transform towards a truly private cloud environment. It is critical for customers to be able to leverage their existing Cloud Infrastructure investments in vSphere and UCS and to be able to build on top of that in terms of integrating management and automation solutions as they look to operate their I.T organizations in a…

VMware Support Insider: Top 20 Articles for March 2014 (http://blogs.vmware.com/kb/?p=6145)Here is our Top 20 KB list for March 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. VMware ESXi 5.x host experiences a purple diagnostic screen mentioning E1000PollRxRing and E1000DevRx Downloading and Installing VMware Fusion Installing async drivers on VMware ESXi 5.0, 5.1, and 5.5 Determining Network/Storage firmware and driver version in ESXi/ESX 4.x and ESXi 5.x Installing Windows in a virtual…

VMware End User Computing: Microsoft Lync 2013 in View Windows 8.0 and 8.1 Desktops (http://blogs.vmware.com/euc/?p=5626)By Tony Huynh, Product Line Manager, End-User Computing, VMware It gives me great pleasure to announce that Horizon 6 with View will be adding support for Microsoft Lync 2013 VDI integration on Windows 8.0 and 8.1 desktops. In View 5.2, VMware added support for Lync 2013 Client capabilities, including VoIP and videoconferencing, in View desktops running Windows 7 SP1. With Horizon 6 with View, customers will be able to run the Lync 2013 Client with full functionality inside Windows 8.0 and 8.1 virtual…

External Bloggers

Observation: the power of simple (but sometimes ignorant) arguments. (http://virtualgeek.typepad.com/virtual_geek/2014/04/observation-the-power-of-simple-but-sometimes-ignorantarguments.html)Preamble #1: Warning – this post is long-ish, and as usual a little rambly. Preamble #2 While this post is indeed triggered by something specific (a competitor’s blog post targeting EMC trying to wrap in the “david vs. goliath” meme...

WARNING: vLab restrictions during EMC World (http://virtualgeek.typepad.com/virtual_geek/2014/04/warning-vlab-restrictions-during-emc-world.html)vLab is a wildly popular online, on demand, self-service environment where you can get all sorts of hands-on of complex IT solutions – whenever, wherever you want. It’s powered by a whole pile of Vblocks and the vCloud management suite...

Heartbleed Security Bug fixes for VMware (http://www.yellow-bricks.com/?p=14850)It seems to be patch Saturday as today a whole bunch of updates of products were released. All of these updates relate to the heartbleed security bug fix. There is no point in listing every single product as I assume you all know the VMware download page by now, but I do want to link […] " Heartbleed Security Bug fixes for VMware " originally appeared on Yellow-Bricks.com . Follow me on twitter - @DuncanYB.

Alert: vSphere 5.5 U1 and NFS issue! (http://www.yellow-bricks.com/?p=14839)Some had already reported on this on twitter and the various blog posts but I had to wait until I received the green light from our KB/GSS team. An issue has been discovered with vSphere 5.5 Update 1 that is related to loss of connection of NFS based datastores. (NFS volumes include VSA datastores.) This […] " Alert: vSphere 5.5 U1 and NFS issue! " originally appeared on Yellow-Bricks.com . Follow me on twitter - @DuncanYB.

Disk Controller features and Queue Depth? (http://www.yellow-bricks.com/?p=14803)I have been working on various VSAN configurations and a question that always comes up is what are my disk controller features and queue depth for controller X? (Local disks, not FC based…) Note that this is not only useful to know when using VSAN, but also when you are planning on doing host local […] " Disk Controller features and Queue Depth? " originally appeared on Yellow-Bricks.com . Follow me on twitter - @DuncanYB.

Startup News Flash part 17 (http://www.yellow-bricks.com/?p=14800)Number 17 already… A short one, I expect more news next week when we have “Storage Field Day”, hence I figured I would release this one already. Make sure to watch the live feed if you are interested in getting the details on new releases from companies like Diablo, SanDisk, PernixData etc. Last week Tintri […] " Startup News Flash part 17 " originally appeared on Yellow-Bricks.com . Follow me on twitter - @DuncanYB.

Win a Jackery Giant backup battery, by just leaving a comment (http://www.yellow-bricks.com/?p=14795)**** CLOSED, WINNER = David **** I was one of the lucky guys who won a price during the Top Bloggers award “ceremony”. Veeam was so kind enough to provide two of the exact same items so that every blogger who won a price could also give away a price to their readers. I am […] " Win a Jackery Giant backup battery, by just leaving a comment " originally appeared on Yellow-Bricks.com . Follow me on twitter - @DuncanYB.

FUD it! (http://www.yellow-bricks.com/?p=14781)In the last couple of weeks something stood out to me when it comes to the world of storage and virtualisation and that is animosity. What struck me personally is how aggressive some storage vendors have responded to Virtual SAN, and Server Side Storage in general. I can understand it in a way as Virtual […] " FUD it! " originally appeared on Yellow-Bricks.com . Follow me on twitter - @DuncanYB.

