VMware Newsletter 6.18

From the editors virtual desk

Hi everyone, I have had a very busy week. I am not sure how many of you area aware of the fact that there is probably a local VMUG chapter in your city. This week we hosted our local Brisbane VMUG users for an in depth deep dive on VSAN by our resident Staff Systems Engineer, Michael Francis which was very well received as were the obligatory pizza.

VMworld 2014 Session voting is live!

It is also time for you to vote (http://www.vmworld.com/voting.jspa) for the VMworld 2014 sessions you would most like to see. To do this head over to www.vmworld.com and either log in or register for an account. You will then be able to view all of the sessions that have been put forward and of course vote for your favourites. This year I too have a session. If you are interested in voting for it please feel free to check it out. You can find it easily by filtering on my surname. The session details are as follows:

Pro-active Solutions to Ensure Your VMware Environment is Stable and Available 100% of the Time

You rely on your entire enterprise being reliable and available. Running it on a VMware vSphere platform provides many benefits but there are still a number of tasks and solutions that we can use to ensure that everything stays up and working reliably. In this session, we will take a look at available solutions and pro-active tasks to assist with monitoring the environment, health assessments, regular benchmarking and metrics, patch management and working with VMware KB articles as tools to ensure your environment stays reliable and well maintained.

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VROOM!: Virtual SAP HANA Achieves Production Level Performance (http://blogs.vmware.com/performance/?p=1814)VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger announced production support for SAP HANA on VMware vSphere 5.5 at EMC World this week during his keynote. This is the end result of a very thorough joint testing project over the past year between VMware and SAP. HANA is an in-memory platform (including database capabilities) from SAP that has enabled huge gains in performance for customers and has been a high priority for SAP over the past few years. In order for HANA to be supported in a virtual machine on vSphere 5.5 for…

VMware for Small-Medium Business Blog: Debunking Myths About vSphere Data Protection (http://blogs.vmware.com/smb/?p=2791)This post originally appeared on the Virtual Reality blog and was written by Jim Armstrong The release of VMware’s vSphere Data Protection 5.5 (VDP) seems to have caused a stir in the virtual backup industry. It appears we have hit a soft spot with some of the other vendors offering backup solutions for vSphere and have seen some confusing messaging coming from our partners/competitors in this market. While we’re certainly proud of the technology partner ecosystem built around VMware solutions I would…

Workstation Zealot: Survived Microsoft XP end of support for now. (http://blogs.vmware.com/workstation/?p=1296)Well, it has been exactly one month since Microsoft ended XP support on April 8th, and no XPocalypse yet. Granted there have been a few recent nasty global security exploits, like Heartbleed and the recent zero day vulnerability in Microsoft IE that caused Microsoft to issue a special XP IE patch even though they stopped supporting XP on April 8th. Actually I was surprised to see the patch pop up on my XP build considering support officially ended. Moving off of Windows XP is not easy for companies that…

Team Fusion: Still Here…for Now (http://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/?p=1868)Microsoft Windows XP end of support (AKA the XPocalypse) has come and gone, and we are all still here. However, a recent Microsoft security alert should give Windows XP users cause for concern as it potentially exposes them to serious security risks. Luckily, Microsoft issued a patch on May 1 st – including Windows XP. The issue is that XP users can’t expect Microsoft to continue to provide security updates for their operating system as support officially ended on April 8 th . If you must continue…

VMware Virtualization Management Blog: Management Automation: The “Catalysts” that Empower the Software Defined Data Center (http://blogs.vmware.com/management/?p=3623)By Rich Bourdeau Today, the world revolves around applications. Creating, delivering and managing those applications is a formidable challenge for both Development and IT. By virtualizing all aspects of the data center (namely, compute, networking, security and storage), VMware customers are moving to a completely virtualized infrastructure. One that can be dynamically configured to meet specific application needs. Because a virtualized infrastructure is fully abstracted from hardware, workloads running…

VMware vCloud Blog: Learn How To Deploy Horizon DaaS During the Next vmLIVE Session on 5/9! (http://blogs.vmware.com/vcloud/?p=3520)In our next vmLIVE session, learn how to deploy the industry’s only multi-tenant, secure, scalable and affordable cloud-hosted virtual desktop, VMware Horizon DaaS. Taking place on Friday, May 9 at 9:30 a.m., this session will provide attendees with a complete overview of the solution, including deployment architecture, solution design, planning and interoperability in the Horizon DaaS environment. Built on the VMware vCloud Hybrid Service, VMware Horizon DaaS is the industry’s first hybrid…

