VMware Newsletter 6.16

From the editors virtual desk

Hi everyone, I hope that you had an awesome Easter long weekend and break last week. In Australia we had another short week with Friday being ANZAC day. With a 3 day week it does make it tough to see all my customers and get all of my work done without cheating and working on the weekend.

My travels into the world of ITBM has been slow of late but I am still hoping to get more in depth on this. I have spent quite a bit of time on one of my favourite products however vCops (vCenter Operations) and as usual this product has shown me how good operations management can be when we work with a solution that provides an intelligent way to work with complex and an often dating amount of data. If you are not working with this solution yet I suggest you check it out. There is a version to suit everyone.

Have a great week next week with presumably most things back to normal for most of us with the Easter break over.

Virtually Yours

Neil Isserow

Senior Technical Account Manager

VMware Australia

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VMware Bloggers

VMware Support Insider: Patching ESXi 5.5 for Heartbleed without installing Update 1 (http://blogs.vmware.com/kb/?p=6159)On April 19th, VMware released a series of patches for ESX 5.5 and ESX 5.5 Update 1 to re-mediate the CVE dubbed “Heartbleed” (CVE-2014-0076 and CVE-2014-0160). VMware also recently announced that there was an issue in the newest version of ESXi 5.5 (Update 1 and later), which can cause difficulties communicating with NFS storage. This NFS issue is still being investigated, and customers are encouraged to subscribe to KB article: Intermittent NFS APDs on ESXi 5.5 U1 (2076392) for updates. Due to the…

VMware Education & Certification Blog: Question of the Week: vCenter Orchestrator (http://blogs.vmware.com/education/?p=4061)This week’s question comes from the vCenter Orchestrator video series . a) The vSphere Web Client b) The vSphere Client c) The vCO client d) vCenter webviews Click through to the comments for the answer and watch Introducing vCenter Orchestrator Overview for more information. Follow @VMwareEducation on Instagram to see more #TechTrivia every Friday and visual updates from the VMware Education and Certification community.

VMware Company Blog: VMware Weekly News Recap, April 25 (http://blogs.vmware.com/vmware/?p=2469)VMware News In VMware news this week, VMware announced strong financial results for the first quarter of 2014 – a reflection of VMware’s unique position in helping customers transform their IT infrastructure. In summary, VMware reported: Year-over-Year Revenue Growth of 14% to $1.36 Billion Year-over-Year Revenue Growth of 18% excluding Pivotal and divestitures in 2013 […]

VMware Consulting Blog: Architecture Overview: Microsoft Lync with VMware Horizon View (http://blogs.vmware.com/consulting/?p=1403)By Ray Heffer, VCDX #122, VMware EUC Architect Since VMware Horizon View 5.2, there has been support for Microsoft Lync 2013. In fact when I say ‘support’, I mean that both Microsoft and VMware have developed the architecture that provides a great user experience. Prior to Horizon View 5.2, only VOIP phones were supported and there were bandwidth constraints that made this unviable and resulted in a poor experience for end users. For detailed information, see the VMware whitepaper on Horizon View 5.2…

VMware Cloud Ops Blog: Configuration Management in the Cloud (http://blogs.vmware.com/cloudops/?p=877)by Kai Holthaus “The Cloud” is one of the biggest paradigm shifts in the IT world. Instead of provisioning physical hardware in a physical data center and then managing applications running on the physical hardware, virtualization has allowed IT organizations to decouple logical infrastructure from physical infrastructure, and thereby deliver new-found flexibility to provide and manage value-add services. Additionally, IT organizations can now provision the cloud infrastructure itself, along with the…

VMwareTV: Dell Active Infrastructure and VMware vSphere with Operations Management (tag:youtube.com,2008:video:g5M_9rHST58)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 entire virtual machine environment,... From: VMware Views: 7 0 ratings Time: 01:53 More in Science & Technology

VMware for Small-Medium Business Blog: New Disaster Recovery to Cloud Tutorial Videos (http://blogs.vmware.com/smb/?p=2776)This post originally appeared on the VMware vCloud blog 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…

