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  • VoIP Performance on vSphere 5

    VMware VROOM! Blog
    Julie Brodeur
    25 Jan 2012 | 1:19 pm
    The majority of business-critical applications such as Web applications, database servers, and enterprise messaging systems have been successfully virtualized, proving the benefits of virtualization for reducing cost and streamlining IT management. However, the adoption of virtualization in the area of latency-sensitive applications has been slow partly due to unsubstantiated performance concerns. By taking VoIP service as an example, a newly published white paper demonstrates that vSphere 5 brings the same virtualization benefits to latency-sensitive applications. In particular, the paper…

  • Preserving Multi-Cloud Choice and Flexibility with Cloud Foundry “Open PaaS”

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    VMTN
    26 Jan 2012 | 7:00 am
    Posted by Steve HerrodChief Technology Officer It has been nine months since we launched Cloud FoundryTM - the industry’s first open platform as a service (aka PaaS).  Cloud Foundry debuted with both the CloudFoundry.com service and as an open source project via CloudFoundry.org and we have seen a rich ecosystem of technology providers and service providers emerge around Cloud Foundry.  Offering a choice of clouds, developer frameworks and application services, Cloud Foundry, currently available in beta, makes it faster and easier to build, deploy and scale applications.

  • PowerCLI 5.0.1 vCloud Director Basic Usage

    VMware vSphere PowerCLI Blog
    Alanrenouf
    20 Jan 2012 | 3:25 am
    In the recent release of PowerCLI 5.0.1 we introduced a new PowerShell snapin which allows you to work with VMware vCloud Director, to help you get started with these cmdlets and show some basic examples we have recorded the below video. In this video we will show you how to connect to your vCloud Director instance and how to do basic information gathering tasks using the “Get-“ cmdlets, in future videos and blog posts we will show you how to take this further and introduce more cmdlets and ways to work with vCloud Director.

  • vShield Automation

    VMware Security & Compliance
    Rob Randell
    12 Jan 2012 | 5:29 pm
    Automation is a powerful tool, with automation we can not only make our lives as administrators easier and less cumbersome but also enable products to do things automagically that they never could do before.   This quote which I really liked, can be attributed to VMware's very own Alan Renouf.  Alan is somewhat of an automation genius here at VMware, putting together all kinds of cool scripts and workflows to do all kinds of neat stuff.  Well he has taken his skills and applied them to the vShield REST APIs, and has graciously made the work that he has done available for…

  • Devon IT Releases DeTOS 7.1 Operating System with Devon Zero Client Configuration Features

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    David Marshall
    27 Jan 2012 | 9:49 am
    Devon IT, a leading provider of thin client and VDI hardware and software solutions, today released DeTOS 7.1., the latest version of its Devon... Read more at VMblog.com.
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  • Preserving Multi-Cloud Choice and Flexibility with Cloud Foundry “Open PaaS”

    VMTN
    26 Jan 2012 | 7:00 am
    Posted by Steve HerrodChief Technology Officer It has been nine months since we launched Cloud FoundryTM - the industry’s first open platform as a service (aka PaaS).  Cloud Foundry debuted with both the CloudFoundry.com service and as an open source project via CloudFoundry.org and we have seen a rich ecosystem of technology providers and service providers emerge around Cloud Foundry.  Offering a choice of clouds, developer frameworks and application services, Cloud Foundry, currently available in beta, makes it faster and easier to build, deploy and scale applications.

  • It's Time to Rethink IT Management

    VMTN
    18 Oct 2011 | 9:00 am
    Posted by Steve HerrodChief Technology Officer The past few months have been very exciting at VMware. In July, we launched vSphere 5 and the industry's first cloud infrastructure suite. At VMworld in August, we unveiled our vision and products to liberate and support end-users in the Post-PC era. And today during the opening keynote of VMworld Europe (where we have more than 7000 registered attendees!) we are adding to the fun. We are announcing three new product suites that deliver a new approach to IT management – an approach that is specifically targeted at the “cloud era.” As…

  • An Oasis of Innovation in the Desert

    VMTN
    30 Aug 2011 | 6:36 pm
    Posted by Steve HerrodChief Technology Officer Each year there is one event I look forward to more than any other – VMworld.  VMworld brings together the leading industry innovators to share virtualization and cloud best practices, showcase breakthrough new technologies, get hands-on in the Labs, and catch up with old friends.  This week in Las Vegas we're hosting the biggest VMworld to date, with more than 19,000 virtualization and cloud geeks gathered to push the industry forward together (I remember being shocked to see 800 people attend just a few years ago!).

  • Towards Virtualized Networking for the Cloud

    VMTN
    30 Aug 2011 | 12:00 pm
    Posted by Steve HerrodChief Technology Officer VMworld 2011 is well-underway with more than 19,000 attendees gathered in Las Vegas to learn about, celebrate, and drive the future of both virtualization and cloud computing. The amount of news has been staggering, but I want to take more time to focus on one particularly important announcement in this blog; a new vision and approach for networking in the cloud era. Cloud computing holds the promise of accessing shared resources in a secure, scalable, and self-service manner, and these core tenets place huge demands on today’s physical network…

  • VMware Acquires PacketMotion

    VMTN
    26 Aug 2011 | 3:05 pm
    Posted by Dean CozaDirector of Product Management, Security I’m excited to inform the community that VMware today acquired PacketMotion. PacketMotion is focused on delivering user activity context for network segmentation and data access monitoring and recently introduced the PacketSentry Virtual Probe, which is optimized to efficiently monitor and enforce identity based network access controls in VMware vSphere. Security is an important component of VMware’s strategy to help companies transform IT through more efficient and automated cloud infrastructure. On July 12 we launched vShield…
 
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  • PowerCLI 5.0.1 vCloud Director Basic Usage

    Alanrenouf
    20 Jan 2012 | 3:25 am
    In the recent release of PowerCLI 5.0.1 we introduced a new PowerShell snapin which allows you to work with VMware vCloud Director, to help you get started with these cmdlets and show some basic examples we have recorded the below video. In this video we will show you how to connect to your vCloud Director instance and how to do basic information gathering tasks using the “Get-“ cmdlets, in future videos and blog posts we will show you how to take this further and introduce more cmdlets and ways to work with vCloud Director.

