Hi,

I'm trying to set up a lab on an ESXi box runing nested ESXis to play with NSX and PaloAlto FW.

(play as in learning setup

In so doing, I'm discovering the dvfilter-maclearn fling which is great to minimize the impact of nested on the networking virtualization.

But it is geting hard to understand some issues, and I don't find documentation on the working of the features used.

(Issue being, e.g., that a VM is getting TX filtered by an sfw filter that NSX is not controling)

Also, the fling says to use filter4 but that hook is the one Panorama (Palo Alto Networks controller) uses for its FW Agents.

I would appreciate any pointers/string ends to start pulling

-Carlos

This is not a "request for support" but in the interest of helping VMware engineers find problems, and knowing full well Win 10 is beta software...

After running Win 10 build 10074 for more than a day, the virtual machine process crashed.

I've attached the VMware.log to this message, and I can provide additional supporting info via PM if requested.

-Noel

Hi

today appear a new problem for me when i login to vmware horizon view admin status of my datastore show as attach pic

all of my datastore are local (3 data store)

Best regards

babak

Hi All,

Recently I have downloaded VMWARE workstation 11 software for 30 days trial and then I installed it in my PC. While downloading it asked my email id and phone no and filled my details. After some days I gave the downloaded file to one of my friends then he gave it to many students. Now my question is if they do any hacking activity from that vmfile who is responsible for that .They or me? Now what should I do?

For the past few days I am thinking about that only and I am very afraid. I am new to these softwares. Is there any problem by sharing the exe file?

I request you to answer for this.

Thanks in advance.

Regards,

Ravi

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Hi everyone, welcome to this weeks newsletter and the 2nd Quarter of 2015. I would like to remind everyone to please check out the VMware TAM Blog at: http://blogs.vmware.com/tam/. It is also important for you to ensure that you are not affected by any of the latest VMware Kbs which we list each week in this newsletter. This should be part of your weekly maintenance and it would be a good idea to discuss this with your VMware TAM during your regular meetings.

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  VCP Recertification Deadline Extended to May 8th (http://blogs.vmware.com/partnernews/?p=1684)According to the new recertification policy all VMware Certified Professionals (VCPs) must recertify. We’ve extended the initial expiration date to May 8, 2015. Don’t let your company become at risk for losing their program benefits. Already recertified? The good news for you is that you get to update your VCP to version 6 at a […]

   

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  Instant Gratification for the Always-On College World with Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS) (http://blogs.vmware.com/euc/?p=7484)If college students had a mantra, I bet it’d be something along the lines of that Queen song: “I want it all and I want it now!”  Students are used to instant, 24×7 access to social media, gaming, music and more in their personal lives. It’s no surprise they expect the same of their computer […]

   

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  VMware Supports Next Generation of Global Leaders With Socialcast (http://blogs.vmware.com/euc/?p=7470)By Bob Schultz, chief strategy lead, End-User Computing, VMware Last week, I found myself shaking hands with His Royal Highness, The Prince of Wales, Prince Charles.   The question everyone has been asking me since is: How did that happen? It all started over a year ago, when the Socialcast team at VMware was approached by […]

   

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  Watch video: MWC’s 20th Annual Global Mobile Awards presents award to AirWatch (http://blogs.air-watch.com/?p=35437)Last month at Mobile World Congress, AirWatch was nominated and presented the award for “Best Mobile Cloud Services or App.” AirWatch was recognized as a valuable solution to the enterprise because it provides a solution to address both corporate and personally owned devices and has notable multi-platform capabilities. In a press release, GSMA CEO John Hoffman […]

   

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  AirWatch 8 presents a vision for unified endpoint management (http://blogs.air-watch.com/?p=35347)Breaking down the silos between mobile and desktop management is becoming a priority for IT leaders. In AirWatch’s latest software release, AirWatch 8 addresses the concerns of these independent silos and provides features to enable collaboration and security across mobile and desktop platforms. These new features include desktop endpoint support for Chromebooks and real time […]

   

  
  

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  Increase Deal Size with VMware’s Network Virtualization & Security Platform (http://blogs.vmware.com/partner/?p=2429)Did you know NSX is the network virtualization and security platform for the Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC), which brings the operational model of a virtual machine (VM) to the data center network? Well, it is! In addition to transforming the economics of network and security operations, NSX serves as a valuable sales tool that enables […]

   

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  HP OneView is a Winner with Over 100K Licenses Sold (http://blogs.vmware.com/partnernews/?p=1689)The success of HP OneView will open doors for you – check this out.  Take the opportunity to talk to accounts about how HP OneView integrations with VMware vCenter and Operation Management Suite deliver the integration and automation your customers need to help them simplify data center operations and boost business agility.  Call your customers […]

   

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  Deliver Workstation-Quality Graphics on Any Device (http://blogs.vmware.com/partnernews/?p=1686)VMware, Dell, and NVIDIA together take the guesswork out of virtualization to ensure organizations can virtualize without compromise. Check out this blog post to find out how this joint solution is helping organizations adopt server and desktop virtualization to deliver workstation-quality graphics on any device.

   

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  VCP Recertification Deadline Extended to May 8th (http://blogs.vmware.com/partnernews/?p=1684)According to the new recertification policy all VMware Certified Professionals (VCPs) must recertify. We’ve extended the initial expiration date to May 8, 2015. Don’t let your company become at risk for losing their program benefits. Already recertified? The good news for you is that you get to update your VCP to version 6 at a […]

   

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  HP ConvergedSystem 200-HC EVO:RAIL (http://blogs.vmware.com/partnernews/?p=1682)Watch this video to find out how you can leverage this new solution to deliver applications and services faster and more efficiently than ever before. Help your customers lower IT costs with this new all-in-one solution that simplifies virtual machine (VM) deployments.

   

  
  

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  ForceAffinePowerOn what is it? (http://www.yellow-bricks.com/?p=16105)Advertise here with BSA I’ve seen a lot of confusion around the ForceAffinePowerOn setting, and even the VMware documentation is incorrect around what this feature is / does. First and foremost: ForceAffinePowerOn is an advanced DRS setting (Yes I filed a doc bug for it). I’ve seen many people stating it is an HA setting, but it is not. […] " ForceAffinePowerOn what is it? " originally appeared on Yellow-Bricks.com . Follow me on twitter - @DuncanYB. Pre-order my upcoming book Essential…

   

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  All-flash VSAN configuration example (http://www.yellow-bricks.com/?p=16087)Advertise here with BSA I was talking to a customer this week who was looking to deploy various 4 node VSAN configurations. They needed a solution which would provide them performance and wanted to minimize the moving components due to the location and environmental aspects of the deployment, all-flash VSAN is definitely a great choice for this scenario. I looked […] " All-flash VSAN configuration example " originally appeared on Yellow-Bricks.com . Follow me on twitter - @DuncanYB. Pre-order…

   

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  DRS rules still active when DRS disabled? (http://www.yellow-bricks.com/?p=16081)Advertise here with BSA I just received a question around DRS rules and why they are still active when DRS is disabled. I was under the impression this was something I already blogged about, but I cannot find it. I know some others did, but they reported this behaviour as a bug… which it isn’t actually. Below is a screenshot […] " DRS rules still active when DRS disabled? " originally appeared on Yellow-Bricks.com . Follow me on twitter - @DuncanYB. Pre-order my upcoming book Essential…

   

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  Simple Gmail Hacks That I Use Daily (http://kendrickcoleman.com/index.php/Tech-Blog/simple-gmail-hacks-that-i-use-daily.html)Email is the thing we all love to hate. However, if we can't use Slack , then Gmail is by far the next best thing. Having been a user for Gmail since its early early beta days when you need an invite, I've grown fond of it. The spam filters, the style, the  responsiveness, and the access from anywhere is what I love. There are some hidden "features" that many don't know about. I'm going to highlight some that I use daily.   In true Google form, everything always seems to be in a…

   

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  Top vBlog 2015 Full results (http://vsphere-land.com/?p=5743)So the voting has ended, the results have been tabulated and here they are. There were almost 90 new blogs on the ballot this year and 3 new blogs to make the top 25. This year there was over 2200 votes compared to around 1400 last year. You can read more stats about this years voting … Continue reading » [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

   

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  Announcing the Top vBlog 2015 results (http://vsphere-land.com/?p=5729)Below are the results for the overall voting for the Top 25, full results will be published soon: And below are the winners of the individual categories:   [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

   

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  What Virtual Volumes does not support (http://vsphere-land.com/?p=5732)VMware finally released the list of supported and non-supported vSphere features and VMware products with their new Virtual Volumes  (VVols) storage architecture. I’ve been looking for this in their documentation for VVols and have not found it so I’m glad to see it’s finally available so you can see exactly what is supported and more … Continue reading » [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

   

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  And the winners of Top vBlog 2015 are… (http://vsphere-land.com/?p=5719)…not ready to be revealed yet, you’ll have to wait until tomorrow to find out. I’ve tabulated all the votes and applied points to the votes and have computed the results. We’ll announce the winners on a special live Google Hangout tomorrow with David Davis, Rick Vanover, Simon Seagrave, John Troyer and Scott Davis from Infinio. Go here … Continue reading » [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

   

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  Watch the Top vBlog 2015 Results Show Live! (http://vsphere-land.com/?p=5689)Join the vChat gang, Eric Siebert from vSphere-land, David Davis from Virtualization Software and Simon Seagrave from TechHead along with special guests Scott Davis from Infinio and John Troyer from TechReckoning as we countdown the top 25 bloggers based on the results from my annual VMware/virtualization blog survey. This event will be broadcast live via Google Hangouts at 9:00am … Continue reading » [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

   

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  VMTurbo is giving away a great home lab just for watching a webinar (http://vsphere-land.com/?p=5683)Register for the VMTurbo 5.1 Release Webcast and get THREE CHANCES to win a Turbostack Home Lab, valued over USD $1,600.00! Now I would encourage you to watch the webcast even if they weren’t giving away a pretty cool home lab kit (that’s what they call it in the UK) as VMTurbo makes a great … Continue reading » [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

   

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  New paper on VMware Virtual Volumes (VVols) from Evaluator Group (http://vsphere-land.com/?p=5670)Want to know more about VMware Virtual Volumes (VVols) and get an analyst perspective of this exciting new VMware storage architecture? Well you can, Evaluator Group has a new paper entitled “Evaluation of HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage with VMware VVOLs” that details their experience and opinions after some hands-on experience with VVols running on 3PAR. The … Continue reading » [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

   

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  vBlogger Spotlight: William Lam (http://vsphere-land.com/?p=5674)Follow @lamw While we wait for the Top vBlog results I thought I would shine the spotlight on several prominent bloggers in the community to give you some insight into their experiences with blogging. Today’s spotlight is on William Lam, automation wizard extraordinaire and voted last year as the #2 vBlogger in the world. Let’s face … Continue reading » [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

   

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  VMworld 2015 Call for Papers now open! (http://vsphere-land.com/?p=5663)  It’s that time of year again, time to submit your best session ideas for VMworld for that oh so slight chance that it might get accepted. Below are the timelines for the whole CFP process. Call For Papers opens March 24, closes April 28 June 12 (+/- a few days) Speaker Resource Center opens … Continue reading » [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

   

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  Upcoming round-table panel discussion on Virtual Volumes (VVols) hosted by Taneja Group (http://vsphere-land.com/?p=5659)I’ll be participating as one of the panelists in an upcoming round-table discussion on Virtual Volumes (VVols) that is being hosted by Tom Fenton of the Taneja Group. Click the image below to sign-up and hope to see you there. VMware Virtual Volumes – What impact will they have on the datacenter? Thursday, April 2nd at 9:00 … Continue reading » [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

   

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  When it comes to implementing Virtual Volumes (VVols) you better be on time (http://vsphere-land.com/?p=5655)I was conversing with one of our VVol engineers today after he mentioned that we have seen customers experiencing problems with using VVols due to time sync issues in their vSphere environment. These problems could of easily been avoided with some simple RTFMing. VMware’s New Virtual Volumes (VVols) architecture has a lot of moving parts … Continue reading » [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

   

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  Top vBlog 2015 results are out (http://vcdx56.com/?p=5372)A few weeks back the yearly top vBlog voting hosted by Eric Siebert at vSphere-land and sponsored by Infinio started and this Tuesday, (March 31) the results were announced during a live session which you can watch here in case you missed it.   Simon Seagrave, John Troyer  and Scott Davis partivipaded in the live session were the … Continue reading »

   

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  vCenter Orchestrator workflow search result not complete (http://vcdx56.com/?p=5289)Today i ran into a situation i have not seen in the past. I was using the vCenter Orchestrator (vCO) version 5.5.2 and the vCO plugin vCenter Orchestrator Plugin for Horizon View version 1.1 which can be found here When configuring the connection between vCO and Horizon View you need to run the workflow “Add Delegated … Continue reading »

   

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  Storage vMotion fails with error Already disconnected (http://vcdx56.com/?p=5337)This blog post applies to vCenter Server version 5.5. U2d and ESXi server version 5.5 U2a. A few days back i got involved in a virtual machine migration (VM) issue. The VMs were suppose to be migrated from one vSphere cluster to another without any chance of mounting one of the vSphere clusters datastore(s) to the other … Continue reading »

   

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  VMware vSphere: A Great Place to Run Enterprise Databases (http://longwhiteclouds.com/?p=10727)I saw a tweet today (shown below) that reminded me of 27th August, 2012. This was the day that VMware published this article, which demonstrates how VMware vSphere (5.1 at that point) could achieve 1 million IOPS in a single VM. Things have undoubtedly gotten better in vSphere 5.5, and even more so with vSphere […]

   

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  Configuring Scalable Low Latency L2 Leaf-Spine Network Fabrics with Dell Networking Switches (http://longwhiteclouds.com/?p=10603)In December 2014 I got an early Christmas present from Dell. They shipped me the latest 40G and 10G S series (Force 10) switches so that I could begin to test, validate and document the integration and reference architectures between Dell Networking and Nutanix. I’m starting with a L2 MLAG (Multi-chassis Link Aggregation Group)  configuration […]

   

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  vSphere 6: Using VMCA as a Subordinate CA (http://longwhiteclouds.com/?p=10693)vSphere 6 includes a new certificate authority that issues certificates for all of the different components within your environment to ensure communications are secure. If you want to use VMCA as a Subordinate CA from an Enterprise CA in your environment you need to change the VMCA Root Certificate on the Platform Services Controller (PSC) […]

   

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  Publishing vSphere 6.0 VMCA Signing Certificate (http://www.derekseaman.com/?p=2774)Advertise here with BSA As mentioned in my vSphere 6.0 installation series, you can configure the new VMCA to be a subordinate to your enterprise CA. This is great, and opens up new certificate management options for organizations that wish to use trusted SSL certificates. However, you may run into a situation where this new root certificate is not […] The post Publishing vSphere 6.0 VMCA Signing Certificate appeared first on Derek Seaman's Blog .                     Related Stories vSphere…

   

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  vSphere 6.0 Pt. 12: PSC Machine Certificate (http://www.derekseaman.com/?p=2745)Advertise here with BSA Back in Part 11 of this series we configured the VMCA to be a subordinate CA to our enterprise CA. This ensures that all certificates which get used by vCenter components are automatically trusted. But as previously mentioned, not all organizations can use the VMCA. The US Federal Government would be a prime example, where […] The post vSphere 6.0 Pt. 12: PSC Machine Certificate appeared first on Derek Seaman's Blog .                     Related Stories vSphere 6.0…

   

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  vSphere 6.0 Install Pt. 11: VMCA as Subordinate (http://www.derekseaman.com/?p=2675)Advertise here with BSA As mentioned in my vSphere 6.0 install part 3, VMware has introduced a new certificate option in this release. You can now make a built-in VMware certificate authority (VMCA) a subordinate to your enterprise CA. This is great news, as it will allow some automation of the certificate deployment process. However, there are certainly some […] The post vSphere 6.0 Install Pt. 11: VMCA as Subordinate appeared first on Derek Seaman's Blog .                     Related…

   

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  Top vBloggers Announced! (http://www.derekseaman.com/?p=2732)Advertise here with BSA Each year Eric Siebert from vSphere-Land.com has an annual voting for the top vBloggers in the world. Competition is fierce and back in 2013 I was honored with getting position #24, for which I was thrilled. Then came along more SSL woes with vSphere 5.5, and my vCenter Toolkit was born. In 2014 I then […] The post Top vBloggers Announced! appeared first on Derek Seaman's Blog .                     Related Stories vSphere 6.0 Pt. 9: SSL Templates 

   

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  vSphere 6.0 Install Pt. 10: Install VCSA PSC (http://www.derekseaman.com/?p=2693)Advertise here with BSA New to my vSphere installation series is using the pre-packaged vCenter appliance (VCSA). Now that the VCSA is on par with the Windows vCenter server, I suspect more and more people will migrate to the appliance. So to that end, let’s install an external PSC using the VCSA. If you are using a Windows-based external […] The post vSphere 6.0 Install Pt. 10: Install VCSA PSC appeared first on Derek Seaman's Blog .                     Related Stories vSphere 6.0…

   

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  vSphere 6.0 Pt. 9: SSL Templates (http://www.derekseaman.com/?p=2709)Advertise here with BSA VMware has provided new SSL template guidance for vSphere 6.0. New to vSphere 6.0 are machine SSL certificates, solution user certificates, and using the VMCA as a subordinate CA. If you are using an enterprise Microsoft CA, then this article is for you. I’ll show you how to create the new templates and publish them […] The post vSphere 6.0 Pt. 9: SSL Templates appeared first on Derek Seaman's Blog .                     Related Stories vSphere 6.0 Install Pt. 8:…

   

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  vSphere 6.0 Install Pt. 8: Toolkit Configuration (http://www.derekseaman.com/?p=2662)Advertise here with BSA Now that we have the PSC installed, it’s time to configure the variables for the Toolkit script, and also make sure we can download our root certificates. Depending on your configuration, you may need to manually download your root public certificates. VMware needs certificates in a specific format, and they need the full certificate chain. […] The post vSphere 6.0 Install Pt. 8: Toolkit Configuration appeared first on Derek Seaman's Blog .    

   

  
  

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  The Secret Origins of RTFM (http://www.datacenterdude.com/?p=2729)We lament over and over about how no one reads anymore, but we are also often just as guilty. Victims of our own hubris and overconfidence.

   

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  #74 Cloud Storage and International Standards (http://www.datacenterdude.com/?p=2589)We take a look at the latest from Amazon Cloud Storage, Microsoft Cloud adopts an International standard, and we go over all of your emails!

   

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  Cloudy with a Chance of Explosive Growth (http://www.datacenterdude.com/?p=2575)The infrastructure of today is almost drowning in choice. There are countless competing platforms and ecosystems that each offer their own unique attributes. The problem with this landscape is simple. Organizations are struggling to realize the economic and competitive advantage that these ecosystems provide for one simple reason. They are far too busy running their business to fully investigate these opportunities. They have fallen into the trap of simply keeping the lights on. This is a travesty for…

   

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  #vBrownBag Follow-Up What’s New in vSphere 6 vCenter Server Appliance w Emad Younis (@emad_younis) (http://professionalvmware.com/?p=5372)Emad Younis covers the new features, functions, and installation options for the VMware vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) including updates such as IPv6 support, feature parity with the Windows vCenter, and scripted versus manual installation. What’s new with the VCSA 6 You can follow Emad on Twitter @emad_younis and his blog http://emadyounis.com Originally published at http://ProfessionalVMware.com […]

   

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  NLVMUG UserCon 2015: Presentations are available for download (http://www.viktorious.nl/?p=5266)The post NLVMUG UserCon 2015: Presentations are available for download appeared first on viktorious.nl - Virtualization & Cloud Management . On Thursday March 19 the NLVMUG UserCon 2015 took place at the 1931 Conference Center in Den Bosch, The Netherlands. More than 900 VMUG members attended the event. With Joe Baguley as a keynote speaker, four different parallel tracks and more than 20 sessions it was the biggest VMUG UserCon in Europe. A big thank you to everyone involved in the organization…

   

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  First Nutanix .NEXT event (http://vinfrastructure.it/?p=15098)Nutanix is a well know hyper-converged company founded in 2009 with the vision of bringing the benefits of web-scale IT to the masses. They have changed the rules of traditional storage (on 2009 mostly SAN based) and become the pioneer of concepts like no-SAN and no-LUNs, hyper-converged and web-scale storage. Recently they have also reach five years of history, were they have made significant progress in their products and solution (and also partnership). And some months ago they have also announced their…

   

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  E2EVC 2015 Berlin (http://vinfrastructure.it/?p=14174)After the E2EVC 2014 Brussels and E2EVC 2014 Barcelona events, the next European E2EVC event (and the first one for 2015 year) will be in Berlin: The next Spring E2EVC Virtualization Conference in Europe in summer 2015 will take place in Novotel Berlin Mitte Hotel, Fischerinsel 12, 10179, Berlin, Germany. E2EVC Virtualization Conference is an independent, non-commercial, virtualization community event build from experts to experts. Started in 2003 with just 4 people and after 23 very successful events grown…

   

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  VMware certification roadmap v6 (http://vinfrastructure.it/?p=16127)With the announce of vSphere 6.0 there are of course a new bunch of certifications, changed not only in the version, but also in some other details. I’ve wrote about the new VMware certifications some weeks ago, and also on the upgrade rules from vSphere 5 based certifications. But finally, with the announce of the VMware Certified Professional 6 – Data Center Virtualization, now available in beta (so this is the first VMware public beta for an exam?) a new column is going to populating the new…

   

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  APAC #vBrownbag – Mirage overview (http://vinfrastructure.it/?p=16118)APAC edition of #vBrownbag is managed by my friend Alastair Cooke (the creator of AutoLab) and actually he is covering the VCP6-Desktop blueprint. One big news of the new version of this certification is the part related to VMware Mirage: the entire section 5 is dedicated to Install, Configure, and Manage VMware Mirage. How don’t know how much will impact the related exams (I’ve not took it yet), but for sure mean a more End User Computing perspective rather that something related only to the View part.…

   

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  April 2015 IT events (http://vinfrastructure.it/?p=15806)Interesting European IT events: 1st IEEE Conference on Network “Softwarization” NetSoft 2015 – London (April, 13-17) Hadoop Summit Europe - Brussels (April, 15-16) EuroSec 2015 – Bordeaux (April, 21) TECH.unplugged – London (April, 22) Apps World Germany – Berlin (April, 22-23) London VMUG Meeting – London (April, 23) SDN & NFV 2015 – London (April, 29) See also: April 2014 IT events European IT events calendar Disclaimer: usually in this list are not included webinars (because they are…

   

