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communities-emailer@vmware.com — Wed, 16 May 2012 03:15:38 GMT

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Connecting Clouds

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Wed, 16 May 2012 03:06:49 GMT

For those organizations on the journey of transforming their datacenters to meet the demand of a modern IT consumption model, it’s easy to envision what cloud euphoria could/should look like. That’s mostly because vision is quite cheap – all it takes is a little imagination (maybe), a few Google queries, several visits by your favorite vendor(s), and perhaps a top-down mandate or two. The problem is execution can break the bank if the vision is not in line with the organization’s core objectives. It’s easy to get carried away in the planning stages with all the options, gizmos and cloudy widgets out there – often delaying the project and creating budget shortfalls. Cloud:Fail. But this journey doesn’t have to be difficult (or horrendously expensive). Finding the right solution is half the battle…just don’t go gluing several disparate products together that were never intended to comingle and burn time and money trying to integrate them. Sure you might eventually achieve something that resembles a cloud, but you’re guaranteed to hit several unnecessary pain points on the way.

Of course I’m not suggesting putting all your eggs in one vendor’s basket guarantees success. Nor am I suggesting that VMware’s basket is the only one that provides everything you’ll ever need for a successful cloud deployment. In fact, VMware prides itself with an enormous (and growing) partner ecosystem that provides unique approaches and technologies to cloudy problems and beyond. What I am suggesting, however, is the need to pick and choose wisely. Well integrated clouds = well functioning clouds = happy clouds and happy customers. Integration means common frameworks and interfaces, extensible API’s, automation via orchestration, app portability across clouds, and technologies that are purpose-built for the job(s) at hand. And as a bonus, integration can mean leveraging what you already have – an infrastructure awaiting the transformation of a lifetime. That’s right, the cloud journey should not be a rip-and-replace proposition.

There’s another major component to this – while I spend the majority of my time helping organizations and federal agencies adopt the cloud and transform their infrastructures, there’s often something else on the customer’s mind that can’t be ignored. It’s a long-term strategy delivered in nine datacenter-shattering words: “I want to get out of the infrastructure business”. I’m hearing this more often than not and it cannot be ignored. What they are referring to is the need to eventually shift workloads to public clouds rather than continue to invest in their own infrastructures. This strategy makes perfect sense. As the adoption of public cloud services increases, more and more CIO’s are finding new comfort levels in handing over their apps and workloads to trusted cloud providers, albeit slowly. But this also introduces new challenges. How does an organization well on its way to delivering an enterprise/private cloud to the business ensure that future adoption of public clouds does not mean starting from scratch? What about managing and securing those workloads just as you would in the private cloud? Public cloud providers need to be an extension of your private cloud, giving you the freedom of application placement, the ability to migrate workloads back and forth, and providing single-pane-of-glass visibility into all workloads and all clouds. This endeavor requires the right planning, tools, and frameworks to be successful.

Here are the top “asks” from customers currently on, or getting ready to start, this journey (in no particular order):

Private cloud now…public cloud later (or both…now)
Workload portability (across clouds / cloud providers)
A holistic management approach
End-to-end visibility
Dynamic security
Cloud-worthy scalability

If any of this is resonating, then you’re probably in a similar situation. CIO’s are pushing the deployment of private clouds while simultaneously considering public cloud options. Therefor the solution needs to deliver everything we know and love of the private cloud while laying down the framework for public cloud expansion. Problem is not many solutions out there can do this. Public cloud providers often run proprietary frameworks and management tools to keep costs low and private cloud solutions are generally focused on just that (being private).

Enter VMware.

VMware has put a lot of effort in leveraging the success of vSphere – the cloud’s critical foundation – to help take a controlling lead up the software stack and deliver a cloud solution for both private and public (i.e. hybrid) clouds. And through the VMware Service Provider Program (VSPP), they have also enabled a new generation of cloud service providers that build their offerings using the same vCloud frameworks available to enterprises. As a result, each and every one of these vCloud-powered service providers instantly becomes a possible extension of your private cloud, placing the power of the hybrid cloud – and all the “asks” above – at your fingertips.

Here’s what that looks like from a 1,00ft view…

Let’s review this diagram:

1 – Physical Infrastructure: commodity compute, storage, and network infrastructure.

2 – vSphere Virtualization: hardware abstraction layer and cloud foundation. Delivers physical compute, storage, and networks as resource pools, datastores, and portgroups (or dvPortgroups).

3 – Provider Virtual Datacenter (PvDC) and Organizational Virtual Datacenter (OvDC): delivered by vCloud Director as the first layer of cloud abstraction. resources are simply consumed as capacity and delivered on demand.

4 – vCenter Orchestrator: key technology for cloud integration, automation, and orchestration across native and 3^rd-party solutions.

5 – vCenter Operations: holistic management framework for visibility into performance, capacity, compliance, and overall health.

6 – Security & Compliance: dynamic, policy-based security and compliance tools across clouds using vShield Edge and vCenter Configuration Manager (vCM)

7 – VMware Service Manager for Cloud Provisioning (VSM-CP): self-service web portal and business process engine tying it all together. Integrates with vCO for mega automation.

8 –vCloud Connector (vCC): single pane of glass control of clouds and workloads. enables workload portability to/from private and public vClouds and traditional vSphere environments.

Last but not least is the very important question of “openness” in the cloud (don’t get me started on heterogeneous hypervisors!). VMware spearheaded the OVF standard several years ago, which has been adopted by the industry as a whole as a means of migrating vSphere-based workloads to non-vSphere hypervisors (and the clouds above them) with metadata in tact. In fact, OVF remains a key technology in the Hybrid cloud scenarios and is an integral part of workload portability across clouds. OVF gives customers the ability to move workloads in/out of vSphere and vCloud environments and into other solutions that support the standard. Just beware of solutions that will happily accept OVF workloads but not so happily give them back (warning: the majority won’t).

The end result: cloud goodness, happy CIO’s, and streamlined IT. How’s that for a differentiator?

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@virtualjad

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vSphere + SQL 2012 + AlwaysON

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Tue, 15 May 2012 17:24:08 GMT

Over the weekend, one of my ex-colleagues reached out to me for my input on running SQL in a 2 node Microsoft Cluster. Of course, these servers were supposed to be VMs and all that. Now my initial reaction was, yeah sure you can do all this but there are restrictions that are placed on VMs that are part of MSCS. This included, affinity rules, exceptions in DRS, limited to two nodes only and all the other stuff that goes along with it. Read more..

Replacing characters by newline with sed

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Tue, 15 May 2012 15:48:55 GMT

Got some syslog files without CR/LF characters to analyze... only a "<166>" string on the place of the newline.

If needed, you can use this simple script to resolve it:

cat syslog.4.log | sed 's/<166>/\
/g' > syslog.4.log.ok

(there is really an newline on the command, so the <166> will be replaced by a newline...

Vmware Update Manager DB Move

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Tue, 15 May 2012 13:25:47 GMT

Hi Guys

Today we migrated our vcenter and Update manager db's to another DB server. The article below was followed however the Update Manager doesnt connect when vCenter is opened. I get the error " There was an error connecting to VMware vCenter Update Manager - [server:443]. Database temporarily unavailable or has network connections.

I have confirmed ODBC is correct etc. We're running VuM 4.1.

Thanks

dean

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&docTypeID=DT_KB_1_1&externalId=1003928

esxtop good kb

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Tue, 15 May 2012 08:03:08 GMT

http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-9279

vCloud : error Black screen khi console VM qua vCloud Director

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Tue, 15 May 2012 04:44:17 GMT

Trong quá trình thử nghiệm self-serivice cho người dùng qua vCloud Director .

Có thể các bạn sẽ gặp phải lỗi màn hình đen khi console VM qua giao diện quản trị của VCD mặc dù đã cài đầy đủ vcd plug-in và rõ ràng vẫn thấy vApp đang running nhưng khi pop-up console bật lên thì chỉ thấy màn hình đen và đợi hoài chẳng thấy gì . ( Xem hình )

Lỗi khi console :

Sau 1 thời gian hỏi người anh em Google , mình đã tìm ra nguyên nhân là do vCenter của mình chưa cài Web Access Client .

Để fix , chỉ cần cài Web Access Client lên và truy cập vào :

https://vcenter:9443/vsphere-client/

Sau đó Download VMware Remote Console Plug-In for Mozilla Firefox về cài :

Kết quả Console lại trên vCloud Director :

Chúc các bạn thành công .

vFabric Application Director - Enabling any app any where

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Mon, 14 May 2012 18:43:03 GMT

Recently, VMware announced vFabric Application Director product to enable application deployments on public and private clouds. This is one initiative that gained momentum over a period of time in VMware and after a lot of thought process, my engineering team has finally delivered a product that meets not only current workload requirements that run within VMs but also enables future application stacks like Django, Ruby on Rails, NodeJS alongwith noSQL and SQL databases. The other key aspect that we have kepty under constant consideration is deploying these variety of apps on variety of platforms - public, private, amazon, openstack,.. We believe as developers will try various appstacks so will they try various cloud environments for different reasons. We want to give this freedom of choice to developers while helping them keep their applications abstracted enough to land into the right production ready vCloud environments eventually.

Enabling IT towards their journey to PAAS

When we look at current ( sometimes refered as legacy!) application stacks like JEE and SOA architectures , these apps have a specific requirement in terms of boot order for various app components. New app frameworks have moved away from this specific boot order requirements. With the advent of nosql databases, this arena is changing very fast. We went through lot of thought process creating Application Director - how do we satisfy current workloads but also build a product that is futuristic - one that paves a clear path for Platform as a Service model. Platform as a Service Model expects IT to follow a narrow set of application stack and if your IT environments can standardize on certain set of application stacks, you can harness the power of PAAS model : automated app lifecycle management - seamless updates to middleware and monitoring of workloads and so on. The question though is : are current IT administrators ready for PAAS? When we talk to customers, we find them in various phases of readiness for PAAS : ranging from tons of application types spread wide across in IT datacenters and there is no way they can bring them together to other side of spectrum - "we have disciplined our developers to follow specific application stacks and we are looking forward to operation-less IT through PAAS." Enabling customers to go from first end of the spectrum to the nirvana state of PAAS, is where vFabric Application Director fits right in - enabling customers towards their journey to PAAS - helping them first with creating inventory of appstacks used in their private clouds and extended public clouds. Then help them curate their environment , reducing the plethora of appstacks to fewer standardized appstacks while still enabling a wide range of selection of appstacks for their developers.

What to expect in coming blog posts

In coming series of blogs we will go in details of specific features of vFabric Application Director, we will also talk about differences between various cloud environments and how Application Director works to enable the richness of various clouds shine through. We will go in architectural details around multitenancy, hybrid cloud abstraction layer, auto-generation of execution plan from application blueprints and rich troubleshooting around complex applications. We will talk about setting up a customized self service portal for developers and QE in your teams to deploy applications abstracting them from virtual machines, compute, network and storage details, thereby enabling them to focus on what matters most for them - business logic and business needs around their applications. Standardization will be another area of focus where we will talk about standardization at various levels : catalog of middleware services, blueprints and deployment profiles. But first we will start with introducing the key concepts in details.

Stay tuned,

Komal Mangtani

Engineering Director,

VMware

This too shall pass....

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Sun, 13 May 2012 20:52:37 GMT

Well, it's May. Still on 32-bit gear, still no budget, still nothing. . . . Except for a new Big Boss who treats IT as an expense to be minimized.

I don't think I need to hang around here much longer.

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communities-emailer@vmware.com — Sat, 12 May 2012 20:36:46 GMT

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VMware TAM Weekly Newsletter 4.14

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Fri, 11 May 2012 18:17:01 GMT

From the editors Virtual Desk
Hi everyone, a bit of a later than usual newsletter this week as I find myself out of Australia for a short while however I still wanted to try and bring you a newsletter this week.

There is loads of news and even some new product updates that are extremely exciting and of course as usual I urge you to please check the KB articles for any potential issues that may affect you.

Enjoy the newsletter everyone.

Warm Wishes
Neil Isserow (Newsletter Editor and VMware TAM Blog Custodian)
Queensland Technical Account Manager
TWITTER: @VMWARETAM
BLOG: blogs.vmware.com/tam
Newsletter Archive: communities.vmware.com/blogs/vmwaretam

VMWARE USER GROUP (VMUG)
http://communities.vmware.com/community/vmtn/vmug
The VMware User Group is an independent, global, customer-led organization, which maximizes members’ use of VMware and partner solutions through knowledge sharing, training, collaboration, and events.

VMWARE EDUCATION AND CERTIFICATION
Live Online Learning
VMware live online learning is the perfect solution for professionals who want to attend VMware training but would prefer not to travel. Through this delivery method, our expert instructors deliver the same high-quality courses and hands-on experiences as in our traditional classroom courses – minus the travel. Learn more.

VMWARE OFFICIAL BLOGS AND NEWS
VMware Virtualization Management Blog: VMware Center for Policy & Compliance Releases VIEW Hardening Guidelines
As VMware continues to build Trusted Cloud solutions that help customers migrate tier one applications to our Cloud Infrastructure Suite (CIS), the Center for Policy & Compliance (CP&C) released VIEW hardening guidelines in vCenter Configuration Manager (vCM), a major component of the vCenter Operations Manager Suite. (vC Ops)

VMware vSphere Blog: Backup Design for vCloud Director Tenant vApps Whitepaper
A new whitepaper was recently released by VMware called Backup Design for vCloud Tenant vApps to help provide guidance to partners looking to design and build backup solutions for tenant vApps running in vCloud Director. The document covers the complete process for a backup and restore of a vApp or individual Virtual Machines running in vCloud Director. It also covers several different use cases related to the backup and restore process and provides recommendations on the specific scenarios.

VMware for Small-Medium Business Blog: Making Things Easier with My VMware
Managing product licenses and support entitlements can be a time consuming task for any IT organization big or small. We know that the more products and vendors you add to the mix the more tedious this process can become. The recent launch of My VMware has taken on the challenge from our customers to make the process of managing your VMware licenses and support entitlements easier so you can focus on managing your VMware infrastructure and delivering more value to your business.

VMware vSphere Blog: ESXi Image Builder and Auto Deploy PowerCLI Quick Reference
To help the PowerCLI novice get started with Image Builder and Auto Deploy I put together the attached quick reference guides.
Working with the ESXi Image Builder and Auto Deploy cmdlets in vSphere 5.0 was my first experience using PowerShell/PowerCLI, and early on I know I spent a lot of time just trying to keep track of the different cmdlet names, let alone the syntax. As I’ve had several requests for some kind of Image Builder and Auto Deploy PowerCLI quick reference guide I suspect I’m not unique. I hope these will prove helpful.

Office of the CTO Blogs: Honeybees and Discovering the Next Big Thing
I had an amazing experience recently helping a friend set up a beehive on her property. Throughout the process, I was taken with the intricate details of how a hive functions and the role of each bee and their CEO, the queen. I wondered how much of their elaborate system of egg nurturing to honey-making was simply a matter of evolution or if it was more complex than that. So, I did a little research...

VMware End User Computing: View Storage Accelerator - In Practice
By Narasimha Krishnakumar, Staff Product Manager, End-User Computing
This post details how to use View Storage Accelerator. Read my previous post for an overiew on View Storage Accelerator: VMware EUC Portfolio: Optimizing Storage with View Storage Accelerator
Let's get right into it. VMware View 5.1 exposes the View Storage Accelerator feature at pool creation time. As shown below in Figure 1., Desktop administrators can choose to use host caching at pool creation time through the Advanced Storage Options configuration screen.

VMware vCloud Blog: Riverbed and VMware Improve Performance for Moving Workloads Between Clouds
Earlier this week, Riverbed Technology announced a continued partnership with VMware that is designed to help enterprises make better (and faster) use of cloud technologies. Riverbed makes WAN optimization gear that accelerates and makes WAN traffic more efficient. They’re integrating the Riverbed gear with VMware vCloud Connector to help IT departments optimize the transfer of VMs from one data center to another.

VMware vCloud Blog: vCloud Director Ultimate Resource Guide (URG) - Spring 2012
With hundreds of thousands of VMware vSphere admins out there, resources to learn vSphere and troubleshoot vSphere are plentiful. However, those same vSphere admins are now making the push to try out and learn about vCloud Director. This post is intended to be the ultimate vCloud Director Resource Guide, providing links to all the resources you need to learn about and troubleshoot vCD.

VMware vSphere Blog: VMFS Locking Uncovered
In one of my very first blog posts last year around the new improvements made to VMFS-5 in vSphere 5.0, one of the enhancements I called out was related to the VAAI primitive ATS (Atomic Test & set). In the post, I stated that the 'Hardware Acceleration primitive, Atomic Test & Set (ATS), is now used throughout VMFS-5 for file locking.' This recently led to an obvious, but really good question (thank you Cody) - What are the operations that ATS now does in vSphere 5.0/VMFS-5 that it didn’t do in vSphere 4.1/VMFS-3?

VMware vCloud Blog: Some More vCloud Director Configuration Maximums
A question was asked yesterday regarding some of the configuration maximums that are currently not listed in the vSphere 5 configuration maximums document. Having discussed with vCloud Engineering and Product Management it has been confirmed that these numbers are used to provide the supported scale of vCloud Director and can be published to the wider community.

VMware vFabric Blog: VMware Partner Viewpoint:
5 Reasons Why You Should Care about vFabric
It’s hard to argue that cloud computing has the CIO’s attention across all industries, and a whole new breed of technology companies wouldn’t exist without cloud computing. In this article, we share a summary of six VMware vFabric partner interviews. These perspectives identify 5 themes for how VMware’s vFabric cloud application development platform can improve developer productivity, cut customer technology costs, solve key engineering problems, and more.

VMware vSphere Blog: Have you seen that VMware has joined the Open Compute Project? If not, check it out!
Many of us have been looking for the latest innovations in datacenter design for a long time. Well, this new project might be it. The Open Compute Project started not too long ago by Facebook, has a simple goal of making the datacenter run more efficiently than ever before at the lowest possible cost. Since this is an architecture VMware wanted to support as customers move toward more cloud architectures, we have certified vSphere 5 on both its Intel and AMD versions. VMware believes The Open Compute Project platform is suitable for many virtualization use cases. For example, we have been working with Facebook to deploy VMware vSphere 5.0 on these platforms inside Facebook's internal IT infrastructure in addition to many others.

Office of the CTO Blogs: VMware vSphere Support of Hyperscale and Embedded Servers, Part II
Yesterday, I promised to discuss even more choices for the hyperscale data center with vSphere. Let me start with the big news first.

Today we are announcing that VMware joined the Open Compute Project. The big goal of the project is: "to build one of the most efficient computing infrastructures at the lowest possible cost". "By releasing Open Compute Project technologies as open hardware, our goal is to develop servers and data centers following the model traditionally associated with open source software projects."[1]

VMware vSphere Blog: Combining affinity rule types
Recently a customer asked if host-vm affinity rules and VM-VM anti-affinity rules can be combined and what the impact and caveats are of this particular configuration.
Example scenario In this scenario two virtual machines run an application that is clustered at application level. Virtual machine 1 and 2 provide the service of App-cluster1, similar clusters are configured on VM3-VM4 and VM5-VM6. The compute cluster contains 6 ESXi hosts. The customer requires each app-cluster contained on its own hosts, during normal operations no app-cluster should share an ESXi host. The virtual machine within the app cluster cannot share the same ESXi host.

VROOM!: IBM solidDB Universal Cache on VMware vSphere 5.0
VMware recently released a white paper showing the performance scalability of virtualized IBM solidDB Universal Cache and IBM DB2 on the IBM System x3850 X5 server with MAX5, using VMware vSphere 5.0. This paper shows that the virtualized IBM solidDB Universal Cache environment achieves excellent performance and scalability on a typical online transaction processing (OLTP) system in today’s enterprise.

VMware End User Computing: VMware EUC Portfolio: VMware Horizon Application Manager 1.5
The VMware Horizon application manager team is very excited to announce Horizon Application Manager 1.5. The product will be available this quarter as a new virtual appliance, allowing the product to be installed on a customer’s premise for the first time ever. This version will also be sold through VMware’s channel and sales force and made available internationally for the first time.

VMware End User Computing: VMware EUC Portfolio: View Composer Array Integration Tech Preview
It is a pleasure to announce View Composer API for Array Integration (VCAI) with the new version of VMware View, View 5.1.
Offered in VMware View 5.1 as a Tech Preview, VCAI leverages the native cloning abilities in the storage array to offload storage operations within a VMware View environment. As a result, VCAI improves provisioning speeds and management in View Composer and offers another solution for customers wanting to leverage other storage options.

VMware End User Computing: VMware EUC Portfolio: Optimizing Storage with View Storage Accelerator
We are excited to announce a new feature with VMware View 5.1 – VMware View Storage Accelerator. View Storage Accelerator (formerly known as Content Based Read Cache) optimizes storage load and improves performance by caching common image blocks when reading virtual desktop images, helping to reduce overall TCO in VMware View deployments.

Office of the CTO Blogs: VMware vSphere Support of Hyperscale and Embedded Servers, Part I
You may have noticed in the last few weeks that there are more Embedded servers being certified with VMware vSphere and showing up on the VMware hardware compatibility guide for servers. This is the result of a multiyear program by the VMware engineering team to more broadly enable processors, chipsets, and I/O devices within vSphere while still ensuring the robustness and reliability required by enterprise data centers and the cloud in general. This matters because it gives our customers more options in selecting the right server for their IT solutions. Or put another way, it allows our customers to worry even less about the platforms running their workloads in the cloud.

VMware vCloud Blog: 5 Key Features of vCloud Integration Manager
The adoption of VMware vCloud services by service providers (and customers) is growing. In fact, there has been a 3x increase just since Q3 2011, with over 100 VMware service provider partners now offering VMware vCloud Powered services. With more signing up every day, service providers want to get vSphere, vCenter, vCloud Director, vShield, and Chargeback up and running as quickly as possible. The faster that they can get these pieces up and configured, the faster they can start providing cloud infrastructure to customers.

VMWARE TV BLOG
VMwareTV: A New Way to Work in the Post-PC Era with VMware
bit.ly -- The Post-PC era is transforming the way we work. We need secure and mobile access to applications and data on the device of our choice for maximum productivity. See how VMware End-User Computing Platform transforms the way you can do business today with VMware View, Horizon Application Manager, Zimbra, Socialcast, Project Octopus, and Project AppBlast. Start your transformation today with VMware View and start your free trial today: bit.ly

VMwareTV: HCL: VMware vFabric's role in Integration, Migration, and Clouds
bit.ly -- In this video, Kiran Somalwar, VP of Enterprise Transformation Services Group at HCL, discusses VMware vFabric. HCL has 90000 employees and a large chunk of revenue comes from infrastructure management and application development and maintenance. They have chosen to partner with VMware in both the VMware vCloud and VMware vFabric spaces. Since a large focus of their work is in Java, five years ago they standardized on Spring as a development framework. Since then they have also recognized how VMware vFabric has strong capabilities in data management, integration and more. Importantly, they see how VMware vFabric's lightweight footprints are efficient, elastic, and scalable. They have worked with customers on a wide range of VMware vFabric solutions such as a migration from heavyweight to lightweight infrastructure. As well, they have done work to integrate custom and packaged applications throughout the enterprise, migrate legacy mainframe code, and drive significant cost savings in both hardware and software categories. They are asked by customers to help them get ready for the cloud, and vFabric helps.

VMwareTV: VMware vFabric Cloud Application Platform
bit.ly - Build, Scale and Run Data-Intensive Applications On-Premise or in the Cloud. Learn about the VMware vFabric Cloud Application Platform.

CLOUD APPLICATION PLATFORM
Cloud Foundry Improves Support For Background Processing
Cloud Foundry has significantly enhanced support for worker applications that perform background processing by allowing applications to run on CloudFoundry.com without the application container. Cloud Foundry applications are no longer limited to Web applications that respond to HTTP requests. Instead, they can be run as executable or “standalone” applications. A standalone application is one that does not require a provided framework or container.

Running Resque Workers on Cloud Foundry
We introduced Cloud Foundry’s new “standalone” applications feature in the first post in this four-part series. In this second installment, we will look at the most common use of a standalone application–the worker process. Workers can be used for all kinds of asynchronous background jobs, such as updating search indexes, emailing all users with a password reset approaching, performing a database backup to persistent storage, or uploading new customer data from external storage. In this post, we will walk through an example of deploying workers to Cloud Foundry using Resque.

Running Workers on Cloud Foundry with Spring
In the two previous posts in this series, we discussed using Cloud Foundry’s new support for standalone apps to deploy worker processes. We looked at an example using Resque for Ruby apps. In this third installment, we explore using Spring to create workers in Java apps.
Let’s walk through an example.
Deploying the Cloud Foundry Twitter Search Sample
Cloud Foundry Twitter Search includes two applications: a standalone Java application that periodically polls Twitter for tweets containing the word “cloud” and a Node.js web application that displays the results. The applications communicate via a shared RabbitMQ service. The worker publishes tweet information to a RabbitMQ exchange, and the web application consumes the tweets and pushes them to the browser using SockJS.

Spring MVC 3.2 Preview: Introducing Servlet 3, Async Support
Overview Spring MVC 3.2 M1 will introduce asynchronous request processing support based on Servlet 3.0. This is the first of several blog posts covering the new feature, providing along the way sufficient background and context to understand how and why you might want to take advantage of it. A major goal of any milestone release Read more...

Spring MVC 3.2 Preview: Techniques for Real-time Updates
In my last post I introduced the new Servlet 3, async support feature in Spring MVC 3.2 M1 in the context of long-running requests. A second very important motivation for async processing is the need for browsers to receive real-time updates. Examples include chatting in a browser, stock quotes, status updates, live sports results, and Read more...

Using Cloud Foundry Workers with Spring
You've no doubt read Jennifer Hickey's amazing blog posts introducing Cloud Foundry workers, their application in setting up Ruby Resque background jobs, and today's post introducing the Spring support. Key Takeaways for Spring Developers You need to update your version of vmc with gem update vmc. Cloud Foundry workers let you run public static void Read more...