VMware Company Blog: The Conference of the Future Has Arrived (http://blogs.vmware.com/vmware/?p=2464)VMware’s Online VMware Forum 2014 is a free online event where you will learn how to radically simplify your IT infrastructure across the entire data center to the virtual workspace, all from the comfort of your cozy office chair. Hear VMware and industry experts discuss new products and services and find solutions to complex IT […]

VMTN Blog: VMware Communities Roundtable Podcast 275 – vCloud Hybrid Service – Disaster Recovery @ccolotti (http://blogs.vmware.com/vmtn/?p=8411)Hosts John Mark Troyer, VMware @jtroyer Mike Gordon Laverick, VMware @Mike_Laverick Eric Sloof, @esloof Guests Chris Colotti, VMware, @ccolotti News VMware vCloud Hybrid Service – Disaster Recovery, Available Now, Seamlessly Extends Disaster Recovery to the Public Cloud Announcing VMware vCloud Hybrid Service – Disaster Recovery: Making DR Simple and Affordable for Businesses Attend live breakout sessions and technical deep dives – without leaving your office. Register for #vForum2014 :…

VMwareTV: vCloud Hybrid Service Demo: Overview & Integration w/ vCloud Connector & vCloud Automation Center (tag:youtube.com,2008:video:KvvvtyC7Kd4)vCloud Hybrid Service Demo: Overview & Integration w/ vCloud Connector & vCloud Automation Center Get an overview of the vCloud Hybrid Service (vCHS) UI and how to configure, monitor, edit and provision a Virtual Data Center. Includes how vCHS is integrated with other VMware tools including... From: VMware Views: 180 1 ratings Time: 15:14 More in Science & Technology

VMware End User Computing: Road Trip! TechTalk Live is Visiting a City Near You to Showcase Horizon 6 (http://blogs.vmware.com/euc/?p=5711)VMware is packing up its latest technology and heading out on the road to 35 cities in the US and Canada–from Atlanta to Vancouver, New York to Seattle (and everywhere in between) to give customers a closer look at VMware Horizon 6 , which was just announced on April 9 th . These free, in-person seminars, called VMware TechTalk Live , will feature demonstrations from experts on the latest in desktop and application virtualization technology, along with plenty of opportunities to network with your…

VMwareTV: Enabling and Monitoring Storage I/O Control (SIOC) (tag:youtube.com,2008:video:UVOZvhGeuDs)Enabling and Monitoring Storage I/O Control (SIOC) Guides the user through the process of enabling and monitoring the Storage I/O Control (SIOC) feature in a vSphere environment. Learn more: http://vmware.com/products/vsphere/features/storage-io-co... From: VMware Views: 3 0 ratings Time: 04:07 More in Science & Technology

VMwareTV: Intro to Storage Resource Management with Storage DRS and Storage I/O Control (tag:youtube.com,2008:video:LYE5TyQbG2M)Intro to Storage Resource Management with Storage DRS and Storage I/O Control Provides a high level overview of how Storage DRS and Storage I/O Control work to alleviate storage bottlenecks in a vSphere environment. Learn more: http://vmware.com/products/vsphere/features/sto... From: VMware Views: 102 0 ratings Time: 05:10 More in Science & Technology

VMwareTV: Creating a Datastore Cluster with Storage DRS (tag:youtube.com,2008:video:gATLj6pUxnk)Creating a Datastore Cluster with Storage DRS Guides the user through the process of creating and managing a datastore cluster in a vSphere environment. Learn more: http://vmware.com/products/vsphere/features/storage-drs.html?src=socmed-storag... From: VMware Views: 89 0 ratings Time: 03:24 More in Science & Technology

VMwareTV: Using Datastore Maintenance Mode with Storage DRS (tag:youtube.com,2008:video:uDmBQDe1k2s)Using Datastore Maintenance Mode with Storage DRS Guides the user through how datastore maintenance mode works and how to put a datastore in to and out of maintenance mode. Learn more: http://vmware.com/products/vsphere/features/storage-drs.html?s... From: VMware Views: 76 0 ratings Time: 02:20 More in Science & Technology

VMwareTV: Solve The Problem: Upgrade to vSphere with Operations Management (tag:youtube.com,2008:video:LkGor4o7MY8)Solve The Problem: Upgrade to vSphere with Operations Management Learn more about vSphere with Operations Management, the world's leading virtualization platform with insight into IT capacity and performance. Learn more: http://vmware.com/products/vsphere-operat... From: VMware Views: 4 0 ratings Time: 00:29 More in Science & Technology

