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June 18, 2013

The Journey to the Software Defined Datacenter

VMware TV (VMware Videos [VMware])

Jeff Hu, speaking at IBM Edge on June 10, 2013, describes the journey from virtualization to the software defined datacenter.
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by vmwaretv at June 18, 2013 11:37 PM

Join Us For a Software-Defined Data Center Twitter Chat on June 27th 8am &11am PST

VMware Accelerate (Accelerate Team [VMware])

Tweet Author: Rob Jenkins, Director VMware Accelerate Advisory Services EMEA We’ve been talking a lot lately about the software-defined data center (SDDC) as it relates to financial services, information security, and emerging IT cloud careers.  As the Accelerate team meets … Continue reading

by VMware Professional Services at June 18, 2013 10:32 PM

OpenStack with VMware vSphere

VMware TV (VMware Videos [VMware])

Demo by Scott Lowe of OpenStack Grizzly using VMware vSphere as well as VMware's Network Virtualization Platform (NVP) as a back-end.
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by vmwaretv at June 18, 2013 09:32 PM

Preview – VMworld 2013 Extreme Performance Series: vCenter of the Universe

VMware vSphere Blog

Previous entry: Preview – Extreme Performance Series: Monster Virtual Machines Next in our Extreme Performance Series mini-track, I’d like to highlight the following vCenter performance breakout.  Remember, you’ll want to attend the whole series to learn about performance across the stack.…

by Mark Achtemichuk at June 18, 2013 08:53 PM

Presenting at VMworld 2013!

Jason's Nash's Blog

It looks like I’ll be presenting again this year at VMworld in San Francisco.  It’s an honor and I don’t mean that lightly.  Many, many people submit to speak at VMworld and the vast majority don’t get to do it.  It also seems like every year there are fewer and fewer non-VMware people…

by nashwj at June 18, 2013 08:38 PM

New TrainSignal Course! VCAP5-DCA Prep!

Jason's Nash's Blog

Once again I’m proud to announce the release of another TrainSignal course.  This one prepares you for the VMware VCAP5-DCA exam..and let me tell you..it is a monster course.  This one was the longest of all the courses I’ve done but I think the end result is very good. The VCAP5-DCA exam is…

by nashwj at June 18, 2013 08:17 PM

Granting a Cloned Administrator Role to a User

VMware TV (VMware Videos [VMware])

This video shows that granting a clone of the ESXi Administrator role to a user does not mean a user can SSH into the ESXi shell.
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by vmwaretv at June 18, 2013 07:30 PM

Grant ESXi Administrator Role to a User

VMware TV (VMware Videos [VMware])

This video shows the process of granting the ESXi Administrator Role to a user.
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by vmwaretv at June 18, 2013 07:28 PM

Grant Shell Access for VMware ESXi

VMware TV (VMware Videos [VMware])

This video shows that the "Grant access to this user" is a UI issue and not a security issue.
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by vmwaretv at June 18, 2013 07:27 PM

Question of the Week: VCP5-DCV

VMware Education & Certification Blog (Education Team [VMware])

This week’s “Question of the Week” comes from the VMware Certified Professional 5-Data Center Virtualization (VCP5-DCV) Official Study Guide. Which of the following cannot be added to a vApp? a. Host b. VM c. Resource Pool d. vService See below … Continue reading

by Angela Guzman at June 18, 2013 07:00 PM

The color yellow - resiliency and performance with HP 3PAR

Around the Storage Block (Zito & Siebert)

David presenting.jpgI was so busy with activities at HP Discover, that the only session I had time to attend is one I co-presented with my pal and colleague Stephen Spellicy - session TB2838, Delivering data protection for your own virtualized private cloud - in case it gets posted to the HP…

by CalvinZ at June 18, 2013 06:50 PM

New blog sponsor: Trainsignal

VMware Front Experience (Andreas Peetz)

One important goal of my blog is to provide useful information/instructions and educate on technically challenging topics. I am very happy that I found a partner that is driven by the same motivation!

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by Andreas Peetz (noreply@blogger.com) at June 18, 2013 07:41 PM

SanDisk announce FlashSoft 3.2

vInfrastructure Blog (Andrea Mauro)

By talking about SanDisk, my first thought goes to the “consumer” market of the flash cards, where it’s well know. Some of my SD memory cards are from this company, but probably their products are “hidden” in a lot of other devices. But SanDisk it’s not only flash cards, considering that…

by amauro at June 18, 2013 06:00 PM

New Whitepaper: Finding the Right Virtualization and Cloud Vendor for Your Business

VMware for Small-Medium Business (VMware SMB Team [VMware])

Mid-Market businesses face several challenges when implementing virtualization and cloud computing technology: limited IT budgets, mobile accessibility and security, scalability, and limited resources to plan for, adopt and learn new technology solutions. Choosing the right vendor to meet these…

by VMware SMB at June 18, 2013 04:35 PM

Book Review – VCDX Boot Camp from VMware Press

Virtualization Tips (Brian Suhr)

 If you working on your VCDX design or thinking about taking a shot at it, you will want to consider reading VCDX Boot Camp from VMware Press. This is a short focused book that gives to a little bit of a look at the process leading up to and on the day of your design [...]

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by Brian at June 18, 2013 04:21 PM

Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit 4.0 – what’s it useful for?

ESX Virtualization (Vladan Seget)

Enhanced Mitigation Experience ToolkitMicrosoft has released a final version of Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit 4.0 (EMET). A mitigation technology is protection against attackers, where a malicious code cannot be executed to infect Windows systems. EMET can act at different levels. At…

by Vladan SEGET at June 18, 2013 03:34 PM

Basic elements of the flash virtualization platform – Part 1

Frank Denneman (frankdenneman.nl [VMware])

During my recent trip to the headquarters of PernixData I had the opportunity to pick the brains of Satyam and some of the key engineers. Throughout the discussions and lectures I learned a lot about the design choices engineering faced when creating the Flash Virtualization Platform. When dealing…

by Frank Denneman at June 18, 2013 03:30 PM

It All Starts Here: Internal implementation of Horizon Workspace at VMware

VMware Consulting Blog (VMware Professional Services Team [VMware])

By Jim Zhang, VMWare Professional Services Consultant VMware has had a dogfood tradition since previous CEO Paul Maritz’ instilled the practice of having VMware IT deploy VMware products for production use internally. As a VMware employee personally, I can understand some … Continue reading

by VMware Professional Services at June 18, 2013 03:25 PM

London VMUG, Independence Day Edition – Thursday 4th July 2013 – Register Now!

WoodITWork.com (Julian Wood)

The London VMware User Group (VMUG) is meeting in an independence day extravaganza  on the 4th July 2013 at: London Chamber of Commerce and Industry 33 Queen Street London, EC4R 1AP It doesn’t cost anything to attend and is a full day event stuffed to the gills with interesting content and…

by WoodITWork at June 18, 2013 02:38 PM

Network Virtualization in Action: Voonami Inc.

VMware Network Virtualization Blog (VMware Network Virtualization Team [VMware])

  Voonami, Inc., is located in Utah and offers services ranging from traditional co-location to fully hosted, managed cloud applications. Voonami is helping their enterprise customers transition from private cloud to hybrid cloud by simplifying the provisioning and replication of … Continue…

by Roger Fortier at June 18, 2013 02:00 PM

Tech Field Day 9 Is Upon Us!

Wahl Network (Chris Wahl)


The iron man of IT events, Tech Field Day#9, is once again rearing its head and challenging both presenters and delegates alike with a brutal gauntlet of an intense, three day information fire hose. This will be my fourth time at such an event, so I hope to draw upon my past training, breathing…

by Chris Wahl at June 18, 2013 02:00 PM

Will Intel’s VMCS Shadowing Feature Benefit VMware’s Nested Virtualization?

virtuallyGhetto (William Lam)

For many years now, VMware customers have been using Nested Virtualization, which is the ability to run a hypervisor such as vSphere ESXi within a virtual machine. Even though Nested Virtualization is not officially supported by VMware, customers have come to rely upon this technology for their lab…

by William Lam (noreply@blogger.com) at June 18, 2013 03:00 PM

Discover Day 3: 3 sessions with technology deep dives on 3PAR (and more)

Around the Storage Block (Zito & Siebert)

By Melissa Saegert Elicker, social media editor, HP Storage

MSE.jpgDiscover momentum reached peak speed on Thursday (can this really be the last day already?) with a rich roster of storage-focused session. Here’s a quick snapshot of several sessions I attended -- with a business and technical…

by HPStorage-Guest at June 18, 2013 01:35 PM

Nutanix Update: New NX-1000 and 6000 Series! Like!

Virtual Clouds (Marco Broeken)

Nutanix is a virtualization infrastructure company located in San Jose, California. Nutanix’s mission is to virtualize a datacenter without the need for a SAN. While traditional datacenter architecture employed discrete tiers of servers and storage, which are typically connected via a SAN, Nutanix…

by Marco Broeken at June 18, 2013 01:09 PM

The Many Faces of PaaS

Virtualization Practice

By now, enterprises understand the value of Software as a Service (SaaS) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), but there still is much confusion about Platform as a Service (PaaS). This confusion is one reason why enterprises have been slow to adopt PaaS. Why is there so much confusion? Because…

by Mike Kavis at June 18, 2013 01:05 PM

vCenter Log Insight release

Zsoldier's Tech Blog (Chris Nakagaki)

vCenter Log Insight is a new log aggregator from VMware. As a new tool that is integrated with vCenter Operations Manager, Log Insight has great potential. The ability to tie in directly with VMware's knowledge base, vCenter and vCenter Operations gives Log Insight a true strength in combining…

by Mike (noreply@blogger.com) at June 18, 2013 01:50 PM

How to register a Storage Provider using the vSphere Web Client

Yellow Bricks (Duncan Epping [VMware])


I needed to register a Storage Provider for vSphere Storage APIs for Storage Awareness (VASA) today. I force myself to use the vSphere Web Client and it had me looking for this option for a couple of minutes. It actually was the second time this week I had to do this, so I figured if … …

by Duncan Epping at June 18, 2013 12:35 PM

Welcome Official Dutch VMware User Group 2.0

UP2V (Marcel van den Berg)

Since 2004 the Netherlands has an official VMware User Group, the Dutch VMUG. The initiative to start the Dutch VMUG came from employees of XTG, a company which does IT-training. The mission statement is: The Dutch VMware User Group (VMUG) program is designed to encourage and support the Dutch…

by Marcel van den Berg at June 18, 2013 12:05 PM

Failover difference with SRM4 and SRM5 on HDS VSP

Virtual Kenneth (Kenneth van Ditmarsch [VMware])

This blog post highlights the technical difference on how vCenter SRM4 and SRM5 do failover with Hitachi’s Virtual Storage Platform (HDS VSP). Credits to Saravanan Mahalingam for delivering this information. SRM 4 SRM4 does not support failback operation SRM4 uses horctakeover command for…

by Kenneth van Ditmarsch at June 18, 2013 11:27 AM

Building vCloud Suite POC – Part 17: Install and Configure vCloud Automation Center

Default Reasoning (Marek Zdrojewski)

In the previous part we have set up all prerequisites necessary for the vCloud Automation Center. We can now proceed with the installation and configuration. Install vCAC Navigate to the extracted installation zip folder and from the Setup folder, execute vCAC-Server-Setup file. Accept the EULA.…

by Marek.Z at June 18, 2013 10:18 AM

Bromium vSentry 2.0 protects users, companies with latest microvisor

InfoWorld Virtualization Report (David Marshall)

At Citrix Synergy this year, I had the opportunity to speak with Simon Crosby, co-founder and CTO at Bromium. Though Bromium didn't have a booth at this year's event, I've discovered on more than one occasion that Crosby and I have a knack for finding one another in a crowd of a few thousand people.…

by David Marshall at June 18, 2013 10:00 AM

vCenter Operations 5.7.1 + vCenter Log Insight = Maximum Visibility

viktorious.nl (Viktor van den Berg)

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Last week VMware released an update on vCenter Operations Manager, version 5.7.1 is now available. This latest version includes some new features like the Performance Report Pack, Launch in Context, standard vSphere Dashboards in the custom UI and integration with vCenter Log…

by viktorious at June 18, 2013 07:57 AM

The New Official Dutch VMware User Group (VMUG2.0)

Virtual Clouds (Marco Broeken)

As of June 15th 2013 there is an Official Dutch VMware User Group. This official VMUG is part of the world wide international VMUG organization and controlled by a board of VMware users called the Customer Council. In Dutch: Vanaf 15 juni gaat de Customer Council verder met de Nederlandse VMUG onder…

by Marco Broeken at June 18, 2013 07:32 AM

Here's my "home brew" MAM-like solution for Android phone security. Tell me what's wrong with it.

Brian Madden Blog

Last month I switched from iPhone to Android. I don't want to start a religious battle about why, rather, I want to share the MAM-like security scheme I've put in place and see if it might make sense in other scenarios. First a bit of background information...(read more)<img><img>

by Brian Madden at June 18, 2013 04:03 AM

vEXPERT 2013 Thoughts and Thanks

VMware Virtualization Evangelist (Jason Boche)

The ballots have been counted and the 2013 vEXPERTS were announced in a VMTN blog post by John Troyer.  I was fortunate enough to be awarded this honorable designation for a fifth consecutive year (I’m going to link that Five Timers club skit from SNL because I still get a laugh out of it). …

by jason at June 18, 2013 03:18 AM

Forwarding Logs From The vCloud Suite To vCenter Log Insight

virtuallyGhetto (William Lam)

An exciting new product was just announced last week by VMware called vCenter Log Insight, which will be part of the vCenter Operations Management Suite when released. The announcement also includes a public beta for customers to try out the new log analytics product that allows administrators to…

by William Lam (noreply@blogger.com) at June 18, 2013 01:04 AM

June 17, 2013

Deep dive on HP 3PAR StoreServ 7450 all-flash array

Around the Storage Block (Zito & Siebert)

Blogger Coffee Talk.jpgI'm back home and while HP Discover was exhausting, I wish we were still there in the company of the 30+ independent bloggers we hosted.  I had a great time with them and as always is the case, meeting with such a smart group of bloggers helps me to think deeper. 

