FROM THE EDITORS VIRTUAL DESK
Hi everyone and welcome to the first VMware TAM Source newsletter of 2015 featuring our new format and our official new name. Last year we delivered 49 newsletters to the community and to date over the past 6 years are on track to hit 300 newsletters which we think is a great achievement. Our goal is to try and provide our readers with the most up to date news relating to VMware technology from both a technical and business aspect. Each week we scour the web for the best news stories from not only VMware itself but also the many vExpert and other VMware bloggers that are providing such a valuable service to the VMware community.
We look forward to bringing you the best of VMware in 2015 and beyond and thank you for being a loyal VMware supporter and newsletter reader.
Onwards to 2015!
Virtually Yours
Neil Isserow
Staff TAM, Team Lead
SF Bay
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NEWS AND DEVELOPMENTS FROM VMWARE
- Downgrading from VMware Workstation 11.x to VMware Workstation 10.x (http://blogs.vmware.com/kb/?p=6370)This video tutorial demonstrates how to downgrade VMware Workstation 11.x to VMware Workstation 10.x. Before attempting to downgrade, be advised that VMware Workstation 11.x and VMware Workstation 10.x use different virtual machine hardware compatibility. When downgrading Workstation, you must change the virtual machine hardware compatibility version of your virtual machine to Workstation 10.0. Full instructions are available […]
- A Year of IT Transformation (http://blogs.vmware.com/cio/?p=101)By Tony Scott, CIO, VMware As the year comes to a close, I’ve been thinking about the issues that had the most impact in 2014. At VMware, much of our work continued to focus on our own IT transformation. And we’re not alone. In my conversations with other CIOs, transformation always seems front and center. […]
- VMware Virtual SAN and ScaleIO : Fundamentally Two different approaches to Software-Defined Storage (http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/?p=15912)There’ s a lot of buzz and excitement around Software-Defined Storage (SDS) and hyper-converged storage solutions. Particularly around VMware’s recently introduced product: VMware Virtual SAN. VMware Virtual SAN is seeing tremendous traction in the market since its release. After only two full quarters of availability, we already have many hundreds of customers happily running a variety of […]
- What Metrics Should Be Measured for Change Management? (http://blogs.vmware.com/cloudops/?p=1331)By Kai Holthaus That, of course, depends (favorite answer of consultants everywhere…). As an IT executive, start by asking yourself what you want to achieve. Once you select a critical success factor (CSF), key performance indicator (KPI) or associated metrics and start to report on those metrics, you will see two types of behavior within […]
- Making IT Go Faster – Forrester Research Sheds Light on How (http://blogs.vmware.com/cloudops/?p=1319)By Kurt Milne Today’s IT managers face increasing pressure to be more responsive and move faster. However, most IT organizations have built their IT organization to promote control and safety. People, process, and tools have traditionally been deployed to strictly limit change in order to optimize service quality and efficiency. In fact many of the […]
- Question of the Week (SDDC) (http://blogs.vmware.com/education/?p=5134)This week’s question comes from the Software-Defined Data Center video series. A. HA and Fault Tolerance B. vMotion and DRS C. Storage vMotion and Storage DRS D. All of the above 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.
- Question of the Week (Horizon Mirage) (http://blogs.vmware.com/education/?p=5102)This weeks question comes from the Horizon Mirage video series: a) Horizon View b) vSphere c) vCloud Director d) ThinApp 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.
