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GENERAL NEWS

• Troubleshooting Composer for VMware Horizon View (http://blogs.vmware.com/kb/?p=6385)At some point, every View administrator who uses a linked clone pool is going to need to do some troubleshooting. Most linked clone troubleshooting involves a component called Composer. Composer is an add-on for VMware Horizon View and is used to build linked clone desktops. Details about linked clones and Composer operations can be found […]

   

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  Is Your IT Organization Ready to Deliver? (http://blogs.vmware.com/cloudops/?p=1368)By Kevin Lees I recently updated the white paper I wrote a couple of years ago — “Organizing for the Cloud“ — which has been quite popular with our customers. The good news: It’s shorter – condensed to really focus in on the areas that our customers have told us are the greatest help The […]

   

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  VMware Weekly News Recap, Jan. 23, 2015 (http://blogs.vmware.com/tribalknowledge/?p=3545)VMware News On Tuesday, the vCloud Air team announced new enhanced disaster recovery and advanced networking services for VMware vCloud Air along with the general availability of vCloud Air Virtual Private Cloud OnDemand, which provides customers a quick online sign-up to pay for only those resources that are used. “VMware vCloud Air provides our clients […]

   

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  Dr. StrangeCloud – Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the (Hybrid) Cloud! (http://blogs.vmware.com/tribalknowledge/?p=3539)This post originally appeared on VMware’s Office of the CTO blog on Jan. 21, 2015. By Ben Fathi, VMware Chief Technology Officer Marc Andreesen famously wrote “Why Software is Eating the World” in August 2011: “More and more major businesses and industries are being run on software and delivered as online services—from movies to agriculture […]

   

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  Optimize Resources by Right-Sizing Your Virtual Machines (http://blogs.vmware.com/tam/?p=1954)By Jason Gaudreau Virtualizing helps data centers provide rapid deployment and increased business continuity, and provides a tremendous amount of capital savings with the reduction of hardware. However, with the substantial benefits and ease of deployment comes virtualization sprawl and resource proliferation. “Right-sizing” is the process of reclaiming underutilized resource components, such as compute and […]

   

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  Taming CAP with Policy-based Management (http://blogs.vmware.com/cto/?p=3242)Prof. Eric Brewer at UC Berkeley coined the CAP theorem in 1998. It has become the poster child for design trade-off discussions among architects of next generation scale-out storage and data management systems.  Crudely defined, the theorem states that in the event of a network partition (P), the system can be designed to support either Consistency (C) or Availability (A). This theorem is often mistakenly generalized as a black-and-white “2 of 3” rule, and was clarified by a well-written  article…

   

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  Dr. StrangeCloud – Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the (Hybrid) Cloud! (http://blogs.vmware.com/cto/?p=3278)Marc Andreesen famously wrote “ Why Software is Eating the World ” in August 2011: “More and more major businesses and industries are being run on software and delivered as online services—from movies to agriculture to national defense. Many of the winners are Silicon Valley-style entrepreneurial technology companies that are invading and overturning established industry structures. Over the next 10 years, I expect many more industries to be disrupted by software, with new world-beating Silicon…

   

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  Cloud-Scale Management “Likes” Social Media (http://blogs.vmware.com/cto/?p=3274)Managing IT resources across complex enterprises has historically been challenging, and those challenges are only increasing in complexity. We’re adding more variables in terms of clouds, automated processes, and people, to name a few. Consider the steady growth of Internet of Things (IoT) and for many organizations, their management complexity can potentially expand by several orders of magnitude. If that’s not bad enough, there’s one variable that IT has never been able to historically control –…

   

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  In Case You Missed It… The Top Posts from Last Month (http://blogs.vmware.com/education/?p=5186)You Asked & It’s Back – VCP5-DCV Delta Exam Returns Need more time to take the VMware Certified Professional 5 – Data Center Virtualization (VCP5-DCV) Delta recertification exam? Due to popular demand, this streamlined, online exam will be offered until March 10, 2015. Don’t risk losing your certification; learn more about the VCP5-DCV Delta recertification exam.  New VCP6-DT […]

   

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  Question of the Week (View) (http://blogs.vmware.com/education/?p=5191)This week’s question comes from the VMware View video series. The Connection Server comes with: A. a CA-signed certificate B. a self-signed certificate C. a gift certificate D. no certificate 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.