Blogger…

by CalvinZ at June 17, 2013 09:40 PM

Preview – Extreme Performance Series: Monster Virtual Machines

VMware vSphere Blog

This year at VMworld (both San Francisco and Barcelona) performance will be front and center.  I’ve been working internally to create a “mini-track” of technically advanced performance breakouts with many of our actual performance engineers as speakers.  Customers always want … Continue…

by Mark Achtemichuk at June 17, 2013 09:34 PM

Help us to help you and win a copy of VMware Fusion!

VMware vSphere Blog

Do you use VMware Auto Deploy? Is there a good reason you don’t use VMware Auto Deploy? Here at VMware we value our customers feedback and want to help make sure our product lines and features are in line with … Continue reading

by Alan Renouf at June 17, 2013 08:46 PM

Error installing VMware Blast: Failed to communicate with LDAP server

Core four (Lars Troen)

Background
VMware Blast installs on the Connection server, not the Security server, but Blast gets available from the Security server after installing it on the connection server. Blast provides clientless access to VMware View desktops through HTML5 instead of PCoIP/RDP/RGS.


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After…

by noreply@blogger.com (Lars Troen) at June 17, 2013 08:13 PM

Instant VMware View Virtualization How-to eBook available

ivobeerens.nl (Ivo Beerens)

The “Instant VMware View Virtualization How-to”  is an eBook with practical, step-by-step instructions and explanations for some important and useful tasks based on VMware Horizon View. It is written by Ramesh Geddam and Prasenjit Sarkar. The eBook contains the following chapters: Instant…

by Ivo Beerens at June 17, 2013 07:07 PM

VMware View fails with Protocol Failure after running optimization script

Core four (Lars Troen)

Background
VMware has a nice whitepaper called Windows 7 and Windows 8 Optimization Guide for Horizon View Virtual Desktops and it also includes a script (in several editions) based on the recommendations described in this paper. This script is meant to be run in the parent image and it will…

by noreply@blogger.com (Lars Troen) at June 17, 2013 06:32 PM

Launching VDI Calculator v2 with XenDesktop support

myvirtualcloud.net (Andre Leibovici)

Approximately 10 days ago I launched the new revamped VDI calculator, now using Java Framework, and I am now introducing the Release 2.0 with full support to XenDesktop calculations for VDI environments running on atop VMware vSphere hypervizor. Why? Because most Citrix XenDesktop deployments run…

by Andre Leibovici at June 17, 2013 05:50 PM

Failed to communicate with the vCenter Single Sign on server

virtual-blog.com (Dave Hill [VMware])


Deploying a new VMware vCenter Virtual Appliance today, I received the error ” Failed to communicate with the vCenter Single Sign On server https://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:7444…. ” This error has the same resolution as my previous article Failed to connect to VMware Lookup Service Failed to…

by David Hill at June 17, 2013 05:23 PM

Build Your Own “Desktop-as-a-Service”

myvirtualcloud.net (Andre Leibovici)

A little while back I have published blog posts and videos describing what a Desktop-as-a-Service architecture should look like. I was wrong! Well, let me put this way – there are multiple truths to the matter.   In a previous article I said that DaaS solutions should oblige the following…

by Andre Leibovici at June 17, 2013 05:00 PM

Cloud Automation ROI – The business Impact of accelerating IT service delivery

VMware Virtualization Management Blog (VMware Tech Marketing Team [VMware])

Improved operational efficiency is certainly a compelling motivation for deploying a dynamic on-demand private cloud infrastructure. In fact, the automated service delivery capabilities of VMware’s cloud automation software have improved VMware customer’s operational efficiency by an average of…

by Rich Bourdeau at June 17, 2013 04:57 PM

Now available as Rough Cut - VCP-Cloud Official Cert Guide

NTPRO.NL (Eric Sloof)

<img>The Rough Cuts service from VMware Press gives you exclusive access to an evolving manuscript that you can read online or download as a PDF and print. A Rough Cuts book is not fully edited or completely formatted, but you'll get access to new versions as they are created.

VMware has…

by nospam@example.com (Eric Sloof) at June 17, 2013 04:45 PM

Release: Madeira Cloud Pysa Alpha

virtualization.info (Alessandro Perilli)

We’ve already mentioned Madeira Cloud, a Beijing-based cloud startup focused on “IDE” for AWS, as a company with an interesting new approach to common problems related to configuration and...

by Massimo Ferrari at June 17, 2013 03:46 PM

Horizon View in a stretched cluster environment: Can I have that? No!

VMGuru.nl (Elsinga, Scholten, Weijdema)

Ever since VMware started selling View as a desktop solution, we’ve had these discussions with colleagues and customers. You probably are familiar with the topic: Many companies have more than one location, but they all want to manage their IT infrastructure as if it was one. So, if we can throw…

by Alex Muetstege at June 17, 2013 03:44 PM

vCD Elastic Allocation Pool FUD is back

Stretch Cloud (Prasenjit Sarkar [VMware])

  Problem Statement With Allocation Pool VDC and with 100% memory reservation, we still cannot use the entire VM memory reservation allocated. This is due to the “by design” problem of having VM memory overhead in vSphere. That means if you reserve 100% of memory for your Allocation Pool, you…

by jit2600 at June 17, 2013 03:42 PM

Grant shell access to this user? No worries mate!

VMware vSphere Blog

A few weeks ago I saw on an internal email thread an ask from a customer via their VMware sale engineer. The customer was using AutoDeploy and Host Profiles. As part of this process, they were creating a local user … Continue reading

by Mike Foley at June 17, 2013 03:39 PM

Winners Announced – TrainSignal IT Survival Kit and Free Training Giveaway

Wahl Network (Chris Wahl)


It’s that time already! The winners of my “Score Awesome Swag – The TrainSignal IT Survival Kit Giveaway“ are being announced today. I’ve fired off five emails: one to the grand prize winner receiving the TrainSignal branded IT Survival Kit and 30 days of free online training from…

by Chris Wahl at June 17, 2013 03:25 PM

New Gear - Synology DS1813+

vSamurai (Christopher Wells)

Late last week saw the arrival of a long-awaited new NAS, the Synology DS1813+. This unit will replace my extremely old ReadyNAS NVX. I am now in the process of migrating data from the old box to the new one. Once that is complete, I will have some more information to share in a series of posts in…

by Christopher Wells at June 17, 2013 02:56 PM

vSphere Auto Deploy: Consider the Asset Tag to categorize ESXi Hosts

Virtual Kenneth (Kenneth van Ditmarsch [VMware])

While designing for vSphere Auto Deploy you may want to group (categorize) your ESXi Hosts and attach a deploy rule (rule set) to them: You specify the behavior of the Auto Deploy server by using a set of rules written in Power CLI. The Auto Deploy rule engine checks the rule set for matching…

by Kenneth van Ditmarsch at June 17, 2013 02:52 PM

Ruby vSphere Console (RVC) SyntaxError

Punching Clouds (Rawlinson Rivera [VMware])

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As of lately I’ve been playing around with some of the many management tools and that are available from VMware. One nifty tool that I’ve decided to start using a bit more due to top secret reasons is the Ruby vSphere Console…

by Rawlinson at June 17, 2013 02:31 PM

NL VMUG 2.0

vConsult (Duco Jaspars)

As you all might have noticed on twitter or other social media, there are some changes happening at the NL VMUG. You ll might know the NL VMUG from the yearly VMUG event and the different smaller workshops they organize … Continue reading

by Duco at June 17, 2013 02:26 PM

Introduction to VMware Virsto

VMware vSphere Blog

What is VMware Virsto and What Does it Do? Since VMware’s acquisition of Virsto earlier this year, many customers and folks in the community have expressed a great deal of interest in the product. Since so many folks have requested … Continue reading

by Rawlinson Rivera at June 17, 2013 02:25 PM

Server-Side Caching With Proximal Data’s AutoCache

Wahl Network (Chris Wahl)


The server-side caching space is definitely an area that I have been paying a lot of attention to for accelerating virtualized workloads. Beyond the cool factor, the idea of accelerating IO at the server layer seems like a smart play for any IT shop looking to extend their capital investment in…

by Chris Wahl at June 17, 2013 02:23 PM

VMware KB Digest – New Articles Published for Week Ending 6/15/13

VMware Tips (Rick Scherer)

In our effort to provide our viewers with up to the minute information on VMware related news and topics, we’re posting the following list of new KB Entries for this week, direct from VMware Support. Socialcast On Premise v2 Searching application or worker logs for actions and errors in Socialcast…

by Rick Scherer at June 17, 2013 02:19 PM

Howto convert a physical RDM into a VMDK disk

vuemuer.it (Luca Dell'Oca)

TweetI’m working with a customer to refresh his VMware infrastructure. At the moment, the platform is based on ESX 3.5 and vCenter 2.5, so it’s pretty old. The upgrade phase is not going to be a problem, but the customer in the past has followed too much some old reccomendations, and has made a…

by Luca Dell'Oca at June 17, 2013 02:00 PM

VMware Tools Download From Online Repository

ESX Virtualization (Vladan Seget)

OSPsI got few questions recently concerning VMware Tools. Usually Installation of VMware tools is easy process. Few clicks in the vSphere client and you install the VMware tools automatically or interactively. There is a third supported way to install VMware tools.  In case you want to do a manual…

by Vladan SEGET at June 17, 2013 01:59 PM

Accessing VMware Downloads through My VMware (Updated)

VMware Support Insider

Back in April of this year we released the video: Accessing VMware Downloads through My VMware. The My VMware portal was updated last week and some new features were introduced. One such change in this new release was that of … Continue reading

by Graham Daly at June 17, 2013 01:41 PM

How to – use vmkping to verify Jumbo Frames

running-system.com (Andreas Lessihumer)

You have configured Jumbo Frames in your VMware infrastructure and want to verify if everything is working well? No problem – you can do this with the command vmkping. But you should take care how to use this command. First some basics about Jumbo Frames: (if you know them – read on below) •…

by admin at June 17, 2013 01:17 PM

Vegas as a Service

Virtualization Practice

Recently when I was in Las Vegas for HP Discover I realized that the Venetian/Palazo complex is really a cloud: Vegas as a Service. IT could learn alot from Las Vegas actually and I think that each hotel complex is a private cloud and that taken together the strip is one big cloud. Granted it is a…

by Edward Haletky at June 17, 2013 12:35 PM

Accessing VMware Downloads through My VMware

VMware KB TV (How-to Videos [VMware])

http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2006993 - This video discusses and demonstrates how you can access your VMware Downloads using the My VMware portal. This tutorial of...
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by VMwareKB at June 17, 2013 12:23 PM

2013-06-13 ProfessionalVMware #vBrownBag LATAM #VCAP DCA 6.2 – Troubleshoot Memory Performance @elnemesisdivina

Professional VMware (Cody Bunch)

The following content is in Spanish, the language in which the webinar is presented. El pasado 13 de junio 2013 en ProfessionalVMware #vBrownBag LATAM @elnemesisdivina presentó el tema #VCAP DCA 6.2 – Troubleshoot Memory Performance Recursos y respuestas a algunas preguntas del público durante…

by kylemurley at June 17, 2013 12:12 PM

vCenter Certificate Automation Tool – what is “the Original Database Password”?

Jonathan Medd's Blog (Jonathan Medd)

Having installed vCenter 5.1 U1a, it was time to replace certificates. Using the vCenter Certificate Automation Tool to replace self-signed SSL certificates with full certificates you will be taken through various menus to replace each certificate: When the time comes to replace the vCenter Server…

by Jonathan Medd at June 17, 2013 12:02 PM

My vCHS sessions at VMworld 2013

IT 2.0 (Massimo Re Ferre [VMware])

When I see my proposals being accepted at VMworld… my ego typically gives way to fear and anxiety.

Attendees invest time, money and their expectations are (rightly so) very high. I usually hate going on stage and look dumb (it happens). More so at VMworld.

So . . . → Read More: My vCHS sessions…

by Massimo at June 17, 2013 10:04 AM

Big changes for the Dutch VMUG, show your support!

Yellow Bricks (Duncan Epping [VMware])


Those who follow me on twitter probably have seen me “moaning” about the Dutch VMUG for a long time now. For years the Dutch VMUG was not a VMUG like any other VMUG in the world. Yes we had HUGE event in the Netherland every year with over 700 attendees, but it was a commercial … … Continue…

by Duncan Epping at June 17, 2013 09:14 AM

Integration of Log Insight with the vCenter Operations Management platform

NTPRO.NL (Eric Sloof)

In this video you will see the integration of Log Insight with the vCenter Operations Management platform. VMware vCenter Operations Manager 5.7.1 introduces integration with vCenter Log Insight (GA available in Q3 2013) and the vCenter Web Cleint. Log Insight can be configured to send alerts to…

by nospam@example.com (Eric Sloof) at June 17, 2013 09:06 AM

Add Fusion IO driver to VMware Auto Deploy

Gabe's Virtual World (Gabrie van Zanten)

A customer of mine, who was already running a vSphere environment on Cisco UCS blades, asked to expand his environment with a number of ESXi hosts that could run a VMware View environment. To be able to run as much View desktops on each host as possible, we offered them Cisco UCS Blades equipped…

by Gabrie van Zanten at June 17, 2013 09:00 AM

Dell PowerEdge VRTX – Datacenter in a box

vInfrastructure Blog (Andrea Mauro)

During the last Dell Enterprise Forum, Dell announced a further differentiation to the range of converged infrastructure solutions to help businesses of all sizes to address common issues related to complexity, inefficiency and rigidity of the existing IT infrastructure. The new solution…

by amauro at June 17, 2013 08:30 AM

Security in VMware Virtual Appliances

Technodrone (Maish Saidel-Keesing)

Today I got a reminder of a post I have been meaning to write about security best practices and VMware Virtual Appliances.

A question was raised on the VMTN community VCSA - what is the default "upgrade" user for?

