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May 21, 2012

Release: Oravle VM Server for x86 3.1

virtualization.info (Alessandro Perilli)

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

by Massimo Ferrari at May 21, 2012 06:16 PM

[US] #vBrownBag – VCAP-DCA Objective 9

Professional VMware (Cody Bunch)

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

by bunchc at May 21, 2012 04:45 PM

vChat – Episode 27 – Live from the Charlotte VMware User Group

VMware Videos (David Davis)

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

by David Davis and Eric Siebert at May 21, 2012 04:30 PM

VMware is Hiring - Munich, Germany

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

VMware is hiring! In diesem YouTube video sehen Sie Mitarbeiter unseres VMware Managementteams in unserem münchner Büro und wie sie unsere Kultur und VMware als Arbeitgeber beschreiben. Informieren Sie sich über unsere Vakanzen in Deutschland: ow.ly Unsere…

by VMwareCareers at May 21, 2012 04:27 PM

VMware shows marketing muscles against Microsoft

UP2V (Marcel van den Berg)

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

by Marcel van den Berg at May 21, 2012 03:22 PM

Top storage sessions at HP Discover

Around the Storage Block (Zito & Siebert)

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

by CalvinZ at May 21, 2012 03:16 PM

VMware shows View 5.1 performance improvements

virtualization.info (Alessandro Perilli)

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

by virtualization.info Staff at May 21, 2012 03:13 PM

Oracle ups the server virtualization ante with Oracle VM 3.1

InfoWorld Virtualization Report (David Marshall)

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

by David Marshall at May 21, 2012 02:54 PM

VCAP5-DCD study guides

vInfrastructure Blog (Andrea Mauro)

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

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

Read more on VCAP5-DCD study guides…

by amauro at May 21, 2012 02:52 PM

Holy EMC Mega Launch II Batman!

Virtual Geek (Chad Sakac)

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

by Chad Sakac at May 21, 2012 02:50 PM

Isilon X400 and Mavericks

Virtual Geek (Chad Sakac)

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

by Chad Sakac at May 21, 2012 02:46 PM

VNX Inyo is going to blow some minds.

Virtual Geek (Chad Sakac)

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

by Chad Sakac at May 21, 2012 02:45 PM

Stretched vSphere Clusters? DR with SRM? Why not BOTH?

Virtual Geek (Chad Sakac)

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

by Chad Sakac at May 21, 2012 02:44 PM

VMAX 40K+5876 = (Powerful, Trusted, Smart) ^ More

Virtual Geek (Chad Sakac)

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

by Chad Sakac at May 21, 2012 02:43 PM

DRS clusters and allocating reserved memory

Frank Denneman (frankdenneman.nl [VMware])

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

by Frank Denneman at May 21, 2012 02:18 PM

New Cloudcast (.NET) - PaaS Meets Data Gravity

blog.aarondelp.com (Aaron Delp)

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


by noreply@blogger.com (Aaron Delp) at May 21, 2012 02:04 PM

Convert a virtual disk from IDE to SCSI

vuemuer.it (Luca Dell'Oca)

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

by Luca at May 21, 2012 02:00 PM

Replace SSL Cert Emulex OCM for VMware with a signed one.

Zsoldier's Tech Blog (Chris Nakagaki)

SSL Certs are something of an enigma that have always eluded my proper understanding.  So I took it upon myself to figure this one out.
Summary:
Replace default OCM cert w/ one that is CA signed.  Click below to continue.
PreReqs:
  1. Windows Server (VM Preferred) <-- OCM uses windows
  2. Emulex OCM for…

by Chris Nakagaki (noreply@blogger.com) at May 21, 2012 02:49 PM

A closer look at the View Composer API for Array Integration [incl. Video]

VMware vSphere Blog

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

by Chogan at May 21, 2012 01:32 PM

CloudOne Hosts IBM Rational Tools in the Cloud

VMware Global Alliances Blog (VMware Alliances Team [VMware])

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

by VMware Alliances Team at May 21, 2012 01:22 PM

VMware View 5.1 Tech Preview - A deeper look at the View Composer API for Array Integration (VCAI)

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

blogs.vmware.com - In this video you will get a demonstration of the View Composer API for Array Integration in VMware View 5.1 which is currently in a "Tech Preview" state. "Tech Preview" implies…

by VMwareKB at May 21, 2012 01:18 PM

How to Deploy an OVF/OVA in the ESXi Shell

virtuallyGhetto (William Lam)

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

by William (noreply@blogger.com) at May 21, 2012 02:01 PM

Reining The Risks of Consumerization

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

By Ben Goodman, Lead Evangelist, VMware Horizon Application Manager This is the first of a blog series on the Consumerization of IT, it's effect and how it can be managed successfully. It will be followed by a whitepaper on this topic. As we noted in our last post, for many reasons, the…

by VMTN at May 21, 2012 01:00 PM

Heading for Gluecon 2012

View Yonder (Steve Chambers)

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

by Steve Chambers at May 21, 2012 12:58 PM

Random ESXi LUN loss in an 8Gb FC Brocade infrastructure

Virtual Kenneth (Kenneth van Ditmarsch [VMware])

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

by Kenneth van Ditmarsch at May 21, 2012 12:53 PM

PowerCLI: Copy Datastore Items

ICT-Freak.nl (Arne Fokkema)

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

by afokkema at May 21, 2012 12:49 PM

Next Generation Thin Clients – Cheaper, Faster, Better

Virtualization Practice

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

by Simon Bramfitt at May 21, 2012 12:00 PM

Install app on Citrix server - change user

Virtual Infrastructure Tips (Jakob Fabritius N¿rregaard)

This is mostly a reminder to myself as I seem to forget the syntax.

When installing applications on a Citrix server in production, you need to change to install mode. After installation the mode has to be changed back to 'execute'.

From CMD prompt:

Install mode:

change user /install

Execute mode:

change…

by Jakob Fabritius Nørregaard (noreply@blogger.com) at May 21, 2012 12:55 PM

14 Common Virtualization Mistakes – And How To Avoid Them

ESX Virtualization (Vladan Seget)

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

by Vladan SEGET at May 21, 2012 10:10 AM

HA split brain, which VM prevails?

VMware vSphere Blog

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

by Duncan Epping at May 21, 2012 10:08 AM

VCAP5-DCD - registration is now open!

VMware Training and Certification (Scott Vessey)

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

I've blogged previously about the beta exam, the exam format, and the paths for…

by noreply@blogger.com (Scott Vessey) at May 21, 2012 09:09 AM

May 20, 2012

Spring (May) 2012 StorageIO news letter

StorageIO Blog (Greg Schulz)

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

by Greg Schulz at May 20, 2012 10:48 PM

EMCs first Ivy Bridge based storage array!

Virtual Geek (Chad Sakac)

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

by Chad Sakac at May 20, 2012 06:39 PM

Updated: What's the deal with EMC CX arrays not supporting VAAI with vSphere 5.0?

VMware Front Experience (Andreas Peetz)

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

by Andreas Peetz (noreply@blogger.com) at May 20, 2012 05:46 PM

Various cloud, virtualization, server, storage I/O poll’s

StorageIO Blog (Greg Schulz)

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

by Greg Schulz at May 20, 2012 04:26 PM

Top Free Courses from VMware Education

ESX Virtualization (Vladan Seget)

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

by Vladan SEGET at May 20, 2012 01:12 PM

Weekly Twitter Updates

Virtualization Information (Shannon Snowden)

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

by ssnowden at May 20, 2012 08:10 AM

May 19, 2012

[APAC] #vBrownBag Follow-Up – VCAP5-DCD Wrap-Up

Professional VMware (Cody Bunch)

Video Slides Links http://frankdenneman.nl/2010/12/node-interleaving-enable-or-disable/ http://frankdenneman.nl/2011/01/amd-magny-cours-and-esx/

by bunchc at May 19, 2012 09:12 PM

Link Dump 5/19/12

Professional VMware (Cody Bunch)

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

by bunchc at May 19, 2012 09:08 PM

Registration is now open for the VCAP5-DCD Exam

NTPRO.NL (Eric Sloof)

VMware Certified Advanced Professional on vSphere 5 – Datacenter Design (VCAP5-DCD)

VCAP5-DCD is designed for IT architects who design and integrate VMware solutions in multi-site, large enterprise, virtualized environments. Successful candidates possess a deep understanding of datacenter design…

by nospam@example.com (Eric Sloof) at May 19, 2012 06:57 PM

vCenter Operations for View now available

vmwmanagement (Brad Desilets [VMware])

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

by braddez20 at May 19, 2012 03:36 PM

Technical Marketing Update 2012 - Week 20

VMTN Blog (Technical News [VMware])

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

by Duncan Epping at May 19, 2012 03:07 PM

VCAP5-DCA: Objective 4.2

The Saffa Geek (Gregg Robertson)

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

by Gregg Robertson at May 19, 2012 02:00 PM

Vblock gravity: the more you converge, the bigger the benefit

View Yonder (Steve Chambers)

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

by Steve Chambers at May 19, 2012 01:30 PM

VCAP5-DCA: Objective 4.1

The Saffa Geek (Gregg Robertson)

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

by Gregg Robertson at May 19, 2012 12:48 PM

The Dream of a self-healing Datacenter: Integrate vCenter Operations (vCOPS) with Orchestrator

vcoportal (Joerg Lew)

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

by Joerg Lew at May 19, 2012 11:31 AM

VCAP5-DCA: Objective 9.2

The Saffa Geek (Gregg Robertson)

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

by Gregg Robertson at May 19, 2012 10:19 AM

Session hijacking (or sidejacking) – Whitepaper by Thawte

ESX Virtualization (Vladan Seget)

