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From the Financial Times: The VMware Hybrid Approach “Pays Off” (VMware vCloud Blog)

Fri, 25 May 2012 07:00:00 +0000

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

Yes, the vSphere 4.1 HA/DRS kindle copy is also free today in other Amazon shops (Yellow Bricks)

Fri, 25 May 2012 06:52:46 +0000

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

Dependent hardware iSCSI adapter on ESXi5 (Gabe's Virtual World)

Thu, 24 May 2012 22:15:52 +0000

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

Coda 2 Paired with VMware Fusion 4: Web development has never been easier. (Team Fusion)

Thu, 24 May 2012 22:06:49 +0000

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

Brian Gammage puts some order in VMware’s strategy (virtualization.info)

Thu, 24 May 2012 21:50:11 +0000

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

Automating SSL Checks for vCenter and Host Certificates (vSphere PowerCLI Blog)

Thu, 24 May 2012 21:34:06 +0000

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

Want a free Kindle version of the VMware vSphere 4.1 HA and DRS technical deepdive? (Yellow Bricks)

Thu, 24 May 2012 20:23:19 +0000

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

vCenter Operations – Tell Your Story and Win BIG! (VMware Virtualization Management Blog)

Thu, 24 May 2012 19:48:54 +0000

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

BriForum London 2012 – Day 2 (Virtualised Reality)

Thu, 24 May 2012 19:41:10 +0000

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

Introduction to the vSphere API Part 3 - Inventory Hierarchy (VMware vSphere Blog)

Thu, 24 May 2012 18:13:48 +0000

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

How to disable Storage I/O Control for an unavailable datastore (VMware Front Experience)

noreply@blogger.com (Andreas Peetz) — Thu, 24 May 2012 18:51:24 +0000

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

Filling the Gaps: Focus on Application Security (Virtualization Practice)

Thu, 24 May 2012 16:05:55 +0000

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

Sending vCenter Alarm Notifications to Jabber (Virtual Bits & Bytes)

Thu, 24 May 2012 15:56:53 +0000

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

Be Sure to Visit VMware at HP Discover! (VMware Global Alliances Blog)

Thu, 24 May 2012 15:32:24 +0000

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

Customer Demand Growing For Cloud Services (Blue Shift Blog)

Thu, 24 May 2012 15:10:03 +0000

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

VMware vFabric Suite 5.1 Standard and Advanced Editions Now Available for Download (VMware vFabric Blog)

Thu, 24 May 2012 14:54:04 +0000

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

Peter and Viktor interviewing William van Collenburg (VMware) and Ton Hermes (VMware) (viktorious.nl)

Thu, 24 May 2012 14:11:43 +0000

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

[US] #vBrownBag Follow-Up – VCAP-DCA Objective 9 (w/ @herseyc) (Professional VMware)

Thu, 24 May 2012 13:39:29 +0000

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

My VMware Sneak Peak - New Customer Data (VMware KBTV)

Thu, 24 May 2012 13:27:08 +0000

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

Mem.MinFreePct sliding scale function (VMware vSphere Blog)

Thu, 24 May 2012 10:53:29 +0000

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

vExpert Spotlight: Cedric Megroz (VMTN Blog)

Thu, 24 May 2012 09:11:00 +0000

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

VMware View 5.1 Performance (ESX Virtualization)

Thu, 24 May 2012 08:29:34 +0000

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

Technical White Paper - VMware vSphere Metro Storage Cluster Case Study (NTPRO.NL)

nospam@example.com (Eric Sloof) — Thu, 24 May 2012 07:35:26 +0000

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

Another VMware Cloud - Ducati Runs Their Private Cloud on VMware (VMware vCloud Blog)

Thu, 24 May 2012 07:00:00 +0000

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

Open Storage Summit EMEA 2012 (vInfrastructure Blog)

Thu, 24 May 2012 06:30:10 +0000

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

My VCDX Defense Trip & Tips (Virtualization Team)

Thu, 24 May 2012 02:38:51 +0000

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

Shooting yourself in the foot is bad (Where are my swap files?) (SOS tech)

Wed, 23 May 2012 23:34:28 +0000

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

#AskTheVDIExperts (myvirtualcloud.net)

Wed, 23 May 2012 23:24:00 +0000

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

EMC World 2012 – Day 2 (Jason's Nash's Blog)