   

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  Technical Preview of CoreOS on vSphere 5.5 (http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/?p=15997)VMware is focused on bringing the value of containers to our customers and helping them streamline application delivery and portability in their virtualized infrastructure. CoreOS is a new, lightweight Linux distribution that’s designed from the ground up to run containerized applications. We’ve been working with the CoreOS team to enable the new OS to run […]

   

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  Performance Unplugged: Demanding Applications (http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/?p=15992)Welcome to a new video series I’ve titled “Performance Unplugged” In this video series, I’ll showcase a number of talented performance gurus and cover commonly asked questions and topics. Performance of the Software-Defined Datacenter should no longer be a concern for customers and we’ll explain why. Links to the latest information pertaining to the topic […]

   

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  vSphere Data Protection – SharePoint VSS writer registration failed (http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/?p=15979)I was working with the SharePoint agent and came across the following error message: SharePoint VSS writer registration failed. On a Windows Server 2012 R2 VM running SharePoint Server 2013, I found the location of stsadm.exe here: C:\Program Files\Common Files\microsoft shared\Web Server Extensions\15\BIN I ran this command which fixed the issue: stsadm.exe -o registerwsswriter @jhuntervmware

   

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  Network Virtualization at VMware Partner Exchange 2015 (http://blogs.vmware.com/networkvirtualization/?p=1801)VMware Partner Exchange (PEX) is your one-stop shop when it comes to learning about network virtualization and the technology extends VMware’s vision of the software-defined data center. At this year’s event, we are offering both an executive track and a technical track to help partners build their businesses and advance their knowledge, as you take […]

   

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  Automating Security Policy Enforcement with NSX Service Composer (http://blogs.vmware.com/consulting/?p=1977)By Romain Decker Over the past decade, IT organizations have gained significant benefits as a direct result of compute virtualization, permitting a reduction in physical complexity and an increase in operational efficiency. It also allowed for dynamic re-purposing of underlying resources to quickly and optimally meet the needs of an increasingly dynamic business. In dynamic […]

   

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  Application Delivery Strategy: A Key Piece in the VDI Design Puzzle (http://blogs.vmware.com/consulting/?p=1965)By Michael Bradley and Hans Bader Let’s face it: applications are the bane of a desktop administrator’s existence. It seems there is always something that makes the installation and management of an application difficult and challenging. Whether it’s a long list of confusing and conflicting requirements or a series of software and hardware incompatibilities, management […]

   

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  vRealize Automation – Accelerating Application and Infrastructure Delivery (http://blogs.vmware.com/management/?p=5806)by Rich Bourdeau Is getting new Applications to market quickly and reliably still taking too long? Does your IT staff feel overburdened? Is IT meeting the demands of their customers? Is IT perceived as a business enabler or roadblock? Watch the above video to see how VMware vRealize Automation customers achieve: 80-95% Service Delivery Improvement […]

   

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  vRealzie Code Stream – Leveraging Existing Release Automation Tools and Processes (http://blogs.vmware.com/management/?p=5798)by Rich Bourdeau Regardless if you are looking to implement agile development, continuous Integration and continuous delivery process or just need looking at ways to delivery releases faster and more reliable you will need to explore how you can improve the efficiency of some of your siloed, manual automation processes. vRealize™ Code Stream™ helps organizations that […]

   

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  Announcing the Availability of vRealize Orchestrator Plug-in for Puppet (http://blogs.vmware.com/management/?p=5813)by Rich Bourdeau IT departments use a lot of different approaches to deploying and configuring OS and application software.  Some clone machines with the software pre-installed, Some use Operating system tools like Windows WIM Imaging or Linux Kickstart, and others use configuration management software tools.   If you use Puppet configuration management software, either the open […]