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

by Vladan SEGET at May 19, 2012 09:28 AM

Cloud computing gets a lot more personal

VMwire (Hugo Phan)

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

by Hugo Phan at May 19, 2012 09:09 AM

Attaching an unreplicated VMDK after SRM failover using scripts

VMware vSphere Blog

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

by Ken Werneburg at May 19, 2012 06:12 AM

VCAP5-DCD Certification

vInfrastructure Blog (Andrea Mauro)

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

Read more on VCAP5-DCD Certification…

by amauro at May 19, 2012 05:40 AM

So I submitted a session for VMworld

Thankfully the RAID saved us. (Gabriel Chapman)

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

by admin at May 19, 2012 02:36 AM

Open Source VI Java API 5.0.1 Released

DoubleCloud (Steve Jin [VMware])

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

by Steve Jin at May 19, 2012 02:30 AM

May 18, 2012

Synology DSM 4.0 Supports VAAI in vSphere 5 For Home Labs

Kendrick Coleman

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

by kendrickcoleman@gmail.com (Kendrick Coleman) at May 18, 2012 11:26 PM

Configuring EMC Isilon SmartConnect – Part II: SmartConnect Advanced

Jase's Place (Jase McCarty)

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

by jase at May 18, 2012 09:09 PM

View 5.1 Performance

VROOM! (VMware Performance [VMware])

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

by Lawrence Spracklen at May 18, 2012 08:34 PM

Time Reporting with Outlook and Powershell

geek after five (Jake Robinson)

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

by Jake at May 18, 2012 07:06 PM

DC vBeers – May 23, 2012

VMtoday.com (Joshua Townsend)

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

by Joshua Townsend at May 18, 2012 07:01 PM

Defending the indefensible

Thankfully the RAID saved us. (Gabriel Chapman)

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

by admin at May 18, 2012 06:21 PM

Resize & Hot-Add/Extend Virtual Machine Disks using vCloud API

VMware vSphere Blog

By William Lam, Sr. Technical Marketing Engineer In vCloud Director today, users can not modify or resize a virtual disk for a Virtual Machine (VM) using the vCloud UI, even if the VM is powered off. Though not ideal, this operation can still be accomplished in vCloud Director by leveraging the…

by VMware Automation at May 18, 2012 06:01 PM

Dedup for your Dedup with #Veeam and #StarWind

mwpreston dot net (Michael Preston)

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

by mwpreston at May 18, 2012 05:49 PM

Cetas (VMware) receives prestigious 2012 TiE50 award!

Office of the CTO Blogs (Steve Herrod & Team [VMware])

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

by richardmcdougall at May 18, 2012 05:02 PM

VMware vFabric Suite 5.1 Automates Java App Deployment

Virtualization Review Blogs

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

May 18, 2012 04:27 PM

Configuring EMC Isilon SmartConnect – Part I: SmartConnect Basic

Jase's Place (Jase McCarty)

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

by jase at May 18, 2012 04:18 PM

Customize the View Portal for Client Download with VMware View 5.1

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

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

by Tina de Benedictis at May 18, 2012 03:19 PM

How to open a command or shell prompt

VMware KBTV (VMware Knowledge Base Videos)

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

by Graham Daly at May 18, 2012 02:11 PM

How to open a command or shell prompt

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

kb.vmware.com - This video discusses and demonstrates how to open a command or shell prompt on a Windows-based system, a Linux-based system and a Mac OS-based system as well showing you how to connect to a system using a Secure Shell or SSH connection. The…

by VMwareKB at May 18, 2012 01:18 PM

Vblock DNA, mutation, and why standards are important in converged infrastructure

View Yonder (Steve Chambers)

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

by Steve Chambers at May 18, 2012 01:15 PM

It’s Not Too Late

blog.scottlowe.org (Scott Lowe)

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

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

It’s Not Too Late

by slowe at May 18, 2012 12:32 PM

When RamDisks Get Full

PlanetVM (Tom Howarth)

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

by Simon Bodecott at May 18, 2012 11:27 AM

What is your Definition of a Successful Implementation?

Virtualization Practice

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

by Steve Beaver at May 18, 2012 11:12 AM

Tintri VMstore 1.4 will bring new scheduled snapshots and VAAI for NFS

ESX Virtualization (Vladan Seget)

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

by Vladan SEGET at May 18, 2012 09:15 AM

VMUG Session Source Code

Virtualize Planet (Ricky El Qasem)

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

by admin at May 18, 2012 08:48 AM

NVIDIA announces new virtualizeable GPU to power high graphics VDI

Brian Madden Blog

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

by Brian Madden at May 18, 2012 04:00 AM

VMware VCP 5 study guide book review

Virtualization Tips (Brian Suhr)

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

by Brian at May 18, 2012 02:54 AM

Going to HP Discover, checkout these must-see VMware/virtualization sessions

vSphere-land (Eric Siebert)

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

by esiebert7625 at May 18, 2012 01:17 AM

May 17, 2012

New design for GabesVirtualWorld

Gabe's Virtual World (Gabrie van Zanten)

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

by Gabrie van Zanten at May 17, 2012 10:53 PM

Retrieving License keys from Multiple vCenters

vSphere PowerCLI Blog

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

by Alanrenouf at May 17, 2012 10:15 PM

VMware View Persona Management

Virtual Clouds (Marco Broeken)

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

by mbroeken at May 17, 2012 08:43 PM

A Review of VMware View 5.1 Limits and Maximums

myvirtualcloud.net (Andre Leibovici)

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

by Andre Leibovici at May 17, 2012 07:15 PM

vCO 101 – Test DPM

vSential (James Bowling)

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

by James Bowling at May 17, 2012 07:11 PM

NVIDIA introduces World’s Firs Virtualized GPU

virtualization.info (Alessandro Perilli)

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

by virtualization.info Staff at May 17, 2012 06:17 PM

Regional VMware User Group Networking and Learning in Charlotte North Carolina

VMware vCloud Blog (vCloud Team [VMware])

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

by vCloud Team at May 17, 2012 06:16 PM

nVidia introduces the worlds “first virtualized GPU”

Shogan.tech (Sean Duffy)

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

by Sean at May 17, 2012 06:10 PM

Are large storage arrays dead at the hands of SSD?

StorageIO Blog (Greg Schulz)

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

by Greg Schulz at May 17, 2012 05:58 PM

#vBrownBag: vCloud Director & the AutoLab

vmDK (Damian Karlson)

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

by Damian Karlson at May 17, 2012 05:34 PM

Microsoft announces Assessment and Planning Toolkit 7.0 Beta Program

virtualization.info (Alessandro Perilli)

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

by virtualization.info Staff at May 17, 2012 05:03 PM

Why vCloud Architect will be the next must-have cloud certification

VMware tips and tricks (SearchVMware.com)

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

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by David Davis(ddavis@happyrouter.com at May 17, 2012 04:54 PM

PowerCLI 101 – Test DPM

Professional VMware (Cody Bunch)

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

by bunchc at May 17, 2012 04:29 PM

IT Confessional Series: IT Admins and Game of Thrones Have More in Common Than You Think

VMware Go Blog (VMware Go Team [VMware])

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

by VMware Go Team at May 17, 2012 04:23 PM

What is VM density with VMware and how to improve it

Around the Storage Block (Zito & Siebert)

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

by CalvinZ at May 17, 2012 04:09 PM

VMware View 5.1 & New View Clients Available

latoga labs (Greg A Lato [VMware])

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

by latoga at May 17, 2012 04:07 PM

VMware vShield App best practices list

Virtualization Tips (Brian Suhr)

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

by Brian at May 17, 2012 03:47 PM

New HP EVA improves capacity, performance and total cost of ownership

Around the Storage Block (Zito & Siebert)

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


  • New models, EVA P6350 and EVA…

by HPStorage-Guest at May 17, 2012 03:10 PM

Help, My VDI Project is Hell! – a London VMUG presentation

WoodITWork.com (Julian Wood)

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

by WoodITWork at May 17, 2012 02:47 PM

Where oh where did that little vCSA go?

SOS tech (Josh Andrews)

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

by JAndrews at May 17, 2012 02:36 PM

Pre-emptively enable HotAdd/HotPlug of a VM

vuemuer.it (Luca Dell'Oca)

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

In thse situations, a…

by Luca at May 17, 2012 02:00 PM

#VDI Tip 73: Enable SSO for View 5.1

IT Blood Pressure (Dwayne Lessner)

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

by dlessner at May 17, 2012 01:57 PM

#VDI Tip 72 – Upgrade to View 5.1 – Clients First!

IT Blood Pressure (Dwayne Lessner)

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

by dlessner at May 17, 2012 01:53 PM

Why is my pathing policy limited to “fixed” or “MRU” with things like MSCS cluster?

Yellow Bricks (Duncan Epping [VMware])

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

by Duncan Epping at May 17, 2012 01:49 PM

Talking to SearchVirtualDesktop about NVIDIA’s Virtualized GPU

Virtualization Information (Shannon Snowden)

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

by ssnowden at May 17, 2012 01:40 PM

4 Ways VMware transforms Postgres for the Cloud

VMware vFabric Blog (VMware vFabric Team [VMware])

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

by VMware vFabric Team at May 17, 2012 01:30 PM

VIDEO: New Xangati Management Dashboard (XMD) Version 9 (@XangatiPress)

VMware Videos (David Davis)

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

by David Davis at May 17, 2012 01:17 PM

VMware View Storage Accelerator - The next step towards more reliable, more cost-effective storage for VDI environments

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

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

by VMTN at May 17, 2012 12:01 PM

New View Clients Optimized for VMware View 5.1 Now Available on Windows, Linux, Mac, iPad and Android!