Latest Fling from VMware Labs - Horizon View Event Notifier (http://www.ntpro.nl/blog/archives/2622-guid.html)

VMware Horizon View 5.3 Reviewer's Guide (http://www.ntpro.nl/blog/archives/2621-guid.html)

VMware's response to the OpenSSL security issue (http://www.ntpro.nl/blog/archives/2620-guid.html)

If you’re looking up at the clouds you’ll probably notice StratoGen (http://vsphere-land.com/?p=4708)I’m pleased to announce StratoGen as a new sponsor to vSphere-land.com. If you aren’t familiar with StratoGen I’d like to take a moment to tell you who they are and what they provide. More and more companies are looking to host either part or all of their VMware environments with a hosting provider for various reasons. [...]

Crossing the Threshold (http://blog.scottlowe.org/?p=3430)Are you in the midst of a professional transformation? While looking ahead to see what still needs to be done, don't forget to look behind and see what you've already accomplished. This article was originally posted on blog.scottlowe.org . Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies. Crossing the Threshold

Heads Up Alert: vSphere 5.5 U1 NFS Random Disconnection Bug! (http://longwhiteclouds.com/?p=3346)Just wanted to give my readers a heads up that there appears to be a bug with vSphere 5.5 U1 that impacts any NFS connected storage and can cause random disconnects. The timing of this is a coincidence that it comes right on the coat tails of my previous article Hardware Fails, Software Has Bugs […]

Hardware Fails, Software Has Bugs, People Make Mistakes – Usually You Get All At Once! (http://longwhiteclouds.com/?p=3334)Today we experienced the second outage to this blog in the last 12 months. The outage today was 15 hours in total, unacceptably long in my view for a professional hosting company. Very inconvenient to me as I’m sure it was to all of you as well. But this does serve as a good reminder about the […]

VMware vSphere 5.5 Update 1 NFS disconnects (http://www.vmguru.nl/wordpress/?p=12275)A new issue has been discovered with vSphere 5.5 Update 1 that is related to loss of connection of NFS based datastores. The result is an All Paths Down (APD) of the NFS datastores meaning that vSphere loses connection to the virtual machine files and/or the virtual machines will not be able to do any IO to the datastore. This will result in a BSOD for Windows virtual machine and read-only filesystems for Linux guests. Last friday we encountered this ourselves and already got the confirmation from VMware…

Nutanix 4.0 Hybrid On-Disk De-Duplication Explained (http://myvirtualcloud.net/?p=6208)Nutanix is a distributed scale-out 3-tier platform, utilizing RAM, Flash and HDD. This combination provides access to constantly accessed data in terms of microseconds; instead of milliseconds when exclusively flash devices are used. This is an awesome feature that influence and enhance the end-user experience for any type of workload. De-duplication allows the sharing of … Continue reading »

Nutanix 4.0 Features Overview (Beyond Marketing) (http://myvirtualcloud.net/?p=6218)Today Nutanix announced the release NOS 4.0. This is a major release with introduction of features in the areas of data services, performance, resiliency, data protection, and management and analytics. It’s been eight months since NOS 3.5 was announced with the Elastic De-Duplication Engine, PRISM UI, RESTful API, SRM Support, and Nutanix is now delivering another … Continue reading »

vCenter Server 5.5 U1a released fixing Heartbleed (http://www.vladan.fr/?p=34607)VMware has rolled out new update on vCenter server 5.5 U1a. This update fixes a Heartbleed bug in OpenSSL third party library. HearbleThere are no new features in this release and only vCenter server and vCenter server appliance are on the list of updated products. The bug was affecting a Windows based vCenter server and […] Read the full post vCenter Server 5.5 U1a released fixing Heartbleed at ESX Virtualization . Featured : VMware vSphere Editions - Make your choice

Trilead Enterprise Backup and Replication for VMware and Hyper-V Announced (http://www.vladan.fr/?p=34571)Trilead is preparing some big changes in it’s product’s range as the product just went out with 5.1 RC version which brings a very interesting features for VMware and Hyper-V users. Features that will be present in new edition of Trilead Entreprise 5.1, but can be already tested with the 5.1 RC version. Those enterprise […] Read the full post Trilead Enterprise Backup and Replication for VMware and Hyper-V Announced at ESX Virtualization . Featured : VMware vSphere Editions - Make your choice

Zero-Config Remote Desktop Software Ammyy Admin and others (http://www.vladan.fr/?p=34590)Here is a quick recap (not even close to be exhaustive) of different applications which offers access to remote desktops. I know there is many other apps, but let’s quickly have a look at some of those which are the most interesting. One of them is Ammyy Admin, which is Zero-Config Remote Desktop Software that […] Read the full post Zero-Config Remote Desktop Software Ammyy Admin and others at ESX Virtualization . Featured : VMware vSphere Editions - Make your choice

