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

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

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

1. Heading for Gluecon 2012

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• Change the page background color,
• Expand the…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

With vCloud Director, "Resources are available at your fingertips," says Jordan Janeczko, Global Technology Manager for Cloud Computing at Siemens IT Solutions and Services. Siemens delivers secure and flexible test labs for users by deploying a private cloud based on VMware vCloud. Through vCloud…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Read more on VCAP5-DCD study guides…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Read more on VCAP5-DCD Certification…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• New models, EVA P6350 and EVA…

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

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

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

In thse situations, a…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

http://www.vmware.com/end-user-computing/

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 [...]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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…

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

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

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

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

1. The ViewYonder ITIL Tragic Quadrant

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

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

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…

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

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

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

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

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…

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 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…

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: 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…

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…

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…

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…

This is Part 3 of a series of posts explaining how to configure OpenIndiana as NAS storage device. The series is made up of the following parts:

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

This is Part 1 of a series of posts explaining how to configure OpenIndiana as NAS storage device. The series is made up of the following parts:

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

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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 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…

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…

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...

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…

(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…

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…

Brien Posey makes time for Office 365 out of necessity.

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

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…

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, [...]

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!

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…

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…

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

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

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…

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 [...]

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…

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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…

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…

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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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…

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…

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…

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 [...]

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…

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…

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…

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…

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...

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!

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,…

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...

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…

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>

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 [...]

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…

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...

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>

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...

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>

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>

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…

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…

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

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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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…

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.…

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…

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…

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...

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…