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

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

by VMTN at May 17, 2012 12:01 PM

View Storage Accelerator – VMware’s next step towards more reliable, more cost-effective storage for VDI environments

Office of the CTO Blogs (Steve Herrod & Team [VMware])

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

by matteccleston at May 17, 2012 12:00 PM

VMware Announces General Availability of View 5.1

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

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

by VMTN at May 17, 2012 12:00 PM

The IaaS Cloud Performance Management Problem

Virtualization Practice

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

by Bernd Harzog at May 17, 2012 11:06 AM

Anecdotes from the trench: why manufacturing is better than on-site build

View Yonder (Steve Chambers)

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

by Steve Chambers at May 17, 2012 10:43 AM

General Availability of the new View Clients for 5.1, including ARM based for Linux!

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

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

by Christoph Harding at May 17, 2012 10:38 AM

General Availability of VMware View 5.1

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

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

by Christoph Harding at May 17, 2012 10:31 AM

Trilead VM Explorer 4 product review

ESX Virtualization (Vladan Seget)

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

by Vladan SEGET at May 17, 2012 09:50 AM

VMware SRM5: clean up the recovery site after test

Virtual Aleph (Manlio Frizzi)

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

by Manlio Frizzi (noreply@blogger.com) at May 17, 2012 10:49 AM

vExpert Spotlight: Nick Howell

VMTN Blog (Technical News [VMware])

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

by Thesaffageek at May 17, 2012 09:36 AM

Testing SRM5 without powering off the production

Virtual Aleph (Manlio Frizzi)

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

by Manlio Frizzi (noreply@blogger.com) at May 17, 2012 10:26 AM

VMware View 5.1 released

Virtual Clouds (Marco Broeken)

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

by mbroeken at May 17, 2012 09:20 AM

VMware Released vCenter Operations Manager for View

NTPRO.NL (Eric Sloof)

VMware vCenter Operations Manager for View provides end-to-end visibility into the health, performance and efficiency of virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI). It enables desktop administrators to proactively ensure the best end-user experience, avert incidents and eliminate bottlenecks. Designed for…

by nospam@example.com (Eric Sloof) at May 17, 2012 08:43 AM

Short Take: VMware View Client for Android, ICS Update

Colin MacMillan

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

by Collin C MacMillan at May 17, 2012 06:02 AM

VMware Released New View 5.1 Clients for Windows, Mac, Ubuntu Linux, iPad, and Android

NTPRO.NL (Eric Sloof)

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

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by nospam@example.com (Eric Sloof) at May 17, 2012 05:21 AM

VMware Released View 5.1 and Launched Horizon Application Manager 1.5

NTPRO.NL (Eric Sloof)

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

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by nospam@example.com (Eric Sloof) at May 17, 2012 05:11 AM

#vBrownBag Follow-Up – VCAP-DCA Operational Maintenance

Professional VMware (Cody Bunch)

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

by bunchc at May 17, 2012 03:37 AM

#vBrownBag Follow-Up VCAP-DCA Objective 2

Professional VMware (Cody Bunch)

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

by bunchc at May 17, 2012 03:35 AM

[APAC] #vBrownBag Follow-Up – VCAP-DCD Performance

Professional VMware (Cody Bunch)

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

by bunchc at May 17, 2012 03:32 AM

Release: VMware View 5.1

The VMguy (Dave Lawrence)

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

by The VMguy at May 17, 2012 01:47 AM

May 16, 2012

VMware EUC KB articles for the Week of May 14th, 2012

IT Blood Pressure (Dwayne Lessner)

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

by dlessner at May 16, 2012 11:49 PM

Virsto-XenDesktop Combo Imminent

Virtualization Review Blogs

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

May 16, 2012 09:27 PM

VMware SocialCast and Citrix Podio are The New Desktop

Virtualization Review Blogs

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

May 16, 2012 09:20 PM

EMC World and EMC TC Conference key info.

Virtual Geek (Chad Sakac)

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

by Chad Sakac at May 16, 2012 09:17 PM

VMware Forum 2012: In case you missed it

Server Virtualization Blog (SearchServerVirtualization.com)

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

by Keith Kessinger at May 16, 2012 08:20 PM

Sorry Microsoft; Not Only Does vSphere Cost Less to Buy, It Also Costs Less to Operate.

Virtual Reality (VMware Perspective [VMware])

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

by Eric Horschman at May 16, 2012 07:58 PM

A week in virtualization

VMTN Blog (Technical News [VMware])

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

by VMwareCommunity at May 16, 2012 07:42 PM

2012 – The Year of SQL Virtualization

The Lowercase w (Matt Liebowitz)

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

by Matt Liebowitz at May 16, 2012 07:32 PM

Mobility & The Client/Server Pendulum

Office of the CTO Blogs (Steve Herrod & Team [VMware])

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

by javiersoltero at May 16, 2012 06:25 PM

VMware at EMC World + Instagram

VMware Global Alliances Blog (VMware Alliances Team [VMware])

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

by VMware Alliances Team at May 16, 2012 06:22 PM

Promoting green initiatives with VMware software

VMware tips and tricks (SearchVMware.com)

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

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by Mak King(# at May 16, 2012 06:06 PM

I’m virtualized! Now what?

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

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

by VMware SMB at May 16, 2012 05:18 PM

KB article about SvMotion / VDS / HA problem republished with script to mitigate!

Yellow Bricks (Duncan Epping [VMware])

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

by Duncan Epping at May 16, 2012 05:09 PM

Satyam Vaghani – VMware Storage – Yesterday and Tomorrow

Virtual Insanity (Sweemer, Sauer & Szastak [VMware])

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

by Brandon Riley at May 16, 2012 04:37 PM

Demystifying FLOGI in HP VC-FC Module

Stretch Cloud (Prasenjit Sarkar)

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

by jit2600 at May 16, 2012 04:30 PM

Have you seen this?

Virtual Geek (Chad Sakac)

Check out www.emc.com this morning (bit of the theme starting to peek out )…. It. Is. Going. To. Be. Epic!

by Chad Sakac at May 16, 2012 04:04 PM

How to Retrieve the Username from a PNAgent Site

VMwareInfo.com (Carlo Costanzo)

New from Sam Jacobs!

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

by Carlo Costanzo (noreply@blogger.com) at May 16, 2012 04:55 PM

Blog Post from GTC: Hosted desktop and workstation workloads - what about my 3D graphics?

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

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

by VMTN at May 16, 2012 03:48 PM

This is why we can’t have nice things, your tax dollars at waste.

Thankfully the RAID saved us. (Gabriel Chapman)

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

by admin at May 16, 2012 03:42 PM

Vendorwag in the Valley – Pure Storage

RTFM Education (Mike Laverick)

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

by Mike Laverick at May 16, 2012 02:49 PM

Validation with SAP Signals Strong Support for Virtualization & Cloud Infrastructure

VMware Global Alliances Blog (VMware Alliances Team [VMware])

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

by VMware Alliances Team at May 16, 2012 02:02 PM

News: Virtualizing the Last Mile

Virtualization Practice

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

by Texiwill at May 16, 2012 01:41 PM

How to: VMware Site Recovery Manager 5 – Part 5: VRM Pairing and VR Deployment

Default Reasoning (Marek Zdrojewski)

Now that the VRM Servers are deployed at the Protected Site and the Recovery Site, it’s time to pair both servers. When the pairing is completed we will be able to deploy the VR Servers, one for each site. This will enable us to fail over from the Protected Site to the Recovery Site. In [...]

by Marek.Z at May 16, 2012 12:27 PM

VMware CTO Steve @Herrod Interviewed by @ericsiebert @hpstorageguy

VMware Videos (David Davis)

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

by David Davis at May 16, 2012 11:15 AM

There’s a new guitar in town!

vcoportal (Joerg Lew)

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

by Joerg Lew at May 16, 2012 11:14 AM

CCNA – 4 – Applications

PlanetVM (Tom Howarth)

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

by Anthony Metcalf at May 16, 2012 10:42 AM

VMware View Evaluator's Guide

NTPRO.NL (Eric Sloof)

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

by nospam@example.com (Eric Sloof) at May 16, 2012 09:45 AM

Manipulating OVFs? Which tools to use

ESX Virtualization (Vladan Seget)

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

by Vladan SEGET at May 16, 2012 08:26 AM

Configure the Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) in vSphere 5

Virtual IEF (Ivo Beerens)

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

by Ivo Beerens at May 16, 2012 07:50 AM

Admission control and vCloud Allocation Pool model

Frank Denneman (frankdenneman.nl [VMware])

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

by Frank Denneman at May 16, 2012 07:22 AM

#VDI Tip 71: Best Practice – Leave the Firewall Turned on the Connection & Security Servers – View 5.1

IT Blood Pressure (Dwayne Lessner)

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

by dlessner at May 16, 2012 06:50 AM

Melbourne VMware User Group Meeting 31/05/2012

blog.rack.org.au (Craig Waters)

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

by cwaters at May 16, 2012 06:31 AM

HP 3PAR Get Virtual Guarantee

Around the Storage Block (Zito & Siebert)

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

by CalvinZ at May 16, 2012 05:12 AM

Connecting Clouds

vArchitect Blog (Jad El-Zein [VMware])

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

by jelzein@vmware.com at May 16, 2012 03:06 AM

Connecting Clouds

Federal Center of Excellence (CoE) Blog (VMware FCoE Team [VMware])

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

by Jelzein at May 16, 2012 02:58 AM

May 15, 2012

VMware announces vFabric Suite 5.1

virtualization.info (Alessandro Perilli)

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

by virtualization.info Staff at May 15, 2012 10:39 PM

Citrix Synergy 2012 Party with LifeHouse

VMBlog (David Marshall)

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

by David Marshall at May 15, 2012 10:39 PM

London VMUG, May 17th – Win a VMworld 2011 Bag from me.

