I'm working with the sample app for the rest api.  The sample app doesn't include the JSON file for the machine request payload.  I'm working from the "Programming Guide - vRA 6.2", and it gives a "JSON input file sample" for the machine request ( pg. 43 ).  


The sample JSON begins with 

{

Renaming  a replicated Datstore will cause any problem in configured SRM 5.1?

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Now management want to change the naming standard of existing configured Datastore in Primary site. My question simple renaming of those Datstore will cause or affect configuration of SRM?

VCenter 4.1 running on SQl express edition 2005.Trying to upgrade Vcenter server to 5.1 Version.

can some one  suggest how i can upgrade 32 bit SQL 2005 Express Edition to SQL 2008 Express Edition 64 bit

Hello,

I have an ESXi 5.1 host which has two Linux guests. I am finding that if a disk intensive process is run on either of the guests then users who are logged into either guest using X Windows can get disconnected. If I look at the Events in vSphere Client I can see a message saying that "performance has deteriorated. I/O latency has increased". The host in question is running ESXi 5.1.0 2323236, and it has a 3ware SAS 9750 RAID card which is using the latest drivers.

Can anyone help shed any light on how I can resolve this?

Thanks in advance,

Richard.

It appears that users that logon to vrops via the vcenter linkage get "admin" level privileges if they have admin level privs in vcenter. Anyone know if these privs can be changed in vrops? If I look at Administration > Access Control I see any users that have logged on that are not local as greyed out and no way to apply a role to them.

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Hey guys-

I currently have 2 ESXi Hosts (version 4.1u3), 1 vCenter Server, and 1 EMC VNXe3300 SAN (20TB via iSCSI) that make up my virtual environment.

On the EMC VNXe, you create VMware Datastores (which have a limit of 2TB) and then connect these Datastores to the VMware ESXi Hosts.  Once connected, you would continue the process by going through the Add Storage Wizard via VMware to connect the Storage Type of Disk/LUN via iSCSI.  In the end, the LUN(s) would then be accessible by the Virtual Environment (found in Configuration>Storage>Datastores) as typically expected.

Due to the 2TB limit (both on the EMC, VMware Version, & VMFS3) on the Datastores, I am left with having multiple Datastores being created on both the EMC side and the VMware side of things (see attached photo).  I know that this cannot be rectified via the EMC level, but I was wondering if there was anyway for me to join all of these Datastores together on the VMware side of things.  This way instead of navigating to Configuration>Storage>Datastores and seeing 6 separate iSCSI Datastores, there would just be one (or multiple, but less than the existing) Datastore; this would then span across all of the actual Datastores that I would specify.

I do not know what the appropriate terminology is used to describe this, but I would hope that someone would be able to assist me with what I am looking to achieve.  Or at the least, can you please steer me in the right direction.  If this is not something that can be achieved or if it is recommended against, what would be other option(s) that would be recommend?

Thanks for the help.

Hey Guys , i am trying to install vmware workstation 11,10 even though 9 , but unfortunately it shows this kinds of error every time .

then i try to install it from appdata/local/temp , but it shows the capture4 error... i tried a lot to solve this .. but i failed..

so guys please help me to install it ... badly needed ...

my laptop config is : core i5-3230M , ram - 4.gb os-win7 64bit sp1..

please help needed...

Fusion 6.04, OSX 10.9.4, WinXP

Command-Tab not working properly for application switch in Full Screen mode.

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If I swipe right from Full Screen to my main OSX space then swipe left to the Fusion space then Command-Tab works once, but doesn't work second time if I Command-Tab back to the Fusion space.

This is on a brand new MacBook Pro 15" after upgrading from a 2010 MBP, and I restored everything to the new MBP from a Time Machine backup.  Used to work fine on the old machine, and I have made no changes to any settings on the new machine as far as I am aware.

Note that when it doesn't work, the Command-Tab cycles the focus on the open apps & folders on the Windows Task Bar, but without actually switching apps.

MacOS KeyBoard Shortcuts is enabled in Fusion Preferences.

I've tried changing the mapping of the Command Key to the Windows Key, none of the settings make any difference to the above behavior.

I think I have discovered a bug in VMware's PXE "firmware" layer.

The current test scenario is:

Host OS:    Windows 8 Pro

VMware:     Workstation 9

PXE server: Serva

When PXE installing guests OSs like Vista, 7, 8 the TFTP server transfers a Boot.wim of about 200Mb
That transfer presents a consistent TFTP error pattern that can be seen on Serva's Log like :

run#1

[10/26 16:15:38.723] TFTP Inf: Read file <\WIA_WDS\s2012_R2\_SERVA_\boot\ServaBoot.wim>. Mode octet

[10/26 16:15:43.553] TFTP Err: timeout waiting for ack blk 16#24032     #24032

[10/26 16:15:49.675] TFTP Err: timeout waiting for ack blk 16#56792     #56792

[10/26 16:15:55.696] TFTP Err: timeout waiting for ack blk 16#24016     #89552

[10/26 16:16:01.583] TFTP Err: timeout waiting for ack blk 16#56776     #122312

[10/26 16:16:06.391] TFTP Inf: <\WIA_WDS\s2012_R2\_SERVA_\boot\ServaBoot.wim>: sent blks=152873 blkSz=1456, Total 222629455 bytes in 28s, err recovery=4

run#2

[10/26 16:16:42.533] TFTP Inf: Read file <\WIA_WDS\s2012_R2\_SERVA_\boot\ServaBoot.wim>. Mode octet

[10/26 16:16:48.524] TFTP Err: timeout waiting for ack blk 16#32112     #32112

[10/26 16:16:54.341] TFTP Err: timeout waiting for ack blk 16#64872     #64872

[10/26 16:17:00.202] TFTP Err: timeout waiting for ack blk 16#32096     #97632

[10/26 16:17:06.009] TFTP Err: timeout waiting for ack blk 16#64856     #130392

[10/26 16:17:09.371] TFTP Inf: <\WIA_WDS\s2012_R2\_SERVA_\boot\ServaBoot.wim>: sent blks=152873 blkSz=1456, Total 222629455 bytes in 27s, err recovery=4

run#3

[10/26 16:17:59.439] TFTP Inf: Read file <\WIA_WDS\s2012_R2\_SERVA_\boot\ServaBoot.wim>. Mode octet

[10/26 16:18:01.620] TFTP Err: timeout waiting for ack blk 16#7424       #7424

[10/26 16:18:07.492] TFTP Err: timeout waiting for ack blk 16#40184     #40184

[10/26 16:18:13.389] TFTP Err: timeout waiting for ack blk 16#7408       #72944

[10/26 16:18:19.262] TFTP Err: timeout waiting for ack blk 16#40168     #105704

[10/26 16:18:25.374] TFTP Err: timeout waiting for ack blk 16#7392       #138464

[10/26 16:18:27.630] TFTP Inf: <\WIA_WDS\s2012_R2\_SERVA_\boot\ServaBoot.wim>: sent blks=152873 blkSz=1456, Total 222641103 bytes in 28s, err recovery=5

Serva TFTP windowsize = 16 8 for the tests above

The error pattern is as follow:

There's an initial error on a random block # < 6553532767, next the error periodically repeats in this case every 32760 blocks.
The period changes slightly if the windowsize is changed.
The error consists of the client not sending the corresponding ACK for a perfectly sent block (Wireshark),

The TFTP server recovers the errors and the file gets finally transferred with some delay.

The error pattern is only present when the net traffic uses virtual NICs only.
i.e. between Host and Workstation Guests running on the same hardware.
if the TFTP traffic "touches" a real Ethernet wire the error is not seen.

I have used other PXE servers (3com) and the pattern is also there

I have used different Host OS (Vista) and the pattern is also there

I have used old Workstation versions (6 and 8) and the pattern is also there

I've been reported from people using ESX experiencing the same problem.

I have tested changing the TFTP transfer inter-packet-delay and the pattern is not affected.

Initially the TFTP protocol only allowed sending max 32767 ACK but that is not enforced now.

I think you guys have some uninitialized (random value) short counter variable (2 bytes) triggering the first error when
changing its sign then doing it again periodically when the counter variable changes its sign again.

If you need more info let me know.

Patrick

Hi

Im trying to migrate a VM using Converter 5.1 but I get the "Permission to perform this operation was denied" error message when i select the source machine (which is powered off) or when i click on the "view source details..."

I see the following error in the Convertor Standalone client log file "[05496 error 'wizardController'] Must be administrator to access physical computer"

The domain account I am using is a member of the Local Users group on the Convertor server and has Converter permissions on the source vCenter where the VM is.

Any ideas as to why I get this error?

VM Hardware version 9

2013-10-30T12:40:53.106+01:00 [05496 verbose 'wizardController'] Trying connection to VC server 'vcserver.domain.local' with user 'domain\domadminac'

2013-10-30T12:40:53.106+01:00 [05496 verbose 'wizardController'] Getting VIM connection to vcserver.domain.local...

2013-10-30T12:40:53.106+01:00 [05496 info 'wizardController'] Reusing existing VIM connection to vcserver.domain.local

2013-10-30T12:40:53.106+01:00 [05496 verbose 'ManagedMachineDataConnectionLogger'] Getting VIM connection to vcserver.domain.local...