- Top Posts from Professional Services (http://blogs.vmware.com/education/?p=5127)Our friends from around the VMware blogosphere publish everything from how-to content to put your skills to the test, to strategic concepts that can help you think differently about how you work. Check out the latest posts and try something new! Transforming Operations to Optimize DevOps Think of DevOps as the next step after agile […]
- Two New Certifications Released on Cloud and Network Virtualization (http://blogs.vmware.com/education/?p=5117)Just in time to wrap up the year, we are releasing two new certifications. VMware Certified Professional 6 – Cloud (VCP6-Cloud) VCP-Cloud certification validates that you have the skills and experience needed to effectively install, configure, and administer a cloud environment using VMware vCloud® Automation Center and its related components. VCP6-Cloud status shows that you not […]
- 2015 VMware Education Services Pricing (http://blogs.vmware.com/education/?p=5094)Our pricing structure will be modified to align with changes to our global pricing structure effective February 1, 2015. This alignment includes both global pricing tiers as well as aligning course level tiering. Please contact a VMware sales professional if you have questions. VMware Education Services will introduce 2015 pricing on www.vmware.com/educationon February 1st. Throughout 2015, VMware […]
- Get a Sneak Peek at On Demand Training (http://blogs.vmware.com/education/?p=5096)Have you considered On Demand Courses but aren’t sure if they’re right for you? Now there’s an easy way to see what it’s all about. Our Sneak Peeks, available for many of our courses, let you try a course for free before you register. You’ll get access to full course modules and overview the hands-on labs […]
- Running HPC Applications on vSphere using InfiniBand RDMA (http://blogs.vmware.com/cto/?p=3175)Looking back on 2014, this was the year in which we made significant strides in assessing and addressing High Performance Computing (HPC) performance on vSphere. We’ve shown that throughput or task-parallel applications can be run with only small or negligible performance degradations (usually well under 5%) when virtualized — a fact that the HPC community seems to now generally accept. The big new thing this year, however, was the progress we are making with MPI applications — specifically those…
- SDDC is the Future (http://blogs.vmware.com/consulting/?p=1887) By Michael Francis VMware’s Transformative Growth Over the last eight years at VMware I have observed so much change, and in my mind it has been transformative change. I think about my 20 years in IT and the changes I have seen, and feel the emergence of virtualization of x86 hardware will […]DESKTOP
- A whitepaper on VMware Horizon 6 RDSH Performance and Best Practices (http://blogs.vmware.com/performance/?p=2098)VMware Horizon 6 delivers remote desktops and applications from a single platform. With Horizon 6, IT can deliver seamless applications and users can access their desktops or applications from anywhere on devices running Windows, Linux, MAC, iOS, and Android operating systems. In this blog, we present the Horizon 6 RDSH Performance whitepaper that shows the […]
- VMware Horizon 6 and Hardware Accelerated 3D Graphics (http://blogs.vmware.com/performance/?p=2099)A recently published paper presents best practices and performance data for Horizon 6’s support for hardware accelerated 3D. Awhile back, we published a paper about the same subject with VMware Horizon View 5.2. The new paper updates all the graph data for Horizon 6 and shows the improvements in performance. The View Planner 3.5 benchmark […]
- 2015: The Year We Care More – and Less – about Our Clouds. (http://blogs.vmware.com/vcloud/?p=4699)By: Lilac Schoenbeck It’s always been part of the cloud dream – the idea that we could buy resources without even a passing glance at the underlying infrastructure, hypervisor, management environment, etc. The dream of utter commoditization, switching between clouds with the bat of an eye. 2015 will bring us closer – and further – from […]
- New Enhancements to vCloud Air Hybridity Solutions (http://blogs.vmware.com/vcloud/?p=4678)By: George Kobar VMware recently announced the general availability of vCloud Connector 2.7 and an update to the vCloud® Air™ vSphere Client plug-in. Both tools allow current vSphere customers to easily adopt vCloud Air as an extension of their data centers by providing tools to move and manage virtual machines across the hybrid cloud. vCloud Connector […]
- Resizing the Partitions of a Physical PC for a Mirage Migration (http://blogs.vmware.com/euc/?p=6844)By Stephane Asselin, Senior End-User-Computing Architect, Technical Enablement, VMware When you manage physical PCs that have been in the field for some time, you will likely run into some problems that impact your approach to PC management. For example, in the early days, users would often partition their hard drives for various reasons: performance, […]
- Driving Your Investment in Citrix XenApp Toward a Future of VMware Horizon 6: If It’s Not Completely Broken, Should I Fix It? (http://blogs.vmware.com/euc/?p=6820)By Debra Perrin Coltoff, Technical Writer, End-User Computing Technical Marketing, VMware With significant contributions from Mark Ewert, End-User Computing Architect, VMware My car hasn’t passed 150,000 miles yet and it works just fine. Why would I buy a new one? For many of us, investing in an updated technology for business, much like a new […]
- Join us for AirWatch Connect at Mobile World Congress 2015 (http://blogs.air-watch.com/?p=33721)As 2015 inches closer, the world prepares to embark on another year of technology innovation. And come March 2, mobile communications and technology companies will showcase their latest products and services at the GSMA Mobile World Congress 2015 (MWC) in Barcelona, Spain. Embracing the MWC theme “The Edge of Innovation,” AirWatch will join the event […]
MORE NEWS AND DEVELOPMENTS FROM AROUND THE WEB
- and that was 2014…. (http://www.yellow-bricks.com/?p=15725)We are nearing the end of 2014 and the start of 2015 so I figured it was the time to look back at what I did in the past 12 months. I have a bunch of stats which may be of interest, but of course also on a more personal level 2014 was a hectic year so lets […] " and that was 2014…. " originally appeared on Yellow-Bricks.com . Follow me on twitter - @DuncanYB. Pre-order my upcoming book Essential Virtual SAN via Pearson today!