Virtually Prepared (Darren Woollard)

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

by dawoo at May 15, 2012 08:47 PM

Get 50 Horizon AppManager Licenses for FREE!

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

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

by Christoph Harding at May 15, 2012 08:15 PM

Database workload testing with Dell DVD Store

NTPRO.NL (Eric Sloof)



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

by nospam@example.com (Eric Sloof) at May 15, 2012 08:04 PM

Overcoming the VDI IOPS Challenge

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

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

by VMTN at May 15, 2012 07:55 PM

Installing HP P4000 (Lefthand) and configure replication

Virtual Aleph (Manlio Frizzi)

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

by Manlio Frizzi (noreply@blogger.com) at May 15, 2012 07:43 PM

Installing VMware SRM 5

Virtual Aleph (Manlio Frizzi)

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

by Manlio Frizzi (noreply@blogger.com) at May 15, 2012 07:42 PM

Software Defined Data Center: From Best Effort to 99%

VMware vSphere Blog

Posted by Matt Dreyer We live in interesting times socially, economically, and technologically. It is pretty clear that “best effort” just isn’t good enough anymore as the drive for efficiency shifts into ever higher gears. In IT we have seen some fantastic examples of this transformation…

by Matt Dreyer at May 15, 2012 06:27 PM

VMware CTO talks about R&D plans for the future

virtualization.info (Alessandro Perilli)

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

by virtualization.info Staff at May 15, 2012 06:20 PM

VM-FEX for VDI is Bogus

IT Blood Pressure (Dwayne Lessner)

I had wriiten a post, #VDI Tip 69: Use QofS – UCS and VMware View 5 but it’s misleading. The premise of using QofS is still a good and should be done. Since VM-FEX is dependent on the number of PCI-devices that your server can handle. Since you can only have 32 PCI-devices per server…
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by dlessner at May 15, 2012 06:05 PM

VMware might announce next release of vSphere at VMworld

Virtual Clouds (Marco Broeken)

It seems very likely VMware will announce a new version of VMware vSphere at VMworld USA. At a VMUG event in Italy Stephen Herrod (CTO of VMware) said the company is “pretty much done” on the next release of vSphere and usually works on three releases at a time. 2013’s version is “pretty far…

by mbroeken at May 15, 2012 05:32 PM

vSphere + SQL 2012 + AlwaysON

Cloud-Buddy (Bilal Hashmi)

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

by Bilal Hashmi at May 15, 2012 05:21 PM

The ViewYonder Tweet/Blog Tragic Quadrant

View Yonder (Steve Chambers)

After watching a bit of to-fro action between two of my geek heroes – @qthrul and @roidude – on the unwritten rules of social media, I thought of this graphic… Related posts: The ViewYonder ITIL Tragic Quadrant Related posts:
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by Steve Chambers at May 15, 2012 05:20 PM

Save $300 on registration for HP Discover 2012! Learn about HP Discover here

VirtualizationAdmin Blogs

Discount! For a $300 discount offered by this website, please use the individual code BLOG and register using this link: http://bit.ly/JmqB3c Why Attend? This is HP's largest global conference for customers and partners attracting 10,000 IT executives, managers, architects, engineers, and solution…

by Scott Lowe at May 15, 2012 04:49 PM

Application Modeling in vFabric Application Director

VMware Technical Communications Video Blog (VMware Tech Pubs [VMware])

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

by Chuck Potter at May 15, 2012 04:43 PM

Enabling Virtual Machine Portability with OVF

VMware Technical Communications Video Blog (VMware Tech Pubs [VMware])

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

by Chuck Potter at May 15, 2012 04:41 PM

The Accelerating Rise of Rogue Clouds

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

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

by VMTN at May 15, 2012 04:06 PM

VMware might announce next release of vSphere at VMworld 2012

UP2V (Marcel van den Berg)

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

by Marcel van den Berg at May 15, 2012 03:56 PM

London VMUG May 2012

The Saffa Geek (Gregg Robertson)

Just a very quick posting to remind anyone around the south of England or who is willing to come to the south of England for it that the next London VMware User Group (LonVMUG)  is happening THIS Thursday the 17th of May. Also my fellow vExpert, partner in crime and Xtravirt colleague Darren…

by Gregg Robertson at May 15, 2012 03:35 PM

Is Citrix going to compete with Good Technology now?

Brian Madden Blog

Jack Madden has an interesting post on ConsumerizeIT.com where he looks at all the announcements from Citrix Synergy last week and wonders whether Citrix will end up competing with companies like Good Technology? (If they do, Gabe joked that the ad tagline...(read more)<img><img>

by Brian Madden at May 15, 2012 03:31 PM

Simplified Storage Automation for VMware View

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

By Mason Uyeda, Director, Technical Marketing, End-User Computing Nexenta announced the release of a purpose built virtual local storage appliance that dramatically simplifies deploying, managing, and calibrating storage for VMware View. In Nexenta VSA for View, end users now have an application…

by VMTN at May 15, 2012 03:12 PM

Transform IT+Business+You with EMC and VMware – See us at EMC World 2012

VMware Global Alliances Blog (VMware Alliances Team [VMware])

Posted by Dana Vickey EMC Alliance Marketing Director Whether you are just beginning your journey to your Cloud—or well on your way to IT as a service, see how EMC and VMware help customers transform their business and IT. It’s all at EMC World 2012 on May 21-24th. Hear Paul...

by VMware Alliances Team at May 15, 2012 02:38 PM

IT Confessional Series: Oops… Good Thing That Patch Update Was Automated!

VMware Go Blog (VMware Go Team [VMware])

By: Andy the Angry IT Guy Editor’s note: This is the fifth installment in our ongoing series featuring “Andy,” an anonymous IT administrator at a small- to mid-sized organization located somewhere in the American Midwest. When we last left Andy, he was emulating one of his all-time favorite TV…

by VMware Go Team at May 15, 2012 02:30 PM

Xangati brings scalability, capacity management, automated analytics model and tracks the end user activity in VDI sessions

ESX Virtualization (Vladan Seget)

Xangati’s major Update of Management Dashboards with cloud scale features Today Xangati has announced new update to their flagship products Xangati Managment Dashboard and VDI Dashboard. Last year when Xangati introduced Xangati for VDI it was something new and it announced that the VDI is really…

by Vladan SEGET at May 15, 2012 02:20 PM

Wish I had a whiteboard desk

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

Frank Denneman wrote a great article “Whiteboard desk” demonstrating his whiteboard desk, and frankly I think it is awesome!  Once I have established where I am going to live next, I will also be purchasing an Ikea kitchen worktop. Frank has asked in his article that people share there…

by davehill at May 15, 2012 02:04 PM

Monitoring Based on End-User Experience (EUX)

IT Blood Pressure (Dwayne Lessner)

Why are you monitoring your desktops? I thought VDI was all about your users and their applications. Xangati brings an industry first for VDI, monitoring based on End-User Experience (EUX)\User Profiles. The newest release of the Xangati Managemsent Dashboard (XMD) Suite 5.0 integrates with VMware…

by dlessner at May 15, 2012 02:00 PM

Multi-Tenancy: Who is the Tenant?

Virtualization Practice

There seems to be a myriad of definitions of who is a tenant when it comes to secure multi-tenancy. This debate has occurred not only within The Virtualization Practice as well as at recent Interop and Symantec Vision conferences I attended. So who really is the tenant within a multi-tenant…

by Texiwill at May 15, 2012 01:20 PM

Xangati Introduces Performance Profiling for VDI End-Users

Wahl Network (Chris Wahl)

In my home lab, I run a handful of various monitoring tools to get better acquainted with their performance, interface, and abilities. One of my favorites, especially for my VMware View environment, is Xangati’s VDI Dashboard. I’ve had it in my lab for just over 3 months now, which is basically…

by Chris at May 15, 2012 01:00 PM

Finding VMs that will boot into the BIOS screen

Enterprise Admins (Brian Wuchner)

A few months ago, after a round of Windows OS patching on development servers, a server admin notified me that their server did not come back online after the patch initiated reboot. Looking at the VM console he noted that the server was at the BIOS setup screen. After exiting the BIOS Windows…

by brian.wuchner at May 15, 2012 01:00 PM

Introducing VMware vFabric Suite 5.1: Automated Deployment, New Components, and Open Source Support

VMware vFabric Blog (VMware vFabric Team [VMware])

Today, VMware announced the release of VMware vFabric Suite 5.1, an integrated family of components that streamline how companies build, run and manage Java Spring applications whether on-premise or in the cloud. At VMware, we understand that smart, agile and cost-effective cloud infrastructure…

by VMware vFabric Team at May 15, 2012 12:36 PM

London VMUG May 17th 2012

Jonathan Medd's Blog (Jonathan Medd)

The next London VMUG takes place this Thursday May 17th and there’s still time to register. The line-up looks great as usual and in particular some excellent community content is on the agenda from well known regular faces at the VMUG. Hope to see you there. London VMUG Meeting Thursday, 17 May,…

by Jonathan Medd at May 15, 2012 12:18 PM

VMware View automation with vCenter Orchestrator

myvirtualcloud.net (Andre Leibovici)

In many organizations automation is a key component that allow IT to spend cycles where the business need them – perhaps innovation. Many VMware products have their own API’s and SDK that help organizations to automate process. VMware View doesn’t have publically available API’s that can be…

by Andre Leibovici at May 15, 2012 12:10 PM

Introducing the vFabric Suite 5.1 and vFabric SQLFire

The Console (VMware Management [VMware])

Posted by Jerry Chen Vice President, Cloud and Application Services In 2009, VMware acquired SpringSource because we saw a fundamental change in the way our customers were building and running their applications. More than ever, our customers were using technology...

by VMTN at May 15, 2012 12:00 PM

Poweron file?

