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Hi everyone, well it is just a few days to go to the VMware Partner Exchange and some big announcements. By the time you read this they may already be announced but if not you will find more information in the newsletter.

 

This week we were surprised by a new vulnerability in the form of CVE-2015-0235 or the Ghost vulnerability. Please read the provided KB and ensure you check back for updated information on this.

 

VMware Response to CVE-2015-0235 - glibc gethostbyname buffer overflow, aka "Ghost” (2105862)
http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2105862

 

We also released 2 new VMware Security Advisories (VMSA) this January for other identified issues. Please ensure you have read these and discussed the implication and impact with your team and your TAM.

 

VMSA-2015-0001 - http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2015-0001.html
VMware vCenter Server, ESXi, Workstation, Player, and Fusion updates address security issues


VMSA-2015-0002 - http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2015-0002.html
VMware vSphere Data Protection product update addresses a certificate validation vulnerability

 

Of course your TAM will be available to assist and provide further information to you on these vulnerabilities and patches as required.

 

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GENERAL NEWS

 

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    Today’s VMware and Google announcement (http://blogs.vmware.com/tribalknowledge/?p=3563)By Mathew Lodge, Vice President, Cloud Services at VMware Today Google and VMware announced we’ve reached an agreement to integrate selected Google Cloud Platform services into vCloud® Air™: Google Cloud Storage– Distributed low-cost object storage service Google BigQuery – A real-time analytics service suitable for ad-hoc business intelligence queries across billions of rows of data in […]

     

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    VMware Virtual SAN: File Services with NexentaConnect (http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/?p=16052)NexentaConnect for Virtual SAN is a software-defined storage solution designed specifically to deliver file service on top of Virtual SAN. This solution complements Virtual SAN by delivering a software-based NAS capabilities that add enterprise-class Windows and UNIX-based file services without the need for any additional hardware purchase to augment the virtual machine storage provided by […]

     

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    Performance Unplugged: vCenter Performance (http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/?p=16011)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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    Storage Blog Recap: Top Blogs from December (http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/?p=16005)In case you missed it, we’ve compiled a list of the top vSphere Storage posts from December for you to digest. Check it out! VMware Virtual SAN and ScaleIO: Fundamentally Two Different Approaches to Software-Defined Storage VMware’s Vijay Ramachandran clarifies how VMware Virtual SAN’s unique approach to software-defined storage stands apart from other SDS competitors. […]

     

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    Top Posts from Professional Services (http://blogs.vmware.com/education/?p=5208)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! Automating the Management of the Management Portal Part 1:  Tips on Using vRealize CloudClient […]

     

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    Question of the Week (VSA) (http://blogs.vmware.com/education/?p=5211)This week’s question comes from the VMware VSA video series. With which of the following does the vSphere Storage Appliance work? A. vSphere Fault Tolerance B. Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) C. Storage vMotion and Storage I/O Control (SIOC) D. All of the above Click through to the comments for the answer. Follow @VMwareEducation on Instagram to see more #TechTrivia […]

     

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    DevOps and Performance Management (http://blogs.vmware.com/consulting/?p=1993)By Michael Francis Continuing on from Ahmed’s recent blog on DevOps, I thought I would share an experience I had with a customer regarding performance management for development teams. Background I was working with an organization that is essentially an independent software vendor (ISV) in a specific vertical; their business is writing software in the […]

     

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    New VMware security advisory VMSA-2015-0002. (http://blogs.vmware.com/security/?p=1306)Today we released a new security advisory, VMSA-2015-0002. The advisory documents CVE-2014-4632, a certificate validation vulnerability in VMware vSphere Data Protection (VDP). Customers should review the advisory and direct any question to VMware Support. Please sign up to the Security-Announce mailing list to receive new and updated VMware Security Advisories

     

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    VMware Enables Rapid Development at SAIC (http://blogs.vmware.com/management/?p=5848)by Rich Bourdeau Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) is a leading technology integrator that provides full lifecycle services and solutions in the technical, engineering, and enterprise IT markets.  They needed a rapid development platform for creating differentiated solutions offerings for their diverse customers.   They leveraged VMware’s Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) and vRealize Suite™ cloud […]

     