VMTN question

That is a very legitimate question!! Giving a user all rights with no…

by Maish Saidel-Keesing (noreply@blogger.com) at June 17, 2013 09:25 AM

Installing OpenStack With Multiple Nodes: Tips and Tricks

DoubleCloud (Steve Jin [VMware])

Having successfully installed OpenStack all-in-one with PackStack, I started to try out the multi-node deployment. It ended up much longer time than I thought because of various issues mainly with networking. The following summarizes what I did to make it work, and some tricks and tips I found out…

by Steve Jin at June 17, 2013 06:40 AM

Improving Performance with Path Optimization and UDT – VMware vCC 2.5

Stretch Cloud (Prasenjit Sarkar [VMware])

In vCC 2.0, we saw a parallel copy operation which could consume more time to copy a VM from On-Prem Datacenter to the Cloud Datacenter.   However, now with the release of VMware vCloud Connector 2.5, VMware brings a new feature and that is path optimization UDP based Data Transfer … Continue…

by jit2600 at June 17, 2013 05:32 AM

Unchain My VM, And Set Me Free!(Snapshots)

IT Blood Pressure (Dwayne Lessner)

Cormac Hogan wrote a good article, VAAI-NAS – Some snapshot chains are deeper than others. The blog post highlights some of the differences between vendors and the impact of their decisions. Nutanix doesn’t have a max chain depth. If you want to take 50,000 snaps, go knock yourself out. Nutanix…

by dlessner at June 17, 2013 03:47 AM

June 16, 2013

Using Google Cloud Storage with Veeam Cloud Edition

Blue Shift Blog (Kevin Kelling)

Veeam 6.5 Cloud Edition has many nice features.  It includes the award winning Veeam Backup and Recovery and then adds a second application to replicate those backups to offsite storage — such as Google Cloud Storage. Veeam does a great job of performing disk-to-disk backups of virtual machines,…

by Kevin at June 16, 2013 09:18 PM

Symantec Endpoint Protection Integration with VMware Horizon View – Part1

Thinking Loud on Cloud (Samir Roshan [VMware])

In one of my recent VDI projects I was working with Symantec Endpoint Protection as the choice of AV solution. When I started working on the project I was not able to find much information on the exact steps required for me to design and implement a Horizon View solution with Symantec Endpoint…

by Samir Roshan at June 16, 2013 07:01 PM

June 15, 2013

How to install (or update) VMware Tools in pfSense

VMware Front Experience (Andreas Peetz)


I blogged before about pfSense, the Open Source FreeBSD-based router and firewall appliance that I use in my hosted virtual lab (SBHVL) to implement IPv6-capable routing and firewalling and connecting two hosts through an OpenVPN tunnel.
I use the current development branch pfSense…

by Andreas Peetz (noreply@blogger.com) at June 15, 2013 07:57 PM

What’s the Required ports for VMware VDP?

ESX Virtualization (Vladan Seget)

VMware VDP as a solution, when deployed in firewalled environment, needs some ports to be opened in order to function properly. Here is a list of ports that are used by vSphere Data Protection (VDP) 5.1. Note that there are some ports that are used in the VDP VDP advanced. Those are ports 28001 and…

by Vladan SEGET at June 15, 2013 05:28 PM

VMware vExpert 2013

Blue Shift Blog (Kevin Kelling)

I’m honored to join the ranks of the vExpert community for the 3rd consecutive year, which has now grown to a thriving 581 members.  I wanted to take a brief moment to share a few thoughts about the program. INGREDIENTS What does it take to build such a community?  In the earlier part of my

by Kevin at June 15, 2013 03:44 PM

vBrownBag TechTalks at VMworld

Professional VMware (Cody Bunch)

I’m delighted to let you know that the TechTalks have their first two confirmed sponsors for 2013, Infinio and Nutanix have both confirmed sponsorship.  This is the start of the road to this year’s awesomeness. As luck would have it both Infinio and Nutanix are presenting at Tech Field Day 9…

by Alastair at June 15, 2013 03:39 AM

VMware vExpert benefits

vInfrastructure Blog (Andrea Mauro)

The primary motivations for becoming vExpert certainly should not be related to any possible benefits of the program. And once confirmed (for me is the fourth year in a row) you have to think more about what you can give rather to what is to be expected. But I’d be a hypocrite to deny that [...]

by amauro at June 15, 2013 03:30 AM

Virtualization products comparison

vInfrastructure Blog (Andrea Mauro)

Virtualization products comparisons are almost common, but usually are too much (single) vendor oriented and each try to bring better conclusion on its products. So it’s difficult find something that it’s really independent. Also customer experiences could be polarized by their knowledge and the…

by amauro at June 15, 2013 03:00 AM

Cisco Live 2013: Why attend

vInfrastructure Blog (Andrea Mauro)

Cisco Live is a vendor event evolved out of the Networkers conferences that began in 1989. Now it offers an unparalleled combination of education and training on the latest technologies and trends; testing and certification on Cisco products; and the opportunity for attendees to extend their…

by amauro at June 15, 2013 02:00 AM

June 14, 2013

VMware: The Lowest Total Cost of Ownership

VMware TV (VMware Videos [VMware])

VMware delivers the lowest total cost of ownership.
From: vmwaretv
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by vmwaretv at June 14, 2013 09:50 PM

VMware: An Unmatched Level of Reliability

VMware TV (VMware Videos [VMware])

For a reliable, secure, purpose-built virtualization platform, partner with VMware.
From: vmwaretv
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by vmwaretv at June 14, 2013 09:50 PM

VMware: The More Secure, Purpose-Built Platform

VMware TV (VMware Videos [VMware])

VMware provides a more secure, reliable, and purpose-built platform that's optimized to help your business move forward.
From: vmwaretv
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by vmwaretv at June 14, 2013 09:50 PM

VMware: Virtualizing the Entire Data Center

VMware TV (VMware Videos [VMware])

Only VMware can help you virtualize, automate, and control all your data resources - servers, storage, networking, and security.
From: vmwaretv
Views: 97
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by vmwaretv at June 14, 2013 09:49 PM

Reporting on RPO violations from vSphere Replication

Virtu-Al (Alan Renouf)


vSphere Replication was introduced with vSphere 5.0 and SRM 5.0 providing a way for customers without the ability to leverage storage array replication to utilize Site Recovery Manager (SRM) within their environments as their disaster recovery solution. With the release of vSphere 5.1 vSphere…

by Alan at June 14, 2013 09:44 PM

Google Reader – Oh How I will Miss Thee

Thankfully the RAID saved us. (Gabriel Chapman)

I could have written this post. T-Minus 14 days till the immanent demise of Google Reader, a product I’ve used for a number of years on a daily basis for simple consumption of media. Sad Fact: I have google reader open all day and will reference it dozens of times during the day. It is [...]

by Gabriel at June 14, 2013 09:07 PM

Upcoming vCloud Automation Center Series with Jon Harris (@jonharrisnm) #vBrownBag

Professional VMware (Cody Bunch)

Building on the great feedback from the May 29th US #vBrownBag, Jon Harris will be scheduling several more including sessions on: Basic Install and Config of vCAC Install and Config for vCAC Endpoints/Agents (vCenter and vCD) Configuring Provisioning Groups, Blue Prints (vCenter/vCD), and Build…

by jonathan.frappier at June 14, 2013 05:58 PM

Save on Training at VMworld 2013

VMware Education & Certification Blog (Education Team [VMware])

Get to VMworld San Francisco early and take advantage of these pre-conference training courses at 20% off the regular price. These special course offerings are your chance to hone your skills with VMware solutions, meet the experts behind VMware products, … Continue reading

by Jill Liles at June 14, 2013 05:09 PM

Friday Shorts – VMworld content, #vBrownBag TechTalks and of course Sh!t I Starred!

mwpreston dot net (Michael Preston)

I'm a mog – half man, half dog – I'm my own best friend. - Barf (John Candy) from Spaceballs VMworld content catalog is live The votes have been tallied and the results are in!  VMworld has officially released the 2013 Content Catalog for both the US and  Europe conferences.  This is always…

by Mike Preston at June 14, 2013 05:00 PM

vCloud Director and How it Works on Backup Academy

ESX Virtualization (Vladan Seget)

vCloud Director learning videoThere is a new 40 min video at Backup Academy website maintained by Veeam, which explains what vCloud Director is and why it’s interesting even for smaller shops to go and look at it as a possibility to build applications that are executed on remote locations – in…

by Vladan SEGET at June 14, 2013 04:16 PM

vCenter Server 5.1 installation fails with “Wrong input – either a command line argument is wrong…”

Jonathan Medd's Blog (Jonathan Medd)

While installing a fresh vCenter 5.1 recently I was presented with this really helpful error message at the point where you are registering a vCenter Server administrator user or group with vCenter Single Sign On: Wrong input – either a command line argument is wrong, a file cannot be found or the…

by Jonathan Medd at June 14, 2013 04:07 PM

DevOps and All The Other “Ops Religions”

VMware Cloud Ops Blog (VMware Cloud Ops Team [VMware])

By: Kurt Milne I didn’t wake up yesterday thinking, “Today I’ll design a T-shirt for the DevOps Days event in Mountain View.”  But as it turns out – that is what happened. Some thoughts on what went into my word … Continue reading

by Kurt Milne at June 14, 2013 03:59 PM

vSphere running paleozoic Operating Systems

vuemuer.it (Luca Dell'Oca)

TweetRecently on the Italian VMware Community (VMTN), a user asked a simple question: with ESXi 5.1 support for Windows NT4 has been suspended, can I still run this operating system in the latest ESXi releases? In these days vSphere still supports a huge list of “historic” operating systems,…

by Luca Dell'Oca at June 14, 2013 02:00 PM

Failed to verify the service account. Error code: [87] – when installing vCenter

Jonathan Medd's Blog (Jonathan Medd)

While installing vCenter 5.1 recently I experienced the following error at the point where you confirm the AD account to use for the vCenter service: Failed to verify the service account. Error code: [87] At first I figured I was mis-entering the credentials, but it turns out to be an issue if the…

by Jonathan Medd at June 14, 2013 01:52 PM

The Potential of the Dell PowerEdge VRTX

Virtualization Practice

At first glance the Dell PowerEdge VRTX looks like a small blade chassis. Look deeper and you will see a ton of potential in this software-defined world.

by Bob Plankers at June 14, 2013 01:31 PM

Netapp ONTAP 8.2 and SnapManager compatibility

vExperienced (Edward Grigson)

Summary: Running SnapDrive or SnapManager on Windows 2003? You might have some decisions to make…. Netapp recently announced that ONTAP 8.2 will bring with it a new licencing model which impacts the SnapDrive and SnapManager suites. Unfortunately this could have significant impact on companies…

by Ed Grigson at June 14, 2013 01:30 PM

How does Mem.MinFreePct work with vSphere 5.0 and up?

Yellow Bricks (Duncan Epping [VMware])


With vSphere 5.0 VMware changed the way Mem.MinFreePct worked. I had briefly explained Mem.MinFreePct in a blog post a long time ago. Basically Mem.MinFreePct, pre vSphere 5.0, was the percentage of memory set aside by the VMkernel to ensure there are always sufficient system resources available. I…

by Duncan Epping at June 14, 2013 01:21 PM

Can You Backup & Restore Apple Mac OS X Guests Using vSphere Data Protection (VDP)?

virtuallyGhetto (William Lam)

It is really cool to see more and more customers show interest in running Apple Mac OS X on vSphere. Just the other day there was another interesting question that was raised from a customer asking whether vSphere Data Protection (VDP) would be able to backup and restore Mac OS X guests. …

by William Lam (noreply@blogger.com) at June 14, 2013 02:14 PM

Reducing the Friction: Using Keyboard Shortcuts

blog.scottlowe.org (Scott Lowe)

In my continuing series on reducing the friction to make frequently performed tasks easier, I take a look at some ways using keyboard shortcuts can help.

This article was originally posted on blog.scottlowe.org. Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other…

by slowe at June 14, 2013 01:00 PM

VMware Communities Roundtable Podcast – Show Notes 234 – vCenter Log Insight

VMTN Blog (Technical News [VMware])

Hosts John Mark Troyer, VMware @jtroyer Guests David Davis, TrainSignal @davidmdavis Martin Klaus, VMware @mklausvm Spiros Xanthos, VMware @spirosx News Don’t miss VMworld 2013 (10th annual) Become a Virtual Design Master Challenge – Participant Today VMworld Content Catalog  VMware…

by Angelo Luciani at June 14, 2013 12:44 PM

Useful tips for upgrading Mirage to Version 4.2

That's My View (Christoph Harding [VMware])

A few days ago VMware has published the new version 4.2 of Horizon Mirage. With that they’ve also published a new Knowledge Base article with best practices which can be found here: Best practices for upgrading VMware Mirage (2031711). My colleagues Sascha & Tim have already updated their test…

by Christoph Harding at June 14, 2013 12:25 PM

Yo Ho Ho - VMware Needs a CTO…

Technodrone (Maish Saidel-Keesing)

Forgive the catchy title…

Well this morning I thought that I had missed something (which I usually don't) - and that Paul Strong was appointed as the new CTO succeeding Stephen Herrod.

What made me come to that conclusion you might ask - it was this article.

New CTO

Performing a reality check on

by Maish Saidel-Keesing (noreply@blogger.com) at June 14, 2013 11:56 AM

Use Foursquare to help with your travel expenses

Virtually Prepared (Darren Woollard)

Foursquare to write to a GMail calendar Quandary As a consultant I spend much of my working days flitting around the country on customer engagements extolling the virtues of all things virtualisation and Cloud. And drinking tea. I use my corporate MS Outlook calendar to make a note of my whereabouts…

by dawoo at June 14, 2013 09:56 AM

Veeam Backup & Replication v7 with Built-in WAN Acceleration

running-system.com (Andreas Lessihumer)

Over the past few month Veeam announced a lot of new features coming with Veeam Backup & Replication v7. One exciting feature coming with v7 is eg. “Virtual Lab for VMware Replicas”, which will offer a lot of great opportunities for your daily work. But there is another key innovation which is…

by admin at June 14, 2013 07:07 AM

How to license Windows 8 in a VMware Horizon View deployment

VMGuru.nl (Elsinga, Scholten, Weijdema)

It is a common misunderstanding that, if you buy software licenses you can do anything with it. You will not become the owner of it, you only get the use right of the software under STRICT CONDITIONS. What you may or may not do with Microsoft software is recorded to the smallest details by Microsoft…

by Edwin Weijdema at June 14, 2013 05:43 AM

Five years in the making, Citrix finally releases Project Alice ("Reverse Seamless") functionality

Brian Madden Blog

Eight years ago I sat in a hotel in Dublin and listened to Jeroen van de Kamp and Dennis Damen talk about a tool they were building called " Project Scheveningen ," something more commonly known as "reverse seamless windows." You all know what seamless...(read more)<img><img>

by Brian Madden at June 14, 2013 04:03 AM

VCAP5-DTD study guides

vInfrastructure Blog (Andrea Mauro)

The VCAP-DTD exam is quite similar, in the format, as the VCAP-DCD one, with lot of questions (115 questions!), composed by multiple choice, drag and drop, scenario questions, along with some “visio” style design questions. The total time for this exam is 195 minutes (with the usual 30 min.…

by amauro at June 14, 2013 04:00 AM

HP Introduces New SMB Servers that Simplify IT, Boost Business Productivity

Blade Watch (Martin MacLeod)

http://www8.hp.com/us/en/hp-news/press-release.html?id=1425031 PALO ALTO, Calif. — HP today announced new and enhanced HP ProLiant servers that help small and midsized businesses (SMBs) accelerate business results by simplifying the deployment, management and maintenance of their IT…

by martin237 at June 14, 2013 12:17 AM

June 13, 2013

VMworld 2013 - Why Attend?