  • PowerCLI 5.0.1 Released with vCloud Director Automation

    Alanrenouf
    9 Jan 2012 | 6:20 pm
    Today PowerCLI 5.0.1 has been released. Normally with a .0.1 release you will see small bug fixes and performance increases. This is the case with this release, there are indeed bug fixes and performance increases but there is also something very exciting… PowerShell Cmdlets for managing VMware’s cloud solution – VMware vCloud Director. The latest bug fixes and other enhancements can be found in the change log here, this post will mainly cover what's new from the vCD PowerCLI snapin or VMware.VimAutomation.Cloud snapin. vCloud Director Cmdlets With the addition of vCloud Director…

  • Community PowerCLI Scripts Week 51

    Alanrenouf
    23 Dec 2011 | 10:39 am
    As Christmas is approaching at the moment it reminds me of good will and helping others, something the PowerCLI community knows all about.  I constantly see people helping each other, writing scripts, sharing tips or just meeting up to talk about PowerShell and PowerCLI.  Sometimes scripts are even written by multiple people with the same end goal in mind “Helping the community” The first of these scripts is such a script – multiple authors but first started by Josh Atwell, a great script for ensuring your VMs are ready for vMotion…. vTesseract.com – Y U No vMotion ? A…

  • Community PowerCLI Scripts Week 50

    Alanrenouf
    16 Dec 2011 | 10:25 pm
    Week on week I see some great scripts coming from the PowerCLI community, I thought it would be a great idea to share the top 5 scripts (in my opinion) and ensure PowerCLI users are aware of these great scripts. Lucd.Info - vSphere 5 Top 10 – HA A collection of great scripts which show how to detail information on vSphere 5 HA roles and configuration including heartbeat datastore information. Blogs.technet.com - Use PowerShell to Simplify Access to Data Through PowerCLI A guest script on the Microsoft Scripting Guys blog which shows some of the great features of PowerCLI and specifically…

  • Podcast: What's new in PowerCLI 5.0

    Alanrenouf
    5 Dec 2011 | 4:00 am
    If you have a commute to work or just want to keep up to date with what’s going on in the world of PowerShell there is no better way than to listen to PowerShell based podcasts, there are two great podcasts available at this point in time which focus on PowerShell and often include great PowerCLI tips and interviews. See the bottom of this post for a link to the downloads. Recently on the PowerScripting podcast episode 166, Alan Renouf from VMware Technical Marketing gave an interview on what's cool in the PowerCLI world, he explained how he got started in PowerCLI and also some of the…
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  • vShield Automation

    Rob Randell
    12 Jan 2012 | 5:29 pm
    Automation is a powerful tool, with automation we can not only make our lives as administrators easier and less cumbersome but also enable products to do things automagically that they never could do before.   This quote which I really liked, can be attributed to VMware's very own Alan Renouf.  Alan is somewhat of an automation genius here at VMware, putting together all kinds of cool scripts and workflows to do all kinds of neat stuff.  Well he has taken his skills and applied them to the vShield REST APIs, and has graciously made the work that he has done available for…

  • VMware CP&C announces major content release for VCM!

    George Gerchow
    2 Jan 2012 | 6:19 pm
    The VMware Center for Policy and Compliance (CP&C) is pleased to announce our latest content update for FISMA, GLBA, HIPAA, and SOX in vCenter Configuration Manager ™ (VCM).  Based off DISA’s last major release, we have now updated critical compliance requirements across several verticals. How does this help you address your compliance needs? Healthcare sector is a main area of focus for CP&C and VMware. With our updated templates, Healthcare Organizations can now leverage this content to prepare for upcoming audits in 2k12. With these templates and VCM’s automated…

  • Security in the New Virtualized World.....The "Cloud"

    Rob Randell
    9 Dec 2011 | 11:35 am
    Hi fellow security gurus….Ana Seijas from Security & Compliance Specialist team here at VMware. I wanted to bring you up to speed on some exciting things happening with virtual security and getting you on the Virtual Security Journey…… It’s been a few months since VMworld 2011 but security made a big splash!  So much so that I've been talking to a lot of customers about what they heard there.  With all the talk about cloud, virtual desktops and agility come new concerns for everyone on how are we going to secure these things we can no longer see or touch.   I…

  • "Let's get out of the weeds"

    Rob Babb
    5 Dec 2011 | 11:04 pm
    As part of VMware’s Security & Compliance Specialist team, we’re brought in to speak about a very wide range of concepts that extend from CPU architecture all the way up to the traditional tools like Firewalls, IPS’, Anti-Virus, and many others. Usually there’s some type of compliance question or concern driving the need to have a security conversation. And what most people don’t explicitly realize is that a discussion about security, whether physical or computer, always distills to the lowest common denominator being ‘trust’. The concept of trust is an interesting notion.

  • Using the vShield API

    Charu Chaubal
    23 Nov 2011 | 4:10 pm
    One of VMware's senior Cloud Security Architects, Michael Haines, has started a multi-part blog series on using the vShield API.  He has taken the approach of showing how the vShield API can be used in the daily life of a Network and Security Admin.  In his words In these series of blogs the Network and Security System Administrator will get hands on programming experience with the vShield API and learn how to consume the API in their own programs and applications. The Network and Security System Administrator does not need to be a developer, although basic programming…
 
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  • VoIP Performance on vSphere 5

    Julie Brodeur
    25 Jan 2012 | 1:19 pm
    The majority of business-critical applications such as Web applications, database servers, and enterprise messaging systems have been successfully virtualized, proving the benefits of virtualization for reducing cost and streamlining IT management. However, the adoption of virtualization in the area of latency-sensitive applications has been slow partly due to unsubstantiated performance concerns. By taking VoIP service as an example, a newly published white paper demonstrates that vSphere 5 brings the same virtualization benefits to latency-sensitive applications. In particular, the paper…

  • Site Recovery Manager 5.0 Performance and Best Practices

    Aalap Desai
    23 Jan 2012 | 4:54 pm
    VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager (SRM) 5.0 provides business continuity and disaster recovery protection for VMware virtual environments. Protection can range from virtual machines (VMs) residing on a single, replicated datastore to all the VMs in a datacenter. A new technical white paper about SRM has been published. In it, we look at several performance characteristics of SRM, including scalability and recovery, and how they behave in an environment that simulates real-life workloads. The paper includes several recommendations to enhance the performance of SRM and reduce recovery time.

  • VMware vCloud Director 1.5 Performance and Best Practices

    Xuwen Yu
    19 Jan 2012 | 7:59 pm
    VMware vCloud Director gives enterprise organizations the ability to build secure private clouds that dramatically increase datacenter efficiency and business agility. Lots of new features have been added to vCloud Director 1.5 to accelerate application delivery in the cloud. In this paper, we discuss some of the features of the vCloud Director 1.5 release, performance characterizations including latency trends, resource consumptions, sizing guidelines and hardware requirements, and performance tuning tips. Some highlights of vCloud Director performance and best practices include: When using…

  • SAP Three-Tier Benchmark on vSphere 5 Achieves New Levels of Performance

    Todd Muirhead
    16 Nov 2011 | 8:19 am
    HP recently published an impressive SAP three-tier Sales and Distribution (SD) benchmark result that was running entirely on vSphere 5. A total of 32,125 SAP SD benchmark users and 170,320 SAPS was achieved using an HP VirtualSystem Solution that was hosting 22 application server VMs and one database server VM.  A "Monster VM" with 20 vCPUs was configured for the Database server VM, which was a key component in enabling the new record setting results. The configuration used to run the SAP three-tier benchmark is impressive and is an indication of how vSphere is capable of…