   

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  VMware-Based Private Cloud Helps Apollo Education Group Accelerate Access to Online Learning (http://blogs.vmware.com/management/?p=5792)by Rich Bourdeau With VMware’s help, Apollo Education Group now offers their multiple institutions of higher education a reliable, scalable private cloud environment to support the delivery of massively-scaled online learning. Private Clouds and Universities Earlier this month I shared with you the story of how the University of New Mexico used vRealize Automation to Fast-Track IT […]

   

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  Introducing Service Enhancements for vCloud Air Disaster Recovery (http://blogs.vmware.com/vcloud/?p=4791)Today we announced our upcoming release of VMware vCloud® AirTM Disaster Recovery, broadening the scope of our service to serve the DR needs of our end users. We started out with an efficient, easy to use, low cost DR solution that came with broad application and operating system support.  Now we are introducing three new […]

   

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  vCloud Air Edge: A New Incubation Program for Early-Stage Cloud Startups (http://blogs.vmware.com/vcloud/?p=4781)We’re pleased to announce the launch of a new VMware program for cloud startups – VMware vCloud Air Edge. Over the past year, VMware has launched a series of programs for traditional independent software vendors (ISVs) to transform their solutions into cloud-based services. There has been a tremendous interest from on-premises ISVs seeking to leverage […]

   

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  Finally, a Self-Service Public Cloud You Can Manage! (http://blogs.vmware.com/vcloud/?p=4771)Your business wants instant access to a scalable self-service pay-as-you-go cloud, while you want a cloud that you can manage and secure just like the rest of your infrastructure. Well, how hard can that be? All you need is a hybrid platform across your onsite data center to your offsite cloud infrastructure with self-service access, […]
  

   

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  New VMware End-User Computing Channel on YouTube – Subscribe Today! (http://blogs.vmware.com/euc/?p=6945)Here at VMware, we believe users should have one place to securely access all the applications, files, social tools and online services they need. This is why we’ve built one of the broadest technology platforms that bridges the entire end-user computing environment, from traditional desktops to the next generation of mobile devices. And with VMware […]

   

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  How to Get In-Guest Metrics in vRealize Operations for Horizon 6 (http://blogs.vmware.com/euc/?p=6953)By Jim Yanik, End-User Computing Architect, VMware When I was a child, I used to go camping at the Delaware Water Gap (some of you are heading for Wikipedia right now), and there were many caves that were super-tempting for an 11-year-old boy to explore. My brother and I would go into the caves and […]

   

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  Using ThinApp Virtual Applications in VMware Mirage App Layers (http://blogs.vmware.com/euc/?p=6910)By Stephane Asselin, Senior End-User-Computing Architect, Technical Enablement, End-User Computing, VMware As you all know, VMware ThinApp has been the leading application virtualization solution since 2008. ThinApp is great for application virtualization, for application isolation (enabling multiple versions of the same application on one desktop), and for supporting older applications (legacy apps). Packaging an application […]

   

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  How to package Internet Explorer 8 (http://blogs.vmware.com/thinapp/?p=1804)I’m getting more and more requests to package IE8 so I think it is about time to write a blog post on how to do it.. According to our Internet Explorer support statement (http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2069870) packaged IE8 is supported by us and works on most platforms. The procedure I’m about to explain creates a package that […]

   

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  Enterprise mobility news recap Jan 20-23 (http://blogs.air-watch.com/?p=34159)This week we learned more about the enterprise features of Windows 10, Facebook’s success in Indonesia, Google’s breakout into the telecom industry and more. Microsoft further elaborated on Windows 10 in a press conference this past Wednesday. While the release date has not yet been revealed, representatives shed light on the concept of “universal apps” […]

   

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  Dr. StrangeCloud – Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the (Hybrid) Cloud (http://blogs.air-watch.com/?p=34144)By Ben Fathi, Chief Technology Officer, VMware