2013-10-30T12:40:53.106+01:00 [05496 info 'ManagedMachineDataConnectionLogger'] Connecting to host vcserver.domain.local on port 443

2013-10-30T12:40:53.106+01:00 [05496 info 'ManagedMachineDataConnectionLogger'] localVersion is: vim.version.version8

2013-10-30T12:40:53.107+01:00 [05496 info 'ManagedMachineDataConnectionLogger'] Remote version is: vim.version.version8

2013-10-30T12:40:53.107+01:00 [05496 verbose 'ManagedMachineDataConnectionLogger'] [VimApi] Local and Remote Version are the same. Talking with version vim.version.version8

2013-10-30T12:40:53.107+01:00 [05496 info 'ManagedMachineDataConnectionLogger'] Authenticating user domain\domadminac

2013-10-30T12:40:53.107+01:00 [05496 verbose 'HttpConnectionPool-000006'] HttpConnectionPoolImpl created. maxPoolConnections = 1; idleTimeout = 900000000; maxOpenConnections = 1; maxConnectionAge = 0

2013-10-30T12:40:53.322+01:00 [05496 error 'wizardController'] Must be administrator to access physical computer

2013-10-30T12:41:29.461+01:00 [05496 verbose 'HttpConnectionPool-000005'] [RemoveConnection] Connection removed; cnx: <SSL(<io_obj p:0x0555e980, h:-1, <TCP '0.0.0.0:0'>, <TCP '10.XXX.XXX.XXX:443'>>)>; pooled: 0

2013-10-30T12:41:29.461+01:00 [06592 verbose 'HttpConnectionPool-000003'] [RemoveConnection] Connection removed; cnx: <SSL(<io_obj p:0x051c30c0, h:-1, <TCP '0.0.0.0:0'>, <TCP '10.XXX.XXX.XXX:443'>>)>; pooled: 0

2013-10-30T12:41:39.477+01:00 [04588 verbose 'HttpConnectionPool-000006'] [RemoveConnection] Connection removed; cnx: <SSL(<io_obj p:0x0555eba8, h:-1, <TCP '0.0.0.0:0'>, <TCP '10.XXX.XXX.XXX:443'>>)>; pooled: 0

Message was edited by: GuyTC changed "target vCenter" to read "source vCenter"

Message was edited by: GuyTC : corrected errors in original question. It turns out my domain account was NOT a member of the Local Administrators group on the Converter server. Adding my domain account to the Local Admins group on the Converter server fixed the error.

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So I have a Nexenta Community 3.1.2 VM on my ESXi 4.1U2 box, with the intent that it is able to take my physical storage/datastores and put them into a ZFS RAID format so my data has some redundancy.  I then export this volume as a iSCSI LUN and re-mount it in ESXi and format it as a "virtual" VMFS datastore so all my VMs are protected.

I have done performance testing on the Nexenta VM OS level, and can see that I can achieve 240 MB/s write 400 MB/s read sequentially.  Unfortunately the performance on that same exact volume mounted back to ESXi via iSCSI is much slower, typically about 120 MB/s write 140 MB/s is the max i can squeeze out of it.  Nexenta doesn't currently support VMXNET3 vNICs so I have been experimenting with setting up multiple 1 GB vNICs with corresponding VMKs with round robin mutipath with 1 iop in order to allow more than 1 Gbit/s of throughput over that iSCSI channel.  After many different testing combinations and got maybe 10% performance improvement over a single vNIC and VMK.  In general, more vNICs in multipath io with iops=1 gets me SLOWER IOPs performance but slightly higer total throughput than a single vNIC.

To reiterate it a bit, ALL performance described here is within a single VMWare 4.1 U2 host, none of the traffic actually flows over a physical NIC.  I have isolated all of my storage vmks on a separate vswitch, my vNICs are each in separate port groups with different non-routable ip subnets in each portgroup (corresponding with the vmk IP addresses).

While investigating these bottlenecks in esxtop, i have seen something strange and pasted an example below.

2:04:48pm up 2 days 11:27, 247 worlds, 8 VMs, 0 vCPUs; CPU load average: 0.45, 0.46, 0.46

   PORT-ID              USED-BY  TEAM-PNIC DNAME              PKTTX/s  MbTX/s    PKTRX/s  MbRX/s %DRPTX %DRPR
...snip...
  33554434                 vmk1       void vSwitch1            602.17  175.39    5596.39    3.03   0.00   0.0
  33554435                 vmk2       void vSwitch1              0.00    0.00       0.00    0.00   0.00   0.0
  33554436                 vmk3       void vSwitch1            598.94  175.11    5589.47    3.02   0.00   0.0
  33554437                 vmk4       void vSwitch1              0.00    0.00       0.00    0.00   0.00   0.0
  33554438                 vmk5       void vSwitch1              0.00    0.00       0.00    0.00   0.00   0.0
  33554439                 vmk6       void vSwitch1              0.00    0.00       0.00    0.00   0.00   0.0
  33554465    112883:VirtualSAN       void vSwitch1              0.00    0.00       0.00    0.00   0.00   0.0
  33554466    112883:VirtualSAN       void vSwitch1              0.00    0.00       0.00    0.00   0.00   0.0
  33554467    112883:VirtualSAN       void vSwitch1              0.00    0.00       0.00    0.00   0.00   0.0
  33554468    112883:VirtualSAN       void vSwitch1           5582.54    3.02   15986.13  183.35   0.00   0.0
  33554469    112883:VirtualSAN       void vSwitch1              0.00    0.00       0.00    0.00   0.00   0.0
  33554470    112883:VirtualSAN       void vSwitch1           5600.09    3.03   16013.84  183.64   0.00   0.0

In this configuration I have 2 iSCSI paths open and am monitoring the network performance as a possible bottleneck.  You can see vmk1 and vmk3 active on the ESXi host, corresponding to two interfaces on the VirtualSAN VM.  I expect the PKTTX on the vmk to roughly equal the PKTRX on the VirtualSAN interface, and for the inverse to be true (PKTTX:VirtualSAN = PKTRX:vmk).

I have seen numerous times for an extended period of time (e.g. 40 GB write when iometer prepares a disk, so about 20 minutes sustained) that the RX and TX values are not even close.  In the example above the vmk PKTTX is about 600 and the vmnic PKTRX is about 16000.  That is a huge difference and could be the source of my problems...

The one thing I have not done yet it so sniff the VirtualSAN's vnic interfaces to see if those extra PKTRX are retransmits from the vmk, or something else.

Any words of wisdom?  Has anyone ever done a pure virtual network (e.g. firewall/route between two portgroups) and seen the metrics be so far off?

Hi,

When I try to connect the vCenter-Remote I get the follow message:    Unable to connect or disconnect the vSphere Replication Management Server.

Looking the log file /opt/vmware/logs/hms/hms.log, I see this error message:

2015-01-08 02:59:41.880 ERROR hms.remote.SiteManager [Ping Thread for server <IP>:8043] (..net.impl.VmomiPingConnectionHandler)  | Ping for server <IP>:8043 failed: com.vmware.vim.vmomi.client.exception.InternalException: Managed Object 'HmsServiceInstance' thrown unexpected exception 'java.net.UnknownHostException' with message 'vcenter55.xpto.intra' when invoking method 'ping' : Managed Object 'HmsServiceInstance' thrown unexpected exception 'java.net.UnknownHostException' with message 'vcenter55.xpto.intra' when invoking method 'ping'

Is it possible to change the <IP> to a name???

thanks!!

I am trying to run ESXi on a lab box.  I was not able to install 5.5 (purple screen of death during install), but was able to install 5.1.  Now, in the vSphere client when I configure any VM to boot from an ISO (I've tried Win XP and CentOS Linux) I get;

VMware ESX unrecoverable error: (vcpu-0) vcpu-0:NOT_IMPLEMENTED vmcore/vmm/cpu/fpu.c:452

The ESXi box has an AMD A4 CPU.  The ISOs are uploaded in the datastore.  My client machine has VMWare Workstation 9 on it and that works fine (probably irrelevant, but just mentioning in case there is some conflict).

Any ideas?  I wasn't coming up with much via google.  Is this saying there is some sort of issue with FPU virtualization and the A4 and/or chipset on the box?  AS far as I can tell, the A4 supports AMD's virtualization technologies.

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Hi everyone, it’s the final month of 2014 and the countdown to the festivities I am sure have begun wherever you are located. Here in San Francisco the city is starting to get ready for the season with beautiful lights in the city and activities such as outdoor Ice Skating. There was no newsletter last week due to the Thanksgiving holiday  here but we are back as usual this week.

I have been quite busy with a number of VMware solutions and Proof Of Concepts. This past week I have been focusing on Log Insight (http://www.vmware.com/products/vrealize-log-insight) a solution that I am very fond of and pairs very nicely with vRealize Operations (http://www.vmware.com/products/vrealize-operations). I find deploying, setting up and using Log Insight extremely easy and right away I am already seeing results. If you haven’t had a chance to look at these solutions you should check them out.