  • VMware View 5 resource optimization

    Lawrence Spracklen
    7 Nov 2011 | 12:41 pm
    In last week’s post, we discussed 4 simple settings that we have observed deliver significant resource savings, while preserving user experience for typical desktop users. While we discussed the benefits of each setting in isolation, I just wanted to illustrate the overall gains. For runs using View Planner (which simulates a typical office user, with MS Office apps, browsers, Adobe reader, video playback, photo albums etc – more details can be found here), we observe a significant reduction in bandwidth when these 4 resource control settings are applied in unison: From the above plot it…
 
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  • Nick Lowe Joins AppSense As VP of Sales for EMEA

    Robin Wauters
    19 Jan 2012 | 8:52 am
    AppSense, provider of user virtualization technology, has announced the appointment of Nick Lowe as vice president of sales in the Europe, Middle East and Asia (EMEA) markets. Lowe’s responsibilities will include overseeing all sales, services and strategic alliances within the ... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

  • Alex Pinchev Joins Acronis As President And CEO

    Robin Wauters
    19 Jan 2012 | 8:35 am
    Alex Pinchev, former President, Global Sales, Services and Field Marketing at Red Hat, yesterday began his tenure as President and Chief Executive Officer at Acronis, a provider of disaster recovery and data protection solutions for physical, virtual and cloud environments. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

  • Nebula Appoints Dell Exec Dave Withers As SVP Of Global Field Operations

    Robin Wauters
    19 Jan 2012 | 7:01 am
    Nebula, developer of a hardware appliance that enables enterprises to deploy large scale private cloud computing infrastructures at low cost, has announced that former Dell executive Dave Withers has joined the company’s executive team as Senior Vice President of Global ... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

  • Former Cisco Exec Simon Aspinall Joins Virtustream As CMO

    Robin Wauters
    19 Jan 2012 | 6:55 am
    Virtustream has announced that Simon Aspinall has joined its executive team as chief marketing officer. Aspinall spent more than a decade at Cisco Systems and, at Virtustream, will drive strategic marketing initiatives as the company expands its xStream cloud solution ... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

  • VMTurbo Raises $10 Million

    Robin Wauters
    29 Nov 2011 | 10:57 am
    VMTurbo, a provider of intelligent workload management software in virtualized environments, today announced that it has closed a $10 million Series B round of funding, financed by returning investors Bain Capital Ventures and Highland Capital Partners. VMTurbo will use the ... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
 
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  • Technology Short Take #20

    slowe
    20 Jan 2012 | 4:47 am
    Welcome to Technology Short Take #20, the latest collection of various data center-related links, articles, and thoughts. I hope you find something useful here. Networking For all the writing and thinking I’ve done on VXLAN (here, here, and here), someone (thanks Ed!) mentioned something to me recently that I hadn’t even considered. (It’s so simple I’m embarrassed that I overlooked it.) VXLAN uses UDP for its encapsulation. What about dropped packets, lack of sequencing, etc., that is possible with UDP? What impact is that going to have on the “inner…

  • What Does FCoE Have To Do With VM Mobility?

    slowe
    16 Jan 2012 | 7:00 am
    I recently read over Stephen Foskett’s Eight Unresolved Questions About FCoE article, in which he outlines eight topics that should be addressed/prioritized in order to make FCoE, in his words, “truly world-class”. One of these topics was virtual machine mobility. Here’s what Stephen wrote under the heading “How Do You Handle Virtual Machine Mobility?”: As I described recently, virtual machine mobility is a major technical challenge for existing networks. The VMware proposal, the VXLAN, seems to be gaining traction right now. But this is only a solution for…

  • VSI 5.1 Issue and Fixes

    slowe
    13 Jan 2012 | 11:56 am
    As you might have already seen (Chad broke the news here, Itzik has more details here), EMC has released version 5.1 of the Virtual Storage Integrator (VSI), the vCenter plugin available to customers at no additional charge. I won’t revisit all the new features; rather, I wanted to bring to your attention a late-discovered issue with the VSI 5.1 release. If this information hasn’t already made it into the Release Notes, it should be there soon (there’s also an EMC Primus case being created). Here’s the lowdown: there’s an issue with VSI Storage Viewer 5.1 that…

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    9 Jan 2012 | 2:00 am
    .osx at master from mathiasbynens/dotfiles - GitHub This page has a collection of Terminal commands for various Mac OS X tweaks, like showing the full POSIX path in the title bar of Finder windows.

  • Technology Short Take #19

    slowe
    3 Jan 2012 | 2:20 pm
    Welcome to Technology Short Take #19, the first Technology Short Take for 2012. Here’s this year’s first collection of links, articles, and thoughts regarding virtualization, storage, networking, and other data center technology-related topics. I hope you find something useful! Networking While configuration limits aren’t the most exciting reading, they are important from time to time. Here’s some configuration limits for the UCS 6100 and 6200 series. Understanding the differences—both positive and negative—between the various approaches to solving a…
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  • Vote for your favorite VMware & virtualization blogs

    Gabrie van Zanten
    24 Jan 2012 | 2:15 pm
    Eric Siebert has once again started a poll to ask people to vote for their favorite VMware & Virtualization blogs. On his vSphere-Land page you can see the results of the previous voting. This year Eric has added some extra categories for which you can vote. When casting your votes please keep the following in mind about the blogs. Longevity - Anyone can start a blog but it requires dedication, time & effort to keep it going. Some bloggers start a blog only to have it fall to the wayside several months later. Things always come up in life but the good bloggers keep going regardless…

  • vCenter DRS rules bug when downgrading license

    Gabrie van Zanten
    13 Jan 2012 | 5:27 am
    Normaly when installing a vSphere environment for new customers, I wait with entering the correct licenses until the environment is ready and can be moved to production. Until today I never ran into any issues with that since most of our customers buy Enterprise or Enterprise Plus edition. Today I discovered that after entering a vSphere Standard license, you might run into an issue with DRS where the affinity rules stay in effect. As best practice we usually put the vCenter VM on the first host in the cluster using a VM to Host affinity rule in DRS. A few days after entering the vSphere…

  • VMware Tools version number higher than expected

    Gabrie van Zanten
    11 Jan 2012 | 1:46 pm
    Today, when performing a VMware Health Check, I came across a strange issue with a customer of mine. Well, issue is maybe a big word, but I discovered the VMware Tools version some of the VMs had running, were newer than the VMware Tools version from a newly installed VM. To make sure I double checked by removing the VMware Tools and reinstalling them, again the VMware Tools version was less than the tools version of the suspicious VMs. The VMs with the very high VMware Tools version had version 8448 running. When checking the VMware Tools about page, it showed:  8.8.0 build 471268. The…

