VMware Newsletter 5.18

From the editors Virtual Desk

Hi everyone from a very wet, windy and cold Brisbane. Well to start things off I have not had any time to do much desktop work except for what I have done with customers this week. I am getting concerned that my goal to do the exam by the end of June is slipping away but other priorities take precedence.

I am sure at most of you have seen our announcement this week around hybrid cloud. There is quite a bit of info in the newsletter about this announcement.

Finally for those in the ANZ region please don't forget about virtual cloud day happening, here is the link to more info: http://bit.ly/12HROnU

Have a great week everyone and enjoy the newsletter.

Best Wishes

Neil Isserow (Newsletter Editor)

Queensland Technical Account Manager

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VMware Education & Certification Blog: Build Skills Deploying a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure with View: Install, Configure, ManageSystem administrators and system integrators responsible for deploying the VMware® virtual desktop infrastructure can build valuable skills in deploying a virtual desktop infrastructure by attending VMware View: Install, Configure Manage . This 4-day course teaches you to: Install and configure View components Create and manage dedicated and floating desktop pools Deploy and manage linked-clone virtual desktops Configure and manage desktops that run in local mode Configure user profiles with View…
VMware End User Computing: SMBs Prefer Horizon View Over Other VDI Solutions – Two Years in a RowBy Courtney Burry, Director, Desktop Product Marketing, VMware I’m excited to share that a recent study conducted by Spiceworks with small and midsized businesses (SMBs) revealed that VMware Horizon View is the solution of choice over the competition for a second year in a row. By an almost 2-to-1 margin, Horizon View remains the top choice with the number of VDI agents deployed increasing from 53 percent in December 2011 to 57 percent in February 2013. The three leading VDI solutions found among SMBs…
VMware Accelerate: It All Started with Server VirtualizationRob Jenkins, Director of VMware Accelerate Advisory Services in EMEA, presented on the journey to virtualized compute — from server consolidation, to automation, to game changing ITaaS — at IDC’s Cloud and Virtualisation event in Dublin this month. At the time, no one predicted the impact server virtualization would have on the IT industry. VMware’s early customers achieved unheard of cost savings and ROIs, leading to unprecedented adoption of this technology by more than 500,000 customers. You can…
VMware Support Insider: Physical or Appliance – Upgrading to vCenter Server 5.1The other day we received this question from a customer via Twitter: @VMwareCares planning to upgrade to 5.1 from 5.0 vcenter. What’s recommended physical or appliance? Ups and downs side of each? We thought a few more of you might have the same questions so we decided we would take the opportunity to explain the differences between vCenter server and vCenter appliance and under what situation which one should be opted for, over the other. The vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA) is a preconfigured…
VMTN Blog: What was your favorite VMworld session?This year will be the 10th yearly VMworld event. (Have you registered for VMworld yet ?) In the run up to the event, we’ll be running some features talking about the previous nine years of what I like to think of as the World’s Best (And Most Intense) Technology Conference. Photo: Peter Tsai/Dell One of the best parts of VMworld is the deep set of breakout sessions. Deeply knowledgable VMware employees, partners, and customers share their experiences in hundreds of sessions over the week. Some of us…
VROOM!: Power Management and Performance in ESXi 5.1Powering and cooling are a substantial portion of datacenter costs. Ideally, we could minimize these costs by optimizing the datacenter’s energy consumption without impacting performance. The Host Power Management feature , which has been enabled by default since ESXi 5.0, allows hosts to reduce power consumption while boosting energy efficiency by putting processors into a low-power state when not fully utilized. Power management can be controlled by the either the BIOS or the operating system. In the…
VMware Support Insider: vCenter Server 5.1 Update 1aBack on April 29th we posted an alert: ALERT: Login issue after updating to vCenter 5.1 Update 1 which detailed a scenario whereby customers might be unable to log in using the vSphere Web Client or domain username/password credentials via the vSphere Client after updating to vCenter 5.1 Tonight at 7:30pm PST, vCenter Server 5.1 Update 1 will be removed from the VMware download site and will be replaced by vCenter Server 5.1 Update 1a. The primary aim of the 5.1 U1a release is to address the regression…