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  Watch the video: Unisys provides managed mobility services for AirWatch EMM (http://blogs.air-watch.com/?p=33433)AirWatch partner Unisys recently visited the Atlanta AirWatch office. In an interview with AirWatch TV, Director of Mobility Solutions Darren McGrath and Global Managed Services Architect Weston Morris explained the company’s Mobile Environment Management (MEM) offering, which is built on the AirWatch platform. Unisys provides managed mobility services including implementation, management and application development for […]

   

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  Video: StarMobile integration helps customers mobilize and manage enterprise applications (http://blogs.air-watch.com/?p=33392)StarMobile, the cloud-based enterprise mobility operations solution, announced an integration with AirWatch at Connect Atlanta earlier this fall. Through the integration, AirWatch customers can use StarMobile to transform business applications into mobile apps with native functionality. StarMobile’s solution derives the mobile app directly from the original application, and using a remote computing protocol, applies a […]

   

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  NEW Solution Brief on HP ConvergedSystem 200-HC EVO:RAIL (http://blogs.vmware.com/partnernews/?p=1501)New workloads and new business demands are driving customers toward an open, software-defined data center (SDDC) with tightly integrated end-to-end compute, network, storage, and management resources.  HP ConvergedSystem 200–HC EVO:RAIL is the next step in IT evolution. It deploys quickly and enables faster responses to business demands, simplified infrastructure administration, and reduced operating costs. Read […]

   

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  VCIX-NV Certification is Now Available (http://blogs.vmware.com/partnernews/?p=1499)The new VMware Certified Implementation Expert – Network Virtualization (VCIX-NV) certification validates your ability to install, configure, and administer NSX virtual networking implementations. Download the blueprint and learn more.

   

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  VOP-SE Training has New Service Offerings (http://blogs.vmware.com/partnernews/?p=1496)VMware Operations Professional – Subscriptions Expert (formerly VSE) has been updated to include new service offerings – taking 3.5 hours to complete.

   

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  New, Simpler vRealize Suite Offline Demo (http://blogs.vmware.com/partnernews/?p=1494)It’s easier than ever to demo the vRealize Suite – just download, extract, and open. The web format offline demo runs in your browser and integrates vRealize Business, vRealize Automation, vRealize Log Insight, and vRealize Operations.

   

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  Just Right IT Campaign on Partner Central (http://blogs.vmware.com/partnernews/?p=1492)This campaign allows you to reach the growing SMB market with solutions for their unique challenges—and fire up your sales – using HP’s Flex-Bundles for vSphere with Operations Management. Learn more.

   

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  Get a 50% off VCP Exam Voucher by Attending a NSX Training by Dec. 19th (http://blogs.vmware.com/partnernews/?p=1489)VMware NSX is the network virtualization and security platform for software-defined data center. NSX brings virtualization to your existing network and transforms network operations and economics. To get your exam voucher, attend a NSX training session by Dec. 19th.

   

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  Time is Running Out- VCP’s Must Recertify by March 2015 (http://blogs.vmware.com/partner/?p=2252)Last Spring 2014 VMware announced a new recertification policy for (VCP). If you are a VCP, it will be imperative that you maintain your VCP status by recertifying, or your company will be at risk of losing its current Program Status, and possibly, its benefits. As a VCP, your benefits of recertifying include: ·       Gaining […]

   

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  NSX for vSphere Log Insight Content Pack (http://www.ntpro.nl/blog/archives/2811-guid.html)

   

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  VMware Horizon FLEX - Solution Brief (http://www.ntpro.nl/blog/archives/2810-guid.html)

   

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  VMware Certified Professional 6 – Desktop (VCP6-DT) (http://www.ntpro.nl/blog/archives/2809-guid.html)

   

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  NetApp joins the EVO:RAIL party and includes a FAS (http://www.yellow-bricks.com/?p=15680)NetApp announced yesterday that they are now part of the EVO:RAIL partner program. Although I have been part of the EVO:RAIL team it is not something I would have seen coming. But I can see why they decided to join and find their announcement interesting. I wasn’t planning on writing about it as Mike Laverick […] " NetApp joins the EVO:RAIL party and includes a FAS " originally appeared on Yellow-Bricks.com . Follow me on twitter - @DuncanYB. Pre-order my upcoming book Essential Virtual SAN…

   

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  Startup Intro: Eco4Cloud (http://www.yellow-bricks.com/?p=15674)This week I had the pleasure to be briefed by Eco4Cloud on what it is they bring to the world of IT. First thing which stood out instantly that this startup is based out of Italy, yes indeed… Europe and not a Silicon Valley based startup… that is a nice change if you ask me! […] " Startup Intro: Eco4Cloud " originally appeared on Yellow-Bricks.com . Follow me on twitter - @DuncanYB. Pre-order my upcoming book Essential Virtual SAN via Pearson today!

   

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  First EMC{code} #DevHigh5 Winners! (http://virtualgeek.typepad.com/virtual_geek/2014/12/first-emccode-devhigh5-winners.html)"Code Open, Deploy Everywhere" There's a lot of change happening here at EMC :-) We're investing heavily in innovating and developing next-generation infrastructure and converged infrastructure in the domain of BOTH "Pets" (applications that expect deep infrastructure resilience and replication,...

   

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  Brisbane VMUG – December 2014 (http://www.penguinpunk.net/blog/?p=2409)The final Brisbane VMUG of the year will be a vBeers event sponsored by Nutanix. It will be held on Thursday 18th December at the Story Bridge Hotel (Martini Room) from 2 – 4 pm. Here’s the agenda: How You Can Actually Virtualise ‘Everything’ Demonstrating True Business Benefits, Including How Langs Achieved 53% Lower IT […]

   

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  VMware Horizon FLEX Solution Brief (http://www.vmguru.com/?p=14890)Last week VMware announced the availability of VMware Horizon FLEX , a policy-based, containerized desktop solution that allows IT administrators to create, secure, and manage local desktops to meet the needs of workers with their own computers, road warriors, and Mac users in the enterprise. Now VMware published a VMware Horizon FLEX Solution Brief which can be used to deploy the complete solution. The Horizon FLEX Solution is a combination of existing VMware products, with additional beneficial…

   

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  NetApp joins EVO with NetApp Integrated EVO:RAIL (http://www.vmguru.com/?p=14883)NetApp announced a new integrated solution designed to speed the deployment of virtual servers and virtual desktops in departmental IT settings and branch offices.  Designed with the IT generalist in mind, NetApp Integrated EVO:RAIL Solution is the first integrated system to combine cloud-ready enterprise NetApp FAS storage with the scale-out benefits of VMware’s EVO:RAIL hyper-converged infrastructure. NetApp will offer VMWare’s EVO:RAIL hyper-converged rigs but with its networked FAS arrays. NetApp…

   

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  VMware Horizon FLEX is available now (http://www.vmguru.com/?p=14879)At VMworld Europe 2014 in Barcelona VMware introduced VMware Horizon FLEX. Today, VMware announced the general availability of VMware Horizon FLEX. VMware Horizon FLEX is a comprehensive enterprise solution that enables organizations to provision and manage local, corporate Windows-based virtual desktops to groups of employees that were previously difficult or costly to support. IT is now able to give Mac users, contractors and remote workers access to a secure corporate desktop in a cost effective…

   

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  Webinar: Building a Highly Available Hyper-V Cluster (http://www.vmguru.com/?p=14846)Join the Experts from 5 nine Software and StarWind Software in a session on the creation of cost effective and highly available Hyper-V cluster. Join them to continue receiving the essential insight and valuable information on: Building The Highly Available Hyper-V Cluster on Free Microsoft Hyper-V Server. Wednesday, December 3, 11 am ET / 4 pm GMT. Featured Speakers: Alexander Karavanov, Virtualization Security Engineer, 5nine Software. Max Kolomyeytsev, Product Manager, StarWind Software. If you…

   

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  #vBrownBag End of Year Give-Away! (http://professionalvmware.com/?p=5187)It’s back!  As a special thank you to our listeners, the #vBrownBag crew is happy to once again run our annual end of year give-away!  Now through December 16th you can sign up using the form below to be entered to win one of these great prizes which were generously donated for our community by […]

   

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  VMware Recovery Manager – IP Customization by @btkrausen (http://professionalvmware.com/?p=5182)This guest post is by Bryan Krausen who blogs at ITDiversified, where you can find his back catalogue of posts. Find out more about the guest blogger program here. As mentioned in this article, there are many variables to take into consideration when deploying and configuring VMware Site Recovery Manager. When failing (or testing) your […]

   

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Hi everyone, it has been a very good and very busy week. Firstly we launched updates to our Cloud Operations Management Suite. See below for more information. I also decided to update my VCP and completed the VCP-550D exam online. I have written more about this here: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/vmware-vcp-550d-exam-neil-isserow

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NEWS AND DEVELOPMENTS FROM VMWARE

• VMware Weekly News Recap, Dec. 12, 2014 (http://blogs.vmware.com/tribalknowledge/?p=3463)VMware News This week in VMware news, VMware’s Donna Wittmann has been named to the Computer Dealer News Women of the IT Channel Ecosystem 2014: Channel Chiefs list! Congratulations, Donna! Learn more about the distinction here. VMware announced that Digitalrep, experts in the retail shelf space domain, product database management, and manual process automation, has deployed VMware […]

   

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  Administrators With Their Head in the vCloud – Luigi (http://blogs.vmware.com/tribalknowledge/?p=3438)The vCloud Suite has made it so easy to manage his company’s private cloud that Luigi now has time to contribute value in entirely new ways.