VMwareTV: Reap The Benefits: Upgrade to vSphere with Operations Management (tag:youtube.com,2008:video:1-AiJEnsWvk)Reap The Benefits: Upgrade to vSphere with Operations Management Learn more about vSphere with Operations Management, the world's leading virtualization platform with insight into IT capacity and performance. Learn more: http://vmware.com/products/vsphere-operat... From: VMware Views: 2 0 ratings Time: 00:29 More in Science & Technology

VMwareTV: Troubleshoot Issues Before They Impact Your Business: Upgrade to vSphere with Operations Management (tag:youtube.com,2008:video:ItSO46dqlFY)Troubleshoot Issues Before They Impact Your Business: Upgrade to vSphere with Operations Management Learn more about vSphere with Operations Management, the world's leading virtualization platform with insight into IT capacity and performance. Learn more: http://vmware.com/products/vsphere-operat... From: VMware Views: 0 0 ratings Time: 00:19 More in Science & Technology

VMwareTV: Accurately Diagnose Performance Issues with vSphere with Operations Management (tag:youtube.com,2008:video:ZFquFNjk-vg)Accurately Diagnose Performance Issues with vSphere with Operations Management Learn more about vSphere with Operations Management, the world's leading virtualization platform with insight into IT capacity and performance. Learn more: http://vmware.com/products/vsphere-operat... From: VMware Views: 4 0 ratings Time: 00:13 More in Science & Technology

VMwareTV: Increase Your Savings by Using Capacity Management with vSphere with Operations Management (tag:youtube.com,2008:video:BCaNm-33g1s)Increase Your Savings by Using Capacity Management with vSphere with Operations Management Learn more about vSphere with Operations Management, the world's leading virtualization platform with insight into IT capacity and performance. Learn more: http://vmware.com/products/vsphere-operat... From: VMware Views: 4 0 ratings Time: 00:22 More in Science & Technology

VMwareTV: Keep the Business Running with vSphere with Operations Management (tag:youtube.com,2008:video:KuBjgXdgkGU)Keep the Business Running with vSphere with Operations Management Learn more about vSphere with Operations Management, the world's leading virtualization platform with insight into IT capacity and performance. Learn more: http://vmware.com/products/vsphere-operat... From: VMware Views: 6 0 ratings Time: 00:27 More in Science & Technology

VMware vCloud Blog: Migrate a VMware Fusion VM to vCloud Hybrid Service (http://blogs.vmware.com/vcloud/?p=3420)By: Mike Roy , Technical Marketing Manager at VMware This post is a repost from Mike’s personal blog, mikeroySoft.com . So, you may have heard that my team at VMware launched the ‘vCloud Hybrid Service.’ It’s pretty exciting, and the way we built it gives instant value to existing VMware customers by allowing them to easily migrate their VMs to the cloud without having to completely rebuild them, or learn a whole new paradigm of how to do IT and deliver infrastructure. In that vein, the service…

VMware Support Insider: Determining Network/Storage firmware and driver version in vSphere ESX/ESXi (http://blogs.vmware.com/kb/?p=6155)From time to time as a vSphere ESX/ESXi administrator you may need to quickly find out what firmware levels and driver versions are present on your ESX (or ESXi) host in regards to your Network and Storage interface cards. Our video today shows you how! This new tutorial demonstrates how to determine the driver and firmware versions for Host Bus Adapters (HBA) and physical network interface cards on VMware vSphere ESXi/ESX 4.x and 5.x. For additional information and instructions see VMware Knowledge Base…

VMware Virtualization Management Blog: vCenter Operations Management Tech Tips: Tip #32 – vCloud OvDC Admin vCenter Operations Custom Dashboard – Part 3 (http://blogs.vmware.com/management/?p=3481)In the second part of this series we’ve created the Virtual Machine Super Metrics needed for the OvDC Admin Custom Dashboard. The rest of the Super Metrics we are about to create in this part, are the ones related to vCloud Resource Kinds and will focus on calculating metrics while taking Resource Kind hierarchy into account. This Custom Dashboard is not just about VM performance, we also need to create some capacity planning, capacity control and performance Super Metrics for the rest of the…