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  Top virtualization blog 2015 results (http://vinfrastructure.it/?p=15916)Finally the results of the annual contest Voting for the 2015 top VMware & virtualization blogs are out on vSphere-land web site, after the usual live show where the top 25 were announced. My guess (but I suppose was almost from all) about the first is confirmed (and cannot be different)… fair enought for the first of each category (it’s a pity that in those case there can be only one… a top 3 for each category could be a good idea for the future). This content is become a big reference for all…

   

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  VMware vExpert 2015 benefits (http://vinfrastructure.it/?p=15230)The primary reason for becoming vExpert certainly should not be related to any possible benefits of the program. And once confirmed (for me is the sixth year in a row) you have to think more about what you can give rather to what is to be expected. But I’d be a hypocrite to deny that there are also practical advantages in being a vExpert! Officially, VMware, according with the vExpert FAQ, say that the biggest benefit of the award is the public recognition as a VMware vExpert Award winner. But benefits…

   

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  Not just Hypervisor Agnostic, Hypervisor Version Agnostic! (http://www.joshodgers.com/?p=3376)Its well known that Nutanix is Hypervisor agnostic supporting ESXi, Hyper-V and KVM, but what most people either don’t know, or haven’t considered, is the fact the Nutanix Operating System (NOS) version is not dependant on the hypervisor version. What … Continue reading →

   

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  In-Kernel verses Virtual Storage Appliance (http://www.joshodgers.com/?p=3355)Let me start by asking, What’s all this “In-Kernel verses Virtual Storage Appliance” debate all about? It seems to me to be total nonsense yet it is the focus of so called competitive intelligence and twitter debates. From an architectural perspective … Continue reading →

   

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  Are You A CCIE? Start Your Path To VCDX-NV (http://www.chriscolotti.us/?p=4708)I will admit I just learned about this today for some reason, but if you are a CCIE did you know that you have a slightly quicker way to get off the blocks on the path to VCDX-NV?  Simply put I wanted to make sure that as many current CCIE’s out there knew about this ... The post Are You A CCIE? Start Your Path To VCDX-NV appeared first on Chris Colotti's Blog .               Related Stories Online VCDX Workshop Feedback June VCDX Defense Contingency Plan For Desktop and Cloud How Are Your…

   

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  My 2015 Speaking Engagements (http://www.chriscolotti.us/?p=4678)As we close the first quarter of 2015, which in itself is simply amazing that it is gone, I wanted to start tracking my 2015 speaking engagements which include a mostly some VCDX Workshops, but it also looks like I will be at a VMUG or two presenting a Keynote.  I wanted to provide the ... The post My 2015 Speaking Engagements appeared first on Chris Colotti's Blog .                 Comments Always comes down to budget by Chris Colotti I sure would like you to have one here in SoCal. Think of…

   

  
  

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  Why VMware? (http://blogs.vmware.com/cio/?p=123)Why VMware By Bask Iyer, CIO, VMware Remember the CEO who said, “I loved the product so much that I bought the company”?  In a way I feel like Victor Kiam, that famous former owner of the New England Patriots football team who claimed he bought Remington (the company) because he loved their razors. I’ve […]

   

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  7 Tips on Leveraging a Change Agent Program to Boost Cloud Adoption (http://blogs.vmware.com/cloudops/?p=1492)By Pierre Moncassin In nearly every other discussion I have with customers about cloud adoption, I hear mention of their challenge with “mindset change.” That challenge is often faced on both sides of the consumer/provider equation, as users (IT consumers) and operators (internal providers) need to change their approaches in order to define, operate, and […]

   

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  vSphere Virtual Volumes Webinar Series: Hitachi (http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/?p=17110)On Wednesday April 15 Hitachi is hosting a one hour technical webinar event to discuss how Hitachi Storage for VMware Virtual Volumes can bring customers on a reliable enterprise journey to a software-defined, policy-controlled data center. The webinar covers more than just the technical aspects of Virtual Volumes but also the operational value and efficiency […]

   

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  SRM – Array Based Replication vs. vSphere Replication (http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/?p=16802)SRM supports two different replication technologies, Storage Array or Array-Based Replication and vSphere Replication. One of the key decisions when implementing SRM is which technology to use and for what VMs. The two technologies can be used together in an SRM environment though not to protect the same VM. Given that, what are the differences […]

   

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  Oracle Licensing Discussion – The Definitive Collateral Collection (http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/?p=17066)The Oracle licensing webinar was broadcast on Mar19, 2015 and the replay is available at the link below. The webinar and the link, hosted by Database Trends and Analysis (DBTA) was delivered as a collaborative effort between VMware and a number of VMware partners. Don Sullivan moderated the event which included individual presentations of approximately […]

   

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  Confessions of an Energy Consciousness Mind (http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/?p=16978)I have a confession.  My data center kit has been using too much energy. Having kit available at my disposable is great, but I have been wasting this resource when it’s not required by my workloads. And if there’s one thing I try to be conscious of, it’s energy consumption. Just ask my kids who […]

   

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  Top Posts from March: v5 to v6 Migration Paths, 50% off VCP-NV Exam, and More! (http://blogs.vmware.com/education/?p=5512)Catch up on last month's top posts from the VMware Education and Certification Blog.

   

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  3 New VCP Level Certifications Available (http://blogs.vmware.com/education/?p=5501)Today we are announcing the availability three new VCP level certification exams: VMware Certified Professional 6 — Cloud Management and Automation (VCP6-CMA) VMware Certified Professional 6 – Desktop and Mobility (VCP6-DTM) VMware Certified Professional 6 – Network Virtualization (VCP6-NV) Check out the requirements for new candidates and migration paths for current VCPs on our new website, where you can also […]

   

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  Why We do Beta Exams (http://blogs.vmware.com/education/?p=5476)You may have noticed that our recent VCP6-DCV certification announcement was a little different from in the past, namely that it is being released as a beta exam. We’ve always had beta versions of our exams, but this was the first time it was open to the public. So we wanted to explain a few […]

   

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  April 2015 Certification Website Changes (http://blogs.vmware.com/education/?p=5487)With the release of the version 6 certifications already beginning I thought that it would be good provide a short video update on the changes that we have recently made to the website with the addition of Certification and Exam Details pages. Please be sure to leave your comments below. Thank you! Paul Sorensen

   

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  Scheduled My VMware Maintenance (http://blogs.vmware.com/kb/?p=6526)My VMware will be undergoing a scheduled system maintenance on Saturday, April 11th, 2015.  During the time indicated below, you will not be able to place orders or download products.  myLearn login and class registrations will also be restricted. Begin: 02.00 PM PDT on Saturday, April 11 2015 End:    08.00:PM PDT on Saturday, April 11 2015 We apologize […]

   

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  KBTV Webinars – Introduction to vRealize Business Standard, Advanced and Enterprise editions (http://blogs.vmware.com/kb/?p=6520)This video is the fourth installment in a new series of free Webinars in which our Technical Support staff members present on various topics across a wide range of VMware’s product portfolio. The title for this presentation is Introduction to vRealize Business Standard, Advanced and Enterprise editions  and it provides an overview of the various versions/editions […]

   

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  Refresh: Top 20 Horizon with View KB articles (http://blogs.vmware.com/kb/?p=6516)Today we have refreshed our top 20 list of VMware View specific KBs. Some have dropped off the list while others are now trending upward.  Have a look and see if you are encountering any of these issues in View.   Manually deleting linked clones or stale virtual desktop entries from the View Composer database […]

   

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  What We Read This Week (http://blogs.vmware.com/tribalknowledge/?p=3827)Why VMware Acquired AirWatch, The 2015 Top 50 Channel Influencers list & Supporting Innovative Ideas with Technology ① Our latest ELI4 post deals with an innovative framework for IT security called micro-segmentation, enabled by the VMware NSX network virtualization platform. Blogs.VMware.com/TribalKnowledge> ② VMware’s SVP and General Counsel Dawn Smith talks to Modern Counsel about the AirWatch acquisition: “[Why AirWatch] […]

   

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  Digitalrep scans grocery store data to determine where products go (http://blogs.vmware.com/tribalknowledge/?p=3823)This post was originally published on The Bridge. Have you ever walked down the soup aisle at your local supermarket and wondered how much thought goes into where each brand and type of soup is placed? If so, you may be surprised to learn that it ventures well beyond mere thought: It involves science, numbers and […]

   

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  VMware Innovation Series: Aaron Rosen (http://blogs.vmware.com/tribalknowledge/?p=3817)Tribal Knowledge is teaming up with the VMware Careers blog, to kick off the VMware Innovation Series. Each month we’ll be connecting with members of the VMware R&D Organization to get a behind-the-scenes look at some of the elements that help to create a culture of innovation at VMware and the people and teams driving them. This […]

   

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  Explain It Like I’m Four: Micro-Segmentation (http://blogs.vmware.com/tribalknowledge/?p=3812)For our inaugural “Explain it Like I’m Four” post, we took a look at Network Functions Virtualization (NFV). In case you missed the blog, take a minute to learn about one of the most disruptive trends currently taking place inside the data center. Our latest ELI4 post deals with an innovative framework for IT security […]

   

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  Managing VMware NSX Edge and Manager Certificates (http://blogs.vmware.com/consulting/?p=2161)By Spas Kaloferov di·ver·si·ty “Diversity” was the first word that came to my mind when I joined VMware. I noticed the wide variety of different methods and processes utilized to replace certificates on the different VMware appliance products. For example, with VMware vRealizeTM OrchestratorTM, users must undergo a manual process to replace the certificate, but […]

   

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  vCloud Air Expands Further to Australia (http://blogs.vmware.com/vcloud/?p=5221)We’re thrilled to announce the continued expansion of VMware vCloud® Air™ with the general availability of service in Australia. Complementing our vCloud Air Network of service providers, this new VMware-operated location provides customers with a local Asia Pacific infrastructure-as-a-service offering that can help address local compliance and data locality concerns. The expansion of vCloud Air […]

   

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  Don’t Miss the OVH World Tour on 4/23 in Toronto! (http://blogs.vmware.com/vcloud/?p=5200)The OVH World Tour is heading to Toronto, Ontario. We’re helping to sponsor the late April (04/23) event in Canada, where attendees have the opportunity to learn about the latest IT innovations through technical workshops, labs, and analysis of practical examples. Experts will be on hand to answer any questions you may have about any […]

   

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  Scale to 1000 VMs in 90 minutes with vCloud Air OnDemand (http://blogs.vmware.com/vcloud/?p=5177)If you think that VMware vCloud® Air™ is just about extending your data center or is only a place where you would instantiate one or two departmental virtual machines (VMs), you may want to think again. With vCloud Air, I was able to easily deploy 1000 VMs in less than 90 minutes. A few weeks […]

   

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  vRealize Automation – Extensibility (vraLive) Webcast (http://blogs.vmware.com/management/?p=6852)Mark your calendars for the next vRealize Automation “vRA Live!” session on April 17th, 1:00PM EST. This Webcast will be hosted by Jad El-Zein, VMware engineer and author of the  VirtualJad Blog (http://www.virtualjad.com/). REGISTER NOW vRA Live! – Extensibility This vRA Live! session will dive into the power of extensibility using these tools and will […]

   

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  vRealize Operations Manager Content Pack for Log Insight (http://blogs.vmware.com/management/?p=6819)Get ready, ops-heads… another exciting announcement from the VMware team. There’s now a formal content pack for vRealize Log Insight that will allow the import and visualization of the logs from vRealize Operations Manager 6.x. As an added bonus, if you are running vRealize Operations 6.0.1 or later – the Log Insight agent is already […]

   

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  vRealize Code Stream – Automating Build and Test Tasks with Jenkins (http://blogs.vmware.com/management/?p=6747)by Rich Bourdeau Many companies use build and continuous integration tools like Jenkins, Atlassian Bamboo, Microsoft TFS and others to run jobs that build or test new releases of their applications.  In this blog post we are going to explore how vRealize Code Stream works cooperatively with Jenkins to execute build and test tasks at various […]

   

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  DevOps in the Traditional Enterprise – Leap Ahead in Release Pipeline Management (http://blogs.vmware.com/management/?p=6670)Software release management is a challenging process for big enterprises. While most enterprise applications are critical to running the business, most often we see that the process of releasing and updating the application version is a painful and inconsistent. Let’s identify some of the causes of this situation: Low focus on automation: In most organizations, automation efforts […]

   

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  Virtual SAN 6.0 Performance with VMware VMmark (http://blogs.vmware.com/performance/?p=2314)Virtual SAN is a storage solution that is fully integrated with VMware vSphere. Virtual SAN leverages flash technology to cache data and improve its access time to and from the disks. We used VMware’s VMmark 2.5 benchmark to evaluate the performance of running a variety of tier-1 application workloads together on Virtual SAN 6.0. VMmark […]

   

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  VMware View Planner 3.5 and Use Cases (http://blogs.vmware.com/performance/?p=2297)by   Banit Agrawal     Nachiket Karmarkar VMware View Planner 3.5 was recently released which introduces a slew of new features, enhancements in user experience, and scalability. In this blog, we present some of these new features and use cases. More details can be found in the whitepaper here. In addition to retaining all […]

   

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  VMware Horizon 6 Storage Considerations White Paper Now Available (http://blogs.vmware.com/euc/?p=7549)By Gary Sloane, Consulting Writer and Editor, VMware If you are reading this post, you probably know that storage has long been considered the foundation of any VDI implementation. In VMware Horizon 6 Storage Considerations, Kris Boyd takes a close look at the most important questions and challenges that face anyone tasked with designing a […]

   

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  VMware Mirage and Microsoft SCCM Working Side by Side (http://blogs.vmware.com/euc/?p=7541)By Karen Smith, Guest Writer, Former Technical Writer for End-User Computing Technical Marketing, VMware With significant contributions from Maor Kuriel, Product Specialist, Mirage Engineering, End-User Computing, VMware Many organizations use Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) for managing large groups of endpoint devices. In an ideal scenario, everything is operating smoothly, but sometimes things go […]

   

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  Results of VMware Workspace Portal 2.1 Tests Exceed Expectations (http://blogs.vmware.com/euc/?p=7529)By Nancy Beckus, Editor, VMware, and Rasmus Jensen, Senior End-User Computing Architect, EUC Technical Enablement, VMware This blog summarizes the results of functional and operational tests of Workspace Portal 2.1 running on top of VMware vSphere 5.x, as reported in the VMware Workspace Portal Reference Architecture. In this architecture validation, VMware performed tests to highlight […]

   

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  VMware Horizon 6 Offers Expanded RDSH Features (http://blogs.vmware.com/euc/?p=7517)By Tony Huynh, Product Line Manager, End-User Computing, VMware It has been almost a year since VMware released Horizon 6 with support for Remote Desktop Services Hosted (RDSH) desktops and applications. We could not be more pleased with the market adoption of our solution. With each subsequent Horizon release, we have added to the list […]

   

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  Horizon 6 Reference Architecture: Updated! (http://blogs.vmware.com/euc/?p=7506)By Jessica Chapin, Technical Writer and Editor, End-User Computing, VMware, and Matt Coppinger, End-User-Computing Architect, End-User Computing, VMware There is no denying that we live in a highly mobile world. Business is conducted on smartphones, tablets, and laptops on the go. The traditional desk worker sitting in front of a PC is virtually a legacy. With […]

   

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  Enterprise mobility news recap: April 6 – 10 (http://blogs.air-watch.com/?p=35713)This past week has been full of AirWatch announcements including the VMware Collaboration Bundle and the new series of #MobileGameChanger customer stories. In the industry, more companies are investing in smart automotive research and the Apple Watch is free to try-on. Since the last U.S. presidential election, many things have changed, and we’re not talking […]

   

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  Guest post: How to make boring topics interesting with video (http://blogs.air-watch.com/?p=35536)Videos are powerful communication tools. Showing, rather than telling, has proven time and again to be the best way of conveying a message or teaching something. Plus, video is a rich medium that packs in a lot of complex information. This allows your viewer to be as informed as possible in the most efficient way. […]

   

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  New AirWatch Mobile Game Changers illustrate mobile success in Europe (http://blogs.air-watch.com/?p=35467)Today AirWatch recognizes five European customers for their innovative use of mobile technology: Colegio Mirasur, Edison, Groupe BPCE, Girls’ Day School Trust and Universitätsspital Basel. These Mobile Game Changers demonstrate how mobility is changing the way people work around the world. While traditional technologies exist across every sector, mobility is bringing a fresh approach to […]

   

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  Event highlights report and video from AirWatch Connect at Mobile World Congress (http://blogs.air-watch.com/?p=35470)AirWatch Connect at Mobile World Congress 2015 was a record-breaking and award-winning year. The new AirWatch Connect at Mobile World Congress Event Highlights Report details the flagship mobility event and the AirWatch and VMware partnership built over the past year. At Mobile World Congress, AirWatch presented two keynote presentations and was also recognized at the […]

   

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  VMware launches Collaboration Bundle for content collaboration across AirWatch Content Locker, Socialcast and AirWatch Video (http://blogs.air-watch.com/?p=35461)Today VMware and AirWatch launched the VMware Collaboration Bundle, an integrated product offering that combines AirWatch Content Locker, Socialcast and AirWatch Video into one solution for customers. The Collaboration Bundle gives customers a simple, intuitive and secure solution to empower employees, drives business innovation and simplifies information technology. The innovations in the past decade have […]

   

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  AirWatch TV airs full sessions from AirWatch Connect Barcelona (http://blogs.air-watch.com/?p=35503)Coming this week, there won’t be as strong a need for Netflix. Recorded sessions and presentations of AirWatch Connect Barcelona 2015 are now available in the AirWatch TV app. If there’s a session you missed or would like to re-watch, download the video recordings from AirWatch TV and stream onto your device. AirWatch Connect Barcelona […]

   

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  New Process for Development Funds (http://blogs.vmware.com/partnernews/?p=1702)To learn more about the upcoming changes to the Partner Rewards Management tool – including the new optimized planning process for Development Funds and how these new changes will impact your fund requests this quarter and beyond – register now for the vmLIVE training session in your geography next week: AMER– April 15th EMEA — […]

   

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  The Price for Horizon Enterprise Increased (http://blogs.vmware.com/partnernews/?p=1700)Effective April 1st, the price of the Horizon Enterprise bundle increased to reflect the added value of App Volumes.

   

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  Get a Sneak Preview of our Q2 Launches (http://blogs.vmware.com/partnernews/?p=1697)Access the Quarterly Partner Briefing portal between April 8th – 20th for a sneak peek at the new videos and information. The official launch will occur on April 21st.

   

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  Attn: EMEA Partners – The Online Technology Forum is 15th April (http://blogs.vmware.com/partnernews/?p=1695)Register now, so you don’t miss it. It’s a free half-day online event where you will learn more about the Software-Defined Data Center, Hybrid Cloud, and Business Mobility portfolio – and how these solutions can help you deliver applications and services at speed and scale. Engage in live Q&A with VMware technical experts – including […]

   

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  Mobility Management Solution Competency Promo for Selling AirWatch (http://blogs.vmware.com/partnernews/?p=1693)Register now to increase your margins when selling AirWatch. Just take 4 of the 6 required courses for the Mobility Management Solution Competency before July 3rd and you will be granted provisional competency status until October 3, 2015. Plus you can earn rewards on your Mobility sales while taking training.

   

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  New Video Overview of HP ConvergedSystem 200–HC EVO:RAIL (http://blogs.vmware.com/partnernews/?p=1691)Customers are curious about the speed, reliability, efficiency, and simplicity of the SDDC. VMware and HP are putting the SDDC within your customers’ immediate reach, with a fully tested and integrated hyper-converged building block for the SDDC that delivers time to value in just minutes from power-up. It’s available now, and suitable for use in […]

   

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  VMware Partner Network Spotlight Series- The Partner Demand Center (http://blogs.vmware.com/partner/?p=2435)Welcome to the second installment of the VPN Spotlight Series, where we bring you video content highlighting our top partners news and information from across VMware Partner Network. Here is the first post of that series. This month’s spotlight is all about the VMware Partner Demand Center, better known as the one stop shop for […]

   

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  A Very Special… THANK YOU. (http://virtualgeek.typepad.com/virtual_geek/2015/04/a-very-special-thank-you.html)Last of this short run “A Very Special” series (first one on the topic of “service” here; and the second one on the topic of “people” here). A huge “Thank you!” to all those that voted in the Top vBlog...