   

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  Celebrating Computer Science Education Week (http://blogs.vmware.com/tribalknowledge/?p=3455)By Geoff Murase, group product marketing manager, End-User Computing, VMware This week marks the first Computer Science Education Week targeted at U.S. K-12 students, with the goal of having more students explore computer programming. The initiative is backed by Code.org and  many Silicon Valley companies.  At VMware, we want the next generation workforce to be […]

   

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  Now Available: Cloud Management Platform and DevOps Solutions (http://blogs.vmware.com/tribalknowledge/?p=3448)By Sajai Krishnan, vice president of product marketing, Cloud Management Business Unit 2014 has been a momentous year for the VMware Cloud Management business unit. Today marks another milestone with the general availability of a significant update of vRealize Suite 6, featuring the major new release of vRealize Operations, and a new DevOps solution in […]

   

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  How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love App Volumes (http://blogs.vmware.com/tribalknowledge/?p=3441)While most VMware shops enjoy the flexibility of provisioning virtual resources with the click of a button, it’s been somewhat of a trickier hurdle to bring that same level of agility to desktop application delivery. Spinning up a new virtual machine with enough power to smoothly run Adobe Creative Suite is easy, but actually getting […]

   

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  #VMchat Recap: Networking is a Software Industry – and Here’s Why. (http://blogs.vmware.com/tribalknowledge/?p=3424)Last week, Guido Appenzeller, VMware’s Chief Technology Strategy Officer for networking and security, joined communications head Oliver Roll for the second in a series of #VMchat discussions. (You can view the first #VMchat in the series here, featuring an interview with VMware End-User Computing chief Sanjay Poonen.) During this month’s chat, Guido and Oliver explored the revolution that […]

   

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  Top 20 VMware Fusion issues (http://blogs.vmware.com/kb/?p=6363)Here’s a list of the top 20 KB issues our VMware Fusion customers are encountering in the past 30 days. Take a look over the list, maybe you’ll see something you or a friend could use. VMware Fusion 7.0 sales, licensing and compatibility FAQs (2081968) Downloading and Installing VMware Fusion (2014097) Troubleshooting Fusion virtual machine […]

   

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  Transforming Operations and Perception of the IT Organization (http://blogs.vmware.com/cloudops/?p=1308)By David Crane A recent engagement with a long-established telecommunications firm presented a huge challenge—the solution for which is a great example of how operations transformation can drive technical transformation. The firm’s customer base spans various global regions, each of which presented a different customer experience. The IT organization functioned in extremely siloed environments, having […]

   

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  Question of the Week (SDDC) (http://blogs.vmware.com/education/?p=5078)This week’s question comes from the Software-Defined Data Center video series. A. As L4-L7 services B. As an L0 service C. As L1-L3 services D. As L8-L9 services Click through to the comments for the answer. Follow @VMwareEducation on Instagram to see more #TechTrivia every Friday and visual updates from the VMware Education and Certification community. 

   

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  You Asked & It’s Back – VCP5-DCV Delta Exam Returns (http://blogs.vmware.com/education/?p=5069)Over the last few months the VMware Certified Professional 5 – Data Center Virtualization (VCP5-DCV) Delta exam has proven to be a very popular route to certification for many in our certified community. While we thought most people would take advantage of this opportunity to recertify before the end of the year, we have received […]

   

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  Why Do You Want To Get Your VCDX? (http://blogs.vmware.com/education/?p=5061)I ask people all the time, “What makes you want to get your VCDX?”, and the answers certainly vary.  In some cases I get a blank stare back at me as if nobody asked the question before.  I think asking the question “Why” is not only important in the defense process as it relates to […]

   

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  Redefining the Role of Persistence Media Within the Software IO Stack (http://blogs.vmware.com/cto/?p=3150)Traditionally, persistence media has been a synonym for rotating disks — devices that are relatively naïve, providing basic read and write functionality with block-level atomicity. Rotating disks expose Logical Block Addresses (LBAs) that are statically mapped by the disk firmware to Physical Block Address (PBAs). The role of traditional disks has been limited to primarily providing power-safe durability, while the OS/hypervisor stack does the heavy lifting with regard to functionality for performance,…

   

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  Open Standards and Open Source in the Mobile-Cloud Era (http://blogs.vmware.com/cto/?p=3134)Having been a part of industry standards for over 20 years, I am able to see the changing landscape of Open Standards and Open Source in the new Mobile-Cloud era. The shifts in the role standards and open source are playing today are much different from what it was 20 years ago. They have been evolving to accelerate innovation and interoperability in this time of our ever increasing dependence on information technology. In 1994 (20 years ago) during the Client-Server era, AOL, Prodigy and CompuServe were…

   

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  VMware NSX: What we learned in 2014; what to look for in 2015 (http://blogs.vmware.com/cto/?p=3132)Before I launch into some predictions for 2015, I want to take a quick look back at the post I wrote a year ago , predicting how the network virtualization landscape would shape up in 2014. This is not just to pat myself on the back for getting a few things right (my predictions weren’t that bold in any case) but to see what the previous year can tell us about what’s coming next. For starters, I predicted that we’d see more adoption of NSX both numerically and in terms of a broader range of…

   

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  Software-Defined Telco – NFV in Production with VMware (http://blogs.vmware.com/cto/?p=3114)Software-Defined Telco – NFV in Production with VMware Bjoern Brundert ( blog , twitter ) is a Sr. Technical Account Manager in Hamburg, Germany. As part of VMware’s Professional Services Organization he works with large enterprises to support and guide them on their journey to the Software-Defined Enterprise. One of his focus areas since early 2013 has been Network Functions Virtualization (NFV). General Introduction to Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) It is a very exciting time for the Telco…

   

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  MySQL VM Backup with vSphere Data Protection (http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/?p=15848)I often get questions regarding backup of a MySQL database server (VM) using vSphere Data Protection (VDP). VDP does not have an agent for MySQL, but you can of course perform an image-level (entire-VM) backup of a VM running MySQL. With VDP and many other backup solutions that use the vSphere APIs for Data Protection […]

   

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  vCenter Server 5.5 Availability guide (http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/?p=15852)It brings me great pleasure to announce the vCenter Server 5.5 Availability Guide is now available. With the End of Availability of vCenter Server Heartbeat we had many questions around what our recommendations are for protecting vCenter Server. With the help of Anil Kapur and Justin King we’ve got a pretty solid paper that discusses […]

   

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  3 Ways To Get Started With VMware NSX (http://blogs.vmware.com/networkvirtualization/?p=1787)Over the past 12 months, VMware NSX momentum has continued to grow, as we’ve added new platform capabilities, expanded our partner ecosystem, and of course, had more than 250+ customers purchase NSX for deployment. And as interest in VMware NSX has grown with both customers and IT professionals looking to evolve their careers by adding […]

   

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  App Volumes AppStack Creation (http://blogs.vmware.com/consulting/?p=1867)By Dale Carter, Senior Solutions Architect, End-User Computing VMware App Volumes provide just-in-time application delivery to virtualized desktop environments. With this real-time application delivery system, applications are delivered to virtual desktops through VMDK virtual disks, without modifying the VM or applications themselves. Applications can be scaled out with superior performance, at lower costs, and without compromising end-user […]

   

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  Get More Out of Your Cloud with the VMware vCloud Air Network (http://blogs.vmware.com/vcloud/?p=4618)‘Tis the season for productivity! This holiday season, get more out of your cloud strategy with the VMware vCloud Air Network and enjoy greater flexibility, control and compliance with any of our 4,000 service providers located globally. Access to more of the cloud capabilities you need means you can sit back, relax, and enjoy more […]

   

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  Another VMware Cloud In Action – Creative Solutions in Healthcare Reduces IT Costs by 30% Running Its Hybrid Cloud on VMware (http://blogs.vmware.com/vcloud/?p=4509)Creative Solutions in Healthcare, the largest owner and operator of skilled nursing facilities in the state of Texas, had a problem: IT was driving up costs with little to show for it. The company decided to move their infrastructure to the cloud with VMware vCloud® Air™, and the shift was transformative. Since moving to the […]

   

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  Why Today’s Cloud Foundry Foundation Launch Matters (http://blogs.vmware.com/vcloud/?p=4588)By Jay Marshall Today’s announcement of the Cloud Foundry Foundation is a significant milestone for the industry’s leading open platform as a service project. The Cloud Foundry Foundation is made up of more than 40 member companies and will be managed as a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project, a leader in managing and operating open source […]

   

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  Top Five Reasons Why Your Organization Should Consider Cloud-Based Disaster Recovery (http://blogs.vmware.com/vcloud/?p=4581)Few organizations can afford the downtime caused by a disaster. Those capable of weathering such events usually have the datacenters, internal expertise and budget to do so — options that aren’t available for most mid-market organizations. However the tides are changing, as many organizations look away from traditional disaster recovery solutions and to the cloud. […]

   