Wed, 23 May 2012 23:21:59 +0000

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

vCLI + ESXCLI Authentication Options (VMware vSphere Blog)

Wed, 23 May 2012 22:34:51 +0000

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

vCenter Operations contest (vmwmanagement)

Wed, 23 May 2012 22:19:09 +0000

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

BriForum London 2012 – Day 1 (Virtualised Reality)

Wed, 23 May 2012 20:47:33 +0000

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

VMware vCenter Operations – Tell Your Story and Enter for a Chance to Win a Ticket to VMworld 2012 (NTPRO.NL)

nospam@example.com (Eric Sloof) — Wed, 23 May 2012 19:52:00 +0000

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

Since VMware introduced VMware vCenter Operations in early 2011, customer users have shared their enthusiasm and sentiments surrounding its inaugural release to its highly touted 5.0 release last…

vChat #28-vCenter Operations Contest and Overview – Interview with Ben Sheerer (VMware Videos)

Wed, 23 May 2012 19:32:49 +0000

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

A week in virtualization (VMTN Blog)

Wed, 23 May 2012 19:30:00 +0000

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

Installing a CIM provider to improve vSphere Client host monitoring (VMware tips and tricks)

mail@sandervanvugt.nl (Sander van Vugt() — Wed, 23 May 2012 19:26:42 +0000

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

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VMware acquires Wanova (virtualization.info)

Wed, 23 May 2012 18:57:58 +0000

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

VMware vSphere 5 Training by #TrainSignal – Random Thoughts… (mwpreston dot net)

Wed, 23 May 2012 18:27:28 +0000

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

vCenter Operations and a self healing datacenter? (vmwmanagement)

Wed, 23 May 2012 18:22:33 +0000

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

System Center 2012 - Checkbox Compliant Heterogeneous Management (Virtual Reality)

Wed, 23 May 2012 17:38:56 +0000

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

Installing TwinStrata – iSCSI Cloud Array (Professional VMware)

Wed, 23 May 2012 17:33:51 +0000

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

Knowledge Base Update (VMware Support Insider)

Wed, 23 May 2012 17:26:54 +0000

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

My VMware Sneak Peek - New Customer Data (VMware KB TV)

Wed, 23 May 2012 16:29:07 +0000

My VMware Sneak Peek - New Customer Data

blogs.vmware.com - This video is the fourth in a series of videos which are aimed at providing an early look and insight into the new My VMware portal which launched in 2012. My VMware will transform your product license and support management experience…

Preparing your vCloud Director SQL Server Database Server (VMware vCloud Blog)

Wed, 23 May 2012 16:00:00 +0000

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

Easing the Challenge of Virtualization for SMBs (VMware Go Blog)

Wed, 23 May 2012 15:30:00 +0000

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

EMC & Puppet Labs Announce Project Razor (blog.aarondelp.com)

noreply@blogger.com (Aaron Delp) — Wed, 23 May 2012 15:19:00 +0000

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

A discount for the HP Discover conference? Yes Please (solutionsarchitect)

Wed, 23 May 2012 14:31:18 +0000

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

EMC World vLabsCHECK IT OUT! (Virtual Geek)

Wed, 23 May 2012 14:18:25 +0000

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

Project Razor and my friend Nick Weaver (Virtual Geek)

Wed, 23 May 2012 13:48:52 +0000

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

The VCE Certification Matrix - Ensuring Integration (Kendrick Coleman)

kendrickcoleman@gmail.com (Kendrick Coleman) — Wed, 23 May 2012 12:51:08 +0000

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

Cool contest: Tell your VC Ops story! (Yellow Bricks)

Wed, 23 May 2012 12:33:08 +0000

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

VMware's Wanova acquisition extends VDI to physical desktops (VMware tips and tricks)

bbotelho@techtarget.com (Bridget Botelho, News Director() — Wed, 23 May 2012 12:32:07 +0000

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

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So Your Boss Thinks You’re Stupid – Converged Infrastructure (IT Blood Pressure)

Wed, 23 May 2012 12:19:00 +0000

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

expanding windows c drive for windows 2003 – the easy way :-) (why ?)