How-to rename VMNIC in VMware ESXi (http://www.vladan.fr/?p=34578)The problem of assigning different name to your VMNIC is not new. Several sources reported NIC enumeration that occurs after applying a BIOS update, resulting a connectivity loss. But there is a way to fix it even if rename VMNIC in VMware ESXi through the UI isn’t possible. In my case it was simple a cosmetic […] Read the full post How-to rename VMNIC in VMware ESXi at ESX Virtualization . Featured : VMware vSphere Editions - Make your choice

Xangati Released Two New Dashboards to extend their Software Suite (http://www.vladan.fr/?p=34572)Xangati just announced two new dashboards in their software suite. Xangati is a specialist in end-to-end real time monitoring, but their product offers some unique capabilities, like storm tracking or automatic recording when your infrastructure is performing badly. There is new Executive Dashboard which offers an overall view of VDI and VI components and also […] Read the full post Xangati Released Two New Dashboards to extend their Software Suite at ESX Virtualization . Featured : VMware vSphere…

WIMBoot in Windows 8.1 allows saving storage and memory (http://www.vladan.fr/?p=34563)The latest update of Windows 8.1 brings an interesting functionality which allows to use lower end machines with small SSDs save space so If you have such a PC or tablet which has a small SSD and struggling to get everything installed, you might consider this type of installation. It’s called Windows Image Boot (or WIMBoot) […] Read the full post WIMBoot in Windows 8.1 allows saving storage and memory at ESX Virtualization . Featured : VMware vSphere Editions - Make your choice

#vBrownBag Follow-Up VMware vSphere Auto Deploy Deep Dive with Rob Nelson (@rnelson0) (http://professionalvmware.com/?p=4444)Rob Nelson does a deep dive into VMware vSphere Auto Deploy which facilitates the rapid deployment and provisioning of vSphere host. Rob covers the requirements including DHCP configuration options and PowerCLI image builder steps. Video Video You can find Rob on Twitter @rnelson0 and his blog http://rnelson0.com/ Sign up for the live ProfessionalVMware.com #vBrownBag broadcast […]

#vBrownBag EMEA Follow-Up VMware Horizon View Failover (DR) using vCO with Kaido Kibin (http://professionalvmware.com/?p=4440)Kaido Kibin shows you how to use VMware vCenter Orchestrator for DR failover of your Horizon View infrastructure on the EMEA professionalvmware.com #vBrownBag. Video Sign up for the live ProfessionalVMware.com #vBrownBag broadcast at http://professionalvmware.com/brownbags/ and follow some of our past series such as the Automate All The Things series at http://professionalvmware.com/vbrownbag-automate-all-the-things-training-schedule/ or the Couch to […]

#vBrownBag Jr – For Real This Time (http://professionalvmware.com/?p=4366)You may recall 2 weeks ago when I announced the #vBrownBag Junior initiative. I’m slightly embarrassed to say that it was originally intended as an April Fool’s gag, but given the reaction and support we had in the community it left the crew and I with a challenge. I’m happy to announce that the #vBrownBag […]

VMware Support Alert – ALERT: vCAC 6.0.x tenants become inaccessible and identity stores disappear (http://vmwaretips.com/wp/?p=2317)VMware has become aware of an issue that occurs after 90 days after deployment of a template in vCloud Automation Center (vCAC) 6.0.x, tenants become inaccessible and identity stores disappear due to expiration of the tenant admin password. For more information, see the article below. For further information and updates, please refer to KB article: [...]

VMware KB Digest – New KB articles published for week ending 4/12/14 (http://vmwaretips.com/wp/?p=2315)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. Not Specified Downloading certification logos (VCP/VCA/VCAP/VCDX) (2075010) Date Published: 4/10/2014 Certification is not appearing on transcript (2075012) Date Published: 4/10/2014 [...]

Put your pagefile on it’s own disk (http://www.v-wiki.net/?p=512)If you’ve been in IT for a while, you may stick by the rule that with Windows, you should put your pagefile on it’s own disk. Originally, this was when computers had little RAM, and to optimise performance of the pagefile it was advised to use FAT instead of incurring the overhead of a journaled […] The post Put your pagefile on it’s own disk appeared first on Virtual Wiki .

The only way to give directions (http://www.v-wiki.net/?p=521)Many of us have to give directions; it might be in a project, when managing a team, instructions for someone to pick something up for you from a shop – but the way to give directions is important. What is wrong with the way people are directed? In a recent ‘disagreement’ with my mother on […] The post The only way to give directions appeared first on Virtual Wiki .

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