- Something big is about to happen… (http://vsphere-land.com/?p=5274)…according to VMware, they posted this banner on their website a week or so ago hinting at a big announcement coming soon. Hmmm, I wonder what that could be? If one had to make a guess I would suspect a new vSphere version which is overdue. The date corresponds with VMware Partner Exchange (PEX) which … Continue reading » [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
- The Top 100 VMware/virtualization people you MUST follow on Twitter (http://vsphere-land.com/?p=5265)My last post triggered my memory that a few years ago (5 actually, my doesn’t time fly) I put together a list of the top 100 people to follow that were influential with VMware and virtualization technologies. It’s been quite a while since I updated that list (5 years!), so I thought I would bring … Continue reading » [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
- Top Twitter Influencers To Follow for Virtualization (http://vsphere-land.com/?p=5259)I was contacted by the folks at Techopedia a few weeks ago and notified that they had added me to their Twitter list for Top Influencers for Virtualization. Not sure what the qualifications were or why they picked me but I’m thrilled to have been recognized by them. They also asked me if I had … Continue reading » [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
- A new vChat so epic it was a year in the making (http://vsphere-land.com/?p=5253)It’s been a while (over a year!) since David, Simon and I have gotten together and done a vChat podcast for various reasons but we finally managed to get together and record a new one. In this new episode #36 we chat about virtualization and other topics such as vSphere home labs, how to stay up … Continue reading » [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
- Yes Veeam and Nutanix will be at PEX this year (http://vsphere-land.com/?p=5249)Last year at VMware’s annual Partner Exchange (PEX) conference, VMware told both Veeam and Nutanix that they were not welcome there. Both companies had planned on being there already and did show up anyway and had a presence outside of the Moscone to engage with attendees. This year it looks like VMware has had a … Continue reading » [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
- Happy Holidays: Happy New Year! (http://virtualgeek.typepad.com/virtual_geek/2014/12/happy-holidays-happy-new-year.html)The final of the Happy Holiday wish blog posts which included (for your easy linkage): 2015 predictions a pair of "treats" lettered "A" (vmkernel ScaleIO SDC) and "B" (updated Storage Analytics tools for vRealize Ops 6.0 which itself is also...
- Happy Holidays: 2015 Predictions (http://virtualgeek.typepad.com/virtual_geek/2014/12/happy-holidays-2015-predictions.html)Well - it's that time of year! I want to thank some people for all the things we did in 2014: 1) my colleagues amongst the SE leadership at EMC;2) all my colleagues amongst the senior leadership across the Federation...