VMware Education & Certification Blog: New Exam Prep Bundles Available from VMware and MeasureUp (http://blogs.vmware.com/education/?p=4096)VMware and MeasureUp have partnered to bring you three VMware VCP Preparation Bundles that provide a 20% savings on the official VMware Certified Professional (VCP) practice test from MeasureUp, along with a VCP exam voucher. These practice exams can be a valuable resource for helping you get ready for your VCP exam: Each practice test includes over 200 mock questions. Detailed explanations for both correct and distractor answers reinforce the study material. Study Mode covers all exam objectives…

VMworld Blog: It’s Time--VMworld 2014 US Registration is Now Open (http://www.vmworld.com/blogs/vmworld/2014/05/07/it-s-time-vmworld-2014-us-registration-is-now-open)It’s Time--VMworld 2014 US Registration is Now Open This is the year to be at VMworld. Join us in San Francisco, August 24 -28, and connect with the people and partners who are transforming IT. The wait is over—VMworld 2014 US registration is now open. From the data center to the device, VMworld 2014 will deliver the essential tools and training to provide real business value back to your organization. Register now and save $300 by taking advantage of our Early Bird pricing . You will have access to…

VMware Virtualization Management Blog: vCenter Operations Management Tech Tips: Tip #35 – Cluster Utilization Dashboard – Bringing it all together – Part 3 (http://blogs.vmware.com/management/?p=3583)This is the last and final part of a 3 part #TechTips series on creating a vC Ops Cluster Utilization Dashboard. Before you read or implement this part on your instance of vCenter Operations Manager, you need to ensure that you’ve read the following #TechTips :- TechTip #33 – Part 1 – Introduction to the Cluster Utilization Dashboard in vC Ops & TechTip #34 – Part 2 – Creating Supermetrics for Cluster Utilization Dashboard in vC Ops So from the previous part of this series you have the…

VMwareTV: EMC and VMware Together Can Address a New Market Segment with Virtual SAN™ (VSAN) (tag:youtube.com,2008:video:BhInwcg5CNY)EMC and VMware Together Can Address a New Market Segment with Virtual SAN™ (VSAN) Jeremy Burton, EVP of EMC Product Operations and Marketing, discusses that: - EMC and VMware share common view of the Software-Defined Data-Center and Software-Defined Storage - The server... From: VMware Views: 28 0 ratings Time: 02:11 More in Science & Technology

VMware End User Computing: Delivering a Seamless Experience: VMware Horizon 6 and Teradici PCoIP (http://blogs.vmware.com/euc/?p=5763)Guest blog by Mabel Louie, Director of Product Marketing, Teradici VMware has raised the bar with the unveiling of VMware Horizon 6 – a single, seamless platform for delivery of an uncompromised experience to a broader base of end users, across multiple devices and locations from public or private clouds. As a longtime VMware partner, Teradici ® drives continuous innovation of the PCoIP ® protocol, aligning to the industry’s most stringent security standards, and providing best performance, and…

VMware vCloud Blog: Simplify Your IT Infrastructure with the Online VMware Forum 2014 – Register for the 5/8 Online Event! (http://blogs.vmware.com/vcloud/?p=3522)Radically simplify your IT infrastructure, from your data center to virtual workspace, by joining our free Online VMware Forum 2014. This online broadcast gives you the chance to learn from VMware and industry experts on everything from new products and services to solutions to complex IT problems. The Online Forum also provides you with the opportunity to test new VMware products and services without leaving your office. Get access to both lab manuals and lab environments for VMware products through our…

VMware for Small-Medium Business Blog: What Should You Look For in a Backup and Recovery Solution? (http://blogs.vmware.com/smb/?p=2787)For small and midsize organizations that leverage the VMware vSphere platform, there are many backup and recovery options. So how do you know which option makes most sense for your virtualized environment? For starters, look for a solution built to back up a VMware environment, as opposed to the many traditional data protection solutions that have been retrofitted for a virtualized world. In our experience, retrofitted solutions can be expensive, slow, complex, and unreliable. Beyond that initial…

VMware End User Computing: VMware Horizon and F5 BIG-IP Win Big (http://blogs.vmware.com/euc/?p=5725)Three times faster and 15.7% less expensive! By Cyndie Zikmund, End-User Computing Product Line Marketing Manager, VMware Architecting a VDI environment for high availability and optimum load balancing became easier this year when VMware and F5 announced their joint solution that included VMware Horizon with F5 BIG-IP. The expectation was that the two leaders in their respective markets would combine forces to provide a secure, scalable, and powerful platform for today’s mobile workforce, while…

Office of the CTO Blogs: Welcome to VMware, David Tennenhouse (http://cto.vmware.com/?p=2736)I am delighted to welcome Dr. David Tennenhouse to VMware’s R&D community. He has joined as our new Chief Research Officer. The Chief of Research function is a new role within VMware’s CTO Office, and David will lead that team to shape its strategy and execution of its mission of driving thought leadership and accelerating VMware’s technology leadership. David will be tasked with overseeing many of the strategic efforts coming out of the Office of the CTO (OCTO), including our numerous innovation…