Wed, 23 May 2012 12:18:50 +0000

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

News: VMware Welcomes Wanova – Is it a Mirage – does VMware finally get desktops? (Virtualization Practice)

Wed, 23 May 2012 12:13:18 +0000

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

Paper: VMware vSphere Metro Storage Cluster Case Study (virtualization.info)

Wed, 23 May 2012 12:00:54 +0000

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

How To: VMware Site Recovery Manager 5 – Part 6: Inventory mappings (Default Reasoning)

Wed, 23 May 2012 11:02:12 +0000

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

VMware View Client 1.5 for MacOS Update (That's My View)

Wed, 23 May 2012 08:56:40 +0000

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

How-to disable SSL Encryption in VMware vCenter Converter Standalone to speed up P2V conversions (ESX Virtualization)

Wed, 23 May 2012 08:44:26 +0000

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

Blog post on blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/ (Frank Denneman)

Wed, 23 May 2012 08:28:36 +0000

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

SDRS maintenance mode impossible because "The virtual machine is pinned to a host." (VMware vSphere Blog)

Wed, 23 May 2012 08:18:10 +0000

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

vSphere Metro Storage Cluster white paper released! (Yellow Bricks)

Wed, 23 May 2012 07:59:45 +0000

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

How silly are EMC Technology Consultants Willing to be? VERY. (Virtual Geek)

Wed, 23 May 2012 07:43:55 +0000

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

NexentaVSA for View (vInfrastructure Blog)

Wed, 23 May 2012 06:30:48 +0000

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

VMware buys Wanova: Major desktop strategy change or expected evolution? Let's discuss! (Brian Madden Blog)

Wed, 23 May 2012 05:56:00 +0000

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

Desktop Virtualization (VMware View) at Foley and Lardner (That's My View)

Wed, 23 May 2012 04:55:34 +0000

Siemens Healthcare incorporates VMware View to solve the last mile of EMR delivery (That's My View)

Wed, 23 May 2012 04:54:39 +0000

Desktop Virtualization (VMware View) at Foley and Lardner (VMware TV)

Wed, 23 May 2012 03:11:24 +0000

Desktop Virtualization (VMware View) at Foley and Lardner

bit.ly -- Find out how Foley and Lardner is embracing workplace mobility and BYOD with desktop virtualization and VMware View. Foley leveraged VMware View to offer desktops as a service. The new architecture also enables a bring-your-own-…

Demo: Siemens Healthcare incorporates VMware View to solve the last mile of EMR delivery (VMware TV)

Wed, 23 May 2012 02:56:08 +0000

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Siemens Healthcare incorporates VMware View to solve the last mile of EMR delivery (VMware TV)

Wed, 23 May 2012 02:51:18 +0000

	Siemens Healthcare incorporates VMware View to solve the last mile of EMR delivery bit.ly -- Learn how VMware and Siemens Healthcare address 3 keys areas for clinicians at the clinical desktops.	From: vmwaretv Views: 64 0 ratings
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The Millennial Committee & The Consumerization Of Enterprise IT (Office of the CTO Blogs)

Wed, 23 May 2012 00:25:18 +0000

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

EMC, VMware Seek the Big Storage View (Virtualization Review Blogs)

Tue, 22 May 2012 23:08:22 +0000

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

VMware Buys Wanova, Possible Edge in Desktop Virtualization (Virtualization Review Blogs)

Tue, 22 May 2012 22:55:26 +0000

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

RADIO: A Different Kind of High Performance (Office of the CTO Blogs)

Tue, 22 May 2012 22:27:26 +0000

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

VMware EUC KB articles – May 22nd, 2012 (IT Blood Pressure)

Tue, 22 May 2012 21:47:53 +0000

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

Citrix Feels Cloud Synergy (Virtualization Review Blogs)

Tue, 22 May 2012 21:26:40 +0000

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

VMware to acquire layering technology company Wanova (That's My View)

Tue, 22 May 2012 20:19:23 +0000

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…

VMware Welcomes Wanova to the EUC Family (Office of the CTO Blogs)

Tue, 22 May 2012 20:05:43 +0000

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…

Gluecon keynotes (View Yonder)

Tue, 22 May 2012 18:59:26 +0000

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

Heading for Gluecon 2012

VMware vSphere Metro Storage Cluster Case Study Technical Paper available (Frank Denneman)

Tue, 22 May 2012 18:50:22 +0000

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…

Invitation to Dell/Sanity Virtualization Seminar (VMware Virtualization Evangelist)