VMwareTV: Running Internet Explorer on Mac OS through VMware Horizon (tag:youtube.com,2008:video:837eZMjWhXs)Running Internet Explorer on Mac OS through VMware Horizon A brief demo on an end-user running IE6 on Mac OS using VMware Horizon 6. IE6 is being delivered to the Macbook (and can be delivered to other devices) using RDSH and Horizon View. From: VMware Views: 339 0 ratings Time: 01:10 More in Science & Technology

VMware for Small-Medium Business Blog: The Best Thing for Your Data Center since vSphere (http://blogs.vmware.com/smb/?p=2767)The Advantages of vSphere with Operations Management It’s come to our attention that some folks are less than certain about the differences between vSphere and vSphere with Operations Management. Let’s clear things up: As vSphere environments have grown in size, it’s become increasingly important to efficiently manage virtualized capacity and monitor performance. This is why VMware introduced the product called vSphere with Operations Management. As the name implies, it combines the vSphere…

VMwareTV: HP OneView and VMware vCenter Integration: Automating VM Cluster Provisioning and Management (tag:youtube.com,2008:video:Qus16OCX_aE)HP OneView and VMware vCenter Integration: Automating VM Cluster Provisioning and Management Bent Sullivan, the director of the HP Alliance and Jeff Carlat, the director of product management for HP Converged Systems, discuss the benefits of the HP OneView integration with VMware vCenter... From: VMware Views: 6 0 ratings Time: 01:37 More in Science & Technology

VMwareTV: Virtual SAN Integration with VMware Horizon 6 (tag:youtube.com,2008:video:gO900s8-1AI)Virtual SAN Integration with VMware Horizon 6 This new release delivers an unmatched level of integration with Virtual SAN by to leveraging all of the key benefits Virtual SAN has to offer: • Radically simple management and configuration... From: VMware Views: 224 0 ratings Time: 05:21 More in Science & Technology

VMware End User Computing: Customer Spotlight: VMware Horizon Helps Fitchburg State University Reduce Help Desk Calls by 80% (http://blogs.vmware.com/euc/?p=5707)Guest blog by Bill Smeltzer, CTO of Focus Technology Solutions A constant flow of help desk calls used to be a normal day for Fitchburg State University (FSU) in Massachusetts, with malware and virus calls consuming hundreds of help desk hours. The challenges FSU faces are providing end-to-end support for computers belonging to their 7,000 full- and part-time students, along with supporting the desktop computers used in classrooms and campus computer labs. FSU was looking for an alternative to costly,…

VMwareTV: vCloud Hybrid Service - Disaster Recovery at Planview (tag:youtube.com,2008:video:1heZUPrGStU)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, managing, and supporting their own virtual... From: VMware Views: 18 1 ratings Time: 02:39 More in Science & Technology

VMwareTV: Four Key Innovations in VMware Horizon 6 (tag:youtube.com,2008:video:hb-hLVijHNs)Four Key Innovations in VMware Horizon 6 Sumit Dhawan, VMware's Vice President and General Manager of Desktops, introduces four of the most important new features in Horizon 6 during the launch event April 9, 2014. From: VMware Views: 192 0 ratings Time: 03:57 More in Science & Technology

VMwareTV: Launching and Using Apps in the Horizon 6 Unified Workspace (tag:youtube.com,2008:video:KCGsZBNr5Jw)Launching and Using Apps in the Horizon 6 Unified Workspace Ben Goodman, VMware's Lead Evangelist for Horizon - End-User Computing, demonstrates how the unified workspace in Horizon 6 allows users to seamlessly launch... From: VMware Views: 206 2 ratings Time: 02:17 More in Science & Technology

VMware Company Blog: Earth Day at VMware: Five Sustainable Stats (http://blogs.vmware.com/vmware/?p=2462)Happy Earth Day! Here at VMware, we think everyday is an opportunity to celebrate the planet by practicing the three Rs – reducing, reusing and recycling – across the globe. Did you know: VMware’s Palo Alto headquarters has diverted 86.5% of on-site generated construction waste from landfill. VMware’s Palo Alto campus diverted 91.59% of waste […]