VMware for Small-Medium Business Blog: How Laurens County Health Care System is Now Realizing 65% Decrease in Hardware Costs / Uptime in the 99.999% Range by Deploying Meditech in a Virtualized EnvironmentPost by Brandon Sweeney, Vice President U.S. Mid-Market Businesses Many midmarket organizations face challenges in equipping their IT infrastructure to support privacy and regulatory protocols and ensure consistent uptime, but those in the health care field have a unique challenge. For a healthcare professional, the reliability needed in their IT environment can literally be the difference between life and death. Finding an IT solution that supports compliance and ensures utmost performance is essential. …
VMware End User Computing: School Testing: The Next Generationby Geoffrey Murase, Solutions Marketing for End-User Computing When I was in elementary school, each year, we were administered a standardized test called the “California Test of Basic Skills” or CTBS. This test involved using “number 2” pencils and filling out a form with boxes from A to E. I remember thinking that if I didn’t know the answer, I should guess “C” because it’s in the middle. Today, I can’t remember the last time I actually used a pencil. However, many schools still…
VMware vSphere Blog: Virtualization Security for the IT Guy–Courtesy of the New England VTUGHere in Technical Marketing at VMware, we are fortunate to be able to regularly speak to members of the virtualization community at various events. One of those events is the newly formed VTUG . VTUG is short for Virtualization Technology Users Group. Run by Chris Harney , this organization has been putting on hugely successful virtualization focused user groups for years. On May 9th, I did a keynote presentation entitled “Virtualization Security for the IT Guy” for the New England chapter. In this…
VMware Support Insider: Locating your VMware Workstation serial numberEver wondered how to locate your VMware Workstation serial number after the software has been installed on your machine? We present you with a new video today, geared towards users of our VMware Workstation product. The serial number is listed in the order confirmation email you receive for your Workstation purchase. Workstation License Keys that have been registered will be listed in your My VMware account. See Knowledge Base article: Viewing license keys in My VMware (2006831) for additional details. …
VMware vSphere Blog: VMware Storage Futures Video – Courtesy of VMUG ItaliaI mentioned last month that I would be presenting at the Italian VMUG event in Milan. Well, the VMUG guys recorded the session, so if you are interesting in seeing me talking about some of the cool storage projects we are working on internally here at VMware (such as Virtual SAN, Virtual Volumes & Virtual Flash), you can watch the video here: The first few minutes are a little noisy, but that gets sorted out after a while. The one thing that is missing from the video is the disclaimer slide which I…
VMware vFabric Blog: Cloudera Gets More Cloudy: Partners and Certifies CDH4 on vSphereToday, we are excited to welcome Cloudera officially to the VMware family. VMware and Cloudera have entered into a partnership agreement that is meant to help users of Cloudera’s Hadoop distribution, CDH4 , to run in the cloud. As part of this announcement , VMware has tested and certified Cloudera’s Enterprise Big Data software to run on vSphere 5.1 and that Cloudera is now part of the VMware Ready and Technical Alliances Partner (TAP) program . This month at EMC World, VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger stated…
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VMware Education & Certification Blog: Question of the Week: VCP5-DCVThis week’s “Question of the Week” comes from the VMware Certified Professional 5-Data Center Virtualization (VCP5-DCV) Official Study Guide . Which of the following can prevent a host from seeing LUNs that are on a storage processor to which it is connected? a. Zoning b. Shares c. Permissions d. Masking See below for the answer Not sure of the answer? You can learn more about this topic in our VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage course. Answer: d. Masking
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VMwareTV: VMware vC Ops Tech Tip: Building a Dashboard for an Application OwnerVMware vC Ops Tech Tip: Building a Dashboard for an Application Owner vC Ops Tech Tip: Overview of how to create an dashboard for an application owner using the custom UI in vCenter Operations Manager. For more vC Ops Tech Tips... From: VMware TV Views: 1 1 ratings Time: 04:00 More in Science & Technology