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    Today’s VMware and Google Announcement (http://blogs.vmware.com/vcloud/?p=4833)By: Mathew Lodge Today Google and VMware announced an agreement to integrate selected Google Cloud Platform services into VMware vCloud® Air™. Google Cloud Storage– Distributed low-cost object storage service Google BigQuery – A real-time analytics service suitable for ad-hoc business intelligence queries across billions of rows of data in seconds Google Cloud Datastore– A schemaless NoSQL database service Google […]

     

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    Where Has My Subscription Cloud Gone? (http://blogs.vmware.com/vcloud/?p=4796)By David Hill This is a re-post from David Hill’s Personal Blog site. I received an email today asking “Hey Dave, where has my subscription cloud gone?” I responded with let me Google that for you… Actually I didn’t because I knew why they were asking. Last week, VMware announced a new service offering, VMware […]

     


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    BYOD’s effect on the IT help desk (http://blogs.air-watch.com/?p=34198)BYOD programs can minimize the technical problems employees experience with their mobile devices and reduce the creation of new help desk tickets, according to a new report. It might seem obvious that employees will be more familiar with their personal devices than with anything corporate-owned, and therefore will be more productive on them. But the […]

     


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    EZT Disks with VSAN, why would you? (http://www.yellow-bricks.com/?p=15788)I noticed a tweet today which made a statement around the use of eager zero thick disks in a VSAN setup for running applications like SQL Server. The reason this user felt this was needed was to avoid the hit on “first write to block on VMDK”, it is not the first time I have […] " EZT Disks with VSAN, why would you? " 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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    Why Comments Aren't Available Yet (http://blog.scottlowe.org/2015/01/28/why-no-comments-yet/)A number of readers have asked—via e-mail, of course, given the subject of this post—why comments aren’t available yet on the new site. I’d like to take a quick moment to explain the current situation. First and foremost, it’s not because I don’t want feedback from readers. I would love to continue to have the outstanding feedback from readers that I’ve had over the last 9 years of this site. It’s also not because it’s too much trouble (too much comment spam, too much time to moderate,…

     

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    Using the Fork-and-Branch Git Workflow (http://blog.scottlowe.org/2015/01/27/using-fork-branch-git-workflow/)Now that I’ve provided you with an introduction to Git and a brief overview of using Git with GitHub , it’s time to build on that knowledge by taking a closer look at one workflow often used when collaborating with Git. The “fork and branch” workflow is a common way of collaborating on open source projects using Git and GitHub . In this post, I’m going to walk through this workflow (as I understand it—I’m constantly learning), with a focus toward helping those that are new to this sort of…

     

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    Using Git with GitHub (http://blog.scottlowe.org/2015/01/26/using-git-with-github/)Building on my earlier non-programmer’s introduction to Git , I wanted to talk a little bit about using Git with GitHub , a very popular service for hosting Git repositories. This post, in conjunction with the earlier introductory post on Git, will serve as the basis for a future post that talks about how to use Git and GitHub to collaborate with others on an open source project hosted on GitHub. If you aren’t familiar with Git and haven’t yet read the earlier introductory post, I strongly recommend…

     

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    Nutanix SQL Server DB VAAI Clone Performance (http://longwhiteclouds.com/?p=10572)I’ve been doing work recently with SQL Server performance on the Nutanix platform. As part of this work I wanted to automate the creation of many SQL databases from template, so I could rapidly (within a couple of minutes) create and destroy them across various test iterations. This process is pretty normal for many test […]

     


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    VMware Online Launch Event – February 2015 (http://techhead.co/?p=8224)Just a quick post to make you aware that VMware have an extra-special online launch event happening on Friday 2nd 2015. VMware aren’t giving away any details around what the online launch event will entail, though it wouldn’t be hard to guess what it will likely be about – I’ll let you come to your […] The post VMware Online Launch Event – February 2015 appeared first on TechHead and was written by Simon Seagrave . Why not take a look at my other related posts?: VMware 12th July Live Online…

     

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    Virtualizing Oracle Databases on vSphere a book review (http://www.vmguru.com/?p=15048)As VMGuru we are virtualizing all kind of business critical applications since 2005. Virtualizing Oracle Databases on vSphere is often part of those projects. I must express tho that none of us is an Oracle DBA, but we are often involved in virtualization projects were their is Oracle software present in the application stacks. Within such a project, one of the first steps is explaining how virtualization works and which benefits the organization and especially the DBAs get by virtualizing Oracle.…

