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The hybrid cloud provides significant value to companies according to a recent article in the Financial Times. In an interview with VMware customer AutoScout 24, the Financial Times found that the company now has the flexibility to adapt to varying traffic flows, source additional computing…

As I had this question many times by now I figured a short blog article wouldn’t hurt. Yes, the vSphere 4.1 HA/DRS Kindle copy is also free in other amazon shops, but just today… so pick it up now: Italy – Amazon.it France – Amazon.fr UK – Amazon.co.uk Germany – Amazon.de The rest –…

Most customers I work with use FC connections to their EMC storage we’ve sold them, but today I was with a customer who has a complete DELL setup and used iSCSI to connect to their Dell Equallogic PS4000E storage over a set of Dell PowerConnect switches.  I was asked to configure the dependent…

Today the Panic inc team released Coda 2, a much anticipated web development tool for the Mac OS. We think it’s awesome software, but it gets even better when paired with VMware Fusion 4. So naturally we thought we would...

Today Milan hosted the VMware Forum 2012, during the opening keynote Brian Gammage, VMware’s Chief Market Technologist, tried to collect all the news and declarations we heard in the last...

Posted by Alan Renouf Technical Marketing Recently William Lam wrote a great article showing how easy it was to check your hosts SSL Certificates and Expiry information using a free tool called ssl-cert-check, he explains that it is best practice...

Just a limited offer, two days only… The VMware vSphere 4.1 HA and DRS tech deepdive is free. WHAT? Yes it is free… $ 0,-. So hop over to amazon and pick up your free Kindle copy today! For those who have been living under a rock, this book will explain the ins and outs of both vSphere HA and…

Interested in attending VMworld in San Francisco, or Barcelona- but are short a pass to attend either event? Do you have a good story to tell on how your company manages their virtualization and/or private cloud environment with the VMware vCenter Operations Suite? Let me tell you how you may...

Today was the second and final day of BriForum taking place in London, today’s main focus was the breakout sessions. Again I sat on a number of sessions and spent a lot of time catching up with VMware and other vendors in the main hall. My best session was that by Ruben Spruijt for a [...]

By William Lam, Sr. Technical Marketing Engineer Introduction to the vSphere API Part 1: Overview Introduction to the vSphere API Part 2: Object Model In Part 2 of the series, we took a look at the vSphere Object Model and how objects such as a Virtual Machine, ESXi host, Datacenter, etc. are…

If you run your VMs on FC based storage then you occasionally have the necessity to unmap a storage LUN from one or more ESX(i) hosts (e.g. when retiring a storage array or re-organizing your storage layout). It is important to do this in the right way using the procedures that are documented in…

Symantec and others are providing more products that fill the gaps in current End-to-End Hybrid Cloud Security. These solutions range to improved log analysis through multi-layer security for critical systems. If these solutions are rolled out would we finally have secure environments? Would we be…

If you are a person like me who uses Jabber to communicate with other people and you administrator a VMware environment the following post might be useful for you. If you don’t use your own Jabber/XMPP server, you can use your Gmail account and connect to the Google XMPP servers. VMware vCenter…

Posted by Jay Workman HP Alliance Marketing Director HP Discover 2012 is just around the corner and as a major sponsor, VMware, will be showcasing our breath of solutions with HP. Las Vegas the week of June 4th will definitely be the place to be if you want to learn...

I’m still in my first month at Alliant but we are working on some exciting things!  One of the reasons I made the switch to come here, was because I was working on a large managed services project which –while challenging and rewarding – I ultimately didn’t find it to be as strategic as I…

Last week, VMware introduced the new VMware vFabric Suite 5.1, which is now available for customers to download and try. Resources: What’s New in vFabric Suite 5.1: Release notes that include links to new features for each component product. Compare vFabric Suite Editions: Compare features between…

During VMware Partner Exchange on Tour last week, Peter van den Bosch and Viktor van den Berg interviewed VMware’s William van Collenburg and Ton Hermes. Peter asked William a couple of questions about Streched Clusters and Site Recovery Manager (SRM). … Continue reading →

Video Slides Links http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.vmware.vsphere.upgrade.doc_50%2FGUID-9040F0B2-31B5-406C-9000-B02E8DA785D4.html http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.vmware.vsphere.install.doc_50%2FGUID-980D9E38-633E-4557-9144-AC422FA239C5.html…

Here is the fourth in a series of videos aimed at providing an early look and insight into the new My VMware portal which launched a few weeks ago. My VMware will transform your product license and support management experience...

One of the cool “under the hood” improvements vSphere 5 offers is the sliding scale function of the Mem.MinFreePct. Before diving into the sliding scale function, let’s take a look at the Mem.MinFreePct function itself. MinFreePct determines the amount of memory the VMkernel should keep free.…

Name: Cedric Megroz Blog URL: www.virtualgeek.ch Twitter handle: cmegroz VMware community account: cmegroz Current employer: My current employer is LANexpert a Swiss Company leader in virtualization, storage and system. We won the EMC Switzerland Award 2010 & 2011 and we...

VMware View 5.1 performance improvements. VMware View 5.1 has been released recently. The 5.1 release brings many improvements and enhancements as I reported in my article Download and test VMware View 5.1 now. I this article I focused on the new features and integrations introduced in this…

VMware vSphere Metro Storage Cluster (VMware vMSC) is a new configuration within the VMware Hardware Compatibility List. This type of configuration is commonly referred to as a stretched storage cluster or metro storage cluster. It is implemented in environments where disaster/downtime avoidance is…

According to Daniel Bellini, CIO at Ducati Motor Holding, “Flexibility and agility was benefit number one” when deploying a private cloud with VMware. With VMware vCloud Director, Ducati has been able to “deploy applications, solutions, services, and new architectures in an incredibly short…

As written in a previous post, I was invited by Nexenta to attend at the OpenStorage Summit EMEA 2012, a meeting hosted by Nexenta but open to the OpenStorage industry participating in panels, case studies and technical vendor presentations.

Read more on Open Storage Summit EMEA 2012…

Today in the morning when I opened my e-mail, I could not believe my eyes when I got the congratulation letter for being VCDX#89 after defending two weeks back in Toronto. My trip running for VCDX has spanned over three years. I have completed the per-requisites for VCDX3 before the last VCDX3…

vSphere by default stores vswap files (the files used when your host runs out of physical memory to allocate) with the local machines. However, you can choose (on a per VM or per-host basis) to direct all swap files to … Continue reading →

June, 13th from 12 to 2 PM ET Presidio will be hosting a Twitter Panel on VDI. It’s my honor to share the panel with Steve Kaplan (@roidude), Jason Langone (@langonej) and Mike Foley (@mikefoley). To attend the panel just follow the #AskTheVDIExperts hashtag. See you there!!     This article was…

And the saga continues….  I had a meeting in the morning so missed the morning keynote session. The Huuuuuge Lab List Started off day 2 (Tuesday) by hitting the Hands-on Labs.  There is a HUGE list of labs that you can do and these aren’t simple labs…  They are extremely complex, involved,…

By William Lam, Sr. Technical Marketing Engineer Did you know the vCLI (includes ESXCLI) offers several different authentication options? This is actually not a very well known fact and I thought I share some of the different options, as this question comes up from time to time. Note: In the…

http://www.vmware.com/landing_pages/vmware-vcops-story-contest-promo.html Since VMware introduced VMware vCenter Operations in early 2011, customer users have shared their enthusiasm and sentiments surrounding its inaugural release to its highly touted 5.0 release last January. We would like to hear…

Today was the start of the 11th ever BriForum taking place in London at the Hilton Metropoliton near Paddington and I have been lucky enough to have been able to attend. The morning started off after registration with a welcome from Brian Madden himself, Brian reminisced over previous BriForum’s…

vChat #28-vCenter Operations Contest and Overview – Interview with David Davis and Ben Sheerer

In this interview, taken live from the Central Ohio VMware Regional User Group meeting, VMware’s Senior Product Manager for vCenter Operations covers what vCenter Ops is, how it can help you, what makes it unique, AND a cool new contest called “Tell Your Story” where you could win a trip to…

Yesterday, VMware has announced that we are going to acquire Wanova, a company that makes Wanova Mirage, an image replication and layering technology. With the combination of VMware View and Wanova Mirage, the benefits of central image management can be...