VMware vSphere Blog

By Duncan Epping, Principal Architect. I had a question this week around what the "poweron" file is and does as someone spotted it on one of their datastores. The "poweron" file is a file that is located on the designated heartbeat data stores. The file contains the set of powered on virtual…

by Duncan Epping at May 15, 2012 11:33 AM

Flash VDI Calculator 2.8 for VMware View 5.1 released

ESX Virtualization (Vladan Seget)

Update of Flash VDI calculator 2.8 release Andre Leibovici through his blog has released an update to his Online Sizing Tool for VMware View 5.1. VMware View 5.1 should be generally available any time soon, it’s been announced through my website few days back in detailed article here. If you…

by Vladan SEGET at May 15, 2012 09:35 AM

vExpert Spotlight: Niels Engelen

VMTN Blog (Technical News [VMware])

Name: Niels Engelen Blog URL: http://foonet.be Twitter handle: nielsengelen Current employer: PriorWeb BVBA - A Belgian (web)hosting company How did you get into IT? Started at the age of 14 playing with computers and made a job from my hobby...

by Thesaffageek at May 15, 2012 09:26 AM

vCloud Director Monitoring – Which processes to watch

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

Recently I wrote an article about Monitoring a vCloud Eco-System and a provided an overview of how you can monitor this Eco-system using vCenter Operations Manager and vFabric Hyperic.  Since that article was released people have been asking which processes and services they should monitor on the…

by davehill at May 15, 2012 08:23 AM

Discover game changing replication for vSphere VMs

Gabe's Virtual World (Gabrie van Zanten)

(Copied from the Veeam announcement) Need to change your disaster recovery practices? Join VMware vExpert Gabrie van Zanten, a principal consultant at Open Line for this LIVE webinar and discover how a strong replication strategy will improve your DR practices. Gabrie van Zanten is a VMware…

by Gabrie van Zanten at May 15, 2012 08:01 AM

Dell PowerEdge R720

vInfrastructure Blog (Andrea Mauro)

The PowerEdge™ R720 server is one of the 12G models of Dell server’s portfolio. By working for a Dell’s partner I’ve got the opportunity to test one and those are my consideration.

Read more on Dell PowerEdge R720…

by amauro at May 15, 2012 07:00 AM

Office 365 Phone Home

Virtualization Review Blogs

Brien Posey makes time for Office 365 out of necessity.

May 15, 2012 07:00 AM

Vendor to Customer: Demand Open Clouds

Virtualization Review Blogs

Falconstor CEO has a few words of advice for customers migrating to cloud computing.

May 15, 2012 07:00 AM

vChat Episode 26 – My Big Fat Geeky vChat

TechHead (Simon Seagrave)

In vChat Episode 26 David, Eric and myself cover the latest news and happenings in the world of virtualization including EMC World prep, HP Discover, regional VMUGs, and much more (don’t forget home labs and iPads) – don’t miss it!   In this vChat we covered: EMC World Labs HP Discover…

by Simon Seagrave at May 15, 2012 05:00 AM

On the Road with vCO – North Carolina User Summit

Professional VMware (Cody Bunch)

Edited: So, not sure why but this post was stuck in my drafts folder until the evening right before… bleh. So I’m going to be at the North Carolina User Summit (here) presenting on vCO and handing out a few copies of the vCO Book. If you are going to be in the area Tuesday, [...]

by bunchc at May 15, 2012 02:15 AM

Webinar: Four Key Elements of a Successful Disaster Recovery Strategy

mwpreston dot net (Michael Preston)

Join vExpert Greg Shields as he talks about 4 elements you need to consider in order to be successful when developing a great DR strategy and how one of my sponsors, AppAssure can help you along the way….  Follow the link below to register!

by mwpreston at May 15, 2012 12:48 AM

Virtual Machine Considerations For NetApp Storage

Blue Shift Blog (Kevin Kelling)

In our environment we’ve done something which at first glance might seem a bit unconventional to many.  We’ve consolidated all OS-based disks (VMDKs) on a dedicated set of datastores, and have done the same with application drives, page files and even VM swap files. Why go through the extra…

by Kevin at May 15, 2012 12:37 AM

May 14, 2012

What's new with iLO

Around the Storage Block (Zito & Siebert)

AHS-4_Capture.pngLast week I had a blog post that included ProLiant Gen8 teardown videos.  About 5 minutes after filming those videos I recorded a podcast with Adrian Kasbergen to learn about what is new with iLO Management Engine. As a storage guy, I really appreciated the information as it helped…

by CalvinZ at May 14, 2012 11:43 PM

6 High Notes from Citrix Synergy 2012: A Conference Recap

Virtualization Review Blogs

Citrix has truly diversified its portfolio and solidified its message and value proposition. Here are some of the highlights of the show.

May 14, 2012 10:16 PM

Citrix Synergy Heavy on Cloud, Mobility

Virtualization Review Blogs

Citrix used its Synergy conference last week to make a slew of cloud- and mobility-related product and services announcements.

May 14, 2012 10:11 PM

vChat – Episode 26 – Big Fat Geeky vChat

VMware Videos (David Davis)

In vChat Episode 26 David Davis, Simon Seagrave, and Eric Siebert cover the latest news and happenings in the world of virtualization including EMC World prep, HP Discover, regional VMUGs, and much more (don’t forget home labs and iPads) – don’t miss it! In this vChat we covered: EMC World…

by David Davis, Eric Siebert, and Simon Seagrave at May 14, 2012 08:02 PM

I’ve added NetApp NCDA to my cert lineup!

vDestination (Greg Stuart)

This past week I traveled to San Antonio, Texas for the NetApp Advanced NCDA bootcamp.  It was pretty hardcore, going from 8am to 6pm everyday and then I spent 3 to 4 hours studying into the wee hours of the night.  Needless to say, my hard work paid off and I passed the NS0-154 exam [...]

by gregwstuart at May 14, 2012 07:18 PM

Free tools for VMware

Virtual Clouds (Marco Broeken)

vSphere Plugin Wizard 2.0 VMware vCenter Mobile Access (vCMA) is a fully configured and ready to run virtual appliance that is required to manage your datacenter from mobile devices. VMware Boomerang is a radically simple client application that allows you to use multiple vSphere servers…

by mbroeken at May 14, 2012 07:17 PM

Configuring VMware SRM 5

Virtual Aleph (Manlio Frizzi)

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Hello all, It's now time to configure SRM 5. I've created some Ubuntu Virtual machines and stored them as with thi format disks on the P4000 VSA that's replicating every 30 minutes on the recovery site. Installation of the HP StorageWorks P4000 SRA for VMware SRM it's…

by Manlio Frizzi (noreply@blogger.com) at May 14, 2012 07:59 PM

Cloud Resource Meter

Virtual Clouds (Marco Broeken)

6fusion’s Cloud Resource Meter is a VMware vApp that allows you to profile any vSphere 4.1 or 5.0 environment and evaluate the cost of running that environment in the cloud – all for free and all right from the vSphere Console. Cloud Resource Meter installs in your VMware vSphere environment in…

by mbroeken at May 14, 2012 06:27 PM

Optimized PowerShell performance with Cisco UCS PowerTool

Virtu-Al (Alan Renouf)

In the last post I gave a quick overview of one of the many cool features of the Cisco UCS PowerTool PowerShell Module, I showed how they had made it easy for the admin to pick up their toolkit and use it, how navigation over 1000+ cmdlets could be made easier, if you didn’t read [...]

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by Alan at May 14, 2012 05:49 PM

Upgrade to the latest View 5 optimized Linux thin clients

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

By Ben Chong, Product Management, VMware View Clients Here at VMware, we have been working closely with our key Thin Client partners to deliver a new Linux client that is optimized for View 5. The benefits of the new View 5 optimized Linux client include better PCoIP performance thanks to...

by VMTN at May 14, 2012 05:17 PM

VMware CTO gives glimpse of vSphere future in VMUG videos

InfoWorld Virtualization Report (David Marshall)

If you thought that VMworld was the only place to find out information about what VMware is doing, you thought wrong. VMworld is definitely the place to be to learn about "anything and everything" VMware in one fell swoop, but local and regional VMware user group meetings (VMUGs) can provide…

by David Marshall at May 14, 2012 04:21 PM

VMware View VDI Flash Calculator v2.8 Released

myvirtualcloud.net (Andre Leibovici)

I have just uploaded a new release of the online VMware View VDI Flash Calculator supporting new VMware View 5.1 features. View 5.1 is not available for download just yet, however many VMware partners and customers are already designing and sizing their VDI infrastructures with View 5.1 in mind. For…

by Andre Leibovici at May 14, 2012 03:30 PM

Basic principles of backup policies

vInfrastructure Blog (Andrea Mauro)

Today a new traing video has been added in the Backup Academy web site: “Basic principles of backup policies” by me :)

In this lesson I will explain what is a backup policy and also give some information about the flow and the process to design a backup plan. Then I will detail some aspects of…

by amauro at May 14, 2012 03:11 PM

Understanding vSphere Private VLANs For Fun and Profit

Wahl Network (Chris Wahl)

Right on the heels of my session on the Networking section (Objective 2) of the vBrownBag studies series, this post will go over Private VLANs. For those that are going “What is a vBrownBag?” please do your self a huge favor and check it out – this is a superb series run by Cody Bunch [...]