     

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    VMware and Google team up on Enterprise Clouds (http://www.vmguru.com/?p=15060)Pretty amazing news came out today. VMware and Google are to team up to accelerate enterprise clouds! VMware’s vCloud Air will incorporate Google’s Cloud DNS, Cloud Storage, Cloud Datastore and Bigquery. “Our collaboration will provide customers with a unique hybrid solution that combines the power and efficiencies of VMware virtualization and the hyperscale of Google Cloud Platform,” said Murali Sitaram, managing director, Global Partner Strategy & Alliances, Google. “As a result of this…

     

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    vRealize Automation Management Pack for vRealize Operations Manager is available now (http://www.vmguru.com/?p=15052)VMware just released the vRealize Automation Management Pack for vRealize Operations Manager. The Management Pack for vRealize Automation extends operational management capabilities of the vRealize OperationsManager platform to provide tenant-aware operational visibility of the infrastructure supporting private clouds to cloud provider administrators. In addition to the 3 out of box dashboards, this MP extends operational management platform, analytics and custom dashboarding capabilities of vR Ops to…

     

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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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KB ARTICLES

 

My VMware
How to change your password in My VMware (2103054)
Date Published: 1/21/2015
Socialcast On Premise
Logging in to Socialcast or launching Socialcast from an Identity Provider fails with invalid SAML SSO response (2105170)
Date Published: 1/22/2015
VMware App Volumes
Increasing timeout for App Volumes Admin (2101667)
Date Published: 1/19/2015
Updating App Volumes Manager by changing the database credential (2101109)
Date Published: 1/21/2015
Increasing Logging Level for AppVolumes Manager (2101668)
Date Published: 1/23/2015
VMware App Volumes Manager lists RDSH server as unlicensed (2101881)
Date Published: 1/19/2015
Prompting for restart when assigning an AppStack or Writeable Volume (2103580)
Date Published: 1/20/2015
VMware ESX
Network connection fails during the vMotion of virtual machine on autodeployed stateless host (2101876)
Date Published: 1/21/2015
VMware ESXi
vMotion validation fails with the error: Unable to access file (2013907)
Date Published: 1/21/2015
When using DHCP for NFS vmkernel, datastores do not mount during boot in ESXi 5.5 (2097804)
Date Published: 1/19/2015
Pinging with jumbo frames fail even with correct configuration in ESXi 5.5 and reports the error: sendto() failed (Message too long) (2100502)
Date Published: 1/20/2015
Installation/Configuration of CoreOS vmx+vmdk image (2104303)
Date Published: 1/22/2015
Installing VIB on the ESXi Host fails with the error: The selected transaction requires NNN MB free space, however the maxium supported size is MMM MB (2099845)
Date Published: 1/19/2015
VMware EVO:RAIL
Configuring a new EVO:RAIL appliance fails at around 6% (2101449)
Date Published: 1/21/2015
VMware Horizon DaaS
New users added in Active Directory are not able to login for tenant (2102031)
Date Published: 1/20/2015
VMware Horizon Flex
Downloading an image from the Mirage Flex Server fails with the error: Failed to contact the restrictions management server (2103574)
Date Published: 1/19/2015
VMware Horizon Mirage
Mirage criticalControllerShimValidation failed for the downloaded image or CVD on this device (2102017)
Date Published: 1/21/2015
VMware Horizon View
View Composer Database upgrade completes with warnings (2102189)
Date Published: 1/19/2015
Using SmartCard Authentication by certain users in an Active Directory Group fails with the error: ‘You are not entitled to use this system’ (2103964)
Date Published: 1/21/2015
VMware Mirage
Disabling Mirage Hide System tray notification balloons (2099433)
Date Published: 1/21/2015
Mirage migration fails to join machine to organizational unit if the machine name already exists in domain (2095518)
Date Published: 1/19/2015
VMware NSX for vSphere
Viewing the virtual machine Summary tab in the vSphere Web Client fails with the error: status code =403, status message = [Forbidden] (2104443)
Date Published: 1/21/2015
Registering NSX Manager to vCenter Server or configuring the SSO Lookup Service fails with the error: nested exception is java.net.UnknownHostException (2102041)