While ESXi includes support for many popular hardware platforms, comprehensive server health monitoring with the vSphere Client sometimes requires installing the correct CIM provider.

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Yesterday VMware announced the acquisition of Wanova Inc. a company whose main product is called Mirage. Mirage is a centralized management and recovery solution for physical desktop images over the...

Throughout my journey in achieving my VCP 5 there have been several resources which I have utilized and wrote about when compiling my OMG VCP 5 Study Guide.  I have been trying to include a review of them all and one that I have constantly mentioned has been TrainSignal's VMware vSphere 5 training…

Joerg Lew blogged this great post about vCenter Operations ability to integrate with vCenter Orchestrator to do automated remediation and more…..    Take a peek….  It may give you some new ideas! vCenter Operations and vCO Filed under: vCenter Operations, VMware Tagged: vCenter Operations,…

If you spend any amount of time researching Microsoft System Center 2012, whether through their websites, blogs, datasheets, or any other marketing materials, you may be under the impression that Microsoft has finally delivered on their promise of a “single...

As with the Oxygen post, I’ve been playing with the idea and a few Cloudy storage options in the Homelab for a bit. This week, with a well known storage conference going on, I’ve been installing and testing TwinStrata’s CloudArray. As a side note, when did we stop removing spaces and…

***UPDATE: The Knowledge Base is now available. VMware is aware of an issue where the knowledge base becomes slow or unresponsive. We are actively troubleshooting the issue. We do not have an ETA at this time. We want to communicate...

By: David Davis If you haven’t tried installing vCloud Director yet in your virtualization lab, you should. However, be prepared that the install is more complex than the typical virtualization management tool that might happen in just a single vApp deployment. While vCD is available in a vApp…

By: Matt Sarrel Many enterprises are reaping the benefits of virtualization, e.g. a flexible infrastructure that can significantly simplify daily operations, reduced risk and cost and higher value and greater ROI over the old single app/ single server mentality. However, SMBs have been a bit slow on…

Something really cool happened this morning!  EMC and Puppet Labs jointly announced a next generation provisioning system called Project Razor.  Brian and I had a chance to sit down with Puppet Labs and EMC to get some exclusive information on the project for a Cloudcast that we released this…

Let me start by saying this is 100% a sponsored post but one that I think could be handy for the HP followers among you.  HP Discover is one of the larger IT conferences and if you have not attended you are missing out.  Many of you will attend the Microsoft and VMware Conferences, maybe

For those of you at EMC World, you have GOT to to check out the vLabs – where you can play with almost anything you want, live, hands on and on demand – provisioned out of the demo cloud, powered...

Today, EMC announced a partnership with Puppet Labs around something called “Project Razor”. During Chad’s World Live II – “the comeback tour”, I demonstrated it, joined by the CTO of Puppet Labs – Nigel Kersten. Puppet is a very widely...

Other than some cool technology, VCE brings many more benefits to the table. Today, I'm going to dive into the certification matrix. Before we actually talk about the matrix, lets look at what comes before then. Since VCE is comprised of parent company products (VMware, Cisco, EMC, and Intel), we…

A couple of weeks back the VC Ops team approached me and asked if I wanted to help out judging for contest submissions. When they explained what it was exactly about I accepted and I figured I would share with you what will be announced later today! VMware.com/go/vcops-story just went live and…

VMware's acquisition of Wanova gives View shops software to centrally manage virtual and physical desktops and a way to support departmental and user installed apps with VDI.

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia “Converged infrastructure packages multiple information technology (IT) components into a single, optimized computing solution. Components of a converged infrastructure solution include servers, data storage devices, networking equipment and software for IT…

I’m using this tool for years now but I notice that there are still people who don’t know of it’s existence and how easy it is Note: only needed for windows 2003 1) download extpart.exe from the website : http://www.dell.com/support/drivers/us/en/19/DriverDetails/DriverFileFormats?c=us&s=dhs&…

VMware have announced the upcoming acquisition of Wanova. The combination of VMware View and Wanova Mirage will be an an industry first pairing that could well dramatically redefine the VDI market. It is increasingly common to find vendors acknowledging that a VDI-only solution is not enough.…

Yesterday VMware published a paper focused on VMware vMSC (vSphere Metro Storage Cluster), a new configuration within the VMware Hardware Compatibility List intended for environments where disaster/downtime avoidance is a...

Now that the VR infrastructure is up and running we can start to configure the inventory mappings. The Inventory Mappings provide a convenient way to specify how the resources at the Protected Site are mapped to the resources at the Recovery Site. You can create a mapping of the following objects in…

I’ve just updated my View Client for MacOS to the newest version 1.5 which is available for one week now. During the update sequence I ran into an issue (something with plist.string could not be replaced) where the client couldn’t be installed. The way to get around is easy. First uninstall the…

How-to speed up P2V conversion by disabling SSL encryption in VMware vCenter Converter 5 Standalone. I just found VMware KB article which guides through a possibility to disable SSL encryption in VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 5.0, during conversion process. As you might be aware, during the…

As part of the Technical Marketing team of VMware focusing on the vSphere platform I contribute to the vSphere blog on VMware.com. From this point forward I will post a link to new articles posted on the vSphere blog. SDRS maintenance mode impossible because “The virtual machine is pinned to a…

By Frank Denneman, Sr. Technical Marketing Architect When using virtual machines that have disks set to snapshot independent and are placed in a datastore cluster, attempting to enter SDRS maintenance mode for a datastore results in the error "The virtual machine is pinned to a host." By default…

I wanted to point you guys to a white paper that I have worked on for the last months. This white paper was written in collaboration with Lee Dilworth, Ken Werneburg, Frank Denneman and Stuart Hardman. Thanks guys for taking time out of your busy schedule to work with me on this project! This…

We work our tail off – always put the customer first, but also have a lot of fun and make laugh at ourselves – something I think is important. Here are the winners of the 2012 TC Conference video contest!...

Yesterday, Nexenta® Systems,  at the start of its OpenStorage Summit EMEA, announced the official release of NexentaVSA for View, a breakthrough solution that expands Nexenta’s proven ZFS-based storage software into virtualized desktop environments. A result of Nexenta’s strategic partnership…

Yesterday VMware announced that they've acquired Wanova , a maker of desktop management and layering software. This represents a potential big change for VMware, as Wanova pitched their product as something like, "the benefits of central management without...(read more)<img><img>

I am lucky enough to spend a lot of my time meeting customers, talking to them, listening to them and learning from them.  On a recent trip to Turkey I had the opportunity to chat with a number of CIOs and other technology leaders about the trends shaping enterprise IT today.  Of course you…

EMC will integrate its VNX storage intelligence with the analytical power of VMware's vCenter Operations Management Suite via the new VNX Connector.

Will VMware's newest acquisition be enough to corner the desktop virtualization market?

Those who read my blog posts know I focus on High Performance Computing here at VMware and that I spend a lot of time thinking about things like latency and the performance of compute-intensive technical applications on vSphere. Today I want to talk about a different kind of High Performance. I just…

VMware View Manager Importing an SSL certificate from Microsoft Certificate Authority to a View Connection or Security Server (2016032) Date Published: 5/18/2012 Attempting to view persistent disks fails with the error: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException (2016056) Date Published: 5/15/2012…

Citrix's next frontier is not quite space, but just below, the cloud. At its recent Synergy show, Citrix had a number of things to say about the cloud.