VMware Virtualization Management Blog: vCenter Operations Management Tech Tips: Tip #31 – Create a one-click Cluster Capacity Dashboard – Part 2 (http://blogs.vmware.com/management/?p=3441)As I promised in my last post, Create a One-Click Cluster Capacity Dashboard Using vCOps , I am going to share the recipe for preparing dashboards similar to the “One-Click Cluster Capacity Dashboard,” which received a lot of appreciation from the Twitterati. A number of people deployed the dashboard and within minutes they could showcase the capacity of their vSphere Clusters. Now I want to take this one level deeper and tell you how you can create your own cool XMLs within vCOps Custom UI…

Workstation Zealot: Celebrate Earth Day and save on VMware Workstation (http://blogs.vmware.com/workstation/?p=1272)Go green—consolidate your PCs into one with VMware Workstation 10 Virtualization is a green choice because the technology allows you to run multiple virtual machines on one physical computer. Reduce hardware and energy costs by consolidating your PCs with VMware Workstation, winner of more than 50 industry awards. Make a green choice and save up to 20% on VMware Workstation 10: Buy Workstation 10 and save 20% off Regular List Price Upgrade to Workstation 10 and save 20% off Regular List Price This…

VMware End User Computing: Customer Spotlight: ARcare, a Private Non-profit Healthcare Provider Horizon Solution Reference Implementation Case Study (http://blogs.vmware.com/euc/?p=5703)By Teresa Wingfield, End-User Computing Marketing Consultant As a member of the End-User Computing marketing team, it’s always gratifying to see VMware Horizon (with View) have a meaningful impact on our customer’s business, especially an organization making a positive difference in society such as ARcare. ARcare is a private non-profit healthcare provider serving residents of Arkansas and Kentucky. Driven by its mission “Health for All,” the company focuses on delivering affordable primary…

VMware vSphere Blog: vSphere Distributed Switch – Network Monitoring (http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/?p=12475)When users adopt the vSphere Distributed Switch (VDS) there is a whole new level to monitoring that becomes available that’s not possible with our vSphere Standard Switch. Industry standard tools such as Port Mirroring and Netflow and our own VDS monitoring called Health Check. These powerful tools not only help to troubleshoot issues or monitor traffic but help to ensure you don’t have issues to begin with. The following videos and Product Walkthroughs demonstrate how to enable and use these…

Team Fusion: Celebrate Earth Day and save on VMware FusionGo green—consolidate all your PCs into one with Fusion Virtualization is a green choice because the technology allows you to run multiple virtual machines on one physical computer. When using Fusion 6 to run Windows on your Mac, you eliminate the need to have two computers, saving on energy costs and reducing your carbon footprint. And, since Fusion 6 is optimized to give you fast performance while efficiently utilizing your Mac’s battery power, you save even more. Make a green choice and save up to…

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…

External Bloggers

New Training Course - VMware vCloud Automation Center: Install, Configure, Manage [V6.0] (http://www.ntpro.nl/blog/archives/2619-guid.html)

vCloud Hybrid Service Demo: Overview & Integration w/ vCloud Connector & vCloud Automation Center (http://www.ntpro.nl/blog/archives/2624-guid.html)

New Way to Learn Puppet - Download the Learning VM (http://www.ntpro.nl/blog/archives/2623-guid.html)

4 REALLY cool stories. (http://virtualgeek.typepad.com/virtual_geek/2014/04/4-really-cool-stories.html)It’s funny to me, I’m learning every day how organizations are truly organisms in a sense – alive, adapting, stretching. In a very important sense, company “brand” is the echo of all the humans working hard and doing cool things....

EMC World NDA breakout on VNX and vVol (http://virtualgeek.typepad.com/virtual_geek/2014/04/emc-world-nda-breakout-on-vnx-and-vvol.html)We are interested in getting customer feedback on our vVol implementation and would like to invite a couple of joint VNX-VMware customers that can invited to NDA sessions. If you are a customers that are highly virtualized (VMWare) or interested...

