VMware Newsletter 5.17

From the editors Virtual Desk

Hi everyone, well as I write this I am getting ready for a short trip to Sydney. It is not a usual work trip but rather my cousins wedding which makes this a very special trip. I promise to give you an update on the proceedings next week.

I have decided to postpone my desktop exam for the moment as I have not had the time to setup my lab and study as much as I would like, but I still hope to give this one a go in the next month.

If you are in Australia or the APAC region then please check out and register for Virtual Cloud Day which is happening on the 30th of may. More details, the agenda and registration can be found here: http://bit.ly/12HROnU

Best Wishes

Neil Isserow (Newsletter Editor)

Queensland Technical Account Manager

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Windows 7 and Windows 8 Optimization Guide for Horizon View Virtual Desktops

New Book - VCDX Boot Camp: Preparing for the VCDX Panel Defense
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New Technical White Paper - VMware Horizon View 5.2 and Hardware Accelerated 3D Graphics
vSphere HA – VM Monitoring sensitivityLast week there was a question on VMTN about VM Monitoring sensitivity. I could have sworn I did an article on that exact topic, but I couldn’t find it. I figured I would do a new one with a table explaining the levels of sensitivity that you can configure VM Monitoring to. The question that … … Continue reading → " vSphere HA – VM Monitoring sensitivity " originally appeared on Yellow-Bricks.com . Follow me on twitter - @DuncanYB.
vSphere 5.1 Storage DRS InteroperabilityA while back I did this article on Storage DRS Interoperability. I had questions last week about this so I figured I would write a new article which reflects the current state (vSphere 5.1). I also included some details that are part of the interoperability white paper Frank and I did so that we have … … Continue reading → " vSphere 5.1 Storage DRS Interoperability " originally appeared on Yellow-Bricks.com . Follow me on twitter - @DuncanYB.
View 5.2 Best Practices PDF – Optimizing W7 and W8 guests plus moreThere is a new paper released by VMware, for VMware View 5.2, called View 5.2 Best Practices, or I should rather say Horizon View 5.2. The latest release from VMware has introduced many new features like sVGA or sparse efficient disks. Feature about which you could already read in my detailed post here - VMware Horizon Workspace – [...] Read the full post View 5.2 Best Practices PDF – Optimizing W7 and W8 guests plus more at ESX Virtualization . Check Out This Free Tool : VMturbo Community Edition
VCDX Boot Camp – New book by VMware PressThe holy grail of VMware certifications – VCDX. Who would not want to became VCDX? But not everyone can, because the knowledge and experience you need before trying to pass this ultimate VMware certification exam is just too demanding and only few hundreds people worldwide are actually VCDX certified. Before pretending for a VCDX, the [...] Read the full post VCDX Boot Camp – New book by VMware Press at ESX Virtualization . Check Out This Free Tool : VMturbo Community Edition
ESXi maintenance mode via the CLI how-to and some more commandsA short post to bookmark some CLI commands for putting a VMware ESXi host into a maintenance mode. In my lab, I’m running vCenter in a VM, and this VM runs out of a small local datastore. So I can’t simply vMotion this VM elsewhere to do a maintenance and patch using VMware Update Manager (VUM). When [...] Read the full post ESXi maintenance mode via the CLI how-to and some more commands at ESX Virtualization . Check Out This Free Tool : VMturbo Community Edition
VMware Horizon View 5.2 Performance and Best Practices and 3D graphicsAt VMGuru.nl we’ve done a lot of articles on VDI performance and best practices. Recently I’ve done an article on ‘How to improve VMware View video performance‘ and Edwin did an article on ‘Boosting Google maps and video with VMware View‘. Researching the possibilities and changes with Horizon View 5.2, Eric Sloof pointed me to [...]
How Can I Run Multiple VMware Horizon View Clients At Once?Something I get asked regularly is, "How Can I Run Multiple VMware Horizon View Clients At Once?", so I thought I'd just put a quick post out in the hope that in the future people will come across this post before having to ask. Quite often users would like to have multiple View sessions open [...] The post How Can I Run Multiple VMware Horizon View Clients At Once? appeared first on The SLOG - SimonLong/Blog . Related posts: VMware Horizon View v2.0 Clients: Released VMware Horizon View 5.2…
ThinPrint: What’s New in Horizon View 5.2After publishing What’s New in VMware Horizon View 5.2 (Beyond Marketing) I received the same question multiple times from different customers and colleagues in regards to the following excerpt from my article. A new Print Redirection codebase has been introduced that supports Windows 8, and also fixes a number of outstanding issues. In the following table you can see … Continue reading »
Technology Minute with Aaron Skogsberg (Cloud Edition) – EMC World’13This article was first published by Andre Leibovici (@andreleibovici) at myvirtualcloud.net.
Technology Minute with James Ruddy (OpenStack) – EMC World’13This article was first published by Andre Leibovici (@andreleibovici) at myvirtualcloud.net.
Technology Minute with Edward Haletky (Security Podcast) – EMC World’13This article was first published by Andre Leibovici (@andreleibovici) at myvirtualcloud.net.
Technology Minute with Tarik Dwiek (SDS) – EMC World’13This article was first published by Andre Leibovici (@andreleibovici) at myvirtualcloud.net.
Technology Minute with Matthew Brender (From Tech to Social) – EMC World’13This article was first published by Andre Leibovici (@andreleibovici) at myvirtualcloud.net.
#vBrownBag Follow-up VCAP Exam Experience with GS-Gurusimran Khalsa (@gurusimran)GS talks about his experiences with the VMware VCAP-DCA and VCAP-DCD exams, shares some best practices and tips for taking and preparing for the exam. We also get an overview of the Virtual Design Master contest which will be running through and concluding at VMworld. VMware VCAP Exam Experience with GS-Gurusimran Khalsa (@gurusimran) ProfessionalVMware #vBrownBag [...]
VMware KB Digest – New Articles Published for Week Ending 5/11/13In our effort to provide our viewers with up to the minute information on VMware related news and topics, we’re posting the following list of new KB Entries for this week, direct from VMware Support. http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/VmwareKnowledgebaseWeeklyDigest?d=yIl2AUoC8zA My VMware Viewing Subscription Services in My VMware (2045030) Date Published: 5/10/2013 Viewing Subscription Service details in My VMware [...]
Why a Single Feature Doesn't Matter?Once upon a time… Nah… This is not a fairy tale so lets do it differently. What is the maximum size of a virtual disk that vSphere 5.1 supports? If you have no idea, then probably you have not passed your VCP (because they ask those silly kind of questions) but you can use Eric Siebert's page VMware configuration maximums from 1.0 to 5.1 if you need a reminder.. 2TB And how much does Hyper-V support ? Much more.. 64TB . And GCE ? Well they have whopping 10TB persistent disk! How many hosts in a does…