VMware has just announced that they entered a definitive agreement to acquire Wanova, a software vendor who has a great solution called Mirage. Mirage is a innovative image replication solution with layering technology which allows centralized management of desktop images. While VMware View uses a…

Today we announced that VMware has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Wanova. This acquisition represents a very exciting and strategic addition to the VMware End-User Computing product portfolio.  The combination of VMware View and Wanova Mirage is an industry first pairing that…

Quick post on the keynotes happening this week @ Gluecon… Chamberz-stylee:   Related posts: Heading for Gluecon 2012 Related posts:

1. Heading for Gluecon 2012

As of today the VMware vSphere Metro Storage Cluster Case Study Technical Paper is available at http://www.vmware.com/resources/techresources/10284 VMware vSphere Metro Storage Cluster (VMware vMSC) is a new configuration within the VMware Hardware Compatibility List. This type of configuration is…

I know this is pretty short notice but I wanted to make local readers aware of a lunch event taking place tomorrow between 11:00am and 1:30pm.  Dell and Sanity Solutions will be discussing storage technologies for your vSphere virtualized datacenter, private, public, or  hybrid cloud.  I’ll be…

Posted by Rob Smoot Sr. Director, Product Marketing At EMC World this week, VMware and EMC announced a joint solution that extends vCenter Operations Manager to provide a single view of virtualized infrastructures built on VMware vSphere and EMC VNX series storage. I’m pretty excited about our…

A brand new white paper was just published. This white paper was written by Lee Dilworth, Ken Werneburg, Frank Denneman, Stuart Hardman and I. It is a white paper on vSphere Metro Storage Cluster solutions and specifically looks at things from a VMware perspective. Enjoy! VMware vSphere Metro…

Today VCE announced something awesome.  Moments ago we took the covers off a solution to a pain point many of our customers were feeling.  Sure, a Vblock system provides you with an converged foundation for private cloud computing, but what about backing it up?  What about replicating all the…

Traditional databases should not be used to do things for which they were never designed; like supporting thousands of concurrent users. In contrast, SQLFire, an in-memory database from VMware, was designed specifically for these kinds of challenges. With its speed and low latency, SQLFire delivers…

As part of the larger vFabric 5.1 release this week, VMware’s Hyperic, the web infrastructure monitoring software bundled with the vFabric Suite, delivered on an upgrade to managing Apache Tomcat, the world’s most popular application server. As summarized in the blog post today, Hyperic upgraded…

Posted by Cormac Hogan Technical Marketing Architect (Storage) I've had a few questions recently around the I/O characteristics of VMware's NFS implementation. I'm going to use this post to answer the common ones. NFS Block Sizes The first of these questions is usually around the block size used by…

I discovered this interesting naming conflict when banging around in my home lab. Essentially, the vSwitch portgroup and DVPort share a common namespace. If you’re familiar with DVPort names, they are a series of sequential numbers, while vSwitch portgroups can be named whatever is desired. In…

When upgrading vShield Manager, your vShield Edge devices will not be upgraded until you restart them. If you are in a situation where you need to do manual scheduled upgrades, this script will help you keep track of all the old versions running in your environment. Note: This is a vSphere PowerCLI…

Yeah, I know, our meeting was on 4th of April, almost two months ago…

We have some problems and lack of free time coding and uploading the video to youtube, also PJ recorded it all in HD, and “thanks” to Italian internet connection we had to upload those huge amount of data at…

One of the problems VXLAN is supposed to solve is the possibility to decouple (and abstract) the compute capacity from the underling network configuration. A lot of people whose background is solely in the compute space now know that there is a solution but don’t really get why there is a problem…

Today we would like to introduce our Man...

VMware will be performing a system upgrade to several VMware web applications on Friday, May 25th, 2012 from 7:00PM until 8:30PM Pacific Time. During this time, we request that you file your Support Requests via phone. If you need to...

To start off with the new week we have a new video which will demonstrate our View Composer API for Array Integration in VMware View 5.1 which is currently in a "Tech Preview" state. "Tech Preview" means that the feature...

Liquidware Labs ProfileUnity 5.0 with FlexApp offers an option for user-installed applications (UIA) technology. This new feature offers VDI users the option to seamlessly install their own applications into any non-persistent Windows environment without affecting master images or underlying…

The new version of vOps Server Standard 5.0 from vKernel (Quest) has been released Major update for vKernel introduces new VM tracking feature which follows the changes that has been made to VM(s) in virtual environment. Those problems were unnown to traditional physical only environments, where…

I’ve recently been working with Cisco UCS — and more specifically the UCS Powertool (the powershell management component). Initially, my scripts were using a local account in UCSM for authentication. However, after changing the “Default Authentication Realm” from Local to LDAP (see…

Apache Active MQ Creating DLQ in Apache Active MQ (2005512) Date Published: 5/15/2012 Apache Tomcat Setting up mutual (two-way) SSL on vFabric tc Server using OpenSSL and Java Keytool on Linux platforms (2011302) Date Published: 5/14/2012 My VMware My VMware...

Another great Tutorial post from Sam Jacobs!  Class is in session…

A poster in the Web Interface forum (http://forums.citrix.com/thread.jspa?messageID=1627343#1627343) asked how to make the following modifications to the Web Interface logon page:

• Change the page background color,
• Expand the…

Yesterday, during its annual conference in Las Vegas, EMC announced the acquisition of Syncplicity, a cloud-storage privately held startup founded in 2008 and based in Menlo Park, California. Terms...

Other recent whitepapers could be added to the previous list (Whitepaper di VKernel utili per il vDesign):

• Requirements for Capacity Management in Virtual Environments
  Data centers with virtualized environments have a real need for effective capacity management. This white paper discusses why vm…

When installing a VMA under vSphere it will not power on with an error regards IP Pools. This can then start a very infuriating circular process of the range never being allowed. I spent a good hour or so looking at this issue and with the help of thesaffageek we thought of a way to [...]

Name: Chris Kranz Blog URL: www.wafl.co.uk Twitter handle: @ckranz Current employer: Kelway UK – www.kelway.co.uk How did you get into IT? Started life in the 90’s as a web developer before getting into systems administration. I was definitely a jack-of-all-trades...

Today someone asked for a Storage DRS intro, I wrote one for our book a year ago and figured I would share it with the world. I still feel that Storage DRS is one of the coolest features in vSphere 5.0 and I think that everyone should be using this! I know there are some caveats (1, 2) when you are…

VMware has posted a new evaluators guide for the fresh released VMware View version 5.1. The content as follows: View Persona Management for physical User Profiles Customization of the View Portal for View Client Downloads USB Redirection Customer Experience Improvement Program data preview  …

Blogging has been very difficult for me over the last 4 months. My move to the Office of the CTO within EMC changed much of what I did and left me searching for content I could write about. Most of what I was dealing with on a daily basis was either too early to mention [...]

Having read my articles on vSphere APIs and software designs, you may feel a bit bored. Today I will write something different and generic: how to simplify things. By nature, the world is complicated as it should be, and will remain so or even more forever. Simplification does not change that fact,…

Posted by Joseph Dieckhans Sr. Technical Marketing Manager This week I’m out at EMC World 2012, and wanted to let you know of an exciting new announcement that EMC has made. EMC announced this week that they will provide Advanced Storage Analytics for their VNX storage arrays using VMware’s…

Good Job with Twitter Names on the Badges Back in Vegas!  And back at another conference at the Venetian.  It’s beginning to be like Groundhog Day for me but I’m pretty excited to be at EMC World.  It’s the first one that I’ve ever attended and so far it’s been great.  I flew in to…

Persona Management in VMware View 5.1 provides two new features: synchronization of user profiles between physical and virtual machines; and conversion of a user profile from Windows XP to Windows 7.

VMware Insights Magazine - the online magazine for your growing business Read how one growing business used virtualization and management tools to reduce costs and improve customer service. Learn how to optimize your virtual environment with VMware IT management solutions. Get the latest news on…

Desktop Director, the support management console available with XenDesktop, allows for helpdesk to view and interact with users that are connected to the system.