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VMware vCloud Blog: Introducing vCloud Hybrid ServiceBy: Bill Fathers, GM, Hybrid Cloud Services A public cloud without compromise. Today it becomes reality. We are excited to unveil vCloud Hybrid Service, an infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) cloud built and operated by VMware that will enable our customers to achieve the benefits of the public cloud with the applications, skills and management tools they already trust. Built on the foundation of VMware vSphere® and leveraging VMware’s software-defined data center technologies, vCloud Hybrid Service…
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VMwareTV: City of Melrose Accommodates for Future Growth with vCloud Hybrid ServiceCity of Melrose Accommodates for Future Growth with vCloud Hybrid Service The City of Melrose values the interoperability, performance, and security that VMware vCloud Hybrid Service provides on a platform that is 100% compatible w... From: VMware TV Views: 84 2 ratings Time: 02:49 More in Science & Technology
VMwareTV: Planview Growing New Business in the Cloud with vCloud Hybrid ServicePlanview Growing New Business in the Cloud with vCloud Hybrid Service Planview is looking at VMware vCloud Hybrid Service to offload backup and infrastructure management so they can focus on developing their SaaS products. From: VMware TV Views: 153 1 ratings Time: 02:47 More in Science & Technology
VMware for Small-Medium Business Blog: More Virtualization Benefits: Taking Advantage of Your vSphere Host Profile Featureby Kevin Lubojacky, VMware SE, Mid-Market Team vSphere Host Profiles are an often overlooked valuable feature for virtualized environments. Whether your environment is growing rapidly and adding hosts has become a management nightmare, or there have been too many cooks in the kitchen, and host configurations have gone awry, vSphere Host Profiles can save both time and headaches by creating a template for common host settings. As many of you may know, small inconsistencies between hosts in your environment…
VMware Consulting Blog: Virtualize SAP – Risky or Not?By Girish Manmadkar , VMWare Professional Services Consultant In years past, some IT managers were not ready to talk about virtualizing SAP due to technical and political reasons. The picture is very different today, in part because of the increased emphasis on IT as a strategic function towards ‘Software–Defined Data Center’ (SDDC). Virtualization and the road to SDDC expands the cost and operational benefits of server virtualization to all data center infrastructure—network, security, storage,…
Office of the CTO Blogs: A Look Inside vCloud Hybrid ServiceToday we unveiled vCloud Hybrid Service – A VMware-owned and operated public cloud designed to help our customers seamlessly extend their private cloud resources beyond the data center . Now that I’m able to talk about the service , let me pull back the curtain on part of the architecture and technology behind vCloud Hybrid Service. When the vCloud Hybrid Service architecture team began designing the service we followed two core tenets; simplify the physical aspects of the design and use VMware…
VMTN Blog: VMware Communities Roundtable Podcast – Show Notes 231 – vCloud Automation CenterHosts Mike Gordon Laverick, VMware @Mike_Laverick Guests Adam Bohle, VMware @adambohle News VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger to unveil vCloud Hybrid Service May 21st Central Ohio VMUG User Conference Philadelphia VMUG User Conference Flipboard users – Three cool magazines – consider subscribing vExpert Weekly Digest Software-Defined Datacenter VMware User Group (VMUG) Around the Community vBrownbag Podcast VMUG Local Meetings – Check it today! AdaptingIT – Lauren Malhoit Podcast Virtualization…
VMware Support Insider: SSL Certificate Automation Tool version 1.0.1Last month we announced a new SSL Certificate Automation tool to help everyone with the implementation of custom certificates. Yesterday, we released the second version of it (version 1.0.1). This is a minor update which aims to simplify the replacement of certificates further by adding Certificate Signing Request (CSR) functionality to the tool. This functionality allows a user to quickly generate certificate requests (and consequently the private keys) for submission to the Certificate Authority. The…
