VMware Newsletter 5.09

From the editors Virtual Desk

Hi everyone, well it looks like I have found a winner with the new format. Apart from a few spelling mistakes caused by not thorough enough proof reading it seems as if the new format was received well so except for the occasional tweaks this will be the new format that we will work with.

I have been very busy with my customers focusing almost all of my energy on end user computing specifically View and Thinapp this week. It has been challenging for me as my knowledge of this space is definitely lacking and needs updating. I hope to rectify this with the DT cert sometime this year with as much practice as possible during that time so I am able to assist my customers on their journey to virtualise their desktops and apps.

Until next week enjoy the newsletter digest this week and click on the articles you are interested in to go to the full article.

Best Wishes

Jillian Rayner (Partner Business Manager) and Neil Isserow (Newsletter Editor)

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VMWARE BLOGGERS

Upgrading the VMware vCenter Server Appliance from 5.0.x to 5.1
Happy Friday to all of our VMware KBTV fans! We have a new video for your viewing pleasure today and this video will be of specific interest to any of our vSphere vCenter Server Appliance users. This video discusses and … Continue reading →
Searching the VMware Knowledge Base – Easier and Better Searching
Earlier this month, we made some small changes to the Knowledge Base search interface, in an effort to make your searching experience better. The Products drop down menu, accessible before you search, now shows only product names and not the … Continue reading →
Which Guest OSes Are Supported In vSphere?
A common question that I see asked on the VMTN community forums is the ability to programmatically identify which guest OSes (Operating Systems) are supported in vSphere using the vSphere APIs. This request usually comes in handy for folks looking … Continue reading →
Italian VMUG – April 3rd, 2013 – Milan
This is one for our Italian readers. If you are a VMware user and reside in Italy, we are having a great Italian VMUG event in Milan on April 3rd, next month. I will be presenting on VMware’s Software Defined … Continue reading →
ESXi Slow Boot with MSCS
This is an issue that has come up time and time again. The basic gist of the problem is that when there are Microsoft Cluster Service (MSCS) virtual machines deployed across ESXi hosts (commonly referred to as Cluster Across Boxes … Continue reading →
Locating vCloud Director Syslog, Installation ID & Other Settings Using The vCloud API
A few weeks back I needed to find the syslog settings for vCloud Director using the vCloud API for some testing, but after a bit of browsing through the vCloud API Reference, I was not able to find it. I … Continue reading →
Quiescing Oracle Database on Windows for Backup with VMware vSphere Data Protection Advanced
VMware vSphere Data Protection Advanced (VDPA) was announced in February and the bits just became generally available last week. One of the issues corrected with the release of VDPA was quiescing with Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) on Windows … Continue reading →
How To Prevent Host Profiles From Prompting for MAC Addresses
I’ve been asked several times if there is a way to get a host profile to stop prompting for MAC addresses. This is actually pretty easy, although arguably not very intuitive. Lets start with a quick example showing a host … Continue reading →
vCloud Director Hybrid Cloud Design Case Study
By: Chris Colotti This is a repost from Chris Colotti’s blog, chriscolotti.us. So all week I have been posting tidbits about the vCloud Director Hybrid cloud I have been building. So what was my purpose for doing so? Well I did it to make a couple … Continue reading →
To Our VMware Cloud Evaluation Users: We’re Sorry
We are aware of provisioning delays some users have experienced when signing up for the VMware Cloud Evaluation. We’d like to apologize to our users for exceeding the target provisioning time for new accounts. For those who are ready to give … Continue reading →
Liquid Data Center
By: Massimo Re Ferre’, vCloud Architect This is a repost from Massimo’s personal blog, IT 2.0 – Next Generation IT Infrastructures. Having worked for about 3 years with vCloud Director I have to admit that the networking subsystem is the one that takes more time … Continue reading →
A Who’s Who of Companies That Have Moved to the Cloud with VMware
A year ago we launched our “Another VMware Cloud” blog series to highlight the great stories from our customers, both large and small, that have successfully moved to the cloud with VMware. As VMware continues to make private, public and … Continue reading →
How To Configure vCloud 5.1 Hybrid Cloud Site 2 Site VPN
By: Chris Colotti This is a repost from Chris Colotti’s blog, chriscolotti.us. In the process of building my experimental “MonsterCloud” vCloud Director Hybrid setup I obviously needed to do some site to site VPN between the following locations: VMware Eval Cloud Stratogen Cloud My House The … Continue reading →
Securing your vFabric PostgreSQL VM
Especially in today’s world, security is top of mind for app developers, DBAs, and CIOs alike. One of the benefits that VMware strives to include in every product is a system of reasonable defaults for security. This generally means that … Continue reading →
Exploring the New Database Server GUI Features in vFabric Postgres 9.2
The vFabric Postgres 9.2 release seriously upped the user interface (UI) experience. In our post last week, we talked about the built in, VM-based GUI to help manage the system, network, and updates. This week, we’d like to take you … Continue reading →
10 Lessons from Spring Applied to Java Virtualization with vFabric
The Spring Framework became the de-facto standard for developing enterprise Java applications, and its radical simplicity was fundamental to its success. Why the “radical” simplicity? Because at the time, it was hard to imagine how creating such applications could be … Continue reading →
USB Device Redirection in VMware Horizon View 5.1 and 5.2
By Peter Brown, Senior R&D Manager, VMware, London, UK With the EUC Solutions Management and Technical Marketing team What Is USB Device Redirection? We are all used to USB devices on laptop or desktop machines. If you are working in … Continue reading →
Introducing HTML Access
By Mike Coleman, End-User Computing Last week we released the VMware Horizon View 5.2 Feature Pack, which included a couple of great new features: Unity Touch and HTML Access. Pat Lee just posted a blog on Unity Touch, and I’m … Continue reading →
Expanding the Market for Virtualized Desktops with High End Graphics
by Geoffrey Murase, Sr. Solutions Marketing Manager, End-User Computing There’s no denying that the desktop experience both at work and at home is becoming more graphics rich. Whether it’s viewing Adobe 3D PDF drawings in the office or participating in … Continue reading →
VMware at Enterprise Connect
by Geoffrey Murase, Sr. Solutions Marketing Manager, End-User Computing Enterprise Connect is happening this week and is probably the biggest conference focused specifically on the Unified Communications industry. Leading UC vendors such as Avaya, Cisco, Microsoft, and Mitel converge in … Continue reading →