VMworld TV (VMworld Videos [VMware])

For 10 years VMworld has been the source for the knowledge and connections you need to leverage virtualization and cloud computing technologies in your busin...
From: VMworldTV
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by VMworldTV at June 13, 2013 11:24 PM

Beast Mode at the Seattle VMUG User Conference

Thankfully the RAID saved us. (Gabriel Chapman)

Following the back to back VMUG’s in San Diego and Silicon Valley, I found myself a week later back in my home town of Seattle, WA.  This trip was especially fun because it was a mini-reunion for several members of Team #vDB. I met up with Jason Langer, Josh Atwell, and Peter Chang. Peter leads…

by Gabriel at June 13, 2013 09:05 PM

Swing and a miss my first VCDX defense failure

Virtualization Tips (Brian Suhr)

I was not sure if I would write up anything about failing to pass my first VCDX defense panel, but since you don’t hear much about misses. I wanted to let people know that it happens more than you think. Anyway these are some of the things that I encountered in my journey. Location: In [...]

The…

by Brian at June 13, 2013 09:03 PM

New Technical White Paper - End Your Data Center Logging Chaos with VMware vCenter Log Insight

NTPRO.NL (Eric Sloof)

Although vCenter Log Insight can be used as a standalone log consolidation and analysis tool, it’s greatest strength (and biggest differentiator) is its tight integration with vCenter Server, vSphere, and vCenter Operations Manager. No other virtualization-management tool can give you such a…

by nospam@example.com (Eric Sloof) at June 13, 2013 08:20 PM

Doing More with Less: SMBs and the Hybrid Cloud – Join Us For Our Next #vSMBChat!

VMware for Small-Medium Business (VMware SMB Team [VMware])

As an SMB, it’s important to leverage IT resources in the most cost-effective and efficient manner. While recent studies show that more SMBs are taking advantage of the cloud and its opportunity of increased agility and reduced costs, there are … Continue reading

by VMware SMB at June 13, 2013 06:49 PM

Designing a vSphere 5 Virtual Infrastructure? Attend VMware vSphere: Design Workshop

VMware Education & Certification Blog (Education Team [VMware])

If you’re taking on a vSphere design project, VMware vSphere: Design Workshop will help you learn available design alternatives and give you the tools needed to make sound design decisions. In this three-day workshop, you’ll have an opportunity to practice … Continue reading

by Angela Guzman at June 13, 2013 06:20 PM

4 Tips for Using Get-Help in PowerCLI/PowerShell

Professional VMware (Cody Bunch)

Hey EveryOne! vNoob Back to hopefully drop a couple of knowledge bombs on you. Powershell/PowerCLI is really good at giving you the information you ask for…however, it isn’t always easy to know what to ask or how to ask. Hopefully these tips will help you get more of the information you want…

by vnoob at June 13, 2013 06:12 PM

Reaching Common Ground When Defining Services – Highlights from #CloudOpsChat

VMware Cloud Ops Blog (VMware Cloud Ops Team [VMware])

On May 30th, we hosted our monthly #CloudOpsChat on “Reaching Common Ground When Defining Services.” Thanks to all who participated for making it an informative and engaging conversation. We would also like to thank John Dixon (@GreenPagesIT) from GreenPages and … Continue reading

by CloudOps Team at June 13, 2013 04:49 PM

Why Can’t I Have A Stretched VMware Horizon View Cluster?

The SLOG (Simon Long)

For those of you who are involved in the architecture of Horizon View environments, I'm sure you this is a question you've always asked, but may have only ever got the response of "VMware doesn't support that design". Why doesn't VMware support this design? It works….most of the time? During my…

by Simon Long at June 13, 2013 04:44 PM

What Does the VMware vCloud Hybrid Service Mean to You?

VMware vCloud Blog (vCloud Team [VMware])

By: Chris Colotti This is a repost from Chris Colotti’s blog, chriscolotti.us.  So I decided to let the dust settle a little bit after last month’s VMware Hybrid Cloud Service announcement before I posted something this week.  I wanted to coordinate this post with the upcoming …

by vCloud Team at June 13, 2013 04:00 PM

The ABCs of Deploying VMware Horizon View 5.2 with Microsoft Lync 2013

VMware End User Computing (VMware EUC Team [VMware])

Tony Huynh, Product Management End-User Computing It gives me great pleasure to announce that the VMware Horizon View 5.2 Microsoft Lync 2013 VDI Client Installation/Configuration Guide is now publicly available. The document provides a step-by-step guide on how to deploy … Continue reading

by Sarah Semple at June 13, 2013 03:00 PM

Configuring vCloud Director Provider SSO Federation

Virtualization Team (Eiad Al-Aqqad [VMware])

If you have already took the effort to build your vCenter Single Sign On server while upgrading to vSphere 5.1, then it might be worth while to benefit of it to unify your login to vCloud Director. Wouldn’t be nice if you don’t have to enter your credential separately for vCloud Director after…

by Eiad Al-Aqqad at June 13, 2013 02:53 PM

Getting Started with vSphere Web Client Programming - User Interface and Data Services (Updated)

VMware KB TV (How-to Videos [VMware])

https://blogs.vmware.com/kb - This video is the third in a 3-part video series entitled "Getting Started with vSphere Web Client Programming" which will prov...
From: VMwareKB
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by VMwareKB at June 13, 2013 02:27 PM

Software Defined Storage – What are our fabric friends doing?

Yellow Bricks (Duncan Epping [VMware])


I have been discussing Software Defined Storage for a couple of months now and I have noticed that many of you are passionate about this topic as well. One thing that stood out to me during these discussion is that the focus is on the “storage system” itself. What about the network in between…

by Duncan Epping at June 13, 2013 02:12 PM

#vBrownBag Follow-up Deep Security and vCNS with Nick Fritsch (@nfritsch)

Professional VMware (Cody Bunch)

Nick Fritsch gives us an overview of Deep Security and vCNS including a live demo. #vBrownBag Follow-up Deep Security and vCNS with Nick Fritsch (@nfritsch) from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo. Get your vBrownBags on iTunes or RSS

by jonathan.frappier at June 13, 2013 02:07 PM

There was an error connecting to VMware vSphere Update Manager fault.hostNotReachable.summary

UP2V (Marcel van den Berg)

A customer of mine could not use VMware vSphere Update Manager after some changes in the Active Directory. They could not enable the vSphere Update Manager plug-in. The icon of VUM disappeared. I solved this by doing the steps below: Navigate to the folder: C:\Program Files…

by Marcel van den Berg at June 13, 2013 01:32 PM

The Pros and Cons of Private and Public PaaS

Virtualization Practice

I just returned from attending the Cloud Expo in New York City this week. The conference was dominated by private and hybrid cloud topics. There were several private Platform as a Service (PaaS) vendors attending whom I spent a great deal of time talking to as I walked the floor. It seems these days…

by Mike Kavis at June 13, 2013 01:22 PM

VMware vCenter Log Insight Announcement

vmwarewolf (Rick Blythe [VMware])

On June 11, VMware announced their entry into the fast growing log management market. VMware vCenter Log Insight is an exciting new offering in analytics-based IT Operations. It delivers superior technology for automated log management through log analytics, aggregation, and search, and an easy to…

by Rick Blythe at June 13, 2013 01:18 PM

Important update that improves cluster resiliency in Windows Server 2012 is available

UP2V (Marcel van den Berg)

Microsoft released a very important bug fix which could solve issues for many customers. In short all sort of issues can happen when using Windows Server 2012 in combination with clustering, SMB shares or CSV volumes. Some issues are initiated by backup processes or snapshotting. These issues are…

by Marcel van den Berg at June 13, 2013 01:13 PM

Shut Down & Start Up 550 VMs in One Shot!

vDestination (Greg Stuart)

This is a guest post by Graham French Putting the power into PowerCLI Working in the world of virtualization, you meet some tough challenges. Some you’ve seen before, most of them are the first and last time you’ll ever encounter them. This particular challenge was new to me. How to shut down…

by gregwstuart at June 13, 2013 01:00 PM

How-to turn your ESXi host into NTP server

ESX Virtualization (Vladan Seget)

ESXi Firewall Inbound traffic ruleThis article will show you in few steps how-to turn your ESXi host into NTP server. It’s not the best VMware practice for production environments, but excellent for home labbing and maybe for clients with single ESXi host, where there isn’t any other physical…

by Vladan SEGET at June 13, 2013 12:48 PM

Propalms Acquires Pano Logic Rights to Provide Sales and Support

VMBlog (David Marshall)

Propalms, a provider of server-based computing technology based on Microsoft Remote Desktop Services, hypervisor-based VDI and enterprise remote... Read more at VMblog.com.<img>

by David Marshall at June 13, 2013 12:10 PM

HP proves me wrong – Brought Dual-Hop FCoE Support with VC 4.0

Stretch Cloud (Prasenjit Sarkar [VMware])

Its a long time since I did not even talk about the converged infrastructure and what is happening around us in this technology space. Yes, I have moved to #SDDC and thus those did not matter much to me off late. However yesterday when I saw this note from my … Continue reading

by jit2600 at June 13, 2013 11:43 AM

VMworld 2013 Content Catalog available!

running-system.com (Andreas Lessihumer)

The US VMworld 2013 Content Catalog is available since yesterday! You can browse the catalog with all available sessions here. The catalog contains detailed information about the sessions, the speakers and the available Hands-on-Labs, too. The US VMworld 2013 will be held in San Francisco from…

by admin at June 13, 2013 07:45 AM

Discover Day 2: storage keynote and sessions point the way to the next era

Around the Storage Block (Zito & Siebert)

By Melissa Saegert Elicker, social media editor, HP Storage

MSE.jpgWednesday was time to get down to business at HP Discover with a full line up of sessions that together are telling a compelling story about how HP is accelerating the next era of storage.

In no particular order, here’s a…

by HPStorage-Guest at June 13, 2013 07:02 AM

BriForum 2013 Chicago $100 early bird discount ends tomorrow!

Brian Madden Blog

BriForum 2013 Chicago is right around the corner, taking place from July 30‒ August 1 this year. Registration is now open, and if you register before Friday June 14 (Flag day in the US!) then you can save $100 via our early bird discount . BriForum 2013...(read more)<img><img>

by Brian Madden at June 13, 2013 06:55 AM

VMware vCenter Server 5.1 fails after demoting Windows Domain Controller

VMGuru.nl (Elsinga, Scholten, Weijdema)

Last week a colleague of ours was tied up in troubleshooting a VMware environment with a vCenter Server. It  failed authenticating through LDAP with the Windows Domain. He was demoting two old domain controllers from the Windows domain which became obsolete after creating new virtual machines to…

by Edwin Weijdema at June 13, 2013 05:38 AM

My experience with VCAP5-DTD beta

vInfrastructure Blog (Andrea Mauro)

I’ve got the opportunity to take the VCAP5-DTD exam during the beta period (at the beginning of this year). After a really long period (common in the VMware beta exams, but this time more long that usual), on May 16 I’ve received an email with this sentence: Thank you for taking the VCAP-DTD…

by amauro at June 13, 2013 03:00 AM

June 12, 2013

Citrix Centralizes Windows VM Management on Macs

Virtualization Review Blogs

From Synergy 2013: DesktopPlayer for Mac, a type-2 hypervisor that enables Windows virtual machines to run on the Mac.

June 12, 2013 11:14 PM

We’re Hiring! Wanted: VMware and Microsoft System Center Bloggers

Petri IT Knowledgebase

The Petri IT Knowledgebase is looking for writers and bloggers who are experts in Microsoft System Center and VMware products.

by Jeff James at June 12, 2013 07:31 PM

Announcements from Red Hat summit

Technodrone (Maish Saidel-Keesing)

Here is a short summary with links on today's announcements from the Red Hat summit in Boston.

Red Hat Launches Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.2Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.2 brings a vast array of new features, including:
  • Fully supported Storage Live Migration, allowing virtual machine…

by Maish Saidel-Keesing (noreply@blogger.com) at June 12, 2013 08:30 PM

How to get Redhat 6.2 Linux Second NIC to Ping

Virtualization Team (Eiad Al-Aqqad [VMware])

While trying to setup the Redhat Linux machine with two interfaces to install vCloud Director into it, I had some funny problem with my network cards configuration. I have not installed vCloud Director yet at that time, so I was sure it is some Redhat Linux or networking problem rather than vCloud…

by Eiad Al-Aqqad at June 12, 2013 06:56 PM

VMware Technical Journal – Summer 2013

virtualization.info (Alessandro Perilli)

VMware started VMware Technical Journal back in March 2012, as a new online publication with the purpose of raising the awareness among its customer and prospects about the new R&D...

by Massimo Ferrari at June 12, 2013 06:13 PM

VMware @ Red Hat Summit – More Customer Choice for OpenStack

VMware Network Virtualization Blog (VMware Network Virtualization Team [VMware])

  Back in April at the OpenStack Summit, VMware had the opportunity to highlight its leadership in OpenStack Networking.  I presented a deep dive technical session about VMware’s network virtualization technology, and Sachin Thakkar demonstrated how VMware technology enables advanced …

by dwendlandt at June 12, 2013 04:40 PM

Windows Server 2012 on vSphere 5.0 – The Case of the Missing D:\ Drive

Jonathan Medd's Blog (Jonathan Medd)

I sincerely hope this saves somebody else some time because I had a fair amount of head scratching with this today. Installed a Windows Server 2012 VM on vSphere 5.0 U2, pretty standard install with a C:\ drive for OS, Software etc and D:\ for data. This particular server needed to run SQL Server…

by Jonathan Medd at June 12, 2013 04:31 PM

VMworld 2013 Content Catalog is Live!