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  New VMware Security Advisory VMSA-2014-0014 (http://blogs.vmware.com/security/?p=1298)Today VMware has released the following new security advisory: VMSA-2014-0014 The advisory documents CVE-2014-8372, an information disclosure vulnerability in AirWatch by VMware. AirWatch Cloud has been patched to resolve this issue, On-Premise deployments must be updated. Customers should review the security advisory and direct any questions to VMware Support. Please sign up to the Security-Announce mailing […]

   

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  New VMware Security Advisory VMSA-2014-0013 (http://blogs.vmware.com/security/?p=1295)Today VMware has released the following new security advisory: VMSA-2014-0013 The advisory documents CVE-2014-8373, a critical remote privilege escalation vulnerability in vCloud Automation Center (vCAC). It is important to note that the provided patches will temporarily disable the vCAC “Connect (by) Using VMRC” functionality for directly connecting to vCenter Server. Customers should review the security […]

   

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  vRealize Operations Tech Tips #6 – Understanding Capacity Planning Terminology (http://blogs.vmware.com/management/?p=5691)vRealize Operations Manager continues lead the industry with its capacity planning functionality by enhancing its capacity algorithms, providing even more flexibility, better out of the box default options and initial configuration wizards to help you set up your capacity policies.  Build a capacity “What-if-scenario” to determine your future needs and hardware purchases and commit them […]

   

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  The Power of VMware vRealize Suite at Choice Hotels (http://blogs.vmware.com/management/?p=5643)by Rich Bourdeau I came across this video:  Choice Hotels Slashes IT Provisioning Times and Improves Performance with vRealize Suite.  I’ve summarized their story below, but if you have 3 minutes I highly recommend you watch the video  to learn first-hand about how VMware vRealize Suite cloud management platform improved IT service delivery times and […]

   

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  vRealize Suite 6 downloads now available (http://blogs.vmware.com/management/?p=5667)vRealize Suite is a cloud management platform purpose-built for the hybrid cloud.   Today’s release includes powerful new features that enhance unified management across physical, virtual including  vSphere® and Hyper-V, and hybrid cloud including  Amazon Web Services, VMware vCloud Air and those based on OpenStack. Both Advanced and Enterprise editions  include the latest updates of […]

   

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  Announcing Availability of vRealize Code Stream (http://blogs.vmware.com/management/?p=5652)by Rich Bourdeau VMware announces the availability of vRealize™ Code Stream™ release automation and continuous delivery software Code Stream is a new VMware product targeted at organizations that use agile development approaches and that want to automate a manual release process. It allows developers and operations teams to release software more frequently, more efficiently, and at lower […]

   

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  Available to Download Now: vRealize Operations 6.0, vRealize Log Insight 2.5, and vRealize Operations Insight 6.0 (http://blogs.vmware.com/management/?p=5611)At VMware, we focus on helping customers simplify their IT Operations Management, and have a strong set of solution offerings to that objective. We’re excited to share that today the following VMware products have reached General Availability: vRealize Operations 6.0 (Free Trial; Download; Documentation) vRealize Log Insight 2.5 (Free Trial; Download; Documentation) vRealize Operations Insight […]

   

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  vRealize Operations Tech Tips #5 – The New and Improved UI (http://blogs.vmware.com/management/?p=5624)vRealize Operations Manager provides a new “merged” UI that combines the best of the previous vSphere and Custom UIs.  Whereas before you were confronted with two different looking and feeling interfaces you now see a clean and simple, easy-to-use UI which includes daily recommendations, dashboards, quick links, help features, workspaces (aka wizards), alerts, heatmaps, etc. […]

   

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  VMware App Volumes Deployment Guide Is Now Available (http://blogs.vmware.com/euc/?p=6776)By Tristan Todd, VMware End-User-Computing Architect Many years ago, I led a desktop support team at a small supply chain management company. The office was located in one of the many amazing food districts in Portland, Oregon. My team always scheduled a fantastic lunch outing on Fridays. Being the last one to leave my desk, […]

   

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  VMware Mirage 5.2 Now Generally Available! (http://blogs.vmware.com/euc/?p=6770)By Sachin Sharma, Product Marketing, End-User Computing, VMware Following on to our desktop innovation blog yesterday, I’m pleased to expand on the details of VMware Mirage 5.2 which is now generally available! A big part of what we have been working on is actually now available as a part of VMware Horizon FLEX. Horizon FLEX […]

   

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  The Desktop Innovation Train Continues Forward (http://blogs.vmware.com/euc/?p=6758)By Shankar Iyer, VP of Product Management, Desktop Solutions, End-User Computing, VMware It’s been exactly a quarter since my last blog on our product releases and I’m thrilled to be talking about our next set of releases now available. We’ve continued the rapid pace we set earlier this year and are excited to be delivering […]

   

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  App Volumes Is Here – Next Generation Application Delivery! (http://blogs.vmware.com/euc/?p=6763)By Harry Labana, Vice President of Products, End-User Computing, VMware VMware App Volumes (formerly CloudVolumes) is now shipping! App Volumes is a real-time application delivery system that enables IT to instantly deliver applications with complete application lifecycle management. App Volumes provides seamless end-user experience while reducing infrastructure and management costs. Unlike traditional application management solutions, […]

   

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  Enterprise mobility news recap: Dec. 8 – 12 (http://blogs.air-watch.com/?p=33610)It’s a numbers game this week. In the past few days, we have learned about a website and app that has helped contractors rake in $1.5 trillion and an upcoming deployment of 23,000 iOS 6 Pluses. United Airlines announced this week plans to deploy 23,000 devices to flight operations staff. Flight attendants will use iPhone […]

   

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  WireLurker “heralds a new era in malware” (http://blogs.air-watch.com/?p=33583)Lurking in the shadows within the unsuspecting user’s operating system, a new breed of malicious software has made a rude announcement that it can inhabit not only users’ computers, but also their mobile devices. And in today’s interconnected world, we know all too well how far leaked information can spread. From routing numbers tied into […]

   

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  How AirWatch helps federal aviation organizations go mobile (http://blogs.air-watch.com/?p=33571)Three lessons learned from commercial aviation

   

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  The PC is far from extinct, but you should start preparing for the post-PC era anyway. Here’s how. (http://blogs.air-watch.com/?p=33547)Microsoft’s Frank Shaw may have been onto something when he coined the term PC-plus back in 2011. In a company blog post, Shaw wrote, “Most of the time, new objects enhance and complement the things we’ve already got. They don’t replace them.” Three years later, his sentiment rings true. Many businesses are still reliant on […]

   

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  Video: Retail technology past, present and future (http://blogs.air-watch.com/?p=33517)Mobility in the retail space is continuing to expand. Within the last year, AirWatch retail customers have taken advantage of EMM solutions and further incorporated mobile technology into the shopping experience. In the below video, AirWatch retail mobility solutions expert Ed Durbin reflects on retailers’ rapid mobile adoption over the past year and discusses the […]

   

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  SDDC Portfolio Service Offering Updates (http://blogs.vmware.com/partnernews/?p=1512)The Cloud Automation Solution now includes vRealize Automation 6.1 and updates have been made to: Design and Deploy Service Accelerator Service, vCloud Automation Center 6.1 Knowledge Transfer Plus Virtualization now includes vSphere Upgrade Service and vCloud Air includes Knowledge Transfer.

   

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  Can You Spare 60 Seconds on Virtual SAN? (http://blogs.vmware.com/partnernews/?p=1509)VMware Virtual SAN is simple to deploy, it offers elastic scalability and high performance, and lowers the storage TCO by 50%. Watch this 60-second video to understand why and how to execute this highly customizable campaign through the Demand Center and start generate leads today.

   

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  Customer Promotions to Close Deals Prior to Year-End (http://blogs.vmware.com/partnernews/?p=1507)Remember that the 25%-off upgrade-promotion from vSphere to vSphere with Operations Management ends Dec. 29th and the vCenter Operations Management Add-on with promotional CPU-based pricing ends on Dec. 15th. This is a great opportunity to remind your customers to place their orders soon, so that you can benefit from the associated partner incentives as well. […]

   

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  New Key EUC Products are Available to Sell (http://blogs.vmware.com/partnernews/?p=1505)Download the End User Computing (EUC) launch playbook for more detail on these key EUC products: VMware Horizon FLEX , VMware Workstation, and VMware Player Pro. With all of these products and solutions now generally available, visit the Quarterly Partner Briefing portal to learn more.