This is something you won't see everyday!  In a few hours VCE, EMC, and Cisco will attempt a pretty amazing demo at the EMC World Solutions Echange.  The teams have combined forces to take Workload Mobility to a new level.  Here's a few pictures of our team hard at work finishing the build this…

VMware is rapidly expanding the possibilities of their new management suite VMware vCenter Operations Manager (vCops) with their recent release of VMware vCenter Operations Manager for View. This new addition provides end-to-end visibility into the health, performance and efficiency of a VMware View…

During Storage Field Day 1 we also visited the Drobo Headquarters. Drobo provided us with a great show and even better information. One of the great solutions I noticed for SMB environments is the combination of a Drobo B800i or B1200i and the Veeam Backup and Replication v6 software. First let’s…

Hosts John Troyer, @jtroyer Alex Maier, @vmwarecommunity Guests Abigail Lee, VMware Damian Karlson, EMC @sixfootdad Ben Scheerer, VMware blog @benscheerer @vCenterOps Link to Audio Recording SAP, vFabric Application Director Virtualization News (VMTN Blog) WOW - the team at VMware have...

On May 18th Oracle announced the general availability of version 3.1 of its x86 enterprise virtualization solution VM Server. This release follows 3.0 announced on August 24th 2011. All the new...

I have been looking to refresh my home lab environment for some time now. Since I moved into a rental townhouse upon my move to NC, I have had power issues when my home lab is 100% powered-on. A couple of times, I have even tripped the breaker entirely. Between my desktop machine, (2) HP Proliant…

If you ever need to compare what a virtualized application is presented with inside the virtual bubble against a normal physical install, you might try using the following technique. WinMerge is an open source differencing tool which allows you to...

This week’s #vBrownBag has Hersey Cartwright returning to present on the VCAP-DCA! Specifically he’ll be tackling Objective 9. To register: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/613559281

In vChat Episode 27 David Davis and Eric Siebert record LIVE from the Charlotte, NC regional VMware user group meeting (VMUG). This was no ordinary VMUG with 700+ attendees, live labs, and expert speakers like Scott Lowe, Chris Colotti, Eric Siebert, Alan Renouf, Jason Nash, and Cody Bunch. Find out…

Chad Sakac and Chuck Hollis have done a fantastic job of introducing the world to the VMAX 40K in all it’s peerless splendor, but of course there’s one more question being asked:  when will we get to see this behemoth, along with the 5876 Enginuity code at the storage core of [...]

Microsoft is notorious for its aggressive marketing against VMware vSphere and VMware’s cloud solutions. In a recent whitepaper Microsoft claimed their private cloud solution is 5x to 16x cheaper than the VMware offering. They however compare apples to oranges by including more…

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HP Discover is creeping up on me quickly and I am definitely excited about it.  For those of you coming, I wanted to give you my pick for the top storage sessions to consider.  Now mind you, I'm sure…

In this post, published on May 18 in VROOM! Blog, the VMware’s Performance Team presented some of the most significant enhancements and optimizations brought to Teradici‘s PCoIP protocol in the...

If VMware has become synonymous with server virtualization and Microsoft continues to make inroads with its Hyper-V platform within the small-business market and Citrix can gain traction for XenServer by leveraging its large XenApp fan base -- where does that leave Oracle and its server…

The official VCAP5-DCD exam has been released some days ago and there is the relative web page with several information about it and, of course, the blueprint.

And also there are other site with useful study guides and notes:

Read more on VCAP5-DCD study guides…

BAM! A ton of incredible goodness lands on DAY ONE of EMC World… Details here: VMAX 40K+5876 = (Powerful, Trusted, Smart) ^ More Stretched vSphere Clusters- DR with SRM- Why not BOTH- VNX Inyo is going to blow some minds…...

There were two pieces of Isilon news today at EMC World – both big, but one being REALLY BIG. First – the simple news… Isilon is releasing the update to their 4U node – the new X400 node. This represents...

VNX had an incredible 2011, and 2012 is looking as bullish! So – what’s new? In Rich Napolitano’s keynote – the standout to me is the preview of the upcoming (2H’12) VNX software upgrade – codenamed “Inyo” (because code names...

A VERY BIG release today with VPLEX 5.1 and Recoverpoint 3.5. Why? Here it is in a nutshell: EMC can help customers have true active/active storage target that has very rich local replication and remote replication in addition to the...

The VMAX 40K (and as much as the new platform, the Enginuity 5876 release) takes the core architectural/philosophical tenants of the Symmetrix family and dials them up to 12. Powerful. 3x more performance (both IOPs and bandwidth), and 2x more...

As mentioned in the admission control family, multiple features on multiple layers check to there is enough unused reserved memory available. This article is a part of a short series of articles on how memory is being claimed and provided as reserved memory; other articles will be posted throughout…

Brian recently had a chance to sit down with Dave McCrory from VMware Cloud Foundry and Adron Hall from Tier 3 to discuss the state of the PaaS industry as well as dig into Dave's concept of Data Gravity.  Head on over and check it out!

We recently deployed a new customer in our datacenter, who was migrating his servers from an on-premise Hyper-V cluster towards our VMware vCloud. Their sysadmins brought us their VM already converted in VMware format, so we started immediately to import them in our vSphere 5…

SSL Certs are something of an enigma that have always eluded my proper understanding.  So I took it upon myself to figure this one out.
Summary:
Replace default OCM cert w/ one that is CA signed.  Click below to continue.
PreReqs:

1. Windows Server (VM Preferred) <-- OCM uses windows
2. Emulex OCM for…

A week or so ago I published an article about new View 5.1 storage features. I followed this up with a short video post explaining how you would go about using View Storage Accelerator. In this article, I want to demonstrate the other very cool feature in View 5.1, VCAI (View Composer API for Array…

Posted by Justin Murray Systems Engineer Like everyone else on the planet today, software professionals—developers, QA testers, and group managers—are asking themselves, “How is the cloud going to affect my work?” On the one hand, developers are always looking for better ways to develop,…

I recently answered, what I thought was pretty straight forward question on the VMTN forums about whether it was possible to to deploy an OVA directly onto an ESXi host without leveraging remote tools such as the vSphere Client or the ovftool. The response that I provided was, no it was not possible…

I’m sat at London Heathrow Terminal 5 getting ready to fly British Airways to Denver, Colorado for Gluecon 2012. Whilst I’m sad to be missing EMC World in Vegas (mostly, I miss all the awesome people I know who are going – you know who you are!), I’m more excited than I should be to [...] No…

Recently Dennis Agterberg, a fellow contractor, experienced some major issues with random LUN loss on all his ESXi Hosts. The environment consists of HP Virtual Connect FC modules connected to 8Gb Brocade switches. From a vCenter perspective repetitive “lost access to volume … due to…

In this short post I will show a PowerCLI script I wrote to copy ISO files from datastore y to datastore x. The datastores are in the same vCenter and virtual datacenter accessible but the vSphere hosts are located inside two different IP subnets and a firewall rule prevents to copy files between…

The cost of a VDI desktop dropped again last week with the release of a new low-cost thin clients that increasingly blur the boundaries between the cost of physical and virtual desktops, creating new opportunities for growth in a market segment that is struggling to reach more than 5% of enterprise…

Free paper from Globalknowledge showing the first 14 usual mistakes that happens after P2V. After you virtualize the whole physical environment in your enterprise, you do the physical-to-virtual (P2V) conversions, you think that the job is done? Wrong. There is much more than that. Learn from this…

By Duncan Epping, Principal Architect. I received a question on twitter last week around HA split brain scenarios. Let me give an example first of when a split brain scenario could occur: Isolation response = leave powered on iSCSI / NFS storage When the above two requirements are met and a host in…

VMware have now launched the final VCAP5-DCD exam/certification. This is the first higher-level exam for vSphere 5, and will be followed by the VCAP5-DCA exam/certification to complete the vSphere 5 certification pyramid.