  • VKernel interview at Dutch VMUG

    Gabrie van Zanten
    5 Jan 2012 | 5:39 pm
    At the Dutch VMUG on December 9th, 2011 I was asked to do a little interview with Alex Rosemblat from VKernel. We spoke about the presentation I did at the VMUG in which I talked about my VMware vSphere Health Check. See the pages about the Health Check in the top menu bar. Also check out VKernel’s latest release of VKernel vOperations Suite which offers a great way to do performance and capacity management of your vSphere and Hyper-V environment. Sorry Alex about the part after 5min10 See full post at: VKernel interview at Dutch VMUG

  • How to make vCenter datastore alarms useful

    Gabrie van Zanten
    5 Jan 2012 | 7:00 am
    When visiting customers I noticed that the VMware admin often doesn’t really know how much free space is left on the datastores and wether action is needed to free up space or get extra capacity. When I show them the datastore overview in the VI Client that shows the warnings and alerts for the datastores, it turns out that they don’t often look at this page because it gives too many false alarms. These false alarms happen because the default values right out of the box are set at 75% for a warning to trigger and 85% for an alarm to trigger. In most cases this is much too soon as…
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  • Video - VMware vCenter Infrastructure Navigator - Install and Configure

    27 Jan 2012 | 1:36 pm
    VMware vCenter Infrastructure Navigator is an application awareness plug-in to vCenter Server, and provides continuous dependency mapping of applications. Infrastructure Navigator offers application context to the virtual infrastructure administrators to monitor and manage the virtual infrastructure inventory objects and actions. Administrators can use Infrastructure Navigator to understand the impact of the change on the virtual environment in their application infrastructure.Infrastructure Navigator helps virtual infrastructure administrators perform the following tasks: - Make accurate…

  • Video - Installing vCenter Server 5.0 - Quick Start

    26 Jan 2012 | 3:08 pm
    VMware vCenter Server allows you to centrally manage hosts from either a physical or virtual Windows machine, and enables the use of advanced features such as vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS), vSphere High Availability (HA), vSphere vMotion, vSphere Storage vMotion, and vSphere Auto Deploy. You can install vCenter Server in a Microsoft Windows virtual machine that runs on an ESXi host. Deploying the vCenter Server system in the virtual machine has the following advantages:- You can provide high availability for the vCenter Server system by using vSphere HA.- You can migrate the VM…
 
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  • SRM Communications – TCP 80/443

    Mike Laverick
    18 Jan 2012 | 4:25 am
    One of my readers recently contacted me about how SRM communicates to vCenter both during an install, and then afterwards once the service is up and running. The odd thing is this… During the install the communication to vCenter appears to be non-secured on TCP port 80, but after the install is on the secured port of TCP 443… In the book I conjecture that some redirection takes place, its actually a little bit more sophisticated than that… Here’s what the offical guide says:  Port 80 is provided as the default to use for the initial connection to the remote site.

  • Chinwag with Ed Czerwin [Episode 67]

    Mike Laverick
    13 Jan 2012 | 3:05 am
    If first meet Ed Czerwin in the flesh last year at the Boston TechField Day. We bumped into each other again in VMworld, and I’ve been planning to have him on my show for a while. Ed is prolific blogger and is co-host of virtualization podcast vSoup. If you want to follow Ed on Twitter then you can locate him here We chat around a number of topics including: Is a multi hypervisor datacenter a real future option What is virtualization adoption in Asia pacific like? Where are they on their journey? Is vSphere5 is proving as popular as vSphere4? What’s your opinion on the whole VMTN…

  • Managing SSL Certificates in View 5.0

    Mike Laverick
    12 Jan 2012 | 11:08 am
    You might not know this but in VMware View 5.0 the screws have been tightened light bit more with regards to View Client and SSL certificates. Up until this point you could get away with using the bulti-in certificates generated by the installer. That’s no longer the case, because just as with web-browsers – the new clients all check to see if the certificate matches the name that your connecting with and whether or not the certificate is trusted. Users can find these sort of pop-ups alarming, and you can guarantee a certain proportion of them will find up at the feet of the help…

  • Toronto VMUG User Conference – 7th Feb

    Mike Laverick
    10 Jan 2012 | 7:27 am
    Good news! The Toronto VMUG has its announced its date for its User Conferrence – it’s on the 7th Feb to be held at: 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Hyatt Regency Toronto 370 King Street West, Toronto, Ontario M5V 1J9 Map & Directions are here… Agenda has yet to be set but I will be speaking – mostly a key note… Click at the big image above to register and keep an eye on the event as the agenda is worked on…

  • SRM F&Gs…

    Mike Laverick
    9 Jan 2012 | 8:27 am
    Today I received my first hard copy of the new SRM 5.0 book. Certainly nice to see it in the flesh, compared to having it on my IPAD on via the Kindle App. Along side the final book was stack of F&Gs… What’s F&Gs you ask? It standard for “Folded & Gathered Sheets”. These are like little “pamplets” each one went put together as whole becomes a completed book during the binding process. Publishers use F&Gs to allow the author to record any corrections wanted in the second printing of the book. The author (that’s me) marks his or her…
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  • VMware VSA capacity increases with new RAID requirements

    Beth Pariseau
    23 Jan 2012 | 9:49 am
    The vSphere Storage Appliance (VSA) released with vSphere 5 now supports more usable capacity per host thanks to relaxed RAID requirements, according to a VMware blog post. RAID, or Random Array of Independent Disks, refers to the way data is striped and / or mirrored across disks to achieve redundancy. Higher RAID levels afford better data protection, but can eat up more disk capacity. Previously, the VSA required RAID 10, which offers high levels of data protection, but contributed to a 75% capacity overhead for the overall VSA. Now, the VSA supports RAID 5 or RAID 6, which use fewer disks…

  • VMware previews cloud-based customer lab at NEVMUG

    Beth Pariseau
    20 Jan 2012 | 10:55 am
    VMware officials unveiled a new offering designed to help IT pros run proof-of-concepts in the cloud at yesterday’s well-attended New England VMware User Group Winter Warmer at Gillette Stadium. The new program, called Virtual Customer Labs, will use the same underlying technologies as the Hands-on Labs at VMworld, according to a lunch session presented by Josh Liebster, a systems and sales engineer for VMware. It will allow users to test various VMware products “without having to worry about any Active Directory mishaps or storage being misconfigured.” Technologies…

  • Shoring up vCenter in Auto Deploy environments

    Beth Pariseau
    18 Jan 2012 | 1:27 pm
    One example of the growing criticality of vCenter comes with vSphere 5’s Auto Deploy feature. In certain disaster scenarios, its dependency on vCenter can send users down a ‘rabbit hole’ of availability issues if the environment is not designed correctly, experts say. Auto Deploy can be used to deliver host and VM configuration information across the network, while an Auto Deploy server manages state information for each host. It stands to be most appealing in large environments where quick deployment of new VMs is a must. In an environment where vCenter, the vCenter database and the…

  • Whither VXLAN?