EXTERNAL VMWARE RELATED BLOGS (vExperts/Guest Bloggers)
VMware Octopus in Beta
The beta of VMware Octopus has been announced.
For those of you who don’t know what is VMware Octopus, you can head to this video published by at YouTube to get closer look what Octopus is and how it will work.
I have blogged about Octopus when VMware has announced the project during VMworld 2011 last year. You can read my detailed article here.

Zimbra 7.2 Collaboration Server Release
New Zimbra Collaboration Server 7.2 has been announced by VMware.
Zimbra is heading slowly to the integration of Octopus and Mozy, but not in this 7.2 release yet. In this release there are some new features, some enhancements and bug fixes, and also some major system updates on which I would like to report too.
With smaller footprint than Exchange 2010 and seamless integration with integrated Zimbra Outlook Connector, which has been completely rewamped, Zimbra is getting better with every release.

How too many vCPUs can negatively affect your performance
Customer with small vSphere environment of just two hosts had performance issues and they asked me to investigate the situation. When looking at the technical specs at first glance, you would suspect that this configuration should work. With just two hosts, each dual Quad core CPU, the enivornment had a total of 16 CPU cores. In total there were only 9 VMs running using a total of 23 vCPUs. Usually you can easily run 5 vCPUs per core, if not more.

An Unbroken Chain of Trust is of Paramount Importance
There has been a lot of coverage over the past week about Anonymous’ Hardcore Charlie releasing some old 2003/2004 code of the VMware ESX Hypervisor on the Internet. The release of the code may not cause anyone any immediate increased risk of attack. If you want to know why keep reading.

What’s New in VMware View 5.1 (Beyond Marketing)
VMware has just announced VMware View 5.1 and has also lifted the NDA. Despite being a .1 release the VMware View team added a significant number of features that improve VMware View performance, scalability and user experience.

Sizing for VMware View Storage Accelerator (CBRC)
As VMware View 5.1 launches administrators will start to trial the new View release, and in special they will test the benefits of View Storage Accelerator. This article is focused in helping administrators to properly size hosts and storage for use with CBRC.
Before reading this article I recommend the read of couple of my previous posts Understanding CBRC (Content Based Read Cache) and Understanding CBRC – RecomputeDigest Method.

vCenter Infrastructure Navigator 1.1 - What's New
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 change on the virtual environment in their application infrastructure. Infrastructure Navigator helps virtual infrastructure administrators perform the following tasks:

The VMware Reference Architecture for Stateless Virtual Desktops on Local Solid-State Storage with VMware View 5
This document provides the reference architecture for Stateless Virtual Desktops with VMware View 5 on local solid-state storage. A stateless desktop architecture is ideally suited for standard desktop environments where the desktop image is consistent from user to user; however with proper application design can be used in broad use cases.

New Book - VMware View 5: Building a Successful Virtual Desktop
Discover the powerful and cost saving new virtualization opportunities on the client side with VMware View 5! In VMware View 5: Building a Successful Virtual Desktop, leading virtualization consultant Paul O 'Doherty teaches the essentials of View, bringing together critical information, deep insights, and best practices drawn from his extensive experience deploying virtual desktop technology in many of today 's most demanding business environments. O' Doherty walks through every step of View, from the earliest planning phases through configuration, implementation, and management. He illuminates crucial considerations ranging from changes to end-user experience and support considerations through performance management. Readers will learn how to plan and smoothly stage virtual desktop infrastructure deployments, and avoid pitfalls associated with latency, scalability, storage, and networking. Using this book s' proven techniques, virtualization professionals can achieve the full promise of virtualized desktops, dramatically improving system administration productivity while building environments that are more flexible and easier to manage.

VSPEX Fun
On April 12 EMC announced a new effort to deliver infrastructure proven solutions through our partners. The brand name for these solutions is VSPEX. The VSPEX team has already published all kinds of great material on EMC’s VSPEX community.
The EMC Channel team here in Singapore is bringing the VSPEX word to all of our partners throughout Asia Pacific and Japan. Our Cisco channel manager asked me to create a video she could use with Cisco to tell them more about the project. She told me to keep it brief–under 30 seconds–and have some fun with it.

VMware Press Launches Sweepstakes!
Now this may not be of interest to everybody but VMware Press, the official publisher of VMware books and training materials, has launched a 60 day Facebook sweepstakes beginning today the May 1 and running through to June 30th. The Prize offerings include a $100 Amazon gift card and three VMware Press books of the winner’s choice; the nine second prize winners will win an eBook of their choice. Good luck – enter now!
http://ow.ly/aBkvE

vSphere 5 AutoLab
It’s Alastair here, today I am very pleased to release the vSphere 5 AutoLab, a free tool for the VMware community.
What is the AutoLab?
The AutoLab is a quick easy way to build a vSphere environment for testing and learning using a single desktop or laptop PC and VMware Workstation, Fusion or ESXi. The whole lab runs in VMs on that one PC, even ESXi runs in a VM and can then run it’s own VMs.

Goodbye VMware PSO – Hello VMware EUC Global CoE!
Now that yesterdays VMware EUC announcement hysteria has subsided, I thought this would be a good time to make my own VMware EUC announcement. (For those of you who were under a rock yesterday, here is my favorite post talking about What's new in View 5.1 (Beyond Marketing).
After nearly two years of delivering customer projects with VMware Profesional Services (PSO), I have been given the opportunity to join VMware's EUC Global Center of Excellence (CoE). This is a move I am really excited about.

3 CPUs and 12GB RAM is the New Tier-1 App
In what can only be regarded as a breakthrough in hypervisor performance technology, it is now possible to run tier-1 applications on minimal resources and without regard for high-availability of any kind!
A fascinating new report from Enterprise Strategy Group reveals that one particular hypervisor is suddenly capable of running tier-1 applications on just 3 virtual CPUs and a mere 12GB RAM — power and efficiency at its finest. Not only that, the New Tier-1 App no longer requires application-level clustering to meet stringent SLAs! Simply throw your mission-critical SQL Server database on a stand-alone hypervisor and skip the shared block storage entirely — you just don’t need it anymore.

ImageBuilder Deep Dive, Part 1: Building your own customized ESXi ISO
I know that my ESXi-Customizer script has gotten some popularity and a lot of people use it for merging community developed or commercial third-party hardware drivers into the ESXi installation ISO. It has some limitations though - some of you might have stumbled over them already, at least I have described them in the "Known issues" section. Probably the worst is the fact that it cannot handle

ImageBuilder Deep Dive, Part 2: A closer look and advanced functions
In the first part of this Image Builder Deep Dive I introduced a script that you can use to build your own customized installation ISO and can easily be adapted to your own needs. In this second part we will take a closer look at the basic cmdlets we used and get to know some more cmdlets with advanced functionality. To make best use of the following explanations I suggest that you load the

With vSphere 5.0 and HA can I share datastores across clusters?
I have had this question multiple times by now so I figured I would write a short blog post about it. The question is if you can share datastores across clusters with vSphere 5.0 and HA enabled. This question comes from the fact that HA has a new feature called “datastore heartbeating” and uses the datastore as a communication mechanism.

Problems using the vCenter Web Client
I was doing some upgrades in my lab and ran in to an issue. Whenever I started the vCenter Web Client I got a message that the vCenter Inventory Service wasn’t running. I looked at my Services section in Windows 2008 and found that it wasn’t started. Starting it gave me a new error: 1067. This is very generic but I figured I would google it anyway. That actually brought me to our own documentation, yes I should check that first next time, and it mentioned I could reset the inventory service as follows:

VMWARE KB ARTICLES
VMware Knowledge Base Weekly Digest: New Articles Published for Week Ending 5/5/12
My VMware
Unable To Remove Users Completely From The Account (2019104)
Socialcast
How to decline or ignore invites to a group in Socialcast (2019339)
VMware ESX
Failover mode changes from 4 to 1 automatically with EMC storage arrays on ESX/ESXi 4.x (2018802)
EMC CX and VNX Firmware and ESX requirements for vStorage APIs for Array Integration (VAAI) support (2008822)
VMware Player
VMware Security Patches Upgrade Guide (2019941)
VMware Service Manager
Selecting Close FCB or Service Resumed on a call shows an incorrect message in the history (2005993)
When upgrading from Service Manager 8.x to 9.x, the Oracle database reports the error: exact fetch returns more than requested number of rows (2018425)
Logon in VSM 9.x is not evaluating new login info entered when Single Sign On (SSO) is enabled (2019835)
Vmware Service Manager displaying incorrect event times in the notification audit log (2019946)
Error occurs when re-running a full upgrade on a database that is already on version 9.1 in VMware Service Manager (2020009)
The Service Manager call reopened by an incoming email is assigned to the incorrect person (2020010)
CMDB items are not returned in searches after upgrading from VSM 8.x to VSM 9.x (1031895)
QD dropdowns in VSM display "Attribute 1" instead of the new name assigned in Admin System Titles (2005340)
Request data changes after request closure (2015735)
Delay tasks do not calculate the delay time using working hours (2019995)
VMware vCenter Configuration Manager
Deploying Oracle JRE updates via vCM fails with the error: Could not download: update_name (2019917)
VMware vCenter Orchestrator
AD Workflows that run simultaneously fail with the error: No 'variable' named 'X' found (2019996)
VMware vCenter Server
vCenter 4.1 and 5.0 Update Manager check new notifications task continually fails (2008266)
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Cannot umount the datastore after migrating the virtual machines (2019728)
Installing VMware Tools on Solaris 10 fails (2019932)
VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager
Collecting the vSphere Replication VRMS and VR server logs manually (2013091)
VMware vFabric AppInsight
Application in VMware vFabric AppInsight will not start (2019336)
VMware vFabric Hyperic Server
Unable to install vFabric Hyperic license key because the /etc/opt/vmware/vfabric/ directory does not exist (2019330)
VMware View Manager
After upgrading View Connection Server, a blank grey web page is displayed for the View Administrator console (2018751)
VMware View Persona Management fails and data does not sync (2019247)
VMware View Transfer Server fails to publish Local Mode image (2019448)
VMware vSphere Update Manager
Upgrading Nexus 1000V VEMs fails with a SystemError Exception in vCenter Server when using VMware Update Manager (2019533)
VMware Workstation
Downgrading from VMware Workstation 8 to VMware Workstation 7 (2019528)
Troubleshooting network connectivity issues in VMware Workstation (2019836)
Defragmenting and shrinking Workstation virtual machine disks (2019649)
Connecting an external hard drive to a Workstation virtual machine (2019644)
ZCA Zimbra Appliance
Bind Zimbra LDAP to multiple Ethernet interfaces (2014543)
ZCS Network Edition
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Copying ESXi VMs - unique management interface MAC addresses

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Fri, 11 May 2012 15:54:19 GMT

Here's a tip for copying ESXi VMs. Before making a copy, log in to the source VM and execute the following command:

# esxcfg-advcfg -s 1 /Net/FollowHardwareMac

With this setting, the management interface MAC address will update whenever the VM's MAC address changes. Without this setting, you may end up with multiple VMs sharing the same management interface MAC address.

StorMagic / VMware Virtual Storage Comparison

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Fri, 11 May 2012 09:51:59 GMT

SvSAN / vSphere Storage Appliance Comparison

Unlocking the benefits of VMware high availability, vMotion and DRS is often missed as the traditional shared storage required can be too complex, inflexible and expensive.Storage Virtual Appliances (SVAs) are the most flexible, robust and cost effective alternative shared storage solution for virtualized environments.

Cost Effective Storage for The Branch Office

"StorMagic's SvSAN™was the product that met all of our requirements in terms of functionality, performance, reliability and cost effectiveness" Torsten Kurz, CreditPlus Bank

VMware's vSphere Storage Appliance was announced in 2011 and with that announcement generated plenty of interest into the technology and other similar solutions.

This created many question marks around how they compare and essentially which is the best suited solution for them. With that, StorMagic compiled this FAQ comparison of SvSAN and VMware's vSphere Storage Appliance based on the existing VMware FAQ. Please see the attached Document

Download your free evaluation of SvSAN to experience all these benefits for yourself

vFredag d. 11/5-2012. vFabric Applicarion Director og Application Performance Manager

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Fri, 11 May 2012 04:23:02 GMT

Vi tager et kig på to produkter fra vFabric-familien, og det er Application Director og Application Performance Manager. Hør om hvordan man kan designe og udrulle applikationer "As A Service" samt hvordan man efterfølgende kan overvåge deres performance, kommunikation o.s.v.

Tilmeld dig her.

vBaby Alert!! Finally :)

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Thu, 10 May 2012 18:11:38 GMT

For those of you who dont know, my wife and I had our first child earlier this year who is exactly 3 months today. Aleena Marie Hashmi was born on Feb 10th 2012. So the one thing I wanted to get her was of course a VMware outfit .. Read more...

June VMUG meeting in STL is open for sign-ups

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Thu, 10 May 2012 16:57:00 GMT

Jump out to the new site and sign up here:

http://www.vmug.com/e/in/eid=457

Looking forward to catching up with you all again on June 13th so sign up and join us!

Planning for Performance and Capacity in Virtual Environments

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Wed, 09 May 2012 21:15:02 GMT

In this white paper, we will cut through marketing fluff and learn the raw truth about planning performance and capacity from industry experts. Specifically, we’ll cover how today’s datacenters have become so complex that everyone is paying the price. You’ll learn why capacity analysis is much more crucial when virtualization is in place and how to analyze capacity in a virtual infrastructure in four easy steps. You should always know where your next capacity bottleneck will be, before it happens. Read this white paper and prevent downtime in your virtual infrastructure by mastering capacity planning from the experts. Download for free at http://bit.ly/VM-capacity-planning.

Andrew Bird

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Wed, 09 May 2012 19:46:31 GMT

Andrew Bird (born Come july 1st 11, 1973) is usually an United states musician and performer. He / she was given birth to with River Decide to bluff, The state of illinois in addition to is located for the Chi town spot. Chook is usually a performer, some sort of violinist in addition to, due to the fact 2004, some sort of guitar player. They are likewise a done whistler.

His or her beginning do the job, which often echoed gypsy jazz and also regular individuals, possesses guided in an individual's present good, which often combines steel by means of much more large compositions. His or her many with solitary song-craft have finally allowed her to make a good that is certainly slightly her own.

Prepared because of the Suzuki tactic from your little era as well as a move on associated with Illinois’ Northwestern Collage, Chook produced his or her first of all solo project, New music connected with Tresses, with 1996. Widely totally different from his or her after lets go of, that primary cd exhibits his / her violin capabilities in addition to will pay gratitude so that you can his particular desire for both United states along with Western men and women cultures, together with jazz along with blues.

His or her primary commercially aware vulnerability was in collaborative talk with this wedding band Squirrel Nut Zippers. He / she seemed to be fairly quickly lumped around with the move trend the fact that swept america popular music trade from the mid ’90s; it is any connection he is attempting to lose.

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VMWare Blog

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Wed, 09 May 2012 13:41:00 GMT

http://vmwarevcp.wordpress.com

Viewのマスタ用デスクトップの最適化について

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Wed, 09 May 2012 12:52:40 GMT

マニュアルに記載のある内容なので、きっと知っているヒトは知っているとは思うのですが、あらためてまとめてみます。

仮想デスクトップ環境をつくって、プロトコルのチューニングを実施する前にデスクトップ自体をきちんと最適化しておくということは台数が増えるとじわじわと効いてくるのかもしれませんね。

業務要件にあわせて、可能な範囲でまず実施することが重要なのかと思います。

View5.0については下記マニュアルに記載があります。

http://pubs.vmware.com/view-50/topic/com.vmware.view.administration.doc/GUID-06DF65D1-7151-479A-B388-162535251F6F.html

http://pubs.vmware.com/view-50/topic/com.vmware.view.administration.doc/GUID-E712DAE6-88DF-4208-BEFA-09513A01A26E.html

http://pubs.vmware.com/view-50/topic/com.vmware.view.administration.doc/GUID-E938922D-7DFD-41E7-A774-0C81CAE6595C.html

Sử dụng Veeam FASTSCP để move VMs từ DC này sang DC khác .

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Wed, 09 May 2012 06:21:58 GMT

Hôm nay , mình nhận 1 task liên quan đến việc chuyển VM từ DC này sang DC khác .

Nhiệm vụ là chuyển con máy SQL như trong hình về DC đích .

Mình đã suy nghĩ lên phương án 1 số giải pháp như Convert , Backup VDR ... nhưng cuối cùng mình chọn FASTSCP , cái này quá tiện cho việc thực hiện nhiệm vụ của mình

Ok , Quá trình mình move 1 server hơn 100G dữ liệu về DC đích :

Off con VM SQL cần move :

Đến đây , bạn chỉ cần Right Click ---> Copy . sau đó chọn Datastore ở DC đích , nơi chứa dữ liệu rồi chọn Paste .

Sau khi Copy thành công , bạn vào vCenter , tạo new VM , config lại hardward để start lại máy chủ SQL .

How to attach USB drive to the windows VM running on VSphere 4.0

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Wed, 09 May 2012 06:16:22 GMT

How to attach USB drive to the windows VM running on VSphere 4.0

SMTP and vCenter Ops Mgr

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Tue, 08 May 2012 17:49:51 GMT

I have had a few people ask me how are SMTP alerts set in Ops Manager, so I figured I would do a little post on that in case there are more people confused on how to set this up. Read more..

Cloud Computing

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Tue, 08 May 2012 13:23:46 GMT

Cloud Computing

الحوسبة السحابية هذا هو الترجمة الحرفية لعنوان موضوعنا الاهم على الاطلاق

الكثير مننا هذا الايام يسمع ويشاهد مصطلح ال Cloud Computing

لكن غالبيتنا لا يجد له توصيف شامل لمعناه . وهذا صحيح لان هذا المصطلح مرتبط بعدة تكنولوجيات وتطبيقات تابعة له

لذلك يجب فهم التكنولوجيا والتطبيقات الخاصة بها لكى نقدر ان نفهم ما هو ال Cloud Computing

يمكن مشاهدة هذا الفيديو للمساعدة فى فهم ما معنى ال Cloud Compiuting

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ae_DKNwK_ms

لذلك سوف تقسم موضوعنا الى عدة نقاط

1- ما هو ال Cloud Computing

2- فوائد ال Cloud Computing

3- البنية التحتية لل Cloud Computing

4- ما هى تطبيقات ال Cloud Computing

5- شركات تعمل فى مجال ال Cloud Computing

ما معنى ال Cloud Computing : هوا عباره عن نقل سيرفراتك واجهزتك وبرامجك من داخل الداتا سنتر الموجودة داخل شركتك الى داتا سنتر موجودة عند شركات اخرى والاتصال بهذة الداتا سنتر عن طريق الانترنت

لذلك يسموها ال Cloud لانك لا تعرف مكان برامجك تحديدا انما انت تعرف طريق الوصل اليها فقط عن طريق سحابة الانترنت

هذة التكنولوجيا كمفهوم هى فكرة قديمة من الستينيات لكن وقتها كانت كانها فكرة خيالية وكانت عبارة عن انة يمكن تقديم خدمه الحواسيب كمرفق عام مثل الكهرباء والماء ويتم توصيل هذة الخدمة لمنازل مستخدمى الحواسيب

لكنها كانت فكرة خيالية فى ذلك الوقت لان كان مستحيل تطبيقها فى الواقع بسبب انة لم يكون يوجد وسيلة ربط قوية بين الشركات والمستخدمين بسبب انة لم يكن شئ اسمة انترنت مثل وقتنا الحالى وانما الشبكات وقتها كانت محدودة وداخلية بين عدد محدود من الاجهزة التى تحتاج الى مبرمجين للعمل عليها بسبب صعوبتها وحجمها الخرافى

ملحوظة: نقطة ضعف تطبيق هذة التكنولوجيا فى دولنا العربية والفقيرة هو ان خدمة الانترنت مازالت بسرعات متوسطة وباسعار غالية لذلك مازل عندنا صعوبة فى استخدام هذة التكنولوجيا على مجال واسع

لكن مع الاختلاف الضخم فى البنية الاساسية للانترنت والداتا سنتر والاستخدام المتزايد للحواسيب والبرامج فى كل مكان حولنا

كان الحاجة الملحة لتطبيع هذة التكنولوجيا

وكانت البداية فى صور بسيطة مثل ان تقوم شركة باعطائك امكانية عمل موقع من خلال موقعها على الانترنت

لكن الانطلاقة الحقيقة لهذة التكنولجيا جاءت عام 2007 على يد بعض الشركات العملاقة وهيا Amazon and Google ,Intel ,HP IBM and other

وكانت شركة امازون هيا من الاوائل فى هذا المجال والدخول فعليا فى السوق وبيع هذة الخدمة للمستخدمين

ان يكون لكل شخص جزء خاصة بة فى ال السحابة الخاصة بامازون او تحديدا فى الداتا سنتر الخاصة بها يتكمن من خلالها ان يدير ملفاتة ويحررها ويعدلها وحفظها

وخلال عامين كان يوجد عشرات الشركات العاملة فى هذا المجال ودخلت غالية شركات ال IT and ISP فى هذا المجال

وكل شركة قدمت خدمتها بشكل مختلف على الاخرى

فبعض الشركات قدمة خدمات البرامج فقط مثل مايكروسوف office 365

وشركات قدمت سيرفرات كاملة مثل شركات Blue lock

وشركات قدمة خدمة حفظ ملفاتك الشخصية فقط مثل Apple and HTC

ومن هنا قسمت تكنولوحيا ال Cloud Computing الى عدة خدمات وهى:

IaaS

DaaS

SaaS

PaaS

وسوف نتعرف على معانى هذة المصطلحات فى الجزء الخاص بها فى مقالنا هذا

2- ما هى فوائد ال Cloud Computing

البعض يتسائل ما فائدة ان انقل برامجى من الداتا سنتر الخاصة بى الى شركة اخرى بعيدة عنى

للاجابة عن هذا السؤال يجب ان نعرف الفوائد التى سوف تعود علينا وتحديدا على الشركات الكبرى والعاملين فى مجال ال IT

• تقليل تكلفة ان تشترى سيرفرات واجهزة وتوفير مصادر طاقة كهرباء وتكلفتها الدائمة

• عدم الاحتياج الى طاقم كبير فى ادارة ال IT لانك لن تحتاج احد يدير سيرفراتك وبرامجك

• عدم الاحتياج الى عملBackupاو HA لان الداتا الخاصة بك مؤمنة بشكل كامل فى الخارج

• عدم الاحتياج اى ترقية لبرنامج او غيرها لانها بشكل دائم تحدث

• فى حالة احتياجك الى عملية تغيير سيرفراتك او تقديم خدمة ليوزر اكتر عندك لن يكون هناك اى توقف لاحد

• يمكن الدفع قيمة استجارلك هذة الخدمة شهريا او سنويا او على حسب حجم استخدامك لها

نلاحظ ان الفوائد تنحصر فى التوفير الكبير فى بناء داتا سنتر وتحديثها باستمرار وتامينها من الاعطال

وتوفير فى اليد العاملة عليها لانك لن تحتاج احد فى الداخل لان كل شئ يدار من خلال الشركة المقدمة للخدمة

واى مشكلة تقابلك الشركة سوف تقوم بحلها

فى حالات الشركات الكبيرة يكون هذا الحل الامثل لها من حيث التوفير فى الاجهزة والرواتب

3- البنية الاساسية لل Cloud Computing

بالطبع هذة التكنولوجيا لا يمكن لاى احد او شركة صغيرة ان تقوم بعملها لانها تحتاج الى داتا سنتر ضخمة مع تامين شامل لها من ناحية الامن والكهراباء والاطفاء والباكب الخارجى وتامين خطوط الانترنت من اكثر من مصدر وبسرعات عالية

لذلك فمقدمى هذة الخدمة من الشركات الضخمة لضخامة الاستثمرارت التى سوف ينفقوها فى البداية

لكنى سوف اقدم لكم وصف مبسط لهذة التكنولوجيا

اهم نقطة فى خدمة الخدمة وهوا العامل الاساسى فى عملها وفى نشرها هو ال VT

البعض يقول ما علاقة ال VT بموضوعنا - ببساطة لا يوجد Cloud computing بدون ال VT

لان ببساطة كل سيرفراتك والخدمات التى تقدم لك فى النهاية مبنية على احدة منصات ال hypervisor سواء من شركه

VMware or Citrix or others

ويتم عمل تطبيق لادارة هذة السيرفرات ومن خلالة يتم عمل السيرفرات وانشاءها وتعديلها وتقديمها بشكل مبسط لليوزر العادى

ومثال على هذة البرامج ال VMware VCloud Director - الذى يقوم بادارة ال Cloud Computing

بعض الشركات الكبيرةتقوم بعمل تطبيع مشابة له لادارة الداتا سنتر الخاصة بها

لذلك نجد مرونة كبيرة فى انشاء سيرفرات باعداد كبيرة وبامكانيات مختلفة على حسب طلب الزبون ويتم عملها وتشغيلها خلال دقائق ويمكن ترقيتها وتغييرها بامكانيات اعلى من المعالجات والذاكرة بدون ان نتوقف او تضيع الداتا او نقلها على سيرفر اخر

كل ذلك بسبب ان كل السيرفرات التى نعمل عليها هى فى النهاية سيرفرات وهمية

وهذا سر نجاح ال Cloud Computing

4- انواع ال cloud وتطبيقاتها

يوجد نوعان لل Cloud وهما :

Public Cloud: وهى عبارة عن الداتا سنتر الموجودة على الانترنت التى تقدم خدمة تاجير السيرفرات والبرامج للمستخدمين

Private Cloud: وهى عبارةعن انك قكت ببناء داتا سنتر خاصة داخل مؤسستك لخدمة موظفينك

تطبيقات ال cloud computing

من خلال ما قرائناه حتى الان نستطيع ان نفهم ان تكنولوجيا ال cloud computing عبارة عن خدمة host

لكن الخدمة هذة لها عدة صور وتطبيقات وهى:

• IaaS اختصارا ل Infrastrure as a Service: وهى عبارة عن تقديم خدمة تاجير سيرفرات كاملة على حسب الامكانيات التى نظلبها وبنظام التشغيل التى نحتاجة ( على سبيل المثال تطلب جهاز يعمل على ويندوز سيرفر 2008 يعمل ب 4 بروسيسور و32 جيجا رامات ) فتقوم الشركة بتجيهزة لك واعطائك ال IP الخاص بة وانت تقوم بالدخول علية وادارتة وتشغيلة بالكيفية التى تريدها . ويمكنك تغيير امكانياتها من تغيير البروسيسور او الرامات على حسب احتياجك ويتم محاسبتك على حسب استخدامك فقط

• PaaS اختصار ل Platforn as a Service : وهى عباره عن تقديم منصة للمبرمجين لكى يبنوا عليها برامجهم وينشروها مثل مايكروسوفت ويندوز Azure و Vmware Java هذة المنصات تكون مفتوحة للمبرمجين

• SaaS اختصارا ل Software as a Service : وهى عبارة عن تقديم برنامج معين للمستخدمين على سبيل المثال office 365 من شركة مايكروسوفت يقدم لك تطبيقات الماسنجر والايميل والشير بوينت وجوجل ايضا تقدم لك Google Docs

ويوجد الكثير من الشركات تقدم هذة الخدمات وهى اكثر صورة من صور تطبيقات ال Cloud

• DaaS اختصار Desktop as a Service : وهى عبارة عن تقديم خدمة ال VDI لاجهزة اليوزر وليس فقط سيرفرات

)من لا يعرف ما هى ال VDI يرجع ال مقال سابق لشرح ما هى ) لكن هذا التطبيق ما يزال فى بدايتة وسوف يبداء فى العمل وبيعة فى الاسواق خلال عام 2012

• ITaaS اختصارا ل IT as a Service: وهى عبارة عن تقديم خدمة الدعم الفنى من خلال فرق دعم فنى خارجية لحل مشاكل الداتا سنتر والبرامج الموجودة فى داخل الشركة

يعتبر هذا التطبيق بشكلة هذا قديم ومستخدم من فترة طويلة

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Nn-to4g9VE&feature=player_embedded

6- الشركات العاملة فى مجال ال Cloud Computing

لو بحثنا قليلا عن الشركات التى تعمل حاليا فى هذة التكنولوجيا سوف نتفاجا ان كل الشركات الكبيرة العاملة فى مجال تكنولجيا المعلومات تعمل فى هذا المجال سواء من فترة او بدائت فية حاليا

لذلك فالسؤال ما هى الشركات التى لا تعمل فى هذة التكنولوجيا

هذة بعض الشركات التى تخدم خدمة ال Cloud وليس كلها

لمقارنة خدماتها واسعارها يمكنك ان تزور هذا الموقع وتقارن بين اسعار الخدمات

http://www.cloudorado.com

بذلك نكون قد انتهينا من تعريف ال Cloud Computing و انواعها وتطبيقاتها وفوائدها والشركات العاملة فيها

وهذة هى بداية تعريفنا لهذة التكنولوجيا وسوف يتم عمل مقالات اخرى وفيديوهات تعليمية لهذا العالم العديد فتابعونا باستمرار

For more docs: visit: www.vmman.me

Thin and Zero Client

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Tue, 08 May 2012 13:22:41 GMT

Thin and Zero Client

هنتكلم اليوم عن موضوع ال Thin and Zero Client صراحة لم اجد اسم له باللغة العربية ولو ترجم حرفيا فسوف يعطى معانى غريبة

المهم ما هوا ال Thin and Zero Client

هوا عبارة عن جهاز وسيط بين السيرفر الذى يحتوى على نظام التشغيل والبرامج وبين شاشة العرض ولوحة المفاتيج والماوس عند اليوزر

بمعنى ان نظام التشغيل والبرامج التى يستخدمها اليوزر موجودة على السيرفر وليس على جهاز وامام اليوزر شاشة ولوحة المفاتيح والماوس فقط وجهازنا هذا

هذه التكنولوجيا والاجهزة قديمة وليس بشى جديد ونشاءت قبل نشاه الكمبيوترات الشخصية التى نعمل عليها الان بفترة طويلة

وفى الحقيقة الكمبيوترات فى اول الامر كانت كلها بهذة الشكل

اول من ابتكر واشتهر ويعتبر سيطر على هذا المجال هوا شركة IBM اول من ابتكر حلول كاملة سيرفرات واجهزة

وكانت تسمى فى هذا الوقت Main frame ولازلت بهذا الاسم حتى الان ومازالت شركة IBM تنتجها لكن بشكل بسيط

يعتبر هذا النموذج هوا اساس عمل ال VDI وان كانت الادوات اختلفت كثيرا والاسلوب لكن الفكرة واحدة

بالطبع لن نتكلم على ال Main Frame لان هذا ليس من اختصاصات موقعنا

لكننا سوف نركز على استخدام ال Thin and Zero Client فى مشاريع ال VDI لقد شرحنا فى مقال سابق معنى ال VDI

:اجهزه ال Thin and Zero Client تعتبر الحل الامثل من عدة نواحى مع مشاريع ال VDI

1- الحجم الصغير جدا

2- قلة استهلاك الكهرباء تصل ال 7 واات للجهاز بدل 300 للجهاز العادى

3- الصيانة تعتبر معدومة لان الجهاز لا يحتوى على اى اجهزة ميكانيكية كلها لوحة الكترونية فقط

4- سرعة الاداء فى الفتح وبساطة الاعدادات

5- طول العمر الخاص بالجهاز وقابليتة للتعامل مع التكنولوجيا الجديدة

وغيرها من الفوائد الاخرى

البعض سوف يسال من عنوان المقال ما الفرق بين ال Thin and Zero Client

Thin Client هو عبارة عن الجهاز لكن علية نظام تشتغيل كامل لكن صغير الحجم ومن خلاله نتصل بالسيرفر الموجود علية نظام التشغيل الخاص باليوزر والداتا الخاصة به وانظمة تشتغيل هذة الاجهزة تنتجها العديد من الشركات ومنها مايكروسوفت

ويسمى Embededd windows

Zero Clientهو عبارة عن الجهاز لكن لا يتعامل اليوزر على نظامة الداخلى لكن يتم اعداده مرة واحدة فى بداية التشغيل ان يتعامل مع سيرفر معين ويحفظ هذة الاعدادات مرة واحدة فقط ولا يحتاج اليوزر بعد ذلك الا ان يضغط على زر التشغيل للعمل علية والاتصال بالسيرفر

يوجد العديد من الشركات التى تنتج اجهزة Thin and Zero Client

منها HP – DELL – IBM وغيرها من الشركات لكن يوجد شركة متخصصة فى هذا المجال فقط وهى شركة Wyse

وتنتج اجهزة تعمل مع كل تطبيقات ال VDI ولها العديد من الموديلات لهذة الاجهزة

ولى تجربة مع هذة الاجهزة واثبت كفاءة عالية فى الاداء

وسوف اشرح تجربتى مع اجهزة شركة Wyse بالتفصيل فى مقاله قادمة

قبل ما انهى مقالى البعض سوف يتسأل عن اسعار هذة الاجهزة لكن اقول لك انها ليست رخيصة قياسا لاجهزة الكمبيوتر الشخصية الحالية لكنها تعتبر فى نفس اسعارها لكن لو نظرنا للفروق بينهم فى الاداء وتوفير الكهرباء والعمر الطويل جدا سوف نرى انها على المدى الطويل هى الارخص

تكنولوجيا ال VDI

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Tue, 08 May 2012 13:21:40 GMT

تكنولوجيا ال VDI

موضوعنا اليوم يعتبر موضوع قائم بذاتة فى عالم VT

وهوا VDI انا استخدمت هذا الاسم لانة الاشهر فى عالم الفيرجوال ولة عدة اسماء اخرى وعدة مسميات تبعا للشركة التى تنتج برامج متخصصة فى هذا المجال

اولا: ما معنى ال VDI ؟ هوا عبارة عن تحويل جهاز اليوزر العادى من العمل على جهاز حقيقى الى العمل على جهاز وهمى

بمعنى اخر عمل لكل يوزر فيرجوال ماشين تحتوى على كل برامجة وملفاتة وتعمل هذة الماشين على سيرفر فيرجوال

بعض الذين يقراون هذا المقال الان سون يتسألون هذة التكنولوجيا قديمة او قدمت من زمن طويل والبعض هيطلق عليها انها عبارة عن ال Workstation التى كانت تنتجها شركة IBM من 40 عام

اجيب عليهم ان هذة التكنولوجيا متشابة مع بعضها فى بعض الاشياء وتختلف فى الكثير من الاوجه

تتشابة فى ان يمكن اكتر من يوزر انا يستخدم نظام تشتغيل او برانامج موجود على سيرفر فى نفس الوقت

لكن هناك نقاط اختلاف ضخمة بين الاتنين ولن يسعنا ان نوضحها الان ( بعد ان تقرا المقال كاملا سوف يتضح لك الاختلافات)

ثانيا: ما هى الشركات التى تعمل فى هذا المجال

اهم ثلاث شركات تعمل فى هذا المجال هي:

1- VMware (View)

2- Microsoft (RDP)

3- Citrix (XenDesktop)

يوجد هنا العديد من الشركات الاخرى التى تقدم هذة التكنولوجيا لكنها محدودة وليست منتشرة

لذلك سوف نركز على هذة الشركات وسوف نشرح بعض منتجاتهم فى مقالات وفيديوهات تعليمية

ثالثا: ما فائدة ان اليوزر يعمل على فيرجوال ماشين :

يوجد عند فوائد من هذا الموضوع فى حالة عمل تصميم وتوزيع صحيح لها

1- اداء اعلى للماشين الخاصة باليوزر لانها تستخدم موارد السيرفر

2- حماية الداتا الخاصة باليوزر لانها كلها موجودة على السيرفرات ويتم اخذ نسخ منها على سيرفرات اخرى

3- عمل HA للماشين الخاصة باليوزر فى حالة ان السيرفر الذى يوجد على الماشين حدث فية عطل

4- عمل ماشين لليوزر فى دقائق ان لم تكون خلال ثوانى

5- عند حدوث مشكلة فى الويندوز الخاص باليوزر لا نحتاج الا اعادة اعداد الويندوز والبرامج الخاصة باليوزر وانما نقوم بعمل اعادة حالة الويندوز الى الحالة السابقة التى كانت تعمل عليها بصورة جيدة

6- احماية القوىة على الماشين والداتا التى عليها لان كل الداتا تكون على السيرفرات ولا يمكن سرقتها وايضا يوجد جدار نارى وانتى فيرس يتم بناءة حول هذة الماشين على مستوى السيرفر وليراقب كل الداتا الداخله الى الماشين التى تعمل على السيرفر والصادرة منها

7- الاستفادة من تكنولوجيا ال Application Virtutilation وهيا ان اليوزر يمكن ان يعمل على برنامج ليس معد مسبقا على جهاز اى يعمل بشكل Portable (يوجد مقال يشرح هذة التكنولوجيا )

سوف نكتفى بمميزات هذة التكنوجيا الى هنا ومن خلال عمل امثلة على هذة التكنولوجيا سوف تكتشف مميزات اخرى

سوف يكون استكمال لهذة التكولوجيا فى مقالات اخرى وسوف يكون الجزء التقنى من هذى الموضوع فى صورة فيديو يشرح لنا هذة التكنولوجيا

موضوعنا اليوم عن افضل واشهر المدونات والمواقع فى VT

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Tue, 08 May 2012 13:20:55 GMT

موضوعنا اليوم عن افضل واشهر المدونات والمواقع فى

هذة المواقع تم اختيارها بناءا على تصويت تم فى بداية عام 2012 وصوت فية الاف من العاملين فى هذا المجال

اردت عمل موضوع لكى تكون مرجع لكل باحث عن معلومات فى مجال ال VT

المدونة	الترتيب	الترتيب السابق	مجموع الاصوات	مجموع النقاط	#1 Votes
Yellow Bricks (Duncan Epping)	1	1	697	5440	243
Scott Lowe	2	3	480	3034	25
NTPro.nl (Eric Sloof)	3	4	419	2592	45
Virtual Geek (Chad Sakac)	4	2	381	2298	46
Frank Denneman	5	6	373	2214	19
RTFM Education (Mike Laverick)	6	5	337	1775	6
Virtu-al (Alan Renouf)	7	9	294	1599	10
Virtually Ghetto (William Lam)	8	25	288	1522	21
Virtualization Evangelist (Jason Boche)	9	8	283	1392	15
vSphere-land (Eric Siebert)	10	7	264	1267	9
The SLOG (Simon Long)	11	11	225	1258	23
Virtual Storage Guy (Vaughn Stewart)	12	15	218	1245	48
vReference (Forbes Guthrie)	13	19	219	1123	14
LucD (Luc Dekens)	14	21	174	1055	20
Gabe's Virtual World (Gabriel Van Zanten)	15	10	204	995	19
Nickapedia (Nicholas Weaver)	16	24	171	948	14
My Virtual Cloud (Andre Leibovici)	17	39	150	914	25
TechHead (Simon Seagrave)	18	14	166	904	17
VMGuru.nl (Various)	19	13	179	815	21
ESX Virtualization (Vladan Seget)	20	23	138	804	19
Chris Colotti	21	-	119	733	28
VMware Tips (Rick Scherer)	22	18	155	718	5
Pivot Point (Scott Drummonds)	23	17	114	615	1
Brian Madden	24	-	96	581	6
Stephen Foskett, Pack Rat	25	-	116	562	1
vCritical (Eric Gray)	26	16	112	483	0
Hypervizor (Hany Michael)	27	12	97	467	4
J Metz (J Michael Metz - Cisco)	28	-	87	447	3
Wikibon Blog (S. Miniman/D. Vellante)	29	69	94	395	1
A vTexan (Tommy Trogden)	30	-	72	386	14
The Lone Sysadmin (Bob Plankers)	31	65	62	383	12
Professional VMware (Cody Bunch)	32	58	73	381	4
Around the Storage Block (Calvin Zito - HP)	33	-	62	378	4
GestaltIT (Various)	34	43	91	377	0
Mike D's Blog (Mike DiPetrillo)	35	22	84	373	3
Chris Wolf	36	41	83	364	1
Kendrick Coleman	37	30	79	355	2
VMware Videos (David Davis)	38	-	58	309	3
vSamurai (Christopher Wells)	39	-	45	308	6
The Storage Architect (Chris Evans)	40	-	56	306	1
Storage Nerve (Devang Panchigar)	41	-	53	304	1
VM/ETC (Rich Brambley)	42	20	74	298	0
VM Guru (Scott Herold)	43	-	71	292	1
2 VCP's (Jon Owings)	44	45	70	287	5
Technodrone (Maish Saidel-Keesing)	45	32	41	283	14
StorageIO (Greg Schulz)	46	-	52	276	7
Virtualize Tips (Brian Suhr)	47	-	51	276	4
IT 2.0 (Massimo Re Ferre)	48	38	50	272	1
Justin's IT Blog	49	-	45	268	9
The Virtualization Practice (Various)	50	49	41	265	7
Wahl Network (Chris Wahl)	51	-	36	252	12
Sudrsn's Blog (Sudharsan)	52	-	35	249	14
Ray On Storage (Ray Lucchesi)	53	-	46	243	1
vInfrastructure Blog (Andrew Mauro)	54	-	42	237	7
Ruptured Monkey (Nigel Poulton)	55	-	42	233	0
The Lower Case W (Matt Liebowitz)	56	85	37	228	6
vNinja (Christian Mohn)	57	-	53	225	1
Rickatron Blog (Rick Vanover)	58	83	44	222	0
Aaron Delp	59	48	49	221	1
WoodITWork (Julian Wood)	60	-	48	220	3
Arnim van Lieshout	61	27	42	215	1
The Cloudcast.net (Brian Gracely)	62	-	33	215	8
Hypervisor.fr	63	29	34	212	3
VMware Training & Certification (Scott Vessey)	64	42	46	210	2
Backup Central (W. Curtis Preston)	65	-	44	208	1
Hu's Blog (HDS - Hu Yoshida)	66	-	27	207	14
Double Cloud (Steve Jin)	67	44	35	203	3
Planet VM (Tom Howarth)	68	35	46	201	3
The VM Guy (Dave Lawrence)	69	26	33	196	1
A Crazy Penguin (Andy Wood)	70	110	34	195	2
Virtual Admin Notes (Anton Zhbankov)	71	37	26	191	12
Virtual Insanity (S. Sauer/A. Sweemer)	72	28	42	189	6
vTesseract (Josh Atwell)	73	-	32	188	5
What Would Dan Do (Dan Brinkmann)	74	-	36	186	3
vSpecialist (Michael Poore)	75	-	35	184	3
ICT-Freak.nl (Arne Fokkema)	76	-	43	181	0
Hands On Virtualization (Barry Coombs)	77	-	28	177	1
Virtualization Security (Tripwire)	78	66	33	176	0
Virtualization, Data Center & Networking	79	-	38	175	1
VMpros.nl (Sander Daems)	80	34	31	175	6
Juanma's Blog (Juan Manuel)	81	-	23	173	11
Storagebod (Martin Glassborow)	82	-	32	172	2
Ivo Beerens	83	61	28	171	2
Virtualization Pro (E. Siebert/Various)	84	-	37	169	0
Rational Survivability (Christofer Hoff)	85	52	30	165	1
SearchServerVirtualization Blog (Various)	86	68	35	165	2
Virtual VCP (Rynardt Spies)	87	63	39	163	0
Everything Virtual (Simon Davies)	88	-	29	161	5
VMworld.net (Andi Lesslhumer)	89	-	27	160	4
Everyday Virtualization (Rick Vanover)	90	40	35	157	2
Jonathan Medd	91	-	32	156	0
Andi Mann	92	97	34	154	0
Virtualised Reality (Barry Coombs)	93	64	34	154	4
Jase's Place (Jase McCarty)	94	47	34	153	1
That's My View (Christoph Hardin)	95	-	27	141	0
vmDK (Damian Karlson)	96	-	29	138	0
Virtual Planet (Ricky El-Qasem)	97	90	34	137	1
VMdamentals (Erik Zandboer)	98	-	29	136	2
A Day In The Life (Adam Baum)	99	114	28	135	0
The Data Center Overlords (Tony Bourke)	100	-	27	135	0
Virtualization Team (Various)	101	87	31	134	0
The HyperAdvisor (Antone Heyward)	102	101	23	132	1
The Saffa Geek (Gregg Robertson)	103	-	26	132	1
VirtualPro (Craig Stewart)	104	75	31	130	1
Run-virtual (Richard Garsthagen)	105	46	21	129	1
Virtualization Stuff (Mark Mac Auley)	106	108	29	127	0
Virtualization Spotlight (P. Redknap)	107	-	23	125	0
Vinf.net (Simon Gallagher)	108	96	24	124	1
Rickard Nobel	109	-	24	119	1
Virtualization Information (S. Snowden)	110	94	23	119	1
VMBulletin (Rick Schlander)	111	106	25	118	1
vDestination (Greg Stuart)	112	59	25	117	2
Virtual Geek (Cedric Megroz)	113	-	22	117	3
VM Admin (Andy Barnes)	114	84	28	115	0
Virtual SMB (Will Huber)	115	-	22	114	4
Poshoholic (Kirk Munro)	116	-	22	113	0
Virtual Noob (Chad King)	117	-	28	113	1
vExperienced (Edward Grigson)	118	-	26	111	2
By The Bell (Steve Kaplan)	119	31	17	109	2
The Storage Anarchist (Barry Burke)	120	-	18	109	1
vFrank (Frank Brix Pedersen)	121	81	20	108	2
VM Today (Joshua Townsend)	122	102	22	108	0
Virtualization for Service Providers	123	-	19	106	1
Infoworld Virtualization Report (D. Marshall)	124	74	17	101	1
mwpreston dot net (Mike Preston)	125	-	17	101	1
VMware Info (Carlo Costanzo)	126	54	17	101	4
TechProsaic (Hal Rottenberg)	127	71	19	100	0
Lewan Professional Services Team Blog	128	-	13	99	6
Going Virtual (Brian Norris)	129	80	22	96	1
vElemental (Clint Kitson)	130	-	23	96	1
Demitasse (Alastair Cooke)	131	-	14	93	2
VMware Admins (Eric Sarakaitis)	132	-	24	93	1
Cloud Buddy (Bilal Hashmi)	133	-	19	92	0
Virtualization Buster (Jonathan Franconi)	134	113	20	91	2
vMacken (David Owen)	135	-	20	91	0
Peacon Blog (James Pearce)	136	-	19	90	1
Virtual Lifestyle (Joep Piscaer)	137	70	16	90	1
Beaver's Virtual Dam (Steve Beaver)	138	104	18	87	1
Blue Gears (Edwad Haletky)	139	93	20	86	0
Knudt Blog (Brian Knudtson)	140	78	18	85	0
Virtual Jay (Jay Rogers)	141	111	20	85	0
VMexplorer (Matt Mancini)	142	-	17	83	0
Burdweiser (James Burd)	143	-	14	82	0
Lori MacVittie	144	100	13	82	1
Robert van den Nieuwendijk	145	-	19	82	2
View Yonder (Steve Chambers)	146	33	20	79	0
VMnerds (JÃ©rÃ©Âmie BriÂson)	147	-	19	79	0
Blue Shift Blog (Kevin Kelling)	148	112	19	78	0
Virtual Clouds (Marco Broeken)	149	-	20	78	0
J.F.V.I. (Chris Dearden)	150	73	17	74	0
Virtual Troll (Heino Skov)	151	79	17	74	0
Ken's Virtual Reality (Ken Cline)	152	62	17	73	0
Virtual Future (Sven Huisman)	153	57	13	72	0
Jume (Bouke Groenescheij)	154	56	17	70	0
VirtuallyLG (Lorenzo Galelli)	155	-	19	69	0
IT Blood Pressure (Dwayne Lessner)	156	-	16	68	0
Virtually Speaking (Dan Kusnetzky)	157	103	16	68	1
vPerformance (Anders Hansen)	158	-	17	68	0
UP2V (Marcel van den Berg)	159	-	10	67	2
VMwise (Kanuj Behl)	160	86	15	67	0
Peeters Online (Hugo Peeters)	161	60	19	65	0
VMware Front Experience (Andreas Peetz)	162	-	11	65	2
vNoob (Conrad Ramos)	163	-	17	65	1
ThinkCloud.nl (Martijn Baecke)	164	-	15	64	0
Vinternals (Stuart Radnidge)	165	36	16	64	0
Malaysia VM	166	88	14	63	0
ValCo Labs (Josh Coen)	167	-	11	62	0
vSential (James Bowling)	168	-	11	62	0
Deshifrator	169	-	12	61	1
Roger Lund IT/VMware Blog (Roger Lund)	170	55	14	61	0
VMwarewolf (Richard Blythe)	171	67	15	61	0
Virtualizing the D.C. (Tony Wilburn)	172	115	15	59	0
Gerbens Blog (G. Kloosterman)	173	50	14	58	2
Elastic Vapor (Reuven Cohen)	174	95	11	57	1
It's Just Another Layer (Ian K.)	175	105	12	56	0
vNotion (Anton Gostev)	176	51	13	56	0
Virtual Hints (Matt Lorimer)	177	99	15	53	0
Tech-Tap (Dave Convery)	178	-	9	52	1
VMworldz (Scott March)	179	82	11	51	0
vKnowledge (Ted Steenvoorden)	180	92	13	48	0
DeinosCloud (Didier Pironet)	181	98	12	42	0
Mourad Boubchir	182	-	5	37	3
Enterprise Admins (Brian Wuchner)	183	-	9	33	0
GeekSilver's Blog	184	-	6	30	0
Musings of Rodos (Rodney Haywood)	185	77	7	29	0
Eprich (Paul Richards)	186	-	5	27	0
vReality (Tomi Hakala)	187	-	8	24	0

تجربتى مع اجهزة ال Wyse VDI

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Tue, 08 May 2012 13:19:45 GMT

تجربتى مع اجهزة ال Wyse VDI

اليوم هسنعرض لكم تجربتى وتحليلى لاجهزة ال Wyse VDI

مع بداية تطبيق مشروع ال VDI فى الشركة كنت فى احتياج الى اجهزة Thin and Zero Client

فبحثت عن شركات تنتج هذة الاجهزة ويكون لها وكلاء فى مصر

فبعد بعض البحث وجدت انة يوجد العديد من الشركات التى تنتج هذة الاجهزة لكن وجدت ان يوجد شركة متخصصة فى هذا المجال ومتوسعة جدا فية وتنتج اجهزة متخصصة لكل تكنولوجيا على حدى واجهزة تعمل على كل التطبيقات

فبحثت عن وكيل لها فى مصر فوجدت ان لها وكيل فى مصر واتصلت به وكان الوكيل متفاهم جدا انى فى احتياج الى الجهاز واقوم بتجربتة وكان متعاون للغاية بارسال لى عدة اجهزة من موديلات مختلفة للمقارنة بينها

واخص بالشكر مهندس وليد انور المدير المسئول فى الشركة وهى شركة Integrated Solutions of Egypt

تجربتى سوف تكون مقارنة بين جهازين Wyse P20 وجهاز Wyse C10

اولا هذة الاجهزة متخصصة فى الاتصال بسيرفر التى تعمل بتكنولجيجا ال VMware View

يوجد اجهزة اخرى تنتجها الشركة وتعمل مع شركات اخرى مثل ال Citrix Xen desktop and Microsoft VDI

وحتى شركة Wyse لها حلول كاملة لعمل ال VDI خاص بهم وليست شركة للانتاج اجهزة ال PCs فقط

نعود لموضوعنا وسوف نقارن بين الجهازين من عدة نقاط وهى :

المعيار	P 20	C10
النوع	Zero Client	Thin Client
الحجم	اكبر	اصغر
استهلاك الطاقة	15 وات	7 وات
الوصلات والمنافذ	2 شاشة - اضافية عن الاساسى	1 شاشة - ويرلس اضافية عن الاساسى
سهولة الاعداد	سهل	متوسط
سرعة الاداء	سريع	ابط
السعر	500 دولار	400 دولار
دعمها للشركات	VMware Only	VMware – Citrix – Microsoft

تقييم ال Wyse P 20

يعتبر هذا الجهاز الحل المثالى لجهاز Zero باعدادات سهلة وسريع لانظمة ال VMware View

مع ان هذا الجهاز اكبر حجما قليلا من الجهاز الاخر لكن ما يميزة شكلة الرائع

وسهولة الاعدادات التى تقوم بعملها مرة واحدة فقط وبعد ذلك لن تحتاج الا ان تضغط على زر التشتغيل فقط

يوجد فى هذا الجهاز 4 منافذ من نوع ال USB و2 منافذ للشاشة ومنفذ للشبكة ومنافذ للصوت

وان كان يعيبة انه مصمم فقط ل VMware View

http://www.wyse.com/products/cloud-clients/zero-clients/P20

جهاز Wyse Thin Client C10

هذا الجهاز يصنف على انة جهاز من نوع ال Thin Client اى يحتوى على نظام تشتغيل من انتاج شركة Wyse

يعتبر النظام التشغيل الذى يحتوية بسيط للغاية ويحتوى على بعض الادوات البسيطة لتتغير الاى بى وتحديد السيرفر الذى سوف يتصل بة ونوع التكنولوجيا والبروتوكول وغيرها

ما يجذبك للشكل انة صغير للغاية و الانتتنة الخاصة بالويرلس الموجودة بة مع وجود باقى منافذ الموجودة فى الجهاز السابق

استهلاكة للطاقة يعتبر نصف مستوى استهلاك الطاقة فى الجهاز السابق

ويميزة ايضا قدرتة بالاتصال بالعديد من التكنولوجيا فى مجال ال VDI

لكن يعيبة بطئة فى استعراض االافلام العالية الجودة ودرجة الوضوح الخاصة بالشاشة والالوان مقارنتا بالموديل السابق

ويعتبر سعرة اقل من الموديل السابق

http://www.wyse.com/products/cloud-clients/thin-clients/C10LE

الخلاصة:

اذا كنت تحتاج الى جهاز قوى وبدون اعدادات ووضوح عالى وسرعة لمشروع VMware View يبقى الاختيار المثالى هوا P 20

اذا كنت تحتاج جهاز يوفر فى السعر مقابل الاداء ويعمل مع العديد من الشركات VDI يكون الاختيار المثالى هوا C10

موقع الشركة المنتجة: www.wyse.com

موقع الوكيل فى مصر: www.ise-business.com

شركات ال VT

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Tue, 08 May 2012 13:18:48 GMT

شركات ال VT

يوجد الكثير من الشركات التى تعمل فى هذا المجال

سوف نذكر اسم الشركة ونبذة بسيطة عنها:

1- VMWare

بالطبع لا يمكن ذكر هذة التكنولوجيا بدون ما نتكلم عن هذة الشركة . ما يميز هذة الشركة انها قامت خصيصا لهذة التكنولوجيا وقامت فى وقت لم يكون هذة التكنولوجيا قامت لذلك فلها الفضل فى كثير من المواضيع لانها هى التى قامت بها وادخلت هذة المفاهيم الى هذا العالم . والمتابع تاريخها سوف يجد انها احدث شركة فى تاريخ انشاءها بالنسبة للشركات المنافسة

شركة VMWare لها منتجات فى كل اقسام تكنولوجيا ال VT ولها الريادة فى السوق وفى الابداع

لذلك سوف يكون اغلب مواضيع موضوعنا تتكلم عن منتجات هذة الشركة . هذا ليس تحيز لها لكن ببساطة لان الغالبية من السوق يستخدم منتجات هذة الشركة.