by Chris at May 14, 2012 03:00 PM

[INFO] vCloud Director Fast Provisioned Catalog Virtual Machines

VMware vCloud Blog (vCloud Team [VMware])

The premise of what I am looking at is a very simple setup, but could change some operational ideas about how and when you enable Fast Provisioning, which is a great, and handy thing to have in test and development environment. However, you need to understand a little about how they work before you…

by vCloud Team at May 14, 2012 03:00 PM

VMware Orchestrator ideas for workflow automation samples

Virtualization Tips (Brian Suhr)

I’ve been talking to a lot of customers lately on the  possibilities of VMware Orchestrator. Things like do they use it now, what they might be able to use if for in their current environment. But most of the discussions are in tandem with a vCloud design. Orchestrator has been a mystery for the…

by Brian at May 14, 2012 02:38 PM

Clearpath “Planning for the Cloud” Event with VMware, Cisco & EMC

VMtoday.com (Joshua Townsend)

One of the things I’ve really enjoyed since joining Clearpath Solutions Group is participating in our learning events.  Coming from the customer side, I didn’t get out to learn and interact with the community as often as I would have liked.  With the incredible rate of innovation in IT and…

by Joshua Townsend at May 14, 2012 02:32 PM

Duco Jaspars at vConsult goes live

NTPRO.NL (Eric Sloof)

Fellow vExpert Duco Jaspars finally decided to start his own VMware blog. His website can be found at blog.vconsult.nl. Duco who works as a Virtualization Consultant is a well-known figure in the virtualization community. He has helped many people with advice and guidance but he has made an art of…

by nospam@example.com (Eric Sloof) at May 14, 2012 02:31 PM

New Articles Published for Week Ending 5/12/12

VMware Knowledge Base Weekly Digest

Apache Active MQ Comparing multicast and failover transport for ActiveMQ (2005518) Date Published: 5/9/2012 Apache HTTP Server Log file rotation in Apache HTTP Server, vFabric Enterprise Ready Server, and vFabric Web Server (2010979) Date Published: 5/10/2012 My VMware Resetting a...

by Richard Blythe at May 14, 2012 02:23 PM

New website design

Virtual Clouds (Marco Broeken)

I worked all day in finetuning my new blog design. Please leave a comment if you like the new layout, or if you have any suggestions!

by mbroeken at May 14, 2012 02:13 PM

Fusion-IO: some performance tests

vuemuer.it (Luca Dell'Oca)

In some previous articles I described Fusion-IO technology and how to install on of their card in a ESXi server. In this post, as many of you were waiting for, it’s time to run some performance tests and see what is able to do this product.

For my tests I used VMware I/O Analyzer,…

by Luca at May 14, 2012 02:00 PM

Announcing VMware’s first ever GSS Virtual Customer Support Day!

VMware Support Insider

On June 7th, VMware will host its first online GSS Customer Support Day event. This event is a unique opportunity for you to get answers to your questions directly from our Global Support Services technical experts. You told us that...

by Rick Blythe at May 14, 2012 01:36 PM

Go Mobile, Go Virtual or Go Home! – HIMSS Europe

Office of the CTO Blogs (Steve Herrod & Team [VMware])

I had the opportunity to visit Denmark once again – this time I was there for the 2012 World Health IT Conference and HIMSS Europe.  The wonderful city of Copenhagen hosted VMworld Europe in 2010 and 2011.  It was great to be back!  It turns out that I must have some Danish/Nordic blood in me…

by franknydam at May 14, 2012 01:14 PM

Fusion-io Share Price Up on Talk of Dell Bid

VMBlog (David Marshall)

A new update on the acquisition rumor mill has solid-state enterprise storage company Fusion-io in talks for a potential acquisition by Dell.... Read more at VMblog.com.<img>

by David Marshall at May 14, 2012 12:18 PM

vCenter Operations and Virtual Machine Faults

mwpreston dot net (Michael Preston)

Every morning I like to fire up vCOps and have a look at my environment and when I do this, I like to see nothing but green (maybe a bit of yellow )  For the past week or so that hasn't been the case…  Not that I have any performance issues, but I do have [...]

by mwpreston at May 14, 2012 12:09 PM

Hosting.com and VMware Provide Insurance via Disaster Recovery

VMware Global Alliances Blog (VMware Alliances Team [VMware])

Posted by Travis Nisbett Hosting.com, Sr. Product Manager There’s a very common saying – disaster happens. Actually, that’s not the saying, but it is close enough. And disasters come in a variety of flavors – everything from people making mistakes to horrible disasters like hurricanes. In…

by VMware Alliances Team at May 14, 2012 12:05 PM

VMware Communities Roundtable Podcast - Show Notes #187 - Open Topic: New CTO site, Software-Defined Data Center, vCAT

VMTN Blog (Technical News [VMware])

Hosts John Troyer, @jtroyer Guests Open Topic/Community Discussion Link to Audio Recording Open Topic: New CTO site, Software-Defined Data Center, vCAT Virtualization News (VMTN Blog) VMworld 2012 Call for Papers - Deadline May 18 New VMware CTO Website vSphere Blog...

by Angelo Luciani at May 14, 2012 11:47 AM

Citrix Synergy 2012 - Peder Ulander Interview

VMBlog (David Marshall)

While at Citrix Synergy 2012, VMblog had a great conversation with Peder Ulander. You may remember Peder from Cloud.com, acquired by Citrix last... Read more at VMblog.com.<img>

by David Marshall at May 14, 2012 11:40 AM

Citrix Hosted Server VDI Tech Preview

virtualization.info (Alessandro Perilli)

Last week Citrix announced a new tech preview for Hosted Server VDI technology that allows cloud providers to leverage Microsoft SPLA to host VDI-style desktops obtaining a pay-as-you-go monthly subscription licensing...

by virtualization.info Staff at May 14, 2012 11:36 AM

Citrix Synergy 2012 - HotLink Interview

VMBlog (David Marshall)

VMblog interviews HotLink at Citrix Synergy 2012 in San Francisco, CA. The HotLink SuperVISOR™ platform revolutionizes system management of... Read more at VMblog.com.<img>

by David Marshall at May 14, 2012 11:35 AM

Citrix Synergy 2012 - PaperShare Interview

VMBlog (David Marshall)

VMblog gets a quick overview from David Greschler, co-founder and CEO of the new social network company PaperShare while at Citrix Synergy 2012.... Read more at VMblog.com.<img>

by David Marshall at May 14, 2012 11:30 AM

AppSense Hints at Future Direction with UV Suite 8.4, Data Locker and RAPsphere Acquisition

Virtualization Practice

Much of the recent buzz around AppSense from AppSense Labs,the research division at AppSense that is responsible for StrataApps, DataLocker and DataNow, its hot new tools to support user installed applications and provide increased security in consumer cloud services. Nevertheless, AppSense has not…

by Simon Bramfitt at May 14, 2012 11:03 AM

Columbus Ohio & Austin Texas Bound…

RTFM Education (Mike Laverick)

I’m getting all setup for my next trip to the US of A. First stop is to speak at the Columbus, Ohio Regional Conferrence/VMUG on the 22nd May. The agenda for the meeting has been released over here and it will be held at: Hyatt Regency Columbus 350 North High Street Columbus, OH 43215 I will…

by Mike Laverick at May 14, 2012 09:33 AM

Powershell script to set the CDP settings for vsphere

why ? (Erik Schils)

I needed to turn on CDP on all hosts very quickly based on a request from out network guys I could do all 30 hosts manually but decided to try in powershell. After few minutes of google around I found this site http://poshcode.org/1583 I made a quick, and again very dirty, Powershell Script to turn

by Erik Schils at May 14, 2012 08:01 AM

RVTools 3.3 has been released

ESX Virtualization (Vladan Seget)

New Release of RVTools 3.3 – Free tool for VMware vSphere Few days back, there has been new release of RVTools. This release – the 3.3 release brings new TAB called vHBA (Host based adapters). As you can imagine, you will be able to find information about the HBAs. You’ll be able to see the…

by Vladan SEGET at May 14, 2012 07:44 AM

Recent Interview with BizTech Magazine

DoubleCloud (Steve Jin [VMware])

I just did an interview with Ricky Ribeiro, who is online content manager of BizTech Magazine. It was published last week as part of the Q&A series of Must Read IT blogs. In response to Ricky’s great questions, I shared thoughts on a broad range of topics, including blogging, cloud computing, and…

by Steve Jin at May 14, 2012 03:54 AM

Never miss an appointment again with PowerShell

Virtu-Al (Alan Renouf)

If your anything like me then you spend most of your time in PowerShell and sometimes forget to check your appointments in Outlook, wouldn’t it be great if you could see your Outlook calendar straight in PowerShell ? After doing a little searching and altering this post, I created a nice function…

by Alan at May 14, 2012 02:19 AM

May 13, 2012

Review: PHD Virtual Monitor

ICT-Freak.nl (Arne Fokkema)

One of my blog sponsors PHD Virtual  asked me to do a short review of a new product called: So what is PHD Virtual Monitor. Well, let’s start with  a quote from the PHD Virtual website: Complete End-to-End Virtual & Physical Infrastructure Monitoring Today, IT administrators are faced with a…

by afokkema at May 13, 2012 07:32 PM

What's new with HP ProLiant Gen8 servers

VMware Front Experience (Andreas Peetz)

I recently visited an HP roadshow presentation of their new ProLiant server generation Gen8. This has been around for a while, and you might already have seen some announcements, slides etc. Sometimes it can be hard to really learn about what is actually innovative, new and better (compared to older…

by Andreas Peetz (noreply@blogger.com) at May 13, 2012 07:30 PM

Dropbox 2012 Quest! Get an additional 1GB of space.