One of the core value propositions of the Vblock is the reduction of risk and increase in speed-to-market for our customers as they build out their own private cloud or consuming it from one of our service provider partners. This reduction of risk comes as part of a process that is incorrectly…

Microsoft developers, and there are a ton of them, can now more easily write code again AWS.

The Spring May 2012 Server and StorageIO news letter covering trends, technologies, techniques and more is now available.

This thing is SWEET. World – welcome to the Iomega StorCenter px12-450r! Seriously – the kind of storage you can get in the Iomega family is pretty hardcore – from the entry stuff (IX2) all the way up to the...

We are in the process of upgrading our production environment to vSphere 5.0 U1. A new vCenter 5.0 server is already in place, and we attached the production ESXi hosts (that are still on 4.1 U2) to it. The next step would be to upgrade the hosts. In the meantime, since this is a qualified…

The following are a collection of on-going industry trends and perspectives poll’s pertaining to server, storage, IO, networking, cloud, virtualization, data protection (backup, archive, BC and DR) among other related themes and topics.

Free Trainings from VMware Education VMware Education has a very good choice of learning courses at the Public Source Catalog offerings. There are paid courses, but also free of charge learning courses delivered to your web browser. I’m gonna put some spotlight today on those courses there. Not…

RT @SFoskett Tonight's big-screen home movie: The Princess Bride http://t.co/p3e87GGh <-Inconceivable! # RT @vinf_net Having a look at @ZertoCorp with vCD .. nice solution <- Agreed. I participated in the beta program. # Congrats to Steve Ballmer for making it to #1 on Forbes CEO list.…

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It’s time for yet another round of ‘close ALL the tabs’. Made even better this time by some random mixup by which some apps open links in FireFox tabs, others in Chrome. Instead of fixing it, it makes for a nice organization system. http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/05/please-dont-learn-…

General Availability of vCenter Operations Manager for View The VMware vCenter Operations Manager for View team is happy to announce the availability of vCOPs for View!  Offered as a new add-on to VMware View, VMware vCenter Operations for VMware View enables administrators to have broad insight…

By Duncan Epping, Principal Architect. Technical Marketing Update 2012 - Week 20 Short list this week as many of us were either in an internal training or at an internal R&D event. I promise you there will be more next...

Deploy and Test VMware FT This is exactly the same as the VCAP4 Objective so this is all about reviewing and practice in the lab. I watched the Super High Availability with VMware Fault Tolerance (FT) topic in the the Trainsignal VMware vSphere 5 Training course, went through the stuff Ed listed and…

If you took a high-level view across the small-but-growing converged infrastructure market, you’d think every offering was alike.  One of the similarities would be “they all consist of some kind of network, storage and compute”.  Scratch the surface and look deeper! Vblocks are not just a…

Implement and Maintain Complex VMware HA Solutions There isn’t much that is different for this over what was in the VCAP4-DCA Blueprint objective. I’ve been watching the HA videos from the Trainsignal VMware vSphere 5 Training course and the vSphere 5 Clustering Tech Deepdive book by Frank…

Workflows in vCenter Orchestrator allow you to automate tasks in vCenter. That’s “Kindergarten“. Workflows also allow you to orchestrate IT-Services all over the infrasctructure, leveraging all that generic or specific...

Install ESXi Hosts Using Auto Deploy I know this isn’t following the flow but I wanted to get Auto Deploy tested in my lab early so I jumped to this so I could have all of my Auto Deployed Hosts done before doing all my other lab work. For this objective I would do an [...]

This paper from Thawte discusses some critical points of Sessions Highjacking and how to prevent them. What is Session Highjacking? It is simply a way of taking over a web session by stealing the session ID (which is normally stored within a cookie) and masquerading as that user. Of course, once the…

I’ve just bought the biggest smartphone that I could find and have been using it for the past couple of weeks with great results. I’ve had both admiring looks and a few sniggers due to its size. It’s kind of a cross between a tablet and a phone. I’ve never put it up to my … Continue…

Posted by Ken Werneburg Tech Marketing I've run into a few scenarios where it's been beneficial to not replicate a particular disk attached to a VM when using vSphere Replication, yet in order to recover the VM correctly it's necessary to have even a really stale copy of it there as a placeholder.…

Finally, after the beta period and a long waiting (first time that beta results were out before the exam goes live), the VCAP5-DCD exam is now available. All information are on the official web page.

Read more on VCAP5-DCD Certification…

A first for me: Session Title: Simulating Storage IO workloads within virtual environments Session Type: Breakout Session Session Abstract: With Tier 1 applications becoming commonplace within virtual environments, the need to simulate the IO profiles of those workloads prior to deployment has…

While preparing this annoucement, I realize that on the same day last year we had a very successful community event with several techtalks to celebrate the 3 year of vijava open source project. Today it’s the 4th year of this project! Since VI Java API 5.0 GAed last October, there have been…

Home Labbers can rejoice! Have you ever wanted a home lab where you had VAAI capabilities with iSCSI on vSphere? Synology has released a new software version for their NAS boxes DSM 4.0. They don't really point it out anywhere on their main site, but if you read the release notes, it's there. Here's…

There seem to be many vSphere environments where the same foldername is used multiple times. A blue folder with the name Servers is quite common for example. If you need to retrieve such a folder with the Get-Folder cmdlet, you will have to walk the path to the folder leaf by leaf and use the [...]

In Part I, I covered SmartConnect Basic, an included feature of OneFS, that handles connections to Isilon node IP addresses based on a Round Robin connection policy. What do you do if you want a more dynamic, more resilient, and better load balanced solution? You implement SmartConnect Advanced.…

In addition to the numerous enhancements detailed here, View 5.1 debuts a number of significant enhancements and optimizations to the PCoIP protocol. In this blog, we detail some of the most beneficial: PCoIP efficiency Continuing refinements to compression protocols and...

Do you work at a company that requires you to report your time? Are you curious how much time you are spending on different projects or duties? Hate having a separate tool just for time tracking and reporting? (me too!) My Outlook calendar makes for easy time tracking. It’s on my iPhone, my…

Join your fellow virtualization professionals for an independent networking event.  vBeers is designed to be a vendor agnostic,  independent event that allows IT pros to get together, network and talk without the influence of the vendors we all get pushed.  With a few of the local gurus just…

And the hits just keep coming: West Virginia will save money on training technicians because they’ll only have to learn how to fix one type of router, not multiple routers, said Strickling, Obama’s point man on broadband issues. “West Virginia believes they have found the most economical…

Veeam does a great job at running deduplication to save valuable and expensive disk space for your backup storage however it does this per job, meaning all of the VMs within a job will be deduped with each other.  Now, I don't know anyone that has all of their VMs grouped within one single job,…

  As a great validation of VMware’s decision to acquire Cetas, that team has been honored with the TiE50 award in the Software category. This award acknowledges their achievements and underscores the recognition we are getting in the Big Data Analytics space. We are thrilled to receive this…

VMware vFabric Suite 5.1 automates deployment, management of complex applications on VMware cloud infrastructure and features in-memory distributed SQL database capabilities.

I posted an article on VMware vSphere and EMC Isilon (VMware vSphere and EMC Isilon – One datastore or many?) and covered some of the basics of SmartConnect when used with NFS datastores.  I talked about some of the abilities of SmartConnect, but didn’t really cover how to configure it. As…

In VMware View 5.1 you can customize the View Portal that users see when they log in to the View Connection Server to begin using their virtual desktop.

Take a look at what happened this week in the world of server virtualization through quotes from VMware Forum 2012.

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Today we have a new video for you which discusses and demonstrates how to open a command or shell prompt on a Windows-based system, a Linux-based system or a Mac OS-based system as well showing you how to connect to...