موقع الشركة: www.vmware.com

2- Citrix

تعتبر هذة الشركة من الشركات الرائدة فى مجال ال Terminal Service وهى اول من ابتكر هذة التكنولوجيا

لكن مع ظهور تكنولوجيا ال VT حجزت لها موقع متقدم وقامت بالعمل على مشروع Xen Server وهوا مشروع مفتوح المصدر عملت عليه وطورتة للعمل كمنصة Hypervisor لكى نقوم ببناء عليها السيرفرات الفيرجوال . وقامت ايضا بالدخول فى تكنولوجيا ال VDI عن طريق منتج XenDesktop ولها الكثير من البرامج الاخرى.

موقع الشركة: www.citrix.com

3- Microsoft

شركة مايكروسوفت غنية عن التعريف لكن القليلون يعرفون منتجات مايكروسوفت فى مجال ال VT

تعتبر شركة مايكروسوفت من الشركات الجديدة فى هذا المجال ولم تبدا بشكل احترافى فى هذا المجال الا

مع عام 2008 مع الاصدار الاول من ويندوز سيرفر 2008 وقامت بعمل منتج يسمى HyperV

لكنها منذ فترة فى مجال البرامج الوهمية عن طريق منتج Terminal Service وهوا تطبيق مدمج داخل ويندوز سيرفر بجميع اصدارتة ودخلت ايضا فى مجال ال VDI

موقع الشركة: www.microsoft.com

4- Oracle

اى شخص يسمع اسم اوراكل يفكر بشكل مباشر فى الداتا بيس لكن الشركة الان اصبح لها منتجات فى ال VT وذلك بسبب انها اشترت شركة SUN وهذة الشركة لها انظمة تشتغيل وبرامج تعمل فى هذا المجال من فترة طويلة مثل ال Virtual Box وغيرها من المنتجات لكنها محدودة الانتشار.

موقع الشركة: www.oracle.com

5- Red Hat

شركة ريت هت من الشركات العملاقة فى انظمة تشغيل اللينكس ولها انتشار ضخم لسيرفرتها

وهذا ما ساعدها من انها تقوم بعمل Hypervisor منافس وقوى للشركات العاملة فى المجال

ولكن مازل انتشارها محدود

موقع الشركة: www.redhat.com

6- Parallels

تعتبر هذة الشركة من الشركات القديمة والمتخصصة فى هذا المجال فقط ولكن الكثير من الناس لا تسمع عنها كثيرا . تعتبر منتجاتها تغطى كل تكنولوجيا ال VT لكن ليس بقوة او مميزات شركة Vmware

موقع الشركة: www.Parallels.com

يوجد الكثير من الشركات الاخرى التى تعمل فى هذا المجال او تعمل فى منتجات مساعدة فى هذة التكنولوجيا

ويوجد ايضا منتجات مفتوحة المصدر للذين يبحثون عن التوفير

لذك سوف نضيف كل فترة بعض الشركات الاخرى . ويمكن لاى شخص له اضافات لبعض الشركات الاخرى او معلومات عن الشركات الموجودة فى الموضوع يمكنة ارسالها لى عن طريق الايميل لاضافتها او الرد على الموضوع.

شهادات شركة VMware

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Tue, 08 May 2012 13:17:58 GMT

شهادات شركة VMware

تقدم شركة VMware عدة شهادات فى مجال تكنولوجيا ال VT على منتجاتها فقط

والكورسات والشهادات هذة مقسمة لعدة مستويات ومخصصة لكل شخص على حسب مستواه

وعلى حسب مجال عملة واى منتج يعمل علية من منتجات الشركة

لذلك سوف نقسم الشهادات الى اقسام:

اولا: شهادات مسئولى المبيعات

1- VSP

شهادة مخصصة للاشخاص العاملين فى مجال المبيعات لمنتجات شركة VMware . هذة الشهاداه متاحة فقط للاشخاص العاملين فى شركات VMware Partner الكورس الخاص بها والامتحان مجانى من خلال حساب الشركة فى موقع VMware وهى عبارة عن 8 موديول وتمتحن كل مديول على حدى ومن بعدها تشاهد النتيجه لكل مديول على حدى ولك الحق فى دخول الاختبار لعدد لا نهائى من المرات حتى تنجح.

2- VSTP

شهادة مخصصة للاشخاص العاملين فى مجال المبيعات لكنها تحتلف عن الشهادة السابقه فى موضوع ان الشخص الحامل لها يجب ان يكون له خبرة عملية وفنية فى المنتجات التى يبيعها وهؤلاء نطلق عليهم فى الواقع ال Pre Sales ويمتاز هؤلاء انهم لهم خلفية فنية عن المنتجات ويستطيعون ان يجيبوا على العملاء من وجة نظر فنية ويقدر ان يحدد احسن حل لمشاكل واحسن تصميم مناسب لهم على حسب حجم اعمالهم

للحصول على هذة الشهادة هو نفس اسلوب الحصول على شهادة ال VSP من خلال حساب الشركات الشركاء لشركة VMware والكورس والامتحان مجانى ويمكنك ان تدخل الامتحان العديد من المرات بشكل مجانى ويمكنك الحصول عليها بدون الحصول على شهادة ال VSP .

ثانيا : شهادات الفنيين والمهندسين:

1- VCP VMware Certified Professional

هى اشهر شهادات شركة VMware واكثرها انتشارا وهى شهادة خاصة للمهندسين العاملين فى عمل اعداد وأدراة وصيانة منتجات VMware وتحديد ال Vsphere and VCenter وهيا المدخل الحقيقى لكل شخص يريد ان يدير او يحول شركتة الى عالم ال VT

هذة الشهادة لها عدة اصدارات على حسب اصدار ال Vsphere وتحدث باستمرار

له كورس وحيد لكى تؤهلك للدخول للامتحان . لكن يجب ان تحضر الكورس فى مركز تدريب معتمد من شركة VMware وليس باماكانك ان تحصل على الشهادة اعتمادا على درساتك السخصية او خبرتك العملية فقط

يمكنك معرفة المراكز المعتمدة من خلال موقع شركة VMware وهم معدودين

الكورس مدتة 40 ساعة فقط وبعد الحضور يمكنك ان تحجز الامتحان من خلال شركة VUE هوا امتحان اختيار من متعدد وليس عملى .

يعيب هذة الشهادة ان سعر الكورس الخاص بها غالى الثمن لانة سعر موحد على مستوى العالم

يوجد حتى كتابة هذا المقال ما يقارن من 40 الف شخص فى العالم حصلوا على هذة الشهادة

2- VCAP4-DCA

VMware Certified Advanced Professional – Datacenter Administration

هذة الشهادة تعتبر شهادت المحترفين الخطوة التالية للاشخاص الحاصلين على شهادة ال VCP وذوى الخبرة الكبيرة فى العمل فى الداتا سنتر العملاقة

للحصول على هذة الشهاده يجب ان يتوفر فى الشخص الحاصل عليها الخبرة الكبيرة فى مجال ال VT

فى جميع نواحية فى الاعداد والادراة والصيانة وحل المشاكل والحماية

لذلك يجب ان يكون ان يدرس هذة الكورسات لكى يكتسب هذة المعلومات وهم عدة كورسات

ليس المطلوب ان تدرسهم كلهم او او تدرسهم فى مركز تعليمى معتمد لكن يكفى ان تكون على دراية بالمعلومات فى هذة الكورسات

لكن يجب الحصول على كورس وشهاده ال VCP لكى تسطيع الحصول على هذة الشهادة

3- VCAP4-DCD

VMware Certified Advanced Professional – Datacenter Design

هذة الشهادة هى نفس فكرة الشهادة السابقة لكنها متخصصة فى مجال التصميم

بمعنى تصميم الداتا سنتر التى تعمل بتكولوحيا ال VMware وعمل افضل تصميم على حسب احتياجات العمل

للحصول على هذة الشهادة يجب دراسة هذة الكورسات ال

ليس المطلوب ان تدرسهم كلهم او او تدرسهم فى مركز تعلميمى معتمد لكن يكفى ان تكون على دراية بالمعلومات فى هذة الكورسات

لكن يجب الحصول على كورس وشهادت ال VCP لكى تسطيع الحصول على هذة الشهادة

4- VCDX VMware Certified Design Expert

هذة الشهادة هي شهادة الخبراء فى التصميم الداتا سنتر وهيا تعتبر اعلى شهادة التصميم وادارة الداتا سنتر ايضا

للحصول على هذة الشهادة يجب ان يحصل الشخص على كل الشهادات السابقه

VCP

VCAP-DCD

VCAP-DCA

بعد الحصول على هذة الامتحانات والنجاح فيها

يتم ملئ التطبيق الخاص بهذة الشهادة وارساله للشركة ويتم قبولة

ويحدث اتصال من الشركة للشخص لمراجعة اعماله وتحديد الموقف فى اعطائة هذة الشهادة او لا

ثالثا: شهادات مهندسى ال VDI

1- VCA4-DT

VMware Certified Associate 4 – Desktop

هذة الشهادة مخصصة للعاملين فى مجال ال VDI او على برنامج Vmware View

الخاص بعمل ماشين الخاصة باليوزر على السيرفرات ال Vsphere

للحصول على هذة الشهاده يجب ان تدرس هذا الكورس

VMware View: Install, Configure, Manage [V4.5]

ثم تقوم بحجز الامتحان الخاص بة من خلال شركة VUE

2- VCP5-DT

VMware Certified Professional 5 – Desktop

هذة الشهادة هى الخطوة التالية والاعلى للشهادة السابقة

فهى متخصصة فى نفس المجال لكن يزيد عليها ان الذى يريد الحصول عليها يجب ان يكون حاصل على شهادة ال VCP ثم ينجح فى امتحان الخاص بهذة الشهادة VCP5 DT

يجب ان يكون الخاص الحاصل على هذة الشهادة على دراية ب ThinApp

رابعا شهادة الخبراء:

1- VExpert

هذة الشهادة تركتها للنهاية لانه تختلف عن كل الشهادات السابقة من حيث انها ليس لها كورس ولا امتحان

انما شروطها لكى تحصل عليها انك يجب ان تسجل فى البرنامج الخاص بها

وان تكون تكون فى المنتديات والاماكن التى يرسل الناس مشاكل خاصة ببرامج ال Vmware وانت تقوم بالرد عليهم ومساعدتهم فى حل هذة المشاكل

او تقوم بعمل مقالات علمية تساعد الاخرين

وتجمع جميع اسهاماتك فى حل المشاكل وغيرها وترسلها لشركة Vmware وهم يقوموا بعمل تقييم لادائك ويقومون بالموافقة او الرفض لاعطائك هذة الشهادة

الحاصلين على هذة الشهادة محدودين ولكنهم منتشرين بكثرة على الانترنت بسبب ان كل شخص منهم له موقع خاص بة

الحاصلين على هذة الشهادة لهم وضع خاص مع شركة Vmware وتعطيهم مميزات كثيرة وتتيح لهم كل الاماكانيات من البرامج لديها والبرامج الجديدة والمشاريع المختلفة عندها

والحضور للمؤتمرات الخاصة بالشركة ايضا والتحدث باسمها فى المنتديات

هذا كان عرض سريع ومختصر عن شهادات شركة VMware المختلفة

للمزيد من المعلومات يجب زيارة موقع الشركة والدخول فى قسم التعليم

سوف نركز فى موقعنا على شهادات ال VCP and VCP-DT لان الغالبية يحتاجها فى حياتة العملية

وسوف يكون لها سلسلة تعليمية للحصول على هذة الشهادات

كيف تقوم بعمل تحديث VSphere 5

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Tue, 08 May 2012 13:17:15 GMT

كيف تقوم بعمل تحديث VSphere 5

تعلمنا فى كورس ال VCP كيف يمكننا ان نقوم باعداد سيرفر يعمل ب VSphere 5

الان سوف نتعلم كيفية عمل تحديث لاخر الباتشات وعلاج المشاكل التى قامت شركة VMware باصدارها

اعرض هذا الموضوع الان بسبب ان شركة VMware قامت باصدار تحديث لجميع منتجاتها لتعالج فية بعض المشاكل وتضيف بعض الاشياء الجديدة فية

سوف نركز موضوعنا على كيفية تحديث ال VSphere 5 بسبب انة اصعب شئ فى التحديث لانة يحدث من Command line بعكس الباقيين يمكننا ان نحدثهم من داخل الويندوز

فى التحديث الجديد ل VMware Vsphere 5 قامت الشركة باضافة بعض المميزات الجديدة واهمها انها قامت بدعم اعداد ويندوز سيرفر 8 داخل البرنامج

لتحديث اى برنامج من برامج شركة VMware يوجد طريقتان

1- من خلال برنامج VMware Update Manager

2- من خلال ال Command line

سوف نركز فى مقالنا هنا على كيفية التحديث من خلال ال Command Line وسوف يكون هناك موضوع اخر نشرح فية كيفية التحديث بواسطة برنامج VMware Update Manager لجميع منتجات شركة VMware

من القواعد الاساسية فى عمليات ال Update and Upgrade يجب علينا ان نتاكد من ان هذا التحديث متوافق معنا ولن يسبب لنا اى مشاكل وذلك عن طريق اننا نقوم بعملية التحديث فى لاب اختبارى قبل تطبيقة فى الواقع

لتحديث نسخة ال VSphere 5.0 to VSphere 5.0 U1سوف نتبع الخطوات التالية

اولا : نقوم بتنزيل التحديث من موقع شركة VMware من خلال هذا الرابط

https://hostupdate.vmware.com/software/VUM/OFFLINE/release-328-20120312-212851/update-from-esxi5.0-5.0_update01.zip

ثانيا : نحتاج برنامج للدخول على السيرفر بواسطة ال Command line مثل برنامج ال Putty

ثالثا: نقوم بتشتغيل SSH Service on VSphere 5

رابعا: نقوم برفع ملف التحديث على Storage الخاصه بالسيرفر

خامسا: نقوم بالدخول على السيرفر بواسطة برنامج Putty

سادسا: نقوم بكتابة هذا الامر لتشغيل التحديثات على السيرفر

esxcli software vib install -d /vmfs/volumes/[Datastore]/update-from-esxi5.0-5.0_update01.zip

مع ملاحظ اسم الداتا بيز بتختلف على الاسم الموجود داخل سيرفرك اما باقى الامر فهو ثابت لا تحتاج الى تغيير اى شئ فية

سابعا: بعد تنفيذ الامر التحديث لا يستغرق الا دقائق وبعدها تحتاج الى اعادة تشتغيل السيرفر لتطبيق التحديثات الجديدة

بهذا نكون قد انتهينا من التحديث لسيرفر VMware VSphere 5

http://www.vmware.com/support/vsphere5/doc/vsp_esxi50_u1_rel_notes.html#whatsnew

وهذا رابط للجديد فى التحديثات الجديدة

مدخل الى VT

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Tue, 08 May 2012 13:15:16 GMT

مدخل الى VT

مدخل الى VT التكنولوجيا التخيلية او الافتراضية تعتبر من احدث والاسرع نموا فى عالم التكنولوجيا فى وقتنا الحالى والكل يتسابق فى الدخول فى هذا العالم سواء من الشركات المنتجة او من المستخدمين لهذة التكنولوجيا .

فما هى هذة التكنولوجيا التخيلية هيا عبارة عن عمل اكتر من نظام تشتغيل كامل على جهاز كمبيوتر واحد وكل انظمة تشتغيل تعمل فى وقت واحد بكامل برامجها على نفس الجهاز

بالطبع الامر ليس بهذة السهولة والبعض الان سوف يقوم انا اقوم بذلك منذ وقت طويل والبعض الاخر سوف يقوم وما فائدتها وغيرها من الاسئلة التى سوء تتبادر فى اذهان الكتيرين ممن يقرائون هذا المقال بالطبع سوف اجيب عن كل هذة التسالات واكتر بشكل نظرى وعملى وذلك من خلال المتابعة للمقالات الجديدة التى سوف توضح تاريخ هذة التكنولوجيا والتطورات الرهيبة التى حدثت فيها خلال وقت قصير للغاية

البعض يقول الان انه يقوم بعمل هذا من فترة طويلة نعم هذا صحيح لكن كان يتم ذلك عن طريق برامج تقوم بتنزيلها داخل نظام تشتغل على سبيل المثال الويندوز ومثال هذة البرامج VMware work station and Microsoft Virtual pc and virtual box وغيرها من البرامج

لكن هذة البرامج تعتمد على نظام تشتغيل لكى تعمل وهذا النظام التشتغيل يقوم بسحب ريسورس من الجهاز الاصلى ويبقى ريسورس قليلة للاجهزة الفيرجوال وايضا قلة الادوات داخل هذة البرامج لذلك هذة البرامج محدودة وتنفع فى حالة تجربة نظام تشتغيل جديد او برنامج على جهازك المنزلى وهذة البرامج لن نتكلم عنها او نستخدمها

انما سوف نستخدم مستوى اعلى فى عمل الفيرجوال وهوا Hypervisor لا يختلط عليك الامر انا لااقصد ال Hyperv هذا المصطلع اقصد بة تكنولوجيا وليس اسم منتج هذا المصطلح يعنى انه يمكن عمل نظام تشتغيل خفيف وداخله برنامج الفيرجوال ويتم اعدادة على الهاردوير الخاص بالسيرفر مباشرتا بدون اجتياجنا لنظام تشتغيل نقوم بتنزيلة علية

بمعنى اخر ان هذا عبارة عن نظام تشتغيل مدمج فية برنامج الفيرجوال ويتعامل مباشرتا مع الهاردوير

وما فائدة ذلك لة فائدة كبيرة لانة يتعامل مباشرتا بالهاردوير ولا يستخدم من هذا الهاردوير الا جزء ضئيل جدا له ويوفر الباقى للاجهزة الوهمية التى سوف نقوم ببناءئها

يوجد العديد من الشركات التى تقوم بعمل انظمة من هذة سوف اذكر بعضها وليس الكل VMware VSphere – Citrix Xan Server - Microsoft Hyper V – Oracle VM وغيرها سوف يكون يكون هناك مقال نذكر فية كل الشركات التى تعمل فى هذا المجال والفروق بينهم.

ما هى فوائد هذة التكنولوجيا؟

يوجد العديد من الفوائد لاستخدام التكنولوجيا التخليلة بدلا عن الاجهزة الحقيقة فى المؤسسات الكبيرة والداتا سنتر

1- توفير كبير فى الهارد وير او بعنى اوضح فى عدد السيرفرات والريسوس الخاص بها وذلك بسبب اننا يمكننا ان نقوم بعمل اكتر من نظام تشتغيل على نفس السيرفر

2- تخقيق ال HA باكفاء صورة بسبب ان السيرفرات الفيرجوال يمكننها ان تنتقل من سيرفر الى اخر خلال ثوانى فى حالة وجود مشكلة فى السيرفر التى كانت تعمل علية

3- سهولة اخد Backup من السيرفرات وذلك بسبب ان نقوم باخد السيرفر ككل ولا الداتا التى علية فقط

4- توفير ضخم فى استهلاك الطاقة

5- سهولة الادارة وقله اليد العاملة التى نحتاجها فى ادارتها

يوجد العديد والعديد من الفوائد التى سوف نستفيد منها فى حالة استخدامنا هذة التكنولوجيا وسوف تتضح لكم من خلال ابحاركم فى هذا العالم معنا من خلال الموقع

ما هى صور لتطبيقات ال VT ؟

1- عمل سيرفرات وهمية

2- عمل اجهزة كمبيوتر خاصة لليوزر وهمية وتمسى علميا VDI

3- عمل Cloud computing وهو القيام بعمل هوست لسيرفراتك بالكامل بشكل وهمى عند شركات خارجية من خلال الانترنت

للاسف بعد كل ذلك مازال البعض فى عالمنا العربى ينظر لهذة التكنولوجيا بعين من الشلك والخوف ويخاف ان يستخدمها ويتكلم بغير علم عن مشاكل وعيوب فيها

لن اجيب علية الا ان العالم كلة يقوم بل قام بالتحول الى هذا التكنولوجيا واخر الاحصائيات تقدر حجم التحول للاجهزة من الحقيقى الى الوهمى الى 70 فى المائة وحجم النمو السنوى يصل ال 60%

وهذا رقم مرعب بمقاييس النمو لا مجال

فالمسائلة ليست الا وقت ويتحول كل العالم الى فيرجوال والمتابع منا يعرف الان العالم كلة يتكلم عن ال Cloud خاصة لليوزر العادى

وال Cloud هوا احد تطبيقات ال VT

الخلاصة : هذة التكنولوجيا هيا الحاضر والمستقبل الفرق الان معك هوا انك اما تكون من اوائل المستخدمين او من المتاخرين الكسالى

نبذة عن منتجات شركة VMware

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Tue, 08 May 2012 13:13:08 GMT

نبذة عن منتجات شركة VMware

سوف نعطى نبذة عن بعض منتجات شركة VMware وسنركز على اشهر المنتجات واهمها لليوزر

موضوع موجة اساسا للمبتدئين فى هذا المجال والذين يجدوا صعوبة فى التعرف على دور منتجات الشركة او ما هوا افضل برامج لعملهم

سوف نعرف تعريف مختصر للبرامج حسب تصنيفها عند شركة VMware

Datacenter & Cloud Infrastructure

VMware vSphere : البرنامج بالطبع غنى عن التعريف - هوا ال Hypervisor for VMware الذى نبنى فوقة كل سيرفراتنا التخيلية ويعتبر اهم منتج عند شركة VMware
vSphere Storage Appliance (VSA): هذا منتج جديد صدر العام الماضى مع صدور الاصدار الخامس من برنامج VSphere 5 - هذا التطبيق يقوم بعمل Storage بين اكتر من سيرفر بخاصية الكلاستر بدون ما يكون موجود لدينا SAN or NAS
VMware vCloud Director : هذا البرنامج من اقوى واصعب البرامج وله دور هائل ومع انة غير مشهور - يقوم هذ البرنامج بعمل Public Cloud بمعنى ان يقوم بعمل داتا سنتر كاملة بسيرفرات تخيلية ويقدم هذا السيرفرات للتاجير لشركات واشخاص ليعملوا عليها على حسب طلب كل زبون وعلى حسب ميزانيتة
VMware Cloud Infrastructure: هذا البرنامج تكلمة للبرنامج السابق وهوا يقوم بربط بين ال Public cloud and Private Cloud