VMworld Blog

As pressures mount to maximize IT agility and increase profitability, small and midsized organizations like yours face unique challenges. Limited budgets, minimal resources, increased service demands and reliability are top of mind for IT professionals like you.

At VMworld 2013, you’ll gain the…

June 12, 2013 04:03 PM

The Future of Cloud: All Hybrid?

VMware vCloud Blog (vCloud Team [VMware])

This is a guest post from vCloud Service Provider Logicworks. Check out their blog, Gathering Clouds. Nowadays, there is so much being written about the future of cloud computing, especially in terms of the virtues of choosing public or private. … Continue reading

by vCloud Team at June 12, 2013 04:00 PM

Resources for Networking and Network Virtualization

blog.scottlowe.org (Scott Lowe)

Here's a quick list of some resources for networking and network virtualization. Feel free to add your own resources in the comments!

This article was originally posted on blog.scottlowe.org. Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies.

by slowe at June 12, 2013 03:54 PM

More storage news from HP Discover

Around the Storage Block (Zito & Siebert)

Yesterday we had our press conference and finally sent public with our news.  It's a proud moment for a lot us here who have been working toward the announcements we made yesterday and also a day of relief.  In my blog post yesterday talking about the new all-flash HP 3PAR StoreServ 7450 and…

by CalvinZ at June 12, 2013 03:42 PM

Setting VM Advanced Settings in PowerCLI with New-AdvancedSetting

blog.shiplett.org (Jason Shiplett)

Applying advanced settings to VMs can be a daunting task. Without scripting, you’ll have to: Power each VM down Edit settings of each VM Manually enter values When dealing with even a few VMs, this can be a very time consuming task. Enter PowerCLI – the script below will apply advanced settings…

by jshiplett at June 12, 2013 02:57 PM

Upgrading to VMware vCenter Operations Manager 5.7.1

NTPRO.NL (Eric Sloof)

vCenter Operations Manager 5.7.1 is the latest release of VMware's integrated operations suite, converging performance, capacity, and configuration management. This new release introduces the following features and enhancements.

Performance Report Pack

This release introduces new performance…

by nospam@example.com (Eric Sloof) at June 12, 2013 02:44 PM

VMware NSX pop quiz: Do you know NSX's network virtualization features?

VMware tips and tricks (SearchVMware.com)

Test your knowledge of VMware NSX, which evolved rapidly out of VMware's homegrown and acquired network virtualization technologies.

by Meredith Courtemanche(mcourtemanche@techtarget.com at June 12, 2013 02:41 PM

Special Strategy Sessions at Hadoop Summit

VMware vFabric Blog (VMware vFabric Team [VMware])

Plain and simple: Apache Hadoop has become the technology disrupter that is sending every enterprise into overdrive to get up to speed on and figure out how to exploit their data. Adoption is accelerating at 60% a year, yet 26% … Continue reading

by Stacey Schneider at June 12, 2013 02:29 PM

Using VMware Workstation virtual machines in VMware Fusion

VMware KB TV (How-to Videos [VMware])

http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1002320 - This video discusses and demonstrates how you can use VMware Workstation virtual machines in VMware Fusion. Fusion and Work...
From: VMwareKB
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by VMwareKB at June 12, 2013 02:19 PM

Using VMware Workstation virtual machines in VMware Fusion

VMware Support Insider

Today we have a new video which is specifically geared towards users of our Consumer Desktop products including VMware Workstation and VMware Fusion. This video tutorial discusses and demonstrates how you can use VMware Workstation virtual machines in VMware Fusion. … Continue reading

by Graham Daly at June 12, 2013 02:10 PM

Don’t save you VM backups in the SAN where you run them!

vuemuer.it (Luca Dell'Oca)

TweetAs Dr. Egon Spengler said in the Ghostbusters movie, “Don’t cross the streams. It’s would be BAD” It happens at times to talk with some customers, thinking about the possibility to save the backups of their VMs right into the same SAN where they are used to execute them. If in the past…

by Luca Dell'Oca at June 12, 2013 02:00 PM

VMware vExpert Class of 2013

Virtualization Practice

At the end of May, VMware announced the new VMware vExpert class of 2013. There were 581 vExperts named which is the largest group so far in the 5 year history of the program. On an interesting side note, of these 581 vExperts, there are forty two of them that were part of the original 300 in the…

by Steve Beaver at June 12, 2013 01:20 PM

Configuring vSphere Infrastructure Navigator (VIN) To Manage An Alternate vCenter Server

virtuallyGhetto (William Lam)

When deploying vSphere Infrastructure Navigator (VIN), it is automatically associated with the vCenter Server from which it was deployed from and this behavior is by design. This means if you have two vCenter Servers, you will need to deploy two separate VIN instances, one for each vCenter Server as…

by William Lam (noreply@blogger.com) at June 12, 2013 01:15 PM

Contribute: Tweet sized vSphere Design Considerations

Yellow Bricks (Duncan Epping [VMware])


Most of you have probably seen the announcement Frank did yesterday… Frank, Cormac, Vaughn and I are working on this book project called “Tweet sized vSphere Design Considerations” and we need YOU, the community, to contribute! What are you saying? You are writing a book and want us to do the…

by Duncan Epping at June 12, 2013 11:39 AM

New Training Course - VMware vCloud Automation Center: Install, Configure, Manage

NTPRO.NL (Eric Sloof)

This training course (three days of instructor-led classroom) focuses on installing, configuring, and managing VMware vCloud Automation Center. This course covers the configuration and use of vCloud Automation Center as a platform for self-service provisioning of virtual, cloud, and physical…

by nospam@example.com (Eric Sloof) at June 12, 2013 11:22 AM

#vBrownbag Follow-Up Pietro Piutti covering VCP5-IaaS Objective 5

Professional VMware (Cody Bunch)

On the 12th of March 2013 Pietro Piutti covered VCP5-IaaS Objective 5 on the EMEA vBrownbag. The video from the session is below: EMEA vBrownbag with Pietro Piutti covering VCP5-IaaS Objective 5 from EMEA vBrownbag on Vimeo.

by gregg.robertson at June 12, 2013 10:26 AM

#vBrownbag Follow-Up Andrea Mauro Covering VCAP5-CIA Objective 1 – Configure and Maintain vCloud Director

Professional VMware (Cody Bunch)

On the 11th of June 2013 Andrea Mauro covered VCAP5-CIA Objective 1 – Configure and Maintain vCloud Director on the EMEA vBrownbag. The slides from the session can be found here and the video from the session is below: EMEA vBrownbag with Andrea Mauro covering VCAP5-CIA Objective 1 – Configure…

by gregg.robertson at June 12, 2013 09:56 AM

Liquidware Labs UNPLUGGED! Raw footage of upcoming ProfileUnity and Stratusphere

Virtualization Ramblings (Douglas Brown)

Liquidware Labs UNPLUGGED, Raw footage of ProfileUnity and Stratusphere pending upcoming releases! You saw it here first!...

June 12, 2013 09:55 AM

#vBrownbag Follow-Up Jonas Rosland Covering Puppet and Razor Fundamentals

Professional VMware (Cody Bunch)

On the 4th of June 2013 Jonas Rosland covered Puppet and Razor Fundamentals on the EMEA vBrownbag. The slides from the session can be found here and the video from the session is below: Puppet & Razor Fundamentals with Jonas Rosland from EMEA vBrownbag on Vimeo.

by gregg.robertson at June 12, 2013 09:38 AM

Save 50% on BETA: VMware vCloud Automation Center: Install, Configure, Manage [V5.2] – BETA

VMware Education & Certification Blog (Education Team [VMware])

VMware offers BETA courses to those wanting to participate in finalizing the near complete course and you save 50% off the course price.  Register today as BETA courses fill up quickly. VMware vCloud Automation Center [V5.2] – BETA Location: Frimley, … Continue reading

by Elaine Sherwood at June 12, 2013 08:47 AM

Tweet sized vSphere Design Considerations – Call for Entries

Cormac Hogan

I’m delighted to be involved in an upcoming project on vSphere Design Considerations. This is the brain-child of my ex-colleague, Frank Denneman, who recently fu^H^H decided to broaden his horizons and join an interesting new start-up called PernixData. Also on Continue reading

by Cormac at June 12, 2013 08:35 AM

Easy Install, clean Interface…vCenter Log Insight – New Product

ESX Virtualization (Vladan Seget)

VMware vCenter Log Insight User InterfaceA public beta product called vCenter Log Insight can be downloaded and tested. I’ve downloaded and installed this product in my lab. The install/configure takes at most 5 minutes of your time. The product currently in public beta, is going to be licensed…

by Vladan SEGET at June 12, 2013 08:19 AM

Tune in to HP Discover Innovation Theatre and keynotes... HERE!

Around the Storage Block (Zito & Siebert)

I've already posted how you can watch our storage press conference in a few hours from now so be sure to tune in at 8:30 AM PDT to hear all the news!  I'll certainly have a few blog posts over the next few days helping sort out all of the news. 

One of the things I'm excited to see at HP…

by CalvinZ at June 12, 2013 07:59 AM

VMware vSphere Data Protection 5.1.11 and vSphere Data protection Advanced 5.1.21 Released – update yours

ESX Virtualization (Vladan Seget)

VMware VDPLast week new update has been released for VMware vSphere Data Protection (VDP). As you can doubt, new maintenance release for both VDP products has been released. Those releases are mainly fixing bugs related to both products. If you’re concerned and running your backup solution on VDP,…

by Vladan SEGET at June 12, 2013 06:52 AM

VMware View with FlexPod deployment guide

VMGuru.nl (Elsinga, Scholten, Weijdema)

As a Cisco/NetApp FlexPod Partner we deploy a lot of FlexPods with all kinds of workloads. One of the more populair applications of aFlexPod is a VMware View environment. One of the tools to execute a valid and correctly configured FlexPod is a CVD, a Cisco Validated Design. Looking for the latest…

by Erik Scholten at June 12, 2013 06:32 AM

Innovation at Discover Day 1: flash-optimized storage (and the story behind 3PAR yellow)

Around the Storage Block (Zito & Siebert)

By Melissa Saegert Elicker, social media editor, HP Storage

3PAR2_again.jpgIt it’s June in Las Vegas, it must be HP Discover. I’m lucky enough to be here this week to attend some keynotes and sessions and share what I learn with you. 

As things kicked off today, I attended the Innovation…

by HPStorage-Guest at June 12, 2013 05:41 AM

VMTurbo announce Operations Manager 4.0

vInfrastructure Blog (Andrea Mauro)

VMTurbo has announced the new release of Operarion Manager, now in v4.0 with new foundational features and a modular approach to controlling all layers of the virtualized data center via extensions. Operations Manager already can find how your resouces are used and improve their utilization, for…

by amauro at June 12, 2013 03:00 AM

The Power of ‘AND’: Acting upon HP’s vision of virtual storage with StoreVirtual and StoreOnce

Around the Storage Block (Zito & Siebert)

By Kate Davis, @KateAtHP, WW Product Marketing Manager, HP StoreVirtual Storage

KateDavis.jpgMany marketing campaigns over the years have touted the power of “and” within their product. Because no one wants to choose between two or more things, the ability to have all features is meaningful.…

by HPStorage-Guest at June 12, 2013 02:55 AM

VMware Horizon View and Avaya VDI Communicator

VMware TV (VMware Videos [VMware])

VMware Horizon View and Avaya VDI Communicator.
From: vmwaretv
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by vmwaretv at June 12, 2013 01:39 AM

#vBrownBag Presenter Spotlight: Gurusimran Khalsa

Professional VMware (Cody Bunch)

Gurusimran Khalsa is the featured vBrownBag Presenter this week. Gurusimran, aka GS, is a Senior Consulting Engineer for Presidio. He has presented multiple times for the vBrownBag podcasts on the topics of Security as well as VCAP Exam experiences. In his free time, GS is one of the leaders of the…

by Trevor Roberts Jr at June 12, 2013 12:25 AM

June 11, 2013

The Future Of Networking

VMware TV (VMware Videos [VMware])

VMware's Chief Networking Architect, Martin Casado, discusses the new network architecture and the importance of network virtualization. Learn more: http://blogs.vmware.com/vmware/2013/03/vmware-ns...
From: vmwaretv
Views: 552
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by vmwaretv at June 11, 2013 11:43 PM

VMware Announces vCenter Log Insight

Petri IT Knowledgebase

VMware has unveiled vCenter Log Insight, an analytics tool that helps admins measure and analyze the status of their physical and virtual IT infrastructures.

by David Davis at June 11, 2013 11:20 PM

Release: VMTurbo Operations Manager 4.0

virtualization.info (Alessandro Perilli)

VMTurbo today released version 4.0 of its virtualization management platform Operations Manager. This release is the follow up of version 3.3 which was released in February this year. Version 4.0...

by Kenneth van Surksum at June 11, 2013 09:25 PM

Any questions about the VMware View Enterprise Bundle & Add-On EOL?

That's My View (Christoph Harding [VMware])

At the beginning of March VMware has released their new Horizon Suite which includes the End User Computing products Horizon View, Horizon Mirage and Horizon Workspace. The suite is a full solution for the complete end user computing stack, from physical to virtual. With this release VMware also has…

by Christoph Harding at June 11, 2013 09:14 PM

VMware View and PCoIP Connecting with Black Screens - Increase Video RAM

Kendrick Coleman

Recently, after a View upgrade, I had problems connecting to my VMware View desktops. I would try to connect to my VMs but I was met with a black screen. The login screen would never show up and I had no idea because it was working fine before.