This morning I had a really engaging customer conversation about Vblock(tm) Platform standards.  This conversation included the discussion “Why do all Vblock models have the Nexus 1000V in them, when the basic VMware switch suits my purposes?” This kind of question is a great opportunity to…

Going to EMC World 2012? Bringing a companion with you? You need to check out Spousetivities!

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I thought it might be worth sharing the outcome of some troubleshooting of some ESXi 5 servers running off SD cards, in case anyone else encounters similar issues. When vSphere 4 proved capable of booting ESXi from a 4Gb SD … Continue reading →

How do we measure success? This seems like it should be an easy question to answer but is it? Success itself is a dynamic variable that can be defined in several different ways from a promotion or even recognition from your peers. Now what about a successful cloud implementation or implementation in…

Tintri VMstore 1.4 – new features announced. I was able to assist to a demo of new version of Tintri VMstore 1.4. If you don’t know Tintri, I would like quickly introduce you to an storage vendor company which creates some really cool and fast entreprise class storage with mixed disk systems…

Today I delivered 2 sessions on how to write VMware Apps for novice programmers. I used an example app to demo in my session. I promised to upload the source code so people could see how I developed the application. Please download from here > < and please let me know if develop your own [...]

Last November I wrote an article about NVIDIA's "Monterey" project where they were researching how they could use GPUs to enhance the VDI remoting experience. They talked about multiple goals, including (1) using GPUs to do super fast, high quality, hardware...(read more)<img><img>

I was contacted by Brian Atkinson to review his new VCP 5 study guide book from Sybex. They sent me a copy that I plan on giving away in some fashion now that I’ve examined the book. I was never a big fan of books focused just on helping you pass an exam. I tend [...]

If you’re attending HP Discover in Las Vegas this year be sure and signup for the many great sessions that focus on VMware and virtualization in general. I’ll be speaking at two sessions, the first is a panel of HP experts on storage & virtualization that is moderated by Calvin Zito where you…

After running the “Private Investigator” design, a film noir theme, for almost 2 years, it was time for a redesign. I asked my good twitter friend Jenneke van Wijngaarden (@JennekePenneke) for help and ideas. Jenneke is well known for her graffiti art on walls and paintings, but she had never…

Posted by Alan Renouf Technical Marketing A question I receive all the time is: How can I list all license keys I have for all of my Virtual Centers in my Infrastructure ? Luckily PowerCLI enables us to work with...

I stumbled upon a great post from Simon Long I wanted to share with you. View Persona Management is NOW (with View 5.1) also supported on physical computers Persona Management, previously called RTO Virtual Profiles. A sleeping giant in my eyes. It’s soo simple to install and configure but can…

Giving continuity to my VMware View Limits and Maximums series (VMware View 4.0 | VMware View 5.0) I am now releasing an updated version for VMware View 5.1. As an administrator or architect you should always make sure that your sizing’s are within VMware View Maximums and Limits in order to be…

In response to Cody Bunch‘s recent post on Testing DPM with PowerCLI, I decided to translate this into a vCO workflow.  I did this because I thought it would be fun.  The workflow is relatively simple and does the following: Instead of making this a lengthy post, I have attached the workflow for…

On May 15th NVIDIA unveiled the NVIDIA® VGX™ platform that will be available later this year through NVIDIA’s hardware OEM and VDI partners. This new platform promises to deliver...

By: David Davis Yesterday I attended the Charlotte regional VMware user group for the third year in a row. It was an amazing event with top-notch speakers including the likes of Chris Colotti, Scott Lowe, Eric Siebert, Cody Bunch, Alan Renouf, and more. Before I delve into the topics that these…

  I usually only ever follow nVidia and AMD with regard to their GPU offerings for gamers, this being one of my passtimes, however this press release of the green team’s the other day caught my attention.   To summarise, nVidia are unveiling their “VGX” platform, which will allow IT to…

There is still a place for traditional storage arrays or appliances particular those with extensive features, functionality and reliability availability serviceability (RAS). In other words, there is still a place for large (and small) storage arrays or appliances including those with SSDs.

If you listen to or attend the #vBrownBags on a regular basis, then chances are you’ve heard of the AutoLab. If you haven’t, then allow me. DUDE, you should check out the AutoLab! The AutoLab is brought to you by APAC vBrownBag host Alastair Cooke (web/twitter), and our mad genius behind the…

Microsoft announced this week the new Beta version of its capacity planning tool Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) 7.0 Beta. The Beta program opened on May 15th and the review...

While there is no official VMware cloud certification yet, IT pros hoping to get ahead should abandon the siloed approach to IT and prepare to lead their organization to the cloud.

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While there is no official VMware cloud certification yet, IT pros hoping to get ahead should abandon the siloed approach to IT and prepare to lead their organization to the cloud.

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DPM or Distributed Power Management is the power saving function of VMware’s DRS. I’ll not go into too much on configuring it here, as that’s quite thoroughly covered elsewhere (Those are 3 different links). I will show you, however, quickly how to test it. Why? Well, there are a few times…

By: Andy the Angry IT Guy Editor’s note: This is the sixth installment in our ongoing series featuring “Andy,” an anonymous IT administrator at a small- to mid-sized organization located somewhere in the American Midwest. When we last left Andy, he was espousing the benefits of automated patch…

370x190-simplify-gvg-nolink.jpgThe other day, I introduced you to our new HP 3PAR Get Virtual Guarantee.  Today, I have a podcast with my fellow vExpert Eric Siebert.  If you've been reading my blog, you know that HP 3PAR is a modern architecture designed with virtualization and cloud in mind. …

Today VMware View 5.1 is available for download.  While additional details are available in the release notes, here are highlights of the changes in 5.1: Storage performance optimization & integration options leveraging vSphere View Storage Accelerator: View Composer API Integration(Tech…

After a couple of recent projects that implemented vShield app in various ways I thought it would be good to start building a list of best practices. These are some of the suggestions that I have collected in working with different customers and VMware people. I will continue to update as new things…

c02734161.jpgThe good news is that HP is continuing to invest in EVA P6000 Storage. We’re announcing a series of enhancements designed to help you optimize traditional and virtual workloads with new technology innovations. In a nutshell, these enhancements include:

• New models, EVA P6350 and EVA…

Today I have the pleasure of talking at the London VMware User Group. My presentation is called Help, My VDI Project is Hell! There are many complexities with VDI projects causing many to fail at the planning stage, at the POC or testing stage or even worse during the implementation phase. I go…

The VMware vSphere vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA) is a niflty little management option available with all kits and editions of vSphere, letting you manage your environment with almost* all the bells and whistles without needing a separate Windows license.   Sounds … Continue reading →

It happens often to have to do maintenance on Virtual Machines bacause of an exhaustion of computing resources. A web server with many more visitors than those predicted when it was sized, a database server with newly added application, there are many examples.

In thse situations, a…

How to enable SSO for View 5.1 • Enable “log in as current user” Client GPO policy • Edit “Servers Trusted For delegation” By default, this feature is turned off until you provide a list of View Connection Servers that can authenticate with the “log in as current user.“

Legacy View Clients prior to 5.0 (4.6 and previous versions) are not compatible with View 5.1 Connection Server. Don’t do the upgrade and then have none of your users able to connect.