VMware vSphere Blog: Download DMZ Design and Deployment GuideI am happy to announce the availability of the VMware vCloud Networking and Security – DMZ Design and Deployment Guide . This paper highlights how securing a virtual DMZ environment using vCloud Networking and Security can be a strategic enabler to your organization as it helps you to reduce your capital expenditure and increase agility, while building a cloud ready, secure and scalable environment for business applications. The paper also highlights the different design approaches to securing business…
VMware Accelerate: Adding Another Aspect of Agility into the CIO’s ToolkitAUTHOR: Padmaja Vrudhula Tomorrow VMware announces the launch of the VMware vCloud® Hybrid Service™ — a true hybrid cloud solution connecting and integrating on-site and off-site IT environments through a common management platform with a design that ensures all (new and existing) applications run the same way. This type of a hybrid cloud solution ought to make most IT personnel and leaders take notice for numerous reasons. ( To join the live online event, register here .) Different industries…
VMware Cloud Ops Blog: Reaching Common Ground When Defining Services – Join Us For #CloudOpsChat!An optimized service definition process can make or break the success of hybrid clouds or Software-Defined Data Centers (SDDC) . But even if you have tools and processes in place to enable automated provisioning, you still need key stakeholder agreement on the makeup of standard services and resource configurations. Standardized services need to meet the needs of those who request and consume the services. But they also need to make sense to those in IT responsible for both automation that delivers the…
VMware End User Computing: NetApp has now introduced its VMware AlwaysOn Point of Care™ reference architecture built for healthcareby Monty Zarrouk, Product Marketing at NetApp How will this improve patient care? VMware® AlwaysOn Point of Care ™ architecture helps solve customers’ problems by providing ready access to patient information from any terminal or mobile device. This allows clinicians to make informed decisions regarding treatment plans while protecting the confidentiality of patient information. Providing access to clinical applications in a virtual environment, healthcare providers maintain continued access to their…
VMware Virtualization Management Blog: Using vCloud Automation Center with Infoblox IPAMAssigning an IP address and a DNS host record need to be accomplished during the provisioning process. VMware vCloud Automation Center supports a number of methods for assigning IP addresses. These include dynamically assigning them via DHCP, statically assigning them from a pool of IP addresses stored in vCAC network profiles or allocating them from a custom database. Many companies use Infoblox IP Address Management (IPAM) to simplify and automate the process of IP address management. …
VMwareTV: From Paper to Digital - Sydney Adventist Hospital Transforms Patient Care with VMware ViewFrom Paper to Digital - Sydney Adventist Hospital Transforms Patient Care with VMware View In only two months, this leading Sydney specialist hospital transformed its processes from paper-based to paperless. In this video, a range of people, from t... From: VMware TV Views: 225 4 ratings Time: 03:04 More in Science & Technology
VMwareTV: VMware vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) ConfigurationVMware vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) Configuration VSOM video series: http://bit.ly/15BqQUp] This video shows how to configure the vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA). The VCSA is a preconfigured Linux-based vir... From: VMware TV Views: 491 3 ratings Time: 01:57 More in Science & Technology
VMware Support Insider: Licensing VMware FusionHi folks, We have a new video today which is brief and straight to the point. This video is specifically geared towards first-time users of our VMware Fusion product. This video discusses and demonstrates how you can license VMware Fusion . In this brief video tutorial you will learn how quick and easy it is to license your VMware Fusion product installation on your Mac operating system. For more information, see VMware Knowledge Base article Licensing VMware Fusion (2014287) . Note : For best viewing…
VMware vCloud Blog: Webinar: Learn How Cloud Makes DR Easy, Affordable, ReliableThis is a guest post from vCloud Service Provider, Bluelock . If you’re evaluating disaster recovery (DR) options you’re likely looking several options including traditional warm or cold-site solutions, cloud-based Recovery-as-a-Service (RaaS) DR and maybe even the age-old choice of simply crossing your fingers and hoping for the best. When you’re classifying DR options, think of RaaS as the solution that protects your entire application, not just your virtual machine (VM) or the data within that…