Office of the CTO Blogs: The Cloud is the Device: Towards Ubiquitous End-User Computing (http://cto.vmware.com/?p=2728)Today I’m in Boston speaking at the IEEE: Rockstars of Mobile Cloud conference on the concept of “the cloud is the device.” This talk was inspired by the AirWatch/VMware integration efforts I blogged about last week . The title itself is an evolution of the tagline Sun used for years: “the network is the computer.” This tagline was a somewhat iconic description of Sun’s aspirations, where all computing intelligence lived on servers and applications were remotely delivered to…

VMware Virtualization Management Blog: vCenter Operations Management Tech Tips: Tip #34 – Creating Supermetrics for Cluster Utilization Dashboard – Part 2 (http://blogs.vmware.com/management/?p=3579)Continuing from #TechTip #33 (part 1 of 3 in this series) where I gave you an overview of the Cluster Utilization Dashboard , in this post we will create all the 8 Supermetrics required for this dashboard. We will start with one example, wherein I will give you step by step instructions and you would need to repeat the steps for the rest of the Supermetrics. To begin with let’s look at the Supermetrics which we need to create:- CREATING THE SUPERMETRICS Let’s create the SM 1 . Here we need…

VMware vSphere Blog: SAP HANA Now Supported on VMware vSphere 5.5 for Production Scenarios (http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/?p=12546)Eighteen months ago at SAP SAPPHIRE Madrid 2012, VMware presented impressive performance data showcasing SAP HANA running on vSphere. At that time, vSphere 5.1 received support from SAP to run SAP HANA for non-production scenarios. After an extended and successful joint testing program with SAP, we’re proud to announce that vSphere 5.5 has achieved production support for SAP HANA. Today, joint customers can run and scale single node SAP HANA databases up to 1TB in a virtual environment while taking…

VMware vCloud Blog: Pivotal and VMware Deliver Enterprise-Class Hybrid PaaS (http://blogs.vmware.com/vcloud/?p=3509)By Killian Murphy , Senior Director Product Management, Hybrid Cloud Business Unit Today, I’m excited to announce the first enterprise-class hybrid platform-as-a-service (PaaS) on VMware vCloud Hybrid Service. The next release of Pivotal CF, version 1.2, will support VMware vCloud Hybrid Service, providing VMware customers with a choice of deployment options enabling a variety of hybrid use cases including: Development and test in the public cloud with production on-premises; Customer or consumer…VMware vSphere Blog: PowerCLI 5.5 R2 and the Site Recovery Manager API

Recently I posted about the new PowerCLI 5.5R2 capability to interact with the SRM API, and I want to write a few posts on using those capabilities to automate some typical (and perhaps some atypical) activities one might wish to accomplish. In the next few posts I’ll be showing some of the things you can do like: How the SRM API is structured and how to access it through PowerCLI Walk through the examples given in the documentation How to generate reports How to add VMs to existing protection groups …

VMwareTV: VMware vCloud for Healthcare (tag:youtube.com,2008:video:eY1TUJZglls)VMware vCloud for Healthcare Learn how VMware can enable healthcare to transform the cost, quality, and delivery of patient-care products and services. Learn more: http://vmware.com/go/healthcare. From: VMware Views: 3 0 ratings Time: 02:31 More in Science & Technology

VMwareTV: VMware Care Systems Analytics (tag:youtube.com,2008:video:fJS2TlGcg_g)VMware Care Systems Analytics Drew Koerner, Chief Healthcare Solutions Architect, explains how Care Systems Analytics can learn & trend patient-care application performance and in turn, predict future system behavior. ... From: VMware Views: 3 0 ratings Time: 02:11 More in Science & Technology

VMwareTV: Running Internet Explorer on Mac OS through Horizon (tag:youtube.com,2008:video:zmU-0nmbhys)Running Internet Explorer on Mac OS through 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... From: VMware Views: 18 2 ratings Time: 01:21 More in Science & Technology

VMworld Blog: Public Voting- Help Shape the VMworld Agenda (http://www.vmworld.com/blogs/vmworld/2014/05/05/public-voting-help-shape-the-vmworld-agenda)Here’s your opportunity to help influence the content at VMworld 2014 . Public Session Voting opened this morning, and you can vote for your favorite session proposals. Session Voting is open May 5 – May 18 at 11:59 pm PDT. Voting is open to anyone-- you will be required to login to your vmworld.com account to participate. If you do not have a vmworld.com account, you can set one up for free. If you already know of a specific session or track you want to vote for, once you login