Mac Products

VMware Fusion : هذا البرنامج شبية ببرنامج Vmware Workstation لكنة يعمل على اجهزة الماكنتوش ومن خلاله نستطيع ان نقوم بعمل ماشين بنظام تشتغيل اخر داخل نظام تشتغيل الماك

Desktop & End-user Computing

VMware View : من اروع برامج الشركة وهوا خاص بتكنولوجيا ال VDI يمعنى انة يقوم بعمل ماشين خاصة باليوزر للعمل عليها يكون بداخلها ويندوز وبرامجة والداتا الخاصة به بدون ما يكون عند اليوزر اى جهاز كمبيوتر حقيقى وانما جهاز صغير بوسطتة يقوم بالدخول على السيرفر الموجود علية الماشين الخاصة بية
VMware ThinApp:يقوم هذا البرنامج بتكنولوجيا ال Portable Application بمعنى انة يقوم بتحويل البرامج العادية مثل الاوفيس الى برامج ذاتية التشغيل على احهزة اليوزر بدون ما نحتاج الى ان نقوم بعمل لها Install على الجهاز
VMware Workstation: برنامج معروف للجميع والخاص هذا البرانامج يقوم بعمل اعداد لانظمة تشتغيل مختلفه داخل الجهاز الشخصى للمستخدم
VMware Zimbra: برنامج جديد اشترتة الشركة منذ فترة قصيرة وهوا خاص بعمل Mail Server
VMware SlideRocket: برنامج جديد خاص بعمل Presintion slide شبية ببرنامج مايكروسوفت باور بوينت لكنة يعمل من على السيرفر ولا نقوم بتنزيله على الاجهزة
VMware Horizon Application Manager : برنامج حديث مازال فى اصدارة الاول يقوم بعمل موقع يحتوى على كل البرامج الPortable التى قومنا بعملها بواسطة برنامج ال Thinapp ويعطينا هذا الموقع اتاحية ان نختار البرامج التى نريد ان نشغلها على اجهزتنا ويعطى للمدير الحق فى اعطاء الصلاحيات لليوزر ومشاهدة تقارير عن المستخدمين

Infrastructure & Operations Management

VMware vCenter Operations Management Suite: برنامج لمراقبة السيرفر والماشين التى تعمل على الVsphere ويعطى تقارير عن الماشين وعن مستوى السيرفر ومعلومات معمة عن حالة السيرفرات
VMware vCenter Server:برنامج مشهور وهوا الذى يقوم بادارة سيرفر ال Vsphere ويقوم بعمل الكلاستر والهجرة للماشين وغيرها
VMware vCenter Server Heartbeat: برنامج مساعد للتاكد من ان السيرفرات تعمل او لا ويساعد فى خدمات الكلاستر وال HA
VMware vCenter Capacity IQ: برنامج وظيفتة انة يقوم مساعدة المديرين الذين يريدون التحول الى التكنولوجيا التخيلية فهو يعطينا كم عدد الاجهزة التى سوف نحتاجها لتحويل الداتا سنتر الخاصة بنا من اجهزة حقيقة الى وهمية
VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager: برنامج قوى تحتاجه الشركات الضخمة التى تريد ان تؤمن الداتا سنتر لديها فانها تقوم بعمل فرع اخر يحتوى على نسخة من الداتا سنتر فى فرعها الرئيسى وهذا البرنامج وظيفتة نقل السيرفرات بين الفرعين والفيام بتشتغيل الفرع الاحتياطى فى حالة تعطل العمل فى الفرع الرئيسى
VMware vCenter Converter: برنامج نحتاجة جميعا فى حياتنا وهو خاصة بتحويل الماشين الحقيقة الى وهمية او من وهمية الى وهمية على سيرفر من نوع اخر

IT Business Management

VMware vCenter Chargeback Manager: برنامج مساعد للعاملين فى ال Public Cloud فهوا يقوم بعمل حساب لتكلفة الخدمة لكل مستخدم او مؤجر للسيرفرات الوهمية ويحسب استخدام اليوزر للسيرفرات التى استخدمها.

Security Products

VMware vShield App : عبارة عن جدار نارى وهمى نقوم بتشتغيلة داخل الداتا سنتر الوهمية الخاصة بنا
VMware vShield Endpoint: يقوم بعمل جدا نارى وانتى فيرس على مستوى الماشين الخاصة باليوزر فى الداتا سنتر
VMware Player: برنامج بسيط يستخدم لتشتغيل الماشين الوهمية على جهاز اليوزر فقط

Application Platform

VMware vFabric Product Family: برنامج من تطبيقات ال Cloud PaaS دورة انة يعطى المبرمجين الاتاحية على عمل برامجهم داخل بيئة الجافا ونشرها مباشرتا لليوزر

Other

Cisco Nexus 1000V: عبارة عن سوتش وهمى من انتاج شركة Cisco يقوم بعمل سوتش على مستوى الداتا سنتر وبين السيرفرات الوهمية ويقوم بعمل كل ما هوا موجود على سوتشات سيسكو الحقيقية

هذا كان عرض مبسط لاشهر منتجات شركة VMWare يوجد بعض البرامج الاخرى لكنها ليسه مهمة لنا حتى الان

فى مقالات مقبلة سوف نقوم بعمل تعريف وشرح تفصيلى لبعض هذة البرامج

Integration Veeam Backup with Symantec Backup Exec 2010

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Tue, 08 May 2012 10:43:36 GMT

Integration Veeam Backup with Symantec Backup Exec 2010

Introduction:

This document highlights some necessary steps required to setup a successful Veeam Backup and Symantec Backup Exec 2010 for tape integration and off-site storage.

Steps to a successful integration:

Veeam B& R v6.0.0.181 is installed on a Virtual Machine running guest operating system Windows 2008 R2 64bit with 8 GB of Ram and 2 Virtual vCPU Sockets and 4 Cores for each socket. The Veeam resources it depends on the environments and workload that put on the backup during backup operation.

All backup repositories’ are mapped through iSCSI Initiator with MPIO. The sizing of the repositories also it depends on each environment and how much data needs to be restored from disk and for how long. Again, this retention period plays a big role in the repository storage and how big your storage is.

In my environments, I have multiple targets;

No	Repository Target	Size
1.	IBM iSCSI – DS3500	2.0 TB
2.	IBM iSCSI – DS3500	745 GB
3.	EMC iSCSI – AX4-5i	800 GB
4.	OpenFiler iSCSI 2.3	1.4 TB
5.	IBM iSCSI – DS3500	2.0 TB
	Total	6.9 TB

Veeam Backup Configuration:

All the above repositories are added to the Veeam Backup & Replication v.6.0.0.181. Backup jobs configured for each VM to one of the above repositories.

Due to lack of disk space in the repositories and which limits the number of days ofbacked up VMs should remain on disk, all the backup jobs are configured as follows;

Categorizing the backup jobs based on roles of the Virtual Machines helps a lot from backing up static Virtual Machines which doesn’t change very often.

No	Backup Category	Descriptions
1.	Critical Virtual Machines	Virtual machines are changing dynamically, such as Mail Server, file Server, Archive Server, Sharepoint, etc..
2.	Non-Critical Virtual Machines	Virtual machines are not changing on a daily basis, such as AntiVirus, Proxy Servers, WSUS, Deployment Serves

Critical Virtual Machines Job Settings:

Since those Virtual Machines are changing dynamically and daily, weekly and monthly backup requires for them backup job settings are configured based on the disk space and how long we can restore from disk.

Restore points to keep on disk: = 5

Deleted VMs data retention period: = 5

Backup Mode set as Incremental and Weekly Friday Active Full Backup. And schedule backup Sunday through Friday.

This settings result 1 Full Backup on Friday .vbk file and Sunday through Thursday is incremental which will gives 5 .vibs files.

Note: Since the Deleted VMs data retention period set to 5, CheckDataValue() when it reaches to 5 days, the full last backup chain will be deleted from disk and will have a new .vib file changed with last .vbk file.

Example:

Full Backup runs on 27^th April, 2012 it will have a chain of Sunday through Thursday.

Week#1

No	Backup Date	Day	Backup Mode
1.	04/27/2012 02:43 VM001012012-04-27T143033.vbk	Friday	Full
2.	04/29/2012 02:37 VM001012012-04-29T143033.vib	Sunday	Incremental
3.	04/30/2012 09:42 VM001012012-04-30T093346.vib	Monday	Incremental
4.	05/01/2012 02:37 VM001012012-05-01T143039.vib	Tuesday	Incremental
5.	05/02/2012 02:37 VM001012012-05-02T143047.vib	Wednesday	Incremental
6.	05/03/2012 02:38 VM001012012-05-03T143029.vib	Thursday	Incremental

Week #2

No	Backup Date	Day	Backup Mode
1.	05/05/2012 11:18 VM001012012-05-04T143026.vbk	Friday	Full
2.	05/06/2012 02:36 VM001012012-05-06T143052.vib	Sunday	Incremental
3.	05/07/2012 02:36 VM001012012-05-07T143038.vib	Monday	Incremental
4.	05/08/2012 02:36 VM001012012-05-06T143052.vib	Tuesday	Incremental
5.	CheckDateValue()
6.

When CheckDateValue() reach next week Wednesday, the previous backup chain will be deleted entirely.

Non-Critical Virtual Machines:

The same applies to the non-critical virtual machines backup jobs, except those backup jobs are set to 1 for both values, Restore points to keep on disk:= 1 && Deleted VMs data retention period:= 1.

This will allow only one restore point on disk.

Symantec Backup Exec 2010 Configuration:

All traditional backup software, the well-known backup methods are Full, Incremental or Differential. With Symantec Backup Exec 2010 and Veeam Integration there is a caution in here to select which backup methods to use when you Backup the Veeam Images *.VBK or *.VIB files.

In Symantec when Full Backup is configured to backup Veeam Images it will Backup everything on the drive and will reset the file Archive Bits.

When Veeam Backup runs again and created a VIB file or VBK file and again Symantec Runs as Incremental against veeam files, only the last changed files will be backed up.

But, when Symantec Full backup runs against Veeam, it will backup everything on the drive, means all Full *.VBK Files along with all *.VIB files. This increase the possibility of taking long time to finish the backup as well as doubling the backup twice.

The best option in here to backup Veeam Image using Symantec is to set all the backup methods as Incremental with Reset-Archive-Bit including Daily, weekly and Monthly Backup.

Also, Since Veeam Backup & Replication doesn’t have the option to set a monthly Backup, the last Wednesday of Last Week in the month can be considered as monthly backup and again the Backup Method has to be Copy otherwise backup will not backup anything to tapes because the Archive-Bit has been reset already.

In my example, Wednesday is my CheckDateValue() that configured on the Veeam backup jobs.

VMware and Related Bookmarks

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Tue, 08 May 2012 08:46:01 GMT

I can not find a perfect bookmarks services for my own, so using this page for bookmarking stuffs on virtualization, especially on VMware, Performance metrics, HCL, etc..

KB Articles

EVC Support and Requirements http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1003212

The Bright Side of VM Sprawl

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Mon, 07 May 2012 20:56:15 GMT

At a high level, it is easy to call the proliferation of virtual machines “sprawl” which connotes a negative use of resources. I think there is subtly here that implies not all this "sprawl" is actually bad. Check out the bright side at http://bit.ly/chargeback-resources.

Honeybees and Discovering the Next Big Thing

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Mon, 07 May 2012 13:18:35 GMT

I had an amazing experience recently helping a friend set up a beehive on her property. Throughout the process, I was taken with the intricate details of how a hive functions and the role of each bee and their CEO, the queen. I wondered how much of their elaborate system of egg nurturing to honey-making was simply a matter of evolution or if it was more complex than that. So, I did a little research...

What I found out is that each bee serves a purpose and collaborates with one another. They have a sophisticated communication system or "dance" and in the tens of thousands, they work as a highly efficient team. Most interesting to me however is that they have a well developed research system that ensures they are prepared for the future.

While the honeybee doesn't actually invent new "things", there's a lot

to be learned from their research system which is primarily focused on food supply. They carve out a portion of the community to do a series of reconnoissance missions to find possible opportunities. Their goal is to find the über supply or the "next big thing". They don't tap into all the options they discover, but rather select their next major source based on specific criteria and by garnering imput from the community. Their research and collaboration has led to an existence that scientists claim goes back at least a million years.

Drawing parallels to investing in technology research and the next big thing, the honeybees seamlessly do what most tech organizations struggle to do; they prioritize their resources to do the research and when times are hard, the honeybees increase their research investment. Instead of trying to do more with less, they take more worker bees from the routine production tasks and add them to the research pool to increase the possibilities of discovering the next big thing. The community works together and "discusses" options to determine what's best for the hive's survival. Given the longevity of these creatures, their research model has a proven track record that cannot be denied.

All of this insight on the honeybee approach to research got me to thinking about our upcoming annual internal innovation conference. The conference is one of many things we do here at VMware to invest in the next big things and has morphed over the years from a one day academic-research type of event to a three day conference that includes a vast array of content - from advanced research presentations and educational seminars to Birds of a Feather meet-ups.

One of the best parts of the conference is the Expo that houses close to 100 booths filled with demos and posters showcasing the hot projects going on across our development organization. Like any industry conference, the booths get cooler every year - adding multimedia, hands-on demos and of course, swag.

Throughout the conference, content and presentations are rated and, much like the honeybees, the community weighs in on the importance of ideas that may lead to the next big thing.

In addition to the community rating of new ideas, our innovation conference is similar to research investments of the honeybees. The level of investment in time for the conference is a lot like the time investment the bees make to keep their food supply search going. Engineers at VMware are encouraged to submit proposals to get into the conference (a coveted invite as only ~20% of the organization gets to attend). If they get in, they are given the time they need to prepare high quality presentations, demos and content for their booth.

The conference itself is also a big time investment for those who attend and we find that the level of time during the conference that is invested in sharing and exchanging ideas grows exponentially every year.

Most important, though, is what this event begets in terms of the next big things. Some of our greatest inventions like Storage vMotion and Horizon Mobile got their start from their initial presentations at this event. In the case of the latter, it was just after this event that Horizon Mobile (nee MVP) began truly incubating. It was at a time when the future of smart phones and their role in the enterprise was still a big unknown.

Because of this focussed research investment, we are now well poised to deliver a smart solution to address the BYOD challenge IT organizations are struggling with. By being presented at the innovation event, not only did the project gain further investment, but it seeded other new investments in the mobility space that are now in VMware's View and Virtual Center products.

At VMware, we continue to take risks and pull resources from day-to-day development work to ensure we're investing in the next big things. There are so many other examples of such investments here like Project AppBlast and Project Octopus and even our acquisitions of cool new technologies to explore like SocialCast (social media for the Enterprise) and Shavlik Technologies to help simplify IT for SMB. We also back strategic new ideas like Mozy and hire top talent to explore new subject areas of interest - check out my friend Josh Simon's blog on HPC. The list is endless and I'm excited about some of the new stories we'll be telling at VMworld 2012 this summer.

So, as we gear up for our annual event, I will be thinking more about those honeybees and how they prioritize time and resources with a focus on the next big thing. All the hard work that goes into the conference - especially by our "worker bees" who are coming up with the next big things - pays off every year. Will we last a million years? Who knows. I do know though that just as the honeybees are programmed to continue to to discover the next big thing, the VMware culture is programmed just the same.

For a more in-depth look at the parallels between honey bees and industry, check out "The Wisdom of Bees" by Michael O'Malley

Vmware Job

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Mon, 07 May 2012 10:28:07 GMT

Dear All,

Any Job Opening For Vmware L2 Support Engineer in Delhi-NCR , All India For My Friend .

Virtual Center , permissions, adding, removing, inheriting, groups, users and such

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Mon, 07 May 2012 01:55:46 GMT

I was reading today about permissions on different level in virtual center. While reading i was doing many different tests in my tiny lab. I wanted to share my results with you, as there are many different opinions in internet. I thought i will make this little presentation to sort this out.

First of all, check the official vmware documentation about permissions,rights, etc... using this LINK
Lest's start from beggining.

We have virtual center VC, datacenter LAB2, and some esx host called 10.0.0.5 . User "greg" resides in group "leastpriv" and "mostpriv". For group leastpriv will always contain less privileges than mostpriv.
At this moment i have put those two groups privileges(leastpriv with role no access, and mostpriv with Administrator) on a vc level and set them to propagate to lower levels.
Example #1
We have restricted access to user "greg" giving his group leastpriv no access role on VC level. In the same time we have given him Administrator role by putting his group mostpriv. In that case the sum result of those 2 privileges will equal to LESS restrictive. So the user greg is still able to login to VC, as on the screenshot below and he has administrator role.

Now let's go back to the documentation that about roles,permission... it says:
"If multiple group permissions are defined on the same object and the user belongs to two or more of those groups, two situations are possible:

If no permission is defined for the user on that object, the user is assigned the set of privileges assigned to the groups for that object.

If a permission is defined for the user on that object, the user's permission takes precedence over all group permissions."
So we have here situation where we have added 2 groups where our user "greg" is. No user permission was defined on the object. In that case as the document says, we get the set of privileges assigned to the groups for that object. So, some people may thin that we would receive least permissions here, but no, we get the whole set which results in LEAST restrictive privileges. Let's see what happens next.
Example #1a
We have decided for some reason to give our user greg, 'no access' role to the host 10.0.0.5. We have placed this user level privilege directly on our esx object.

User Greg will have now "no access" to the host. As per vmware documentation, when a user-level privilege is set on a object which has also some group-level privilege in place, the user-level will take place. Our user had an Admin and No access, privileged on the host, both were defined on VC, and they have propagated to our esx object. But when we will specify a privilege for user, his rights that came from groups doest not count anymore.
Now let's add some things.
Example #2

We have created some vm folders. We can see that user "greg" can acess them, and as we know he has effective Adminsitrator role(i have removed the no access on host for him from example#1).

We have given Read-Only role for leastpriv group. User greg can only view contents of the folder vmfolder2. This role is more important here than the administrator rol that is on the mostpriv group, because this privilege was set on the child object. As per documentation, when you have a privilege on group that is propagatating the from the parent to child, and the child has defined another privilege on it directly. The childs prvilige will take place. In our case, "greg" will not have the adminsitrator anymore on vmfodler2.
Don't get confused by active option "Create new virtual machine".

If you will click it , you will get an error. Our user, have read-only access there.

So here, we have defined leastpriv group on a folder vmfolder2 level with a read-only. Greg could not create any vms in that folder, but he still has administrator privileges in vms that are residing in this folder. As per screenshots we have here group leastpriv that was defined on folder level and the mostpriv which was defined on vc level. As i was previously writing, in this situation we will have effective privileges of the group set in which greg resides. So why this situation is wrong ? Well, that's because setting administrator priviliges on VC level is not a best idea. If you will put many different groups on VC level with administrator privileges and set them to propagate, you can loose hours,days to find out why some user has still access to something. You should set only trusted administrators group on VC level as they are gaining also specific rigths on the root level like custom fields, licenses, roles, sessions, statistic intervals.
Example#3

I have set leastpriv group with read-only rights on vmfolder2 level. All vms in that folder for greg should be now read-only. As do not have any other permissions propagating for us from upper levels. I have also set on the vm2 object directly , his group mostpriv with Administrator privileges. Now Greg can fully administrate vm1, and has only read-only access to vm1. Group mostpriv is attached directly to vm2 which is child of its parent(vmfolder2). When attaching some role to child directly, it will ignore roles that were propagated to it.
Let's make something more weird

Now, few seconds ago greg was Administrator, but now he has no access role. Once again, this happend because, even if other group is giving the user some Administrator ritgts(mostpriv) that is attached directly on the object, which ignores the limitation of group leastpriv(which was propagating its priviliges to child), still when you will attach privilege directly on child using a USER-level privilege, then the user selected privilige will be used.

I know it's long and it might seem complicated, but i tried very hard to explain this ;). For me reading vmware documentation few times worked best. I tried to read serveral different documents, but after reading vmware guide i finally understood it. What's worth also mentioning:
"
Most inventory objects inherit permissions from a single parent object in the hierarchy. For example, a datastore inherits permissions from either its parent datastore folder or parent datacenter. Virtual machines inherit permissions from both the parent virtual machine folder and the parent host, cluster, or resource poolsimultaneously. To restrict a user’s privileges on a virtual machine, you must set permissions on both the parentfolder and the parent host, cluster, or resource pool for that virtual machine.
"
That's from the vmware guide, also in this guide(i posted link in the beggining of the post), you will find great diagram of vSphere inventory hierarchy, and how objects can propagate permissions.
It's 3 am now, so i know i made a lot of typos and so on.. Will try to correct the tomorrow.
Please do comment, or write me a message if you think something might be wrong what i have written, or if have confused you even more ;]

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Fortifying Branch Offices with Storage Virtual Appliances

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Fri, 04 May 2012 13:51:42 GMT

Maintaining high availability for business-critical applications continues to be one of the key IT objectives for branch office management. Yet how do you manage and maintain performance, integration, and ease of deployment cost effectively to support the most demanding business requirements?

CIOs are continuing to evaluate the benefits of virtualization and server consolidation to find new approaches to effective branch office management. Storage Virtual Appliances (SVAs) extend the benefits of virtualization and server consolidation by cost effectively delivering high availability in a simplified and manageable solution.

Learn how SVAs can help your organization fortify branch offices cost effectively

In this webinar you will:

• Learn how to implement an affordable, high-availability branch office solution;

• Discover how SVAs reduce the demands on network administrators and enable corporate IT to maintain control and manage branch offices from a single centralized hub

• Learn how E.ON Climate & Renewables achieved high availability at over 100 locations using Storage Virtual Appliances.

Q & A

Q: How many servers can I have using SvSAN storage?

A: SvSAN provides highly available storage by presenting internal direct attached storage as iSCSI targets. Each SVA has a limit of 1024 iSCSI sessions.

Q: Does SvSAN support VMware Fault Tolerance?

A: Yes SvSAN supports Fault Tolerance as well as other VMware features such as High Availability, vMotion and DRS.

Q: How is SvSAN licensed?

A: SvSAN is licensed per server and based on mirror capacity requirements, for more information on pricing please visit our shop.

Q: What Bandwidth is recommended between Central Office and Branch Offices?

A: Between the SVAs, we recommend a minimum of 1GB connection for mirroring. Between the Central office and the branch a standard internet connection would suit.

Updated telnet.py client for ESXi connection testing

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Thu, 03 May 2012 21:53:55 GMT

Just corrected my telnet.py script posted on http://communities.vmware.com/people/marcelo.soares/blog/2012/04/26/telnet-for-esx-and-esxi. Now with some improvements, typo correction and error detection

Hope this helps anyone needing to troubleshoot network issues.

Updated python script here: http://communities.vmware.com/servlet/JiveServlet/download/38-87947/telnet.py

vSphere 5 Lab Automation

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Thu, 03 May 2012 21:36:08 GMT

I must admit the last few weeks have been super crazy which is why I havent been able to post as often as I would like. The other day, Alastair Cooke and company posted a nice automation tool that will enable you to build your lab in a snap. Read more..

Why are Industry Analysts shocked when...

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Thu, 03 May 2012 12:01:42 GMT

In talking to four different groups/podcasts et cetera in the last week, they all seemed surprised at both the pace and complexity of the innovations we are pushing for here.

Should it be surprising?

What value is there in dropping seven figures on a transformation if you are going to delay the value.....

Push your plan, manage the risk, and get-er-done!

Just sayin...

VMware vSphere Support of Hyperscale and Embedded Servers, Part II

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Thu, 03 May 2012 12:00:14 GMT

VMware joins the Open Compute Project

Yesterday, I promised to discuss even more choices for the hyperscale data center with vSphere. Let me start with the big news first.

Today we are announcing that VMware joined the Open Compute Project. The big goal of the project is: "to build one of the most efficient computing infrastructures at the lowest possible cost". "By releasing Open Compute Project technologies as open hardware, our goal is to develop servers and data centers following the model traditionally associated with open source software projects."[1]

VMware is serious about delivering innovative technology that transforms and redefines how businesses function and operate in the cloud era. By participating and supporting the Open Compute Project, our customers can benefit from the innovations fostered by the project that redefine the datacenter and the server platform itself. It has flipped the traditional datacenter design paradigm from bottom-up to truly top-down: the design of the data center drives the design of the rack, which drives the design of the server.

Since Open Compute is a logical complement to our goal of expanding VMware vSphere support, I am also announcing today that we have certified vSphere 5.0 Update 1 for both AMD- and Intel-based Open Compute v2.0 servers [2]:

Quanta Computer F03 ("Windmill")[3]

Motherboard contains Two Intel Xeon E5-2600 Series Processors and can support up to 512 GiB of DDR3 DRAM (with 32 GiB DIMMs).
Quanta Computer F05 ("Watermark")[4]

Motherboard contains Two AMD Opteron 6200 Series Processors and can support up to 512 GiB of DDR3 DRAM (with 32 GiB DIMMs).

(I would like to acknowledge the assistance from Facebook, Quanta Computer, Intel, AMD, DS, SW, LR, and JB in certifying these servers on VMware's Hardware Compatibility Guide.)

The server motherboard v2.0 designs themselves are elegant in their simplicity yet two of them pack four beefy server-class processors with a good amount of DRAM into a ~1.5U chassis. With this kind of capability, the Open Compute Project platform is suitable for many virtualization use cases in the enterprise. For example, we have been working with Facebook to deploy VMware vSphere 5.0 on these platforms inside Facebook's internal IT infrastructure. As the platforms become more broadly available in the next few months, I expect to hear from other customers about how they have deployed them.

Philosophically, we were able to quickly embrace and certify Open Compute servers because of the expanded process which I briefly mentioned yesterday. This process expands vSphere 5 to cover a wide range of embedded processors, I/O devices and servers. The Open Compute server is just one more example of a greater choice in IT solutions available to VMware customers.