Tue, 22 May 2012 17:55:38 +0000

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…

EMC and VMware Partner to Develop New Storage Analytics Suite Powered by vCenter Operations (VMware Global Alliances Blog)

Tue, 22 May 2012 16:51:55 +0000

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…

vSphere Metro Storage Cluster white paper released! (VMware vSphere Blog)

Tue, 22 May 2012 15:58:05 +0000

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…

Announcing VCE's Vblock Data Protection (blog.aarondelp.com)

noreply@blogger.com (Aaron Delp) — Tue, 22 May 2012 15:57:00 +0000

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…

Increase performance and scalability of existing applications using SQLFire (VMware vFabric Blog)

Tue, 22 May 2012 14:50:43 +0000

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…

Hyperic Upgrades Management of Apache Tomcat (VMware vFabric Blog)

Tue, 22 May 2012 14:25:49 +0000

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…

NFS Block Sizes, Transfer Sizes & Locking (VMware vSphere Blog)

Tue, 22 May 2012 14:10:00 +0000

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…

vSphere Advanced Network Troubleshooting – DVPort Naming Conflicts [Video] (Wahl Network)

Tue, 22 May 2012 14:07:10 +0000

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…

vShield Edge Version Discovery with PowerCLI (geek after five)

Tue, 22 May 2012 14:00:56 +0000

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…

Steve Herrod keynote at last Italian VMUG, the complete Video (vuemuer.it)

Tue, 22 May 2012 14:00:18 +0000

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…

Typical VXLAN Use Case (IT 2.0)

Tue, 22 May 2012 13:57:48 +0000

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…

Mandarin Articles introduced to the Knowledge Base (VMware Support Insider)

Tue, 22 May 2012 13:47:45 +0000

Today we would like to introduce our Man...

Scheduled Maintenance – May 25, 2012 (VMware Support Insider)

Tue, 22 May 2012 13:37:44 +0000

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...

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

Tue, 22 May 2012 13:19:16 +0000

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 enhance ProfileUnity with FlexApp: User Installed Apps – What’s in a name? (Virtualization Practice)

Tue, 22 May 2012 13:17:53 +0000

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…

vKernel – Quest updates vOps Server Standard to version 5.0 (ESX Virtualization)

Tue, 22 May 2012 13:00:48 +0000

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…

Cisco UCS and Default Authentication Domains (Enterprise Admins)

Tue, 22 May 2012 13:00:31 +0000

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…

New Articles Published for Week Ending 5/19/12 (VMware Knowledge Base Weekly Digest)

Tue, 22 May 2012 12:58:28 +0000

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...

The Magic of CSS–Customizing Citrix Web Interface (VMwareInfo.com)

noreply@blogger.com (Carlo Costanzo) — Tue, 22 May 2012 13:32:00 +0000

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…

EMC acquires Syncplicity (virtualization.info)

Tue, 22 May 2012 12:26:12 +0000

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...

VKernel white papers (vInfrastructure Blog)

Tue, 22 May 2012 11:01:47 +0000

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…

VMware vSphere 5 - Optimize and Scale is ready for scheduling (NTPRO.NL)

nospam@example.com (Eric Sloof) — Tue, 22 May 2012 09:34:50 +0000

If you’re interested in a really challenging training course that also prepares you for the upcoming VCAP5-DCA exam, then the VMware "vSphere 5 - Optimize and Scale" and is a great training course for you. I’m delivering this new training course at the 9th of July at Global Knowledge Amsterdam.

…

vSphere IP Pool and VMA etc. (Virtual Wood Blog)

Tue, 22 May 2012 08:26:14 +0000

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 [...]

vExpert Spotlight: Chris Kranz (VMTN Blog)

Tue, 22 May 2012 08:14:00 +0000

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...