VMware End User Computing: Linked Clones the Easy, Scalable Way: Why View Composer Rocks (http://blogs.vmware.com/euc/?p=5741)By Cyndie Zikmund, Product Line Marketing Manager, End-User Computing, VMware In searching for information about View Composer, I found that VMware has not published many articles on this subject. When I asked around, I heard people say, “Composer just works,” or “It is a feature of View everyone knows how to use.” This led me to think that maybe the time has come for Composer to have its day in the sun on this blog. What Does Composer Do? Simple answer: It provides linked clones. Longer…

VMware End User Computing: Zero Day Threat: Hackers starting to target Windows XP (http://blogs.vmware.com/euc/?p=5738)By Sachin Sharma, Product Marketing Manager, End-User Computing, VMware Everyone in IT knew this day was coming: April 8, 2014. This was the official date that Microsoft ended support for Windows XP. Business across the world had ample time to migrate their PCs from Windows XP to Windows 7, or even Windows 8. Many organizations put plans in place to get their systems off of Windows XP. Some organizations used manual processes, others used homegrown tools, and others used third party solutions that…

VMware Support Insider: Using vSphere ESXi Image Builder to create an installable ISO that is not vulnerable to Heartbleed (http://blogs.vmware.com/kb/?p=6190)Here is a follow-up post from Andrew Lytle, member of the VMware Mission Critical Support Team. Andrew is a Senior Support Engineer who is specializes in vCenter and ESXi related support. VMware recently released updates to all products affected by the vulnerability dubbed “Heartbleed” (CVE-2014-0160): http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2014-0004.html As per KB article: Resolving OpenSSL Heartbleed for ESXi 5.5 – CVE-2014-0160 (2076665) , the delivery method for this code change in the…

VMware vCloud Blog: vCloud Hybrid Service – Data Protection (http://blogs.vmware.com/vcloud/?p=3485)By David Hill Today VMware vCloud Hybrid Service launched the next version of Data Protection, introducing significant new features to support our customers’ stringent data protection requirements. Data Protection is an agentless, policy-driven, self-service backup of virtual workloads running on vCloud Hybrid Service. Overview Having a self-service backup feature provides users with the ability to fully embrace the public cloud and deploy critical applications without the worry of data loss. Data…

VMware vSphere Blog: Enabling and Monitoring Storage I/O Control (http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/?p=12541)Storage I/O Control (SIOC) is one of those features that tend to get forgotten about. I’ve talked to many customers both while I was in the field doing architectures and deployments and still today and many either don’t know about the feature or never looked into it. SIOC is extremely powerful, it can increase your consolidation ratios on the storage side, allowing more VM’s per datastore. Which leads to lower storage costs and less administrative overhead. So how does it work? At a basic level…

VMware vCloud Blog: VMware vCloud Hybrid Service Standard Storage Tier (http://blogs.vmware.com/vcloud/?p=3474)By David Hill Today VMware vCloud Hybrid Service launched a new tier of storage, Standard Storage. Standard Storage is a low-cost storage option available with the Dedicated and Virtual Private Cloud offerings from vCloud Hybrid Service. With different tiers of storage, we are providing a choice for end users to select different performance tiers for the various workloads running on vCloud Hybrid Service, and at the price point that works best for a defined budget. Use Cases Before we take a look…

VMware Support Insider: Top 20 Articles for April 2014 (http://blogs.vmware.com/kb/?p=6186)Here is our Top 20 KB list for April 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. Response to OpenSSL security issue CVE-2014-0160/CVE-2014-0346 a.k.a: “Heartbleed” (2076225) VMware ESXi 5.x host experiences a purple diagnostic screen mentioning E1000PollRxRing and E1000DevRx (2059053) Installing Windows in a virtual machine using VMware Fusion Easy Install (1011677) Installing async drivers on…

VMware Company Blog: New Video: VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger talks SDDC Vision (http://blogs.vmware.com/vmware/?p=2497)In a never-ending quest for business advantage, IT organizations are moving increasingly to a software-defined approach. VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger can often be heard touting the benefits—in fact the imperative—of the software-defined enterprise as a strategic initiative that enables IT to be more agile and responsive to customer needs. Pat and Paul Maritz, CEO of […]

VMware vSphere Blog: VMware Virtual SAN Hardware Design Guide (http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/?p=12530)VMware Virtual SAN 5.5 is a software-defined, scale-out hypervisor-converged storage platform that allows you great flexibility and choice in how you design your storage solution. This flexibility allows you the option to either build your own Virtual SAN node using the hardware platform of your choice from any supported hardware vendor on the VMware Compatibility Guide, or choosing a Virtual SAN Ready Node that provides a prescriptive node configuration from a vendor of your choice. The Virtual SAN…

VMware Virtualization Management Blog: The Brocade SAN Content Pack is now available for vCenter Log Insight (http://blogs.vmware.com/management/?p=3609)In talking to many customers about their operational management experiences, it has become very clear to me that the Software Defined world we are moving to has an explosion of monitoring data, both structured and unstructured. Everyone of these Software Defined constructs and objects is a snowflake with rich data that speaks to us: “Please correlate me”. We have the explosion in both the count and richness of these objects; a problem that lends it self to machine learning and analytics. I have…