References

VMware View 5.1: fornire la miglior End-User Experience

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Thu, 03 May 2012 04:17:02 GMT

VMware View 5.1 mira ad una ulteriore ottimizzazione dell’esperienza utente attraverso un minor utilizzo di banda e l'allargamento dei device utilizzabili.

USB Enhancements: VMware ha riprogettato la funzionalità di USB redirect per i client Windows. Questa nuova feature non richiede più che il device driver venga installato lato client fisico, al suo posto viene implementato un generico “USB arbitrator”, mentre l’agente provvede ad implementare un “USB hub”. Con questo meccanismo VMware può ampliare il range di device USB supportati aumentando la granularità delle policy sui device (ad esempio abilitare/disabilitare la copia su dispositivi di massa) anche si periferiche USB multifunzione.

Supporto RADIUS: estesa la sicurezza lato autenticazione per View 5.1 Connection Server. Questa novità fornisce la possibilità di una scelta più ampia nell’implementazione del “single sign-on” o dei “security token” nei virtual deskotp.

PCoIP Enhancements: sono continui gli sforzi di VMware nell’incrementare i vantaggi offerti dal protocollo PCoIP. Queste migliorie non possono avvenire solo a livello di codice, quindi VMware ha pubblicato un White Paper che contiene le comparazioni ed i risultati dei test per i protocolli di remotizzazione considerati lo stato dell’arte per gli ambienti VDI.

Per maggiori informazioni è possibile:

consultare la sezione VMware News Releases
consultare la pagina del blog VMware End-User Computing Blog

VMware View 5.1: semplificazione della gestione e distribuzione dei desktop

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Thu, 03 May 2012 04:16:05 GMT

Per questa area ci sono diverse migliorie:

View Persona Management: estensione delle funzionalità del prodotto ai desktop fisici con lo scopo di favorire per la migrazione da desktop fisici a virtuali. Questa nuova funzionalità dà la possibilità di migrare da Windows XP a Windows 7. L’agente di View Persona Management può essere installato sui desktop fisici senza dover installare VMware View agent , nel rispetto delle licenze acquistate. Durante una migrazione fisico-virtuale, un amministratore potrà installare View Persona Management sui desktop fisici, quanto l’utente passerà al desktop virtuale (con abilitato il Persona Management) vedrà automaticamente sincronizzati i suoi dati e tutti gli eventuali ulteriori parametri personali

VMware vCenter Operations for View: ulteriore novità, prodotto nato dall’integrazione con i prodotti di management di VMware (vCOps) dedicati ed ottimizzati per gli ambienti VDI. VMware vCenter Operations Manager for View fornisce un monitoraggio end-to-end dei desktop e degli utenti attraverso delle dashboard di facile comprensione per aiutare ad identificare, prevedere e risolvere potenziali problemi.

View Administrator Enhancements: funzionalità create per venire incontro alle necessità di alcuni clienti che utilizzano VMware View in ambienti particolarmente protetti nei quali le scritture su AD sono proibite. Con questa nuova versione di View l’amministratore può impostare una opzione nei parametri di configurazione per riutilizzare un account computer già esistente in AD durante il processo di provisioning.

VMware View Composer server in View 5.1: i miglioramenti sono stati apportati al prodotto per permettere una migliore scalabilità. Ora il prodotto può essere installato in un server stand-alone. L’amministratore potrà inoltre configurare il VMware View Connection Server, attraverso il comando vdmadmin, per inviare gli eventi ad un syslog al posto di usare un database. Non per ultimo i tempi di risposta dell’interfaccia utente sono stati migliorati proprio pensando agli ambienti di grandi dimensioni.

View Administrator Language Support: estesa la localizzazione del View Administrator per i paesi non anglofoni, questa estensione non riguarda la lingua Italiana (supporto per Francese, Tedesco, Giapponese, Coreano e Cinese)

Per maggiori informazioni è possibile:

consultare la sezione VMware News Releases
consultare la pagina del blog VMware End-User Computing Blog

VMware View 5.1: Abbassamento del TCO, attraverso l'ottimizzazione dello storage

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Thu, 03 May 2012 04:14:42 GMT

Una novità di View 5.1 è View Storage Accelerator, una tecnologia che riduce il carico di lavoro generato sullo storage sfruttando la memoria dell’host locale quale cache delle richieste di lettura di più desktop, comportamento tipico degli ambienti VDI.

Questa tecnologia sfrutta una funzionalità offerta da vSphere a partire dalla versione 5 e successive, in quanto installata direttamente in ESXi, chiamata Content Based Read Cache (CBRC).

Quando questa funzione viene abilitata per specifiche VM, l’hypervisor scansiona i blocchi dello storage per generare un “indice” del contenuto di tali blocchi. Quando i blocchi sono letti dall’hypervisor vengono collocati nella cache CBCR e tutte le successive letture dei blocchi con lo stesso contenuto verranno servite direttamente dalla memoria.

Questa tecnologia migliora significativamente le performance dei desktop, soprattutto nelle fasi di accensione (boot storms) e durante le scansioni dell’antivirus (anti-virus scanning storms) quando viene richiesta una grande quantità di blocchi storage in lettura con i medesimi contenuti.

Per maggiori informazioni è possibile:

consultare la sezione VMware News Releases
consultare la pagina del blog VMware End-User Computing Blog

VMware EUC Portfolio: novità in View 5.1

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Thu, 03 May 2012 04:13:12 GMT

Il 2 maggio VMware ha annunciato il prossimo rilascio di VMware View 5.1, uno dei pilastri della suite dei prodotti VMware nell’area End User Computing, destinato a rendere a semplificare e rendere più agile la gestione dei desktop nell’era Post-PC.

VMware View 5.1 è stato rilasciato per potenziare le funzionalità del predecessore, in particolar modo le aree di miglioramento riguardano:

I prodotti saranno disponibili nel Q2-2012

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consultare la sezione VMware News Releases
consultare la pagina del blog VMware End-User Computing Blog

VMware TAM Weekly Newsletter 4.13

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Wed, 02 May 2012 23:37:10 GMT

From the editors Virtual Desk
Hi everyone, I hope you all enjoyed the shorter week with ANZAC day mid week. It has been a shorter week but no shortage of news or product updates this week.

The VMware Brisbane team have moved into new offices this week. I am very excited about this as it will be our own office and we have some excellent facilities including a really cool room to do presentations for my customers. I think that this is an excellent move for us and will be very worthwhile. I look forward to welcoming my customers to our new office soon.

There are also loads of new product updates released this week so please scan the newsletter for information and ensure that you discuss upgrading with your VMware rep.

Last weeks newsletter was a really big one due to there being no newsletter for 2 weeks prior so I have tried to make this weeks a bit more streamlined.

Enjoy the newsletter everyone.

Warm Wishes
Neil Isserow (Newsletter Editor and VMware TAM Blog Custodian)
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VMware vSphere: Fast Track [V5.0] - 18 June
Core Spring - 06 Aug
VMware vSphere: What's New [V5.0] - 28 May

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VMWARE OFFICIAL BLOGS AND NEWS
vSphere PowerCLI Blog: Preparing the hosts in Provider VDCs with PowerCLI
Following my previous post where I showed how easy and quick it was to create a Provider VDC there was a step which we needed to complete before the Provider VDC would be available to use, if you took note of the last screenshot it looked the same as below:

VMware vSphere Blog: Retrieving Information from VMware VDS + Cisco Nexus 1000v
Recently, we have been receiving numerous questions about extracting information from a VMwarevSphere Distributed Virtual Switch (VDS) and whether it was possible to do the same with 3rd party Distributed Virtual Switches that have integrated with the vSphere platform such as the Cisco’s Nexus 1000v. The answer is yes and we can easily do so with the help from the vSphere API.

VMware vSphere Blog: SRM 5.0.1 Upgrade with vSphere Replication
Upgrading from 5.0 to 5.0.1 is such a very simple process that it doesn't require a lot of attention, but there's one quick caveat regarding the vSphere Replication virtual appliances that should be noted.

VMware vSphere Blog: Using the vSphere ESXi Image Builder CLI
I’ve had several requests for a brief tutorial on using the vSphere ESXi Image Builder CLI. I hope this post will help people better understand the power of the Image Builder CLI and how easy it is create and maintain custom ESXi installation images.

VMware vSphere Blog: Storage Protocol Comparison (A vSphere Perspective) White Paper now available
A number of months ago I published a blog article which compared the different storage protocols which are found in a vSphere environment. On the back of this posting, a number of folks reached out to me to ask if there was a PDF version of the storage comparison available. Well, now there is. You can pick it up from the VMware Technical Resource Center which has a great repository of VMware white papers.

VMware vFabric Blog: Application Director in 5 Minutes
The Problem
As architects, developers of software, and managers of IT infrastructure, we spend quite a bit of time (and often frustration) installing operating systems, setting up applications and components, and configuring them. These activities can be time consuming, tedious, manual, and error prone.

Business Critical Applications: Protecting Exchange 2010 with vShield 5.0
Enhancing Exchange 2010’s Security Profile
In this post we will discuss using vShield to bolster the protection profile of Exchange 2010. We will start off with a brief discussion on vShield, and then move on to discussing the Exchange 2010 architecture, and then finally how we implemented vShield around Exchange 2010.

VMware vSphere Blog: Demystifying Configuration Maximums for VSS and VDS
In this blog entry, I will spend some time discussing the configuration maximums related to vSphere standard switch (VSS) and vSphere distributed switch (VDS). I always get this question, what will happen when you cross those configuration maximum limits? Especially, with the vSphere Distributed Switch configuration maximums where there are vCenter Server level limits as well as host level limits. I would like to clarify some of the things regarding these limits in this post. Here are the configuration maximums for vSPhere 5.0 as it pertains to Hosts, VSS, and VDS.

VMware Support Insider: Multiple Storage Path Failures and Network Drops
Here's our fourth log deep-dive from Nathan Small. If you missed the first one, here it is.
History of the issue
A customer experienced multiple storage path failures and network drops in their environment.
There are quite of few instances of the array controller ports timing out to the adapter. When this occurs, it is observed on multiple hosts at the exact same time. A quick way to determine this from ESX hosts would be to grep for ‘rport’ in the vmkernel log: (ie: cat /var/log/vmkernel |grep rport):

VMware vSphere Blog: VAAI Thin Provisioning Block Reclaim/UNMAP In Action
I have done a number of blog posts in the recent past related to our newest VAAI primitive UNMAP. For those who do not know, VAAI UNMAP was introduced in vSphere 5.0 to allow the ESXi host to inform the storage array that files or VMs had be moved or deleted from a Thin Provisioned VMFS datastore. This allowed the array to reclaim the freed blocks. We had no way of doing this previously, so many customers ended up with a considerable amount of stranded space on their Thin Provisioned VMFS datastores.

Office of the CTO Blogs: VMware acquires Cetas Software for Cloud and Big Data Analytics
At the beginning of the year, I posted that we are in the midst of a data renaissance -- where a rapid proliferation of new uses of data is driving new technologies to manage data. The traditional relational database had once been the main vehicle for serving the needs of online applications with optimized variants used to store longer-term data for business intelligence and analytics. No longer however, does one size fit all when it comes to data and database technologies.

VMware vSphere Blog: Does VMware Support Shared/Switched SAS?
An interesting observation was made on a previous blog posting of mine which compared differentstorage protocols. The commenter asked why I didn't include Shared SAS in the comparison (SAS is Serial-Attached SCSI). I personally have not seen a lot of shared SAS configurations, so I decided to have a look at what is on our HCL for Shared or Switched SAS.

vCO Team: Manage Services on your ESXi Hosts with vCO
We've all seen that vCenter Orchestrator (vCO) is quite powerful in automating many aspects of your Infrastructure through the variety of specific and generic plug-ins. While there are hundreds of workflows and actions for vCenter included in a clean install of vCO, they simply don't cover every single thing you may want to do. One such example has come up a few times in the VMware Communities: Managing Services. The following article will walk you through creating a simple workflow that allows you to manage services on a specified ESXi (VC:HostSystem) server.

VMware Security Blog: VMware Releases vShield 5.0.1
VMware is proud to announce the immediate availability of the 5.0.1 versions of vShield Edge, vShield App, vShield Endpoint, and vShield Data Security. Each of these updates introduces a number of new features and bug fixes.
Check out the new reporting capabilities in vShield Data Security!

VMware Global Alliances Blog: Entry Level FlexPOD Architectural Overview
Looking for a low risk, agile and efficient architecture for your small cloud infrastructure deployment? Look no further because the VMware, NetApp and Cisco Entry Level FlexPod will be your answered. Entry Level FlexPod provides the value of FlexPod sized right for smaller workloads. Suitable for uses that include midsize enterprise workloads and remote or branch offices, FlexPod ES brings large-enterprise-class IT infrastructure to smaller deployments at a price that fits limited IT budgets. Let’s take technical dive into the architecture, and the built-in joint integrations that make life simple for IT architects and administrators.

VMware vSphere Blog: Did you know that you can now prioritize I/O Paths in the event of a failover?
Historically, when a path failure occurred, we never had a way of selecting which path to failover to. Rather, the VMW_PSP_MRU path selection policy randomly selected a different active path to the target from all available paths. In ESX 4.1, VMware introduced a feature to allow admins to prioritize/rank different paths, and the one with the highest priority was chosen in the event of a failure on the active path.

VMWARE TV BLOG
VMwareTV: Entitling a ThinApp Application to a Pool of Desktops in VMware View
This video shows the steps in entitling a ThinApp application to a pool of desktops using the View 5.0 Administrator.

VMwareTV: Entitling Users to a Pool of Desktops in VMware View
This video shows the steps in entitling users to a pool of desktops using the View 5.0 Administrator.

VMwareTV: Setting Up a Pool of Linked-Clone Desktops in VMware View
This video shows the steps in creating a linked clone pool of desktops using the View 5.0 Administrator.

VMwareTV: How to Enable View Persona Management in VMware View
This video shows the steps in importing and editing the VMware View persona management group policy in an Active Directory server supporting a View 5.0 infrastructure.

Combining license keys in My VMware
Today we have another My VMware related video for you which discusses and demonstrates how to combine your license keys in My VMware. This video is based on VMware Knowledge Base articleCombining license keys in My VMware (2006973).
TIP: You'll find a great deal of "How To" and Troubleshooting articles in our Knowledge Base by simply changing the product filter to "My VMware".

Folder Management in My VMware
Hi folks,
Today we have another My VMware related video for you which discusses and demonstrates how to manage folders in My VMware. The video is based on VMware Knowledge Base article Folder management in My VMware (2011222).
PROTIP: You'll find a whole lot more "How To" and Troubleshooting articles in our Knowledge Base by simply changing the product filter to "My VMware" (it's at the bottom of a very long list).

Creating a Fedora 16 virtual machine in VMware Workstation 8.x
If you are a VMware Workstation 8 user and are a fan of the Fedora 16 operating system, then you may be interested in this video tutorial which discusses and demonstrates the processes regarding how you can install Fedora 16 as a guest operating system in a virtual machine running on VMware Workstation.

CLOUD APPLICATION PLATFORM
Cloud Foundry Powers Data Sets for Mumbai
This is the third post of a series of guest blogs by application developers. We are featuring a use case by Romin Irani, an individual developer who built APIs for valuable data sets in the City of Mumbai as a public service and hosted them on Cloud Foundry.
Guest blog by Romin Irani, Mind Storm Software
Access to world-class infrastructure coupled with the pay-per-use model has been a dream come true for start-ups and individual developers. For an individual developer and entrepreneur like me, the way I develop and make my applications available for others to use or evaluate has been permanently transformed.

EXTERNAL VMWARE RELATED BLOGS (vExperts/Guest Bloggers)
How-to Install The Latest Ubuntu Desktop With Free VMware Player
The easiest way of testing new linux distribution is by using the free VMware Player software. Get your for free at VMware’s website here. You don’t have to mess out with your own system by having to setup a multiboot environment, where Windows and linux share the same hard drive and the boot sector get usually modified/replaced by Grub which does the “multiboot trick”.

Adding ESXi host with dvSwitch through VMware Auto Deploy fails
Center VirtualSwitches VMware auto deploy coredump dvswitch network
Been fighting some problems with VMware Auto Deploy lately which turned out to be an easy to solve issue. I installed the first host in the cluster, which would NOT be deployed with Auto Deploy but had a local hard disk in it. Configured it the way I like it, set all the logging and network coredump location to be the vCenter host and then created a host profile. The network configuration consisted of just two vmnics (10Gbps) in a dvSwitch. The vmkernel port was of course on the dvSwitch. After this host was working fine, I copied the host profile and used this copied profile as the reference profile for the hosts that WOULD be using Auto Deploy.

Interactive 3D Medical Imaging with PCoIP
Few weeks back I saw Scott Davis, CTO for End User Computing at VMware (@shd_9) demonstrating an interesting application that manages X-Rays and MRI (Magnetic resonance imaging) using 3D technology over PCoIP. It wasn’t the first time I had seen PCoIP delivering lossless images, as this is one of the key attributes of Teradici’s protocol. However with this applications and the help of an iPad for the multi-gesturing this application becomes a very powerful tool for doctors to be able to remotely access their patients and make decisions.

Geoff White has released the esxplot 1.5 ALPHA code
esxplot is a GUI application that lets you explore the data collected by esxtop in batch mode. The program takes a single command line argument which is the esxtop batch mode output file. You can also simply start esxplot without any arguments, and enter a dataset file via the File attribute of the menu bar. Esxplot loads the data in this file and presents the metrics as a hierarchical tree where the values are selectable in the left panel. In the right panel, a graph is plotted (value over time) of the selected metric, in this way, you can “browse” the contents of these somewhat unwieldy files.

RVTools version 3.3 is now available for download
RVTools is a windows .NET 2.0 application which uses the VI SDK to display information about your virtual machines and ESX hosts. Interacting with VirtualCenter 2.5, ESX Server 3.5, ESX Server 3i, ESX Server 4i, VirtualCenter 4.0, ESX Server 4.0, VirtualCenter 4.1, ESX Server 4.1, VirtualCenter 5.0, VirtualCenter Appliance or ESX Server 5 RVTools is able to list information about VMs, CPU, Memory, Disks, Partitions, Network, Floppy drives, CD drives, Snapshots, VMware tools, ESX hosts, HBAs, Nics, Switches, Ports, Distributed Switches, Distributed Ports, Service consoles, VM Kernels, Datastores and health checks. With RVTools you can disconnect the cd-rom or floppy drives from the virtual machines and RVTools is able to update the VMware Tools installed inside each virtual machine to the latest version.

Technical Paper - Storage Protocol Comparison
The objective of this white paper is to provide information on storage protocols and how they interoperate with VMware vSphere and related features. Not all supported storage protocols are discussed. Some notable exceptions are ATA over Ethernet (AoE) and shared/switched SAS. However, the protocols that are included in this paper are the ones that VMware is most frequently asked to compare.
http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/Storage_Protocol_Comparison.pdf

Technical Paper - Multipathing Configuration for Software iSCSI Using Port Binding
This paper provides an overview of how to enable vmknicbased software iSCSI multipathing, as well as the procedure by which to verify port binding configuration.

http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/vmware-multipathing-configuration-software-iSCSI-port-binding.pdf

EMC – new FLARE 31 OE available
Just a quick note to advise that FLARE 31 for the VNX has received an update to version .716. I had a quick glance at the release notes and noted a few fixes that take care of some SP panics. If you want a bit of a giggle, go and look at the kb article for emc291837 – it’s a scream. Or maybe I’m just being cynical. As always, go to Powerlink for more info, and talk to your local EMC people about whether it’s appropriate to upgrade your VNX’s code.

Transparent Page Sharing and Performance
A couple weeks ago I joined a discussion between engineers and customer-facing technologists within EMC and VMware. There was some confusion around a claim by EMC with respect to Transparent Page Sharing (TPS). There exists an EMC paper that hints at disabling TPS. The astute Michael Webster thought this contradicted best practices I provided when leading VMware’s performance technical marketing team. Michael was correct so I decided to jump in and see what I could learn.

vCenter Server Fell Out of Linked Mode
In prepping for the vCO book, one of the things I tested out was Linked-Mode vCenters. Once I discovered the vCO plug-in would not support linked-mode vCenters in the way I was expecting, I deleted the VM that was hosting vCenter02… this lead to the following in my vSphere client:

New Book Coming Out VCP 5 Study Guide
For those looking to gain their VCP 5, or become more familiar with vSphere in general a new book is being released next month by fellow vExpert Brian Atkinson (Twitter @vmroyale). Brian is an experienced VMware engineer who also has made large efforts of his time in the VMware community serving as a moderator in the forums. IF you’ve spent any times in the forums asking or looking at questions you will certainly have seen his participation in there.

What is das.maskCleanShutdownEnabled about?
I had a question today around what the vSphere HA option advanced setting das.maskCleanShutdownEnabled is about. I described why it was introduced for Stretched Clusters but will give a short summary here:

VMWARE KB ARTICLES
VMware Knowledge Base Weekly Digest: New Articles Published for Week Ending 4/21/12
VMware support for guest operating system upgrade (2018695)
My VMware
Cannot upgrade product license keys after receiving a Subscription Upgrade alert in My VMware (2018309)
Changing your My VMware profile email address (2018628)
Disabling your browser's pop-up blocker to allow VMware downloads (2018645)
Troubleshooting evaluations of VMware products (2018676)
Troubleshooting the My VMware error: Unable to Complete Your Request (2018716)
My VMware log in button on vmware.com moves when you try to click it (2018745)
Cannot view licenses in My VMware if the folder name is too long (2018834)
Socialcast
Posting a link to Socialcast fails with the error: There was a problem posting your message. Please try again later (2012035)
Location of log files in a Socialcast On Premise cluster (2013240)
Conditions when messages are included in a custom stream that is based on a person in Socialcast (2013682)
Attribute requirements for importing Atom and RSS feeds to a stream in Socialcast On Premise (2014092)
Scheduled tasks fail and notification e-mails are not sent or received in Socialcast On Premise (2014320)
Socialcast Dedicated Cloud
Socialcast Trending Topics for last 7 days shows old titles or photos (2013085)
Socialcast On Premise
User is marked as Alumni in Socialcast On Premise (2015750)
Enabling public or external Internet access to Socialcast On Premise behind a firewall (2013689)
Uploaded images are not displayed in Socialcast when using a reverse proxy (2013693)
Posting or replying to Socialcast via email truncates or corrupts message characters (2014386)
SpringSource Tool Suite
Troubleshooting and locating information when a VMware product crashes or quits unexpectedly (2013086)
Troubleshooting guest operating system issues when using VMware Products (2013163)
VMware Data Recovery
Hardening SSH with public key authentication for ESX, vSphere Management Assistant, and VMware Data Recovery (1031538)
VMware Data Recovery 2.0 integrity check fails with the error: Trouble reading from destination volume, error -2241 (Destination index invalid/damaged) (2014249)
VMware ESX
Downloading, licensing, and using VMware products (2010633)
Troubleshooting storage issues when using VMware products (2013160)
When using multiple VMkernel ports with port binding to access two or more storage arrays on different broadcast domains, rescan takes a long time (2017084)
The Summary tab of the ESX host reports the warning: Unable to apply DRS resource settings on host (2013175)
VMware ESXi
Locating information about VMware products ESXi, ESX, and vCenter Server (2010635)
Change the collection level for Storage DRS and SIOC data counters in vSphere 5.0 by using the Level Mapping Utility (2014382)
Installing VMware Tools in Windows Server 2000 SP4 fails with the error: The Microsoft Runtime DLL installer failed to complete installation (2017086)
Deleting the dvportgroup/dvSwitch to which the dvPort is connected fails with the error: Cannot find a useable port in vDS dvSwitch01vDS dvSwitch01 port 2669 is reserved by entity VM119IS01NSUS01 vnic {vnic}, type:{type} (2013836)
Unable to detach LUNs on ESXi 5.0 hosts installed with PowerPath/VE 5.7 (2016567)
Restoring a virtual machine using Symantec Backup Exec 2010 R3 fails with the error: invalid configuration for device 2 (2017057)
VMware Horizon Application Manager
Installation documentation links for VMware Infrastructure SDK, Horizon Application Manager, vCenter Lab Manager, and vFabric (2013109)
VMware Service Manager
Call Search in Service Manager does not filter correctly on the CALL_CHECK_1 field column (2017731)
Unable to see the Config Portability process in Service Manager applications (2017738)
Service Manager report schedules display incorrect report parameters after the report is generated for the first time from the schedule (2017837)
The SLA Alert Level for Calls and Requests in Service Manager remains green irrespective of the breach status (2017884)
Service Manager SLA agreement events breach when calls are reopened (2018577)
Missing tables in the Service Manager database (2018588)
When an officer edits a customer record in Service Manger, the default partition of the customer is changed (2018678)
MesageSendMessage API transaction in Service Manager inserts incorrect values to HD_MSGQUEUE (2018795)
Unable to add the Business Service field as criteria in the CMDB Item Search in Service Manager (2018421)
Service Manager 9.1 Server Console reports the Event log error: Unable to cast object of type 'Infra.Console.Query.ModuleRegister' to type 'Infra.Console.IConsoleModuleRegister' (2018585)
VMware vCenter CapacityIQ
The vxpd log reports the error: Unable to log on locally as AD\ServiceCapIQ (1032680)
VMware vCenter Configuration Manager
Cannot navigate to the previous report using a right-click in the vSphere Client vCenter Configuration Manager plug-in (2017136)
Installing vCenter Configuration Manager fails with the error: No valid license keys found (2018718)
Installing vCenter Configuration Manager 5.x fails with the error: Windows NT user or group 'FQDN \username' not found (2018720)
vCenter Configuration Manager jobs fail to run and do not appear in the Jobs window (2018723)
Adding or editing compliance templates does not result in logging events to the audit log (2016026)
The deployment of Linux operating system distributions fails when you use Operating System Provisioning with custom disk configurations (2016216)
RHEL 5.0 distributions are not deployed to the target machines by Operating System Provisioning (2016219)
Adding duplicate machines in the Add Provisionable Machines wizard results in the addition of only the first machine (2016221)
Provisionable Machines data grid continuously displays the Deploying job status (2016223)
Deploying 10 to 25 Windows distributions at one time using Operating System Provisioning results in failed deployments (2016226)
The list of operating system distributions and machines in the VCM Provision Operating System wizard displays the incorrect macProvision Operating System wizard displays incorrect machines and distributionshines and distributions (2016244)
OSP Server data error appears when you enable or disable a registered server coldisable a registered server collection, or when you add or delete registered serverslection, or when you add or delete registered servers (2016815)
The vCenter Resource Pools Summary data grid and Virtual Object Members data grids display more resource pools than appear appear in the vSphere ClientvSphere Client (2017135)
Virtual Environments Compliance templates do not appear when you click Run Compliance in the vSphere Client VCM Plug-In (2017140)
VMware vCenter Converter
vCenter Converter converts primary partitions to extended primary (1034749)
VMware vCenter Lab Manager
Virtual machines in vCenter Lab Manager are listed as Unknown in the Disk Space Freed Upon Deletion field (1020065)
VMware vCenter Lifecycle Manager
Troubleshooting networking issues when using VMware products (2013105)
VMware vCenter Operations Manager (vApp)
vCenter Operations Manager 5.0.x: Problem with Capacity and Time Remaining calculations for VM and Datastore objects (2017003)
Recovering the vCenter Operations Manager plug-in (2018599)
VMware vCenter Operations Standard
vCenter Operations dashboard is grayed out with question marks (2013266)
VMware vCenter Server
Creating a Windows 2008 R2 virtual machine by cloning using a customization specification fails with the error: can't complete the customization (2017439)
Logging in to the vCenter Server 5.0 Web Client fails with the error: unable to connect to vCenter Inventory Service (2017750)
Connecting to vCenter Server using the vSphere Client fails with the error: The request failed because of a connection failure. (2015014)
VMware vCenter Update Manager
Installing vSphere 5 Web Client and Update Manager from the command line (2017466)
VMware vCloud Director
Unable to quiesce a vCloud Director cell using cell-management-tool (2012151)
Media filtering does not work in vCloud Director (2012446)
Setting up Kerberos authentication for vCloud Director (2015986)
VMware vCloud Usage Meter
Locating information about VMware vCloud products (2010631)
VMware vShield
Locating and troubleshooting information about using SSL certificates in VMware Products (2013423)
VMware vSphere Storage Appliance
Troubleshooting issues when managing your environment with VMware products (2013114)
VMware Workstation
The VMware Workstation Shared Folders option is missing in Fedora 16 virtual machines (2016514)

Storage Trends, Problems and Solutions

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Wed, 02 May 2012 20:53:09 GMT

The advent of virtual servers, networks and storage has made IO over subscription easier than ever before. Join a discussion with Alex Tsapp, Quest Product Manager for vFoglight Storage, and Brad Bonn, VKernel Senior Systems Engineer, on today’s storage trends, problems and solutions faced by virtual admins in the very complex virtualized infrastructure. Check out the full podcast at http://bit.ly/storage-performance.

Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin and Workstation

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Wed, 02 May 2012 16:24:01 GMT

Hello blog, it's been a while!

I recently upgraded to the latest Ubuntu version, 12.04, and (as with all other previous upgrades) found that quite a few things changed. Some of these things annoyed me to no end, some of them I'm still getting used to, and others I really liked.

First off, if you have dual monitors, it's worth a mention that the Unity 3d interface puts the task bar along both monitor screens in Twinview. I don't know why it does this, but I prefer to have the bar on the left screen with all of my available real estate wide open on my right screen. I also didn't like the fact that my mouse wouldn't move into the second screen without getting "stuck" regardless if the second bar was there or not.

Luckily, it's relatively easy to change. If you go to System Settings -> All Settings -> Displays, you can set the launcher placement to your screen of choice. You can also then turn off the "Sticky Edges" which will remove the mouse sticking when moving to other screens.

Also, as of this posting, VMware Workstation 8.x does NOT support 12.04 as a host OS for the product. As such, there are a couple of ways to get around this. Some folks have found OPC (other people's code) out there and applied it to their system and have gotten it to work. Personally, I recommend using the VMware Workstation Tech Preview 2012, available in the VMware Communities. You can find the tech preview here: http://communities.vmware.com/community/vmtn/beta/workstationtp2012

Please note that you will have to remove any traces of previous workstation versions as indicated in this KB article: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=38

Once you have removed it, downloaded the Tech Preview bundle, installation is easy. Just chmod +x the bundle in the location you downloaded it to and execute it by typing sudo ./ (Period Slash) in front of the name of the file. You have to be root to install the bundle.

Once you have installed the Tech Preivew, you can also test out Windows 8. All existing VM's should function fine, just note that not all of the vmware drivers are signed in the tech preview so your guest OS may complain about it from time to time. You will also have to upgrade tools in the guest VM.

That's it for now.

[vSphere Client] 表示言語の変更

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Wed, 02 May 2012 09:59:49 GMT

vSphere Clientの日本語表示だとエラーメッセージまで日本語になる為、情報が限られてしまいます。

そういう時はvSphere Clientの表示言語を英語にすれば、探せる情報量が一気に増えます。

コマンドプロンプトからvpxclient.exeの"locale"オプションを英語にするだけす。

C:\Program Files\VMware\Infrastructure\Virtual Infrastructure Client\Launcher\vpxclient.exe -locale en_US

上記のオプションはvSphere Clientの表示言語のみを英語にするだけなので、vCenterなどインストール時の言語設定に影響はありません。

結構便利です。

VMware vSphere Support of Hyperscale and Embedded Servers, Part I

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Wed, 02 May 2012 01:47:11 GMT

You may have noticed in the last few weeks that there are more Embedded servers being certified with VMware vSphere and showing up on the VMware hardware compatibility guide for servers. This is the result of a multiyear program by the VMware engineering team to more broadly enable processors, chipsets, and I/O devices within vSphere while still ensuring the robustness and reliability required by enterprise data centers and the cloud in general. This matters because it gives our customers more options in selecting the right server for their IT solutions. Or put another way, it allows our customers to worry even less about the platforms running their workloads in the cloud.

As an example of the expanding support by vSphere, consider the Cisco 5940 Series Embedded Services Router (ESR) [1] for which Cisco provides "the Unified Communications Manager (UCM) to support embedded deployments". "The Cisco 5940 ESR and a single board computer running UCM create Advanced Networking Nodes from which mobile ad hoc networks can be built for military, public safety, energy, industrial, transportation and smart grid applications." The UCM runs within vSphere and "Cisco has verified UCM running on both the Extreme Engineering Solutions XPedite7332 and the Emerson Network Power CPCI7203 single board computers."

I am happy to say that because of our expanded program (and a bit of extra help from our Hardware Enablement Quality Engineering team, "JB", and "PP"), both of these embedded platforms have been certified for VMware vSphere 5.0 Update 1 and are listed on our VMware Compatibility Guide. [2][3]

Why the need for an expanded program? You might think that extending enterprise x86 virtualization from server processors and chipsets to seemingly-related processors and chipsets in the mobile, desktop, and embedded segments is a simple task. We should be able to assume software compatibility within the same generation.

It turns out that even though processors and chipsets of the same generation are usually created equal (they often have the same RTL and possibly same chip die), they need not be manufactured, packaged, fused, and productized equally. This means that some members of a given generation may have more or less software-visible features than the average for that generation. For example:

Some low-end desktop processors may be fused so that hardware virtualization support or advanced SIMD instructions are disabled.
Some processors may have packages that do not expose the extra pins for ECC DRAM support.
Some chipsets may have different PCI Device IDs for integrated I/O devices that could share the same vSphere I/O driver.
Some platform BIOSes may disable hardware virtualization for a given processor, even though the processor micro-architecture is capable of it.

These differences within the same micro-architectural generation make it difficult for "blanket" assumptions about support and compatibility. On the other hand, if we make no assumptions, we end up with an impractical test matrix of every brand and model of seemingly related microprocessors and chipsets. To deal with this problem we developed the following internal process:

We select and internally qualify the right mix of baseline representative processors and chipsets across all market segments (more than just servers).
We work with our hardware partners to identify platforms which do not use a baseline processor or chipset.
We then work with the microprocessor vendors to compare the micro-architecture and software-visible features of the non-baseline component with the baseline to ensure it supports required virtualization features and ECC for DRAM.
Our simplifying assumption is that if this comparison checks out, we can allow a hardware partner to attempt certification of the platform w/o VMware first conducting a full qualification of the platform with its non-baseline component.
If we have some doubt, then we do the needed extra qualification.
Our assumption also rests on the fact that *all* platforms must pass VMware's rigorous server certification and all I/O device drivers must pass a similar set of tests.

Prior to this process, VMware enabled embedded technology platforms on a case by case basis, which was inefficient and narrowly focused. Now, VMware has laid the foundation for all of our partners to select the processors and chipsets they need and "self-enable" them through this process.

For the embedded platforms above, it was very easy to apply the process to permit vSphere certification. These platforms use an Intel Core i7-620LE, which is an Intel "Arrandale" core that shares the same micro-architecture as the Intel "Clarkdale" server processors already supported by vSphere. And both use a chipset similar to the "Ibex Peak" chipset that vSphere already supports. Lastly, unlike mobile processors, this embedded processor's integrated memory controller supports ECC for DRAM -- which is essential to mission critical workloads.

This is just one example of vSphere 5 expanding to cover a wide range of embedded processors, I/O devices and servers. Tomorrow, I'll discuss the next step to allow our customers even more choices for the hyperscale data center with vSphere.

References

VMware ThinApp 4.7.1: Release Notes

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Wed, 02 May 2012 01:11:44 GMT

Il 26 Aprile VMware ha rilasciato ThinApp 4.7.1, aggiornamento che risolve una serie di bug. ThinApp è un prodotto che permette la virtualizzazione delle applicazioni e, nonostante esistano delle raccomandazioni per la creazioni delle bolle applicative, VMware non ha il controllo delle applicazioni rilasciate dagli ISV, è quindi possibile che vi siano casi specifici di insuccesso risolvibili dal team di VMware e dalle nuove release del prodotto.

I bug sono riassumibili in queste categorie:

comportamento inaspettato o mancanze all’interno dell’applicazione virtualizzata;
errori nell’esecuzione dell’applicazione virtualizzata;
errori nella compilazione

In questo articolo vengono citati alcuni dei problemi risolti:

Microsoft Word virtualizzato con ThinApp non legge i valori di registro per i parametri internazionali;
Accendendo ad una applicazione Web-based per l’invio della posta attraverso Internet Explorer 6 virtualizzato proporrà una lista dei destinatari di posta vuota;
Microsoft Office 2010 ora può essere distribuito su sistemi che hanno installato nativamente Office 2010;
i pacchetti licenziati con Virtual Microsoft KMS, possono ora funzionare insieme ad altri pacchetti licenziati attraverso il Virtual Microsoft KMS;
i pacchetti ThinApp supportano il protocollo SMB 2.0 per l’accesso alla sandbox tra i sistemi operativi Microsoft Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows 2008 e Windows 2003;
un’applicazione ThinApp fallisce quando viene eseguita su un sistema Windows 7 e si imposta la posizione della sandbox in una share di un altro sistema Windows 7;
ThinApp non è in grado di avviare l’applicazione WordPad in un sistema Windows 7 virtualizzato;
su Microsoft Windows XP, l’applicazione Victor player non identifica i l formato file UDF nel CD presente nel drive, se virtualizzata con le precedenti versioni di ThinApp;
lanciando l’applicazione virtualizzata Visual Lighting su un host ESX o una Workstation 7 ed eseguendo una specifica funzione l’applicazione mostra l’errore: “Calculation-Error Message There is not enough virtual memory...”
aprendo uno shortcut Windows per una cartella da un’istanza virtualizzata di Internet Explorer 6 l’applicazione mostra l’errore CLASS_E_CLASSNOTAVAILABLE
su un sistema a 64 bit, aprendo un file PDF da Firefox virtualizzato su un ambiente a 32 bit , l’applicazione va in crash
su Microsoft Windows 7 quando si cerca di creare con ThinApp un pacchetto MSI più grande di 2 GB, la creazione fallisce con il seguente errore: “The system cannot open the device or file specified”

Anche per questa esistono delle “Known Issues” per le quali VMware rimanda alla propria Knowledge Base.

Per maggiori informazioni è possibile consultare la pagina relativa alle note di rilascio disponibile sul sito del produttore.

VMware OVF Tool

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Tue, 01 May 2012 14:46:43 GMT

So the other day I wanted to import a virtual appliance into vCloud Director, but unfortunantly I could only find it in OVA format. Not a problem I thought I can use the VMware OVF Tool to convert and then carry out. Trouble is it took a little while to find so for future reference and in case anyone else needs to get hold if it in a hurry the download and documentation can be found using the following communities link:

http://communities.vmware.com/community/vmtn/server/vsphere/automationtools/ovf

Edizioni di vSphere e limiti sul Virtual SMP

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Tue, 01 May 2012 02:34:47 GMT

Con vSphere è possibile creare una VM con 32 vCPU e 1 TB di vRAM, disponendo di una licenza Enterprise Plus come illustrato nella tabella di comparazione delle edizioni di VMware vSphere. Per quanto riguarda le altre edizioni il limite è di 8 vCPU per VM.

Nella tabella si parla sempre VM a 8 o 32 “way” il che può far sorgere qualche dubbio sul rapporto vCPU e vCore, soprattutto perché l’interfaccia grafica del vSphere Client permette di operare su entrambe i parametri; anche il documento relativo alle configurazioni massime parla di Virtual SMP anche se oggi con le architetture multi-core e hyper-threading sarebbe più opportuno parlare si SMT.

E’ quindi possibile creare una VM con più di 8 core senza una licenza Enterprise Plus? Come dimostrano le immagini riportate le risposta è negativa.

Avamar VMware Virtual Machine Protection Pt.1

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Tue, 01 May 2012 01:21:12 GMT

I wanted to give some insight into how Avamar protects VMware virtual machines. I have been using Avamar 6.0.x and most of the management and configuration from a Mac. Since the operating systems running on the Avamar servers and proxies are linux, having a terminal comes in handy. Plus the management using Avamar Administrator uses Java so it can be used on Windows, Mac or Linux. If your on a Windows system the Avamar Administrator console is a bit more attractive but offers the same functionality. The management of Avamar needs a bit of work and from the grape vine I hear the next release, which is coming soon, will fix a lot of the issues I've complained about in my previous post. Either way data protection and recovery with Avamar is pretty solid once you have all the pieces setup and ready but if your looking for easy, look elsewhere. PHD Virtual Backup fits the bill for easy but it only covers VM backups where Avamar can do both physical and virtual.

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Onyx

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 12:47:07 GMT

vSphereのCLIを調べていたら面白そうなToolを発見しました。

「Onyx」っていうんですが、以下のyoutubeを見るとvSphereの操作を監視して

それをスクリプトに落としてくれるっぽい感じ。

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bANfdjuH4wk&feature=player_embedded

これは便利そうだということで、試してみました。

まず、onyxをダウンロード

今回利用したのは、「Onyx_2.0.3883.33827」です。

解凍してonyx.exeを実行。

以下の＊アイコンをクリック。

Server名を聞いてくるので、vCenterアドレスを入力と。

これで、準備完了。

ちなみに、Output Modeは、PowerCLI.Netのほかに、「SOAP」「C#」「vCO」に対応しているっぽいです。今回はPowerCLIでやってみます。

vSphere Clientを起動して、IPアドレスにhttp://localhost:1545と入力し、

vCenterのログインユーザ／パスワードを入力しログインします。

こんなメッセージも出ますが、そのままはいで。

今回は、特定の仮想マシンのvNICに関して、「パワーオン時に接続」のチェックを外してみます。

対象の仮想マシンを選択します。

ここで、OnyxをStartアイコンをクリックして監視モードに変更します。

で、実際の動作を行います。

すると、このとおりOnyxのほうにPowerShellスクリプトがでてきます。

あとは、ps1ファイルで保存して、スクリプトの出来上がりです。

こんな便利なツールがあるんですね。

Chuẩn bị public forum.vncloud.info

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 20:26:04 GMT

Hôm nay , ngồi lọ mọ mấy tiếng cũng sửa xong skin cho cái forum Vncloud bằng cách chôm chỉa mấy cái ảnh của Vmware Technology Day 2012

Sang tuần mình sẽ gặp gỡ 1 số anh em VCP để bàn chuyện phát triển forum này , hy vọng nó sẽ trở thành 1 cộng đồng tốt để anh em yêu thích ảo hóa ở Việt Nam thảo luận , support lẫn nhau .

4r đang ở localhost , chắc nghỉ 30/4 xong mình sẽ up

Advice

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 12:40:35 GMT

Advice to IT leaders:

Never let your staff use their windows logons as service accounts when setting up virtual servers. it is a horrible practice, a lazy shortcut, and an outage waiting to happen. Take time to use the tools Mr. gates and friends gave us.

#Avoidthefail

Telnet for ESX and ESXi

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 21:20:15 GMT

Well, everyone already sat in front of an ESXi with a networking connectivity problem. Sometimes, ESX can't connect to vCenter (which is very well troubleshooted on the KB http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1029919) on 902 UDP, but sometime you want to check if ESX can reach a specific TCP port on another host (ESX or not). Example: to check if ESX can connect on an AD for authentication, NFS communication, host to host migration, etc.

So I have created, based on the udp_client.py, a small telnet.py script that connects to a specific IP and port and tell if it is opened or not. Simple and easy.

Usage:

python telnet.py <IP> <port>

Example of good connection:

~# python telnet.py 192.168.0.1 80
Host: 192.168.0.1

Port: 80

Sent 1 byte over port 80 to 192.168.0.1

Example of a bad connection:

~# python telnet.py 192.168.0.1 81
Host: 192.168.0.1

Port: 81

Not possible to connect to 81 on port 192.168.0.1

It needs some enhancements, but for sure will help on network troubleshooting!!!

Enjoy!!!

Uncompress several ESX tgz log files with one Linux command

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 20:28:47 GMT

Well... who needs to troubleshoot ESX log files sometimes needs to uncompress several tgz files. So, here is a command line that may help on this:

for i in `ls *.tgz| awk '{print $NF}'`; do tar -xvzf $i; done

You don't need to specify any filename. Only with this all tgz files on a directory will be uncompressed.

Welcome to Change at the Speed of Life

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 10:56:20 GMT

Welcome to my blog in which I will chronicle our continuing evolution to technology innovation in our infrastructure, global presence, applications, device-indepented virtual users, and an Insurance Services Platform that is alread delivering things we were told just could not happen.

Change can be scary, and change management is a contact sport.

You can win at sports if you play the game with passion, drive, and hard work.

At Seven Corners we like to win.

Heterogeneous Foundations for Cloud: Simply Overrated

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 23:26:11 GMT

Let me start by making a statement that you may or may not agree with – being heterogeneous is often a problem in need of a solution…not a strategy. Allow me to explain…

I spend a lot of time discussing VMware’s vCloud solution stack to many different customers, each with varying objectives when it comes to their cloud journey. The majority of them fall under two groups – Group A) those who know what they want and where to get it and Group B) those who think they know what they want and have been shopping for the “right” solution since before cloud hit the mainstream – one “cloud bake-off” after another while changing requirements in real-time. Can you guess which ones meet their objectives first? Hint: it’s the same group that delivers IaaS to their enterprise and/or customers using proven technologies and trusted relationships in the time it takes the other to host a bake-off.

For group A the requirements are straightforward – deliver me a solution (and technology) that meets exceeds all the characteristics of cloud [see: defining the cloud] so I can transform my infrastructure and deliver next generation IT to the business. Sound familiar? It should because this is where the greater majority is – whether they accept it with open arms or are trying to meet agency mandates (or both). These are the organizations that understand the value of a COTS solution that promises to reduce cost, complexity, and time to market. These are the folks that consider what has worked so incredibly well in the past and stick with it. They look at the foundation that has built their virtualized infrastructures and helped them achieve unprecedented levels of efficiency, availability, and manageability. These are vSphere customers (did you see that coming?). Remember what the very first characteristic (and prerequisite) of Cloud is – Pooling of Resources. More than 80% of the virtualized world is running vSphere as their hypervisor of choice. In fact, a new VM is powered up on vSphere every 6 seconds and there are more VM’s in (v)Motion than there are planes in the sky at any moment. There is no question that VMware’s flagship hypervisor has changed the way we do IT – a hypervisor that has earned the right and reputation to be your cloud’s foundation…vCloud’s foundation.

But not everyone gets it (enter group B). These are the folks that set requirements they think are intended to benefit the business or customer and end up burning resources, money, and time in the process. My job is to look at the business’ objectives, understand their unique requirements, propose a solution, and help determine the resulting architecture. But every once in a while a customer throws out a requirement that just doesn’t make sense…and I feel, as trusted advisor, it is my responsibility to make sure they understand the impact of such requirements.

This brings me to the topic of this post and the most often misguided “requirement” out there: “my cloud needs to support heterogeneous hypervisors”.

Say what!? Heterogeneous hypervisors? I’ll just put this out there – VMware’s cloud framework (specifically vCloud Director) does not support heterogeneous hypervisors – and for a very good reason! What benefit will this provide when there's an opportunity to build this baby from the ground-up? Let me be clear about one thing – the need to support a heterogeneous anything is a problem and not an effective business strategy. Heterogeneity often occurs when IT merges – whether that’s in a datacenter consolidation, business merger, bankrupt vendor, whatever. The business typically wants to save existing investments and needs a new way to manage those assets in a centralized/consolidated manner. A great example of this exists in the storage world – as datacenters were consolidated and several different flavors of storage subsystems were expected to play together, storage virtualization solutions were needed to make it so. There are several solutions out there to choose from – IBM SAN Volume Controller (SVC) or NetApp V-Series just to name a couple. Bottom line is the organization gained a heterogeneous storage environment and needed a solution to bring it all together and achieve centralized management. Although there are solutions available to help (some better than others), they are really just a band-aid and still result in everything you’d expect from such a situation:

increased complexity
added learning curve
masking of core/native capabilities
increased operations and management costs
reduced efficiencies
additional management layers
increased opportunity for failure
lots of finger-pointing when all hell breaks loose

These are all results of a problem. Organizations rarely choose to add complexity, cost, risk, etc. to their infrastructures but instead employ available technologies to help reduce the pain of such a situation. However, as the environment scales, these same organizations do choose to scale the native capacity first in an effort to avoid making the problem worse (ex: adding a storage capacity that natively integrates with the front-end solution).

When it comes to building a cloud infrastructure, most organizations are early in the design and planning process and have an opportunity to employ proven technologies and gain seamless integration, high efficiencies, centralized management, etc. all on top of a solid foundation. The key word here is foundation (i.e. the hypervisor) – the most critical component in this architecture. Why would any organization choose to take the heterogeneous approach and deal with the added risks when so much is at stake?

And finally, for all you out there that suggest that not supporting a heterogeneous foundation creates cloud vendor lock-in (that's you, group B), I only have this to say: regardless of who you trust to be your hypervisor, your best bet is to select a solution that provides an open extensible framework, exposes API’s for seamless infrastructure integration, and has the trust and reputation your business or customer needs. I won’t name names…but there’s only one.

++++

@virtualjad

vManager- Công cụ quản lí ESXi qua Android Phone.

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 16:39:18 GMT

Cac bac len google market down ve dung free nhe

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Fortifying Branch Offices With Storage Virtual Appliances

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 13:49:05 GMT

Join our Webinar…

Thursday, May 3, 2012 11:30 AM – 12:00 PM PDT

Learn how SVAs can help your organization fortify branch offices cost effectively.

In this webinar you will:

Learn how to implement an affordable, high-availability branch office solution;
Discover how SVAs reduce the demands on network administrators and enable corporate IT to maintain control and manage branch offices from a single centralized hub.
Learn how E.ON Climate & Renewables achieved high availability at over 100 locations using Storage Virtual Appliances.

All Webinar registrants will recieve this informative whitepaper

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Fortifying Branch Offices With Storage Virtual Appliances

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 13:43:05 GMT

Join our Webinar…

Thursday, May 3, 2012 11:30 AM – 12:00 PM PDT

Learn how SVAs can help your organization fortify branch offices cost effectively.

In this webinar you will:

Learn how to implement an affordable, high-availability branch office solution;
Discover how SVAs reduce the demands on network administrators and enable corporate IT to maintain control and manage branch offices from a single centralized hub.
Learn how E.ON Climate & Renewables achieved high availability at over 100 locations using Storage Virtual Appliances.

All Webinar registrants will recieve this informative whitepaper

“Unlocking VMware ESX/i With a Storage Virtual Appliance”

vFredag 27/04-2012 My VMware - Monberg laver et deepdive i den nye portal

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 12:34:43 GMT

VMwares licensportal har altid været lidt svær at navigere - men nu har vi givet den en ordentlig overhaling baseret på brugerfeedback.
Vær med til et deepdive hvor vi ser alt hvad der nu er samlet i ét interface.

Tilmeld dig her

The Benefits of Cloud Server Technology over Traditional Server Hosting

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 09:33:43 GMT

To many, the cloud server is the "next big thing" in networking. The concept is simple, and now that there are hosting companies dedicated to cloud server hosting, the possibilities for the use of cloud servers for business and individuals alike, begins to really shine through. These technologies are truly innovative, as they give you the ability to "virtualize" a lot of the things you now do using only the resources of your computer, or you limited network. With cloud servers, the ability to add more resources, or to use virtual resources if your physical resources aren't enough to cut it, makes this an incredibly attractive networking and server solution for many.

If you subscribe to cloud server hosting, you are likely to save money, overall, on the costs of your networking needs. As there is far less physical hardware involved in a cloud server, and all of the functionality is applied and handled remotely, these services are often less expensive than other alternatives in the server and networking marketplace. In the India, cloud servers are available from a huge host of different companies, giving you freedom of choice, and the ability to "get on the cloud", even if you yourself only have one computer.