   

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  Dare to Thrive at Partner Exchange 2015 (http://blogs.vmware.com/partner/?p=2263)This year VMware Partner Exchange 2015 will include some exciting changes, making it better than ever. With a Business/Technical focus and a goal of engaging with partners across the entire ecosystem, don’t be surprised if Partner Exchange 2015 feels like it was created just for you. If you have yet to register, do so soon. […]

   

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  Could an IT Scrinch ruin your holidays with data center downtime? (http://blogs.vmware.com/smb/?p=3186)Could an “IT Scrinch” be living in your virtualized infrastructure? And could it be wreaking havoc on your business continuity and disaster recovery (BC/DR) plans in your IT environment? These questions are probed in a new decked-for-the-holidays infographic that shows how VMware BC/DR solutions help you combat the IT Scrinch and save the day for […]

   

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  Four Ways BC/DR Can Help Your SMB – Part 1: Backup (http://blogs.vmware.com/smb/?p=3181)By: vExpert Gregg Robertson                         Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BC/DR) is something every business, no matter how big or small, should be thinking about and planning for. Whilst preparing for my VCAP-DCD and even for my VCDX attempt, BC/DR was a very important topic, as two of the infrastructure qualities (AMPRS) that all designs show impact on […]

   

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  Ready to take to the stage at VMUG? (http://vmwareemeablog.com/uk/?p=1639)Have you ever thought taking to the stage at one … Read More

   

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  Sweet success at HP Discover 2014 (http://vmwareemeablog.com/uk/?p=1632)“The numbers speak for themselves. Software-Defined Enterprises are 37% more … Read More

   

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  UK VMUG User Conference 2014 Highlights (http://vmwareemeablog.com/uk/?p=1623)Now in its fourth year, last month’s UK VMUG User … Read More

   

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  Guest blog: Bluefin Solutions (http://vmwareemeablog.com/uk/?p=1149)Following the the success of VMware vCloud Air since its … Read More

   

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  VMware vCloud Air Customer Success Stories (http://vmwareemeablog.com/uk/?p=1615)It’s nearly a year since we launched VMware vCloud® Air™. … Read More

   

MORE NEWS AND DEVELOPMENTS FROM AROUND THE WEB

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  Free e-learning course - VMware App Volumes Fundamentals (http://www.ntpro.nl/blog/archives/2814-guid.html)

   

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  VMware vCenter Server 5.5 Availability Guide (http://www.ntpro.nl/blog/archives/2813-guid.html)

   

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  VCP5-DCV Delta Exam Returns (http://www.ntpro.nl/blog/archives/2754-guid.html)

   

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  VMware App Volumes Deployment Guide (http://www.ntpro.nl/blog/archives/2812-guid.html)

   

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  Must read post on Cloud Native Apps (http://www.yellow-bricks.com/?p=15703)I don’t do this too often but I wanted to share an excellent blog post by one of my colleagues. I was writing something along the same lines as it seems there is a lot of confusion around what cloud native apps are and what they bring. Even when it comes to containers there still seems to be […] " Must read post on Cloud Native Apps " originally appeared on Yellow-Bricks.com . Follow me on twitter - @DuncanYB. Pre-order my upcoming book Essential Virtual SAN via Pearson today!

   

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  Operational Efficiency (You’re not Facebook/Google/Netflix) (http://www.yellow-bricks.com/?p=15683)In previous roles, also before I joined VMware, I was a system administrator and a consultant. The tweets below reminded me of the kind of work I did in the past and triggered a train of thought that I wanted to share… @jtmcarthur56 That's only achievable when you have 50,000 servers running one application — […] " Operational Efficiency (You’re not Facebook/Google/Netflix) " originally appeared on Yellow-Bricks.com . Follow me on twitter - @DuncanYB. Pre-order my upcoming book…

   

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  Stardate: 5977.497.471 (Aka “VMAX3 has a big day”) (http://virtualgeek.typepad.com/virtual_geek/2014/12/stardate-5977497471-aka-vmax3-has-a-big-day.html)Congrats to the VMAX engineering team - for getting the Q4 VMAX3 Service Release out last week as committed! The specific release is 5977.497.471, which there was an internal thread where Jeremy Burton noticed it looked like something from. "Captains...

   

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  The Trouble Connecting vCenter Virtual Appliance to Active Directory (http://longwhiteclouds.com/?p=10555)One of my colleagues ran into some trouble with connecting a vCenter Virtual Appliance to Active Directory for authentication. He was getting a weird error saying that the FQDN (Fully Qualified Domain Name) was wrong. The actual error message was as follows: Failed to execute ‘/usr/sbin/vpxd_servicecfg ‘ad’ ‘write’ ‘administrator@’ CENSORED ‘’ VC_CFG_RESULT=302(Error: Enabling Active Directory […]

   

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Hi everyone, well it’s the final newsletter of 2014. I can’t believe how quickly the year has gone. It seems like just yesterday I was packing my bags and heading for San Francisco to start my new life. It has been an amazing year for me personally. I am so proud to be part of an organization such as VMware that is dedicated to creating the best software products it possibly can.

I wanted to share with you something even more important that VMware has done for the past 2 years now. As an employee of VMware we are all given access to a fairly generous amount of time that we are able to use for the benefit of charitable work. This is something that many organizations do and I think it is fantastic as it really allows us to give back to our communities and in the process we learn so much doing this. VMware however goes one step further and gives each of us a donation on Global Giving (www.globalgiving.org) that we are free to use as we see fit on any of the worthwhile charities that are available. This is a very simple gesture but for me it is so important as it reminds me every year as I go through the list of charities how fortunate we are to have what we do, and how rewarding giving rather than receiving can be.

I hope that you have enjoyed another year of VMware newsletters. I have certainly enjoyed doing them and going into our 7th year is going to be even better.

I wish all of you and your friends and family a safe, healthy and happy holidays and I look forward to speaking to all of you again in 2015.

Virtually Yours

Neil Isserow

Staff Technical Account Manager

VMware San Francisco

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NEWS AND DEVELOPMENTS FROM VMWARE

GENERAL NEWS

• Upgrading from Workstation 10 to 11 (http://blogs.vmware.com/kb/?p=6367)This video tutorial demonstrates how to upgrade from Workstation 10 to Workstation 11. Before upgrading to VMware Workstation 11, ensure that your physical machine meets the system requirements. For more information, see Introduction and System Requirements in the Getting Started with VMware Workstation 11.x guide. You will also need to shutdown any virtual machines that you […]

   

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  Making IT Go Faster – Forrester Research Sheds Light on How (http://blogs.vmware.com/cloudops/?p=1319)By Kurt Milne Today’s IT managers face increasing pressure to be more responsive and move faster. However, most IT organizations have built their IT organization to promote control and safety. People, process, and tools have traditionally been deployed to strictly limit change in order to optimize service quality and efficiency. In fact many of the […]

   

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  VMware Weekly News Recap, Dec. 19, 2014 (http://blogs.vmware.com/tribalknowledge/?p=3485)VMware News This week in VMware news, VMware announced that Apollo Education Group, one of the world’s largest private education providers, has implemented a private cloud based on VMware vCloud Suite and VCE Vblock Systems to power online courses at its open access institutions of higher education. Read the press release to learn more. One […]

   

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  Realizing a Simpler Path to OpenStack (http://blogs.vmware.com/tribalknowledge/?p=3481)The impact that the application development community is having on current approaches to IT is astounding, and one thing is apparent – developers don’t want to deal with the data center infrastructure directly. OpenStack has emerged as a framework that provides application development teams with API-based, programmatic access to the infrastructure. But organizations have found […]

   

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  An Award-Winning Holiday Gift for the Technophile in your Life (http://blogs.vmware.com/tribalknowledge/?p=3472)Are you looking for the perfect holiday gift for the techie in your life? Well look no further. The VMware Fusion team recently received an Editors’ Choice award from PCMag.com for VMware Fusion 7! What better way to celebrate the holidays than to give the gift of Windows on Mac? VMware Fusion has always had a loyal […]

   

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  SaaS, PaaS and IaaS: The Basics (http://blogs.vmware.com/tribalknowledge/?p=3466)A recently released Gartner survey revealed that “software as a service (SaaS) deployments are now ‘mission critical,’ meaning that the most commonly cited reasons the survey found for deploying SaaS were for development and testing production/mission-critical workloads.” The survey was conducted “across 10 countries in four regions to examine organizations’ adoption and deployment of cloud […]

   

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  Get a Sneak Peek at On Demand Training (http://blogs.vmware.com/education/?p=5096)Have you considered On Demand Courses but aren’t sure if they’re right for you? Now there’s an easy way to see what it’s all about. Our Sneak Peeks, available for many of our courses, let you try a course for free before you register. You’ll get access to full course modules and overview the hands-on labs […]

   

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  New Courses from VMware (http://blogs.vmware.com/education/?p=5089)VMware Education Services has released several new courses to help you get the most out of your VMware solutions. On Demand VMware NSX Install, Configure, Manage [V6.0]  VMware Horizon (with View): Install, Configure, Manage [V6.0] VMware vSphere: Optimize and Scale [V5.5] Classroom VMware Mirage [V5.0] and Horizon with View [V6.0]: Fast Track VMware vRealize Operations Manager: […]

   

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  VMware Virtual SAN and ScaleIO : Fundamentally Two different approaches to Software-Defined Storage (http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/?p=15912)There’ s a lot of buzz and excitement around Software-Defined Storage (SDS) and hyper-converged storage solutions.  Particularly around VMware’s recently introduced product: VMware Virtual SAN. VMware Virtual SAN is seeing tremendous traction in the market since its release. After only two full quarters of availability, we already have many hundreds of customers happily running a variety of […]

   

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  Gartner Predictions: Storage Integration Leading the Way in 2015 (http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/?p=15950)Rowing crews move in sync to keep their craft moving at a steady pace – but that synchronous movement would not exist without an investment in the right hardware and the right training. For businesses, that means not only investing in the right rowers, but also in the right tools to enable athletes. And for […]