VMwareTV: VMware Horizon 6 3D Performance with vDGA (tag:youtube.com,2008:video:3wm1BaaqHHg)VMware Horizon 6 3D Performance with vDGA Rory Clements, from the End User Computing BU at VMware, shows 3D performance on a vDGA enabled Horizon desktop. He walks through set up on the backend of Horizon and Nvidia, and shows performance... From: VMware Views: 1334 13 ratings Time: 07:26 More in Science & Technology

VMwareTV: VMware Horizon 6 Integration with VMware Virtual SAN (tag:youtube.com,2008:video:RHIFMUBC1xY)VMware Horizon 6 Integration with VMware Virtual SAN This new release delivers an unmatched level of integration of Horizon 6 with Virtual SAN by to leveraging all of the key benefits Virtual SAN has to offer: ... From: VMware Views: 43 2 ratings Time: 02:35 More in Science & Technology

VMware Cloud Ops Blog: To Succeed in the Cloud, CIOs Must Look Beyond Technology (http://blogs.vmware.com/cloudops/?p=902)By Paul Chapman, VMware Vice President Global Infrastructure and Cloud Operations I’ve watched with interest as cloud solutions and services have matured in recent years to offer more agility, cost optimization, security, and quality of service for the full range of enterprise needs. Yet I continue to see many businesses adopt cloud services in an ad hoc—rather than holistic—fashion. This is often driven by business leaders who feel the systems they need can not be delivered fast enough by corporate…

VMwareTV: Automating the Software Defined Data Center (tag:youtube.com,2008:video:RYgwiXOZbdk)Automating the Software Defined Data Center This video explores how cloud automation and management combined with software defined services will drive the next round IT efficiency improvements. From: VMware Views: 437 5 ratings Time: 07:43 More in Science & Technology

VMwareTV: vCAC Automated Provisioning with VMware NSX Overview (tag:youtube.com,2008:video:AhHaQgSQzeE)vCAC Automated Provisioning with VMware NSX Overview This video explains how VMware vCloud Automation Center discovers, consumes, and provisions VMware security and network services. From: VMware Views: 405 3 ratings Time: 04:11 More in Science & Technology

VMwareTV: Managing Network Profiles for NSX Integration (tag:youtube.com,2008:video:HHK01VkXbxo)Managing Network Profiles for NSX Integration This video demonstrates how to configure VMware vCloud Automation Center network profiles for use with NSX security and network services. From: VMware Views: 309 3 ratings Time: 05:47 More in Science & Technology

VMwareTV: Preparing vCloud Automation Center for NSX Integration (tag:youtube.com,2008:video:yieRFJdmqWw)Preparing vCloud Automation Center for NSX Integration This video demonstrates how to configure resource reservations and multi-machine blueprints for use with NSX security and network services. From: VMware Views: 221 4 ratings Time: 08:00 More in Science & Technology

VMware Accelerate: Competing with Shadow IT (http://blogs.vmware.com/accelerate/?p=1977)By Daryl Bishop Over the last few years, business units have increasingly been bypassing IT and ordering services directly from external service providers (e.g., SaaS applications and cloud IaaS services). IT has been largely oblivious to this threat, believing that the business will continue to rely on IT for technology services. We’re now seeing the next stage of shadow IT with business openly bypassing IT, in fact the business model for some external providers is now purposely built around dealing…

VMwareTV: A Day in the Life of Dr. Jim Roland (tag:youtube.com,2008:video:66ms2ulpqD8)A Day in the Life of Dr. Jim Roland See how VMware Horizon helps Dr. Roland get fast secure access to his patient's information from anywhere, on any device, helping him make patient care decis... From: VMware Views: 404 2 ratings Time: 02:13 More in Science & Technology

VMware vCloud Blog: VMware is Ready to Shake Up the Cloud at EMC World 2014! (http://blogs.vmware.com/vcloud/?p=3468)The VMware vCloud Hybrid Service team is looking forward to this year’s EMC World! We’ll be front-and-center at EMC World, hosting breakout sessions, booth demos and keynote addresses throughout the conference. We’re also participating in a live three-day demonstration on the show floor where attendees will be able to watch a hybrid cloud – featuring vCloud Hybrid Service – being built from scratch! If you’re attending EMC World, here’s a rundown of what you won’t want to miss: Build a…

VMware Company Blog: Weekly News Recap, May 2 (http://blogs.vmware.com/vmware/?p=2493)VMware News VMware received recognition for its visionary approach this week in the new Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Center Networking. In fact, VMware had the highest rating for Completeness of Vision. In his post on the VMware Company Blog, “NSX Vision: Validated!”, Chris Wolf writes, “We believe this level of recognition is remarkable considering […]

VMware Education & Certification Blog: Question of the Week: vSphere 5.0 (http://blogs.vmware.com/education/?p=4091)This week’s question comes from the VCP5- Data Center Virtualization practice exam . a) Enterprise Editions b) Standard Edition with Operations Management c) Enterprise Plus Edition d) Standard Edition Click through to the comments for the answer and learn more here . Follow @VMwareEducation on Instagram to see more #TechTrivia every Friday and visual updates from the VMware Education and Certification community.