VMwareInfo.com (Carlo Costanzo)

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I like Dropbox.  It’s super easy to use, supports all the client devices I need and I’ve found a ton of enhancements that really make it work the way I want it to within my workflow.  For whatever reason, I haven’t ponied up the cash to get more space though.  Instead, I have been…

by Carlo Costanzo (noreply@blogger.com) at May 13, 2012 06:06 PM

VMware Press Sweepstakes

vspecialist (Michael Poore)

VMware Press, VMware’s official publishing arm, are in the middle of running a 60 day competition sweepstake (that ends June 30th 2012). On offer are a $100 Amazon gift card and three VMware Press books for the winner and nine second prize winners will win an eBook of their choice. Enter here.…

by Michael at May 13, 2012 04:30 PM

Creating and Storing PowerShell Credentials

Technodrone (Maish Saidel-Keesing)

I actually do not understand why I have not put this in a blog post before, but it is about time - because I used it again today.

Sometime you need to store a credential for a number of purposes, be it a scheduled script - or just not having to enter credentials each and every time you would like to…

by Maish Saidel-Keesing (noreply@blogger.com) at May 13, 2012 12:10 PM

Weekly Twitter Updates

Virtualization Information (Shannon Snowden)

Thinking about installing #VMware ESXi on my new Mac Mini. # Very impressed with @alfredapp for Mac so far. Handy little app. # RT @vmrick “@shannonsnowden: Very impressed with @alfredapp for Mac so far. Handy little app.” < just installed it <- great searching files # My soon-to-be #VMware ESXi…

by ssnowden at May 13, 2012 08:10 AM

Technical Marketing Update 2012 - Week 19

VMTN Blog (Technical News [VMware])

Technical Marketing Update 2012 - Week 19 - #tmupdate It was a busy week in Technical Marketing Land, many blog articles were published. I expect that upcoming week we will have less though as many of us will be either...

by Duncan Epping at May 13, 2012 07:13 AM

When should N+1 not Equal 1 Host with VMware HA?

Long White Clouds (Michael Webster [VMware])

High Availability is a key consideration for any VMware vSphere Design. VMware HA is a very easy and effective tool that you should always enable to improve VM availability. vSphere 5 introduces a considerably enhanced mechanism to achieve high availability that removes the limitations of the…

by @vcdxnz001 at May 13, 2012 03:57 AM

May 12, 2012

DatacenterDynamics Converged

vInfrastructure Blog (Andrea Mauro)

DatacenterDynamics Converged recognises the need for cross-disciplinary cooperation in the data centre. From site selection and construction to outsourcing strategy and regulation through to how best to deliver the infrastructure for your mission-critical infrastructure – DatacenterDynamics…

by amauro at May 12, 2012 11:00 PM

VMGuru.nl at VMUG.Be – The Blogger Edition: Register now for FREE access!

VMGuru.nl (Elsinga, Scholten, Weijdema)

  The VMUG is a pretty well known club. If you are just a virtualization enthusiast, a VMware fan or one of those nerdy bloggers, you all know the VMUG. Every country has it’s own instance of the VMUG and every now and then there is a gathering with all the nerds, enthusiasts and bloggers [...]

by Alex Muetstege at May 12, 2012 08:25 PM

Endpoint Security, Boundaries and the ‘Trusted Network’

da5is.com (Matt Davis)

Recently, Rob Lee of SANS tested a fairly common APT attack scenario against a simulated enterprise environment to generate log files for a course and posted the results on the SANS Computer Forensics and Incident Response Blog.  The not-so-surprising result?  The attack succeeded, and no log…

by noreply@blogger.com (Matt) at May 12, 2012 01:29 PM

Installing SQL 2008 R2 on 2008 R2 Server Core

vspecialist (Michael Poore)

Following on from previous posts on a similar theme, I wanted to make a quick note of how SQL 2008 R2 is installed on a 2008 R2 Server Core VM. SQL 2008 R2 has a number of feature dependencies that must be present before an installation can take place. Assuming that you’ve deployed your VM, given…

by Michael at May 12, 2012 09:43 AM

VCAP5-DCA Objective 1.1 – Implement and Manage Complex Storage Solutions

Valco Labs (Josh Coen)

For this objective I used the following documents: Best Practices for NFS on vSphere White Paper Documents listed in the Tools section Objective 1.1 – Implement and Manage Complex Storage Solutions Knowledge **ITEMS IN BOLD ARE TOPICS PULLED FROM THE BLUEPRINT** Identify RAID Levels If you are…

by Josh Coen at May 12, 2012 08:09 AM

May 11, 2012

Release: Atlantis ILIO Diskless VDI 3.2

virtualization.info (Alessandro Perilli)

On May 7 Atlantis Computing announced the general availability of its Atlantis ILIO Diskless VDI 3.2, this product, tailored in particular for VMware View 5.1, enables virtual desktops deployment...

by virtualization.info Staff at May 11, 2012 10:57 PM

Easily Creating PowerShell Quick References

Virtu-Al (Alan Renouf)

I needed to provide some examples of PowerShell code recently for a quick reference poster and thought this might be useful for others looking for quick code examples. All the examples you need can be found by using Get-Help with the –Examples parameter.  Did you know that as with everything else…

by Alan at May 11, 2012 08:27 PM

Toronto VMUG – May 7th Recap

mwpreston dot net (Michael Preston)

Well, once again Angelo (twitter) did an awesome job at putting together an awesome event at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre on May 7th.  I'm not going to include all the slide decks as I normally do, if you want to see them you can rock on over to the Toronto VMUG website and check [...]

by mwpreston at May 11, 2012 08:22 PM

Clearpath & VMware View Lunch & Learn Presentation

VMtoday.com (Joshua Townsend)

I recently presented at a couple of Clearpath Solutions Group Lunch & Learn style events that focused on VMware View and touched on many of the components of VMware’s growing End User Computing portfolio.  The presentation walked attendees through the concept of VDI, why it matters, and how IT…

by Joshua Townsend at May 11, 2012 06:28 PM

My VMware Passwords

VMware Support Insider

We have a couple of new KB articles just published to address some things a few customers have reported to us. If you see the error Unable to Complete Your Request when resetting your password from within My VMware, head...

by Rick Blythe at May 11, 2012 06:04 PM

The original open cloud stack - HP CloudSystem

Around the Storage Block (Zito & Siebert)

EMC made an announcement earlier today around a product called VSPEX; I haven't had a lot of time to look at it Vellante conversation.jpgbut basically looks like they're working with the channel to offer reference architecture of a converged stack.  Of course it's all based on EMC hardware though…

by CalvinZ at May 11, 2012 05:54 PM

HP at Microsoft Management Summit podcast

Around the Storage Block (Zito & Siebert)

While I’m in Las Vegas at NAB, less than a mile away Microsoft Management Summit is also happening.  I’ll drop in there later this week but I wanted to share some news with you, hot off the press.  I have a podcast with HP 3PAR product manager Kiran Sreenivasamurthy talking about his…

by CalvinZ at May 11, 2012 05:51 PM

Tape and LTFS podcast from NAB

Around the Storage Block (Zito & Siebert)

NAB (National Association of Broadcasters) is wrapping up tomorrow; today at NAB I focused on LTFS doing both a podcast and getting a video demo of using LTFS in a Microsoft Windows environment.  You'll have to wait until next week to see the demo because I have to edit the video on my Z600…

by CalvinZ at May 11, 2012 05:50 PM

HP VirtualSystem VS3 for Microsoft podcast at MMS

Around the Storage Block (Zito & Siebert)

P1000999.JPGI spent the week in Vegas at NAB but I was able to pop over to the Venetian on Wednesday and spend the afternoon at the Microsoft Management Summit.  I had a post earlier in the week called HP at Microsoft Management Summit.  In this post, I have a couple of podcasts focused on the HP…

by CalvinZ at May 11, 2012 05:50 PM

Linear Tape File System for Windows demo at NAB

Around the Storage Block (Zito & Siebert)

Last week I did a podcast from NAB talking about Linear Tape File System (LTFS) with one of our long-time tape gurus Mark Fleischhauer.  The next morning after I talked to Mark, I got a demo in our booth of some new software that we'll have available soon that allows you to use LTFS on Windows…

by CalvinZ at May 11, 2012 05:49 PM

Does a Reverse Web Proxy Protect Against An Auto Deploy Server Outage?

VMware vSphere Blog

Kyle Gleed, Sr. Technical Marketing Architect, VMware A while back I did a write-up on using reverse web proxy servers with auto deploy. At the time I thought that using a reverse web proxy would not only help with scalability, but would also help protect against an outage affecting the auto deploy…

by Kyle Gleed at May 11, 2012 05:00 PM

More Development Jobs

DoubleCloud (Steve Jin [VMware])

Last November I posted several jobs from our software team, they were all filled. As VCE grows rapidly at a runrate of $800M at the end of last year, we are now having more jobs. In my group, I have two development jobs opened. Should you be interested or know of someone who may be [...]

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by Steve Jin at May 11, 2012 04:47 PM

Citrix unveils Project Aruba

virtualization.info (Alessandro Perilli)

On May 7 Citrix announced a technology preview of Project Aruba that extends Citrix VDI all-in-one proposal for the SMB market, VDI-in-a-Box, with personal vDisk technology. VDI-in-a-Box, inherited from Kaviza...

by virtualization.info Staff at May 11, 2012 04:32 PM

FlexPod In the Enterprise — GE and More

Blue Shift Blog (Kevin Kelling)

In a recent post I made the case that the FlexPod is not JUST an SMB solution for IaaS, but has been quite successful in the enterprise space as well.  Well it turns out that GE (General Electric) will be speaking at Cisco Live in June to share details and best practices on how they

by Kevin at May 11, 2012 04:27 PM

VMWorld 2012 Registration

SOS tech (Josh Andrews)

Registration has opened for the 2012 editions of the biggest cloud event of the year outside of the NWA meeting. For the US it’s back and the Moscone Center in SF and VCP in Europe will be vMotioning to Barcelona … Continue reading

by JAndrews at May 11, 2012 04:08 PM

Replacing self-signed SSL certificates to improve ESXi security

VMware tips and tricks (SearchVMware.com)

VMware?s default, self-signed SSL certificates ensure data encryption. By importing certificates from trusted, third-parties, however, you can improve ESXi security even further.