An introduction to Storage DRS (Yellow Bricks)

Tue, 22 May 2012 07:29:05 +0000

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…

New VMware View 5.1 Evaluators Guide Available (That's My View)

Tue, 22 May 2012 07:07:34 +0000

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 …

Lex Parsimoniae : Cloud Provisioning with a Razor (Nickapedia)

Tue, 22 May 2012 05:42:46 +0000

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

Effective Strategies to Simplify (DoubleCloud)

Tue, 22 May 2012 05:31:06 +0000

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,…

Tighter Integration between EMC VNX Storage and VMware vCenter Operations Management Suite Announced Today (VMware vSphere Blog)

Tue, 22 May 2012 04:24:48 +0000

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…

EMC World 2012 – Day 1 (Jason's Nash's Blog)

Tue, 22 May 2012 04:06:58 +0000

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…

New Features of Persona Management in VMware View 5.1 (VMware End User Computing)

Tue, 22 May 2012 00:00:00 +0000

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.

Hot Off the ‘Virtual’ Press - VMware Insights Magazine - Issue 2 (VMware for Small-Medium Business)

Mon, 21 May 2012 22:48:50 +0000

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…

How To Install Desktop Director on Citrix XenApp 6.5 Servers (Virtualization Review Blogs)

Mon, 21 May 2012 22:37:56 +0000

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

Come see VCE's CRAZY Mobility Demo at EMC World! (blog.aarondelp.com)

noreply@blogger.com (Aaron Delp) — Mon, 21 May 2012 22:19:00 +0000

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…

vCenter Operations Manager for View (VMGuru.nl)

Mon, 21 May 2012 20:37:24 +0000

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…

Drobo, Veeam and the SMB (VDI Cloud)

Mon, 21 May 2012 20:17:09 +0000

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…

VMware Communities Roundtable Podcast - Show Notes #188 - SAP, vFabric Application Director (VMTN Blog)

Mon, 21 May 2012 20:11:13 +0000

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...

Release: Oracle VM Server for x86 3.1 (virtualization.info)

Mon, 21 May 2012 19:46:53 +0000

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...

ESXi 5 on an Apple Mac Mini (vSamurai)

Mon, 21 May 2012 19:33:11 +0000

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…

Comparing virtual and non-virtual environments (VMware ThinApp Blog)

Mon, 21 May 2012 18:28:30 +0000

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...

vExpert Hands on Lab (Technodrone)

noreply@blogger.com (Maish Saidel-Keesing) — Mon, 21 May 2012 18:59:13 +0000

Yes we experts are a crazy bunch really we are. Not only do we blog about virtualization, read virtualization, breathe virtualization and immerse ourselves in technology but most of all we enjoy what we do.

Approximately three weeks ago, a post was made on the vExpert community forum with a offer…

[US] #vBrownBag – VCAP-DCA Objective 9 (Professional VMware)

Mon, 21 May 2012 16:45:47 +0000

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

vChat – Episode 27 – Live from the Charlotte VMware User Group (VMware Videos)

Mon, 21 May 2012 16:30:28 +0000

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…

VMAX 40K+Vblock = ((Powerful, Trusted, Smart) ^ More) – Risk (Virtualization for Service Providers)

Mon, 21 May 2012 16:27:55 +0000

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 [...]

VMware is Hiring - Munich, Germany (VMware Careers YouTube)

Mon, 21 May 2012 16:27:40 +0000

VMware is Hiring - Munich, Germany

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: bit.ly Unsere…

VMware shows marketing muscles against Microsoft (UP2V)

Mon, 21 May 2012 15:22:14 +0000

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…

Top storage sessions at HP Discover (Around the Storage Block)

Mon, 21 May 2012 15:16:38 +0000

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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…

VMware shows View 5.1 performance improvements (virtualization.info)

Mon, 21 May 2012 15:13:56 +0000

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...

Oracle ups server virtualization ante with Oracle VM 3.1 (InfoWorld Virtualization Report)

Mon, 21 May 2012 14:54:33 +0000

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…

VCAP5-DCD study guides (vInfrastructure Blog)

Mon, 21 May 2012 14:52:05 +0000

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:

Holy EMC Mega Launch II Batman! (Virtual Geek)

Mon, 21 May 2012 14:50:48 +0000

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…...

Isilon X400 and Mavericks (Virtual Geek)

Mon, 21 May 2012 14:46:41 +0000

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 Inyo is going to blow some minds. (Virtual Geek)

Mon, 21 May 2012 14:45:20 +0000

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...

Stretched vSphere Clusters? DR with SRM? Why not BOTH? (Virtual Geek)

Mon, 21 May 2012 14:44:32 +0000

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...

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

Mon, 21 May 2012 14:43:47 +0000

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...