VMware Consulting Blog: Quick Tip: vSphere Auto Deploy Reverse Web Proxy Caching (http://blogs.vmware.com/consulting/?p=1415)

By Ryan Johnson, Staff Technical Account Manager, VMware Professional Services Lately, I’ve been working with a customer on a vSphere 5.1 and 5.5 Auto Deploy environment. The environment is rather large, and each pod of compute/storage requires localized access to the ESXi VIBs during the boot process. This falls in line with the best practice outlined in the VMware vSphere Installation and Setup Guide .  Auto Deploy Load Management Best Practice Simultaneously booting large numbers of hosts places a…

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XtremIO just got, well more Xtreme – and we’re throwing down the gauntlet. (http://virtualgeek.typepad.com/virtual_geek/2014/05/xtremio-just-got-well-more-xtreme-and-were-throwing-down-the-gauntlet.html)The world’s most best AFA, with the most consistent performance envelope, the only dependable inline dedupe – and only truly scale-out design just got better :-) Free snapshots. no performance impact, no limits. The OLTP use cases with XtremIO just...

EMC Elastic Cloud Storage (ECS, formerly “Project Nile”) Reveal! (http://virtualgeek.typepad.com/virtual_geek/2014/05/emc-elastic-cloud-storage-ecs-formerly-project-nile-reveal.html)This is an interesting new thing – all dressed in “bad a$$ EMC black” kitted out with our awesome “Cylon LED” In the era of “Software Defined” everything – what’s this about? It seems like quite the opposite – quite...

Isilon CloudPool Preview (http://virtualgeek.typepad.com/virtual_geek/2014/05/isilon-cloudpool-preview.html)OneFS is a marvel – and the Isilon team should be proud. It’s delighting customer after customer – including anyone who uses an Xbox and Xbox Live to stream content: Or check out this story from the Vatican (which not...

ViPR 2.0 = Crazy Awesome SDS Data Plane Services, Free and Open. (http://virtualgeek.typepad.com/virtual_geek/2014/05/vipr-20-crazy-awesome-sds-data-plane-services-free-and-open.html)Today, we unveiled what is perhaps (certainly IMO) the biggest thing at EMC World: ViPR 2.0 Data Plane/Data Services + ViPR 2.0 Controller + Scale IO integration. Why is this a big deal? If you look at my DSSD post...

VNX architectural evolution keeps rolling (VNXe 3200 + Project Liberty)… (http://virtualgeek.typepad.com/virtual_geek/2014/05/vnx-architectural-evolution-keeps-rolling-vnxe-3200-project-liberty.html)Last week we announced and today at EMC World demonstrated the next generation VNXe (VNXe 3200). There’s the tale of the tape (functions, parameters, behaviors – great blog post here, and another from the awesome Jason Nash @Varrow here), but...

Something is coming…. (http://virtualgeek.typepad.com/virtual_geek/2014/05/something-is-coming.html)We are mere DAYS away from the start of EMC World 2014 (#EMCWorld)! EMCers and our partners are working furiously at this point. It’s interesting to see even our competitors build up around an EMC event. I think it’s a...

HA restarts in a DR/DA event (http://www.yellow-bricks.com/?p=14897)I received a couple of questions last week about HA restarts in the scenario where a full site failure has occurred or a part of the storage system has failed and needs to be taken over by another datacenter. Yes indeed this is related to stretched clusters and HA restarts in a DR/DA event. The […] " HA restarts in a DR/DA event " originally appeared on Yellow-Bricks.com . Follow me on twitter - @DuncanYB.

Another Look at an OpenStack Heat Template (http://blog.scottlowe.org/?p=3448)This post provides another look at an OpenStack Heat template, this time using the HOT format and YAML. This article was originally posted on blog.scottlowe.org . Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies. Another Look at an OpenStack Heat Template

Nutanix VDI Example Architecture for 20K to 200K+ Power User Desktops (http://longwhiteclouds.com/?p=3502)In a previous article, Nutanix Disruption as a Service Serves Up VDI Assurance World First, I wrote about the Nutanix VDI Assurance program that allows customers to pay for VDI Infrastructure on a per desktop basis (perpetual or term based), based on certain pre-defined user profiles, and guarantees the performance and service levels (takes away the […]