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Enhancing VMware Performance – Three best practices for Storage and Server Admins
Free PDF which shows three best practices for Storage and server admins on How-to enhance Performance of VMware environments. To show storage and server admins some tips to avoid friction. This document written by Bryan Semple from Dell shows what involves a discussion between storage teams, application teams and VMware administrators. Enhancing VMware Performance – Three [...] Read the full post Enhancing VMware Performance – Three best practices for Storage and Server Admins at ESX Virtualization…
VMware VDP Advanced Now Available – how it compares to other backup products?
VMware vSphere Data Protection Advanced Version is GA. VDP Advanced is a new product is an enhanced version of VDP and I already reported on that few weeks back during the announcement. The VDPA scales up to 8Tb of deduplication storage as well as 400 VMs per VDP appliance. The product is sold separately with Per Physical CPU [...] Read the full post VMware VDP Advanced Now Available – how it compares to other backup products? at ESX Virtualization . Check Out This Free Tool : VMturbo Community…
Download VMware vCenter Multi Hypervizor Manager 1.1 (beta)
Having the possibility manage vSphere and Hyper-V v3.0 seems exciting for homelabers and users willing to run vSphere with Microsoft Hyper-V in the same environment with a possibility to manage both with single tool – VMware vCenter. This becomes possible thanks to new beta release of VMware vCenter Multi Hypervizor Manager 1.1 (beta). The product is [...] Read the full post Download VMware vCenter Multi Hypervizor Manager 1.1 (beta) at ESX Virtualization . Check Out This Free Tool : VMturbo Community…
VMware vCenter 5.1 Pre-Install Check Script released – New Fling
A new fling called vCenter 5.1 Pre-Install Check Script made its apparition at VMware Labs. A very usefull tool for consultants, IT or datacenter admins, which makes the life of upgrades a bit easier… -:). The vCenter 5.1 Pre-Install Check Script is a PowerShell script which check your current environment before upgrading to the latest vSphere 5.1 [...] Read the full post VMware vCenter 5.1 Pre-Install Check Script released – New Fling at ESX Virtualization . Check Out This Free Tool : VMturbo…
VMware Fusion and Fusion Pro 5.0.3 – Maintenance Release
After last week’s update for VMware Workstation 9.0.3 there has been an update for VMware Fusion users. VMware Fusion and Fusion Pro, the release 5.0.3. This release is also a maintenance release, which brings several fixes and new features, which one of theme is worth to mention directly here. It’s the support for large 3Tb [...] Read the full post VMware Fusion and Fusion Pro 5.0.3 – Maintenance Release at ESX Virtualization . Check Out This Free Tool : VMturbo Community Edition You may also…
Announcing VMware vSphere Design, 2nd Edition
I'm excited to announce details on the latest book project in which I've been involved: a new edition of the VMware vSphere Design book. This article was originally posted on blog.scottlowe.org . Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies. Announcing VMware vSphere Design, 2nd Edition
VMware Horizon View iOS Client 2.0 Un-trusted Certificates Work
Hey everyone, I am not sure if you all noticed this yet, but I updated my iPad and iPhone to the new VMware Horizon View client version 2.0 and it now does not error out on the self signed certificates. When VMware View 5.0 was released you recall many of us with labs and other ...
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Latest Fling from VMware Labs - vCenter 5.1 Pre-Install Check Script
Moving Linked Clone VM to different LUN without Data Loss
This week I received an interesting question from a colleague that I had also been asked in the past. However, in the past I was not able to present a good solution for the problem. Let me present the scenario. A VMware View pool of persistent desktops was created and provided to developers using the … Continue reading »
End-User Computing 1:1 – Episode 3
During many of my customer briefings, conference sessions and discussions with friends I frequently notice that many of the terms used in EUC (End-User Computing) are yet unknown to many – so are the benefits of the multiple different technologies being created and implemented in enterprises today – thinks such as MDM, MAM, EMM etc. … Continue reading »
VMware Fusion 5 Shared Folder lockup with Windows Vista, 7 or 8
For quite a while now (years) there had been reports of users having problems with the Shared Folders feature in VMware Fusion and a newer version of Windows (Windows Vista / Windows 7 / Windows 8). After clicking around on … Continue reading →
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 →
The Status of Microsoft Failover Clustering Support on VMware vSphere 5.1
The number of enquiries I’ve been receiving regarding Microsoft Failover Clustering, especially for Microsoft SQL Server Databases has skyrocketed in the past few weeks. I have been receiving a number of enquiries from customers and also from partners including cloud service providers. As a result I thought I’d write this article to help you understand [...]
vExpert 2013 Applications Open
John Troyer (@jtroyer) – VMware Chief Social Media and Community Evangelist, has announced that the applications for vExpert 2013 are now open. If you are an active and contributing member of the thriving VMware community and think you should be recognised as a vExpert then you should consider applying. Likewise if you know someone that [...]
VMware Horizon View: vSGA VIB’s and HCL Released
As part of the VMware Horizon View 5.2 release a few weeks ago, VMware introduced a new technology feature called vSGA (Virtual Shared Graphics Acceleration). To find out more about this technology, checkout my VMware View 3D Gaming Experience post. Two of the common questions I've been asked many times since the release of Horizon View [...] Related posts: VMware Horizon View v2.0 Clients: Released VMware Horizon View 5.2 Feature Pack 1: Released VMware Horizon View: HTML Access VMware Horizon…
Mark a disk as SSD and Local in ESXi 5.x
I was just working in my lab and wanted to play around with a vSphere 5.x feature. The feature I wanted to use required that the disk is SSD and the disk is Local. My lab environment is entirely virtual and I have no SSD. Here is what I did to accomplish it. The first thing you need to do is list [...]