Yesterday I received an email from someone. He wanted to know why he was limited to using either the “fixed” or “MRU” pathing policy for the LUNs attached to his MSCS cluster. In his environment they used round-robin for everything and not being able to configure all of them with the same…

I had a good conversation with Bridget at SearchVirtualDesktop about NVIDIA’s Virtualized GPU. I think it is still to early to claim the year of the virtual desktop is about to start anytime soon. Here is the link http://searchvirtualdesktop.techtarget.com/news/2240150384/NVIDIAs-virtualized-GPU-…

In a nutshell, relational databases weren’t built for the cloud. With vFabric Postgres, VMware customers can get a proven, enterprise database integrated with VMware virtualization and ready for cloud computing. As announced earlier this week, vFabric Postgres (vPostgres) is now available within…

I’m a big fan of free tools and, being a network guy originally, I have always been impressed with Xangati’s management dashboard (XMD) – a vSphere performance management tool – because it has the ability to collect Netflow data from the virtual network and intergrate that with more…

By Matt Eccleston, chief architect - VMware View, VMware VDI with VMware View has brought many benefits to customers over the years, including business agility, improved control and security and end-user flexibility. However, a vexing problem as our customers scale up the size of their deployments…

By Pat Lee, director, End-User Clients, VMware The View Clients team is excited to release our latest clients for Windows, Linux, Mac, iPad and Android. The new client releases are optimized to deliver the best possible experience when combined with VMware View 5.1. Optimized for VMware View 5.1 The…

VDI with VMware View has brought many benefits to customers over the years, including business agility, improved control and security and end-user flexibility. However, a vexing problem as our customers scale up the size of their deployments has been how to achieve cost-effective storage designs for…

The VMware End-User Computing team is happy to announce the general availability of VMware View 5.1. No dancing this time, just great engineering! Announced on May 2, 2012 as core component of the VMware end-user computing portfolio, VMware View 5.1 represents a major leap forward enabling IT…

The IaaS Cloud Performance Management Problem will continue to be one of two major factors impeding the adoption of public cloud services (multi-tenant security being the other one). Inferring performance from resource utilization metrics does not work in a simple single tenant virtualized…

I’m giving a presentation to a VCE global partner later today and I’m going to start it with an anecdote from my times in the trench to remind people of just one, personal reason why Vblocks are a good idea.  I think it’s worth sharing beyond these private meetings, if only for my own…

Together with VMware View 5.1, they also announced the new clients for this version. There are a lot of great enhancements here as well. Pay attention for the new ARM based Linux client. What’s New in ALL View Clients- Optimized for VMware View 5.1- Up to 3X better video playback performance-…

VMware has announced the General Availability of VMware View 5.1, the newest version of it’s enterprise desktop virtualization solution. The new version comes with the following enhancements: Storage performance optimization & integration options leveraging vSphere View Storage Accelerator: View…

New version of VM Explorer from Trilead – v. 4.0 which supports VMware vSphere and Hyper-V Trilead VM Explorer 4 has been released few days ago and I have been asked to do a product review. Since the product has Hyper-V support, I installed Hyper-V host in my lab in order to test the Hyper-V [...]

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Hello all, in my previous post I've tested SRM5 in the "Test mode" without disrupting production in protected site. After the test one of the most important thing to do is "house keeping" at the Recovery Site. While in the previous version of SRM, it was a quite manual…

Name: Nick Howell Blog URL: datacenterdude.com Twitter handle: @that1guynick Current employer: NetApp – Virtualization Solutions Architect How did you get into IT? I started in IT right around Y2K, cabling buildings, learning about networking, and eventually diving into server…

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One of the best feature of VMware SRM is the ability to test the DR plan without disrupting the production. I've tested it in my home lab with the environment depicted in the previous posts. In the videos below you can see what happens at the recovery site when a test plan…

VMware released version 5.1 of their Desktop Virtualization product VMware View. VMware View 5.1 delivers important features and enhancements that improve the performance, security, management, and flexibility of virtual desktops. This release of VMware View adds the following new features and…

An updated VMware View Client for Android devices hit a the street today sporting a couple of enhancements for Google’s Android OS running the relatively new Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) version; other improvements are for View 5.1 deployments only. Here’s a list of the new features in the update…

VMware View Clients for Windows, Mac, Ubuntu Linux, iPad, and Android allow you to connect to your VMware View virtual desktop from your device of choice giving you on-the-go access from any location.

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Now available: VMware View 5.1, VMware Horizon Application Manager 1.5 and a public beta program for the Project Octopus cloud data synchronization and collaboration service.

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Tonight Damian did an excellent improv of Host Profiles, VUM, and other Operational Maintenance objective best practices. If you are studying for your VCAP (or maintaining a vSphere environment), you’ll want to watch this. Video

Last week we had Chris Wahl on to cover the VCAP-DCA Networking Objectives (Objective 2). Video

Nick Marshall took a step out from behind the scenes to drop some major know-how on last weeks APAC vBrownBag around the VCAP-DCD Performance Design objective. Video ;

Fresh off the announcement from about 2 weeks ago View 5.1 is available and can be downloaded here.  Although there are not many surprises from the announcement, you can read the what’s new section from the release notes.  Get downloading and testing. VMware View 5.1 delivers important features…

VMware ThinApp · A ThinApp which includes the .NET Framework generates the message: Event ID: 1101 “.NET Runtime Optimization Service (clr_optimization_version) – 1>Failed to compile:” (2018794) · Running a ThinApp application fails with the error: License problem: Unable to validate your…

Virsto is taking something of a hybrid, best-of-breed approach with an eye on VDI by unveiling a beta version of Virsto for XenDesktop on vSphere.

Social platforms such as SocialCast and Podio are trying to solve the integration problem.

It is NUTS at EMC right now in the run up to a huge event… Ok – first, on Twitter, key hashtags are #EMCWorld and … (wait for it) … #CloudFreaky. Then…. 1) EMC World attendees and TC conference attendees...

VMware Forum 2012, a traveling conference for VMware customers and partners, stopped in Boston this week. If you weren’t able to attend, here’s a look at what you missed: VMware rolled out the red carpet for attendees at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center, which vaguely resembles an…

Microsoft’s wildly exaggerated claims of providing a less expensive virtualization platform than VMware vSphere have been hard to miss if you’ve spent any time on the web lately. We’ve previously pointed out the flaws in their math and our public...

Yesterday, we’ve announced the vFabric Suite 5.1, which features automated deployment, new components, and open source support. I’ve always had a soft spot for open source software in my heart, and am glad to see the vFabric team showing it...

Those of you who follow me on Twitter have probably seen me say this a few times – 2012 will be the year of SQL virtualization, specifically SQL on vSphere.  I figured it was about time to back that up with some facts and some opinions on just why I am so adamant about that [...]

Pendulums are one of the coolest displays of physics in action. I always remember as a kid going to the Smithsonian Museum of American History and seeing their giant Foucault Pendulum swinging back and forth, always perilously close to knocking down one of the many little red candles strategically…

View all Share your VMware Instagram experience at EMC World, and win a prize! From May 21-24th at EMC World in Las Vegas, drop by VMware booth #201 to pick up your “VMware +_______” paddle, which is shown above. See the instructions on the back of the paddle and upload...

Green initiatives aren?t just for data centers. Reducing electricity use and preventing e-waste at home can be as simple as using free VMware software to virtualize desktops.

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Many of you may be wondering what virtualization can do for you beyond server virtualization. At VMware, we like to call this the “virtualization journey.” Virtualizing your server hardware infrastructure is really just the first step in the journey to transform your business through IT.…

Just a second ago the GSS/KB team republished the KB article that explain the vSphere 5.0 problem around SvMotion / vDS / HA. I wrote about this problem various times and would like to refer to that for more details. What I want to point out here though is that the KB article now has a script…

                              Yesterday, I attended the Carolina VMware Users Summit in Charlotte.  The morning keynote speaker was Satyam Vaghani, who is really the father of VMFS.  He walked the VMUG attendees through the history of VMFS, and VMware storage as a whole. [...]