   

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  VMware Horizon 6 Storage Considerations (http://www.ntpro.nl/blog/archives/2891-guid.html)

   

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  How VMware Mirage Complements and Extends Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (http://www.ntpro.nl/blog/archives/2890-guid.html)

   

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  VMware has released 3 new certifications - VCP6-CMA, VCP6-DTM and VCP6-NV (http://www.ntpro.nl/blog/archives/2889-guid.html)

   

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  Limiting the DVUplink VLAN Range on a vSphere Distributed Switch (VDS) (http://wahlnetwork.com/?p=13119)A deep dive into the murky world of VLAN trunk ranges for DVUplink ports and port groups, how to adjust VLAN values, and why you would. The post Limiting the DVUplink VLAN Range on a vSphere Distributed Switch (VDS) appeared first on Wahl Network . Related posts: Protecting a Distributed Switch with Ephemeral Binding The 4 Step Migration from a Standard vSwitch to Distributed vSwitch with LACP Hands On With a Cisco SG300-52 Switch Duplicate MAC Address Between VMkernel Interfaces and Network Adapters…

   

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  Provisioning Clones using Modified Customization Specifications and Specific Port Groups (http://wahlnetwork.com/?p=13089)In this post, I walk through a simple example of using a serialized script to orchestrate the cloning, customization, and port group settings for a new VM. The post Provisioning Clones using Modified Customization Specifications and Specific Port Groups appeared first on Wahl Network . Related posts: Modified vCenter Single Sign-On (SSO) Options in 5.5 Update 2 The 4 Step Migration from a Standard vSwitch to Distributed vSwitch with LACP Automating vSphere Replication Bandwidth Limits with PowerCLI …

   

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  vCenter Server Appliance watchdog (http://www.yellow-bricks.com/?p=16098)Advertise here with BSA I was reviewing a paper on vCenter availability for 6.0 and it listed a watchdog service which monitors “VPXD” (the vCenter Server service) on the vCenter Server Appliance. I had seen the service before but never really looked in to it. With 5.5 the watchdog service (/usr/bin/vmware-watchdog) was only used to monitor vpxd and tomcat […] " vCenter Server Appliance watchdog " originally appeared on Yellow-Bricks.com . Follow me on twitter - @DuncanYB. Pre-order my…

   

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  Share your Orchestrator workflow through FlowGrab (http://www.yellow-bricks.com/?p=16129)Advertise here with BSA A while back when attending/presenting at some VMUGs I stumbled in to this company called FlowGrab. They are fairly new and pitched their solution to me and I must say it sounded very interesting. I guess if you want to dumb it down you can label it as a code repository solution for vRO/vCO. FlowGrab […] " Share your Orchestrator workflow through FlowGrab " originally appeared on Yellow-Bricks.com . Follow me on twitter - @DuncanYB. Pre-order my upcoming book Essential…

   

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  Implementing a Hybrid Cloud Strategy white paper (http://www.yellow-bricks.com/?p=16124)Advertise here with BSA Last week I already posted this up on the VMware Office of CTO blog, and I figured I would share it to my regular readers here as well. A couple of months ago I stumbled across a great diagram which was developed by Hany Michael, (Consulting Architect, VMware PSO) who is part of the VMware CTO […] " Implementing a Hybrid Cloud Strategy white paper " originally appeared on Yellow-Bricks.com . Follow me on twitter - @DuncanYB. Pre-order my upcoming book Essential Virtual…

   

   

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  Is it VVOLs or VVols? (http://vsphere-land.com/?p=5809)You have to love VMware’s acronyms and trying to figure out the proper case for them. vSAN or VSAN, vMotion or VMotion, VVols or VVOLs, the only consistency VMware has with case in their acronyms in being consistently inconsistent and every acronym is subject to change (and frequently does). So when I asked one of … Continue reading » [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

   

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  Steve Herrod on blogging (http://vsphere-land.com/?p=5807)I was digging through some old Top vBlog archives and came across the video that Steve Herrod recorded on blogging and thought I would share it. Years ago I wanted to do something special for the bloggers as part of the Top vBlog results announcement so I contacted Steve Herrod to see if he would … Continue reading » [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

   

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  Here’s your chance to help improve Top vBlog (http://vsphere-land.com/?p=5801)I’ve been running the annual Top vBlog voting for the last 6 years and as the process is very time-consuming I’m always looking for ways to improve and streamline things. I was recently reading a post from Rene which had some ideas including using stats to determine who the top bloggers. I don’t really like that idea … Continue reading » [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

   

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  So VMware Virtual Volumes (VVols) is here, when will people start using it (http://vsphere-land.com/?p=5787)After many years in the making VMware’s new storage architecture, Virtual Volumes (VVols) is finally available as part of vSphere 6.0. VVols certainly looks cool but does the old adage hold true, if you build it will they come? In this post I’ll take a look at some reasons why people may want to wait … Continue reading » [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

   

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  2015 Top 50 vBloggers sign up now to get your gift courtesy of Infinio (http://vsphere-land.com/?p=5758)Those who made the Top 50 this year get a free commemorative coin courtesy of Infinio. If you made the top 10 you get gold, 11-25 silver and 26-50 copper. Sign up to get it by filling out the form below so I have your shipping info. Since international addresses can be challenging please include … Continue reading » [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

   

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  vBlogger Spotlight: Eric Sloof (http://vsphere-land.com/?p=5751)Follow @esloof Top vBlog 2015 is over but I’m still continuing my vBlogger Spotlight series to shine the spotlight on several prominent bloggers in the community to give you some insight into their experiences with blogging. Today’s spotlight is on Eric Sloof, aka Mr. Scoop due to his keen ability to post news about VMware before … Continue reading » [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

   

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  Top vBlog 2015 Full results (http://vsphere-land.com/?p=5743)So the voting has ended, the results have been tabulated and here they are. There were almost 90 new blogs on the ballot this year and 3 new blogs to make the top 25. This year there was over 2200 votes compared to around 1400 last year. You can read more stats about this years voting … Continue reading » [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

   

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  Announcing the Top vBlog 2015 results (http://vsphere-land.com/?p=5729)Below are the results for the overall voting for the Top 25, full results will be published soon: And below are the winners of the individual categories:   [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

   

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  What Virtual Volumes does not support (http://vsphere-land.com/?p=5732)VMware finally released the list of supported and non-supported vSphere features and VMware products with their new Virtual Volumes  (VVols) storage architecture. I’ve been looking for this in their documentation for VVols and have not found it so I’m glad to see it’s finally available so you can see exactly what is supported and more … Continue reading » [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

   

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  And the winners of Top vBlog 2015 are… (http://vsphere-land.com/?p=5719)…not ready to be revealed yet, you’ll have to wait until tomorrow to find out. I’ve tabulated all the votes and applied points to the votes and have computed the results. We’ll announce the winners on a special live Google Hangout tomorrow with David Davis, Rick Vanover, Simon Seagrave, John Troyer and Scott Davis from Infinio. Go here … Continue reading » [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

   

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  Critical VMware Security Patches Released (http://www.derekseaman.com/?p=2788)Advertise here with BSA In case you missed it, VMware has released a number of product updates to address critical vulnerability in JRE. JRE is used in many products, so a wide range of products are affected. You can read the full bulletin here. The bulletin details which product version you need to be running to be patched. In […] The post Critical VMware Security Patches Released appeared first on Derek Seaman's Blog .                     Related Stories Critical ESXi 5.5 Patch Released…

   

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  Critical ESXi 5.5 Patch Released (http://www.derekseaman.com/?p=2787)Advertise here with BSA Hot off the presses is a critical patch for ESXi 5.5, dated March 7, 2015. This addresses two VSAN patches: Upgrading from VMware ESXi 5.5, Patch Release ESXi550-201502001 (Build 2456374) or VMware ESXi 5.5, Patch Release ESXi550-201501001 (Build 2403361) to vSphere 6.0 might result in VMware Virtual SAN (VSAN) Data Unavailability. See VMware Knowledge base […] The post Critical ESXi 5.5 Patch Released appeared first on Derek Seaman's Blog .                     

   

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  vSphere 6.0 Installation Pt. 14: Install Windows vCenter (http://www.derekseaman.com/?p=2513)Advertise here with BSA Now that we are pretty far into this series, we can finally install our Windows vCenter. This will leverage our external PSC, for maximum scalability. Depending on your environment size, you may need to scale up the VM’s hardware specs for optimal performance. Consult VMware documentation for sizing guidance. In this exercise we will configure 2 vCPUs […] The post vSphere 6.0 Installation Pt. 14: Install Windows vCenter appeared first on Derek Seaman's Blog .        …

   

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  vSphere 6.0 Pt. 13: VMware Directory Svc Certificate (http://www.derekseaman.com/?p=2765)Advertise here with BSA One of the lesser known SSL certificates in the vSphere 6.0 product is called the VMware Directory Service certificate. This is used by the built-in LDAP server for authentication and encryption. It’s most an internal use only certificate, and one that some customers may not worry about replacing. In fact, per VMware support, a lot of […] The post vSphere 6.0 Pt. 13: VMware Directory Svc Certificate appeared first on Derek Seaman's Blog .                    …

   

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  Publishing vSphere 6.0 VMCA Signing Certificate (http://www.derekseaman.com/?p=2774)Advertise here with BSA As mentioned in my vSphere 6.0 installation series, you can configure the new VMCA to be a subordinate to your enterprise CA. This is great, and opens up new certificate management options for organizations that wish to use trusted SSL certificates. However, you may run into a situation where this new root certificate is not […] The post Publishing vSphere 6.0 VMCA Signing Certificate appeared first on Derek Seaman's Blog .                     Related Stories vSphere…

   

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  vSphere 6.0 Pt. 12: PSC Machine Certificate (http://www.derekseaman.com/?p=2745)Advertise here with BSA Back in Part 11 of this series we configured the VMCA to be a subordinate CA to our enterprise CA. This ensures that all certificates which get used by vCenter components are automatically trusted. But as previously mentioned, not all organizations can use the VMCA. The US Federal Government would be a prime example, where […] The post vSphere 6.0 Pt. 12: PSC Machine Certificate appeared first on Derek Seaman's Blog .                     Related Stories vSphere 6.0…

   

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  vSphere 6.0 Install Pt. 11: VMCA as Subordinate (http://www.derekseaman.com/?p=2675)Advertise here with BSA As mentioned in my vSphere 6.0 install part 3, VMware has introduced a new certificate option in this release. You can now make a built-in VMware certificate authority (VMCA) a subordinate to your enterprise CA. This is great news, as it will allow some automation of the certificate deployment process. However, there are certainly some […] The post vSphere 6.0 Install Pt. 11: VMCA as Subordinate appeared first on Derek Seaman's Blog .                     Related…

   

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  Top vBloggers Announced! (http://www.derekseaman.com/?p=2732)Advertise here with BSA Each year Eric Siebert from vSphere-Land.com has an annual voting for the top vBloggers in the world. Competition is fierce and back in 2013 I was honored with getting position #24, for which I was thrilled. Then came along more SSL woes with vSphere 5.5, and my vCenter Toolkit was born. In 2014 I then […] The post Top vBloggers Announced! appeared first on Derek Seaman's Blog .                     Related Stories vSphere 6.0 Pt. 9: SSL Templates 

   

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  vSphere 6.0 Install Pt. 10: Install VCSA PSC (http://www.derekseaman.com/?p=2693)Advertise here with BSA New to my vSphere installation series is using the pre-packaged vCenter appliance (VCSA). Now that the VCSA is on par with the Windows vCenter server, I suspect more and more people will migrate to the appliance. So to that end, let’s install an external PSC using the VCSA. If you are using a Windows-based external […] The post vSphere 6.0 Install Pt. 10: Install VCSA PSC appeared first on Derek Seaman's Blog .                     Related Stories vSphere 6.0…

   

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  vSphere 6.0 Pt. 9: SSL Templates (http://www.derekseaman.com/?p=2709)Advertise here with BSA VMware has provided new SSL template guidance for vSphere 6.0. New to vSphere 6.0 are machine SSL certificates, solution user certificates, and using the VMCA as a subordinate CA. If you are using an enterprise Microsoft CA, then this article is for you. I’ll show you how to create the new templates and publish them […] The post vSphere 6.0 Pt. 9: SSL Templates appeared first on Derek Seaman's Blog .                     Related Stories vSphere 6.0 Install Pt. 11:…

   

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  vSphere 6.0 Install Pt. 8: Toolkit Configuration (http://www.derekseaman.com/?p=2662)Advertise here with BSA Now that we have the PSC installed, it’s time to configure the variables for the Toolkit script, and also make sure we can download our root certificates. Depending on your configuration, you may need to manually download your root public certificates. VMware needs certificates in a specific format, and they need the full certificate chain. […] The post vSphere 6.0 Install Pt. 8: Toolkit Configuration appeared first on Derek Seaman's Blog .                    …

   

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  BlueMedora – a new vcdx56 sponsor (http://vcdx56.com/?p=5388)I’m happy to announce that Blue Medora has decided to become a vcdx56 blog sponsor. Blue Medora was founded back in 2013 and they operate in the analytics & monitoring space with focus on the development and distribution of product extensions for IBM Tivoli Monitoring (ITM), Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM), and VMware vCenter Operations (vC Ops)  Below is … Continue reading »

   

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  Heads up! Critical Security Patches released by VMware (http://vcdx56.com/?p=5381)I know it’s a few days late but i wanted to make a short blog post about this anyway. 2015-04-02 VMware released a security advisory (VMSA). The VMSA addresses the critical vulnerability in JRE which is used in many VMware products. Some of the affected products includes Horizon View 6.x or 5.x Horizon Workspace Portal Server  … Continue reading »

   

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  Top vBlog 2015 results are out (http://vcdx56.com/?p=5372)A few weeks back the yearly top vBlog voting hosted by Eric Siebert at vSphere-land and sponsored by Infinio started and this Tuesday, (March 31) the results were announced during a live session which you can watch here in case you missed it.   Simon Seagrave, John Troyer  and Scott Davis partivipaded in the live session were the … Continue reading »

   

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  vCenter Orchestrator workflow search result not complete (http://vcdx56.com/?p=5289)Today i ran into a situation i have not seen in the past. I was using the vCenter Orchestrator (vCO) version 5.5.2 and the vCO plugin vCenter Orchestrator Plugin for Horizon View version 1.1 which can be found here When configuring the connection between vCO and Horizon View you need to run the workflow “Add Delegated … Continue reading »

   

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  #76 VMware Virtual Volumes with Rawlinson Rivera (http://www.datacenterdude.com/?p=2803)Rawlinson Rivera joins us to go over VMware Virtual Volumes, give us a deep dive on the architecture, the history that led to the biggest innovation in storage since VMFS, and why you should get them implemented to leverage a policy-based management style.

   

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  NetApp Virtual Storage Console and VASA Provider 6.0 (http://www.datacenterdude.com/?p=2783)I'm happy to announce the availability of the latest VMware plugins from NetApp: VSC 6.0 and VASA Provider 6.0 which brings along support for VMware's latest storage innovation ... VVols

   

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  History and Future of the NetApp Communities Podcast (http://www.datacenterdude.com/?p=2771)I've received an overwhelming amount of questions on the NetApp Communities Podcast. And it's not what you would expect ... the questions were more along the lines of the history, how it is actually run, and how big is the team that puts it on every week.

   

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  Replication in NetApp Clustered Data ONTAP (http://www.datacenterdude.com/?p=2739)Data protection is one of the most critical aspects of any storage infrastructure. When data is lost it almost always translates directly into money lost and time lost.

   

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  #75 vBlog Results, Azure, & Super Capacitors (http://www.datacenterdude.com/?p=2757)We review the results of the Top vBlog 2015 contest, spend some time reviewing what is going on at Microsoft Azure, and geek out on some new high-tech known as "Supercapacitors."

   

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  3CX Phone System – Installation (http://vinfrastructure.it/?p=16197)In the previous post I’ve talk about 3CX and their main product (3CX Phone System), its characteristics and the different users cases. Now it’s the turn to describe the installation, that it’s really simple, easy and fast, and also well describe in the Administrator Manual. As written this product require a Windows operating system, but it support several version, included client edition of Windows. From NT 6.1 (Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2) almost are supported, but installations on Microsoft…

   

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  3CX Phone System – Introduction (http://vinfrastructure.it/?p=16173)3CX is a company, founded in 2006 by Nick Galea, with a simple and clear scope: build a software PBX for Microsoft Windows platform. Could be a strange choice, considering that most of PBX are based on Linux (and there are also a lot of distributions or virtual appliance already targeted for the PBX and VoIP world), but the company as grow in those years. They develop 3CX Phone System, the software-based PBX for Microsoft Windows which not only replaces proprietary phone systems, but it also delivers a…

   

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  Login PI 1.0 (http://vinfrastructure.it/?p=16290)LoginVSI announce that Login PI 1.0, a real-world performance insights on Virtual Desktops, is available and you can start your trial today. Login PI is a new way to measure the user experience of your VDI environment. More than just measuring performance counters, Login PI reports on how the environment is really performing – how long does it take to log in, and what’s the response time of apps. Typical user cases for Login PI are: Monitor the end user experience, without affecting end-user…

   

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  Microsoft unveils new container technologies for the Next Generation Cloud (http://vinfrastructure.it/?p=16230)Last October, Microsoft and Docker, Inc. jointly announced plans to bring containers to developers across the Docker and Windows ecosystems via Windows Server Containers, available in the next version of Windows Server. This was for sure a big announce, considering also the containers momentum, but was just an announce, considering that no details was avaiable (and of course none is available yet in the the beta code of Windows Next). But finally there are the first details about this new technology and how…

   

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  vCommunity thoughts (http://vinfrastructure.it/?p=16163)In those days there were some interesting threads directly or indirectly about the vCommunity, the value of it, the credibility and also the criteria of “election” in it for the Top  Blog (but also for the vExpert). They have started independently one from Christian Mohn (The “vCommunity”) and one from Rene Van Den Bedem (#TopvBlog2015 Analysis Part 2) but in both there are some interesting topics (although I don’t agree with all of them). Let’s start from the second one that seems more simple…

   

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  First Nutanix .NEXT event (http://vinfrastructure.it/?p=15098)Nutanix is a well know hyper-converged company founded in 2009 with the vision of bringing the benefits of web-scale IT to the masses. They have changed the rules of traditional storage (on 2009 mostly SAN based) and become the pioneer of concepts like no-SAN and no-LUNs, hyper-converged and web-scale storage. Recently they have also reach five years of history, were they have made significant progress in their products and solution (and also partnership). And some months ago they have also announced their…

   

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  An introduction to vRA Application Services – part 1 (http://www.viktorious.nl/?p=5275)The post An introduction to vRA Application Services – part 1 appeared first on viktorious.nl - Virtualization & Cloud Management . VMware is all about decoupling. Decoupling servers from your hardware by using vSphere, decoupling the network by using NSX and implementing VSAN to decouple your storage. In the world of automation & orchestration we can decouple an application from the underlying operating system with vRA Application Services. Lately I've been working on some automation…

   

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  Austin VMUG Preso–Disruption (http://www.vtexan.com/?p=3458)  I had the absolute pleasure of delivering the lunch keynote at the April 7th VMware UserGroup Conference in Austin.  I always enjoy presenting and love it even more when I can be vendor neutral and talk about things that are passionate to me.  This presentation is focused on disruption, which interestingly enough is something […]

   

KB ARTICLES

Datacenter
Following upgrade to or installation of ESXi 5.1, repeated message: “SSL_VerifyCbHelper: Certificate verification is disabled, so connection will proceed despite the error” in the host-probe.log (2104475)
Date Published: 3/31/2015

VMware ESX
Two or more virtual machines with the same name appear in the vCenter Server inventory (2108769)
Date Published: 4/1/2015

VMware ESXi
Powering on a virtual machine fails with the error: Could not open/create change tracking file (2111608)
Date Published: 3/31/2015
A ESXi 5.5 host entering maintenance mode fails at 67% (2112142)
Date Published: 3/30/2015
Installing VMware Tools on a Solaris 10 virtual machine fails with the error: Could not read vmwlegacy_drv.so (2109829)
Date Published: 4/3/2015
During packet tracing, ESXi 5.5 host halts with purple screen showing error: “@BlueScreen: PANIC bora/vmkernel/main/dlmalloc.c:4892 – Usage error in dlmalloc” (2105711)
Date Published: 3/30/2015
VMware vCenter Server reports the event: Alarm Host error on ‘server’ changed from Gray to Gray (2108884)
Date Published: 4/1/2015
Virtual Volumes and VMware Certificate Authority (VMCA) (2111731)
Date Published: 4/1/2015

VMware Horizon
Video playback performance issue with hardware version 11 VMs in 2D mode (2109650)
Date Published: 3/30/2015

VMware Horizon View
If you attempt to launch a video in full screen mode on a View desktop using PCoIP with the default video RAM, a blank screen is displayed. (2040603)
Date Published: 3/30/2015

VMware IT Business Manager Standard
IT Business Management Standard and vRealize Business Standard JRE update to include a fix for CVE-2014-6593 (2111802)
Date Published: 4/2/2015
Collecting vRealize Business Standard logs (2107649)
Date Published: 4/2/2015

VMware NSX for vSphere
Adding or Removing single Static Routes using API on VMware NSX for vSphere 6.x Edge routers (2111244)
Date Published: 3/30/2015

VMware ThinApp
Thinapp Visio 2013 is not able to save file on a Persona Management Redirected share (2109979)
Date Published: 3/30/2015
Adobe Captivate 8 crash after Adobe License warning message (2109996)
Date Published: 3/30/2015

VMware vCenter Configuration Manager
VMware vRealize Configuration Manager patch exception results fail (2109668)
Date Published: 4/1/2015

VMware vCenter Hyperic Agent
vRealize Hyperic 5.x JRE update to include a fix for CVE-2014-6593 (2111337)
Date Published: 4/2/2015

VMware vCenter Infrastructure Navigator
vSphere Infrastructure Navigator 5.7.x JRE update to include a fix for CVE-2014-6593 (2111334)
Date Published: 4/2/2015

VMware vCenter Operations Manager (Standalone)
vCenter Operations Manager 5.7.4 and 5.8.5 JRE update to include a fix for CVE-2014-6593 (2111172)
Date Published: 4/2/2015

VMware vCenter Server
VMware vCenter Server login fails and panic halt occurs with the error “Unable to retrieve schema information” in vpxd.log (2104222)
Date Published: 4/2/2015
Customization of RHEL6 does not update gateway (2111070)
Date Published: 3/30/2015
Troubleshooting the vSphere 6.0 Client Integration Plugin when it fails to function (2112086)
Date Published: 4/1/2015
Adding a VMware ESXi host to VMware vCenter Server fails with the error: “Unable to perform the operation. There is no available vRAM capacity.” (2110307)
Date Published: 4/1/2015
Manually reviewing certificates in VMware Endpoint Certificate Store for vSphere 6.0 (2111411)
Date Published: 3/31/2015
Replacing a vSphere 6.0 Machine SSL certificate with a Custom Certificate Authority Signed Certificate (2112277)
Date Published: 3/30/2015
Replacing the vSphere 6.0 Solution Users certificates with a Custom Certificate Authority signed certificates (2112278)
Date Published: 3/30/2015
Replacing the vSphere 6.0 Machine SSL certificate with a VMware Certificate Authority issued certificate (2112279)
Date Published: 3/30/2015
Regenerating the vSphere 6.0 certificates using a new self-signed VMware Certificate Authority certificate (2112283)
Date Published: 3/30/2015
How Virtual Volumes and UNMAP primitive interact? (2112333)
Date Published: 4/2/2015
After replacing the vCenter Server certificates in vSphere 6.0, the ESX Agent Manager solution user fails to log in (2112577)
Date Published: 4/1/2015

VMware vCenter Server Appliance
Upgrading the VMware vCenter Server Appliance 5.x to vCenter Server 6.0 hangs during the “Connect to source appliance” validation (2112302)
Date Published: 4/1/2015
vCenter Server Appliance 6.0 displays the warning: VMware Postgres service memory usage has exceeded allocated quota (2112606)
Date Published: 4/1/2015
Reclaiming space on vPostgres databases within the VMware vCenter Server Appliance fails with error: domain socket “/tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432 (2111236)
Date Published: 3/30/2015
VMware vCenter Server Appliance fails due to high memory usage (2112303)
Date Published: 4/1/2015
Modifying the VMware vCenter Server 6.0 landing page links (2111215)
Date Published: 4/1/2015
Replacing the vSphere 6.0 Solution User certificates with VMware Certificate Authority issued certificates (2112281)
Date Published: 3/30/2015
The vSphere Web Client 6.0 displays an internal error after upgrading to vSphere 6.0 when using vCenter Support Assistant 5.5 (2112292)
Date Published: 4/1/2015

VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager
Create protection group option is grayed out in Site Recovery Manager (SRM) 5.8 (2105351)
Date Published: 4/2/2015

VMware vCloud Automation Center for Server
[Security VMRC proxy] – Implement Console Proxy (VMRC and WebMKS) for vSphere for vRA 6.1/6.1.1 (2112382)
Date Published: 3/30/2015

VMware vCloud Director
Accessing media in VMware vCloud Director fails with the error: The VCD entity (com.vmware.vcloud.entity.media:xxxx) does not exist (2112532)
Date Published: 4/2/2015
Managing the List of SSL Protocols Allowed by vCloud Director (2112282)
Date Published: 3/30/2015

VMware View
Unable to assign desktop even when unassigned desktops in manual pool are present (2111621)
Date Published: 4/3/2015

VMware View Manager
VMware Horizon View Composer help center (2087379)
Date Published: 3/31/2015
Auto-fitting the guest display sometimes does not work when you rotate the iPad (1035510)
Date Published: 3/30/2015

VMware Virtual SAN
Upgrading from VMware vSphere 5.5 EP06 or 5.5 P04 to vSphere 6.0 GA can cause VMware Virtual SAN (VSAN) Data Unavailability (DU) (2113024)
Date Published: 4/3/2015

VMware vRealize Application Services
vCloud Application Director and vRealize Automation Application Services JRE update to include a fix for CVE-2014-6593 (2111981)
Date Published: 4/2/2015

VMware vRealize Automation
Upgrading VMware vRealize Automation from vCenter SSO 5.5 to Platform Services Controller (PSC) 6.0 makes Tenants inaccessible (Linux-based SSO only) (2112030)
Date Published: 3/31/2015

VMware vRealize Operations Manager
Change the IP address on a vRealize Operations Manager single-node deployment (2108696)
Date Published: 4/3/2015

VMware vSphere App HA
vSphere AppHA 1.1.x JRE update to include a fix for CVE-2014-6593 (2111336)
Date Published: 4/2/2015

VMware vSphere Data Protection
Configuring the vSphere Data Protection (VDP) Appliance fails during Test Connection with error “Modify your network settings or VDP credentials” (2106706)
Date Published: 3/31/2015

VMware vSphere Replication
Enabling SSH on the VMware vSphere Replication 6.0.x Appliance (2112307)
Date Published: 4/2/2015
vSphere Replication 5.6.0.3 Express Patch Release (2112025)
Date Published: 4/2/2015
vSphere Replication 5.8.0.2 Express Patch Release (2112022)
Date Published: 4/2/2015

VMware vSphere Storage Appliance
Installing vSphere Storage Appliance (VSA) 5.5 fails with error: Cannot create VSA cluster: ESXi host XXX has running VMS that are using CPU features not supported by other ESXi hosts. (2104168)
Date Published: 3/31/2015

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FROM THE EDITORS VIRTUAL DESK

Hi everyone, welcome to the latest edition of the VMware TAM Source Newsletter. Last week we introduced an expanded webcast and training section. I hope you find it useful. We are working on this section to ensure that it is accurate but please be aware that there is always the possibility of errors in this or any of our content. Please let your TAM know if you cannot find anything listed.

