VMware Newsletter 5.08

From the editors Virtual Desk

For the past few weeks I have been experimenting with different formats for the newsletter. The goal was to create a balance between an easier to create newsletter as this can be very time consuming but also a better experience for my readers. I feel like I have been in beta for e whole year but it looks like I may have found a way to balance my needs and my readers needs. So I present to you what I hope will be the final major change for 2013.

So what are the major changes I have made. Firstly I will not be ordering the posts by blogger. Next I have reader the links back so you can click directly on any blog post you are interested in. This was a most requested feature and one I was keen to give back to you. This also helps with archiving and will ensure finding e blog post you are after is easy. I have also created just two main sections, one which will feature VMware bloggers at are on the official blog list and one that is for our external and vexpert bloggers who I rely so much on.

The headline of each article is now clickable and will take you tonthenoriginal article so please use this newsletter as intended as your weekly gateway to the best VMware news around.

Send me your feedback, likes and dislikes I am always interested in your opinion and will always respond directly to any feedback good or bad.

So thanks for sticking with me through all of the changes and I hope at this latest version works well for you however you choose to read the newsletter.

Best Wishes

Neil Isserow (Newsletter Editor)

Queensland Technical Account Manager

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VMWARE BLOGGERS

How to deploy SSO in a multisite configuration

For those of you administering multiple vSphere environments, getting a SSO multisite deployment up and running in a correct configuration is very important. Multisite deployments are where a local replica is maintained at remote sites of the primary vCenter Single … Continue reading →

Latest My VMware Release Showcases New Functionality

My VMware, the web site that provides our customers and partners with simplified management of product licenses and support, is sporting some brand new features requested by many of our users. The latest release enhances the site’s self-service capabilities, as … Continue reading →

VMware vFabric SQLFire 1.1.0 Released

A new version of SQLFire is now available for immediate download or trial. Highlight of changes in this release: vFabric SQLFire in 15 Minutes gets new users up and running on SQLFire with a quick tour of features and functionality. … Continue reading →

Putting the ‘Single’ Back in Single Sign-On (SSO)

Modern companies and IT organizations have many applications, both internal and customer facing. With these many applications your users are faced with the challenge of not only managing multiple sets of credentials, but are also forced to login to each … Continue reading →

How to Use the New GUI Features in vFabric Postgres 9.2

People have said code is poetry and information is beautiful, but let’s talk about graphical user interfaces (GUI) and ease of use. The PostgreSQL community has a multitude of choices when it comes to GUIs versus CLI. For vFabric Postgres, … Continue reading →

HOWTO: Deploying RabbitMQ Simulator on Cloud Foundry

Last week, we published the new RabbitMQ Simulator. I’m pleased to see how well it has been received by customers, with several very large scale RabbitMQ customers already incorporating it into their training and testing regimens. VMware employees in the … Continue reading →

ThinApp MSI without Project Folders

I have come across a scenario where the customer has lost the ThinApp project folders and left with ThinApp EXE. As the project folders are required to generate MSI, the package could not be deployed with VMware View due to … Continue reading →

How Many Link Aggregation Groups (LAGs) on a Host ?

In one of my earlier posts on “vSphere5.1 – VDS new Features”, I had discussed the LACP feature and stated that only one Link Aggregation Group (LAG) could be configured per VDS per Host. However, it seems that I was … Continue reading →

How To Re-Initialize The vCloud Director Appliance Without Redeploying?

This was a question I received on Twitter from Christopher Wells this morning asking if it was possible to re-initialize the vCloud Director Appliance. This was not something I had done before nor had a need for. I normally deploy … Continue reading →

vSphere Data Protection Error 30931 Failed to Initiate Backup or Restore

I ran into an interesting vSphere Data Protection (VDP) error: Error Code 30931: Failed to initiate a backup or restore for a virtual machine. Probable cause is the datastore for the virtual machine is not accessible. Naturally, I search the VMware … Continue reading →

vCloud Networking and Security 5.1 Edge Gateway High Availability

One of the many noticeable changes introduced with the vCloud Networking and Security 5.1 release is the availability of different sizes of Edge Gateway appliances: compact, large, and x-large. Large and x-large Edge Gateway appliances are deployed with 2 vCPUs. … Continue reading →

Auto Deploy Stateless Caching – Auto Deploy Server Outage

Continuing my blog series on auto deploy stateless caching. So far I’ve covered how stateless caching works, how stateless caching works with network isolated hosts, and how stateless that was really to investigate the new Organization Administrator features of the Edge Gateway in vCloud Director 5.1. I … Continue reading →

EXTERNAL BLOGGERS

Bare Metal Cloud for your Auto-Lab by Mike

Today Mike Laverick drew my attention to his blogpost about BareMetalCloud. He writes about the possibilities to run your virtual ESXi host on their cloud offering. And best of all, by using a promocode, something like MikeLaverickIsAnAwesomeDudeAndThisWillGiveMeCloudForFree or maybe a shorter version, you can get free access. Read all about it on Mike’s blogpost: Bare Metal [...] See full post at: Bare Metal Cloud for your Auto-Lab by Mike

VMware Horizon View 5.2 – Storage Enhancements

Last week saw VMware release the latest version of VMware View, VMware Horizon View 5.2. While there are a whole bunch of enhancements in this release, I wanted to focus on a few enhancements that are specifically storage related. I’ve Continue reading →

VMware Horizon View Features Pack 1.0 – what it brings and what’s it’s good for?