Master the Monster VM Performance in Your Software-Defined Datacenter at VMworld 2014 (http://longwhiteclouds.com/?p=3494)At VMworld in 2013, which had 25,000 attendees, it was fantastic that one of my sessions got into the top 10 sessions of the entire event. With big thanks to my co-speakers Andrew Mitchell, Frank Denneman, Mark Achtemichuk, Emad Benjamin and Mostafa Khalil on the VAPP4679 – Software Defined Datacenter Design Panel for Monster VM’s. The audience agreed […]

Nutanix Disruption as a Service Serves Up VDI Assurance World First (http://longwhiteclouds.com/?p=3443)I normally bring you information about business critical apps such as Oracle, SAP, Java, SQL Server and the like, and the infrastructure configurations and performance that support them. But if you look at it any Virtual Desktop Infrastructure that is widely deployed to a larger percentage of an organisation, it is a business critical app. […]

EMC announces ViPR 2.0 (http://www.penguinpunk.net/blog/?p=1967)There’s a bunch of stuff being announced at EMC World this week. But there’re also plenty of people who are actually at the event and getting paid to tell you about that stuff. I’m no tech reporter, but I thought the “software-defined-curious” amongst you might be interested in a little coverage of EMC‘s ViPR 2.0 announcement. Here’re […]

Get Your Own EMC Support Portal Logon in 3 Easy Steps (http://techhead.co/?p=7856)This post outlines how to get your own EMC.com support portal logon account in three easy steps! Once you have created an account and have logged on you then have access to a wealth of technical, marketing and most excitingly, EMC product simulators, Virtual Storage Appliances (VSA) and VMware Virtual Storage Integrator (VSI) plugins for […] The post Get Your Own EMC Support Portal Logon in 3 Easy Steps appeared first on TechHead and was written by Simon Seagrave . Why not take a look at my other…

EMC World 2014 Hands on Labs (vLab)–What to Expect (http://techhead.co/?p=7840)I unfortunately won’t be making it to EMC World (#EMCWorld) this year (2014) due to my recent “life adventure”, though for the past 3 years I have been part of a team, including EMC business units, who have been responsible for pulling together the EMC World Hands on Labs (HOL) experience. This has always proven […] The post EMC World 2014 Hands on Labs (vLab)–What to Expect appeared first on TechHead and was written by Simon Seagrave . Why not take a look at my other related posts?: An Inside…

HP Proliant Firmware Update Potential NIC Issue (http://techhead.co/?p=7819)UPDATE 4th May 2014: HP have released an updated version of the Service Pack for ProLiant (SPP) Version 2014.02.0(B) (2nd May) that resolves the issue originally covered in this post. You can find the update here which also includes an unrelated fix to address the recent OpenSSL HeartBleed security vulnerability. Thanks to Rotem Agmon for […] The post HP Proliant Firmware Update Potential NIC Issue appeared first on TechHead and was written by Simon Seagrave . Why not take a look at my other…

My session recording at Citrix Synergy Geek Speak Tonight! (http://myvirtualcloud.net/?p=6308)SYN501 - The role of hyper-convergence and web-scale in the Future of VDI Note: I noticed that sometimes the video does not start at the right position. My session starts at 1:22:45. This article was first published by Andre Leibovici (@andreleibovici) at myvirtualcloud.net.

Service Level Automation for XenDesktop with Nutanix (http://myvirtualcloud.net/?p=6299)Yesterday I had the opportunity to present a TED-like talk at the GeekSpeak Tonight Session at Citrix Synergy Conference. The talk was about hyper-convergence and web-scale technologies and how they redefine the way VDI is architected and deployed. The session was mostly vendor agnostic, where I discussed high level concepts about distributed file systems and … Continue reading »

Learning Veeam Backup and Replication for VMware vSphere – New Book (http://www.vladan.fr/?p=34734)There is a new book that has been written by a fellow blogger Christian Mohn (@hobbel). The book was published under Packt publishing but is available also through major online stores like Amazon. Printed or Kindle versions are available. The book is destined for VMware administrators who is looking to protect virtual infrastructure by using one of […] Read the full post Learning Veeam Backup and Replication for VMware vSphere – New Book at ESX Virtualization . Featured : VMware vSphere Editions…

VSAN Hardware Design Guide 1.0 Released – Check it out (http://www.vladan.fr/?p=34725)A new PDF VSAN Hardware design Guide 1.0 has been released by VMware recently. This guide, called VMware® Virtual SAN™ Hardware Guidance help out with the designing the necessary hardware for VMware VSAN. Even if blade servers are supported for VSAN, they’re not optimal because of their limited space to hold disk groups. Also extensibility of […] Read the full post VSAN Hardware Design Guide 1.0 Released – Check it out at ESX Virtualization . Featured : VMware vSphere Editions - Make your…