- A Common NPIV Problem with a Solution (http://www.boche.net/blog/?p=5038)Several years ago, one of the first blog posts that I tackled was working in the lab with N_Port ID Virtualization often referred to as NPIV for short. The blog post was titled N_Port ID Virtualization (NPIV) and VMware Virtual Infrastructure. At the time it was one of the few blog posts available on the […] Post from: boche.net - VMware Virtualization Evangelist Copyright (c) 2010 Jason Boche. The contents of this post may not be reproduced or republished on another web page or web site without prior…
- SQL Server Templates with VMware – Dude Where’s My Drive Letters? (http://longwhiteclouds.com/?p=10524)One of the reasons to virtualize SQL Server and any other business critical application is that you can use automation and templates to rapidly provision new instances in a very standardized and consistent manner. Over the last few days I’ve been creating and destroying literally dozens of SQL Server VM’s in my test lab. But […]
KB ARTICLES
VMware App Volumes |
App Volumes licenses delivered to your My VMware Account (2101494) |
Date Published: 12/23/2014 |
VMware ESXi |
Tasks and events tab shows error message every ten minutes: Cannot login root @ IP address (2030304) |
Date Published: 12/22/2014 |
Date Published: 12/23/2014 |
Date Published: 12/22/2014 |
Date Published: 12/22/2014 |
Date Published: 12/23/2014 |
Log messages generated by executing: Reset System Configuration (2096854) |
Date Published: 12/25/2014 |
Backup fails due to Virtual Disk Development Kit (VDDK) licensing error (2098050) |
Date Published: 12/24/2014 |
Date Published: 12/22/2014 |
VMware Mirage |
Date Published: 12/26/2014 |
VMware NSX for vSphere |
Date Published: 12/24/2014 |
VMware vCenter Converter Standalone |
Date Published: 12/23/2014 |
VMware vCenter Server |
File generation procedure for the Certificate Automation Tool (2097388) |
Date Published: 12/23/2014 |
Date Published: 12/22/2014 |
Date Published: 12/22/2014 |
VMware vCenter Server Appliance |
Date Published: 12/25/2014 |
VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager |
Date Published: 12/24/2014 |
VMware vCenter Support Assistant |
VMware vCenter Support Assistant 5.5 fails to retain hostname (2100433) |
Date Published: 12/23/2014 |
VMware vCloud Air |
Creating a virtual machine with the End User role in VMware vCloud Air is not possible (2052057) |
Date Published: 12/22/2014 |
VMware vCloud Director |
Date Published: 12/25/2014 |
VMware vCloud Director for Service Provider |
How to use the agentless ESXi hosts for vCloud Director 5.5.x and later versions (2092713) |
Date Published: 12/23/2014 |
Downloading VMware vCloud Director for Service Provider for the end-user fails (2099309) |
Date Published: 12/24/2014 |
Downloading VMware vCloud Director 5.6 for Service Providers (2101364) |
Date Published: 12/24/2014 |
VMware View |
Migrating composer database from one server to another server (2051921) |
Date Published: 12/23/2014 |
Date Published: 12/25/2014 |
Mitigating the Microsoft Schannel vulnerability on Windows XP desktops in View (2101381) |
Date Published: 12/22/2014 |
VMware Virtual SAN |
Adding alarms to vCenter Server for VMware Virtual SAN (VSAN) monitoring (2091347) |
Date Published: 12/24/2014 |
VMware vRealize Automation |
Date Published: 12/26/2014 |
Date Published: 12/22/2014 |
Date Published: 12/22/2014 |
VMware vRealize Configuration Manager |
Date Published: 12/23/2014 |
VMware vRealize Operations Manager (Standalone) |
Configuration Maximums for VMware vRealize Operations Manager Standalone or Installable (2097551) |
Date Published: 12/22/2014 |
VMware vRealize Orchestrator |
Date Published: 12/22/2014 |
VMware vSphere Replication |
Unable to update CA SSL certificate for VMware vSphere Replication appliance (2087590) |
Date Published: 12/24/2014 |
VMware vSphere Storage Appliance |
vCenter administrator account needed for VMware vSphere Storage Appliance 5.5 (2101285) |
Date Published: 12/23/2014 |
VMware vSphere Web Services SDK |
How to create a virtual machine through SDK API/method call (2017436) |
Date Published: 12/23/2014 |
VMware Workspace Portal |
Date Published: 12/24/2014 |
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