A quick google search brings up quote a few KBs:

by kendrickcoleman@gmail.com (Kendrick Coleman) at June 11, 2013 08:47 PM

VMware Technical Journal – Summer 2013

VMGuru.nl (Elsinga, Scholten, Weijdema)

Today VMware Technical Journal (VMTJ) is celebrating its first birthday! VMTJ is a VMware Labs journal with in depth technical information which is published twice per year. Today VMware Labs published a new version of the the 2013 Summer edition of the VMware Technical Journal. It is available as a…

by Erik Scholten at June 11, 2013 07:16 PM

How To Pronounce Some Of VMware's Acronyms

virtuallyGhetto (William Lam)

VMware's announcement last week on the new vCloud Hybrid Services offering generated quite a bit of buzz and excitement. One thing that I had noticed on Twitter during the announcement as well as the days following was discussions around the pronunciation of the vCloud Hydrid Services acronym…

by William Lam (noreply@blogger.com) at June 11, 2013 08:06 PM

Question of the Week: VCP5-DCV

VMware Education & Certification Blog (Education Team [VMware])

This week’s “Question of the Week” comes from the VMware Certified Professional 5-Datacenter Virtualization (VCP5-DCV) Official Study Guide. What is the maximum amount of memory that can be assigned to a Version 8 virtual machine? a. 2TB b. 256GB c. … Continue reading

by Angela Guzman at June 11, 2013 07:00 PM

Public Cloud Services Without The Hassle — Sign Up For 6/12 Webinar on the New vCloud Hybrid Service

VMware for Small-Medium Business (VMware SMB Team [VMware])

For mid-market companies, it’s important to ensure that the demand for cloud doesn’t drive you to take on unnecessary costs and waste precious resources. However, with the new VMware vCloud Hybrid Service, you can combine the power of the public … Continue reading

by VMware SMB at June 11, 2013 06:49 PM

VMware vCenter Log Insight – Make your logs make sense!

mwpreston dot net (Michael Preston)

Today VMware has introduced the world to VMware vCenter Log Insight, labeling it as a "new automated log management and analytics product for the cloud era".  In my opinion this is a great next step for VMware's management portfolio and if integrated correctly, could really compliment the…

by Mike Preston at June 11, 2013 06:11 PM

Which Vendor Has A vSphere Web Client Plugin?

virtuallyGhetto (William Lam)

It's no secret that going forward, VMware's new vSphere Web Client will be the primary graphical interface for interacting with vSphere and other solutions within the vCloud Suite. This is regardless of whether the interface is using FLEX, HTML5 or some other framework, that is not the the topic of…

by William Lam (noreply@blogger.com) at June 11, 2013 07:08 PM

Why Windows 2003 VMs suddenly lose network connectivity

VMware Front Experience (Andreas Peetz)

This blog post is really a drama. The location is the IT department of a medium sized or enterprise business, the characters are Infrastructure Administrators. Any resemblance to real persons and incidents is by far not coincidental, but fully intended.

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by Andreas Peetz (noreply@blogger.com) at June 11, 2013 07:06 PM

vCloud Hybrid Service - The "Cloud of Clouds"

VMware TV (VMware Videos [VMware])

Learn about the "Cloud of Clouds" concept - implemented by the VMware vCloud Hybrid Service.
From: vmwaretv
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by vmwaretv at June 11, 2013 05:55 PM

Re-taking Control of the Cloud with vCloud Hybrid Service

VMware TV (VMware Videos [VMware])

In recent years, business units have been leveraging commodity clouds to consume resources, introducing challenges for IT organizations. Learn how IT can re-...
From: vmwaretv
Views: 76
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by vmwaretv at June 11, 2013 05:55 PM

Building vs. Consuming the Cloud with vCloud Hybrid Service

VMware TV (VMware Videos [VMware])

View an overview of how to build and consume cloud using the VMware vCloud Hybrid Service.
From: vmwaretv
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by vmwaretv at June 11, 2013 05:55 PM

Network Virtualization in Action: NTT Communications

VMware Network Virtualization Blog (VMware Network Virtualization Team [VMware])

Today we are kicking off a new blog series called “Network Virtualization In Action” where we bring you the voice of the customer discussing their deployments or decisions around network virtualization. Now it goes without saying that Japan has always been … Continue reading

by Roger Fortier at June 11, 2013 05:30 PM

EMEA #vBrownbag – VCAP5-CIA Objective 1

vInfrastructure Blog (Andrea Mauro)

As you know the EMEA edition of #vBrownbag has started and it has covered the VCP on the Cloud and the EUC (or DT) path and some VCAP (for more information, see the full list of certification paths and my session at the #vBrownbag at VMworld). The next scheduled session is dedicated at VCAP5-CIA…

by amauro at June 11, 2013 05:00 PM

Architects of What's Next -- Tenured and New Employees -- One Passionate Community

VMware Careers YouTube (Life and Jobs at VMware [VMware])

It's about being passionate about your work and making an impact. See how new and tenured employees experience VMware life, work and culture while bringing i...
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by VMwareCareers at June 11, 2013 04:43 PM

Architects of What's Next -- vSphere -- Achieving Success Together

VMware Careers YouTube (Life and Jobs at VMware [VMware])

More than half of the world's datacenters run on VMware vSphere. This is both a profound impact and a huge responsibility to our customers. See how this team...
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by VMwareCareers at June 11, 2013 04:43 PM

Architects of What's Next -- Horizon Mobile -- Making the Impossible, Possible

VMware Careers YouTube (Life and Jobs at VMware [VMware])

Achieving the impossible and pushing boundaries to solve complex technological problems inspires VMware people. See how this team works to achieve success......
Views: 480
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by VMwareCareers at June 11, 2013 04:42 PM

VMware vCloud Hybrid Service KB Articles

VMware Support Insider

For those of you getting your feet wet with our new VMware vCloud Hybrid Service platform, we have the following Knowledgebase articles ready to help you get started. You are now armed to tackle the future. Adding, removing, and modifying … Continue reading

by Rick Blythe at June 11, 2013 04:39 PM

Release: Bromium vSentry 2.0

virtualization.info (Alessandro Perilli)

Bromium today released version 2.0 of its Security product based on the Xen hypervisor called vSentry. vSentry is a security product which uses a so called Microvisor which is a...

by Kenneth van Surksum at June 11, 2013 04:11 PM

vSphere USB Passthru and Autoconnect Devices and PowerCLI

mwpreston dot net (Michael Preston)

Wait!  I thought I had UPS plugged into my host and setup as passthru to my VM already!  Why can't I see it now?  What happened?  Who moved that external drive I had connected to my Veeam console to seed an offsite backup?  Ever find yourself asking yourself any of these questions…I certainly…

by Mike Preston at June 11, 2013 04:07 PM

Open Beta: VMware vCenter Log Insight v1.0

virtualization.info (Alessandro Perilli)

We just noticed, thanks to a tweet by Eric Sloof, that VMware’s new product for log management and analysis, VMware vCenter Log Insight, is now available in an Open Beta program....

by Massimo Ferrari at June 11, 2013 04:02 PM

Refer a Friend to the Potomac VMware User Conference and Win!

VMtoday.com (Joshua Townsend)

The Potomac Regional VMware User Conference is just a couple days away.  We still have room for more attendees, so we are offering a Refer-A-Friend reward for folks who get their IT associates to come out to our awesome, free, full-day customer-focused event. The day will offer in-depth technical…

by Josh Townsend at June 11, 2013 04:00 PM

Transforming IT Services is More Effective with Org Changes

VMware Cloud Ops Blog (VMware Cloud Ops Team [VMware])

By: Kevin Lees Last time, I wrote about the challenge of transforming a traditional IT Ops culture and the value of knowing what you’re up against. Now I want to suggest some specific organizational changes that – given those cultural … Continue reading

by Kevin Lees at June 11, 2013 04:00 PM

Storage news from Discover

Around the Storage Block (Zito & Siebert)

7450 at Discover small.jpgIt's guaranteed to be a busy week for HP Storage at Discover and we kicked off the fun this morning with our press conference.  Let me briefly tell you about what we announced and we'll dive deeper into the details over the next few weeks. 

HP 3PAR StoreServ 7450

A…

by CalvinZ at June 11, 2013 03:35 PM

Don’t get confused with vCD PAYG Model Resource Commitment

Stretch Cloud (Prasenjit Sarkar [VMware])

I know many of you must have not noticed this anomaly in the vCD UI while creating your Org VDC. So what am I talking about here. Well, we all know that there are three Allocation models in the VMware vCloud Director right? And one of the model is Pay-As-You-Go. … Continue reading

by jit2600 at June 11, 2013 03:30 PM

How Virtualizing Your Desktops Can Help You Protect Sensitive Data

VMware Consulting Blog (VMware Professional Services Team [VMware])

By Jeremy Wheeler, VMWare Professional Services Consultant As Ted and Mason mentioned in their video post last week, today’s IT staff faces many challenges involving security, cost, risk, and governance. I’d like to address one particular challenge associated with those: how … Continue…

by VMware Professional Services at June 11, 2013 03:30 PM

Replacing vCenter Operations Manager Certificate (vApp)

Zsoldier's Tech Blog (Chris Nakagaki)

Refer to this post for openssl info, then follow the steps here:

  1. Generate a certificate signing request
    1. openssl req -out vcops.csr -new -newkey rsa:2048 -nodes -keyout vcops.key
      • Answer the wizard questions appropriately for your environment.
      • This creates your Certificate request and generates…

by Chris Nakagaki (noreply@blogger.com) at June 11, 2013 04:12 PM

What Is Network Virtualization?

VMware Network Virtualization Blog (VMware Network Virtualization Team [VMware])

This post originally appeared on bradhedlund.com, Brad is an experienced networking professional in VMware’s Networking and Security Business Unit, specializing in network virtualization and data center fabrics. Data centers exist for the sole purpose to deploy applications. Applications that…

by Roger Fortier at June 11, 2013 03:00 PM

VMware vCenter Log Insight Beta available

Virtual Bits & Bytes (Niels Engelen)

VMware vCenter Log Insight delivers automated log management through log analytics, aggregation and search, extending VMware’s leadership in analytics to log data. With an integrated cloud operations management approach, it provides the operational intelligence and enterprise-wide visibility…

by Niels Engelen at June 11, 2013 01:32 PM

VMTurbo Operations Manager 4.0 Available with new storage extension and tiering support

ESX Virtualization (Vladan Seget)

VMturbo Operations Manager 4.0VMturbo announced today the availability of their multi-hypervisor management solution VMturbo Operations Manager 4.0.  Already last month, VMturbo brought changes to their free tool, which is based on the same “engine”. The free utility was renamed to Virtual…

by Vladan SEGET at June 11, 2013 01:26 PM

VMware vCenter Log Insight 1.0 public beta program opened

UP2V (Marcel van den Berg)

VMware opened  a public beta program  of a soon to be released new product named vCenter Log Insight at June 11. The product was originally developed by Pattern Insight which sold their product Log Insight to VMware in August 2012. VMware vCenter Log Insight delivers automated log management…

by Marcel van den Berg at June 11, 2013 01:04 PM

SDDC Automation and Orchestration

Virtualization Practice

The Orchestration and Automation layer of the Software Defined Data Center is where the benefits of the SDDC is translated are translated into working applications for end users and business constituents. Every Cloud Management Platform relies upon either a script or one of these automation…

by Bernd Harzog at June 11, 2013 01:01 PM

VMworld 2013 session accepted

virtual-blog.com (Dave Hill [VMware])


Another year another VMworld. I have just received the email telling me my VMworld 2013 session was accepted. It is a crazy ride working for VMware. Session: PHC4750 – How to Build a Hybrid Cloud in Less than a Day Presenters: David Hill Abstract: In this session we will discuss how you can build…

by David Hill at June 11, 2013 01:00 PM

Available now: VMware Technical Journal, Summer 2013

Yellow Bricks (Duncan Epping [VMware])


For those like me who love reading research papers by developers you might want to head over to labs.vmware.com as today a new version of the VMware Technical Journal was released, the summer 2013 edition. You can download it as a PDF on the website, or you can read the individual articles straight…

by Duncan Epping at June 11, 2013 12:56 PM

VAAI-NAS – Some snapshot chains are deeper than others

Cormac Hogan

This is something that was recently brought to my attention, and I wasn’t aware of this difference in behavior between the various storage vendors who implement VAAI-NAS. VAAI-NAS implements a number of different offload primitives, but the one we are Continue reading

by Cormac at June 11, 2013 12:49 PM

VMware vCenter Log Insight v1.0 Open Beta

NTPRO.NL (Eric Sloof)

<img>VMware vCenter Log Insight is the new solution of VMware for log management and analytics. It delivers superior technology for automated log management through log analytics, aggregation, and search, and an easy to use user interface. Log Insight provides the operational intelligence…

by nospam@example.com (Eric Sloof) at June 11, 2013 12:43 PM

Troubleshooting wiki

VMware Support Insider

We recently ran a survey that sampled customers who opened support requests with us, and one of the questions asked if you would be interested in a new troubleshooting wiki to supplement our other self-help resources. The results are in … Continue reading

by Rick Blythe at June 11, 2013 12:23 PM

‘There are no logon servers available’ – Rebuilding AD Laptop Remotely With VPN

vspecialist (Michael Poore)

A recent upgrade to my work laptop (replacing the standard SATA 250GB drive with a super fast 256GB OCZ Vector SSD) prompted me to rebuild my OS with a fresh copy of Windows 7 Professional x64. As you would expect, my work laptop is domain connected, so my main user profile is within the domain…

by Jeremy at June 11, 2013 12:21 PM

Introducing VMware vCenter Log Insight

Office of the CTO Blogs (VMware Office of the CTO [VMware])

Today VMware announced its latest analytics product, VMware vCenter Log Insight. The product enables you to easily perform advanced analytics on log data aggregated across your physical, virtualized and cloud infrastructure, leading to across the board improvements in IT metrics. Log Insight is…

June 11, 2013 11:59 AM

vCenter Server Appliance – some basic information

running-system.com (Andreas Lessihumer)

The vCenter Server Appliance (vSCA) is a great thing if you use it for a small environment. But there are some limitations you should know and take care of them. In this article you will find a short notice how to install the vSCA and a summary from the supported services and the limitations: How…

by admin at June 11, 2013 11:34 AM

New Book Project: Tweet sized vSphere Design Considerations – Call for Entries

Frank Denneman (frankdenneman.nl [VMware])

Today I am excited to announce our (Duncan and I) newest project. Over the next 7 days we will be gathering the best vSphere design considerations around and compiling it into a pocket-sized book. The current working title is “Tweet-sized vSphere design considerations”. As this book is created…

by Frank Denneman at June 11, 2013 11:30 AM

vCenter Log Insight Now Available

Technodrone (Maish Saidel-Keesing)

Hello World….

vCenter Log Insight (Release Notes) - The first public release of the new Log Management and Analytics product.