    Beth Pariseau
    10 Jan 2012 | 2:32 pm
    I’ve been looking more deeply into the proposed IETF standard VXLAN of late, but my reading has left me with more questions than answers. VXLAN, or Virtual eXtensible LAN, submitted to IETF last fall and talked up at last year’s VMWorld, is a protocol for routing Layer 2 traffic over Layer 3 networks, with the goal of either expanding the available VLAN address space, or supporting inter-data center VM mobility, depending on who you ask. It’s also important to note that VXLAN, for now, is still a proposed standard that remains largely theoretical. Recently, a blog post by Scott Lowe…

  • Virtualization in 2012: Automation on the horizon

    Beth Pariseau
    10 Jan 2012 | 2:25 pm
    The following is an expansion on our 2012 predictions piece on virtualization management, which ran on SearchServerVirtualization.com last week. As server virtualization becomes mainstream, vendors like VMware have to come up with a new return on investment (ROI) proposition to sell to customers, and experts say to be on the lookout for a new sales pitch around automation and operational savings. “The purpose of automation is to create a new hard-dollar ROI for virtualization, basically opex savings by streamlining operations, as opposed to the old ROI which was capex savings that…
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  • VMware View Local Mode – Lessons learned

    Sven Huisman
    26 Jan 2012 | 3:43 pm
    I’ve been working with VMware View Local Mode for couple of weeks now and I wanted to share my experience. VMware View Local Mode allows a virtual desktop to be downloaded to a laptop or desktop and to be executed ...

  • VMware ThinApp online bootcamp

    Sven Huisman
    31 Oct 2011 | 7:52 am
    VMware is organizing a six-part bootcamp about ThinApp, VMware’s Application Virtualization solution. “…we show you how to use, deploy, and optimize VMware ThinApp. The  session will include everything from deployment best practices, tips & tricks for performance enhancement, and improving ...

  • VMworld 2011 – Interview with Liquidware Labs

    Sven Huisman
    3 Oct 2011 | 5:21 pm
    During VMworld 2011 in Las Vegas, Peter van den Bosch and I had an interview with David Bieneman and Chris Akerberg from Liquidware Labs. We discussed Stratusphere Fit and the new Stratusphere Designer. We also talked about FlexApp and Profile ...

  • VMware ThinApp Factory, Technical Preview

    Sven Huisman
    15 Sep 2011 | 3:45 pm
    At VMworld 2011 in Las Vegas I attended the Hands-on lab “Solving Application Management Challenges with Application Virtualization” (HoL23). A big part of this HoL is about ThinApp, from basic to more advanced. If you are going to Copenhagen and take ...

  • VMworld 2011 – Video of the vExperts CTO party

    Sven Huisman
    7 Sep 2011 | 3:41 pm
    I was one of the lucky vExperts who was invited for a VMware CTO party at VMworld. I must admit, this was the best “party” of VMworld this year. Not just because of the great food, nice cocktails and super ...
 
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  • Enterprise Software Roadmaps for Microsoft Products

    Scott Lowe
    31 Dec 2011 | 4:55 pm
    This is a few months old, but it’s a really nice presentation about what’s coming down the line for some of Microsoft enterprise-level products, including Hyper-V, Windows Server and Exchange. The short take: Windows 8 will be here in late 2012. Windows Server 2012/Hyper-VS Server 2012 will be here in late 2012/early 2013. Office 2013 will arrive in 2013. Exchange 2013 will arrive in late 2012/early 2013. SharePoint 2013 will arrive in 2013 or later. more...

  • Hyper-V network adapter differences

    Scott Lowe
    31 Dec 2011 | 10:38 am
    When you add a new network adapter to Hyper-V, you’ll notice (see the Figure below) that you have two options from which to choose: “Network Adapter” and “Legacy Network Adapter”. How do you know when to choose one or the other Here’s a simple rule of thumb: If the virtual machine needs to boot using a Pre-eXecution Environment (PXE) or if your operating system requires access to the network before you’re able to install the Hyper-V Integration Services. more...

  • VMware View comes to Mac OS X

    Jason Conger
    31 Dec 2011 | 6:43 am
    VMware has released a View Client with PCoIP for Max OS X. You can download a Tech Preview now. more...

  • Free Tool: VMware I/O Analyzer

    Jason Conger
    31 Dec 2011 | 6:33 am
    VMware Labs has released another free tool to help you measure storage performance in a VMware vSphere virtualized environment called I/O Analyzer. I/O Analyzer automates the traditional storage performance analysis cycle and reduces the performance diagnosis time from days to hours. more...

  • Optimizing Desktops hosted on Citrix XenApp 6.x

    Jason Conger
    30 Dec 2011 | 6:16 pm
    Publishing desktops via Citrix XenApp technology is still a popular route many companies take due to user density, complexity, cost, etc. This technique of publishing a desktop from a XenApp server is sometimes refereed to as "hosted shared desktops" and is ideally suited for task workers where personalization is not required. more...
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    The State of Security

  • Experiment: Knowledge Fuels Ideas, Experience Guides

    Adam Montville
    26 Jan 2012 | 10:26 am
    When I was but a wee lad, I was given chemistry sets, electrical sets (low voltage, I promise), erector sets, and piles of books about the world and its inhabitants.  Knowledge fueled ideas and experience was my guide.  While I’m quite certain I didn’t have the scientific method mastered at the age of eight, I [...]

  • How do you eat an elephant?

    Shawna Turner-Rice
    25 Jan 2012 | 10:15 am
    If we were hoping for news related to breaches to slow down now that we were out of 2012, it looks like we’re already out of luck, even though we aren’t out of January. Seeing Symantec and Zappos in the news already this year can make those responsible for protecting their organizations feel like there’s [...]

  • Security-to-Business: Some translation required

    Dwayne Melancon
    24 Jan 2012 | 10:00 am
    I’ve had a lot of interest around my recent posts on how to communicate the value of information security to the business.  With that in mind, I wanted to share a method used by one of the enterprises I’ve been working with. Security & the Business: The “Mars and Venus” problem In this enterprise’s past, [...]

  • Predictability and Visibility: The Cure for Sleepless Nights

    Cindy Valladares
    23 Jan 2012 | 10:26 am
    What makes security, risk and compliance officers sleep at night? Key factors include: visibility, predictability, optimization & business alignment.

  • Breaches: truth or consequence

    Dwayne Melancon
    18 Jan 2012 | 4:00 am
    I’m a Zappos customer, having bought quite a number of pairs of shoes for my family, and I got an email this week with very clear notification that their site had been breached, along with a lot of information regarding exactly what had been compromised.  I don’t like it that there was a breach, but [...]
 