   

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  Windows 10: Microsoft reveals universal app details, Surface Hub and other enterprise features at briefing (http://blogs.air-watch.com/?p=34114)At today’s Windows 10 briefing, company executives demonstrated many of the new operating system’s features and offered a timeline for the release. “In the next week, we’ll be releasing a new build of Windows 10 to our insiders,” said VP of operating systems Terry Myerson. A beta version of Windows 10 will be available this […]

   

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  AirWatch webinar to highlight retail mobility best practices (http://blogs.air-watch.com/?p=34096)Join the AirWatch retail team next week to learn about best practices for mobility in retail. During the webinar, AirWatch retail mobility solutions expert Ed Durbin will highlight retail mobility trends and hot topics from the NRF trade show earlier this month. An AirWatch sales engineer will then demonstrate the latest AirWatch features for retailers. […]
  

   

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  Grow Your Renewals Business with the New Renewals Center (http://blogs.vmware.com/partnernews/?p=1570)The new Renewals Center portal, launched this week, will offer more self-service capabilities and an improved partner experience when managing your renewals business. You will be able to easily leverage automatic cross-sell / up-sell recommendations and have faster access to quotes and install base reports. We’ve also reduced the steps to create opportunity reports, added […]

   

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  Get a Sneak Preview of Our Q1 Launches (http://blogs.vmware.com/partnernews/?p=1568)Want to be ‘in the know’ about this quarter’s launches ahead of Partner Exchange 2015? If so, then access the Quarterly Partner Briefing portal now through Feb. 1st. During this time, you’ll have access to new videos and information on upcoming product and solution launches along with other important announcements and programs. The official launch […]

   

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  Announcing 1H’2015 Power Play Products (http://blogs.vmware.com/partnernews/?p=1566)Playback this video to learn more about our global commitment to 3 products focused on driving profitability for you and value for our customers. The 3 products are vSphere with Operations Management, Virtual SAN, and vCloud Air Disaster Recovery. Review the additional incentives and get the simplified resources you need to learn, market, and sell […]

   

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  Visit the New Lenovo Page on Partner Central (http://blogs.vmware.com/partnernews/?p=1564) Visit the new Lenovo page for answers to your transition questions, training, and solution resources, and to find regional contacts to work with to sell VMware and System x solutions.

   

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  The One Online Event You Won’t Want to Miss – Register Now (http://blogs.vmware.com/partnernews/?p=1562)Join our CEO, Pat Gelsinger, to usher in a new era in IT that will further enable your customers’ cloud journey. Register now and share this event with customers.  It’s the ONE industry-defining event you won’t want to miss. AMER Broadcast is Feb. 2nd EMEA Broadcast is Feb. 3rd APAC Broadcasts are Feb. 5th

   

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  Learn how to Build Your Pipeline with F5 Networks on Jan. 26th (http://blogs.vmware.com/partnernews/?p=1556)Join Vice Presidents Frank Rauch, VMware Americas Partner Organization and Keith McManigal, F5 Channel Sales Americas to learn how together, we deliver customer value that can add to your bottom line. During this event, you will learn the joint VMware and F5 value proposition, market opportunity for security and end-user computing offerings, how to identify […]

   

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  VMware Partner Network Spotlight Series – Everything Partner Exchange 2015 (http://blogs.vmware.com/partner/?p=2321)Welcome to the first installment of our new VMware Partner Network Spotlight series, where we bring you monthly video content highlighting our top partners news and information from across VMware Partner Network. VMware Partner Exchange 2015 is less than 2 weeks away and because of this, we are excited to share some helpful resources to assist […]
  

   

MORE NEWS AND DEVELOPMENTS FROM AROUND THE WEB

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  Running CoreOS on VMware (http://www.ntpro.nl/blog/archives/2834-guid.html)

   

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  New Book: VMware vRealize Operations Performance and Capacity Management (http://www.ntpro.nl/blog/archives/2833-guid.html)