VMware vCenter Log Insight is the new solution of VMware for log management and analytics for dynamic hybrid cloud environments. It delivers superior technology for…

by Maish Saidel-Keesing (noreply@blogger.com) at June 11, 2013 12:11 PM

Thanks for making the book promotion a huge success!

Yellow Bricks (Duncan Epping [VMware])


I just want to thank everyone for making the vSphere 4.1 and vSphere 5.0 Clustering Deepdive book promotion a huge success. Thanks for sharing the news with your colleagues / friends / readers! Frank and I never expected that so many would be downloaded… As I said on facebook: vSphere 4.1 HA/DRS…

by Duncan Epping at June 11, 2013 08:07 AM

Top 3 Skills Your IT Team Needs to Prepare for the Cloud

Yellow Bricks (Duncan Epping [VMware])


I just wrote an article for the vCloud blog which is titled “Top 3 Skills Your IT Team Needs to Prepare for the Cloud“. Although it is far less technical then I normally post here, it might still be worth a read for those who are considering a private or hybrid cloud, and even consuming … …

by Duncan Epping at June 11, 2013 07:09 AM

VMware vCloud – Public Cloud Options

viktorious.nl (Viktor van den Berg)

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With the launch of VMware's vCloud Hybrid Service you now have three options available when discussing VMware public cloud options:
  1. VMware vCloud Powered - Available through a lot of different partners throughout the world.
  2. VMware vCloud Datacenter - Offered by a few big…

by viktorious at June 11, 2013 06:33 AM

June 10, 2013

Florida Disney Villa 15% discount for 2013

virtual-blog.com (Dave Hill [VMware])


If you want to stay in our Florida Disney Villa for a 15% discount in 2013, you have come to the right place. This is a rather unusual post for my site, and nothing virtualization related. I am offering a 15% discount on the remaining days to stay at our Florida villa.  For anyone wanting to stay…

by David Hill at June 10, 2013 11:47 PM

vExperts Weekly Digest – June 10th 2013

Thankfully the RAID saved us. (Gabriel Chapman)

It’s time yet again for another  episode of vExperts Weekly Digest. This week, finds us hot on the heels of the 2013 vExpert nominations where over 577 vExperts were awarded status. Make sure you check out Jeramiah Dooley’s breakdown of this years group. Also this week finds the us with the…

by Gabriel at June 10, 2013 08:54 PM

Abracadabra! Horizon Mirage 4.2 Help Desk web console for fulfilling user requests

VMware End User Computing (VMware EUC Team [VMware])

VMware Horizon Mirage 4.2 includes a new web console for Help Desk personnel to fulfill user requests.

by Tina de Benedictis at June 10, 2013 08:20 PM

The vCloud Suite Digest (June, 2013) with Pang Chen and Mike Laverick

VMware vSphere Blog

With contributions from our esteemed colleagues:  Tomas Fojta, Michael Haines, Ray Budavari, Scott Harrison, Francois Misiak, Adrian Roberts, Raghvender Arni, Les Major, Jesse Schachter, Jagan Raghu This month we have several trick and tips from everything from vCloud Director transfer … Continue…

by Tom Stephens at June 10, 2013 07:29 PM

Top 3 Skills Your IT Team Needs to Prepare for the Cloud

VMware vCloud Blog (vCloud Team [VMware])

By: Duncan Epping, Principal Architect VMware R&D A question that arises often during conversations about the adoption of cloud computing is what kind of skills are required for a successful adoption of a public, private or hybrid cloud deployment. First … Continue reading

by vCloud Team at June 10, 2013 06:15 PM

London VMUG – July 4th 2013

Jonathan Medd's Blog (Jonathan Medd)

The next London VMUG will take place on July 4th 2013 and it looks like a great line up as usual. I’m particularly looking forward to hearing the session about some real world experiences with vCenter SSO. I also heard a rumour that there may be a few copies of a new vCloud book given [...]

by Jonathan Medd at June 10, 2013 06:13 PM

ESXi Google Authenticator Is Now A VMware Fling!

virtuallyGhetto (William Lam)

Earlier this year I wrote an article about using Google's Authenticator application to provide 2-Factor Authentication for connecting to ESXi using either the ESXi Shell locally or remotely over SSH. I also documented the process for compiling and building your own custom ESXi VIB with…

by William Lam (noreply@blogger.com) at June 10, 2013 06:55 PM

The Convergence of IT and Communications

VMware End User Computing (VMware EUC Team [VMware])

by Geoffrey Murase, Solutions Marketing, End-User Computing This past week I had the opportunity to attend the International Avaya User Group (IAUG) conference in Orlando, Florida.  The name of the conference was aptly titled “Converge2013” and brought together almost 3,000 … Continue reading

by Sarah Semple at June 10, 2013 04:00 PM

VIB module for agent is not installed on host (vShield-VXLAN-service)

Virtualization Team (Eiad Al-Aqqad [VMware])

While delivering a vCloud engagement to one of our enterprise customers using the latest vCloud Director 5.1.2 and vCloud Networking & Security 5.1.2a, my VXLAN configuration where failing at the stage where its preparing the hosts. I followed the same steps I have used for other customers and in my…

by Eiad Al-Aqqad at June 10, 2013 03:47 PM

Free vSphere Instructional Videos Detailing Snapshot Best Practices

VMware Education & Certification Blog (Education Team [VMware])

VMware Certified Instructor, Joe Desmond, details the best practices in using Snapshot functionality including:  vSphere Snapshot Overview describes tool to support guest O/S administration vSphere Anatomy of Snapshot – describing the snapshot process vSphere Power Tools Come with Big Warning …

by Elaine Sherwood at June 10, 2013 03:17 PM

BlueStacks uses virtualization to run iOS apps on Android-powered GamePop console

InfoWorld Virtualization Report (David Marshall)

Virtualization doesn't always have to be about administrators in khaki pants and polo shirts splicing up physical servers into many virtual servers behind data center walls. The technology can provide end-users with a bit of fun as well.

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by David Marshall at June 10, 2013 03:05 PM

Charlotte VMUG vOpenData Presentation Posted + New Stats

virtuallyGhetto (William Lam)

Last week I had the privilege to attend the Carolina Users Summit and from what I hear, it is one of the larger VMUGs in the US. I was asked to give a presentation on a recent community project that I collaborated with Ben Thomas on called vOpenData. The presentation goes into some background on the…

by William Lam (noreply@blogger.com) at June 10, 2013 03:47 PM

VMware KB Digest – New Articles Published for Week Ending 6/8/13

VMware Tips (Rick Scherer)

In our effort to provide our viewers with up to the minute information on VMware related news and topics, we’re posting the following list of new KB Entries for this week, direct from VMware Support. My VMware VMware vSphere Operations Management and VMware vCloud Suite Licensing (2052829) Date…

by Rick Scherer at June 10, 2013 02:34 PM

Going to VMworld? Get Certified!

Virtual Langer (Jason Langer)


For those that have experienced VMworld first hand, you know how great of an event it is (doesn’t seem fair to just call it a conference) and that VMware rolls out all the stops to keeps folks coming back year after year. Well this year is no exception, last week VMware announced (post HERE) that…

by Jason at June 10, 2013 02:00 PM

Howto run the vClient on Mac OS X (or Linux)

vuemuer.it (Luca Dell'Oca)

TweetIt’s now common knowledge the vSphere Web Client is the main and preferred client VMware want us to use. Apart the resistance of users to adopt new tools, there are also two clear situations where you still need the Windows Client: the configuration of an ESXi server not connected to vCenter,…

by Luca Dell'Oca at June 10, 2013 02:00 PM

vCloud Director Lease Times Explained: Runtime vs Storage

Wahl Network (Chris Wahl)


I’ve had a fair number of folks ask me specifically what the functional differences are between runtime and storage leases in vCloud Director 5.1. More specifically – how do the various timers work, especially for an active vApp that tends to change states frequently. In this post, I’ll go…

by Chris Wahl at June 10, 2013 02:00 PM

A New Voice In Networking – The Network Virtualization Blog

VMware Network Virtualization Blog (VMware Network Virtualization Team [VMware])

Martin Casado, chief architect of networking here at VMware, probably made the understatement of the year in his blog post ahead of Interop Las Vegas when he wrote, “It is a very exciting time to be in networking…” The fact … Continue reading

by Roger Fortier at June 10, 2013 02:00 PM

The Symbiosis Between Automation and Engineering

blog.scottlowe.org (Scott Lowe)

Is more automation always a good thing? Or should engineering and automation strike a balance? Read the full post for my thoughts.

This article was originally posted on blog.scottlowe.org. Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies.

The…

by slowe at June 10, 2013 01:00 PM

Announcing vCloud Automation Center 5.2

VMware Virtualization Management Blog (VMware Tech Marketing Team [VMware])

vCloud Automation Center empowers IT to rapidly deploy, provision and manage cloud services across multi-vendor virtual, physical, and public cloud infrastructures.  vCloud Automation Center delivers a flexible framework that transforms existing infrastructure, tools and processes into a scalable…

by Rich Bourdeau at June 10, 2013 12:48 PM

Repairing orphaned VMs after an ESXi host got permanently lost

viktorious.nl (Viktor van den Berg)

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After a complete shutdown of an ESXi environment, I had some issues with one ESXi host while attempting to start it. The SD card containing the ESXi image became corrupted, which forced me to replace the SD card and reinstall ESXi. After the installation and configuration of the host…

by viktorious at June 10, 2013 12:30 PM

DevOps and Security

Virtualization Practice

I recently read the book Project Phoenix by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, and George Spafford. If you are in development, IT, and Security it should be #1 on your reading list. In this book the authors discuss all the horrors we hear about in IT with a clear direction on how to fix them. There is politics,…

by Edward Haletky at June 10, 2013 12:28 PM

VMware WSX 1.1 Released – Check It Out

ESX Virtualization (Vladan Seget)

VMware WSXVMware WSX 1.1 Beta release is available. For those of you who don’t know what’s WSX is. It’s basically a possibility to access VMs that runs under VMware Workstation, remotely by using just a web browser. This opens possibilities for tablets, and an access from different OS without…

by Vladan SEGET at June 10, 2013 12:00 PM

VMware Horizon View PowerCLI Commands Fail After Updating to Version 5.2

VirtualVCP (Rynardt Spies)

After updating my View environment to version 5.2, I noticed that my PowerCLI scripts that I run on the View Connection Server keep failing. After looking into the issue I found that each script execution fails when trying to load the snap-in for View PowerCLI into PowerShell with the following…

June 10, 2013 11:58 AM

2013-06-06 ProfessionalVMware #vBrownBag LATAM #VCAP DCA 6.2 – Troubleshoot CPU Performance @elnemesisdivina

Professional VMware (Cody Bunch)

The following content is in Spanish, the language in which the webinar is presented. El pasado 6 de junio 2013 en ProfessionalVMware #vBrownBag LATAM @elnemesisdivina presentó el tema #VCAP DCA6.2 Troubleshoot CPU & Memory Performance

by kylemurley at June 10, 2013 11:42 AM

What is Nutanix?

viktorious.nl (Viktor van den Berg)

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Last week Nutanix held their "Star Trek into Darkness product presentation tour" in Pathe cinema Amsterdam. It was one of the last locations in this world wide tour. Both the product presentation as well as the movie was a big success....in case you missed it: Star Trek into Darkness…

by viktorious at June 10, 2013 07:08 AM

Tip For Tech Bloggers: Easy Way to Document Command History

DoubleCloud (Steve Jin [VMware])

While writing technical blogs, it’s always nice to include commands and scripts that readers can try on their own. I find it a bit challenging to accurately document these in steps while intensively testing or debugging something by myself. There are actually commands that faithfully list all the…

by Steve Jin at June 10, 2013 05:14 AM

New View Composer Behavior in View 5.2

IT Blood Pressure (Dwayne Lessner)

It wasn’t till going over some docs and re-reading Horizon View Multi-VLAN Explained that it dawned on me that View Composer no longer overwrites a desktop’s network label on refresh and recompose. If the network label(port group) was set to automatic or even if you change the network label…

by dlessner at June 10, 2013 04:11 AM

IT isn't worrying about "data leakage." Thanks to Consumerization, IT is praying for "data ingestion!"

Brian Madden Blog

In today's world, enterprise data isn't in the enterprise. It's created with a camera, Google Docs, or Evernote. I mean think about Evernote from an employee's perspective. Every thought goes straight into Evernote, and the user picks and chooses what...(read more)<img><img>

by Brian Madden at June 10, 2013 04:03 AM

Red Hat Summit 2013: Why attend

vInfrastructure Blog (Andrea Mauro)

Red Hat Summit is the premier open source technology event to showcase the latest and greatest in cloud computing, platform, virtualization, middleware, storage, and systems management technologies. The Summit and JBoss World 2013 edition will be on June 11 – 14, 2013 at the Hynes Center in…

by amauro at June 10, 2013 02:30 AM

Thanks to VMware and John Troyer specifically for allowing me to...

blog.virtualtacit.com (Joe Kelly)

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Thanks to VMware and John Troyer specifically for allowing me to continue my journey along side my fellow VMware vExpert’s. There are old timers and newcomers, two timer’s to five timer’s, all talents and evangelist in their own right. At the end of the day, our goal is to push the…

June 10, 2013 12:23 AM

June 09, 2013

vSoup Shouting with the Whisperers #34

vSoup podcast (Dearden, Czerwin, & Mohn)

Two thirds of the Geek Whisperers Podcast join is for a decidedly non-techie serving of vSoup.

For some reason John Troyer snubbed us, but hey, we can´t really complain since both Amy Lewis and Matthew Brender graced us with their presence.

Naturally we get into a social media, [...]

by Chris Dearden / Ed Czerwin / Christian Mohn at June 09, 2013 07:41 PM

vCenter Operations Manager - The GEO Dashboard Widget

NTPRO.NL (Eric Sloof)

In this video you will see how to group Resources by GEO location and activate the dashboard widget. Depending on your environment, you might want to group some or all of your resources according to their physical location. When resources are grouped according to their physical location, you can see…

by nospam@example.com (Eric Sloof) at June 09, 2013 05:05 PM

New training – EMC Storage Essentials. Haven’t tried TrainSignal yet?