VMware Horizon View Features Pack 1.0 was the missing piece of software that I recently pointed out after the Horizon View release. The features pack was missing initially when Horizon View was released few weeks back. In fact the real name is Horizon View Features Pack 1.0 and has 2 main components: HTML Access Web Portal [...] Read the full post VMware Horizon View Features Pack 1.0 – what it brings and what’s it’s good for? at ESX Virtualization . Check Out This Free Tool : VMturbo…

Top 6 Tips for Configuring vSphere Resource Pools

Resource pools are sometimes used the wrong way. In this free paper called Top 6 Tips for Configuring vSphere Resource Pools you’ll learn to understand what are resource pools and how to configure them right. Resource pools are very powerful, but when setup right. If not, they can affect performance of your infrastructure. Remember that if there [...] Read the full post Top 6 Tips for Configuring vSphere Resource Pools at ESX Virtualization . Check Out This Free Tool : VMturbo Community Edition You…

Nice Update – VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 5.1 (beta)

VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 5.1 supports Virtual Hardware version 9, Windows Server 2012, Windows 8, Ubuntu 12.04 and RedHat 6.0. Also, support for EXT4 as a linux file system is supported. First to note, the software is still in beta, but available as a Free Download (VMware-converter-en-5.1.0-1023810.exe : File size:170 MB). What’s new in VMware vCenter Converter [...] Read the full post Nice Update – VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 5.1 (beta) at ESX Virtualization . Check Out This…

VMware Best Practices on NFS – get this new PDF

This new whitepaper from VMware discusses best practices for design and deployments on NFS. Whether you’re using iSCSI or NFS, both protocol and storage devices must be correctly configured to obtain the best performance. In this whitepaper VMware Best Practices on NFS are discussed. You’ll learn what’s the best ways to setup load balancing. If [...] Read the full post VMware Best Practices on NFS – get this new PDF at ESX Virtualization . Check Out This Free Tool : VMturbo Community Edition…

VMware Will be a Public Cloud IaaS Provider

Let’s face it. Sometimes being an “enabler,” is admirable. However, if you’ve seen an episode of Intervention lately, being an enabler is not always a good thing. VMware’s IaaS strategy was to enable its partners to offer vCloud services and give it’s customers near unlimited (>9,500 partners) choice of cloud providers. There was a big [...]

How to: Win2K8 w/ PCoIP, Linked Clones, USB, Printing & much more on VMware View (DaaS)

One of the most common requests I get from customer and partners is – When will VMware View support Windows 2K8 as Guest OS? As most of you probably know Microsoft does not provide SPLA licensing model for Windows 7 to allow customers and service providers to create Desktop-as-a-Service offerings using Enterprise grade VDI solutions … Continue reading »

Mapping Replicas to View Desktop Pools

Identifying what replica is assigned to what desktop pool can be somewhat challenging in Horizon View. However, in some cases administrators need to know the object relationship to properly plan desktop and pool migrations across hosts or datastores. The PowerShell script bellow produces a output that demonstrate this relationship. To execute save the … Continue reading »

VMware Horizon View 5.2 Feature Pack 1 Released

VMware Horizon View 5.2 Reviewer’s Guide

New Technical White Paper - VMware Network Virtualization Design Guide

Bare Metal Cloud for your Auto-Lab by Mike

VMware Targets Business Critical Apps and Unix to VMware Migrations in APJ

In November 2012 I attended and presented at VMware vForum in Singapore and Sydney where VMware Professional Services made an announcement regarding targeting Business Critical Applications and Unix to VMware migrations with some new services offerings. VMware has also signed a announced a joint agreement with SAP at Sapphire on joint services to provide assurance [...]

VMworld 2013 Call For Papers Is Open

This time of year is always exciting as the planning for VMworld kicks off and the Call For Papers comes out. This is your opportunity to share with the world how you’ve used VMware technologies in innovative ways, share technical deep dive content, and educate others on how to achieve massive success. Here is my [...]

VMware Fusion 5.0.3 available now

Last week an update for VMware Workstation was released, yesterday the new update for VMware Fusion also became available. The release notes have the following details on resolved issues: Added support for Boot Camp partitions on 3TB disk drives. Improved … Continue reading →

Horizon View Unity Touch and HTML Access Not Working?