   

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  Latest Fling from VMware Labs - vMaxGuide (http://www.ntpro.nl/blog/archives/2832-guid.html)

   

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  VMware Exam Preparation Workshop: Network Virtualization Certified Professional (VCP-NV) (http://www.ntpro.nl/blog/archives/2831-guid.html)

   

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  Cool Tool - Relax-and-Recover (http://www.ntpro.nl/blog/archives/2830-guid.html)

   

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  Lego VSAN EVO:RACK (http://www.yellow-bricks.com/?p=15783)I know a lot of you guys have home labs and are always looking for that next cool thing. Every once in a while you see something cool floating by on twitter and in this case it was so cool I needed to share it with you guys. Someone posted a picture of his version […] " Lego VSAN EVO:RACK " originally appeared on Yellow-Bricks.com . Follow me on twitter - @DuncanYB. Pre-order my upcoming book Essential Virtual SAN via Pearson today!

   

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  E1000 VMware issues (http://www.yellow-bricks.com/?p=15774)Lately I’ve noticed that various people have been hitting my blog through the search string “e1000 VMware issues”, I want to make sure people end up in the right spot so I figured I would write a quick article that points people there. I’ve hit the issues described in the various KB articles myself, and I […] " E1000 VMware issues " originally appeared on Yellow-Bricks.com . Follow me on twitter - @DuncanYB. Pre-order my upcoming book Essential Virtual SAN via Pearson today!

   

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  Platform9 manages private clouds as a service (http://www.yellow-bricks.com/?p=15765)A couple of months ago I introduced you to this new company founded by 4 former VMware employees called Platform9. I have been having discussions with them occasionally about what they were working on and I’ve been very intrigued by what they are building and am very pleased to see there first version go GA and want to congratulate them […] " Platform9 manages private clouds as a service " originally appeared on Yellow-Bricks.com . Follow me on twitter - @DuncanYB. Pre-order my upcoming…

   

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  XtremIO 4.0… and don’t trust people who go negative. (http://virtualgeek.typepad.com/virtual_geek/2015/01/xtremio-40-and-dont-trust-people-who-go-negative.html)I want to open the way I will close: this title above applies to us at EMC (me too!) - frankly anyone. I also don't want to "bury the lead" (as I tend to do in longwided posts), so here's...

   

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  2015 – what to expect and “This I Believe” Part II. (http://virtualgeek.typepad.com/virtual_geek/2015/01/2015-what-to-expect-and-this-i-believe-part-ii.html)To all - welcome to 2015! Just came back from the Leadership meeting (couple days with leaders across the EMC Federation and then days focused on the EMC Information Infrastructure business specifically). Very inspiring. While I can't divulge everything publicly...

   

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  A don’t miss live whiteboard virtualization show: Veeam R&D Inside Out with Gostev (http://vsphere-land.com/?p=5316)Veeam is one of those companies that really tries hard to innovate and listens and responds to their customers needs and feedback. I’ve written in detail on what makes them special in this post about VeeamOn. If you know Veeam and use their products you’ve probably heard about the legendary Gostev who leads their product … Continue reading » [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

   

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  Last call for blog-o-hol before Top vBlog 2015 voting begins (http://vsphere-land.com/?p=5311)I’ve added lots of new blogs to my vLaunchpad but I’m sure there are some that I’ve missed. Every year I get emails from bloggers after the voting starts wanting to be added but once it starts its too late as it messes up the ballot. I’ve also archived a bunch of blogs that have not … Continue reading » [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

   

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  Toss your VMs into the clouds and easily get them back again with Boomerang (http://vsphere-land.com/?p=5294)Not everyone wants to run their production VMs off premise in a public cloud but there are definitely some situations where leveraging cloud based virtualization for some specific scenarios makes a lot of sense. Let’s look at a few scenarios where you might consider moving some VMs to a public cloud infrastructure and a great … Continue reading » [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

   