ESX Virtualization (Vladan Seget)

TrainSignal Offline PlayerTrainSignal has released EMC Storage Essentials, which is new training covering EMC’s VNX technology. TrainSignal with their latest offering allows to “consume” training courses, as a training-on-demand. It means that you no longer buy an individual courses, but…

by Vladan SEGET at June 09, 2013 09:59 AM

June 08, 2013

The Nokia Lumia 920 Experience

Blue Shift Blog (Kevin Kelling)

Recently I was given the opportunity to test drive Nokia’s flagship phone – the Nokia Lumia 920 (Engadget Readers Choice 2012) and I thought I would share some highlights from the user experience.  My current phone is a HTC EVO 4G LTE which is quite similar in specs, but for many functions I…

by Kevin at June 08, 2013 04:24 PM

VMware Cloud Credibility: One-Stop-Shop To Learn About Cloud!

vXpress (Sunny Dua [VMware])

A few days back I was listening to VMware Communities Roundtable Podcast hosted by John Mark Troyer who works for VMware as a Director for the social media evangelist group. The podcast was of great interest to me as it discussed the VMware vExpert 2013 rewardees.

In-fact, once the results…

by Sunny Dua (noreply@blogger.com) at June 08, 2013 04:49 PM

VMware Communities Roundtable Podcast – Show Notes 233 – Bring Your Own Blog

VMTN Blog (Technical News [VMware])

Hosts John Mark Troyer, VMware @jtroyer Guests You – The Community! News Don’t miss VMworld 2013 (10th annual) Veeam announces Backup and Replication 7 for VMware WorldPay Deploys VMware Network Virtualization to Enable User Self-Provisioning And Support Around-the-Clock Application Development…

by Angelo Luciani at June 08, 2013 03:47 PM

VMware starts new marketing campaign against Microsoft Hyper-V

UP2V (Marcel van den Berg)

Once in a while either Microsoft or VMware starts a marketing campaign against the other competitor. We have seen many of those campaigns Microsoft last year run the VM limited campaign using a guy called Ted. The website vm-limited.com directs now to another campagne.  There was an action by…

by Marcel van den Berg at June 08, 2013 11:58 AM

WSX 1.1 beta is released, with bookmarkable VMs!

ChipLog (Christian Hammond [VMware])

I’ve been pretty quiet on the WSX front since the release of WSX 1.0. A lot of work has been put into taking this from a prototype to something more solid, more functional. Yesterday, we released a beta of WSX 1.1, which takes a big step in that direction, improving the reliability and access to…

by chipx86 at June 08, 2013 06:41 AM

June 07, 2013

Learning Points From PowerShell Scripting Games Event #4

Jonathan Medd's Blog (Jonathan Medd)

Event 4 for the PowerShell Scripting Games 2013 has closed, here are a few learning points I picked up on from entries submitted. 1) Random AD Users The first part of this event is to work with 20 randomly selected users from Active Directory. Initial thoughts might be that this is pretty…

by Jonathan Medd at June 07, 2013 10:15 PM

TrainSignal Course Released: EMC Storage Essentials!

blog.virtualtacit.com (Joe Kelly)

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I am very pleased to announce the release of my first course (of many I hope) with the always spectacular TrainSignal. As of today, EMC Storage Essentials is now available for consumption. That’s assuming you have an all you can eat subscription from TrainSignal. Which if you don’t, you…

June 07, 2013 08:31 PM

Five VMware home lab ideas for beginner to advanced users

VMware tips and tricks (SearchVMware.com)

These tips will help you build everything from a starter VMware home lab to a vTARDIS vSphere lab or one that can host vCloud Suite.

by Meredith Courtemanche(mcourtemanche@techtarget.com at June 07, 2013 07:52 PM

Conccurrent User Licensing for VMware Horizon Suite

VMtoday.com (Joshua Townsend)

VMware has made some changes to the Horizon Suite licensing since our last post about VMware’s Horizon Suite licensing and promotions. The changes are included in the VMware End-User Computing Licensing, Pricing and Packaging Whitepaper, but are not well called out. Here’s what you need to know…

by Josh Townsend at June 07, 2013 06:41 PM

Cool Tech: Pebble watch

Virtu-Al (Alan Renouf)


Yesterday I finally received my Pebble which I ordered a while back when they were in their Kickstarter phase of “Should we do this?” – I for one am glad they did as it’s a great device! For those of you who are not aware, a Pebble is a cool watch witch uses Bluetooth to [...]

Cool Tech:…

by Alan at June 07, 2013 06:28 PM

vFabric Enterprise Ready Server to End of Life

VMware vFabric Blog (VMware vFabric Team [VMware])

The End of Life (EOL) process has begun for vFabric Enterprise Ready Server (ERS).  The end of availability date is July 1, 2013, after which ERS will no longer be available for purchase. After this date, existing customers will be … Continue reading

by Stacey Schneider at June 07, 2013 04:04 PM

High Availability By Design with vCloud Hybrid Service

VMware TV (VMware Videos [VMware])

With vCloud Hybrid Service, you no longer need to re-architect your application when moving workloads. Learn about high availability by design in the vCloud ...
From: vmwaretv
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by vmwaretv at June 07, 2013 03:24 PM

Service Offerings of vCloud Hybrid Service

VMware TV (VMware Videos [VMware])

Learn about the details of the two service offerings for VMware vCloud Hybrid Service -- Dedicated and Virtual Private Cloud.
From: vmwaretv
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by vmwaretv at June 07, 2013 03:23 PM

VMware vCloud Hybrid Service UI Demo

VMware TV (VMware Videos [VMware])

View a comprehensive demonstration of the VMware vCloud Hybrid Service user interface. Learn how to get a resource snapshot of your environment, purchased vs...
From: vmwaretv
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by vmwaretv at June 07, 2013 03:23 PM

The Hybrid Cloud Opportunity with VMware

VMware TV (VMware Videos [VMware])

VMware customers, partners, and analysts share their concerns, hopes, and enthusiasm about current and future cloud offerings.
From: vmwaretv
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by vmwaretv at June 07, 2013 03:20 PM

Attend VMware View: Design Best Practices in June and Save 15%

VMware Education & Certification Blog (Education Team [VMware])

If you’ve started a VMware View design project, or are starting one soon, you’ll want to take advantage of an opportunity to get some great guidance at discounted savings. VMware View: Design Best Practices presents a methodology for designing a VMware … Continue reading

by Angela Guzman at June 07, 2013 03:15 PM

Charlotte VMware User Summit and a little restaurant review

solutionsarchitect (Michael Letschin)

I was fortunate to spend the last couple days at the Charlotte VMware User Summit.  For those of you not familar, the User Summits or Conferences are larger regional and all day conferences for the VMware Users Group.  I happen to be one of the leaders for the Washington DC group, and have been…

by mletschin at June 07, 2013 02:51 PM

VMworld 2013 Sessions

Punching Clouds (Rawlinson Rivera [VMware])

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Well its official, the word is out. VMworld 2013 sessions have been announced and from the looks of it I will be attending both US and Barcelona again this year (hopefully I won’t fall a sleep everywhere in…

by Rawlinson at June 07, 2013 02:44 PM

VMworld 2013 US/EMEA – VCM4875: Getting Started with vCenter Orchestrator

vSential (James Bowling)

I am very excited to announce that I had a session accepted for presentation at both VMworld US and EMEA this year!  I will be presenting with my good friend Thomas Corfmat (@tcorfmat), Senior Product Manager at VMware.  This session will take you through the steps for deploying/configuring vCO,…

by James Bowling at June 07, 2013 02:00 PM

The Doctor is IN on SRM, Upgrade to vSphere 5.1, vCSA and VCAP-DCA

Gabe's Virtual World (Gabrie van Zanten)

A few days ago I blogged about my new idea in this post: “The Doctor is: IN” and I received a lot of positive comments and even my first request for assistance. So… here we go !!! Tonight ( June 7th ) at 19:00 CEST the first session will go live. That is, if Google [...]

See full post at: The…

by Gabrie van Zanten at June 07, 2013 01:20 PM

Ask The Expert VCDXs Panel at VMworld 2013 US

Wahl Network (Chris Wahl)


This is the week that session accept and decline emails were sent out for the VMworld session catalog. I’m very excited to share that panel session VSVC4570 entitled “Ask the Expert VCDXs” was accepted! Here’s the overview of the session: “One of the highest rated sessions at VMworld is…

by Chris Wahl at June 07, 2013 01:09 PM

Reducing the Friction: Automating File Management

blog.scottlowe.org (Scott Lowe)

This post describes how I use Hazel, an OS X utility, to help automate some file management tasks.

This article was originally posted on blog.scottlowe.org. Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies.

Reducing the Friction: Automating…

by slowe at June 07, 2013 01:00 PM

Database as a Service: Agility vs. Control

Virtualization Practice

Over the last few years there has been an increase in the number of database as a service (DBaaS) offerings that have entered the market place. IaaS providers like Amazon have released solutions such as RDS that automates database administration tasks in the area of scaling, replication, failover,…

by Mike Kavis at June 07, 2013 12:41 PM

VMware vCloud on NetApp Flexpod

Think©Loud (Martijn Baecke)

Source : Vaugh Stewart (NetApp) Blog  

by martijn at June 07, 2013 12:41 PM

What is the value of brand “You”?

vDestination (Greg Stuart)

This is a guest post by vExpert Jane Rimmer <As technology users, implementors, evangelists, etc. we are bombarded with brands from vendors in our sector and, as consumers, we are continuously targeted by brands tempting us to buy their products. But have you ever considered yourself as a brand?…

by gregwstuart at June 07, 2013 12:23 PM

Not chosen for VMworld? Run a #vBrownBag session

Virtual Bits & Bytes (Niels Engelen)

Yesterday the VMworld team send out e-mails to everyone whose session got chosen. As always there are people who submit a session and hear the news that sadly their session didn’t make it. Did you submit a session, got rejected but still want to share it? Run a #vBrownBag session! The…

by Niels Engelen at June 07, 2013 07:53 AM

See you at VMworld 2013 San Francisco and Barcelona!

Yellow Bricks (Duncan Epping [VMware])


I just received the news that I have sessions accepted for both VMworld 2013 San Francisco and Barcelona. Session ID: BCO4872 Speakers: Lee Dilworth, Duncan Epping Session Title: Operating and Architecting a vSphere Metro Storage Cluster based infrastructure Track: Business Continuity Presenting…

by Duncan Epping at June 07, 2013 07:41 AM

VMware announcing the launch of Horizon Mirage 4.2

That's My View (Christoph Harding [VMware])

VMware has announced a new version of Horizon Mirage which should be launched shortly. The new version offers great new features. A main optimization is the improvement for the Endpoint centralization. VMware has modified Mirage so that the total number of IOPS required is reduced. This will lead…

by Christoph Harding at June 07, 2013 07:33 AM

vSphere Data Protection (VDP) 5.1.11 and VDP Advanced 5.1.21 Released

VMware vSphere Blog

Updates for vSphere Data Protection and vSphere Data Protection Advanced were released today. These updates fix a number of issues that exist in previous versions. For a complete list of resolved issues, please see the release notes: vSphere Data Protection 5.1.11 … Continue reading

by Jeff Hunter at June 07, 2013 03:59 AM

IBM Edge 2013: Why attend

vInfrastructure Blog (Andrea Mauro)

IBM Edge is the IBM’s premier Storage and Optimized IT Solutions event. The IBM Edge 2013 edition will be held June 10-14, 2013 in Las Vegas, Nevada (at Mandalay Bay Resort) and will will bring together over 3500 IT professionals from all industries to sharpen expertise, discover new innovations,…

by amauro at June 07, 2013 02:00 AM

The On-Demand Services Effect

VMware Accelerate (Accelerate Team [VMware])

Author: Michael Francis  A business model describes the rationale of how an organisation creates, delivers, and captures value.1 When I consider the way on-demand services has changed business models, I think of the traditional retail model, which was a bricks-and-mortar … Continue reading

by Heidi Pate at June 07, 2013 12:56 AM

June 06, 2013

Roll call: Bloggers coming to HP Discover

Around the Storage Block (Zito & Siebert)

8246400079_1e22e1f5c5_z.jpgP1100287sm.jpgAs is my semi-annual tradition, I want to let you know who the bloggers are that we'll be hosting at HP Discover.  Most of these guys have day jobs and take time off of work to join us at our event. I like to promote them so that you'll visit their blogs and…

by CalvinZ at June 06, 2013 08:57 PM

vCenter Server database, extreme maintenance

Adventures in a Virtual World (Paul Grevink)

Recently, I was asked to investigate a vCenter Server 5.0 having issues with its database. As a result, the “VMware Virtual Center Server” service stopped and vSphere Clients were losing connectivity. The vCenter Server was running on a Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Express Edition. Although not…

by paulgrevink at June 06, 2013 08:00 PM

Finding ESXi compatibility beyond VMware's Hardware Compatibility Guide

VMware tips and tricks (SearchVMware.com)

If a server isn't on the hallowed VMware Hardware Compatibility Guide, that doesn't mean it won't support ESXi. But it's a tough road to verification.

by Trevor Pott(editor@searchvmware.com at June 06, 2013 07:16 PM

Announcing Horizon Mirage 4.2!

VMware End User Computing (VMware EUC Team [VMware])

by Hanan Stein, Product Management, End-User Computing Today, VMware is pleased to announce the launch of the latest edition of VMware® Horizon Mirage™: the Horizon Mirage 4.2 release. In Horizon Mirage 4.2 VMware has made major storage performance improvements which greatly reduces the time…

by Sarah Semple at June 06, 2013 07:12 PM

Join us for the Minneapolis VMUG User Conference

myvirtualcloud.net (Andre Leibovici)

      If you are in the Minneapolis area make sure you attend the Minneapolis VMUG User Conference. The event is scheduled for Tuesday, Jun 11th 2013 at the Minneapolis Airport Marriott. I am honored to present the keynote of the day with a session entitled “End-User Computing Vision for the…

by Andre Leibovici at June 06, 2013 06:59 PM

#21 History of VMworld HOL

Datacenter Dude (Nick Howell)

    On this episode of the NetApp Communities Podcast, I bring back an old interview from 2011 to remind everyone how awesome the VMworld Hands-On-Labs are, and always have been, and give you an inside-scoop interview with one of it’s creators, Irish Spring, who gives an amazing detailed recount…

by Nick Howell, NetApp at June 06, 2013 05:54 PM

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