There have also been a number of new VMware Security Advisories this week. Please take a look at them here: http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories and discuss these with your TAM if you have any concerns. Here is a summary:

VMSA-2015-0003.4

VMware product updates address critical information disclosure issue in JRE

Issue date: 2015-04-02

Updated on: 2015-04-17

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  Turning IT Operations Management Dreams Into Reality (http://blogs.vmware.com/cloudops/?p=1504)No one would blame you for dreaming about better IT operations management. You might dream up ways to make it smarter—say by anticipating problems and troubleshooting them in virtual and physical environments before they even occur. Learn why this is no pipe dream in this infographic about VMware vRealize Operations Insight, a unified management solution with […]

   

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  What We Read This Week: A VMware News Recap, April 17, 2015 (http://blogs.vmware.com/tribalknowledge/?p=3873)News from HIMSS 2015, A Solution to Cyber Security and an Illustrated Guide to The Connected Hospital ① On the tails of news this week that VMware unveiled a new solution that minimizes security threats from users and mobile devices inside the hybrid cloud, Noah Wasmer explains in a video how IT can begin to […]

   

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  Business Mobility is improving how the healthcare industry operates (http://blogs.vmware.com/tribalknowledge/?p=3867)An Illustrated Guide This article originally appeared on The Bridge. From protecting patient information to tracking patient check-ins to sending updates to families in real-time, technology is helping the healthcare industry work simpler and smarter. With secure, immediate access to accurate information, providers can now make point-of-care decisions from anywhere. The result is a radically […]

   

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  vCloud Air Update from Bill Fathers [VIDEO] (http://blogs.vmware.com/tribalknowledge/?p=3861)Last week, VMware announced the continued expansion of VMware vCloud Air with the general availability of service in Australia. In this video, Bill Fathers provides an overview of vCloud Air in support of the launch. Watch the video to learn how vCloud Air is making it safe, quick and easy for customers to make the move to […]

   

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  Transforming Hybrid Cloud Security for Mobile Users [VIDEO] (http://blogs.vmware.com/tribalknowledge/?p=3852)Today VMware unveiled a new solution that minimizes security threats from users and mobile devices inside the hybrid cloud. Through the combination of the VMware NSX network virtualization platform with AirWatch EMM and/or VMware Horizon desktop virtualization, VMware provides IT administrators the ability to micro-segment the data center network. This grants users specific network access […]

   

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  One year later, VMware’s Airwatch acquisition continues to transform mobility (http://blogs.vmware.com/tribalknowledge/?p=3854)This post was originally published on The Bridge. By 2020, “half of the world’s population will be connected through mobile devices,” predicted Pat Gelsinger, CEO of VMware at Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona earlier this month. Smartphones arespreading faster than any other digital technology, including the personal computer. And mobile computing has become the new PC because it […]

   

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  Modernizing Healthcare IT Through the Mobile Cloud (http://blogs.vmware.com/tribalknowledge/?p=3847)Judging by the cutting edge technology inside many medical facilities in the U.S., it’s easy to assume that the IT solutions healthcare providers depend on are as modern and sophisticated as the MRI machines used to diagnose our ailments, or the supercomputers that map our DNA. But you don’t need to peek very far behind […]

   

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  vSphere Replication Target Storage Consumption (http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/?p=17023)vSphere Replication is an asynchronous, host-based replication feature that is included with vSphere Essentials Plus Kit and higher editions. It can be used as a standalone solution for simple, storage-agnostic, cost-effective virtual machine replication. vSphere Replication also serves as a replication component for VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager (SRM) and VMware vCloud Air Disaster Recovery. When […]

   

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  vSphere Hardening Guide 6.0 Public Beta 1 available (https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/?p=17158)I’m happy to announce that the vSphere 6 Hardening Guide Public Beta 1 is now available. The guide is being provided as Excel spreadsheet. I’m also making a PDF doc available for easier viewing. In addition,  I’ve also included an Excel spreadsheet of the guidelines that have moved out of the guide and into documentation. […]

   

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  SDS – The Missing Link – Storage Automation for Application Service Catalogs (http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/?p=17150)Automation technologies are a fundamental dependency to all aspects of the Software-Defined Data center. The use of automation technologies not only increases the overall productivity of the software-defined data center, but it can also accelerate the adoption of today’s modern operating models. In recent years, a subset of the core pillars of the software-defined data […]

   

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  Virtual Volumes and the SDDC (http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/?p=17122)I saw a question the other day that asked “Can someone explain what the big deal is about Virtual Volumes?”   A fair question. The shortest, easiest answer is that VVols offer per-VM management of storage that helps deliver a software defined datacenter. That, however, is a pretty big statement that requires some unpacking.  Rawlinson has […]

   

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  Ensuring Success with VMware NSX TAM Services (http://blogs.vmware.com/tam/?p=2064)By Curtis Miller For networking, VMware NSX is a game-changer in the same way VMware vSphere was for data center servers. NSX virtualizes and consolidates legacy networking functionality back into a hypervisor. As a result, adding or changing network capabilities no longer requires the costly replacement of networking gear. It’s all software based—so upgrades are […]

   

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  What Impact Can Virtualization Have on the Field of Research Computing? (http://blogs.vmware.com/cto/?p=3358)Challenges for IT supporting research computing environments What is most important to an IT department supporting university research? Based on conversations with many of our customers, we have repeatedly heard the following: Satisfying the varied and sometimes conflicting requirements of different research groups, which may include compliance issues for bioinformatics research Showing the value of centralized IT resources against buying isolated equipment or outsourcing to a public provider of…

   

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  How Tos for vRealize Operations Manager, Horizon, and More Top Posts from VMware Professional Services (http://blogs.vmware.com/education/?p=5573)Latest professional services posts - everything from how to content to strategic concepts that can help you think differently about how you work.

   

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  New vSphere, SRM, Storage, and NSX Courses (http://blogs.vmware.com/education/?p=5532)We’ve released several new courses over the last month – check them out below! Instructor-Led Courses VMware vSphere: Bootcamp [V6] – This course is a intensive combination of our best-selling hands-on vSphere training courses delivered in two parts across five days of extended hours. Part one focuses on installing, configuring, and managing vSphere 6, which includes VMware ESXi™ 6.0 and VMware […]

   

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  IDC Whitepaper Confirms Value of IT Training (http://blogs.vmware.com/education/?p=5483)The verdict is in. IT Training is critical for organizations who want to achieve tangible benefits from a software-defined data center (SDDC). In the new VMware-sponsored IDC whitepaper “Software-Defined Datacenter: Evolving Datacenter Management and IT Skills”, IDC Analyst Cushing Anderson discusses the link between IT training and recognizing the business benefits of an SDDC including: […]

   

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  3 VCA Certifications Released: VCA6-CMA, VCA6-HC, VCA6-NV (http://blogs.vmware.com/education/?p=5528)Today we are announcing the availability of three new VMware Certified Associate (VCA) level certifications: VMware Certified Associate 6 – Cloud Management and Automation (VCA6-CMA) VMware Certified Associate 6 – Hybrid Cloud (VCA6-HC) VMware Certified Associate 6 – Network Virtualization (VCA6-NV) Use the links above to find the requirements for new candidates, related training courses, and objectives for each […]

   

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  How to Get Your Discount if You Met the Original Recertification Deadline (http://blogs.vmware.com/education/?p=5538)Hi, For those of you who met the original deadlines for Recertification (recertified between March 10, 2014 and March 10, 2015) you are eligible for a 65% discount on one of the VMware Certified Professional (VCP) migration exams (listed below). This post contains the details that eligible candidates should use to get the 65% discount […]

   

   

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  Perform Proactive Load Testing to Build a Successful Environment (http://blogs.vmware.com/consulting/?p=2175)By Hans Bader So, your company has bought a new set of hardware, referenced the latest white papers and reference architectures, and now will get the virtual machine (VM) densities promised, right? Well, maybe not. White papers and reference architectures are great starting points for designing and building your environment, but unless you are running […]

   

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  VCDX-NV Interview: Ron Flax On The Importance Of Network Virtualization (http://blogs.vmware.com/networkvirtualization/?p=1882)Ron Flax is the Vice President of August Schell, a reseller of VMware products and IT services company that specializes in delivering services to commercial accounts and the federal government, particularly intelligence and U.S. Department of Defense. Ron is a VCDX-NV certified network virtualization professional and a VMware vExpert. We spoke with Ron about network […]

   

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  Introducing VMware Continuent 4.0 – MySQL Clustering and Real-time Replication to Data Warehouses (http://blogs.vmware.com/vcloud/?p=5260)It’s with great pleasure we announce the general availability of VMware Continuent 4.0 – a new suite of solutions for clustering and replication of MySQL to data warehouses. For those of you who follow VMware closely, you may recall that VMware acquired Continuent in October of last year. Today’s release marks a first for Continuent’s […]

   

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  Get Ahead with Your VMware Certified Associate Certification for vCloud Air (http://blogs.vmware.com/vcloud/?p=5240)Earlier this week, we launched the vCloud Air accreditation program with the VMware Certified Associate for Hybrid Cloud (VCA6-HC). Aimed at both IT administrators and decision makers, this certification demonstrates your understanding of the challenges businesses face when adopting public clouds and how VMware delivers a hybrid-first cloud solution with vCloud Air to address these […]

   

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  Attend Our May Webinar Series to Learn How vCloud Air Network Partners Can Get the Competitive Edge with Application-centric Storage (http://blogs.vmware.com/vcloud/?p=5256)Bring operational efficiency to your storage consumption and delivery with VMware Virtual SAN! VMware Virtual SAN, VMware’s radically simple storage solution designed and optimized for vSphere virtual infrastructure, streamlines storage provisioning and management and brings application-centric storage to your organization.  In fact, it has already done so for IndonesianCloud, a Hybrid Cloud Powered service provider […]

   

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  Another VMware Cloud in Action – Digital City of America, Avondale, Continues to Reach for the Cloud (http://blogs.vmware.com/vcloud/?p=5197)“Aspiring. Achieving. Accelerating.” This is the motto of Avondale, Arizona, a city of about 80,000 residents in one of the largest metropolitan areas in the United States. Known for its recreation and sports, Avondale is home to Phoenix International Raceway, where thousands of visitors congregate to watch NASCAR races twice a year, as well as […]

   

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  Find Out How to Build Development and Testing Environments on VMware vCloud Air During Our Technical Webcast on 4/21 (http://blogs.vmware.com/vcloud/?p=5229)It happens all too frequently: inconsistencies between development, testing, and production environments that cause application errors, disruptions, delayed projects and loss of revenue. But with VMware vCloud® Air™ Virtual Private Cloud OnDemand, you don’t have to lose out when you test and develop applications in the cloud. vCloud Air OnDemand is a public cloud service […]

   

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  Heterogeneous Monitoring from App to Blade (http://blogs.vmware.com/management/?p=6897)vRealize Operations’ use of smart alerts, customizable dashboards, capacity analytics and predictive analytics allows system administrators to monitor their IT infrastructure better than ever before. With the help of our strategic partners in the Cloud Management Marketplace, we are aiming to further extend the capabilities of our Cloud Management solutions. This enables more admins to […]

   

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  The return of the One Click Cluster Capacity Dashboard in vRealize Operations 6.0 (http://blogs.vmware.com/management/?p=6827)Since the release of vRealize Operations Manager 6.0, I have received an over-whelming amount of requests to re-create the one click cluster capacity dashboard on vROps 6.0. I should mention here that the dashboard xml, which I created with vCenter Operations 5.x would not work with vRealize Operations 6.0, since a number of metrics have changed in […]

   

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  vRealize Orchestrator (vRO) Puppet Plugin Demystified (http://blogs.vmware.com/management/?p=6914)We released vRO Puppet plugin earlier this year and in this blog post I shall dig deeper into the functionality that plugin offers plus I shall also cover how you can use this plugin with vRealize Automation. Our previous integration with Puppet was part of vRealize Automation (vRA) Application Services, and with vRO Puppet plugin […]

   

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  Monitor Citrix XenDesktop from vRealize Operations with Blue Medora’s Management Pack (http://blogs.vmware.com/management/?p=6849)Get the best performance and efficiency out of your vSphere infrastructure Conduct a free trial today by installing vSphere with Operations Management in your environment. Blue Medora recently released a new VMware vRealize Operations Management Pack for Citrix XenDesktop. Blue Medora continues to prove a key partner for VMware around our Cloud Management business. The vRealize Operations […]

   

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  vCloud Director – Transparent and Manageable with Log Insight (http://blogs.vmware.com/management/?p=6858)VMware vCloud Director is a software product that provides the ability to build secure, multi-tenant clouds by pooling virtual infrastructure resources into virtual data centers and exposing them to users through Web-based portals and programmatic interfaces as a fully-automated, catalog-based service. VMware is happy to announce the release of the newest version of the Log […]

   

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  vRealize Automation Webcast: No Scripting Required, Fully Automated Self Service with Policies (http://blogs.vmware.com/management/?p=6877)Want to learn how to better utilize vRealize Automation for your business needs? VMware vRealize Automation (vRA) allows for a large amount of out of the box functionality. It’s also completely flexible allowing you to connect to and incorporate any existing system into its processes. Join us for this 90-minute vRA Webcast on April 22, […]

   

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  VMware SDDC and vRealize Management Accelerates IT Service Delivery at Telefonica (http://blogs.vmware.com/management/?p=6795)by Rich Bourdeau Telefonica are a leading integrated operator in the telecoms sector, providing communication, information and entertainment solutions. Operating in 25 countries, they have over 300 million customers. A Software Defined Data Centre approach has provided Telefonica with virtualized infrastructure services intelligence, to automate provisioning on demand. This integrated solution for hybrid cloud infrastructure […]

   

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  VMware Horizon 6 with View: Performance Testing and Best Practices (http://blogs.vmware.com/performance/?p=2334)In the blog here, we just published the updated white paper VMware Horizon 6 with View Performance and Best Practices that describes the performance gains achieved with the latest Horizon 6 enhancements. The paper details the architecture systems used for testing the features and recommends best practices for configuring your system. The white paper talks about the following […]

   

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  Enterprise mobility news recap: April 13 – 17 (http://blogs.air-watch.com/?p=35869)The #MobileGameChanger stories are continuing and the wearable market is expanding – both in analytics and Apple Watch sales. The mobile tec(h)tonic plates continue to shift, especially considering a $16.6 billion acquisition announced earlier this week. A large acquisition is underway in the telecommunications industry. On Wednesday, Finnish telecommunications company Nokia announced its acquisition of […]

   

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  Girls’ Day School Trust engages next generation of girls with education mobility (http://blogs.air-watch.com/?p=35848)The Girls’ Day School Trust (GDST) is a leading group of 24 independent girls’ schools and two academies in the UK, with nearly 4,000 staff, and 20,000 students between the ages of three and 18. Established in 1872, the GDST continually strives to provide pupils with a first-class environment where girls can fulfill their academic […]

   

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  Collaboration bundle enhances file sync and share in the enterprise (http://blogs.air-watch.com/?p=35800)Introduced last week, the VMware Collaboration Bundle combines three content products – AirWatch Content Locker, Socialcast and AirWatch Video – to help employees collaborate in the workplace with different types of content. With file sync and share capabilities, employees can easily exchange content through their mobile phones, tablets and computers. Overall, collaboration in the workplace […]

   

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  Watch video: Transforming hybrid cloud security for mobile users (http://blogs.air-watch.com/?p=35782)Today VMware unveiled a new solution that minimizes security threats from users and mobile devices inside the hybrid cloud. Through the combination of the VMware NSX network virtualization platform with AirWatch EMM and/or VMware Horizon desktop virtualization, VMware provides IT administrators the ability to micro-segment the data center network. This ability grants users specific network […]

   

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  #MobileGameChanger VITAS Healthcare leverages mobility for improved patient care (http://blogs.air-watch.com/?p=35746)When it comes to hospice care, every moment spent with a patient is of utmost importance. VITAS Healthcare is a hospice care organization that uses mobility to ease the transition to end-of-life care. By using mobile technology, VITAS is able to quickly and efficiently assist patients and families during this difficult stage in life. Based […]

   

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  Graham Construction reaches new heights with mobility (http://blogs.air-watch.com/?p=35758)Graham Construction uses mobility to meet the demands of its many projects around the world. While onsite at a construction zone, workers use many different types of documents such as blueprints, corporate documents and safety codes. While traveling to sites, teams must access the latest information available on-site to ensure they are aligning with project […]

   

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  VMware Horizon Webcast: Transforming Desktop and Application Delivery and Management (http://blogs.vmware.com/euc/?p=7576)By Sachin Sharma, Product Marketing, End-User Computing, VMware Delivering and managing applications and users across any environment is difficult. IT has to go through a complicated process, has to use legacy solutions (and many of them at that), and is expected to deliver against an SLA that requires zero or near zero downtime. To begin […]

   

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  VMware Horizon 6 with View: Performance Testing (http://blogs.vmware.com/euc/?p=7559)By Nancy Beckus, Editor and Technical Writer, End-User Computing Technical Marketing, VMware, and Banit Agrawal, Senior Performance Engineer, VMware VMware Horizon 6 with View virtual desktops offer advantages for both end users and IT staff. End users are no longer locked to a particular machine and can access their system and files from anywhere, anytime. […]

   

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  What’s on the Horizon for Desktop and App Virtualization? Join 4/15 #HorizonChat! (http://blogs.vmware.com/euc/?p=7569)We’ve made quite a few changes to Horizon recently, including improvements to virtual networking, storage, apps and more. The end result is a family of products that help you deliver unlimited access to apps and desktops at a lower cost and with improved performance. To discuss these improvements and the future of Horizon, we’re bringing […]

   

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  VMware To Offer Standard Business Associate Agreement for VMware Horizon Air (http://blogs.vmware.com/euc/?p=7554)By James Millington, group product line marketing manager, End-User Computing, VMware and Josue Fontanez, product line marketing manager, End-User Computing, VMware Today, we are excited to announce that VMware will soon be able to offer a standard Business Associate Agreement (BAA) to enable healthcare organizations to use VMware Horizon Air to realize the many benefits […]

   

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  VMware to Offer Standard Business Associate Agreement (BAA) to Enable Healthcare Organizations to use VMware Horizon Air ()By James Millington, group product line marketing manager, End-User Computing, VMware and Josue Fontanez, product line marketing manager, End-User Computing, VMware Today, I am excited to announce that VMware will soon be able to offer a standard Business Associate Agreement (BAA) to enable healthcare organizations to use VMware Horizon Air to realize the many benefits of having their desktops and applications delivered from the cloud. The BAA requires solution providers and healthcare organizations using…

   

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  Take 2 Minutes to Hear Pat Gelsinger Deliver VMware’s Brave New Model of IT (http://blogs.vmware.com/partnernews/?p=1714)Watch and learn how VMware’s One Cloud, Any Application, Any Device architecture delivers a bold new way to build and manage traditional and cloud-native applications, slash provisioning times, improve security and encompass mobility seamlessly. IT is changing because business is changing. Rigid, inflexible IT architectures must give way to fluid models that deliver value to […]

   

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  Simplify vCloud Air Sales with SPP (http://blogs.vmware.com/partnernews/?p=1712)Read through this blog to find out how simple it is to use this new program. The Subscription Purchasing Program (SPP) is our new, flexible channel transaction model for VMware vCloud Air, Virtual Private Cloud OnDemand, and VMware Horizon Air.