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by Sander van Vugt(mail@sandervanvugt.nl at May 11, 2012 04:07 PM

Testing network connectivity with the ping command

VMware KBTV (VMware Knowledge Base Videos)

Here is a video for you which discusses and demonstrates how to test network connectivity between different components of your network using the Ping command. In this tutorial you will specifically see examples of a ping command being executed from...

by Graham Daly at May 11, 2012 03:45 PM

Registration for VMworld 2012 US is Now Open

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

IT is undergoing a top to bottom transformation…Are you ready? Take advantage of the best educational opportunity to expand your knowledge, maximize your investments and gain greater competitive edge with cloud and virtualization solutions at VMworld 2012. Register now VMworld enables you to:…

by VMware SMB at May 11, 2012 03:35 PM

Testing network connectivity with the ping command

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

kb.vmware.com - This video discusses and demonstrates how to test network connectivity between different components of your network using the Ping command. In this video tutorial you will specifically see examples of a ping command being executed…

by VMwareKB at May 11, 2012 03:24 PM

New vSphere Storage Appliance (VSA) Whitepapers now published

VMware vSphere Blog

Hi all, A quick post today to let you know that VMware has just published some new performance whitepapers on the vSphere Storage Appliance. The performance evaluations were carried out by Principled Technologies with a view to measuring real-life workloads on the VSA. One looks at the performance…

by Chogan at May 11, 2012 01:51 PM

Citrix XenDesktop 5 Training from TrainSignal

Jonathan Medd's Blog (Jonathan Medd)

I had a, shall we say urgent, need to get up and running with Citrix XenDesktop 5 in a very short space of time. Having used some of the TrainSignal products before  and had a very good experience with them my first thought was to head over to their site and see if they had [...]

by Jonathan Medd at May 11, 2012 01:15 PM

Registration for VMworld 2012 US is Now Open

VMworld Blog

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IT is undergoing a top to bottom transformation…Are you ready?

You must take advantage of the best educational opportunity to expand your knowledge, maximize your investments and gain greater competitive edge with cloud and virtualization solutions at VMworld 2012—

May 11, 2012 01:01 PM

Open letter to Vendors on training classes and partner enablement

Virtualization Tips (Brian Suhr)

To be open I work for a partner and on a regular basis get introduced to new products. For this I spend a decent amount of time researching these products, playing with them in a lab and tacking training from the Vendors. There are a few vendors that do a good job with their training [...]

by Brian at May 11, 2012 12:38 PM

The Real-Time Big Data vSphere Management Problem

Virtualization Practice

When your vSphere envioronment gets big, managing it becomes a big data problem, requiring real time or near real time data collection, complex real time analytics, and the ability to store massive quantities of data arriving at a high data rate.

The Real-Time Big Data vSphere Management Problem|The…

by Bernd Harzog at May 11, 2012 11:15 AM

Veeam Backup and Replication 6 – Architecture with 3 branch offices

ESX Virtualization (Vladan Seget)

Veeam 6.0 – Detailed configuration with 3 branch offices. Veeam Backup and Replication 6 completely changed it’s architecture. For the good, since it’s scales up very well by providing the IT admins with the possibility to deploy backup proxy servers and also storage depository at the branch…

by Vladan SEGET at May 11, 2012 10:55 AM

The pRoad to vExpert

VMGuru.nl (Elsinga, Scholten, Weijdema)

I often get several questions regarding how I started in IT, how I became an Enterprise Architect, how did I get where I am nowadays, what did you do in the past years and what my advice would be if someone wanted to get a job like mine. For the VMTN vExpert Spotlight I answered [...]

Google…

by Edwin Weijdema at May 11, 2012 09:27 AM

Vendorwag in the Valley – Nlyte Software – iTunes/iPod/iPhone/iPad/AppleTV Edition

RTFM Education (Mike Laverick)

If you missed the youtube version of my vendorwag with Nlyte Software, its now available to listen to via my iTunes subscription. I chat with Craig Ledo and Claudia Hanson There’s three videos – the Elevator Pitch, the Product Lowdown and the Techknowledgy Demo.

by Mike Laverick at May 11, 2012 07:53 AM

vSphere Metro Storage Cluster solutions and PDL's?

VMware vSphere Blog

By Duncan Epping, Principal Architect. Yesterday I wrote about HP/Lefthand joining the vSphere Metro Storage Cluster program. Today I want to inform you about something that I believe is rather important when implementing stretched cluster solutions. Hopefully all of you have read about the…

by Duncan Epping at May 11, 2012 06:54 AM

Cool Tool - Cloud Resource Meter

NTPRO.NL (Eric Sloof)

<img>6fusion’s Cloud Resource Meter is a VMware vApp that allows you to profile any vSphere 4.1 or 5.0 environment and evaluate the cost of running that environment in the cloud – all for free and all right from the vSphere Console. Cloud Resource Meter installs in your VMware vSphere…

by nospam@example.com (Eric Sloof) at May 11, 2012 06:32 AM

VMworld 2012 US–Registration is now open!

Technodrone (Maish Saidel-Keesing)

Just got this from Twitter.

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by Maish Saidel-Keesing (noreply@blogger.com) at May 11, 2012 07:16 AM

Getting started with Cisco UCS PowerTool

Virtu-Al (Alan Renouf)

Today I was lucky enough to grab some time with Eric Williams and colleagues over at Cisco, they held a one day training course on their UCS PowerTool which is a PowerShell module for managing UCS Systems, if you haven’t seen the Cisco UCS systems I suggest you get out from under that rock and…

by Alan at May 11, 2012 03:34 AM

Citrix Synergy 2012 - Executive Briefing with Bob Shultz

VMBlog (David Marshall)

During the Citrix Synergy 2012 event, VMblog's Brian Ducharme had a chance to sit down and speak with Bob Shultz, Group Vice President and General... Read more at VMblog.com.<img>

by David Marshall at May 11, 2012 01:41 AM

Analyzing Hadoop’s internals with Analytics

Office of the CTO Blogs (Steve Herrod & Team [VMware])

As part of our Big Data efforts, we have a team focused on Hadoop that is working hard to ensure Hadoop runs well on vSphere. We published a paper last year on Hadoop performance, and have a lot more in the pipeline. More recently, I took up a challenge to see how much we could learn about Hadoop…

by richardmcdougall at May 11, 2012 12:39 AM

Citrix Synergy 2012 - Interview with Snap Volumes

VMBlog (David Marshall)

One of the things I like about walking the exhibit floor at Citrix Synergy is finding new and emerging companies. Snap Volumes is new to me, and may... Read more at VMblog.com.<img>

by David Marshall at May 11, 2012 12:36 AM

Citrix Synergy 2012 - Interview with Zenoss

VMBlog (David Marshall)

Had a good time catching up with the folks from Zenoss at Citrix Synergy 2012. There's some great stuff happening over there with virtualization and... Read more at VMblog.com.<img>

by David Marshall at May 11, 2012 12:05 AM

May 10, 2012

Citrix Synergy 2012 - Interview with Primadesk

VMBlog (David Marshall)

While at Citrix Synergy 2012, VMblog was able to speak with the co-founders of Primadesk, CEO Srinivasa (Venky) Venkataraman and CTO Conrad Herrmann. Read more at VMblog.com.<img>

by David Marshall at May 10, 2012 11:45 PM

Citrix Synergy 2012 - Interview with Whiptail

VMBlog (David Marshall)

Had a great conversation with Whiptail's VP of Product Management and CMO, Maxwell Riggsbee at Citrix Synergy 2012 in San Francisco. Whiptail has an... Read more at VMblog.com.<img>

by David Marshall at May 10, 2012 11:20 PM

The Software-defined Data Center (SDD), SDN, Network Virtualization…

Office of the CTO Blogs (Steve Herrod & Team [VMware])

This week I was at Interop 2012, the premier event for networking folks – in his keynote, VMware CTO, Dr. Steve Herrod introduced the notion of Software-defined data centers (SDD). To summarize some of Steve’s comments – “Specialized software will replace specialized hardware throughout the…

by allwynsequeira at May 10, 2012 10:48 PM

My VMware Update

VMware Support Insider

My VMware has been live for almost a month, and more than 550,000 users have logged in to manage their product licenses and support. You told us that you would like to see enhancements in some key areas, including registration,...

by Rick Blythe at May 10, 2012 10:09 PM

Data Protection – Actifio

Going Virtual (Brian Norris)

I’ve been working with VMware, Storage and Data Protection for sometime now and over the years I’ve seen data protection products come and go. A lot of the products/applications/appliances showed innovative, cutting edge technology but often focused on one particular area or system type which…

by Brian Norris at May 10, 2012 09:54 PM

VMware at Oracle Collaborate 12 Conference

Business Critical Applications (VMware BCA Team [VMware])

by Neal Mueller COLLABORATE is a big event for Oracle Database and Oracle Application users. You can find just what you need with help from one of our three participating users groups, those being: IOUG: for database users OAUG: for e-business suite users QUEST: for JDEdwards and Peoplesoft users…

by Neal Mueller at May 10, 2012 08:47 PM

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