DRS clusters and allocating reserved memory (Frank Denneman)

Mon, 21 May 2012 14:18:42 +0000

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…

New Cloudcast (.NET) - PaaS Meets Data Gravity (blog.aarondelp.com)

noreply@blogger.com (Aaron Delp) — Mon, 21 May 2012 14:04:00 +0000

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!

Convert a virtual disk from IDE to SCSI (vuemuer.it)

Mon, 21 May 2012 14:00:03 +0000

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…

Replace SSL Cert Emulex OCM for VMware with a signed one. (Zsoldier's Tech Blog)

noreply@blogger.com (Chris Nakagaki) — Mon, 21 May 2012 14:49:24 +0000

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:

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

A closer look at the View Composer API for Array Integration [incl. Video] (VMware vSphere Blog)

Mon, 21 May 2012 13:32:05 +0000

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…

CloudOne Hosts IBM Rational Tools in the Cloud (VMware Global Alliances Blog)

Mon, 21 May 2012 13:22:55 +0000

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,…

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

Mon, 21 May 2012 13:18:35 +0000

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

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…

How to Deploy an OVF/OVA in the ESXi Shell (virtuallyGhetto)

noreply@blogger.com (William) — Mon, 21 May 2012 14:01:21 +0000

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…

Heading for Gluecon 2012 (View Yonder)

Mon, 21 May 2012 12:58:21 +0000

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…

Random ESXi LUN loss in an 8Gb FC Brocade infrastructure (Virtual Kenneth)

Mon, 21 May 2012 12:53:44 +0000

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…

PowerCLI: Copy Datastore Items (ICT-Freak.nl)

Mon, 21 May 2012 12:49:15 +0000

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…

Next Generation Thin Clients – Cheaper, Faster, Better (Virtualization Practice)

Mon, 21 May 2012 12:00:31 +0000

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…

Install app on Citrix server - change user (Virtual Infrastructure Tips)

noreply@blogger.com (Jakob Fabritius Nørregaard) — Mon, 21 May 2012 12:55:08 +0000

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…

14 Common Virtualization Mistakes – And How To Avoid Them (ESX Virtualization)

Mon, 21 May 2012 10:10:04 +0000

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…

HA split brain, which VM prevails? (VMware vSphere Blog)

Mon, 21 May 2012 10:08:03 +0000

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…

VCAP5-DCD - registration is now open! (VMware Training and Certification)

noreply@blogger.com (Scott Vessey) — Mon, 21 May 2012 09:09:00 +0000

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…

Vblock 300: Flexibility Without Risk (Virtualization for Service Providers)

Mon, 21 May 2012 08:17:01 +0000

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

Amazon Embraces SQL Server, ASP.NET (Virtualization Review Blogs)

Mon, 21 May 2012 07:00:00 +0000

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

Spring (May) 2012 StorageIO news letter (StorageIO Blog)

Sun, 20 May 2012 22:48:19 +0000

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

EMCs first Ivy Bridge based storage array! (Virtual Geek)

Sun, 20 May 2012 18:39:30 +0000

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...

Updated: What's the deal with EMC CX arrays not supporting VAAI with vSphere 5.0? (VMware Front Experience)

noreply@blogger.com (Andreas Peetz) — Sun, 20 May 2012 17:46:25 +0000

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…

Various cloud, virtualization, server, storage I/O poll’s (StorageIO Blog)

Sun, 20 May 2012 16:26:09 +0000

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.

Top Free Courses from VMware Education (ESX Virtualization)

Sun, 20 May 2012 13:12:12 +0000

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…

Weekly Twitter Updates (Virtualization Information)

Sun, 20 May 2012 08:10:00 +0000

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.…

[APAC] #vBrownBag Follow-Up – VCAP5-DCD Wrap-Up (Professional VMware)

Sat, 19 May 2012 21:12:33 +0000

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

Link Dump 5/19/12 (Professional VMware)

Sat, 19 May 2012 21:08:12 +0000

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-…

Registration is now open for the VCAP5-DCD Exam (NTPRO.NL)

nospam@example.com (Eric Sloof) — Sat, 19 May 2012 18:57:56 +0000

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…

vCenter Operations for View now available (vmwmanagement)

Sat, 19 May 2012 15:36:02 +0000

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…

Technical Marketing Update 2012 - Week 20 (VMTN Blog)

Sat, 19 May 2012 15:07:27 +0000

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...