   

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  VP of Fujitsu Speaks out on Commitment to Total Virtualization (http://blogs.vmware.com/partnernews/?p=1710)VMware and Fujitsu together are helping organizations streamline their IT. Check out this video featuring Fujitsu VP, Uwe Neumeier, to find out how we are offering joint bundled solutions for servers, storage, and networks to address organizations’ virtualization challenges

   

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  NORAM Reminder…Q2 Velocity to Millions is Next Week (http://blogs.vmware.com/partnernews/?p=1707)Register now and dedicate one day to focus on prospecting the week of April 20th – and don’t forget to join the check-in calls April 22nd.  By participating, you not only gain access to updated tools, it’s the first step to helping your team earn an extra $10,000 in marketing funds, as well as individual […]

   

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  EMEA Reminder…Next EUC Spotlight Session Tomorow – 14th April (http://blogs.vmware.com/partnernews/?p=1705)With End-User Computing (EUC) at VMware constantly evolving, we’ve dedicated the 2nd Tuesday of every month to host spotlight sessions like these to help you understand how our latest solution updates affect your business. Register to join us tomorrow, 14th April.

   

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  Boost Your Creditability with VMware Certification Paths (http://blogs.vmware.com/partner/?p=2452)VMware Certification sets the standard for IT professionals and validates the critical skills organizations need to adopt and manage technology that drives desired business outcomes. VMware Certifications offer more options when choosing levels and technology areas, along with: Increased flexibility and career growth Advanced credibility with employers, colleagues and clients Improved alignment of VMware training […]

   

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  The Workplace of the Future (http://blogs.vmware.com/partner/?p=2444)The world of IT is experiencing tectonic shifts that are fundamentally transforming the world. If you’re not driving your view of the world with a mobile first or a cloud first agenda, then now is the time to start. These agendas allow you to get to billions of users, and potentially millions of applications. Next-generation […]

   

MORE NEWS AND DEVELOPMENTS FROM AROUND THE WEB

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  Cloudlink: Story behind the acquisition (http://virtualgeek.typepad.com/virtual_geek/2015/04/cloudlink-story-behind-the-acquisition.html)Today, EMC closed on the acquisition of a small Ottawa-based company called Cloudlink. Cloudlink does something simple – and does it well. They deliver a product called SecureVM that encypts (and attests to, and otherwise controls and manages) compute instances...

   

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  New Training Course - VMware vSphere 6 Bootcamp (http://www.ntpro.nl/blog/archives/2894-guid.html)

   

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  Virtual SAN Hosted Evaluation (http://www.ntpro.nl/blog/archives/2893-guid.html)

   

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  NSX Hosted Evaluation (http://www.ntpro.nl/blog/archives/2892-guid.html)

   

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  VMware Horizon 6 Storage Considerations (http://www.ntpro.nl/blog/archives/2891-guid.html)

   

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  Heads Up! ATS Miscompare detected between test and set HB images (http://cormachogan.com/?p=4922)I’ve been hit up this week by a number of folks asking about “ATS Miscompare detected between test and set HB images” messages after upgrading to vSphere 5.5U2 and 6.0. The purpose of this post is to give you some Continue reading →

   

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  Virtual Volumes (VVols) and Replication/DR (http://cormachogan.com/?p=4882)There have been a number of queries around Virtual Volumes (VVols) and replication, especially since the release of KB article 2112039 which details all the interoperability aspects of VVols. In Q1 of the KB, the question is asked “Which VMware Continue reading →

   

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  San Diego VMUG USERCON – Tuesday, April 21, 2015 (http://www.mikelaverick.com/?p=6050)It’s with great pleasure that I will be once again presenting at the San Deigo User Conference (Usercon) next week. As it happens I was due to be state-side this week anyway, with plans to spend time with my team in Palo Alto. Of course I will be presenting on EVO:RAIL, but going a little […]

   

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  EVO:RAIL – Under The Covers – Networking (Part2) (http://www.mikelaverick.com/?p=6047)Out of the box the EVO:RAIL uses the default (V)LAN for the management network. On most switches this is using VLAN1 and is setup for all ports on the physical switch. Don’t forget that this could be changed by a network admin on the physical switch to be VLAN999 another identity if they so wished. […]

   

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  Writing PowerShell Code Compatible with PowerCLI Modules and Snapins (http://wahlnetwork.com/?p=13135)As VMware's PowerCLI stack shifts from snapins to modules, it's important to understand the differences and start coding for both scenarios. The post Writing PowerShell Code Compatible with PowerCLI Modules and Snapins appeared first on Wahl Network . Related posts: Using Try and Catch with PowerShell’s Invoke-WebRequest Leveraging PowerShell to Deploy Virtual Network Tiers with VMware NSX Using GitHub for your PowerCLI Scripts Creating NSX API Calls with PowerShell Provisioning Clones…

   

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  Migrate from Windows vCenter to the vCenter Appliance (http://www.yellow-bricks.com/?p=16147)Advertise here with BSA I thought that most people would have seen this awesome fling by now, but I received a couple of questions if it was already possible to migrate from the Windows vCenter Server to the vCenter Server Appliance. Surprisingly enough as William Lam wrote an excellent blog post on this subject. Anyway, this blog is just a simple […] " Migrate from Windows vCenter to the vCenter Appliance " originally appeared on Yellow-Bricks.com . Follow me on twitter - @DuncanYB.…

   

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  VMware Online Technology Forum recording available (http://www.yellow-bricks.com/?p=16149)Advertise here with BSA For those who weren’t able to attend the VMware Online Technology Forum live, the recordings are available for replay now including the Q&A sessions. If you are interested in what’s new for vSphere, VSAN, NSX, vRealize Operations, View and much much more make sure to tune in. Great way to get an overview and a better […] " VMware Online Technology Forum recording available " originally appeared on Yellow-Bricks.com . Follow me on twitter - @DuncanYB. Pre-order…

   

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  Awesome paper/presentation: Efficient MRC Construction with SHARDS (http://www.yellow-bricks.com/?p=16140)Advertise here with BSA When I joined VMware and had read a white paper on memory reclamation techniques a dozen times. I was left with a bunch of questions still and I emailed the engineer who authored it back in the days. I asked him a couple of “simple” questions and received a one pager email full with answers. […] " Awesome paper/presentation: Efficient MRC Construction with SHARDS " originally appeared on Yellow-Bricks.com . Follow me on twitter - @DuncanYB. Pre-order my upcoming…

   

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  vMSC for 6.0, any new recommendations? (http://www.yellow-bricks.com/?p=16136)Advertise here with BSA I am currently updating the vSphere Metro Storage Cluster best practices white paper, over the last two weeks I received various questions if there were any new recommendation for vMSC for 6.0. I have summarized the recommendations below for your convenience, the white paper is being reviewed and I am updating screenshots, hopefully will be […] " vMSC for 6.0, any new recommendations? " originally appeared on Yellow-Bricks.com . Follow me on twitter - @DuncanYB.…

   

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  My VVols guest post on VMware’s storage blog (http://vsphere-land.com/?p=5830)As I’ve been pretty involved with 3PAR support for VVols during my day job at HP, my VMware storage marketing counterpart contacted me and wanted me to write a guest post on their storage blog on implementing VVols on 3PAR. So if you are interested in that head on over there and give it a … Continue reading » [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

   

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  3 new vendors added to the VMware Virtual Volumes Compatibility Guide (http://vsphere-land.com/?p=5816)I posted about a month ago that only 4 vendors supported VMware Virtual Volumes (VVols) on Day 1 of the vSphere launch. Now a month later 3 more vendors have completed their certification of VVols with vSphere 6 and have been added to the VMware Hardware Compatibility Guide: NetApp, Hitachi (HDS) and Fujitsu. The following … Continue reading » [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

   

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  Is it VVOLs or VVols? (http://vsphere-land.com/?p=5809)You have to love VMware’s acronyms and trying to figure out the proper case for them. vSAN or VSAN, vMotion or VMotion, VVols or VVOLs, the only consistency VMware has with case in their acronyms in being consistently inconsistent and every acronym is subject to change (and frequently does). So when I asked one of … Continue reading » [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

   

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  Steve Herrod on blogging (http://vsphere-land.com/?p=5807)I was digging through some old Top vBlog archives and came across the video that Steve Herrod recorded on blogging and thought I would share it. Years ago I wanted to do something special for the bloggers as part of the Top vBlog results announcement so I contacted Steve Herrod to see if he would … Continue reading » [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

   

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  Here’s your chance to help improve Top vBlog (http://vsphere-land.com/?p=5801)I’ve been running the annual Top vBlog voting for the last 6 years and as the process is very time-consuming I’m always looking for ways to improve and streamline things. I was recently reading a post from Rene which had some ideas including using stats to determine who the top bloggers. I don’t really like that idea … Continue reading » [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

   

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  So VMware Virtual Volumes (VVols) is here, when will people start using it (http://vsphere-land.com/?p=5787)After many years in the making VMware’s new storage architecture, Virtual Volumes (VVols) is finally available as part of vSphere 6.0. VVols certainly looks cool but does the old adage hold true, if you build it will they come? In this post I’ll take a look at some reasons why people may want to wait … Continue reading » [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

   

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  2015 Top 50 vBloggers sign up now to get your gift courtesy of Infinio (http://vsphere-land.com/?p=5758)Those who made the Top 50 this year get a free commemorative coin courtesy of Infinio. If you made the top 10 you get gold, 11-25 silver and 26-50 copper. Sign up to get it by filling out the form below so I have your shipping info. Since international addresses can be challenging please include … Continue reading » [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

   

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  vBlogger Spotlight: Eric Sloof (http://vsphere-land.com/?p=5751)Follow @esloof Top vBlog 2015 is over but I’m still continuing my vBlogger Spotlight series to shine the spotlight on several prominent bloggers in the community to give you some insight into their experiences with blogging. Today’s spotlight is on Eric Sloof, aka Mr. Scoop due to his keen ability to post news about VMware before … Continue reading » [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

   

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  Critical VMware Security Patches Released (http://www.derekseaman.com/?p=2788)Advertise here with BSA In case you missed it, VMware has released a number of product updates to address critical vulnerability in JRE. JRE is used in many products, so a wide range of products are affected. You can read the full bulletin here. The bulletin details which product version you need to be running to be patched. In […] The post Critical VMware Security Patches Released appeared first on Derek Seaman's Blog .                     Related Stories Critical ESXi 5.5 Patch Released…

   

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  Critical ESXi 5.5 Patch Released (http://www.derekseaman.com/?p=2787)Advertise here with BSA Hot off the presses is a critical patch for ESXi 5.5, dated March 7, 2015. This addresses two VSAN patches: Upgrading from VMware ESXi 5.5, Patch Release ESXi550-201502001 (Build 2456374) or VMware ESXi 5.5, Patch Release ESXi550-201501001 (Build 2403361) to vSphere 6.0 might result in VMware Virtual SAN (VSAN) Data Unavailability. See VMware Knowledge base […] The post Critical ESXi 5.5 Patch Released appeared first on Derek Seaman's Blog .                      …

   

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  vSphere 6.0 Installation Pt. 14: Install Windows vCenter (http://www.derekseaman.com/?p=2513)Advertise here with BSA Now that we are pretty far into this series, we can finally install our Windows vCenter. This will leverage our external PSC, for maximum scalability. Depending on your environment size, you may need to scale up the VM’s hardware specs for optimal performance. Consult VMware documentation for sizing guidance. In this exercise we will configure 2 vCPUs […] The post vSphere 6.0 Installation Pt. 14: Install Windows vCenter appeared first on Derek Seaman's Blog .        …

   

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  vSphere 6.0 Pt. 13: VMware Directory Svc Certificate (http://www.derekseaman.com/?p=2765)Advertise here with BSA One of the lesser known SSL certificates in the vSphere 6.0 product is called the VMware Directory Service certificate. This is used by the built-in LDAP server for authentication and encryption. It’s most an internal use only certificate, and one that some customers may not worry about replacing. In fact, per VMware support, a lot of […] The post vSphere 6.0 Pt. 13: VMware Directory Svc Certificate appeared first on Derek Seaman's Blog .                    …

   

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  Problem reading mime attachment in vRealize Orchestrator (http://vcdx56.com/?p=5403)A few days ago i had to create a vRealize Orchestrator (vRO) formerly known as vCenter Orchestrator (vCO) workflow that reads a file. For that you can use the MimeAttachement type. What i didn’t know was that once you read the file its content will be cached internally in vRO and since i need to run the vRO … Continue reading »

   

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  My first company podcast (http://vcdx56.com/?p=5398)Must be a first time for everything, right? Last week was my first time i participated in a company lead podcast recording and yesterday it was released. The topic that we covered was automation and orchestration with focus on Nutanix, vRealize Automation (vRA) formerly known as vCloud Automation Center (vCAC), vRealize Orchestrator (vRO) formerly known as … Continue reading »

   

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  BlueMedora – a new vcdx56 sponsor (http://vcdx56.com/?p=5388)I’m happy to announce that Blue Medora has decided to become a vcdx56 blog sponsor. Blue Medora was founded back in 2013 and they operate in the analytics & monitoring space with focus on the development and distribution of product extensions for IBM Tivoli Monitoring (ITM), Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM), and VMware vCenter Operations (vC Ops)  Below is … Continue reading »

   

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  Heads up! Critical Security Patches released by VMware (http://vcdx56.com/?p=5381)I know it’s a few days late but i wanted to make a short blog post about this anyway. 2015-04-02 VMware released a security advisory (VMSA). The VMSA addresses the critical vulnerability in JRE which is used in many VMware products. Some of the affected products includes Horizon View 6.x or 5.x Horizon Workspace Portal Server  … Continue reading »

   

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  5 Step Process for Getting the Best Out of Your VMware Support Experience (http://longwhiteclouds.com/?p=10762)Support from any organisation you do business with is critical, when things go wrong, you want to know you have someone to call on that can help you. With regard to VMware Support you have a great number of options available to you, so that you can get the type of support you need. Whether […]

   

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  What The VCDX Scenarios Are Looking For (http://www.chriscolotti.us/?p=4726)I presented another VCDX Workshop this week in South Florida, and one thing that we dug into was what the Design and Troubleshooting Scenarios are looking for.  What I mean by that is every VCDX has always said in the workshops that these two sections are “About the Journey, not the destination”.  I personally have ... The post What The VCDX Scenarios Are Looking For appeared first on Chris Colotti's Blog .               Related Stories Addressing Design Changes In Your VCDX Defense Are…

   

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  Addressing Design Changes In Your VCDX Defense (http://www.chriscolotti.us/?p=4720)There was a conversation on Twitter that came up today regarding your VCDX submission, and changes to the design between submission and defense.  I have some personal opinions on this I wanted to write down instead of dealing with it on Twitter.  Alexander Thoma had a spot on point about this. @Sunny_Dua @ccolotti @skhoslaTO If ... The post Addressing Design Changes In Your VCDX Defense appeared first on Chris Colotti's Blog .                 Comments I think we are in agreement on the fact…

   

KB ARTICLES

VMware ESXi
VMware vSphere ESXi 6.0 hostd logs sent to an external syslog collector have a timestamp of: NoneZ (2111202)
Date Published: 4/10/2015
VMware ESXi 6.0, Patch Release ESXi600-201504001 (2111975)
Date Published: 4/9/2015
VMware ESXi 6.0, Patch ESXi600-201504401-BG: Updates esx-base (2111976)
Date Published: 4/9/2015
VMware ESXi 6.0, Patch ESXi-6.0.0-20150404001-standard (2111978)
Date Published: 4/9/2015
VMware ESXi 6.0, Patch Release – ESXi-6.0.0-20150404001-no-tools (2111979)
Date Published: 4/9/2015
VMware ESXi 5.5, Patch ESXi550-201504201-BG: Updates esx-base (2112675)
Date Published: 4/7/2015
VMware ESXi 5.5, Patch ESXi-5.5.0-20150402001-standard (2112676)
Date Published: 4/7/2015
VMware ESXi 5.5, Patch ESXi-5.5.0-20150402001-no-tools (2112678)
Date Published: 4/7/2015
Versions of Active Directory supported in VMware ESXi (2113023)
Date Published: 4/10/2015
Support for Lenovo System x series server CBB Providers on ESXi 5.x and later (2113580)
Date Published: 4/10/2015
Support for Lenovo System x series server Firmware Update Provider Broker on ESXi 5.x and later (2113584)
Date Published: 4/10/2015
VMFS datastore file locks fail to clear (2113615)
Date Published: 4/10/2015
Support for partner integrations with vShield Endpoint and vCloud Networking and Security (2105558)
Date Published: 4/8/2015
VMware ESXi 5.5, Patch Release ESXi550-201504001 (2112672)
Date Published: 4/7/2015
Support for Lenovo System x series servers IMM providers on ESXi 5.x and later (2113568)
Date Published: 4/10/2015
Support for Lenovo Avago Firmware Updater for System x series servers on ESXi 5.x and later (2113583)
Date Published: 4/10/2015

VMware Fusion
Launching VMware Fusion gives an error: File Not Found (2109701)
Date Published: 4/7/2015

VMware Horizon
Enable partners to validate Virtual Volumes at scale with Horizon View workflows (2109267)
Date Published: 4/9/2015

VMware Horizon View Client
Remote application resolution issues in Horizon Client for Mac OS X on an iMac with Retina 5K Display (2111550)
Date Published: 4/7/2015

VMware vCenter Chargeback Manager
vCenter Chargeback Manager 2.7 JRE update to include a fix for CVE-2014-6593 (2112011)
Date Published: 4/9/2015
vCenter Chargeback Manager 2.6 JRE update to include a fix for CVE-2014-6593 (2113178)
Date Published: 4/9/2015
VMware vCenter Log Insight
vRealize Log Insight 1.x and 2.x JRE update to include a fix for CVE-2014-6593 (2113235)
Date Published: 4/9/2015

VMware vCenter Server
Logging in to a VMware vCenter Server Single Sign-On deployment with the VMware vSphere Web Client results in an error: Client is not authenticated to VMware Inventory Service (2112027)
Date Published: 4/10/2015Logging into the vCenter Server with Use Sessions Credentials fails with error: User name and password are required (2112731)
Date Published: 4/6/2015The upgrade or installation of vCenter Server 6.0 fails with the error: Installation of Component VCSServiceManager failed with error code ’1603′. Check the logs for more details. (2113068)
Date Published: 4/8/2015Unable to install vCenter Server 6.0 on Windows due to the message: 8176MB of memory is required for the selected deployment type. (2113604)
Date Published: 4/9/2015

VMware vCenter Server Appliance
The VMware VirtualCenter Server service to stop on the VMware vCenter Server Appliance 5.5 with a large number of SOAP sessions (2111259)
Date Published: 4/10/2015
In the vSphere Web Client in vCenter Server 6.0 the Hardware Status tab reports: No host data available (2112847)
Date Published: 4/6/2015
VMware Platform Services Controller 6.0 FAQs (2113115)
Date Published: 4/10/2015The vCenter Server Appliance 5.1 allows Web Client and Virtual Appliance Management root access while SSH and shell access fails with: permission denied (2111212)
Date Published: 4/6/2015
How to configure NTP on the vCenter Server Appliance 6.0 (2113610)
Date Published: 4/10/2015

VMware vCloud Air Disaster Recovery
Prerequisites for VMware’s vCloud Air Disaster Recovery (2113424)
Date Published: 4/10/2015

VMware vCloud Director
vApp, virtual machine or allocation pool virtual machine displays a system alert: Virtual Machine’s memory reservation was modified (2112399)
Date Published: 4/10/2015

VMware vRealize Automation
Testing the connection to the embedded VMware vRealize Automation 6.2.x vRealize Orchestrator fails with the error: Cannot connect to Orchestrator server (2112679)
Date Published: 4/10/2015

VMware vRealize Automation Desktop
Catalog Management Actions are missing in VMware vRealize Automation (2113027)
Date Published: 4/10/2015

VMware vRealize Operations Manager
vCenter Server users cannot be deleted or hidden in vRealize Operations Manager 6.x (2112914)
Date Published: 4/6/2015
Access control pages display the same information in vRealize Operations Manager 6.x (2112930)
Date Published: 4/6/2015

VMware vRealize Operations Manager (Standalone)
Only 50 dashboards can be accessed in the dashboards pane in vRealize Operations Manager 6.x (2112942)
Date Published: 4/6/2015

VMware vRealize Operations Manager
Upgrade vRealize Operations Manager 6.0.1 JRE to address CVE-2014-6593 (2111898)
Date Published: 4/9/2015

VMware vRealize Orchestrator
vCenter Orchestrator and vRealize Orchestrator JRE update to include a fix for CVE-2014-6593 (2112028)
Date Published: 4/9/2015

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Hi everyone, and welcome to the last edition of the VMware TAM Source Newsletter. This week we have a very interesting TAM related blog post of you to read. As a TAM we are mostly generalist’s knowing all there is at a very broad level as well as some subject matter expertise. What happens if you want a specific skill for your organization. This week we introduce you to our NSX TAM offering which is exclusively focused around our NSX solution.

Ensuring Success with VMware NSX TAM Services
By Curtis Miller

For networking, VMware NSX is a game-changer in the same way VMware vSphere was for data center servers. NSX virtualizes and consolidates legacy networking functionality back into a hypervisor. As a result, adding or changing network capabilities no longer requires the costly replacement of networking gear. It’s all software based—so upgrades are now just a right-click away. [more…]

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  VMware vRealize Code Stream: Is DevOps Tools or Transformation? (http://blogs.vmware.com/cloudops/?p=1510)By Ahmed Al-Buheissi In a previous blog, I wrote about the need for DevOps to rapidly release software and argued that DevOps is first and foremost about transforming operations. The Operations and Development teams can be a roadblock to each other’s work schedule. The Development team frequently requires infrastructure and platform to test their code, […]

   

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  What We Read This Week: A VMware News Recap, April 24, 2015 (http://blogs.vmware.com/tribalknowledge/?p=3903)Secure Containers, Going Green at VMware HQ & The Problem with Mobile Security in Healthcare ① VMware answers some of the questions about how it plans to compete in a containerized world with the release of two tools it plans to open source, both of which help enterprises build and deploy cloud-native applications. (Insider Tip: […]

   

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  Introducing the VMware EVO:RAIL vSphere Loyalty Program (http://blogs.vmware.com/tribalknowledge/?p=3900)By Mornay van der Walt, vice president, EVO:RAIL Group, VMware Today, we are delighted to announce the launch of the VMware EVO:RAIL vSphere Loyalty Program. We developed the VMware EVO:RAIL vSphere Loyalty Program to allow our VMware vSphere customers to apply their licenses to the purchase of VMware EVO:RAIL appliances from our nine Qualified EVO:RAIL […]

   

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  A Look At Our LEED-Certified Palo Alto Headquarters for Earth Day (http://blogs.vmware.com/tribalknowledge/?p=3893)Nowhere is VMware’s commitment to the environment more apparent than at our global headquarters in the heart of Silicon Valley in Palo Alto, Calif. For Earth Day this year, we’ve collected some of the most eye-popping stats about our eco efforts and presented them in the infographic below. Did you know VMware generates more than […]

   

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  RSA 2015: VMware News, Sessions and Awards (http://blogs.vmware.com/tribalknowledge/?p=3885)The information security industry continues to be front and center in the news as corporate and individual privacy breaches alike seem to constantly be hitting the headlines.  And while we continue to see tremendous innovation in security, the recognition of the security industry has come paired with increased scrutiny. Enter the RSA Conference – in […]

   

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  Cloud-Native Apps: Making the Developer a First-Class User of the Datacenter (http://blogs.vmware.com/tribalknowledge/?p=3878)By Kit Colbert, vice president & CTO, Cloud-Native Apps at VMware Today’s an exciting day for the Cloud-Native Apps team at VMware (read press release).  We’re excited to share our vision with the world, and to back it up with concrete project announcements. Before getting too far ahead of myself, let’s take a step back and reexamine the […]

   

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  Elite Database Workshop Program – SQL Server Event #2 (http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/?p=17209)The 3rd VMware Elite Database Workshop is set to start at 7AM on Tuesday April 21.  The program is an invitation only event for the some of the world’s top SQL Server experts in which VMware selects groups of database specialists within various disciplines to include Oracle and SQL Server and soon to include Big […]

   

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  Run Containers on vSphere with Project Photon and Project Lightwave (http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/?p=17186)When you think of VMware, virtualization clearly jumps to mind.  But if you take a step back, virtualization is really a means to an end.  IT pros don’t earn their salary because they run virtual machines — but VMs support application services that are essential to business, ultimately contributing to the bottom line.  VMware is […]

   

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  Top 10 VMware Knowledge Base Resources (http://blogs.vmware.com/education/?p=5610)Tips for how to use the VMware Knowledge Base and the Top 10 articles. Take a look, it may contain answers to questions you’ve had in the past.