PernixData feature announcements during Storage Field Day (http://www.yellow-bricks.com/?p=14861)During Storage Field Day today PernixData announced a whole bunch of features that they are working on and will be released in the near future. In my opinion there were four major features announced: Support for NFS Network Compression Distributed Fault Tolerant Memory Topology Awareness Lets go over these one by one: Support for NFS […] " PernixData feature announcements during Storage Field Day " originally appeared on Yellow-Bricks.com . Follow me on twitter - @DuncanYB.

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.

Learning NSX, Part 12: Integrating VMware NSX with OpenStack (http://blog.scottlowe.org/?p=3437)Part 12 continues the NSX series by providing some specific details on how to integrate VMware NSX with OpenStack Neutron. 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 12: Integrating VMware NSX with OpenStack

Technology and Travel (http://blog.scottlowe.org/?p=3435)To borrow the over-used marketing phrase from a popular credit card: what's in your tech bag when traveling? This article was originally posted on blog.scottlowe.org . Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies. Technology and Travel

Kicking the Policy Discussion Into High Gear (http://blog.scottlowe.org/?p=3433)Fully automated IT environments need policy, but policy in the data center can be challenging. However, a new project has started to address this need. Read the full post for more details. This article was originally posted on blog.scottlowe.org . Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies. Kicking the Policy Discussion Into High Gear

Get Amazing Art and Help Support Jean Michael Cousteau’s WATER PLANET 3D Interactive Project (http://longwhiteclouds.com/?p=3376)When I was at VMwarePEX in San Francisco in February this year, during the VCDX and vExpert reception I had the privilege to meet world renowned cover artist Ioannis (http://www.dangerousage.com/) and Jean Michael Cousteau and his project team. They’re working on an amazing 3D Interactive Project called Water Planet. The project is aiming to create a 3D […]

Completely Dismissing the FUD against Nutanix! (http://myvirtualcloud.net/?p=6273)It seems that spreading FUD (fear, uncertainty, and doubt) in the storage industry is in vogue once again and I also want to take the opportunity to completely dismiss some of the FUD that storage solution vendors are trying to spread into the software-defined-storage market, and in particular about Nutanix. Nutanix being the major disruptor … Continue reading »

VDI Calculator v5.7 Release (http://myvirtualcloud.net/?p=6266)Today I am announcing the General Availability of the new VDI Calculator v5.7. This is a small update that introduces support for the Nutanix NX-7000 series and Italian language. There is also introduction of a high memory utilization warning that is automatically triggered when RAM consumption goes beyond the maximum Nutanix appliance limit. When Nutanix calculation … Continue reading »

Nutanix 4.0 PowerShell has Full Feature Coverage (http://myvirtualcloud.net/?p=6201)One of the big new things for workflows and automation in Nutanix NOS 4.0 are the PowerShell cmdlets to interact with the Nutanix API’s. The POSH library covers the entire extent and functionality of the Nutanix GUI. Basically, anything that can be done via GUI can also be done via REST and can also be done … Continue reading »

Network connection lost after vCSA restore (http://www.vmguru.nl/wordpress/?p=12300)Today we encountered a strange error after restoring a vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA) in our vCloud Director environment. You would expect that a restore of a virtual machine would return it to its original state at the time of the back-up. As it turns out this is not the case when restoring a vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA), vSphere Data Protection (VDP) Appliance or vSphere Management Assistant (vMA). The first thing we noticed was that it took a very long time (10 minutes) for the vCenter Server…

Nakivo backup & replication v4.0 released (http://www.vmguru.nl/wordpress/?p=12266)Today Nakivo announced the release of their fourth version for backup & replication. Nakivo backup & replication is build for handeling virtual infrastructures and is certified by VMware. The product works agentless and is meant for both onsite and offsite backup of virtual machines. The new version of backup & recovery includes: Instantly browse, search, and recover Microsoft Exchange objects – such as emails – directly from compressed and deduplicated VMware VM backups, without the need to…