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  The Need To Reboot ESXi Hosts After vCenter Upgrade (http://longwhiteclouds.com/?p=10559)Most of you will be intimately familiar with vCenter Server. It provides the main management capabilities in a VMware Virtualized Datacenter, including provisioning, monitoring, patching etc for all your hosts and virtual machines. You’ll spend a lot of your time using it if you’re a VMware Admin. But you may not know that it is advisable to […]

   

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  Brisbane VMUG – Febuary 2015 (http://www.penguinpunk.net/blog/?p=2423)The first Brisbane VMUG of the year will be held on Thursday 5th February at the Alliance Hotel in Spring Hill (The Leichardt Room) from 4 – 6 pm. It’s sponsored by SimpliVity. Here’s the agenda: Cloud Economics with Enterprise Capability Guest Speakers: Chris Troiani, Solutions Architect APJ, Simplivity Overview of hyperconverged market. Consideration of Hyperconverged Architectures – Is […]

   

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  Technical Preview: CoreOS on vSphere 5.5 (http://www.vmguru.com/?p=15043)CoreOS is a new Linux distribution that has been re-architected to provide features needed to run modern infrastructure stacks. CoreOS is a new, lightweight Linux distribution that’s designed from the ground up to run containerized applications. The strategies and architectures that influence CoreOS allow companies like Google, Facebook and Twitter to run their services at scale with high resilience.  VMware has been working with the CoreOS team to enable the new OS to run on their vSphere platform,…

   

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  vRealize Orchestrator Cisco UCS Plugin is available now (http://www.vmguru.com/?p=15039)VMware Orchestrator is a development and process-automation platform that provides a library of extensible workflows that allow you to create and run automated, configurable processes to manage the VMware vSphere infrastructure. Orchestrator uses its open plugin architecture to allow you to integrate with other management and administration solutions. Cisco has done just that and created an Orchestrator plugin for Cisco UCS. The Cisco UCS Manager plugin for VMware Orchestrator leverages the open plugin…

   

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  Coffee as a Service with VMware Orchestrator (http://www.vmguru.com/?p=15014)Coffee as a Service, (CaaS?) I guess we all have that in some form. Some have a kind lady bringing coffee, others have a kind collegue.. but that is not what this is about. What this is about, is vCenter Orchestrator, or vRealize Orchestrator as it is recently renamed to. Not many people know that Orchestrator is actually a standard part of their VMware package and that they already have it at their disposal. But it really is! And you can already do amazing things with it, as Rob Shaw proves in his article,…

   

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  Put that USB Scanner in VMware Horizon View (http://www.vmguru.com/?p=15020)Putting a USB Scanner to work in a VMware Horizon View environment always was a pain in the butt. Either images came into the session sooooooo slooooooow you had a caffeine shock by the time the scan was finished, or images were garbled and looked like they were send from Mars, or you never got a scan at all. It all was very frustrating, especially if you were trying to get that desk clear of paper to put it into a document management system or when you wanted to add those pictures to your project. The…

   

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  For the Dutchies: 19 March, Dutch VMUG Event – Mark your calendar! (http://www.vmguru.com/?p=15003)It has been a long standing tradition: The dutch VMUG event. Last year in March the event was held in Den Bosch for the first time in a new format. And as we dutchies are fanatical lovers of virtualization in almost any form, this year it’s no different! At thursday, the 19th of March, the dutch VMUG Event will take place again in Congrescenter “1931” in Den Bosch, Netherlands. The program will be published soon at the Dutch VMUG website , so stay tuned for that. If you are confident it will fit your…

   

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  VMware Fling: Horizon Toolbox (http://www.vmguru.com/?p=14994)Recently, VMware updated the Horizon Toolbox, a fling for Horizon. The Horizon Toolbox was formally known as the “View auditing portal” and acts as an extension to the Horizon View Administrator (Horizon 6.0 or above is required). This new web portal offers several functions that you, like me, might have missed in the View Administrator. Auditing Some extra Auditing functions are added that should give you extra insight into your Horizon View infrastructure. Sessions:  Shows historical concurrent…