   

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  Top Questions From Our Micro-segmentation with NSX Webinar (http://blogs.vmware.com/education/?p=5578)Last week we held a webinar on Micro-segmentation with VMware NSX where VMware Certified Instructor John Krueger discussed the major features and capabilities of VMware NSX 6.1 and how in a software defined data center, a zero trust security model becomes achievable when taking advantage of features in VMware NSX. The conversation led to several questions, some of which […]

   

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  New Dates Set for VCDX Workshop Online (http://blogs.vmware.com/education/?p=5592)Our VCDX Workshop is one of the most popular ways we help people get ready for the VMware Certified Design Expert (VCDX) design defense. However, we know that not everyone can make it to one of the live sessions in person, so we’re going to deliver a shortened version of it via WebEx throughout the […]

   

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  2 New VCA Certifications Available: VCA6-DCV and VCA6-DTM (http://blogs.vmware.com/education/?p=5583)Last week we announced three new VMware Certified Associate programs, and today we’re making two more available: VMware Certified Associate 6 – Data Center Virtualization (VCA6-DCV) VMware Certified Associate 6 – Desktop and Mobility (VCA6-DTM)  The links above will take you to the requirements for new candidates, related training courses, and objectives for each exam. […]

   

  
  

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  Deploying VMware NSX on Cisco Nexus 9000 & Cisco UCS Infrastructure (http://blogs.vmware.com/networkvirtualization/?p=1903)As VMware NSX gains broader adoption, we have heard many customer requests for guidance to help them run NSX on top of the latest Cisco infrastructure, namely Cisco UCS and Nexus 9000 series switches. With customers choosing the benefits of VMware NSX along with the Software Defined Data Center (SDDC), the underlying hardware (Ethernet fabric, […]

   

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  VMware User Environment Manager Deployed in 60 Minutes or Less (http://blogs.vmware.com/consulting/?p=2197)By Dale Carter With the VMware acquisition of Immidio, announced in February 2015, VMware has now released VMware User Environment Manager (UEM). In the last several weeks I have been doing some internal testing with UEM and looking at the different things the software can do, and how this will help administrators manage users and […]

   

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  Scaling Web 2.0 Applications using Docker containers on vSphere 6.0 (http://blogs.vmware.com/performance/?p=2339)by Qasim Ali In a previous VROOM post, we showed that running Redis inside Docker containers on vSphere adds little to no overhead and observed sizeable performance improvements when scaling out the application when compared to running containers directly on the native hardware. This post analyzes scaling Web 2.0 applications using Docker containers on vSphere […]

   

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  Understanding Relationship Mappings in vRealize Operations (http://blogs.vmware.com/management/?p=6982)vRealize Operations provides admins a multitude of capabilities to help them manage and simplify their IT environments. One of the most powerful features, relationship mapping, often goes a little unnoticed by some of the users.  Behind the scenes vRealize Operations relationship mapping out the relationship between each resource kind gets exposed within vRealize Operations. A […]

   

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  Migrating to vRealize Operations 6 – David Davis Post #22 (http://blogs.vmware.com/management/?p=6940)No one likes to have to upgrade their software. Sometimes it seems like wasted time away from more important projects, it can be frustrating (in some cases), and in other cases there is a cost to upgrade (either monetarily or from downtime). HOWEVER, we all enjoy the benefits that the latest version brings us (to […]

   

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  vRealize Operations Manager 6.0 brings in Scalable & Resilient Architecture (http://blogs.vmware.com/management/?p=6446)VMware vRealize Operations Manager 6.0 managed to bring a robust, scalable and resilient architecture in the platform design. In this post, we are going to talk about the platform design, which brings you the massive scalable architecture. But before we jump into the scalability, let’s look at the platform design and the form factor of […]

   

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  Working with vRealize Code Stream and vRealize Orchestrator (http://blogs.vmware.com/management/?p=6922)One of the most critical aspects of being able to implement new software is to be able to leverage existing tools in the market. Many companies use Orchestration tools like vRealize Orchestrator to create new workflows that automate those custom one-off tasks.  In this blog post we are going to explore how vRealize Code Stream […]

   

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  Nested ESXi on vCloud Air (http://blogs.vmware.com/vcloud/?p=5210)One of the benefits of having vSphere as the virtual infrastructure for vCloud Air is ability to run a wide variety of guest operating systems. This includes hypervisors such as ESXi, which can be installed within vCloud Air as a virtual machine. The solution, commonly referred to as Nested ESXi, opens the door to a […]

   

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  VMware Continuent 4.0 – Deployments Examples (http://blogs.vmware.com/vcloud/?p=5398)Data is one of the most fluid elements in the world, and it continues to change and develop at a rapid pace. This presents a number of rich challenges and practicalities that need to be taken into account, such as how to get the data effectively to your applications and ultimately into your customers hands, […]

   

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  Connecting vCloud Air Services (http://blogs.vmware.com/vcloud/?p=5311)VMware vCloud Air offers different ways to purchase and consume cloud resources based on whether you need resources physically isolated from other tenants or on a multi-tenant platform, and whether you purchase via a subscription or based on consumption in a pay-as-you-go manner. However, there are times where you have workloads that are better fit […]

   

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  A New Path to Cloud Success for Customers, New Opportunities for the vCloud Air Network (http://blogs.vmware.com/vcloud/?p=5287)By Geoff Waters, Vice President, Service Provider Channel, VMware VMware vCloud® Air™ continues to flourish, and is now available to customers delivered as a managed service through VMware vCloud Air Network service providers.  As we announced at Partner Exchange 2015, VMware service provider partners now can deliver managed services to their customers around the globe […]

   

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  IT Security Does Not Have to End Where the Public Cloud Begins (http://blogs.vmware.com/vcloud/?p=5274)Terms like public cloud and multi-tenancy are the blinking warning signs on the road to cloud adoption. Who would think of putting their valuable data on a platform that doesn’t reside inside their data center?  Well, under the right circumstances, would you? At a minimum, you’d need to have an effective way of completely limiting […]

   

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  Mark Your Calendar – vCloud Air Community Goes Live with Ask vCloud Air Event (http://blogs.vmware.com/vcloud/?p=5265)Join us on Wednesday, April 29th, from 9 to 11 a.m. PST, for a special event: Ask vCloud Air (#AVCA). During the Ask vCloud Air event, VMware vCloud® AirTM experts will be on hand to answer your questions and chat about vCloud Air, all live from our VMware vCloud Air Community forum. All participants will […]

   

  
  

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  Making Citrix Work Better: VMware Simplifying Application Management for Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop Environments (http://blogs.vmware.com/euc/?p=7580)By Harry Labana, vice president of products, End-User Computing, VMware  This past February, VMware announced the acquisition of Immidio and introduced a new approach to application delivery and user management called VMware Workspace™ Environment Management (WEM). With Workspace Environment Management, IT organizations have the ability to comprehensively isolate and deliver applications, manage users and monitor […]

   

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  Enterprise mobility news recap: April 20 – 24 (http://blogs.air-watch.com/?p=36001)This past week was full of significant reports as the earnings from Q1 were reported to the public. Mobile payments are making leeway into innovative companies, and Facebook’s mobile user base is continuing to increase. To celebrate a solid performance in VMware earnings from the first quarter, AirWatch employees in Atlanta and Milton Keynes enjoyed […]

   

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  AirWatch demonstrates strong Q1 performance and record results with VMware (http://blogs.air-watch.com/?p=35974)Earlier this week, VMware held its quarterly earnings call to discuss financial results from the first quarter of 2015. Company representatives reported that total revenues for the first quarter were $1.51 billion, an increase of 11 percent from the first quarter of 2014, or up 13 percent year-over-year in constant currency. (Listen to the call […]

   

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  Socialcast named a “Leader” in G2 Crowd’s Grid℠ for Social Collaboration Products (http://blogs.air-watch.com/?p=35941)G2 Crowd recently published its  Grid℠ report for social collaboration products. In it, Socialcast by VMware was named one of only four Leaders. The Grid℠ ranks social collaboration products based on customer satisfaction as reported by users in their reviews and vendor market presence. Socialcast is an enterprise-grade social networking platform that brings people, conversations […]

   

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  Chrome Live webinar addresses security in the browser and enterprise functionality (http://blogs.air-watch.com/?p=35965)Yesterday Google hosted a Chrome Live session where the company presented several new product announcements. Google shared its plans for both Google for Work and Chrome for Work and how it aims to meet enterprise mobility needs. AirWatch integration with Android for Work helps address security and device management concerns that Google spoke of throughout […]

   

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  Radicati reports AirWatch has largest market share among EMM vendors in fourth-annual Market Quadrant (http://blogs.air-watch.com/?p=35878)The Radicati Group has released its fourth-annual Enterprise Mobility Management Market Quadrant. In the report, Radicati ranked AirWatch as a “Top Player” for the fourth consecutive year and reported that AirWatch owns the largest market share among the EMM vendors it evaluated. The Radicati EMM Market Quadrant ranks vendors on two axes: market share and […]

   

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  AirWatch and VMware ready to address security at RSA (http://blogs.air-watch.com/?p=35914)Beginning today, the AirWatch and VMware booth is ready for RSA! The four-day cyber security conference is hosted at the Moscone Center in San Francisco today through Thursday. This year’s RSA theme is “Change: Challenge today’s security thinking.” To help meet this theme, AirWatch and VMware will be participating in several speaking sessions and events […]

   

  
  

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  Save 50% Off VCP-NV Certification Exam (http://blogs.vmware.com/partnernews/?p=1729)Keep your skills relevant and future-proof your career by earning your VMware Certified Professional – Network Virtualization (VCP-NV) accreditation (exam code VCPN610) for half price through June 30, 2015 using discount code VCPNV50.

   

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  VMware App Volumes…Why Care? (http://blogs.vmware.com/partnernews/?p=1726)View these couple of slides highlighting the primary reasons and resources to get you started. The tremendous partner opportunity available right now should pique your interest.

   

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  Attn: EMEA Partners — Close Deals with vSphere with Operations Management Promos (http://blogs.vmware.com/partnernews/?p=1724)Check out the updated promotions. Customer offers include 25% off on their upgrade from vSphere to the latest edition of vSphere with Operations Management or free training with the vSphere with Operations Management Acceleration Kits Ent/Ent+. Additionally, you could also benefit from up to 20% in partner incentives. Not sure what’s new with v6? Then […]

   

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  Cloud Migration Portal Released (http://blogs.vmware.com/partnernews/?p=1721)Download the Cloud Migration Portal (CMP) tool to manage and automate large scale migration projects to VMware vSphere and Cloud. CMP supports migration of workloads from physical to virtual, virtual to virtual, and virtual to Cloud.

   

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  Quarterly Partner Briefing Portal Launched (http://blogs.vmware.com/partnernews/?p=1719)The Quarterly Partner Briefing portal is the forum for us to share with you the latest information on our upcoming product and solution launches, along with other important announcements and programs. This quarter’s briefing portal features videos with product launch news and updates around vSphere, Virtual SAN, vCloud Suite, vSphere with Operations Management, VMware Integrated […]

   

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  Key SDDC and Hybrid Cloud Products Available to Sell (http://blogs.vmware.com/partnernews/?p=1716)Leverage the Launch Playbook to help you sell the latest releases of key Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) products such as: vSphere with Operations Management, vCloud Suite, and Virtual SAN. Also, you can now access the vCloud Air webpage for all of the resources needed to learn, market, and sell the latest release of vCloud Air Disaster […]

   

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  Mobility— Blurring the Lines Between Everyday and Professional Experiences (http://blogs.vmware.com/partner/?p=2457)Isn’t it great when you’re on the bus headed to work or perhaps on a plane, and you can open your kindle app on your smartphone and pick up right where you left off from the night before while reading the same book on your iPad? Our day-to-day mobile experiences that take place in our […]

   

  
  

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  EMC World: A Preview and Things on the “Must See and Do” List (http://virtualgeek.typepad.com/virtual_geek/2015/04/emc-world-a-preview-and-things-on-the-must-see-and-do-list.html)Every EMC World I’ve been to has certain things in common: Fun! Friends! Learning! Community! Getting to take the detailed covers off things I’ve been hinting at… … And, of course, face-melting reveals of things no one expects! This year...

   

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  Virtual Volumes (VVols), vSphere HA and Heartbeat Datastores (http://cormachogan.com/?p=4959)I had a few queries recently on how Virtual Volumes (VVols) worked with vSphere HA. In particular, I had a number of questions around whether or not VVol datastores could be used as a heartbeat datastore by vSphere HA. The Continue reading →

   

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  VSAN 6.0 Part 9 – Proactive Re-balance (http://cormachogan.com/?p=4944)This is another nice new feature of Virtual SAN 6.0. It basically is a directive to VSAN to start re-balancing components belonging to virtual machine objects around all the hosts and all the disks in the cluster. Why might you Continue reading →

   

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  VSAN 6.0 Part 8 – Fault Domains (http://cormachogan.com/?p=4908)One of the really nice new features of VSAN 6.0 is fault domains. Previously, there was very little control over where VSAN placed virtual machine components. In order to protect against something like a rack failure, you may have had Continue reading →

   

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  Requirements Driven Data Center (http://www.yellow-bricks.com/?p=16166)Advertise here with BSA I’ve been thinking about the term Software Defined Data Center for a while now. It is a great term “software defined” but it seems that many agree that things have been defined by software for a long time now. When talking about SDDC with customers it is typically referred to as the ability to abstract, pool […] " Requirements Driven Data Center " originally appeared on Yellow-Bricks.com . Follow me on twitter - @DuncanYB. Pre-order my upcoming book Essential…

   

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  Not submitted a VMworld session yet? How about a “quick talk”? (http://www.yellow-bricks.com/?p=16156)Advertise here with BSA I was submitting some VMworld sessions and noticed there was a new type of session called a quick talk. It is something new so I started digging and found the following in the VMworld CFP Q&A: Quick Talk – 30 minutes (NEW!) Quick Talks are abridged breakouts focused on non-technical topics. More consumable, the Quick […] " Not submitted a VMworld session yet? How about a “quick talk”? " originally appeared on Yellow-Bricks.com . Follow me on twitter -…

   

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  Spinning Gold with the PowerCLI Cookbook (http://wahlnetwork.com/?p=13177)I recently poured through the newly released PowerCLI Cookbook - here's the results of my reading adventures! The post Spinning Gold with the PowerCLI Cookbook appeared first on Wahl Network . Related posts: Writing PowerShell Code Compatible with PowerCLI Modules and Snapins Using GitHub for your PowerCLI Scripts Automating vSphere Replication Bandwidth Limits with PowerCLI Rockin’ VMTurbo’s Operations Manager with UCS Integration New SolarWinds Virtualization Manager 6.1 Creates…

   

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  On vSphere Upgrades, Version Numbers, and Semantic Versioning (http://wahlnetwork.com/?p=13166)In which I riff a bit on when to upgrade vSphere, the importance of version numbers, and how semantic versioning plays into the mix. The post On vSphere Upgrades, Version Numbers, and Semantic Versioning appeared first on Wahl Network . Related posts: vSphere Client 5.5 U2 offers Restricted Edit of Hardware Version 10 VMs The Bajillion Spiffy Upgrades to vRealize Operations 6.0 vSphere 6.0 Web Client: Still Flash, But Vastly Better User Experience vSphere 4.x Approaching End of General Support …

   

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  New Book - Mastering VMware Horizon 6 (http://www.ntpro.nl/blog/archives/2901-guid.html)

   

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  New Certification: VMware Certified Associate 6 - Desktop and Mobility (VCA6-DTM) (http://www.ntpro.nl/blog/archives/2900-guid.html)

   

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  New Certification: VMware Certified Associate 6 – Data Center Virtualization (VCA6-DCV) (http://www.ntpro.nl/blog/archives/2899-guid.html)

   

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  Latest Fling from VMware Labs - PowerCLI Cmdlet for NFS (http://www.ntpro.nl/blog/archives/2898-guid.html)

   

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  Project Photon Runs Docker and Rocket Containers via Vagrant and VMware Fusion (http://www.ntpro.nl/blog/archives/2897-guid.html)

   

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  Project Lightwave Provides Authentication for Project Photon SSH Logins (http://www.ntpro.nl/blog/archives/2896-guid.html)

   

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  vBeers The Hague - The second edition (http://www.ntpro.nl/blog/archives/2895-guid.html)

   

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  Introducing the VMware EVO:RAIL vSphere Loyality Program (http://www.mikelaverick.com/?p=6099)Today, we are delighted to announce the launch of the VMware EVO:RAIL vSphere Loyalty Program. We developed the VMware EVO:RAIL vSphere Loyalty Program to allow our VMware vSphere customers to apply their licenses to the purchase of VMware EVO:RAIL appliances from our nine Qualified EVO:RAIL Partners. This program enables our customers to preserve their existing […]

   

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  EVO:RAIL – Under The Covers – Networking (Part3) (http://www.mikelaverick.com/?p=6076)This is my third and final blog post about the networking side of the configuration of EVO:RAIL. In this blog post I want to talk about the current configuration of the networking from a vSphere Virtual Switch perspective. But before I get into that here is a reminder of the physical world. Each EVO:RAIL node […]

   

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  Introducing VMUG’s WIKI (http://www.mikelaverick.com/?p=6069)Hi there, and thank you for reading this. It’s with great delight that I’m able to write to you today about a big project for VMUG and our great community. It’s called “WIKI” and I want to explain what it is and what inspired its creation. Some years ago, John Troyer floated the idea of […]

   

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  My VVols guest post on VMware’s storage blog (http://vsphere-land.com/?p=5830)As I’ve been pretty involved with 3PAR support for VVols during my day job at HP, my VMware storage marketing counterpart contacted me and wanted me to write a guest post on their storage blog on implementing VVols on 3PAR. So if you are interested in that head on over there and give it a … Continue reading » [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

   

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  3 new vendors added to the VMware Virtual Volumes Compatibility Guide (http://vsphere-land.com/?p=5816)I posted about a month ago that only 4 vendors supported VMware Virtual Volumes (VVols) on Day 1 of the vSphere launch. Now a month later 3 more vendors have completed their certification of VVols with vSphere 6 and have been added to the VMware Hardware Compatibility Guide: NetApp, Hitachi (HDS) and Fujitsu. The following … Continue reading » [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

   

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  vSphere 6.0 Install Pt. 15: VCSA vCenter Install (http://www.derekseaman.com/?p=2799)Advertise here with BSA If you are a VCSA (vCenter server appliance) convert, and wish to use the vCenter server appliance, this post is for you! It assumes you already have an external VCSA PSC setup, per Part 10. So this post will walk you through a similar deployment process, but this time install vCenter instead of a PSC. If you’ve […] The post vSphere 6.0 Install Pt. 15: VCSA vCenter Install appeared first on Derek Seaman's Blog .                     Related Stories vSphere 6.0…

   

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  vRealize Orchestrator service won’t start (http://vcdx56.com/?p=5420)So the other day i ran in to a problem where i couldn’t connect to my vRealize Orchestrator (vRO) formerly known as vCenter Orchestrator (vCO) version 5.5.2 server using the vCO client. It was working perfectly fine before a restart of the Windows Server 2012 R2 virtual machine (VM), required because of Windows patching. When … Continue reading »

   

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  Problem reading mime attachment in vRealize Orchestrator (http://vcdx56.com/?p=5403)A few days ago i had to create a vRealize Orchestrator (vRO) formerly known as vCenter Orchestrator (vCO) workflow that reads a file. For that you can use the MimeAttachement type. What i didn’t know was that once you read the file its content will be cached internally in vRO and since i need to run the vRO … Continue reading »

   

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  VMware Horizon – Creating shortcut (http://vinfrastructure.it/?p=16159)Using VMware View was possible set specific shortcuts using the View client CLI in order to automatically open a specific virtual desktop. The CLI has not changed (at least not so much) in the recent Horizon View Client, but starting from version 3.0 there are also new options. The old approach was build a Windows shortcut like this one: "C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware View\Client\bin\wswc.exe" -desktopName "RESOURCENAME" -serverURL VIEWPORTAL -userName USER…

   

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  VMware cloud-native applications vision (http://vinfrastructure.it/?p=16268)It’s not a secret that there are several changes in enterprise, not only in the infrastructure part, but also on how applications are developed and operated (for example with DevOps), how they’re architected (for example with micro-services apps), and how they’re deployed (for example with Docker and containers). The agility of (public) cloud and the possibility that offer brings new type of applications called “cloud-native” as they’re may or must re-designed for the mobile-cloud era. Those…

   

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  Support for Active Directory on vSphere (http://www.joshodgers.com/?p=3423)I heard something interested today from a customer, a storage vendor who sells predominantly block storage products was trying to tell them that Active Directory domain controllers are not supported on vSphere when using NFS datastores. The context was the vendor … Continue reading →

   

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  vSphere Replication Add-On registration and Folder issue. (http://www.bussink.ch/?p=1647)While deploying recently the vSphere Replication solution on an infrastructure, I found myself confronted with a strange situation. I had deployed the vSphere Replication 6.0 appliance (Management and Replication), I was looking to add a 2nd vSphere Replication appliance to the primary site. Yet, once the Add-On vSphere Replication appliance was deployed, I was not able to […] (Visited 35 times, 1 visits today)

   

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  What Makes a Quality VCDX Submission (http://www.chriscolotti.us/?p=4732)I get this question a lot and I plan on updating a few slides for upcoming VCDX Workshops to address it.  In the past the workshop certainly focusses on the defense day, but I am reminded today of some things that make a proper submission.  Actually there is probably a good list of things NOT ... The post What Makes a Quality VCDX Submission appeared first on Chris Colotti's Blog.