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    Yellow Bricks

  • vCD Allocation Models – the vCD 1.5 update

    Duncan Epping
    26 Jan 2012 | 7:35 am
    My post on vCloud Director Allocations Models back in September 2010 has always done fairly well in terms of view/visits. Lately I have been receiving some offline questions about how valid this article still is with vCloud Director 1.5 so I decided to go through the same exercise here. Instead of doing a full copy I will just copy and paste the characteristics section for each of the three different Allocation Models. For those who can’t be bothered the short summary is, nothing has changed… I only discovered something which I did not notice the first time around. Allocation Pool…

  • vCloud Director Appliance Password

    Duncan Epping
    26 Jan 2012 | 2:31 am
    Although this is documented on page 59 of the excellent Evaluators Guide I figured it wouldn’t hurt to write a tiny blog post. I found myself googling for it multiple times already with no succes, so there must be more people facing that “problem”. Below you can find the passwords of the vCloud Director Appliance and the embedded database, just in case you need it: VMware vCloud Director Appliance: username = root password = Default0 VMware vCloud Director Appliance/Oracle Database 11g R2 XE instance: username = vcloud password = VCloud While we are at it, these are the…

  • Re: when to disable HA? /cc @hashmibilal

    Duncan Epping
    25 Jan 2012 | 2:28 am
    Bilal Hashmi wrote a nice article about HA today and in this article he asked a couple of questions. As I think the info is useful for everyone I decided to respond through a blog article instead of by commenting. Let me start by saying that in general HA should never be disabled. The later versions of vSphere have a neat option called “Enable Host Monitoring”. This option should be used for scheduled network maintenance. The difference between disabling host monitoring and disabling HA is that disabling host monitoring does not cause a full reconfiguration (see screenshot below)…

  • Top VMware/virtualization blogs 2012 voting starts today

    Duncan Epping
    24 Jan 2012 | 8:40 am
    Yes, it is that time of the year again… vSphere-land.com’s voting for the Top 25 Blogs worldwide has started again. I had the honor of placing 1st four consecutive times, but the competition is huge this year with excellent newcomers like Chris Colotti, scripting warriors like William Lam and Alan Renouf and of course my long time rival/friend Chad Sakac. I am hoping each of you will select the top-10 blogs based on quality, longevity and frequency. (I personally find length of the article irrelevant, content is King!) I did want to list my top 10 articles over the last 12 months: The…

  • iBook / Nook? What really?

    Duncan Epping
    24 Jan 2012 | 2:37 am
    It took us a while to figure this one out, but finally we managed to create a proper epub version of our book. Converting from Kindle to iBooks / Nook is not easy, but after using multiple tools and manually editing the book using Sigil we managed to create version which was submitted to the iBooks store and Barnes & Nobles a couple of weeks ago. This morning I noticed that the book has been made available. So for all those who have been asking about it, here are the links: iBook – $ 9.99 Nook – $ 9.99 We hope you will enjoy it! "iBook / Nook? What really?" originally appeared…
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  • VIDEO: VMware’s Super-Cool vSphere CLI and Power CLI 5 Posters (Thanks!)

    David Davis
    25 Jan 2012 | 12:31 pm
    I just received in the mail from VMware a package with two brand-new super-cool posters inside. They sent me the new PowerCLI 5.0 poster and (one I have never seen before) the VMware ESXi 5 Reference poster. I created the video below to show you what they look like and say thanks to great people like @jtroyer and @heyitspablo. I did find that you can download the new PowerCLI 5.0 poster and the VMware ESXi 5 Reference posters, here, at their respective links.

  • VMware View 5 Video Training Now Available by @Bknudtson @Wolfbrthr

    David Davis
    24 Jan 2012 | 12:34 pm
    VMware vExperts Brian Knudtson (@BKnudtson) and Lane Leverett (@WolfBrthr) will teach you how to get VMware View 5 up and running in this new video training course from TrainSignal called “VMware View 5 Essentials”. They will teach you everything you need to know to get your environment up and running in just over 7 hours. You’ll learn how to install View components, manage user profiles and data, setup location-based printing, and much more. VMware View 5 Essentials covers new topics to help simplify desktop and applications management while increasing security and control.

  • VIDEO: Associating Service Profiles to Blades in Cisco UCS by @TheJasonNash

    David Davis
    20 Jan 2012 | 11:30 am
    In this video, you’ll learn what how to associate service profiles to blades in Cisco UCS. This video is a piece of Jason Nash’s new Cisco UCS video training course from TrainSignal. For more information on learning Cisco UCS, checkout the TrainSignal Implementing Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) Training video by Jason Nash, VCDX.

  • VIDEO: What is Cisco UCS and Why Do I Need It? (by @TheJasonNash)

    David Davis
    20 Jan 2012 | 8:29 am
    In this video, you’ll learn what Cisco UCS is and why you need it, from the perspective of Jason Nash, VCDX. This video is a piece of Jason’s new Cisco UCS video training course and, in this video, Jason will talk about what he will cover in course. For more information on learning Cisco UCS, checkout the TrainSignal Implementing Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) Training video by Jason Nash, VCDX.

  • Video: Deploying Personalized Desktops in VMware View 5 by @BKnudtson

    David Davis
    17 Jan 2012 | 12:56 pm
    This 5 minute sample is from the TrainSignal View 5 Essentials Training course (releasing end of January 2012). In this lesson, Brian Knudtson (@bknudtson) shows us how to deploy a personal virtual desktop for a VMware View user. You can learn more about the full course over at TrainSignal: View 5 Essentials Video Training.
 
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  • Synology Cloud Services: Cloud Station – Your personal cloud

    Roy Mikes
    16 Jan 2012 | 12:35 pm
    Synology announced the official start of the DiskStation Manager (DSM) 4.0 beta program at CES 2012. CES is the world’s largest consumer technology tradeshow which is held in Las Vegas. Among several new features and improvements, Cloud Station is the major update. During this beta program, you are invited to test drive Synology’s newest NAS OS iteration, and offer feedback, including the new Cloud Station. And you are more than welcome to do so. Cloud Station offers users a great and simple way to keep their data in sync, including change history, from anywhere. Unlike licensed…

  • New Year and New Exam- Prepping for the VCP5

    sbeaver
    9 Jan 2012 | 2:38 pm
    Happy New Year and welcome to 2012 and as is customary this time of year, I would like to start things out in 2012 with a New Year’s Resolution.  My resolution this year is to take the VMware VCP5 exam before the class requirement grace period comes to an end for all of us VCP4s.  When I see that someone has made a post that they passed an exam that I need to take, I have a question that immediately comes to my mind. What did you use as your reference and study material?  Since the clock is ticking for a lot of us to complete the exam, I wanted to share some of the resources that I will…

  • EMC Avamar: a deduplication way to go

    Roy Mikes
    5 Jan 2012 | 2:01 pm
    EMC Avamar is a sourcebase global deduplication solution which enables fast, efficient backup and recovery by reducing the size of backup data at the client before it is transferred across the network and stored. Avamar’s data deduplication dramatically reduces network traffic by only sending unique blocks over LAN/WAN. Blocks that were previously stored are never backed up again. This means huge savings in bandwidth for backup, a lot less disk storage needed on the back end, and most importantly very fast backups often as much as ten times faster. Avamar backups can be quickly recovered in…