   

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  VMware’s vSphere Big Data Extensions (BDE) achieves Hortonworks Operations Ready Certification (http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/?p=15923)  Hortonworks announced on the 17th December 2014 that VMware’s Big Data Extensions tool for Hadoop on virtual machines is now both HDP Certified and Operations Ready. HDP is the Hortonworks Data Platform – an open Hadoop platform that is centered on YARN. The Operations Ready designation is a new certification introduced by Hortonworks to […]

   

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  vSphere Data Protection (VDP) – Removing an External Proxy (http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/?p=15877)It is not particularly clear how to remove a vSphere Data Protection (VDP) external proxy in the vSphere Data Protection (VDP) 5.8 Administration Guide. Before I get into that specifically, I should probably start with what a VDP external proxy is and how it is deployed. The external proxy functionality is currently only available with […]

   

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  Operationalizing VMware Virtual SAN: Automating vCenter Alarm Configuration Using PowerCLI (http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/?p=15599)Welcome to the next installment in our Operationalizing VMware Virtual SAN series. In our previous article we detailed “How to configure vCenter alarms for Virtual SAN”. In today’s article we will demonstrate how to automate that configuration workflow leveraging PowerCLI. (Many thanks to VMware genius Alan Renouf (@alanrenouf) for his contributions to this topic) [Joe […]

   

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  VMware Storage Survey (http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/?p=15915)The VMware Storage and Availability team is looking for customer and community feedback with regarding some storage technologies and use cases. Please take a few minutes to fill out the brief survey listed in the link below. Storage Technology & Use case Thank you for your help and support. For future updates on Virtual SAN […]

   

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  5 Things to Look for in a Cloud Partner Program (http://blogs.vmware.com/vcloud/?p=4673)This is a repost from Talkin’ Cloud. You can find the original post here. By: Melissa Ross According to Gartner, the use of cloud computing is growing. By 2016 this growth will increase to become the bulk of new IT spend, and by the end of 2017 nearly half of large enterprises will have hybrid […]

   

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  vCloud Air Command Line Interface (http://blogs.vmware.com/vcloud/?p=4667)By: Paco Gomez, vCloud Air Senior Solutions Architect This is a repost from Paco’s personal blog.  As a cloud provider, VMware vCloud Air has a rich set of functionality available to users through the Portal and the API. With the release of the vCloud Air Command Line Interface (vca-cli), users now have another method to access the service and leverage the benefits of scripting […]

   

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  Automating Your vCloud Air Disaster Recovery Environment with RaaSCLI (http://blogs.vmware.com/vcloud/?p=4641)By: Massimo Re Ferrè VMware vCloud® Air™ Disaster Recovery has been a very popular offering since it became available. Disaster recovery to the cloud is a killer use case because it’s ideal for: Customers that want to start using the cloud but want to start with low risk and low impact to production workloads. Customers that […]

   

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  Save the Day with VMware vCloud Air Disaster Recovery (http://blogs.vmware.com/vcloud/?p=4633)Superheroes come in all shapes and sizes and reveal themselves in the most trying of times. For businesses, those trying times often involve blackouts, power surges, natural disasters and other conditions that can cause severe data loss. But the power of one person can help save any organization from the ultimate disaster. That person: the […]

   

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  VMware vCloud Air Supported Operating Systems (http://blogs.vmware.com/vcloud/?p=4616)By David Hill This is a repost from David Hill’s blog, davidhill.co. Andy Steven who is a colleague of mine working in the EMEA vCloud Air team asked me what Operating Systems are supported in VMware vCloud® Air™? This isn’t the first time I have been asked this question, so I thought I would quickly publish the list, […]

   

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  10 Advantages of vCloud Air Virtual Private Cloud OnDemand (http://blogs.vmware.com/vcloud/?p=4612)Last month, we announced the launch of the VMware vCloud® AirTM Virtual Private Cloud OnDemand Early Access Program – a program that will enable customers to provision VMware vCloud Air technology in minutes, with no up front resource or cost commitments. In fact, if you sign up for early access, you can receive up to […]

   

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  Announcing vRealize Operations Management pack for NSX vSphere and NSX Multi Hypervisor (http://blogs.vmware.com/management/?p=5721)The SDDC (Software Defined Data Center) value proposition is ubiquitously acknowledged and now it’s just a question of when organizations will adopt the SDDC model and not if organizations will adopt it. People have realized the benefits of having the flexibility and agility provided by SDDC. SDDC has just crossed the chasm and we are […]

   

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  Open and Extensible: Community Content on VMware Solution Exchange (http://blogs.vmware.com/management/?p=5680)VMware’s vRealize products have been designed with flexible, extensible architectures that allow them to be easily adapted and extended to meet the unique needs of our customers.  This includes support for new multi-vendor virtual, physical and public cloud infrastructures and management tools.  In addition it also includes the ability to customize our automated process to […]

   

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  vRealize Operations Tech Tips #8 – Understanding Allocation vs Demand Based Capacity Modeling (http://blogs.vmware.com/management/?p=5717)Understanding capacity and having the ability to quickly assess capacity and capacity risk in any environment is critical in today’s software defined data center.  vRealize Operations Manager helps you apply demand & allocation capacity planning principles while managing the capacity of your virtual and cloud environments across any object type. The great thing is vRealize […]

   

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  vRealize Operations Tech Tips #7 – Filtering the vRealize Operations Manager UI based on Adapter (http://blogs.vmware.com/management/?p=5415)Today’s #TechTip is the answer to the question: “Why is it in certain areas of the vRealize Operations Manager UI do I only see a small subset of the data and relationships, that I know are there?” I recently had this question come up, so here is a short video on how to get what […]

   

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  The NSX Content Pack for Log Insight is Now Available (http://blogs.vmware.com/management/?p=5632)I am pleased to announce that we have just released the VMware NSX for vSphere Log Insight Content Pack in the VMware Solution Exchange . The content pack optimizes implementation, management and troubleshooting of VMware NSX in vSphere environments. This content pack is available for download by any customer who has installed Log Insight, and VMware NSX […]

   

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  App Volumes AppStacks vs. Writable Volumes (http://blogs.vmware.com/consulting/?p=1875)By Dale Carter, Senior Solutions Architect, End-User Computing With the release of VMware App Volumes I wanted to take the time to explain the difference between AppStacks and Writable Volumes, and how the two need to be designed as you start to deploy App Volumes. The graphic below shows the traditional way to manage your […]

   

DESKTOP

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  Enterprise mobility news recap Dec 15 – 19 (http://blogs.air-watch.com/?p=33706)‘Tis the season for tech-optimized packaging and shipping, new devices and apps and MDM predictions for 2015. This holiday season, Amazon hired its own fleet of elves named Kiva robots. In an effort to meet online ordering demand, Amazon purchased 15,0000 programmed robots to help optimize parcel shipping. For most U.S. states, the shipping deadline […]

   

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  The top technologies security managers plan to use in 2015 (http://blogs.air-watch.com/?p=33685)A recent report highlights the continued importance of mobile device management (MDM) for enterprise security managers they prepare for the year ahead. According to 451 Research’s  “Reference Technology Roadmap – Information Security Wave 17,” MDM and network firewalls will be responsible for the most significant spending increases in 2015, with 31 percent of security managers […]

   

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  Why EMM Is the Future of Mac Management (http://blogs.air-watch.com/?p=33661)In the keynote session at WWDC 2014, Apple’s Senior Vice President of Software Engineering Craig Federighi called iOS “a huge hit in the enterprise,” noting the breadth of iOS-tailored enterprise apps, as well as enterprise manageability features Apple has added to the operating system over the years. Federighi also noted the new productivity features that […]

   

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  Video: F5 Networks provides access policy management from the AirWatch console (http://blogs.air-watch.com/?p=33652)F5 is well known for its load balancing solution, but you may not know about its VPN client, which administrators can provision from the AirWatch console. Using the F5 Access Policy Manager (APM), administrators can connect any user in their environment to applications through a secure tunnel. Administrators can provision profiles that specify how users […]

   

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  Enhanced Windows Media Redirection in VMware Horizon with View (http://blogs.vmware.com/euc/?p=6814)By Tony Huynh, Product Line Manager, End-User Computing, VMware It has been a great year for the VMware Horizon team, and we are closing out the year strong! You may have seen the recent blog post announcing the Horizon 6.0.2 with View release and the Horizon Client 3.2 release. There were many exciting features announced […]

   

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  VMware Horizon FLEX and View Local Mode: Similar Features, But Definitely Not the Same (http://blogs.vmware.com/euc/?p=6802)By Gina Daly, Technical Writer for Technical Marketing, End-User Computing, VMware VMware View Client with Local Mode has been removed from Horizon 6 with View. But did you know that VMware Horizon FLEX offers a similar offline desktop solution? In this blog, we compare and contrast Horizon FLEX and View Local Mode features. Contrasting Features […]

   

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  VMware Development Labs Sneak Peek: Serial Redirection in Horizon with View (http://blogs.vmware.com/euc/?p=6797)By Peter Brown, Senior R&D Manager, VMware, London, UK   With this blog, we introduce a new series of occasional End-User-Computing blogs called Sneak Peeks, where we discuss features and functionality we are working on in the Development labs. This gives us a chance to share the kinds of things we are thinking about and, […]