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…

Infiniband in the homelab – the missing piece for VMware VSAN (http://www.vladan.fr/?p=34654)The first time I ever touched this amazing (and cheap) network technology called Infiniband, it was a while ago when setting up an back-end storage network (without a IB switch) between two hosts. You could probably see the exploit in my article here - Homelab Storage Network Speedup with …. Infiniband, together with a short video. The HCAs […] Read the full post Infiniband in the homelab – the missing piece for VMware VSAN at ESX Virtualization . Featured : VMware vSphere Editions - Make…

vSphere Mobile Watchlist update – now with host monitoring and remediation too (http://www.vladan.fr/?p=34642)vSphere Mobile Watchlist app got a nice update which allows you to add hosts to your list of monitored objects. I have already wrote some details about this app, the ability to create a list of critical VMs which needs to be up no matter where you are, but just to remind you, the vSphere […] Read the full post vSphere Mobile Watchlist update – now with host monitoring and remediation too at ESX Virtualization . Featured : VMware vSphere Editions - Make your choice

VMware Workstation 10.0.2 – maintenance release with performance improvements (http://www.vladan.fr/?p=34618)There is a new release of VMware Workstation 10.0.2 which has been pushed out since few days, which is a maintenance release. As it’s maintenance release it does not bring any new features, but has some interesting performance improvements. For example the E1000e driver use in a VMs got a performance improvement or the easy […] Read the full post VMware Workstation 10.0.2 – maintenance release with performance improvements at ESX Virtualization . Featured : VMware vSphere Editions - Make your…

Nakivo 4 Released with Exchange Objects Recovery, Log Truncation and backup verification (http://www.vladan.fr/?p=34625)Nakivo 4.0 GA version has been released today bringing a feature that not every backup product offers out of the box – Exchange Objects recovery. Where some backup products needs agents in an Exchange Sever VM and others simply do not offer individual Exchange Objects recovery, Nakivo brings this feature to the backup market today. I […] Read the full post Nakivo 4 Released with Exchange Objects Recovery, Log Truncation and backup verification at ESX Virtualization . Featured : VMware vSphere…

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

#vBrownBag VMware Desktop as a Service with Kris Boyd (@virtualboyd) (http://professionalvmware.com/?p=4452)Kristopher Boyd stops by to introduce VMware’s new Desktop as a Service (DaaS) offering to enable organizations to provide VDI solutions as a completely hosted solution. Video You can find Kris on Twitter @VirtualBoyd Sign up for the live ProfessionalVMware.com #vBrownBag broadcast at http://professionalvmware.com/brownbags/ where you can get updates on our upcoming Cisco certification track […]

#vBrownBag EMEA Follow-Up The vFLOWer Toolkit with Kaido Kibin (http://professionalvmware.com/?p=4449)The vFLOWer Toolkit, created by ByteLife Solutions, converts vCO packages into versionable source code (XML) and vice versa. In this form, it is more practical to manage and control the development and dissemination of vCO workflows and actions between different teams of developers using popular source control solutions such as GitHub. In this presentation, Kaido […]

Reference Architecture: Building your Hybrid Cloud with vCAC, vCHS and NSX (http://www.hypervizor.com/?p=1499)Introduction: In this blog post, I will try to provide a practical approach to building your first hybrid cloud using various VMware solutions and services. In a nutshell, we will use vSphere for the private/on-prem cloud while we will be leveraging the vCloud Hybrid Service (vCHS) for the public/off-prem cloud. We will then bridge both

VMware KB Digest – New KB articles published for week ending 4/19/14 (http://vmwaretips.com/wp/?p=2324)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 VMware ESXi 5.5, Patch Release ESXi550-201404001 (2076120) Date Published: 4/19/2014 VMware ESXi 5.5, Patch ESXi550-201404401-SG: Updates esx-base (2076121) [...]

Manual access to Windows Update (http://www.v-wiki.net/?p=537)A situation happened with me today that I wanted to share – I was trying to update Windows 8.1 to Update 1, on a laptop that has a screen resolution of lower than 1024×768. If you don’t know the significance of this, it means that I can’t run any Metro style apps – which includes […] The post Manual access to Windows Update appeared first on Virtual Wiki .

Free training courses from VMware! (http://www.v-wiki.net/?p=533)You may not know that VMware provides some online courses for free. All you need to do is register for a myLearn account and then you can register for – and complete – various foundation courses. Go to http://mylearn.vmware.com/portals/www/mL.cfm?menu=topfreecourses and you will see an up to date list of the available free training courses from VMware. […] The post Free training courses from VMware! appeared first on Virtual Wiki .

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