   

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Hie everyone, welcome to this weeks TAM Source Newsletter where we try and bring you the latest news from around the VMware world. This week we have another excellent blog post from our resident TAM Jason Gaudreau titled “The Importance of Business Outcomes”.

The Importance of Business Outcomes

As technologists, most IT professionals have a hard time connecting the dots between technology solutions and business value. This predicament isn’t something relegated only to system engineers and middle managers; it can extend to IT directors and CIOs, too. When working with business leadership, it can be difficult for most IT professionals to describe the benefits of deploying IT solutions. [Read More…]

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• Top 20 Articles for April 2015 (https://blogs.vmware.com/kb/?p=6538)Here is our Top 20 KB list for April 2015. This list is ranked by the number of times a VMware Support Request was resolved by following the steps in a published Knowledge Base article. 1. VMware ESXi 5.x host experiences a purple diagnostic screen mentioning E1000PollRxRing and E1000DevRx (2059053) 2. Troubleshooting Fusion virtual machine […]

   

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  VMware vCloud Air Disaster Recovery – KBTV Webinars (http://blogs.vmware.com/kb/?p=6534)This video is the fifth in a new series of free Webinars that we are releasing in which our Technical Support staff members present on various topics across a wide range of VMware’s product portfolio. The title for this presentation is VMware vCloud Air Disaster Recovery and it goes through some aspects of Disaster Recovery […]

   

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  How to import an Oracle VirtualBox virtual machine into VMware Fusion, Workstation or Player (http://blogs.vmware.com/kb/?p=6529)Did you know that it is possible to bring virtual machines running in Oracle VirtualBox over into VMware’s virtualization software? As more and more customers are making the transition, we get asked over and over how to move the VMs over. This video discusses and demonstrates how to import an Oracle VirtualBox virtual machine into […]

   

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  When to Engage Your Organization in Their Cloud Journey (http://blogs.vmware.com/cloudops/?p=1526)By Yohanna Emkies The most common question I hear from my customers is: “What’s going to happen to me (read: my organization) if we introduce the cloud?”  Closely followed by: “How are we going to begin the planning process…?” These are fair questions, which have to be discussed and worked out. A question that is […]

   

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  What We Read This Week: A VMware News Recap, May 1, 2015 (http://blogs.vmware.com/tribalknowledge/?p=3931)Best of Interop Award Winners, the Golden Age of Network Administration and How to Explain Enterprise Mobility Management to a Four-Year-Old Congratulations to the VMware Cloud Management team! This week we learned that vRealize Operations 6 won the Best of Interop Award 2015 in the Performance/Management/Monitoring category at Interop in Las Vegas. Blogs.VMware.com/TribalKnowledge> “The [SDN] […]

   

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  VMware vRealize Operations 6 Claims Best of Interop Award 2015 (http://blogs.vmware.com/tribalknowledge/?p=3915)By Sajai Krishnan, vice president of product marketing, Cloud Management Business Unit I’m happy to announce that vRealize Operations 6 won the Best of Interop Award 2015 for Performance/Management/Monitoring category this week at Interop in Las Vegas. Four years after securing its initial best of Interop award in the Cloud Computing and Virtualization category, vRealize […]

   

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  Explain It Like I’m Four: Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) (http://blogs.vmware.com/tribalknowledge/?p=3911)Last time on Explain It Like I’m Four, we took a look at micro-segmentation, which leverages network virtualization to enable IT administrators to institute a Zero Trust security framework. In our latest entry, we focus on the quickly growing and increasingly critical field of enterprise mobility management (EMM). What is EMM? Enterprise mobility management is […]

   

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  Understanding the Importance of Business Outcome (http://blogs.vmware.com/tam/?p=2070)By Jason Gaudreau As technologists, most IT professionals have a hard time connecting the dots between technology solutions and business value. This predicament isn’t something relegated only to system engineers and middle managers; it can extend to IT directors and CIOs, too. When working with business leadership, it can be difficult for most IT professionals […]

   

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  High performance lab and Infrastructure for Elite Database Workshop – SQL Server Event #2 (http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/?p=17262)The VMware BCA team successfully conducted the second batch for SQL Server MVPs April 21st-23rd. The attendee list includes.   Steve Jones, Tim Ford, Arnie Rowland, Wendy Pastrick, Eddie Wurech, Robert Davis, Sean McCown, Allan Hirt, Geoff Hiten,  Randy Knight, Chris Shaw, Jason Strate, Brandon Leach, Shawn Meyers, Melissa Connors. Alumni guests include David Klee, Mike Corey […]

   

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  vSphere 6 Security Update (https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/?p=17242)Recently I was asked by the vBrownbag community to present on vSphere 6 security. vBrownbag is a community-lead podcast series that features online webinars covering various Virtualization and VMware Certification topics, all led by members of the community. It’s an outstanding resource if you are looking to achieve certification or are just in the mood […]

   

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  Configure DHCP and TFTP for Auto Deploy (https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/?p=17101)In the previous post, we covered Enabling Auto Deploy on vCenter Server Appliance 6. There are several more steps that need to be taken to get Auto Deploy configured correctly. In this post we discuss the next step in our journey to running Auto Deploy in your environment, which is configuring your DHCP server. Upcoming […]

   

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  Top KB Articles, KBTV Webinar Series, and More from Global Support Services (http://blogs.vmware.com/education/?p=5623)Catch up on the top posts from Global Support Services on the VMware Education and Certification Blog.

   

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  New Pricing & New Videos for VMware Learning Zone (http://blogs.vmware.com/education/?p=5478)The VMware Learning Zone is a subscription-based service that gives you a full year of unlimited, 24/7 access to VMware video-based training. And for a limited time you can get a one-year subscription for just $500.  In addition to the current videos on Site Recovery Manager, vSphere Managed Object Browser, Horizon, and much more, we are […]

   

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  Share your Certification on your LinkedIn Profile (http://blogs.vmware.com/education/?p=5585)There’s a new way to spread the word about your VMware certification – sharing it on LinkedIn. Just log into to the Portal for your certification and then click on the “Add to Profile” button for your certification. You’ll be taken to LinkedIn and given the option to add your certification to your profile

   

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  EMEA VMware Certified Instructor (VCI) of the Quarter (http://blogs.vmware.com/education/?p=5599)EMEA VMware Certified Instructor (VCI) of the Quarter award is given to VCIs that aspire to be the best of the best. The awards are our version of the “Oscars” identifying and rewarding excellence. The award recognizes outstanding VMware Certified Instructors from the EMEA region who share their expertise about VMware technologies with others. The award […]

   

   

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  VCDX-NV Interview: Jason Nash On The Network Virtualization Career Path (http://blogs.vmware.com/networkvirtualization/?p=1873)Jason Nash is CTO of Varrow, a VMware Partner based out of the Carolinas. Previous to Varrow he was an enterprise architect for Wachovia’s investment bank. Jason has been in enterprise IT almost 20 years and originally started as a network admin working with Cisco gear. He maintains his Cisco CCNA and CCNP certifications. He […]

   

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  Windows 2003 Upgrade and the Cloud – Careful What You Are Signing Up For (http://blogs.vmware.com/vcloud/?p=5420)By: Richard Munro Window 2003, like its predecessors have done, shuffles off this mortal coil on July 12th, 2015.  Estimates of how many Windows 2003 servers are in existence vary wildly but are often in the tens of millions, which is why just about every IT organisation has set aside budget this year to tackle […]

   

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  Discover How Secure-24 Enhances SAP HANA with Secure Cloud Services (http://blogs.vmware.com/vcloud/?p=5427)Every great business aims to make life easier for their customer. For Secure-24, that means augmenting the power of SAP HANA® with a virtualized cloud infrastructure leveraging VMware. Secure-24’s one-two combo gives its customers the power and simplicity they need to focus on their core services. That means easier IT procurement, more scalability and availability. […]

   

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  Virtual SAN: An Ideal Choice for Management Storage (http://blogs.vmware.com/consulting/?p=2225)By Martin Hosken The practice of separating management components onto a dedicated vSphere cluster has become common practice in recent years. However, such a cluster should aim to have no dependencies on the production systems with one of the key requirements being that any type of incident or outage affecting the production system does not […]

   

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  Virtualized Storage Performance: RAID Groups versus Storage pools (http://blogs.vmware.com/performance/?p=2398)RAID, a redundant array of independent disks, has traditionally been the foundation of enterprise storage. Grouping multiple disks into one logical unit can vastly increase the availability and performance of storage by protecting against disk failure, allowing greater I/O parallelism, and pooling capacity. Storage pools similarly increase the capacity and performance of storage, but are […]

   

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  Network Improvements in vSphere 6 Boost Performance for 40G NICs (http://blogs.vmware.com/performance/?p=2381)Introduced in vSphere 5.5, a Linux-based driver was added to support 40GbE Mellanox adapters on ESXi. Now vSphere 6.0 adds a native driver and Dynamic NetQueue for Mellanox, and these features  significantly improve network performance. In addition to the device driver changes, vSphere 6.0 includes improvements to the vmxnet3 virtual NIC (vNIC) that allows a […]

   

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  12 Reasons Why You Should Use The Log Insight Agent (http://blogs.vmware.com/management/?p=6963)When the Log Insight Windows agent was released in version 2.0, the decision to use the agent was easy because Windows does not natively support syslog. Given the release of the Log Insight Linux agent, I have been asked a few times why the agent should be used over already available syslog agents like Rsyslog […]

   

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  New Health Monitor Tool for vRealize Suite: vRealize Production Test (http://blogs.vmware.com/management?p=6994&preview_id=6994)You are well on your way to making your private cloud a reality… You have stood up the tools such as vRealize Automation, vRealize Operations and/or vRealize Business Standard, configured, tested, extended, tested, architected, and are ready to roll your new tools into production. As you progress though the final stages of your production roll […]

   

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  Registration now open for Connect Atlanta 2015! (http://blogs.air-watch.com/?p=36061)Mark your calendars for September 21-24. AirWatch Connect Atlanta will be hosted in downtown Atlanta for its fourth consecutive year. At last year’s Connect Atlanta, AirWatch welcomed over 1,400 attendees and 500 of these attendees left the conference AirWatch certified. The conference trended on social media exceeding 1,700 tweets and represented a diverse population of […]

   

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  Infographic: Mid-market mobile adoption, progressive or conservative? (http://blogs.air-watch.com/?p=36127)AirWatch and The SMB Group teamed up to create an infographic highlighting mobile solution adoption trends among mid-market companies. View the infographic here. The report surveys two types of mid-market segments: progressive and conservative adopters. Progressive adopters make up 59 percent of the mid-market and are increasing revenues and technology spending. Conservative adopters make up […]

   

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  Is your enterprise video ready? (http://blogs.air-watch.com/?p=36085)Written by AirWatch Video product manager Avanti Kenjalkar Video is playing an increasingly important role in the way people share information.  Chances are, all of us will watch at least one video today for either entertainment or informational purposes. A recent Gartner press release indicated that by 2015, 60 percent of workers will be consuming […]

   

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  New telecom management capabilities in AirWatch 8 help IT save money (http://blogs.air-watch.com/?p=36031)Continuing the AirWatch Blog series on new features in AirWatch 8, today we’re going to take a deeper look at AirWatch telecom management features introduced with the recent AirWatch 8 release. Telecom management is a key feature in an enterprise mobility program. It involves collecting mobile device usage such as voice, SMS, and data along […]

   

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  French banking group finds success in mobile device adoption in latest #MobileGameChanger (http://blogs.air-watch.com/?p=36034)The evolution of the mobile market and employees’ demands for user-friendly devices led Groupe BPCE (BPCE), France’s second largest banking group, to migrate from BlackBerry devices to multi-OS devices. To comply with the banking industry’s rigorous regulatory requirements, BPCE’s IT leadership required an enterprise mobility management (EMM) solution to grant these new devices secure access […]

   

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  Manually Copying an App Volumes AppStack (http://blogs.vmware.com/euc/?p=7621)By Gina Daly, Technical Writer for Technical Marketing, End-User Computing, VMware, and Dean Flaming, Sr. Technical Marketing Manager | Lighthouse and End-User-Computing Enablement, VMware Perhaps you have migrated or installed a new App Volumes Manager server, and want to know how you can import or share AppStacks. There are two scenarios to consider. Scenario 1: […]

   

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  Apply Today! VMware Horizon Client for Chrome OS Early Access Program (http://blogs.vmware.com/euc/?p=7615)by Claude Robinson, Director End-User Computing Enterprise Software Applications and Healthcare Alliances Team VMware and Google have been working together over the last year to deliver compelling enterprise solutions to our customers. We have had the opportunity to work closely with Google to deliver a virtualization solution on Google’s Chromebook leveraging VMware End-User Computing products. Many […]

   

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  VMware User Environment Manager Deployed in 60 Minutes or Less (http://blogs.vmware.com/euc/?p=7590)By Dale Carter, Senior Solutions Architect, VMware Technology Consulting Services In only two months after the acquisition of Immidio, announced in February 2015, VMware has released VMware User Environment Manager. User Environment Manager is a powerful, simple, and scalable user environment management solution that helps IT with profile management and setting up dynamic policies. It […]

   

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  Hybrid Cloud Solution Competency Update (http://blogs.vmware.com/partnernews/?p=1735)Effective immediately, the VCP5-DCV certification is no longer a requirement in order to achieve the Hybrid Cloud Competency.

   

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  Updated Virtual SAN Partner Starter Kit (http://blogs.vmware.com/partnernews/?p=1733)Download it today. It’s the easiest way to get all the latest VMware Virtual SAN 6.0 sales enablement assets to learn, market, and sell Virtual SAN.

   

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  The Science (and Economics) Behind A Carefully Crafted Software Defined Storage Strategy for Cloud Service Providers (http://blogs.vmware.com/partner/?p=2464)As seen on Talkin’ Cloud: Do you remember your high school years – of calculating the boiling point of isopropyl alcohol in chemistry or studying the impact of supply and demand on the costs of goods in economics class? Many of us wondered, “When will we ever use these principles in real life?” For those […]

   

MORE NEWS AND DEVELOPMENTS FROM AROUND THE WEB

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  vSphere 6.0 Storage Features Part 7: VAAI XCOPY improvements (http://cormachogan.com/?p=5003)The more astute of you who have already moved to vSphere 6.0, and like looking at CLI outputs, may have observed some new columns/fields in the PSA claimrules when you run the following command: # esxcli storage core claimrule list Continue reading →

   

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  Virtual Volumes (VVols) – Syslog and Scratch Usage (http://cormachogan.com/?p=4982)I had a very interesting query in my recent VVol post on vSphere HA interop. In that post I showed how the VVol datastore could be used for datastore heartbeating. The question then arose when the VVol datastore could be Continue reading →

   

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  When and why do we “stun” a virtual machine? (http://cormachogan.com/?p=4975)This is a question that seems to come up regularly, but I don’t think it appears in any great detail in external facing documentation. The question is “when do we stun (or in other words, quiesce) virtual machines”, why do Continue reading →

   

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  Building a Dashboard with Grafana, InfluxDB, and PowerCLI (http://wahlnetwork.com/?p=13200)Looking to get your hands dirty with Grafana? Check out my walk-through using InfluxDB and PowerCLI to build a vSphere Lab Dashboard. The post Building a Dashboard with Grafana, InfluxDB, and PowerCLI appeared first on Wahl Network . Related posts: Building a New Network Design for the Lab Working with NSX – Fixing VTEPs and Building Logical Switches Cloud Sync to Google Nearline with Synology’s DSM 5.2 Beta Automating vSphere Replication Bandwidth Limits with PowerCLI Use a Synology NAS to…

   

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  Active Directory 2012 R2 Upgrade and DHCP Services Migration to Meraki (http://wahlnetwork.com/?p=13104)Can the Wahl Network lab survive another round of my constant fiddling? Find out in my latest Active Directory Upgrade and DHCP Migration project! The post Active Directory 2012 R2 Upgrade and DHCP Services Migration to Meraki appeared first on Wahl Network . Related posts: Building a New Network Design for the Lab Adding Home Lab Network Capacity Across Hardware Vendors Migrating a Dual-NIC vMotion Network to IPv6 Applying New IP Addresses to vCenter, ESXi Hosts, and Plugins Home Lab DS411 Gets…

   

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  Latest Fling from VMware Labs - Horizon View Events Database Export Utility (http://www.ntpro.nl/blog/archives/2907-guid.html)

   

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  New Training Course - VMware vSphere: Optimize and Scale [V6] (http://www.ntpro.nl/blog/archives/2845-guid.html)

   

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  Technical White Paper - VMware Software-Defined Data Center (http://www.ntpro.nl/blog/archives/2906-guid.html)

   

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  VMware AlwaysOn Desktop Design Guide (http://www.ntpro.nl/blog/archives/2905-guid.html)

   

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  App Volumes 2.6 Products Features and Functions What's New (http://www.ntpro.nl/blog/archives/2904-guid.html)

   

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  VMware vSphere Virtual Volumes: Getting Started Guide (http://www.ntpro.nl/blog/archives/2903-guid.html)

   

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  VMware User Environment Manager - Technical Overview (http://www.ntpro.nl/blog/archives/2902-guid.html)

   

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  Using vApp resource management capabilities? (http://www.yellow-bricks.com/?p=16203)Advertise here with BSA This post is for those who are using vSphere vApps in their environment today. I’ve been talking with various Product Managers about the vApp and how it is used and we have made certain assumptions which we would like to validate. So far it seems to us that most of  you are using the vApp […] " Using vApp resource management capabilities? " originally appeared on Yellow-Bricks.com . Follow me on twitter - @DuncanYB. Pre-order my upcoming book Essential Virtual SAN…

   

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  Chinwag Reloaded with Amy Lewis (@Commsninja) (http://www.mikelaverick.com/?p=6060)This week’s chinwaggie is Amy Lewis (@Commsninja). Her day job is with @SolidFire, and she used to work for Cisco. I first met her some years ago when I was speaking at the VMUG at the Research Triangle Park (RTP)  is one of the largest research parks in the world. It is located near Durham, […]

   

   

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  Persistent Data on Docker Containers from EMC {code} (http://kendrickcoleman.com/index.php/Tech-Blog/persistent-data-on-docker-containers-from-emc-code.html)Docker containers are architected to be ephemeral, meaning the entire container can be wiped out and no harm is done. But what about containers that you are using for databases such as PostgreSQL and MongoDB? What about containers that need access to backend storage. There are tricks that can be done such as using LVM to mount volumes, or using something like NFS or Amazon's new elastic NFS services to automatically mount those shares on docker run. But what about creating those volumes directly from…

   

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  Introducing the Top vBlog 2015 Virtual Coin (http://vsphere-land.com/?p=5879)The physical Top vBlog 2015 commemorative coins are being mailed out to the Top 50 winners this year. If you don’t have your coin yet you should in the next 1-2 weeks. I’ve had people ask about logos to display on their blogs so I’ve hired a graphic designer to P2V the coins for me. … Continue reading » [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

   

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  Upcoming webinar: Boosting Storage Performance from the Server Side (http://vsphere-land.com/?p=5882)Join Infinio and the mad chief scientist from Deep Storage himself, Howard Marks for a webinar on May 7th at 10:00am PST to find out how using compute server resources to accelerate storage access can bring greater levels of storage performance and flexibility to the modern data center while simultaneously helping to keep costs under control. The always … Continue reading » [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

   

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  vBlogger Spotlight: Jason Boche (http://vsphere-land.com/?p=5875)Follow @jasonboche Top vBlog 2015 is over but I’m still continuing my vBlogger Spotlight series to shine the spotlight on several prominent bloggers in the community to give you some insight into their experiences with blogging. Today’s spotlight is on Jason Boche, a good friend of mine from way back to the days when we were VMTN … Continue reading » [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

   

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  What’s inside the Config Virtual Volume (VVol) of a VM? (http://vsphere-land.com/?p=5868)On a VMFS volume a VM is comprised of many files that all have different purposes, the configuration file for a VM (.vmx) is a small text file (<100KB) that contains various information about the virtual hardware configuration of the VM. With the Virtual Volumes (VVols) architecture the configuration information for a VM is stored in … Continue reading » [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

   

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  Is Your Data Replication Solution Aligned with Virtualization? (http://vsphere-land.com/?p=5855)In today’s virtual world where disk-based media rules and everything is interconnected via the internet there is a very high probability that you’ll need replication for BC/DR to get your valuable VMs protected off-site to another location. Fortunately Zerto makes that simple by offering a virtual-aware, software-only, tier-one, enterprise-class replication solution purpose-built for virtual environments. Unlike traditional storage … Continue reading » [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my…

   

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  Another VVols webinar from Taneja Group featuring VMware speakers (http://vsphere-land.com/?p=5850)Another VVols webinar coming up from Taneja Group who is doing a whole series of webinars on VVols, the first which was on April 2nd and I participated in was a panel discussion with several storage vendors (NetApp, HP, NexGen & Dell) giving their views and opinions on VVols. The next one on April 30th … Continue reading » [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

   

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  Turn your Top vBlog 2015 coin into a medal courtesy of Nutanix (http://vsphere-land.com/?p=5842)I’ve started shipping the Top vBlog 2015 coins that were custom made this year courtesy of Infinio to the Top 50 bloggers. I’m sending them out in small batches due to all the work packing them, printing labels, filling out customs forms, etc. When you receive yours you might find a something little extra in the … Continue reading » [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

   

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  New webinar from Infinio: Disruptive Innovations: How Storage is Changing in the Enterprise (http://vsphere-land.com/?p=5839)Scott Davis from Infinio who was a special guest on the Top vBlog 2015 results show is presenting a webinar for technology geeks tomorrow, that sounds pretty cool so go sign up now! Also speaking of cool, Infinio was recently named by Gartner as one of the Cool Vendors in Storage Technologies for 2015, find out what … Continue reading » [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

   