   

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  VMware Fusion 7 Wins Editor’s Choice Award! (http://blogs.vmware.com/euc/?p=6784)By Nannette Vilushis, Senior Product Marketing Manager, End-User Computing, VMware Although Christmas doesn’t arrive for another two weeks, the VMware Fusion team received an early holiday delight from PCMag.com– an Editors’ Choice award for VMware Fusion 7! VMware Fusion has always had a loyal following and the product team has put a lot of […]

   

PARTNER

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  Build Your Partner Exchange 2015 Agenda with Schedule Builder (http://blogs.vmware.com/partner/?p=2273)Are you ready to maximize your partner experience at Partner Exchange 2015? If so, now is the time to take advantage of the live Schedule Builder to help organize and keep track of the sessions that matter to you most. Schedule Builder will also help you stay up to date with session additions, cancellations and […]

   

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  Riverbed Creates VMware Plug-in for Workflow Automation (http://blogs.vmware.com/tap/?p=935)The VMware Technology Alliances Partner (TAP) Program provides many benefits to technology partners that enroll, including product licenses, marketing opportunities, training, roadmap reviews and VMware Ready certification for solutions that undergo the VMware Ready certification process. One valuable benefit to the TAP program is being able to post solutions to our marketplace, VMware Solutions Exchange […]

   

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  HP Discover 2014: VMware and HP Simplify Virtualization (http://blogs.vmware.com/partnernews/?p=1522)VMware and HP are working together to provide businesses with simple, scalable virtualization solutions. Check out these videos to find out how our joint virtualization solutions can make it easier for businesses to streamline their IT operations and reduce their IT operating costs.

   

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  Global Expansion of vCloud Air Continues (http://blogs.vmware.com/partnernews/?p=1520)On the heels of unveiling our plans for a new vCloud Air data center in Germany at VMworld Europe and making vCloud Air generally available in Japan, we recently announced our plans to extend the service to Australia in the first half of 2015. Together, these three new sites will help to accelerate vCloud Air […]

   

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  Increased Incentives to Drive Profitability Through End of Year (http://blogs.vmware.com/partnernews/?p=1516)Leverage VMware Power Plays…When you sell vSphere with Operations Management, Virtual SAN, or Horizon ENT & ADV you can earn an additional 10% on approved registrations through Advantage+ until Dec. 31, 2014. Learn more about our rewards.

   

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  Dare to Thrive at Partner Exchange 2015 (http://blogs.vmware.com/partnernews/?p=1514)This year VMware Partner Exchange 2015 has a Business/Technical focus and a goal of engaging with partners across the entire ecosystem, so don’t be surprised if it feels like it was created just for you. This event is an excellent opportunity to renew your VMware certification or validate new skills with significant discounts offered on […]

   

MORE NEWS AND DEVELOPMENTS FROM AROUND THE WEB

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  Management Pack for NSX for vSphere 2.0 (http://www.ntpro.nl/blog/archives/2815-guid.html)

   

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  Happy Holidays Part 3: Federation Treat “B” (http://virtualgeek.typepad.com/virtual_geek/2014/12/happy-holidays-part-3-federation-treat-b.html)Yesterday, I did a post on ESA here - which is an example of tight integration and packaging of vRealize Operations Management and the EMC storage portfolio. Today's Federation Treat cuts right to the core of the federation principle of...

   

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  Happy Holidays Part 2: Federation Treat “A” (http://virtualgeek.typepad.com/virtual_geek/2014/12/happy-holidays-part-2-federation-treat-a.html)As you might imagine, I get a lot of questions from analysts these days about "this Federation thing - what's the material benefit?" While people in equity markets thrive off speculation (and this becomes a self-fulfilling thing - speculation begets...

   

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  Happy Holidays Part 1: A New Tool (and a lesson) (http://virtualgeek.typepad.com/virtual_geek/2014/12/happy-holidays-part-1-a-new-tool-and-a-lesson.html)Happy Holidays to all my dear friends and readers! In the Sakac household - the tree is up, the elf on the shelf magically moves every night (man I hate the panicked late night "magic" almost every night). Sure, I'm...

   

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  SIOControlFlag2 what is it? (http://www.yellow-bricks.com/?p=15721)I had a question this week what Misc SIOControlFlag2 was. Some refer to it as SIOControlFlag2 and I’ve also seen Misc.SIOControlFlag2. In the end it is the same thing. It is something that sometimes pops up in the log files, or some may stumble in to the setting in the “advanced settings” on a host level. The question […] " SIOControlFlag2 what is it? " originally appeared on Yellow-Bricks.com . Follow me on twitter - @DuncanYB. Pre-order my upcoming book Essential Virtual SAN via…

   

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  Virtualization networking strategies… (http://www.yellow-bricks.com/?p=15714)I was asked a question on LinkedIn about the different virtualization networking strategies from a host point of view. The question came from someone who recently had 10GbE infrastructure introduced in to his data center and the way the network originally was architected was with 6 x 1 Gbps carved up in three bundles of 2 x […] " Virtualization networking strategies… " originally appeared on Yellow-Bricks.com . Follow me on twitter - @DuncanYB. Pre-order my upcoming book Essential Virtual…

   

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  Geek Whisperers episode: Marketing, Blogging & Community (http://www.yellow-bricks.com/?p=15711)I had the honor a couple of weeks ago to be on the Geek Whisperers podcast. It was very entertaining with John, Amy and Matt. The podcast deals about how I got started with blogging and communities and many other random topics. There are a couple things which I wanted to share. First and foremost, […] " Geek Whisperers episode: Marketing, Blogging & Community " originally appeared on Yellow-Bricks.com . Follow me on twitter - @DuncanYB. Pre-order my upcoming book Essential Virtual SAN via…

   

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  Blog Migration in the Works (http://blog.scottlowe.org/?p=3566)If you've noticed that new content has been sparse recently, it's because I've been busy preparing for a site migration. This site will soon migrate to a new platform and new layout. This article was originally posted on blog.scottlowe.org . Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies. Blog Migration in the Works

   

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  CrashPlan – Backup Adoption is the Killer App (http://www.penguinpunk.net/blog/?p=2413)I’ve been happily using CrashPlan for about a year now, after publicly breaking up with MozyHome, and sleeping around on Backblaze. I’ve signed up for another 3 years or so, so I’m fairly committed at this point. I’m a big fan of the Aussie DC presence and ability to use a local seed drive. The […]

   

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  #vBrownBag DevOps Follow-Up VMware AppVolumes with Chris Halstead (@chrisdhalstead) (http://professionalvmware.com/?p=5222)Chris Halstead demos the just released VMware AppVolumes (via the CloudVolumes acquisition). VMware AppVolumes Video You can follow Chris on Twitter @chrisdhalstead Originally published at http://ProfessionalVMware.com– Sign up for the live #vBrownBag broadcast at http://professionalvmware.com/brownbags/ where you can also get updates and view our past series such as the Automate All The Things series […]

   

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  #vBrownBag VCP-NV Follow-Up Objective 8 with Lawrence Kohan (@lawrencekohan) (http://professionalvmware.com/?p=5220)Lawrence Kohan covers objective 8 of the VMware VCP-NV exam. Objectives include 8.1 – Configure Roles, Permissions, and Scopes 8.2 – Describe NSX Automation 8.3 – Monitor a VMware NSX Implementation 8.4 – Perform Auditing and Compliance 8.5 – Administer Logging 8.6 – Backup and Recover Configurations VCP-NV Objective 8 Video You can follow Lawrence […]

   

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  ICND2 (CCNA) Study Guide (http://professionalvmware.com/?p=5214)Sorry for the post delay on this. But, here it is.. the 2nd part of the ICND series Study Guide. As with the 1st post, the core purpose behind these network exams is to help you better understand the concepts involved to achieve your VCP-NV (NSX). This exam (ICND2) is needed to complete the requirements […]

   

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A weird one this. We are not able to view Hosts or Clusters in the web client. Perfectly fine in the Windows client. We've increased Java memory for Web Services, Web Client Server and RAM for the vCenter Server VM itself, updated vCenter and our clients, rebooted numerous times and restarted Inventory Service.

We're on vCenter Server 5.5.0 2001466 and the Hosts are on 5.5.0 2143827.

If it was the CIM service I'd have thought that would effect the Windows client as well. Anybody have a similar experience?

I am using a Windows 7 64-bit OS laptop running VM Workstation v11.  I have a Windows 7 64-bit image running and would like to copy files from my regular laptop to the VM image.  I did not have this

issue when using VM Workstation 10.  I'm not sure if this is a bug or a setting I need to change.  Any ideas?

     Hello,

       I am trying to provide more than one subnet for a particular business group, through creating two network profiles, and having them assigned in the business group reservation.

  But, whenever a blue-print (Single Machine Blue Print) is deployed, it always take the IP from the first range, or first profile.

Is there any way to control this, and have the user decide which subnet he wants to get the Machine in ?

I am using VCAC 6.0.1

I still don't get it... Why is there an option to check box on multiple network paths, and multiple network profile in the reservation page (network tab), if its always just the first selected.

I appreciate if someone can clear this.