  • Big Data is Thriving. Is RDBMS Dead?

    jkaskade
    21 Dec 2011 | 4:46 pm
    MapReduce vs. RDBMS People think that MR is this new transformative technology…..new? No. Transformative? Yes. Although it might seem that MapReduce (MR) and parallel DBMSs are different, it is actually possible to write almost any parallel-processing task as either a set of database queries or a set of MR jobs. When you look at the semantics of the MR model, you’ll find that its approach to filtering and transforming individual data items (tuples in tables) can be executed by a modern parallel DBMS using SQL. Even though the Map operations are not easily experssed in SQL, many DBMSs…

  • How to Deploy a VM or vApp from vCloud Director

    kcoleman
    21 Dec 2011 | 4:44 pm
    I got a request internally for a simple step-by-step of how to deploy a vApp or VM from vCloud Director because the IT group has no experience with vCloud. I toiled on putting this blog article up because the simplicity is just, well, simple. Thanks to a few twitterati (@P2Vme, @angeloluciani, @jmichelmetz, and @mtellin) for making me do it anyway. here we go Before you begin, you need to know where to go. vCloud has a few different portals but there is going to be one defined for your particular organization. For instance, my vCloud Director instance rests at…
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    The SLOG - SimonLong/Blog

  • VDI Paging Files – Big? Small? Or None At All?

    Simon Long
    25 Jan 2012 | 2:54 am
    For the past few months I have been spending a lot of time looking at the performance of Large VDI environments, where the problems lay and where performance can be improved. When designing VDI environments, a couple of things that you should consider are the .vswp file and the GuestOS paging file. In this article I am going to focus on the Paging file and hopefully in the not so distant future I will write a post about the .vswp file in a VDI environment. What is point of the paging file (also known as the pagefile.sys)? RAM is a limited resource. Virtual memory was introduced to help remove…

  • VOTE NOW – Top Virtualization Blogs 2012

    Simon Long
    24 Jan 2012 | 12:19 pm
    Another year has flown by!! You may or may not have heard that the vSphere-Land.com Top Bloggers in VMware and Virtualization Award nominations have been released and voting has commenced. Once again I'm both pleased and honoured to have my Blog on the shortlist amongst some of the worlds top Virtualization Bloggers. So if you'rw a regular reader of the various Virtualization Blogs, it would be great if you could take some time and vote for your favourite blogs. These bloggers, including myself work very hard to make sure you have the information you need to do your jobs, please give…

  • VMware View 5.0 Maximum Composer Pool Size

    Simon Long
    11 Nov 2011 | 4:30 am
    There has been a lot of talk around this but it seems that not a lot of people are aware, so I just wanted to clarify the point. As mentioned both at myvirtual.net and in the VMware View 5.0 Architecture Planning Guide The maximum VMware View 5.0 composer pool size is now 1000 desktops. This will make some customers very happy I am sure. Related posts:VMware View: Transfer Server Functions vSphere 5 Cluster and Resource Pool Configuration Maximum Exam My Last Year = Desktop, Desktop, Desktop VMware View 4.5: Rebalance Free VMware View training!!

  • Thinapp: VirtualComputerName

    Simon Long
    8 Nov 2011 | 11:50 am
    I have been creating a new Thinapp in which I am trying to trick the application into thinking it is running on the same computer each time it is executed. Little did I know, this was soo easy to do. I had been using ProcMon to find out which registry the software called to get the ComputerName from and then tried to add in a custom registry entry into the Thinapp virtual registry. As it turns out VMware have given us an entry in the package.ini that we can use instead: VirtualComputerName. So in the package.ini this is what the entry now looks like: VirtualComputerName=VIEW-PC Now every time…

  • Thinapp: Files Being Created In The BIN Directory

    Simon Long
    8 Nov 2011 | 11:40 am
    Whilst testing a Thinapp today I noticed that every time I ran the Thinapp a file related to that software package was being created in the Thinapp bin directory. This isn't something that I want to happen. The file created was named the same as the ComputerName of the vm it was being excecuted on. So as you can imagine, if you have desktop estate of 10,000 desks, it could get quite missy. With the help of Peter Bjork one of the VMware Thinapp specialists we worked out that the Entry Point that we were using to excecute the Thinapp didn't have a WorkingDirectory defined in the…
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  • Using Virtual Office Solutions

    admin
    24 Jan 2012 | 6:23 am
    Economic times are tight for many businesses these days. Many small businesses cannot keep up with the costs of renting a brick and mortar office and paying the salaries of a secretarial staff.... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

  • Serviced Offices for Your Business

    admin
    17 Jan 2012 | 1:30 am
    A serviced office is an office that is at another location but allows the users of this service to limit the need for traditional office costs but still maintaining a professional business image. The... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

  • Working From Wherever You Want

    admin
    9 Jan 2012 | 11:39 pm
    Some people imagine themselves sitting on a beach as their mind daydreams away from work. The idea of work may not seem so bad, however, if you the same beach could be a work site. This is the power... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

  • Virtual Offices: Web Conferencing Solutions

    admin
    3 Jan 2012 | 8:01 am
    Web conferencing has become a part of the world of vocational technology. With more and more people opting for a virtual office as compared to the traditional office set ups, telecommunication has... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

  • Save Money: Go Green at Work

    admin
    26 Dec 2011 | 3:00 am
    A virtual office has now taken over traditional office spaces in the form of working from home and thus opting for your personal office at home, telecommunication and live conferencing, which still... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
 
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  • Voting for Top Virtualization blogs is now open

    Brian
    24 Jan 2012 | 10:51 am
    This has become a tradition now for the last couple of years. Eric over at vsphere-land.com has opened up the voting for top virtualization blogs. This year brings the idea of special categories for blogs that focus on certain topics like scripting, VDI or something else. I would appreciate your votes if you have the time please fill out the survey. I am listed in the full blog list and in the VDI category. So remember to cast a vote for VirtualizeTips.com. You can vote HERE http://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/786135/Top-VMware-virtualization-blogs-2012   Thanks, Brian  

  • First look at new VMware View Client with PCoIP for Linux

    Brian
    12 Jan 2012 | 7:16 am
    Recently VMware released a preview copy of the new View 5 client for Linux that now supports PCoIP. This has been a long time coming, along with the Linux version the Apple version now includes PCoIP support also. I don’t plan on boring you with the install details as most of you are probably more advanced at installing applications on Linux then I am. To start off after open the View Client you will see a screen that looks like the one below in Image 1. Looks pretty much like all other View Clients, you enter the View Connection Server URL and connect. Image 1 Once you have tried to…

  • How to configure user persona management in View 5 – User Profiles

    Brian
    9 Jan 2012 | 9:48 am
    I was upgrading the lab at work a while back to View 5 and getting familiar with the new Persona Management features. So I thought it would be a good idea to put some of this in writing to share with others. Because I did not see much detailed information around this. In this post I will show you how easy it is to get user persona working in View 5 and how these features are setup and configured. This might be some what of a lengthy post but should be worth the read. With the release of VMware View 5 came a new feature for persona management or the ability to capture / virtualize the user…