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  vSphere 6.0 Install Pt. 15: VCSA vCenter Install (http://www.derekseaman.com/?p=2799)Advertise here with BSA If you are a VCSA (vCenter server appliance) convert, and wish to use the vCenter server appliance, this post is for you! It assumes you already have an external VCSA PSC setup, per Part 10. So this post will walk you through a similar deployment process, but this time install vCenter instead of a PSC. If you’ve […] The post vSphere 6.0 Install Pt. 15: VCSA vCenter Install appeared first on Derek Seaman's Blog .                     Related Stories vSphere 6.0…

   

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  Nutanix vRealize Automation reference architecture (http://vcdx56.com/?p=5443)Just realised that the blog post i put together after the Nutanix vRealize Automation (vRA) formerly known as vCloud Automation Center (vCAC) reference architecture was published earlier this year was still unpublished. Received quite a few questions about it since the podcast, that can be found here, i did a few weeks back was released. During the past years i … Continue reading »

   

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  vRealize Orchestrator service won’t start (http://vcdx56.com/?p=5420)So the other day i ran in to a problem where i couldn’t connect to my vRealize Orchestrator (vRO) formerly known as vCenter Orchestrator (vCO) version 5.5.2 server using the vCO client. It was working perfectly fine before a restart of the Windows Server 2012 R2 virtual machine (VM), required because of Windows patching. When … Continue reading »

   

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  Scheduling Veeam Backup Free Edition backups (http://blog.mwpreston.net/?p=4441)As you might be aware Veeam has released Update 2 for it’s Backup and Replication software.  With that comes a slew of updates, integration with Endpoint Backup, vSphere 6 support, features, enhancements, bug fixes – you know the usual suspects that you might find inside of an update pack – you can see them all

   

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  VXLAN on Ravello between Google and Amazon EC2 (http://blog.mwpreston.net/?p=4429)A week or so ago I did a post around a cross vCenter vMotion lab that I had setup utilizing both Amazon EC2 and Google Cloud through Ravello Systems new beta which allows us to run nested ESXi.  It was a fun project to work on, migrating VMs back and forth through the clouds, but

   

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  Veeam Backup & Replication 8.0 Update 2 Has Arrived (http://www.boche.net/blog/?p=5091)Veeam Backup & Replication 8.0 Update 2 has arrived and with it comes compatibility with VMware vSphere 6.  The announcement (here’s another) from Veeam came yesterday following the vSphere 6 launch by about six weeks.  I was personally notified in a DM via Twitter as promised.  Talk about red carpet treatment from an organization which […] Post from: boche.net - VMware Virtualization Evangelist Copyright (c) 2010 Jason Boche. The contents of this post may not be reproduced or republished on…

   

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  Dell Enterprise Manager Client Gets Linux Makeover (http://www.boche.net/blog/?p=5084)Dell storage customers who have been watching the evolution of Enterprise Manager may be interested in the latest release which was just made available.  Aside from adding support for the brand new SCv2000 Series Storage Centers and bundling Java Platform SE 7 Update 67 with the installation (a separate Java installation is no longer required), […] Post from: boche.net - VMware Virtualization Evangelist Copyright (c) 2010 Jason Boche. The contents of this post may not be reproduced or republished on…

   

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  ALERT: Virtual Machines on VXLAN Wires may be unable to communicate across hosts with their Edges or Distributed Routers (http://blogs.vmware.com/kb/?p=6540)After upgrading to VMware ESXi 5.5 Patch 05 (build number: 2702864) with VMware NSX for vSphere 6.1.x your Virtual Machines on VXLAN Wires may be unable to communicate across hosts with their Edges or Distributed Routers. This is a known issue affecting VMware ESXi 5.5 Patch 5 For further diagnostic and mitigation information refer to […]

   

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  Top 5 Tips for Marketing Your Cloud Services (http://blogs.vmware.com/cloudops/?p=1533)By Alberto Martinez A couple of years ago when I was working in Australia, one of my customers was starting to deliver cloud services to its external customers—mainly infrastructure as a service (IaaS). It was not a very mature market at that time though they knew what they had to do to promote those services: […]

   

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  What We Read This Week: A VMware News Recap: May 8, 2015 (http://blogs.vmware.com/tribalknowledge/?p=3965)Securing Containers, #EMCWorld 2015 Wraps Up, the Double-Edged Sword of Self-Service in the Cloud This week, VMware introduced best practices and compliance solution for Docker Engine. The benchmarks created will help customers to manage and secure container environments. Read more in the blog post by Sajai Krishnan, VP of product marketing for VMware’s Cloud Management […]

   

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  The Self-Service Revolution: A Double-Edged Sword (http://blogs.vmware.com/tribalknowledge/?p=3959)By Bill Fathers, Executive Vice President and General Manager, Cloud Services, VMware The characteristics of cloud computing are many and varied, but the feature perhaps most responsible for its rapid adoption across organizations of all sizes is self-service procurement. The reason for this is fairly obvious: whereas interfacing with the IT department and waiting on approval […]

   

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  VMware Innovation Series: Chih Chi Hu (http://blogs.vmware.com/tribalknowledge/?p=3955)VMware is committed to being a great place to work and the VMwomen program is one of the ways the company helps to make that vision a reality. In this month’s edition of VMware’s Innovation Series, Tribal Knowledge talks to a member of VMware’s technical staff, Chih Chi Hu, who shares a little about her […]

   

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  WATCH LIVE at #EMCWorld 2015: “Redefine Next” with VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger (http://blogs.vmware.com/tribalknowledge/?p=3947)EMC World 2015 is in full swing and in just a few moments, VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger will join EMC CEO Joe Tucci and Pivotal CEO Paul Maritz on stage during the general session to talk about VMware, VMware’s role in the Federation, and the path to the software defined data center. "Every traditional industry […]

   

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  Showcasing VMware vCloud Air Object Storage powered by EMC at EMC World! (http://blogs.vmware.com/tribalknowledge/?p=3940)By Roshni Pary, Senior Product Marketing Manager, vCloud Air Product Marketing A quick update on VMware’s continued innovation and updates to our cloud platform.  Last year, we announced plans to launch VMware vCloud® Air™ Object Storage powered by EMC, and earlier this year, we announced a strategic partnership with Google that will include integration of VMware […]

   

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  HIPAA: A 20th-century law in a 21st-century world (http://blogs.vmware.com/tribalknowledge/?p=3938)This story was originally published on The Bridge. When healthcare-interested attendees gathered in Chicago for HIMSS 2015, few issues loomed larger than security and privacy concerns. In many ways, mobile healthcare apps have advanced far more rapidly than had been expected, enjoying an aggressive healthcare push by multiple hardware and software makers. The problem is […]

   

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  Top Posts from April: Recertification Deadline Discount, Certification Website Changes, and 3 New VCP Level Certifications (http://blogs.vmware.com/education/?p=5642)Catch up on the top VMware Education and Certification blog posts from April 2015

   

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  AirWatch Training Courses Available (http://blogs.vmware.com/education/?p=5633)Next-generation mobile solutions are unlocking new levels of workforce productivity, introducing new ways to connect and build relationships with customers while helping organizations to grow and transform their markets. AirWatch by VMware is the global leader in enterprise-grade mobility solutions across every device, every operating system and every mobile deployment. These training courses will give you […]

   

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  Why VMware Integrated OpenStack (http://blogs.vmware.com/cto/?p=3365)Jonathan Cham is a Global Solutions Consultant who helps global companies transform and accelerate the way IT is delivered to their customers. He focuses on open source, cloud operations and management solutions.  He currently consults with organizations on how to approach the software defined datacenter model and create business value for the IT organization.   Jonathan has a MS in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University and MBA from USC and has worked in various technical roles in his career.…

   

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  VMware Technical Account Manager Customer Intelligence Program (Part 1 of 2) (http://blogs.vmware.com/tam/?p=2094)By Eric Crossley VMware Technical Account Manager (TAM) Services customers have an opportunity that those without TAMs do not – most notable, participation in the TAM Customer Intelligence Program. Upon opting in (under NDA protection), your TAM will undertake a thorough yet unobtrusive infrastructure interrogation process. The goal is to gather a range of specific […]

   

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  SRM Protection Group Design Considerations (http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/?p=17107)When designing vCenter Site Recovery Manager environments the question of how to organize Protection Groups (PG) frequently comes up. In this post we'll review what a protection group is, where it fits in the context of SRM and the factors to keep in mind when deciding how to organize them. What is a Protection Group? […]

   

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  Using the ESXi 6.0 CPU Microcode Loading Feature (http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/?p=17279)Using the ESXi 6.0 CPU Microcode Loading Feature Authored By: Tim Mann Abstract: Occasionally ESXi users want to run updated CPU microcode that isn't yet available either from their hardware platform vendor in a BIOS update or bundled into ESXi. This article explains how to do that. Note: This procedure is not supported by VMware, […]

   

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  Federation Enterprise Hybrid Cloud 3: Software-Defined Data Center Made Easy (http://blogs.vmware.com/rethinkit/?p=510)By Wayne Pauley, Director, Business Development, Solutions Engineering, VMware Last year, VMware and EMC announced the Federation Enterprise Hybrid Cloud version 2.5. This was delivered as a fully engineered solution that included products from EMC and VMware as well as some secret sauce (software bits) that provided ready to use automation and workflows for provisioning […]

   

  
  

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  App Volumes: Storage Migration for AppStacks (http://blogs.vmware.com/consulting/?p=2236)By Jeremy Wheeler Inside of App Volumes you can accomplish a storage migration between different SANs using the feature called 'Storage Groups,' provided you have shared storage between App Volume Managers. If you don't, I recommend creating a temporary LUN/Volume to accomplish this migration. If you are performing a migration on a large scale, such […]

   

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  Using VMware NSX, Log Insight, and vRealize Orchestator to Improve Security (http://blogs.vmware.com/networkvirtualization/?p=1915)This post was written by Hadar Freehling, Security & Compliance Systems Engineer Specialist at VMware. The post originally appeared here on the dfudsecurity blog *** There is a lot of power in having security controls in software.  This is what I tell my customer, not just because I work for VMware. Why is that? The reason […]

   

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  10 Reasons Why You Should Attend VMware’s Largest Online Conference (http://blogs.vmware.com/vcloud/?p=5445)Looking to build organizational knowledge around new insights and tools from VMware—but can’t break away from your desk? vForum Online, VMware’s largest online conference, offers a wealth of information, technical chats and breakout sessions to help inspire IT innovation within your organization. What to expect vForum Online is a free, half-day virtual conference on May […]

   

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  Cloud-Based Disaster Recovery Basics in Three Minutes (http://blogs.vmware.com/vcloud/?p=5443)There is no debate that every company wants to protect their operations from downtime and loss of data. Floods, earthquakes, tornados and hurricanes, not to mention errant cups of coffee, are all capable of shutting down business critical applications and workloads at any time, unexpectedly. Unfortunately, many businesses don’t have the expertise or budget to […]

   

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  Creating Custom Dashboards in vRealize Operations with 3rd Party Integrations (http://blogs.vmware.com/management/?p=7047)vRealize Operations has a number of management packs that extend the core capability of the platform and enable comprehensive visibility into your IT Infrastructure. We discussed relationship mapping in the last blog post, which enables instant visibility into different components of your virtual environment by mapping out the relationship between each resource kind within vRealize Operations. This isn’t […]

   

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  VMware Introduces Best Practices and Compliance Solution for Docker Engine (http://blogs.vmware.com/management/?p=7038)By Sajai Krishnan, vice president of product marketing, Cloud Management Business Unit Lately, I’ve been asked by customers how we can help them to manage and secure container environments. We have spent years working closely with our customers to develop best practices around securing virtual machines even for the most stringent production workloads.  However, given […]

   

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  VMware Releases Security and Compliance Solution for Docker Containers (http://blogs.vmware.com/security/?p=1397)As more of VMware’s customers look to run containerized applications, some have raised the question of securing containers in their environments. In partnership with the Center for Internet Security (CIS), Docker and others, VMware has developed a security configuration benchmark for Docker containers that you can download from here. In all, six parties came together […]

   

  
  

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  Jazz-Up XenApp – Taking A Closer Look at Applications with VMware App Volumes and WEM (http://blogs.vmware.com/euc/?p=7661)By Harry Labana, vice president, products, End-User Computing, VMware  Recently we announced the VMware Horizon® Application Management™ Bundle, which is included in VMware Horizon 6 Enterprise and available to Citrix customers, who we also love! Today I’d like to double-click on the Horizon Application Management Bundle to explain a bit more how it addresses many […]

   

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  Planning and Implementing a Horizon Virtual Desktop Solution for a Healthcare Provider (http://blogs.vmware.com/euc/?p=7647)By Nancy Beckus, Writer and Editor, End-User-Computing Technical Marketing, VMware Stephane Asselin, Senior Architect, End-User-Computing Technical Enablement, VMware Chi Chung Wong, End-User-Computing Architect, VMware In the fall of 2013, Carroll Hospital Center (CHC), a Maryland healthcare provider, faced a challenge: It needed to transform its end-user desktops to a secure, centralized desktop environment for local […]

   

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  VMware NSX - Customer Imperatives for Desktop Transformation Security (http://blogs.vmware.com/euc/?p=7633)Tony Paikeday, Sr. Product Line Manager, End-User Computing, VMware Customers share perspectives on what drives them to deploy NSX for securing virtual desktops and apps I recently had the opportunity to attend RSA, and present at our breakout session “Limiting the Spread of Threats: A Data Center for Every User”. Here we explored the use […]

   

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  Manually Copying an App Volumes AppStack (http://blogs.vmware.com/euc/?p=7621)By Gina Daly, Technical Writer for Technical Marketing, End-User Computing, VMware, and Dean Flaming, Sr. Technical Marketing Manager | Lighthouse and End-User-Computing Enablement, VMware Perhaps you have migrated or installed a new App Volumes Manager server, and want to know how you can import or share AppStacks. There are two scenarios to consider. Scenario 1: […]

   

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  Watch video: Enterprise mobility news recap: May 4-8 (http://blogs.air-watch.com/?p=36340)Welcome back to the AirWatch weekly recap! Today we will discuss a new mobile enrollment program, mobile shopping trends in retail and a data collection tool that has the potential to shift the traditional patient to physician visit in healthcare. MDM enrollment just got easier. Samsung Mobile KNOX Enrollment is now available to further simplify […]

   

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  AirWatch among crowd of government innovators at 5th Annual MobileGov Summit (http://blogs.air-watch.com/?p=35821)Last month in Washington D.C., the Newseum hosted the 5th Annual MobileGov Summit. The Fedscoop summit welcomed 20 speakers across the federal government. Speakers at the event included David Bray, CIO of the Federal Communications Commission, Sonny Hashmi, CIO of General Services Administration and David Cotton, Deputy CIO for Information Enterprise at the Department of Defense. […]

   

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  VMware NSX – Customer imperatives for desktop transformation security (http://blogs.air-watch.com/?p=36265)Written by Tony Paikeday, Sr. Product Line Manager, End User Computing, VMware Customers share perspectives on what drives them to deploy NSX for securing virtual desktops and apps I recently had the opportunity to attend RSA, and present at our breakout session “Limiting the Spread of Threats: A Data Center for Every User.” Here we […]

   

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  Apple ResearchKit and its role in healthcare mobility (http://blogs.air-watch.com/?p=36226)As we’ve seen with wearables like the Apple Watch, FitBit and the Moto360 there is a plethora of useful information that these additional appendages can provide. More than ever, the collection of this data is leading to intriguing analytics and with the March announcement of ResearchKit, Apple is applying the same idea. Like the Apple […]

   

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  Watch video: Last week’s enterprise mobility news recap: April 27 – May 1 (http://blogs.air-watch.com/?p=36196)To begin today’s enterprise mobility headlines we will cover what’s new in government mobility and the mobile to desktop trend. Blogtalkradio recently hosted Paul Brubaker on air for a podcast. Brubaker is Director of Government Solutions at AirWatch and spoke about the importance of unified endpoint management and mobile security in the government sector. Brubaker says […]

   

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  AirWatch supports Samsung KNOX Mobile Enrollment (http://blogs.air-watch.com/?p=36178)Samsung has announced KNOX Mobile Enrollment. This enrollment program will allow IT administrators to program devices into an MDM system in bulk. Prior to this setup IT administrators were tasked with setting up each individual device separately. Each device had to be unpacked, charged and connected to Wi-Fi. After these steps, the MDM software had […]

   

  
  

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  VMware App Volumes...Why Care? (http://blogs.vmware.com/partnernews/?p=1748)View these couple of slides highlighting the primary reasons and resources to get you started. The tremendous partner opportunity available right now should pique your interest.

   

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  Introducing...VMware Collaboration Bundle (http://blogs.vmware.com/partnernews/?p=1744)Read up on how this will help your customers embrace the mobile cloud era by bringing secure content collaboration to their work place. This powerful integration of Socialcast by VMware, AirWatch Video, and AirWatch Content Locker aggregates content, drives organizational alignment, discovers experts, and connects applications and people with content, social networking, and video services. ​

   

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  Attn EMEA Partners - vRealize Operations Video Localized (http://blogs.vmware.com/partnernews/?p=1746)This short video is now available in DE, FR, IT, ES, and RU. VMware vRealize Operations delivers intelligent operations management, controlling performance, capacity, and configuration.

   

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  A Valuable Partner Success Story Video (http://blogs.vmware.com/partnernews/?p=1742)Hear from Phoenix Software Ltd, one of the UK’s leading providers of IT infrastructure services, how vSphere with Operations Management helps their customers and how the vSphere Optimization Assessment (VOA) tool helps them to upsell these customers further to increase their profitability.

   

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  Provide High-Performance IT with PRIMEFLEX for VMware Virtual SAN (http://blogs.vmware.com/partnernews/?p=1740)Check out this video to find out how Fujitsu partners can deliver PRIMEFLEX for VMware Virtual SAN to ensure customers can lower their TCO (total cost of ownership) for IT by up to 50 percent.  Help your customers reap the rewards of a cost-effective, high-performance data center with this offering.

   

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  Grab Your Windbreaker Because VMworld 2015 U.S. Registration is Now Live (http://blogs.vmware.com/partner/?p=2476)In case you missed it, VMworld 2015 U.S. registration is now live. This means it’s time to start booking your trip to San Francisco for the tech conference that is going to take your summer by storm! Join us at VMworld 2015 in San Francisco this August 30 - September 3 to gain the essential […]

   

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  Flex Your Marketing Muscles with The VMware Marketing Services Store (http://blogs.vmware.com/partner/?p=2471)Meet the protein powder to your marketing roadmap. The VMware Marketing Services Store, otherwise known as “The Store”, is an integrated component of the VMware Partner Demand Center. It is an online catalog of service offerings that showcases VMware-vetted agencies that offer best-in-class marketing services with pre-negotiated packages and pricing. Consider them your personal trainers. The […]

   

  
  

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  EMC World 2015: A Humorous Interlude, Part 4 (http://virtualgeek.typepad.com/virtual_geek/2015/05/emc-world-2015-a-humorous-interlude-part-4.html)As always – it’s healthy to never take yourself too seriously. Speaking of healthy…. During the general session on Day 3, we wanted to demonstrate the things we’re working on in the Emerging Technology Division, and decided the best way...

   

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  EMC World Day 3: OnRack (http://virtualgeek.typepad.com/virtual_geek/2015/05/emc-world-day-3-onrack.html)Embedded in the Monday VxRack tech preview and the Wednesday Project Caspian tech preview – there was an interesting tidbit: OnRack. What the heck is OnRack? Answer: a thin, low-level hardware abstraction layer (HAL) for all sorts of industry standard...

   

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  EMC World Day 3: Project Caspian (http://virtualgeek.typepad.com/virtual_geek/2015/05/emc-world-day-3-project-caspian.html)In a nutshell: Today we announced and demonstrated “Project Caspian”. What is it?: Project Caspian is intended to be the best industrialized software stack – offered in software-only, and industrialized converged infrastructure to deploy “cloud native applications” for customers pursuing...

   

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  EMC World Day 3: DSSD Tech Preview (http://virtualgeek.typepad.com/virtual_geek/2015/05/emc-world-day-3-dssd-tech-preview.html)Today, we also revealed more to the world about DSSD – which is positively face-melting :-) What is DSSD? It is NOT a storage array in the traditional sense – but is a persistence target. It IS an insane dense...

   

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  EMC Day 3: ScaleIO – Unleashed for the world! (http://virtualgeek.typepad.com/virtual_geek/2015/05/emc-day-3-scaleio-unleashed-for-the-world.html)I won’t “bury the lead” here. The big news is that ScaleIO is available for frictionless and free unlimited download and use. I’ll say that again: The industries BEST, Most PERFORMANT, Most SCALABLE, Most BROADLY APPLICABLE, Most FEATURE RICH, OPEN...

   

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  EMC World 2015: A Humorous Interlude, Part 3 (http://virtualgeek.typepad.com/virtual_geek/2015/05/emc-world-2015-a-humorous-interlude-part-3.html)As always – it’s healthy to never take yourself too seriously :-) Brought to you by the great partner and good sports at Brocade – we give you “Between Two Clouds” In “Between Two Clouds”, Jason Nolet (Brocade), SVP of...

   

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  EMC World Day 2: Data Lakes + Splunk + Hadoop + EMC = Awesome. (http://virtualgeek.typepad.com/virtual_geek/2015/05/emc-world-day-2-data-lakes-splunk-hadoop-emc-awesome.html)On Day 2 at EMC World 2015 (and frankly – the whole week), we were joined by friends from Cloudera, from Hortonworks, from Splunk, from Pivotal – and many many others in the Big Data Ecosystem. “Big Data” is not...

   

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  EMC World Day 2: Federation Enterprise Hybrid Cloud 3.0 (http://virtualgeek.typepad.com/virtual_geek/2015/05/emc-world-day-2-federation-enterprise-hybrid-cloud-30.html)The Enterprise Hybrid Cloud is the packaging of an engineered, tested hybrid cloud stack built around the Federation stack: with vSphere and the vRealize suite at the center, vCloud Air as the public cloud target, ViPR as the storage abstraction/automation...

   

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  EMC World Day 2: ViPR Controller is now Open-Source. (http://virtualgeek.typepad.com/virtual_geek/2015/05/emc-world-day-3-vipr-controller-is-now-open-source.html)Drops mike. Hello… what’s THAT all about? While I suspect this won’t get the big press at EMC World (likely will go to VxRack, XtremIO 4.0 – all great stuff, no doubt) – to me, this is perhaps the biggest...

   

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  EMC World 2015: A Humorous Interlude, Part 2 (http://virtualgeek.typepad.com/virtual_geek/2015/05/emc-world-2015-a-humorous-interlude-part-2.html)As always – it’s healthy to never take yourself too seriously :-) Brought to you by the great partner and good sports at Brocade – we give you “Between Two Clouds”. The first episode if you missed it is here....

   

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