   

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  vRealize Orchestrator Puppet plugin is available now (http://www.vmguru.com/?p=14989)vRealize Orchestrator (vRO) Puppet plugin enables vRealize Automation (vRA) and Puppet to work together to achieve infrastructure configuration, application deployment, and lifecycle management. vRO Puppet plugin is a collection of vRO workflows which work with embedded or external vRealize orchestrator, and it supports Puppet enterprise as well as Puppet open source flavors. Workflows available with this plugin can be used in a standalone manner as well as multiple workflows can be combined for desired…

   

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  End of Support for old OS-es in VMware Horizon (http://www.vmguru.com/?p=14978)Microsoft retired XP April 8, 2014. Now, 8 months later, it’s time for VMware Horizon to accept that loss and plan a memorial. With Microsoft dropping support, it is time for VMware to align with Microsoft’s decision. Therefor VMware announced End of Support for some old OS-es in VMware Horizon. As Windows XP will not be support, there will be no drivers for new hardware, libraries that our products use will be incompatible and XP will not get the benefits of regular security fixes. For all these…

   

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  Cannot open the disk and could not open change tracking file (http://www.gabesvirtualworld.com/?p=3337)Lately I have seen a number of VMs going down after the backup has finished and snapshots get removed. At some point when cleaning the snapshot, the ESXi host decides something is wrong and then brings down the VM. After this we’re unable to power on the VM and receive the error: “Cannot open the […] See full post at: Cannot open the disk and could not open change tracking file

   

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  Singapore VMware User Conference (23rd Jan 2015) (http://techhead.co/?p=8217)Calling all Singapore TechHeads!  Next week sees the Singapore VMware User Conference hit town, and what a great event it looks to be. I have been kindly asked to speak at the conference, which I am joined by some great speakers such as Scott Lowe, Scott Drummonds and Michael Webster – all of whom I […] The post Singapore VMware User Conference (23rd Jan 2015) appeared first on TechHead and was written by Simon Seagrave . Why not take a look at my other related posts?: Annual UK VMware User Group…

   

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  The OpenStack Elections - Another Look (tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5819640694385843490.post-7716747386341148510)The Board of directors and the bylaws were approved. Summary posts can be found here (2015 Individual Director Election results) and here (Bylaws amendments approved). Individual Directors Tim Bell Russell Bryant Alex Freedland Rob Hirschfeld ... This is a content summary only. Please visit my website for the full article, other content, and more...

   

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  #vBrownBag DevOps Follow-Up Setting up network services using Puppet with Rob Nelson (@rnelson0) (http://professionalvmware.com/?p=5256)Rob Nelson joins the #vBrownBag DevOps series to talk about his PuppetInABox project, a curated collection of forge modules and user repositories. This solution includes everything required to provide puppet, puppetdb, r10k, dns, dhcp, a yum repository, and a build server. The only thing you need to provide is a gateway device and you have […]

   

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  HomeLab’ers Assemble! VMware EVALExperience! (http://professionalvmware.com/?p=5253)If you are a regular with vBrownBag and ProfessionalVMware.com then you are likely to be pursuing certifications, running some type of homelab, or simply trying to hone your skills.  It has been difficult dealing with short evaluation periods for licensing.  We have long lamented having to reinstall our environments or maintain multiple MyVMware accounts to […]

   

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  #vBrownBag VCP-NV Follow-Up Objective 6 with Paul McSharry (@pmcsharry) (http://professionalvmware.com/?p=5244)Paul McSharry joins the #vBrownBag EMEA crew to cover Objective 6 in the VMware Certified Professional – Network Virtualization (VCP-NV) exam. Exam objectives include: Objective 6.1 – Configure and Manage Logical Load Balancing Objective 6.2 – Configure and Manage Logical Virtual Private Networks (VPN) Objective 6.3 – Configure and Manage DHCP/DNS/NAT Objective 6.4 – Configure […]
  

   

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