  • How to monitor PCoIP performance in View 5 with WMI counters

    Brian
    14 Dec 2011 | 7:42 am
    Along with the many other features that are new in VMware View 5, there are now WMI counters to monitor and report on PCoIP performance. In this post I will highlight some of the ones that I think are most valuable. At first I was kind of mixed about how I felt VMware choose to implement these features. But for those of you that have tools that can monitor Windows PC’s via WMI or are used to using Perfmon you will have no learning curve for this. You can view these counters in Perfmon if you have access to the PC or the end user is familiar enough to help collect the data. Or if you…

  • Why the upcoming vCenter Operations Management Suite has me excited

    Brian
    22 Nov 2011 | 7:21 am
    I would like to start off by saying that it’s nice to see VMware starting to bundle up some of their offerings into more complete packages. Many of these tools were acquired recently and it takes time to integrate them with their own applications. I have not looked recently to see if there is any price advantage to buying the bundle versus the apps separately. The main thing is that they continue to add functionality by tightly integrating the apps to work together. The new vCenter Operations Management Suite has 4 versions available for the package, you can view the table here to…
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  • Server not connecting to the correct DFS server

    11 Jan 2012 | 8:08 am
    let me guess, your server is in site A, and instead of connecting to DFS server A, its connecting to DFS server B in site B? Bad cached DFS referralhere's your fix!From the client not connecting to the correct DFS server: {codecitation}ServerManagerCmd -install RSAT-DFS-Mgmt-Con{/codecitation} {codecitation}dfsutil /pktflush{/codecitation}This will instantly fix your problem! 

  • Find Active Directory object name from SID using Windows Powershell

    28 Aug 2011 | 9:04 am
    Found some erroneous SID's within a procmon capture, trying to figure out who they belonged to. What else to use, PowerShell!  {codecitation}$objSID = New-Object System.Security.Principal.SecurityIdentifier ` ("s-1-5-21-1220945662-573735546-1417001333-500") $objUser = $objSID.Translate( [System.Security.Principal.NTAccount])$objUser.Value{/codecitation} 

  • Find all Active Directory computers NOT in a group(s) using PowerShell

    23 Aug 2011 | 2:02 pm
    Stretching my legs yet again in the MS world using powershell... This time, I need to find all the computers in the Thick OU that are not members of WSUS groups! {codecitation}Get-QADComputer -searchroot "ccs.local/3_workstations/thick" -NotMemberOf "KDC_WSUS_WKS", "FHH_WSUS_WKS", "HDC_WSUS_WKS"{/codecitation}

  • Bulk add computers to active directory group using powershell

    18 Aug 2011 | 10:08 am
    Needed to go through the environment and find all the computers per datacenter and add them to their respective security groups so they would get wsus group policy applied to them: So i had to search for a list of computers using powershell, then add that very same list of computers to an active directory group  {codecitation}$pcs= Get-ADComputer -LDAPFilter "(name=sue*)" -SearchBase "ou=thick,ou=3_workstations,DC=ccs,DC=local" foreach ($pc in $pcs)      {    Add-ADGroupMember "FHH_WSUS_WKS" $pc     }{/codecitation} 

  • Add PortGroup to all ESX hosts in cluster using vOrchestrator

    10 Nov 2010 | 10:38 am
    I'm back in action and converting some of my utility PowerCLI scripts to vCO again.This time, I'm creating a workflow that will add a portgroup to vSwitch to all of the hosts in a cluster. First off, create your schema using the getAllHostSystemsOfCluster workflow object, and a scriptable task Next, create some inputs, I used: VLAN_ID, VLAN_Name and Switch_Name. On your scriptable task, define your In ParametersDrop some code in (generated with Onyx)And there you have it!the only thing is to make note of the: {codecitation}.configManager.NetworkSystem{/codecitation} prepend to…
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  • News round-up

    GCattelain
    23 Jan 2012 | 9:56 am
    I hope everyone had a nice weekend! In case you were not working last Monday, in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, please feel free to check out last week’s news round-up here. We’re three weeks into the New Year and there is no shortage of interesting news to be covered! As a reminder, I will be presenting at GWAVACon in Los Angeles this week, so if you’re attending please stop by; I’ll be speaking to “Managing your company’s smartphones and tablets with Matrix42 Mobile Device Management.” This week’s round-up will focus heavily on the iPad and its influence on the…

  • News round-up

    GCattelain
    16 Jan 2012 | 10:13 am
    Hi again, everyone, and thanks for checking out this week’s roundup. Before we get to some noteworthy stories from last week, if you’re planning to attend GWAVACon in Los Angeles in a couple weeks, I will be delivering a presentation on “Managing your company’s smartphones and tablets with Matrix42 Mobile Device Management,” so you should come check us out. As an added perk, attend our session and you’ll receive  a pretty cool 4GB USB drive! One more thing before we move on: if you missed it, “Virtual” Patrick Sauerwein wrote a great blog post on what the “Post-PC era”…

  • Five Realizations About the Post-PC Era

    PSauerwein
    12 Jan 2012 | 8:36 am
    BYOD – Bring Your Own Device – and consumerization of IT are major drivers for the Post-PC era. But “Post-PC era” – what does that really mean? I first heard the term during Citrix CEO Mark Templeton’s keynote at Citrix Synergy SFO last year, but I did not have a full understanding of what it meant. In 2010 Citrix was talking so much about “BYOD” that “Post-PC” was becoming a recognizable term. Still, I didn’t know if I fully grasped the concept. Then in late November Simon Bramfitt tweeted about the Post-PC era via Twitter and I took the opportunity to ask him for more…

  • News round-up

    GCattelain
    6 Jan 2012 | 2:53 pm
    Happy New Year! After a brief hiatus (and indulgence in way too many holiday goodies) we’re back in action bringing you your weekly dose of the top stories in the tech and virtualization world. To start things off, I’d like to take a minute to direct your attention back to a couple posts I wrote shortly before the holidays. Since the Consumerization of IT (CoIT) is such a hot topic, I decided to compile a list of Top 10 Consumerization Thought Leaders – so go ahead, check out who made the cut! We’ll begin the first news round-up of the New Year with an article about the 2012 Global IT…

  • Top 10 Consumerization Thought Leaders, Part Two

    GCattelain
    29 Dec 2011 | 1:19 pm
    This is Part Two of our consumerization thought leaders post. Click here for Part One David Mitchell Smith, Stephen Prentice, Gartner – The long-time Gartner analysts made one of the first formal declarations of the CoIT trend way back in 2005 when they announced in a press release that “Consumerization Will Be Most Significant Trend Affecting IT During Next 10 Years.”  The foretelling release contended that “… the majority of new technologies enterprises adopt for their information systems between 2007 and 2012 will have roots in consumer applications… As technology providers…
 
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