VCAP5-DCA: Objective 4.2 (The Saffa Geek)

Sat, 19 May 2012 14:00:19 +0000

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…

Vblock gravity: the more you converge, the bigger the benefit (View Yonder)

Sat, 19 May 2012 13:30:12 +0000

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…

VCAP5-DCA: Objective 4.1 (The Saffa Geek)

Sat, 19 May 2012 12:48:13 +0000

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…

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

Sat, 19 May 2012 11:31:19 +0000

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...

VCAP5-DCA: Objective 9.2 (The Saffa Geek)

Sat, 19 May 2012 10:19:15 +0000

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 [...]

Session hijacking (or sidejacking) – Whitepaper by Thawte (ESX Virtualization)

Sat, 19 May 2012 09:28:52 +0000

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…

Cloud computing gets a lot more personal (VMwire)

Sat, 19 May 2012 09:09:00 +0000

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…

Attaching an unreplicated VMDK after SRM failover using scripts (VMware vSphere Blog)

Sat, 19 May 2012 06:12:35 +0000

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.…

VCAP5-DCD Certification (vInfrastructure Blog)

Sat, 19 May 2012 05:40:11 +0000

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.

So I submitted a session for VMworld (Thankfully the RAID saved us.)

Sat, 19 May 2012 02:36:33 +0000

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…

Open Source VI Java API 5.0.1 Released (DoubleCloud)

Sat, 19 May 2012 02:30:38 +0000

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…

Synology DSM 4.0 Supports VAAI in vSphere 5 For Home Labs (Kendrick Coleman)

kendrickcoleman@gmail.com (Kendrick Coleman) — Fri, 18 May 2012 23:26:32 +0000

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…

Folder by Path (LucD notes)

Fri, 18 May 2012 21:36:37 +0000

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 [...]

Configuring EMC Isilon SmartConnect – Part II: SmartConnect Advanced (Jase's Place)

Fri, 18 May 2012 21:09:24 +0000

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.…

View 5.1 Performance (VROOM!)

Fri, 18 May 2012 20:34:18 +0000

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...

Time Reporting with Outlook and Powershell (geek after five)

Fri, 18 May 2012 19:06:01 +0000

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…

DC vBeers – May 23, 2012 (VMtoday.com)

Fri, 18 May 2012 19:01:36 +0000

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…

Defending the indefensible (Thankfully the RAID saved us.)

Fri, 18 May 2012 18:21:52 +0000

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…

Dedup for your Dedup with #Veeam and #StarWind (mwpreston dot net)

Fri, 18 May 2012 17:49:57 +0000

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,…

Cetas (VMware) receives prestigious 2012 TiE50 award! (Office of the CTO Blogs)

Fri, 18 May 2012 17:02:01 +0000

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 Java App Deployment (Virtualization Review Blogs)

Fri, 18 May 2012 16:27:18 +0000

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

Configuring EMC Isilon SmartConnect – Part I: SmartConnect Basic (Jase's Place)

Fri, 18 May 2012 16:18:58 +0000

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…

Customize the View Portal for Client Download with VMware View 5.1 (VMware End User Computing)

Fri, 18 May 2012 15:19:36 +0000

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.

Server Virtualization Quotes: VMware Forum 2012 (VMware tips and tricks)

editor@searchvmware.com (Julia Anderson, Assistant Site Editor() — Fri, 18 May 2012 14:29:33 +0000

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

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How to open a command or shell prompt (VMware KBTV)

Fri, 18 May 2012 14:11:35 +0000

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...

How to open a command or shell prompt (VMware KB TV)

Fri, 18 May 2012 13:18:35 +0000

How to open a command or shell prompt

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…

Vblock DNA, mutation, and why standards are important in converged infrastructure (View Yonder)

Fri, 18 May 2012 13:15:48 +0000

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…

It’s Not Too Late (blog.scottlowe.org)

Fri, 18 May 2012 12:32:56 +0000

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

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It’s Not Too Late

When RamDisks Get Full (PlanetVM)

Fri, 18 May 2012 11:27:57 +0000

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 →

What is your Definition of a Successful Implementation? (Virtualization Practice)

Fri, 18 May 2012 11:12:34 +0000

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…