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Number of vSphere HA heartbeat datastores less than 2 error, while having more?Last week on twitter someone mentioned he received the error that he had less than two vSphere HA heartbeat datastores configured. I wrote an article about this error a while back so I asked him if he had two or more. This was the case, so next thing to do was to “reconfigure for HA” … … Continue reading → " Number of vSphere HA heartbeat datastores less than 2 error, while having more? " originally appeared on Yellow-Bricks.com . Follow me on twitter - @DuncanYB.
Is flash the saviour of Software Defined Storage?I have this search column open on twitter with the term “software defined storage”. One thing that kept popping up in the last couple of days was a tweet from various IBM people around how SDS will change flash. Or let me quote the tweet: “What does software-defined storage mean for the future of #flash?” … … Continue reading → " Is flash the saviour of Software Defined Storage? " originally appeared on Yellow-Bricks.com . Follow me on twitter - @DuncanYB.
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Cool Tool - Snapshot Explorer - Foglight for Virtualization Free Edition
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Free e-learning course - vCloud Networking and Security Fundamentals
New Technical White Paper - Virtual Machine Graphics Acceleration Deployment Guide
Learning NVP, Part 1: High-Level ArchitectureThis is the first in a series of posts in which I'll share my experiences learning the Nicira Network Virtualization Platform (NVP). This article was originally posted on blog.scottlowe.org . Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies. Learning NVP, Part 1: High-Level Architecture