EMC World Top 10 + SE Conference Details, Contests, and HOWTO get in…
EMC World 2013 has been in planning for months already… and will be HUGE. I’ll do another post on EMC World in a bit – but in the meantime, if you’re in the business of information (and who isn’t?) –...
Announcement: VMware vSphere Design 2nd Edition now available
I’m delighted to reveal that the new version of the VMware vSphere Design book is now available from leading book stores. The electronic versions are widely available now, and hard copies can be pre-ordered and should ship within the [...]
Awesome Fling: vCenter 5.1 Pre-Install Check
One of the things that many people have asked me is how they could check if their environment was meeting the requirements for an upgrade to 5.1. Until today I never really had a good answer for it but fortunately … Continue reading → " Awesome Fling: vCenter 5.1 Pre-Install Check " originally appeared on Yellow-Bricks.com . Follow me on twitter - @DuncanYB.
VMware vCenter Multi-Hypervisor-Manager 1.1 is out, sign up for it!
VMware vCenter Multi-Hypervisor Manager 1.1 is a minor release with the following new capabilities: Migration of virtual machines from Hyper-V to ESX or ESXi hosts. Support for the latest Microsoft Hyper-V3 hypervisor (as well as the earlier versions). Increased scalability … Continue reading → " VMware vCenter Multi-Hypervisor-Manager 1.1 is out, sign up for it! " originally appeared on Yellow-Bricks.com . Follow me on twitter - @DuncanYB.