Date Published: 1/21/2015
VMware ThinApp
Google Chrome fails when capturing Google Chrome with VMware ThinApp (2104409)
Date Published: 1/22/2015
VMware vCenter Converter Standalone
VMware vCenter Converter Standalone Client 5.5 fails when converting a virtual machine in vCenter Server 5.5. (2102484)
Date Published: 1/21/2015
VMware vCenter Operations Manager (vApp)
The hostname of a vRealize Operations Manager 6.x node changes after initial deployment (2102200)
Date Published: 1/21/2015
VMware vCenter Orchestrator
Manually disable SSL v3 support (2103393)
Date Published: 1/21/2015
VMware vCenter Server
Understanding the Linked Mode options for vCenter Server 5.1.x and 5.5.x (2097684)
Date Published: 1/20/2015
C:\Windows\TEMP contains a large amount of .krb5 files that continue to grow (2101225)
Date Published: 1/21/2015
Disabling the vCenter Server Datastore Browser (2101567)
Date Published: 1/21/2015
VMware vCloud API
Optimizing Storage Placement When Creating VMs and Independent Disks With the vCloud API (2105352)
Date Published: 1/23/2015
VMware vCloud Automation Center
Security escalation while modifying the SAML authorization header and accessing privileged pages on the IAAS server (2105325)
Date Published: 1/22/2015
Security escalation while modifying the SAML authorization header and accessing privileged pages on the IAAS server (2105319)
Date Published: 1/22/2015
VMware vCloud Director
In VMware vCloud Director after creating an Org and provider VDC you get a system alert: Some datastores no longer support the storage profile (2099753)
Date Published: 1/21/2015
Deleting media in a VMware vCloud Director catalog fails with the error: The requested operation could not be executed because media “<ISONAME>” is mounted by VMs (2099856)
Date Published: 1/21/2015
VMware View
Logging into the View dashboard in a Cloud Pod Architecture environment fails with the error: You do not have sufficient privilege to view this information (2101801)
Date Published: 1/23/2015
Logging in to View RDS hosted application fails with the error: You are not entitled to use the system (2102037)
Date Published: 1/21/2015
Logging in to a VMware Horizon View desktop for the first time fails to download all of the files by Persona Management Profiles (2105270)
Date Published: 1/23/2015
Creating a new linked clone View desktop in a pool causes the View Composer to fail (2102656)
Date Published: 1/19/2015
VMware vRealize Automation
Slow response time is observed on the Items tab (2103923)
Date Published: 1/20/2015
Examples for customizing email templates in VMware vRealize Automation (2102019)
Date Published: 1/21/2015
Slow response time is observed on the Items tab (2103911)
Date Published: 1/20/2015
User Name and Password fields does not appear on the vRealize Automation login page (2102075)
Date Published: 1/21/2015
VMware vRealize Configuration Manager
While comparing machines using Compare Machines under Machine Group Compliance, all machines including ESX/ESXi hosts are displayed for comparison (2103494)
Date Published: 1/19/2015
VMware vRealize Operations Manager (vApp)
Only State and Uptime metrics are received for some or all SCOM resources (2096866)
Date Published: 1/19/2015
VMware vShield Endpoint
Installing VMware vShield Endpoint on the ESXi host fails with VC Error: The installation transaction failed (2104908)
Date Published: 1/20/2015
VMware vSphere Data Protection
Running a manual integrity check in VMware vSphere Data Protection (VDP) (2067701)
Date Published: 1/20/2015
Deployment of vSphere Data Protection external proxy fails with the error: Failed to Install a new VM Image proxy (2102039)
Date Published: 1/19/2015
VDP appliance goes in to Admin mode and dpnctl reports: gsan status: degraded (2095746)
Date Published: 1/19/2015
Obtaining VDP Error (event) code and description (2102376)
Date Published: 1/21/2015
VMware vSphere Replication
Reprotect fails with the error: VR synchronization failed for VRM group: Remote group is in passive replication state (2095973)
Date Published: 1/19/2015
Replication configuration in vSphere Replication 5.8 fails with the error: Exception Invalid datastore format (2099953)
Date Published: 1/23/2015
Viewing historical data on vSphere Replication 5.8 through the vSphere Web Client fails (2097541)
Date Published: 1/22/2015
VMware Workspace Portal
VMware Workspace 2.1 VA displays Undefined in initial setup with AD if left for 6 hours or more (2102694)
Date Published: 1/22/2015

 

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