Cool video – VMware Horizon 6 3D Performance with vDGA (http://www.vladan.fr/?p=34716)I really liked this demo video showing the peformance of vDGA inside of a VDI desktop using Horizon 6. This video was produced by Rory Clements, from the End User Computing BU at VMware. Very impressive and realistic. He speaks quite fast, but he shows off nicely the integration and configuration of the Nvidia card, […] Read the full post Cool video – VMware Horizon 6 3D Performance with vDGA at ESX Virtualization . Featured : VMware vSphere Editions - Make your choice

Memory Channel per Bank getting non active when using PERC H310 Contoler card – Fixed! (http://www.vladan.fr/?p=34711)I had this memory problem since about a week in my lab, and while still waiting for other pieces I ordered for the lab, I didn’t really seek a solution. But tonight I received all necessary parts to be able to assembly all 3 hosts for VSAN. But there was still this problem with memory. […] Read the full post Memory Channel per Bank getting non active when using PERC H310 Contoler card – Fixed! at ESX Virtualization . Featured : VMware vSphere Editions - Make your choice

Automating vCloud Director Organization VDCs with Ruby (http://kendrickcoleman.com/index.php/Ruby-on-Rails-Projects/automating-vcloud-director-organization-vdcs.html)I filed this under rails projects, but it's really just some ruby code... I set a goal for myself to become familiar with the vCloud Director APIs using REST. Mainly to see how long it would take me to automate my first task and prove to myself I can do it. Well, I'm pleased to say that it's alot easier than I thought. I had a new vCloud Director instance installed on Monday, and by Wednesday morning I was just finishing up my code. So within 2 days I was doing some automation tasks and it…

#vBrownBag EMEA Follow-Up with Frank Buechsel Covering VCAP-CID Objective 1- Create a vCloud Conceptual Design. (http://professionalvmware.com/?p=4482)On the 6th of May 2014 Frank Buechsel covered VCAP-CID Objective 1- Create a vCloud Conceptual Design.The recording from the webinar is below: 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 OpenStack […]

#vBrownBag VCP-DCV Series starting June 3rd (http://professionalvmware.com/?p=4473)Starting on 6/3 we will be running a VCP-DCV series on the EMEA #vBrownBag. If you are already registered for the EMEA show, these will run on the normal schedule and be posted along with all our other shows to the site and iTunes. You can find more details about the series here (http://professionalvmware.com/vbrownbag-vmware-certified-professional-data-center-virtualization-vcp-dcv-track/).

APAC #vBrownBag does performance (http://professionalvmware.com/?p=4471)This week I’m starting a new series. With Irfan Ahmad from Cloud Physics as my guest to talk about performance troubleshooting for a few episodes. We will run every second Thursday evening at 9PM New Zealand time. You can find details at this page on my blog, signup for the series here or wait for […]

VMworld 2014 Public Voting Now Open (http://vmwaretips.com/wp/?p=2334)Boy, time really seems to be going by faster the older I get. I can’t believe it’s already been a year and we now preparing for VMworld 2014. This year I’ve submitted three separate Ask the Experts session and it’s up to you to get them included in the session agenda of VMworld 2014. As [...]

VMware KB Digest – New KB articles published for week ending 5/3/14 (http://vmwaretips.com/wp/?p=2331)In our effort to provide our viewers with up to the minute information on VMware related news and topics, we’re posting the following list of new KB Entries for this week, direct from VMware Support. VMware ESX Wake-On-LAN setting of a NIC might be reset to Wake on MagicPacket (g) mode after NIC configuration is [...]

Bring Your Own Device policy risks (http://www.v-wiki.net/?p=574)Many organisations have allowed staff to bring in their own device for use at work – these are Bring Your Own Device policies (BYOD Policy). It’s becoming more common, but what are the bring your own device policy risks? In this article, when I refer to device, I include phones, tablets, laptops and other mobile […] The post Bring Your Own Device policy risks appeared first on Virtual Wiki .

The difference between BCP and DR (http://www.v-wiki.net/?p=554)You may be one of the many people who ask what is the difference between BCP and DR – that is, what is the difference between a Business Continuity Plan and Disaster Recovery planning? First a little history – back in the pre-computing era, for most businesses, if they suffered a disaster such as a […] The post The difference between BCP and DR appeared first on Virtual Wiki .

Tips for defining your BYOD policy (http://www.v-wiki.net/?p=539)Whilst defining your BYOD policy, you might miss some important requirements to producing a document that will help guide your employees when they use their own device for work purposes. More organisations around the world are now providing an allowance to employees to allow them to buy their own consumer devices, however there is an […] The post Tips for defining your BYOD policy appeared first on Virtual Wiki .

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VMware ESX
Wake-On-LAN setting of a NIC might be reset to Wake on MagicPacket (g) mode after NIC configuration is changed (2069830)
Date Published: 4/29/2014