Just a quick heads up on this issue in case any early adopters are getting issues with either Unity Touch or HTML Access. After installing the Remote Experience Agent onto your virtual desktops you might find that Unity and/or HTML Access do not run when you connect to those virtual desktops. If this is the [...] Related posts: VMware Horizon View: Unity Touch VMware Horizon View: HTML Access VMware Horizon View v2.0 Clients: Released VMware Horizon View 5.2 Feature Pack 1: Released Using VMware View…

VMware Horizon View v2.0 Clients: Released

The latest version's of the Horizon View Clients were released late last night. The 2.0 release includes new GA releases of the Android, Linux, Mac, iOS and Windows clients. Additionally it includes an updated Tech Preview release of the Windows Store client. The iOS, Android, and Amazon clients are already live in their respective app stores! [...] Related posts: VMware Horizon View 5.2 Feature Pack 1: Released VMware Horizon View: Unity Touch Horizon View Unity Touch and HTML Access Not Working? …

VMware Horizon View: HTML Access

With the release of Horizon View 5.2 Feature Pack 1 comes another regularly requested feature, HTML Access. HTML Access allows users to connect to virtual desktops from their Web browsers without having to install Horizon View Client software on their client systems. The HTML Access Agent, which runs on Horizon View desktops, is the component that [...] Related posts: VMware Horizon View 5.2 Feature Pack 1: Released Horizon View Unity Touch and HTML Access Not Working? VMware Horizon View: Unity Touch …

VMware Horizon View: Unity Touch

With the release of Horizon View 5.2 Feature Pack 1 comes a great feature that I've been waiting for, Unity Touch. Unity Touch enhances the way that mobile client users access a desktop. Instead of trying to manipulate a full desktop image on a small device screen, users can browse between apps and documents in a [...] Related posts: VMware Horizon View 5.2 Feature Pack 1: Released Horizon View Unity Touch and HTML Access Not Working? VMware Horizon View v2.0 Clients: Released VMware Horizon View:…

VMware Horizon View 5.2 Feature Pack 1: Released

Late last night VMware announced the release of the Horizon View 5.2 Feature Pack 1. This maybe something that many of you may not be aware of, so I will try and give you a little more information on what's included in this first Horizon View Feature Pack. This Feature Pack release is in conjunction [...] Related posts: VMware Horizon View v2.0 Clients: Released VMware Horizon View: Unity Touch VMware Horizon View: HTML Access Horizon View Unity Touch and HTML Access Not Working? VMware View 5 –…

Why Choose View?

For those of you who are looking into a VDI solution for your business, you may want to check a website called: It offerers a lot of great competitive/comparison information for Horizon View and the other VDI solutions on the market today plus lots of Horizon View technical resources. So if you are not familiar [...] Related posts: VMware Horizon Mirage 4.0 Reviewer’s Guide VMware Horizon View v2.0 Clients: Released VMware Horizon View: HTML Access VMware Horizon View: Unity Touch Horizon View Unity…

VMware Horizon Mirage 4.0 Reviewer’s Guide

VMware has just released it's first Reviewers Guide for Horizon Mirage. The Horizon Mirage Reviewer’s Guide is intended for prospective IT administrators of VMware Horizon Mirage, as well as media reviewers of the product. Content Includes: What is VMware Horizon Mirage? Key features of Horizon Mirage Horizon Mirage packaging and licensing Horizon Mirage components and [...] Related posts: VMware Mirage: Speed Up Centralization In Your Test Environments VMware Horizon View v2.0 Clients: Released …

Quickly Backup ESXi Host Configuration with PowerCLI

Hey Peeps, vNoob Here! This is something that I think(not sure) a lot of people are simply not aware exists. You can quickly backup esxi host configuration with PoweCLI. Before I jump into it, I would remiss if I didn’t mention Cody’s post on backing up ESXi host configurations with vMA/vCLI, which you can find [...]

What is: Current Memory Failover Capacity?

I have had this question many times by now, what is “Current Memory Failover Capacity” that is shown in the cluster summary when you have selected the “Percentage Based Admission Control Policy”? What is that percentage? 99% of what? And … Continue reading → " What is: Current Memory Failover Capacity? " originally appeared on Yellow-Bricks.com . Follow me on twitter - @DuncanYB.

Automating storage with NetApp Workflow Automation

Do you wish you could automate your NetApp Storage infrastructure? Do you wish your storage admins could give an easy to use custom interface to other areas of the business allowing them to provision or use storage however they need whilst still applying best practice and corporate policies to the configuration? Do you wish you [...] Automating storage with NetApp Workflow Automation is a post from: Virtu-Al . Virtu-Al is one of the authors of VMware vSphere PowerCLI Reference: Automating vSphere

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My VMware

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