VMware vCenter 5.1U1a Released fixing SSO Multidomain Authentication bugLatest release of VMware vCenter 5.1U1a has been released yesterday. This latest release comes up after several weeks only, because a fix was discovered just after the release of 5.1U1. A bug which affected users which were logging into vCenter Server using the vSphere Client with vCenter Single Sign-On (SSO) in a multi-domain environment. Those [...] Read the full post VMware vCenter 5.1U1a Released fixing SSO Multidomain Authentication bug at ESX Virtualization . Check Out This Free Tool : VMturbo…

Securing a virtual DMZ environment using vCloud Networking and Security – Free PDF from VMwareNew technical PDF from VMware which helps with a design of a DMZ by using software protection that comes with VMware vSphere. By using the vCloud Networking and Security (vCNS). The vCNS is a product bundled with VMware vSphere (from Essentials Plus and higher) and vCloud Suite, and it’s destined to secure VMware vSphere environments. vCNS [...] Read the full post Securing a virtual DMZ environment using vCloud Networking and Security – Free PDF from VMware at ESX Virtualization . Check Out This Free…
How to migrate backups from VDR to VDPWhen VMware vSphere Data Protection has been launched last year, there is now a way to migrate the backups made with vSphere Data Recovery (VDR). VMware moved forward since then and provides a tool for migrating the VDR restore points into VDP. The tool is built into the latest version of VDP. The version 5.1.1 of [...] Read the full post How to migrate backups from VDR to VDP at ESX Virtualization . Check Out This Free Tool : VMturbo Community Edition
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…
VMware Horizon View: New Technical White PapersOver the past few week or so VMware has release some really useful technical white papers focused around VMware Horizon View. I just wanted to bring these to your attention in case you messed the announcements. Virtual Machine Graphics Acceleration Deployment Guide VMware Horizon View 5.2 Performance & Best Practices A Performance Deep Dive on [...] Related posts: My First Published Technical White Paper Horizon View Unity Touch and HTML Access Not Working? VMware Horizon View v2.0 Clients: Released …
My First Published Technical White PaperToday my first official technical white paper got released on VMware.com – titled, Virtual Machine Graphics Acceleration Deployment Guide. It's been a long time coming. It was one of those papers where I could keep adding and adding to it. The paper talks about the following topics: Why 3D Matters for VMware Horizon View Understanding [...] Related posts: VMware Horizon View: New Technical White Papers VMware Horizon View: vSGA VIB’s and HCL Released VMware Horizon View v2.0 Clients: Released …
Why visit VMworld 2013?For 10 years VMworld has been the source for the knowledge and connections you need to leverage virtualization and cloud computing technologies in your business. You can try out several new or improved solutions through the Hands-On-Labs (HOL) get deeper insights through great breakout sessions and of course meet several people including the VMGuru.nl crew [...] Leave A Comment posted in Events by Edwin Weijdema
New free tool Snapshot Explorer added to Foglight for Virtualization toolkitSnapshot Explorer completes Dell’s Free Utility Toolbox for Virtual Machine Administrators. Detect all snapshots, including orphaned snapshots, to avoid problems with performance and capacity with this 6th utility which got added today! Foglight for Virtualization was formerly know under the name vOPS Server Explorer from vKernel. With the latest tool Snapshot explorer you can eliminate [...] Leave A Comment posted in Third party product(s) by Edwin Weijdema
A Brief History of Desktop Storage ArchitectureMy VMware colleague Tristan Tod (@tristantodd) put together an excellent presentation about VDI and related storage technologies. One of my favorite parts of his presentation deck was the “A Brief History of Desktop Storage Architecture”, wich in my personal opinion is extremely valuable for VDI architects and administrators. I have added some personal comments and links but most of the … Continue reading »
A Rant About Storage VendorsI have recently been invited to present in a VMware User Group (VMUG), which I quickly answered with a big and resounding Yes! I really love to present and touch base with customers as that helps me to keep it real, instead of being a lab rat type of engineer/architect. Mostly I look forward to … Continue reading »
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 »
VCE Launches the Development Community for Vision Intelligent OperationsThis week, VCE announced the availability of the VCE™ Developer Portal. The Developer Portal provides developers with access to all of the resources necessary to develop functionality using the VCE Vision™ Intelligent Operations API. Within the Developer Portal, you will find: Developer Resources: A collection of all of the tools and materials you need to develop against the VCE Vision API, including the VCE Vision Intelligent Operations SDK. The VCE Developer Community: A community of passionate…
More on the EMC, Cisco and Citrix 5000 on vSphere CVD (Cisco Validated Design) in 30 minutesBack a few months ago I shared about the joint reference architecture that was able to boot and login 5000 users in 30 minutes. Using the Cisco UCS running VMware vSphere, with Citrix XenDesktop and an EMC VNX 7500. Cisco and Citrix answer a few questions with Craig Chapman on the joint validated design in this [...] Related posts: Cisco, EMC and Citrix 5000 Users in 30 minutes – Cisco Validated Design Cisco – EMC Webcast: … An Optimized End User Experience VMworld Wednesday Morning – Keynote and…
2013-05-23 ProfessionalVMware #vBrownBag LATAM @VirtualizeCR #VCAP DCA obj.3.1 Tune & Optimize vSphere PerformanceThe following content is in Spanish, the language in which the webinar is presented. El 23 de mayo en ProfessionalVMware.com #vBrownBagLATAM @VirtualizeCR presentó el tema VCAP DCA Objetivo 3.1 “Tune & Optimize vSphere Performance”
#vBrownBag Follow-up How I learned to love the CSR with Jim Millard (@millardjk)Jim Millard talks certificates, what they are, why you need them and why you should love them. How I learned to love the CSR with Jim Millard (@millardjk) ProfessionalVMware #vBrownBag US from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo.
#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 [...]
2013-05-16 ProfessionalVMware #vBrownBag LATAM, @kylemurley #VCAP DCA Obj.6.1 logs de vSphereThe following content is in Spanish, the language in which the webinar is presented. El 16 de mayo en ProfessionalVMware #vBrownBag LATAM, @kylemurley presentó el tema: VCAP-DCA Sección 6.1 — Configurar,administrar y analizar archivos log de vSphere
VMware KB Digest – New Articles Published for Week Ending 5/18/13In 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. VMware Data Recovery Migrating restore points from VMware Data Recovery to vSphere Data Protection (2051891) Date Published: 5/16/2013 VMware ESX [...]
VMTN Communities - Now Supports Mobile DevicesThis was not widely announced, so I guess that many of you do not know that since the upgrade that was performed on the VMware Community Forums (VMTN) there is now support for mobile devices (such as Android and iPhone/iPad). This is what it looks like through a regular tablet browser (Android with Chrome in my case). With a tablet this is pretty much ok, but from a phone the forums are pretty much unusable. Here is a quick how-to on how you go about allowing mobile devices access to your account. From…
VMware Workstation & Fusion Technology Preview 2013VMware have just released a new public beta for VMware Workstation The VMware Workstation team is providing public access to the VMware Workstation Technology Preview to gather feedback from users on a wide range of hardware and software configurations. The VMware Workstation Technology Preview includes changes to the core virtualization engine and new capabilities we are exploring. What's New - Read the full release notes VMware Hardware Version 10 - This Technology Preview introduces hardware…
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…