    Common Fibre Channel Terms: ******************************* •FDISC – Fabric Discovery – enables exchange service parameters with the fabric without affecting the operating parameters between the N_Port and the fabric. •FLOGI – Fabric Login – used by an N_Port to determine if a…

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Today, a user on the Citrix Web Interface forum asked how one goes about retrieving a user’s name. As this is something a Web Interface developer does on a daily basis, I was able to respond quite quickly with the answer. His next question was whether the username could be…

By Aaron Blasius, senior product manager, VMware VDI solutions have been available for many years now and are becoming the preferred desktop platform for many market segments. From the enterprise to state, local and education customers and from Health Care to the the small and mid-size businesses,…

Caught the Speaking in Tech podcast this morning while I was out for a run and was just floored by this story about the State of West Virginia buying $24 million worth of Cisco 3945 routers at $22k each for use in schools, libraries, and rural double wide trailers. “The WVDE asked if the size…

As with the other videos in the “Vendorwag in the Valley” we have diced & sliced them into 3 course, or one jumbo portion. First video is the “elevator pitch” which gives an introduction from the CEO about who Pure Storage are, what they do, and what their unique value-proposition is. What…

Posted by Andre Kemp Principal - SAP Business Practice, Americas In a post last week, Elliot Fliesler alluded to some exiting news that we would soon share around our SAP partnership. And where better to finally unveil that news than at Sapphire Now 2012 and here on our alliances blog?...

There is a class of applications that is extremely difficult to virtualize. This group consists of graphics intensive applications such as ProEngineer, Photoshop, and pretty much anything that requires a GPU to perform well. Graphics intensive applications make up a list of applications that are…

In this video taken before the Silicon Valley VMUG, VMware CTO Steve Herrod is interviewed by HP’s Eric Siebert (@ericsiebert) and Calvin Zito (@hpstorageguy). Watch to find out what Steve has been up to and the latest happenings at VMware, from the perspective of the CTO. Herrod even says that he…

An Orchestra typically needs more than one musician. And for a blog about vCenter Orchestrator it’s also a good idea to have more than one authors! ***DRUMROLL***  Let me introduce...

Introduction Continuing my series as I work through the CCNA syllabus. The introduction to the series can be found here. I will be pretty much following the CCNA Composite Exam Blueprint point for point. One post per bullet point. I’m … Continue reading →

The purpose of this document is to support a self-guided, hands-on review of VMware View 5. The content is intended to show how easily you can set up a VMware View 5 environment so you can evaluate both new and important capabilities. These capabilities include creating and managing virtualized…

Which tools are available to create and use OVFs. The Open Virtualization Format (OVF)  is well known format for transporting virtual machines between different products. You can export vApps or VMs as an OVF file and use them in VMware Workstation or Player in a test…

Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP)is a vendor-neutral open standard discovery protocol that is supported by multiple vendors such as Cisco, HP and Juniper for example. LLDP displays for example on what network switch and port the NIC in the ESXi hosts is connected. Prior VMware vSphere 5 only…

The previous article outlines the multiple admission controls active in a virtual infrastructure. One that always interested me in particular is the admission control feature that verifies resource availability. With the introduction of vCloud director another level of resource construct were…

Windows Firewall with Advanced Security must be enabled on security server and View Connection Server hosts.By default, IPsec rules govern connections between security server and View Connection Server and require Windows Firewall with Advanced Security to be enabled. * Best choice: Set Windows…

Just wanted to talk about our next User Group meeting, we’re REALLY looking forward to this meeting! Our event sponsor is Arista Networks (www.aristanetworks.com) how have an interesting presentation on reinventing data centre switching. We also have Zettagrid (www.zettagrid.com.au) who … …

Today I have a very exciting announcement to share with you - it’s a new program called the Get Virtual Guarantee.  I was really impressed with our HP 3PAR Get Thin Guarantee.  This program pushes the limits even further.  Check out this HP Storage Countdown video - about 80 seconds long - that…

For those organizations on the journey of transforming their datacenters to meet the demand of a modern IT consumption model, it’s easy to envision what cloud euphoria could/should look like.  That’s mostly because vision is quite cheap

For those organizations on the journey of transforming their datacenters to meet the demand of a modern IT consumption model, it’s easy to envision what cloud euphoria could/should look like. That’s mostly because vision is quite cheap – all it takes is a little imagination (maybe), a few…

Today VMware announced VMware vFabric Suite 5.1, expected to be generally available in Q2 2012. vFabric Suite 5.1 includes vFabric Application Director, to automate the deployment and management of vFabric...

If you were at Citrix Synergy 2012 but didn't make the party on Thursday night, you missed a really great time! Kudos to the Citrix event team for... Read more at VMblog.com.<img>

Would you like to win a brand new VMworld 2011 backpack? (of course you would) If the answer is ‘Yes’ then come and attend my session at this weeks London VMware User Group meeting, it’s just around the corner and there’s still time to book your place. The agenda is available online here…

For a limited time VMware customers are going to get 50 Horizon AppManager Licenses for free when they purchase a VMware vSphere Essential Plus or higher edition. This includes 1 year of SnS for the 50 licenses of AppManager at no charge as of the VMware promo page. (See link)  …

The DVD Store Version 2 (DS2) is a complete online e-commerce test application, with a backend database component, a web application layer, and driver programs.  The goal in designing the database component as well as the midtier application was to utilize many advanced database features…

Guest Post by Anjan Srinivas, Director of Product Marketing, Atlantis Computing Correct IO sizing can be a challenge for customers adopting VDI. Storage can represent between 20 and 70% of the total desktop cost in VDI infrastructure. Get it right and the project is successful – users accept it…

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Hello all, Last Sunday I got the idea to test VMware SRM 5 on my home lab based on VMware Workstation 8. Protected site: First of all I've installed an ESXi host, prodesx, and a vCenter server, prodvc. Recovery site: installed an ESXi host, dresx, and a second vCenter…

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Now it's time to install SRM 5 on both the vCenter Servers. The lab is now configured as per table below:  remember that you must install one instance on SRM on each site Protected site Recovery site prodvc - 192.168.9.115 drvc - 192.168.9.105 prodesx -…

On April 4 Stephen Herrod, VMware’s CTO, has attended, as guest speaker, at a VMUG meeting in Italy. One of the key point of the speech, documented in one hour-long...

I had wriiten a post, #VDI Tip 69: Use QofS – UCS and VMware View 5 but it’s misleading. The premise of using QofS is still a good and should be done. Since VM-FEX is dependent on the number of PCI-devices that your server can handle. Since you can only have 32 PCI-devices per server…
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It seems very likely VMware will announce a new version of VMware vSphere at VMworld USA. At a VMUG event in Italy Stephen Herrod (CTO of VMware) said the company is “pretty much done” on the next release of vSphere and usually works on three releases at a time. 2013’s version is “pretty far…

Over the weekend, one of my ex-colleagues reached out to me for my input on running SQL in a 2 node Microsoft Cluster. Of course, these servers were supposed to be VMs and all that. Now my initial reaction was, yeah sure you can do all this but there are restrictions that are placed on VMs [...]

After watching a bit of to-fro action between two of my geek heroes – @qthrul and @roidude – on the unwritten rules of social media, I thought of this graphic… Related posts: The ViewYonder ITIL Tragic Quadrant Related posts:

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This is Part 2 of a series of posts explaining how to configure OpenIndiana as NAS storage device. The series is made up of the following parts:

1. Background information about OpenIndiana and OS installation
2. Network configuration and Setting up storage
3. Presenting storage to your Hosts with iSCSI…

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Matthew Ford, R&D Manager at VMware shows you how to use vFabric Application Director to create and model a three-tier custom application.

OVF (Open Virtualization Format) allows you to package, maintain, and manage one or more virtual machines as a single unit. OVF is an open standard and allows you to move the virtual machines from one VMware platform to another. You can even export to or import from other virtualization…

By Ben Goodman, Lead Evangelist, VMware Horizon Application Manager This is the first blog in series on the Consumerization of IT, it's effect and how it can be managed successfully. It will be followed by a whitepaper on this topic. Ready or not, your employees have already gone rogue. It’s…

It seems very likely VMware will announce a new version of VMware vSphere at VMworld USA. Several sources confirm that VMware is almost ready with this release. At a VMUG event in Italy  Stephen Herrod (CTO of VMware)  said the company is “pretty much done” on the next release of vSphere and…