Many businesses, for a long time, feared about the safety and security of cloud servers, but technology has advanced to a point where a cloud server host can truly offer you the same, or higher, level of security as any other type of server option. The ability to handle your programs and daily applications, inenvironment, and even have the ability to automate it, thus saving you valuable time, is just one of the many benefits that cloud server technology has to offer the average online business. With secure and private clouds that offer almost endless resources, cloud servers are easily taking the server market by storm, as they prove the worthiness of the claims made by the proponents of this technology.

Without the need for tons of different hardware solutions, but the same, if not better, functionality and available add-ons to optimize your server to be tailored to your businesses specific needs, has started to draw many away from the Dedicated Server India and begin the transition to the cloud server. Once using this simple technology, that doesn't require one to be an advanced IT expert to use, those who have chosen cloud server technology are, by and large, sold, never looking back on their decision to make the switch.

More and more places are starting to realize the benefits - both in terms of cost, and capabilities as well - of using Virtual Private Server solutions for our server and networking needs.

The use of a cloud server, in the India, or elsewhere, is a great way to save a bit on your hosting costs, and also be on the cutting edge of the technology that many say is the future of networking. With the ability to provide high quality, secure, and affordable service, cloud server hosting companies make a great alternative to traditional dedicated server hosting. You will have access to all the features that make the dedicated server such a popular choice, without the cost, and still have the ability to stay ahead of the curve and be part of the wave of the future.

VMware TAM Weekly Newsletter 4.12

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 07:25:27 GMT

From the editors Virtual Desk
Hi everyone, yes the weekly newsletter is back in full force this week after a 2 issue absence. I have been quite busy myself with Partner Exchange (PEX) in Sydney and a short Easter break with my family.

Partner Exchange was awesome, I could not believe the crowds and enthusiasm in the sessions. I presented with a few of my colleagues 2 workshop style sessions each lasting 3 hours. The first was on Security and Compliance in a virtual environment, something I am very keen on and have written a blog post on in the past. The second session was on ITAAS and I had the fortunate task of also presenting the VMware ITAAS whiteboard session from PEX in the US at this session, which was something I really enjoyed and encourage all of you to check out, speak to your TAM, Partner Manager, Sales Engineer or Account Manager and ask them to present this to you and your organisation.

After a short break I have noticed that there is just too much news for a single newsletter so I have been fairly conservative this week in what I put in the newsletter and have also opted for only articles from April.

I would also like to congratulate all of the vExpert’s many of whom I borrow their awesome work for this small newsletter, thank you guys for all of your hard work and well done on being nominated, I will be checking the list and adding to my list of newsletter contributors.

I hope you had a good Easter break and enjoy this week’s newsletter.

Warm Wishes
Neil Isserow (Newsletter Editor and VMware TAM Blog Custodian)
Queensland Technical Account Manager
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Recently there have been some great webcasts on PowerCLI, I wanted to make sure that these were available for everyone to watch. Firstly I will start off with the BrownBag Webcasts, if you don’t attend these I highly recommend you check them out, the BrownBag Webcasts were started by Cody Bunch and are a weekly webcast which goes through various VMware products and technologies in around 1hr (sometimes they run over).

VMware ThinApp Blog: Integrating VMware ThinApp with a Citrix XenApp Implementation
If you have a Citrix XenApp implementation, have you considered adding VMware ThinApp virtualized applications to enhance XenApp application presentation?
By virtualizing the Windows applications that you present with XenApp, you can overcome some of the limitations of XenApp. ThinApp is the premier virtualization tool for Windows applications. For more information about the advantages of virtualizing your legacy Windows applications with ThinApp, seeVMware ThinApp: Application Virtualization Made Simple.

vCO Team: Leveraging the VMware vCloud Director query service
With the release of vCloud director 1.5 a new important API feature was introduced : the query service. Quoting the "What's new" whitepaper:
VMware vCloud Director 1.5 also introduces a VMware vCloud API query service,
which can significantly improve developer efficiency, by minimizing the number of API requests and the amount
of data transferred for an API client to obtain needed information. Example query parameters include sorting
and ordering, pagination, filtering, projection, and expressions.
Following the development of vCloud Director prior to its first release I have begged for having this feature as a public API on several occasions. I now use it on a regular basis in my workflows. This article explains the reasons you may have to leverage the query service and gives an example on how to use it.

VMware vSphere Blog: Partially Powered Off vApp VMs
If you are trying to power off or shutdown a vApp for deletion using the vCloud API, you probably thought about using either the powerOff or shutdown API call. What you might have noticed is that even though the Virtual Machines within the vApp are powered off, you are still unable to delete the vApp. If you take a look at the vCloud Director UI, the status of the Virtual Machines show they are in a “Partially Powered Off” state.

VMware End User Computing: Register for the End-User Computing Virtual Conference on May 3rd
Please join VMware as we discuss the next step forward in end-user computing for the post-PC era.
Listen to Vittorio Viarengo, VP of End-User Computing, discuss the latest advancements in the VMware End-User Computing Platform. Understand how VMware provides solutions to simplify traditional technology silos, enable policy driven management, and connect people to technology and each other in new and collaborative ways.
This virtual conference will provide you with an opportunity to:
Attend a keynote from the VMware leadership team
Learn about the latest innovations in the VMware End-User Computing portfolio
Chat with VMware End-User Computing product experts
Network with peers

VMware Virtualization Management Blog: The What, Why and How of Cloud - It’s a matter of Trust
Everyday I get questions about Virtualization, Cloud, Compliance and Trust.
The “What is Cloud?” is rarely asked anymore, it seems like we have put that one to rest. But, just in case you need a refresher, here you go:
“Cloud computing is an approach to computing that leverages the efficient pooling of on-demand, self-managed virtual infrastructure, consumed as a service. Sometimes known as utility computing, clouds provide a set of typically virtualized computers which can provide users with the ability to start and stop servers or use compute cycles only when needed, often paying only upon usage.” – VMware

VMware vSphere Blog: Storage DRS, more than I/O load-balancing only
Lately I’ve noticed that the Storage DRS I/O load-balancing feature is becoming synonymous for Storage DRS itself. Storage DRS can be used on almost every supported Storage Array today, however in certain scenarios depending on the array features, VMware recommend to disable the I/O load balancing feature. It appears that this situation is the root for questioning using Storage DRS in total, however there is more to Storage DRS alone than just the I/O load-balancing feature. Storage DRS offers a full range of extraordinary features that assist administrators in their daily operations and help architects and organizations to get more out of the virtual environment.

VMware Global Alliances Blog: EMC Launches VSPEX – with VMware Integrations
If you haven’t already heard about VSPEX, you will. VSPEX is EMC’s proven infrastructure for virtualizing data centers and desktops, combining EMC storage technology with VMwarevSphere, VMware vCloud, VMwareView and other VMware cloud infrastructure solutions that can be sized and configured for a wide variety of organizations. EMC rolled out VSPEX today – you can read more about it here.

VMware vCloud Blog: Changing IP Address on vCenter With SRM
As part of the Disaster Recovery solution that Duncan Epping and Chris Colotti developed, Kris Boyd has been working on a comparative VMware View Solution using the same basic principles. However, one thing both solutions came across is a unique situation on the vCenter virtual machines when trying to use Site Recovery Manager’s ability to change the IP Addresses on the Guest OS in the recovery site. This situation only seems to affect the vCenter virtual machines and is a very specific condition. It is unique because in most cases Site Recovery Manager is talking to an upper layer vCenter Server, and in our Disaster Recovery solutions there is also a vCenter Server being managed by another vCenter and SRM as depicted below.

Office of the CTO Blogs: A Year of Open PaaS: More Clouds, More Code, More Community and More for Cloud Foundry
A year has passed since VMware launched Cloud FoundryTM, a major milestone in our mission to "Simplify IT". We are focusing on simplifying application creation, deployment, and operations via an approach we call open platform as a service, or "Open PaaS" - an approach that gives developers choice as to where they deploy and run their applications.

Office of the CTO Blogs: The more things change, the more they stay the same
Last week I had the opportunity to participate on a panel titled "The Battle for Your Business in the Cloud" at the OnDemand 2012 conference. All of the panelists were asked questions that would be familiar to anyone that has been in the IT industry for the last few years, including the proverbial "hybrid/private/public/false cloud" debate or "what's holding enterprises back from throwing away all their existing IT investments and embracing the cloud?" Having these conversations onstage suggests we haven't made much progress since the big shift in IT began – and in the end, I left with the impression that if you were to judge our progress and innovation in cloud computing by the nature of discussions like these, you may end up with the impression that we're all sitting on our hands, frustratingly asking ourselves "WHY DONT THESE PEOPLE GET HOW AWESOME THE CLOUD IS?!?"

Office of the CTO Blogs: Video: Ultra-low latency on vSphere
As promised, Bhavesh's talk at the OpenFabrics User and Developer Workshop is now available for your viewing pleasure. In it, I spend a few minutes talking about some of the findings from our upcoming InfiniBand paper, and then turn it over to Bhavesh who presents the bulk of the talk. The video is here.

Part of Bhavesh's talk covers our interest in providing RDMA capabiltiies to guest operating system instances while maintaining the ability to vMotion (live migrate) such virtual machines. This is crucial if RDMA is going to gain wider acceptance in the modern, virtualized datacenter where the value of live migration has been repeatedly demonstrated.

Office of the CTO Blogs: Staying on the Edge
Something I have always appreciated about working at VMware is the constant stream of innovation. I will always remember my job interview here seven years ago and how amazed I was at the number of opportunities there seemed to be to innovate, both in and around the products. And those products were simple back then. ESX 3.0 and Workstation 6.0 were the big products of the day and Fusion was just emerging. During my interviews, each time I asked if something could be added or improved with the product, there was a glow about the interviewer. It was obvious that the ideas were already brewing and that there seemed to be an unlimited path to follow. This excitement led me to join the company for what has become an amazing ride!

Office of the CTO Blogs: Video: Big Data, HPC, and VMware
The video of the Big Data panel at the OpenFabrics Alliance User and Developer Workshop has now been posted at insideHPC.com -- it is available here.

DK Panda from Ohio State University spoke first and gave a compressed version of a much longer talk that illustrates the benefits of high bandwidth and low latency interconnect for distributed Enterprise services like memcached as well as benchmarks like Yahoo's Cloud Serving Benchmark (YCSB) -- interesting stuff, especially as an illustration of the converging requirements we are seeing between HPC and Enterprise.

Office of the CTO Blogs: As the Public Sector Cloud Summit ends
I presented at the Public Sector Cloud Summit on behalf of the DMTF last week. The event was sponsored by the Cloud Standards Customer Council, and was kicked off with a keynote by Dawn Leaf, NIST’s Senior Executive for Cloud Computing. One of the big takeaways from Dawn’s presentation was that the new focus at the NIST will be on reference architectures. NIST certainly made great progress early on by developing the definitive definition of cloud computing. She stated that their next big contributions will be on standardizing reference architectures so that we can have a common understanding on which to build. The NIST will also be supporting the ongoing efforts of the Fed RAMPprogram to standardize security assessments of cloud solutions across the various US government agencies.

VMware Global Alliances Blog: Agentless Security Platform from Trend Micro and VMware
Virtualization serves as a foundational technology for cloud computing. Many IT organizations with mature virtualization deployments report that security and compliance with regulatory requirements, industry standards and IT best practices are easier to attain.* Previously, security and compliance

VMware Global Alliances Blog: What’s New on the VMware Solution Exchange?
If you haven’t already, check out the VMware Solution Exchange (VSX), our new online cloud infrastructure and virtualization marketplace that enables customers to engage with VMware partners and developers, and discover, evaluate, and rate joint solutions including virtual appliances, vApps, and vCO plug-ins. Partners and developers post online resources on the VSX, including demos, screen shots, videos, joint whitepapers, and evaluation software. All the solutions within the VSX complement and integrate or interoperate with VMware's portfolio of products.

VMWARE TV BLOG
My VMware Sneak Peek - Navigation
This video is the first in a series of videos which are aimed at providing an early look and insight into the new My VMware portal which will be launching in 2012.
My VMware will transform your product license and support management experience by providing a new integrated, self-service, account-based interface focused on simplifying and streamlining your online activities with VMware. All VMware customers and partners may use this new site once we launch in 2012.

My VMware Sneak Peek - Users & Permissions
Here is our second in a series of videos which are aimed at providing an early look and insight into the new My VMware portal which will be launching in 2012.
My VMware will transform your product license and support management experience by providing a new integrated, self-service, account-based interface focused on simplifying and streamlining your online activities with VMware. All VMware customers and partners may use this new site once we launch in 2012.

My VMware Sneak Peak - Entitlement Accounts
Here is the third in a series of videos which are aimed at providing an early look and insight into the new My VMware portal whichjust launched this week. Learn about Entitlement Accounts below.
My VMware will transform your product license and support management experience by providing a new integrated, self-service, account-based interface focused on simplifying and streamlining your online activities with VMware. All VMware customers and partners may use this new site once we launch in 2012.

Downgrading license keys in My VMware
Over the coming weeks you will see various videos from us featuring various aspects of My VMware. Here's a video which demonstrates how to downgrade your license keys using My VMware. This video is based on VMware Knowledge Base article Downgrading license keys in My VMware (2006975).
My VMware will transform your product license and support management experience by providing a new integrated, self-service, account-based interface focused on simplifying and streamlining your online activities with VMware. All VMware customers and partners are entitled to use this new site.

Dividing license keys in My VMware
Here is another My VMware video for you which discusses and demonstrates how to divide your license keys using My VMware. This video is based on VMware Knowledge Base article Dividing license keys in My VMware (2006972).

CLOUD APPLICATION PLATFORM
Introduction to Cloud Foundry Integration for Eclipse 1.0
Cloud Foundry Integration for Eclipse allows users to deploy applications to Cloud Foundry targets from either Eclipse IDE JEE Indigo or STS (SpringSource Tool Suite) 2.9.0 or higher.
Cloud Foundry Integration for Eclipse 1.0 is the first version of the integration to be open sourced under the Eclipse Public License (EPL), and cannot be upgraded from earlier versions of Cloud Foundry Integration for Eclipse. Users wishing to install it must first uninstall any prior version of Cloud Foundry Integration for Eclipse.
Detailed steps on how to install the Cloud Foundry Integration for Eclipse can be found at:
http://start.cloudfoundry.com/tools/STS/configuring-STS.html

Cloud Foundry’s First Birthday: More Clouds, Code, Community and Partners
Today we celebrated Cloud Foundry’s first anniversary with additional multi-cloud deployment choices, new tools for operating large scale Cloud Foundry services, a new system for managing open source contributions and new partnerships.

Using JRuby for Rails Applications on Cloud Foundry
JRuby Rails applications can be deployed to CloudFoundry.com today with simple configuration changes. JRuby applications are commonly deployed to servlet containers by creating a .war file that contains the Rails app. We will do the same for Cloud Foundry with some changes to the database configuration, so the application can also access a database service on CloudFoundry.com.

Migrating to Spring 3.1 and Hibernate 4.1
As part of the Core-Spring course, we have a lab application that we use to show how to integrate Spring and JPA/Hibernate together. We have just upgraded it to Spring 3.1 / Hibernate 4.1, and thought we should share a few tips. 1) Maven Dependencies The configuration sample below is based on Maven (but you Read more...

Create Spring Integration Projects using STS
Just days ago, SpringSource Tool Suite™ (STS) 2.9.1 was released. Besides many new features, it provides several features that are especially exciting for Spring Integration users. First of all, the latest STS release adds support for Spring Integration 2.1 and improves the visualization capabilities for Spring Integration flows. STS supports now all recently added Spring Read more...

EXTERNAL VMWARE RELATED BLOGS (vExperts/Guest Bloggers)
5 interesting KB articles for vSphere 5
Changing the location of snapshot delta files for virtual machines in ESXi 5.0 Only real time performance data is displayed when vCenter Server is configured with SQL Express 64 bit Unpresenting LUNs in vSphere 5 Virtualizing Existing Domain Controlers vSphere 5 FAQ: VMFS-5
Small selection of VMware Kb articles, that I found useful.

How-to create bootable ESXi 5 USB stick by using Vmware Player
There is quite a few ways of create a bootable memory stick with ESXi 5 installed. One of the easiest one is to use Free VMware Player 4 to do the job. Note that VMware Workstation users can do the same…
I’ll show you the steps here:

VMware Technical Journal Awesomeness
I must admit that I’m a bit late on this, but it’s never late for good and quality technical information. The VMware Technical Journal is a Free PDF publication which will normally be released on regular basis. This publication is composed from several whitepapers written by VMware Engineers.
One of them is Olivier Cremel (Fr). Readers of ESX Virtualization should know this guy, since I published an article concerning Olivier Cremel and ESXi some time ago… -:)
Each of those chapters is very technical read and you might not be attracted by every single chapter there, since you might be specialized in some of this technology, but not all of them.

How-to configure VMware View Persona Management
Configuring the VMware View Persona Management.
The VMware View Persona management enables you to manage user’s profiles in you organization by using your existing Microsoft domain and infrastructure. RTO Software acquired by VMware has developed this solution and so it’s been successfully integrated in the Vmware View 5 (not the 4.6 release).
In a very nice and effective manner of dealing with user’s data. No need to deal with roaming profiles, the new Persona management from VMware View 5 brings it’s own GPOs. And I’ll show you in this article on what do you need to put this in place.

Vmware HCL for ESXi 5.0
How to be sure that my hardware is compatible to run the latest VMware ESXi 5?
When you looking for entreprise class hardware compatible with latest version of VMware vSphere - ESXi 5.0 U1, you will certainly be looking for the Vmware HCL for ESXi 5.0 page. Right? I’ll show you how to get there, but also how to use the online searching tool, which has got some face lift since last time I reported on that.

Licensing VMware SRM 5.0
Had a small issue with VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) 5.0 today when performing a real failover of a single VM with a customer of mine. Nothing big, just using one VM one protection group, showing them that a failover would work. After recovery went fine, I started the reprotection and ran into a licensing error: “Not enough licenses”.

Etherchannel and IP Hash or Load Based Teaming?
Etherchannel or Load Based Teaming has been a popular topic of conversation ever since Load Based Teaming was introduced in vSphere 4.1. Generally the consideration for Etherchannel starts because people are not aware that Load Based Teaming exists as an option, they are not familiar with how virtual networking in vSphere works, or they’ve just always used it. It is quite common for non VMware Admins to think the virtual networking in vSphere acts just like a normal server in which one uplink is active and the others are strictly for failover with no load balancing capability. This is not the case with vSphere and of the five available teaming options only one provides failover only without any load balancing, the four other options all provide load balancing of multiple host uplinks. If you want to know if you should use Etherchannel or Load Based Teaming, and why, keep reading.

Blueprint for Successful Large Scale Oracle Virtualization on vSphere
I recently attended a Webinar on the topic of Virtualizing Business Critical Oracle systems presented by a very large company that had started their journey back in 2004 and so far successfully virtualized 86% of their systems, including some of the most critical Oracle systems. After the Webinar I decided to go back and re-read the whitepaper they had published regarding their journey a few months ago to refresh myself on it’s contents. The whitepaper is one of the best I have read, and the presentation on the Webinar was one of the best I had attended. What they laid out was a successful blueprint and framework for how any company might successfully virtualize business critical Oracle systems, and it is definitely a must read. I’ll discuss some of the main points I think are important and what I got out of it, then you can read it yourself and make up your own mind.

vSphere Security Hardening Policy and SRM 5
VMware is in the process of working on the vSphere 5 edition of the Security Hardening Guide and will shortly make a public draft available for comment (I’ll let you know when it’s available). This will be great news to the many people who have been waiting patiently for it since the vSphere 5 release. A lot of work is going into making this edition of the Security Hardening Guide much more user friendly and easier to use and implement. Many of the locked down items will be the same as in 4.1, and of course some changes and enhancements too. Another difference this time around is there are now new implications and restrictions on functionality introduced by the recommendations due to changes at least one popular VMware vCenter Management Tool. This is where Site Recovery Manager (SRM) v5 comes into the picture.

Problem with vSphere 5 HA and Storage vMotion when VM on vDS
There is a problem with svMotion in vSphere 5 when the VM is on a vDS that causes HA to be unable to restart the VM in case of a failure. This has implications for anyone using svMotion and especially for anyone making use of Storage DRS. If you are currently using vSphere 5 or are planning to use vSphere 5 you need to know about this problem and how to work around it.

vSphere 5 Security Hardening Guide – Public Draft
The vSphere 5 Security Guide has been released publicly in draft form for comment. There are a number of changes and enhancements and you should go through each to review the applicability to your environment. Here is one of the highlights of the new version from my perspective and links through to the documents. It’s hard work putting this hardening guide together so thanks to Charu, Ben, Grant and Kyle, and the rest of the VMware Team for all their hard work on this.

Understanding CBRC – RecomputeDigest Method
After my article Understanding CBRC (Content Based Read Cache) I received few direct questions about the BBRC exposed API methods exposedI in vSphere 5, as mentioned by William Lam in hist article New Hidden CBRC (Content-Based Read Cache) Feature in vSphere 5 & for VMware View 5?The questions were specifically targeting the RecomputeDigest_Task method.
Please read Understanding CBRC (Content Based Read Cache) before continuing…

Automating Desktop in ‘Already Used’ State in VMware View
Getting a consistent view of the VMware View virtual desktop environment is essential for proper management. However, sometimes non-persistent desktop pools become unusable over time. If a desktop that is set to refresh on log off is reset, the desktop goes into the Already Used state. This security feature prevents any previous session data from being available during the next log in.

Mitel UC Single SignOn with VMware View
During VMworld 2011 VMware announced a new set of integrations with Unified Communication vendors such as Mitel, Cisco and Avaya. The so called View Media Services for Unified Communications will deliver integrated UC + virtual desktop experience. UC partners will be able to leverage VMware View API’s and enable UC solutions to detect when they are running in a VMware View remote session.

Automatic IP Assignment and VLAN change in VMware View
A while back I blogged about a scripting automation solution created by few VMware colleagues to automatic change the desktop VLAN in VMware View (here). The solution works great and I have received comments from organizations that have successfully implemented the scripts.

Now available in Rough Cuts - Managing and Optimizing vSphere Deployments
The Rough Cuts service from Safari Books Online gives you exclusive access to an evolving manuscript that you can read online or download as a PDF and print. A Rough Cuts book is not fully edited or completely formatted, but you'll get access to new versions as they are created.

New Training Course - VMware vCloud: Design Best Practices
VMware is working on a new vCloud Design Best Practices training course, it's still in beta but will be released somewhere around next month. This new course is designed to guide students through the decision points and policy choices available for designing and implementing a VMware vCloud environment. Students will learn to appreciate the effects of design choices in vSphere, vCloud Director, Chargeback, and the vShield Edge capability that is included with vCloud Director. The course culminates in a comprehensive workshop on VMware cloud design. By the end of the course, you should have an understanding of the VMware cloud and be able to do the following:

vCenter Operations 5 - Level 300 training
My virtualization friend Bas Vinken pointed me to a real great vCenter Operations 5 presentation created by Iwan ‘e1’ Rahabok (virtual-red-dot.blogspot.com) who's working as a VMware staff SE, Strategic Accounts in Singapore. It's available for download in PowerPoint format and I really would like to advise you to read the slide notes (they're awesome). The presentation serves 2 purposes, first it provides in-depth training for those who are learning or evaluating vCenter Operations 5 and second it provides materials that vCenter Ops champion can use to share with internal colleagues (e.g. storage team, app team, etc).

vCloud networking explained in 1 slide and 52 animations
In this video you will learn how a vCloud Director network is constructed. The PowerPoint presentation "vCloud networking explained in 1 slide and 52 animations" is created by fellow VCI over at Tuukka Korhonen (itvirtuoosit.fi).

VMware vSphere 5 Memory Management and Monitoring diagram
The VMware vSphere 5 Memory Management and Monitoring diagram provides a comprehensive look into the ESXi memory management mechanisms and reclamation methods. This diagram also provides the relevant monitoring components in vCenter Server and the troubleshooting tools like ESXTOP. Source KB: 2017642 kudos to Hany Michael

New Book - VMware Cookbook: A Real-World Guide to Effective VMware Use
If you want to gain insight into the real-world uses of VMware ESXi, this cookbook provides scores of step-by-step solutions for working with this product in a wide range of network environments. You'll not only learn the basics—how to pool resources from hardware servers, computer clusters, networks, and storage, and then distribute them among virtual machines—but also the stumbling blocks you'll encounter when you monitor systems, troubleshoot problems, and deal with security.

Installing VMware Update Manager Download Service
Before getting into installing, let’s take a second to talk about what the Update Manager Download Service (UMDS) is and when you’d use it. As the name implies, UMDS is a service that will go and fetch patch notifications, metadata, and binaries that is separate from your VUM install.
When would that be useful? In a few scenarios, the first is in highly secure environments, where your VUM server may not have direct internet access, but can access other network segments, like this:

[Orchestrator] Use VUM to Upgrade the vCO vApp
Incase you have more than a small hand full of vCO vApps handy, you can use vApp functionality in VUM to upgrade vCO. You’ll need to do the following to get that going:
Create the vApp Baseline
Creating a vApp baseline works much like creating other baselines. On the home page of your vSphere client (where you have the VUM plugin installed), click Update Manager. Then “Create…” to stand up a baseline. Give it a name, select VA Baselines:

Did My Virtual Machines Dance? – DRS History
Once you turn DRS on and set it to fully automatic, unless you have some affinity / anti-affinity rules in place, your VMs will get up and dance around your cluster. In most cases this is fine and dandy. However, occasionally there are times where you will want to know where the VM was, where it went, and when it went there (sort of like tracking a teenager who is out for the night).

Resource Pool Pie – The Warning
Was segregating out some of my home lab stuff from some of the nested things in the lab and came across this when dropping a VM into the vApp:
Basically telling me that this single VM will eat all of the Resource Pool Pie. Not familiar with the resource pool pie? Check out this post by Duncan Epping.
Also, some posts by Mike Preston:

What Happens When No Swap Volume is Available?
Have you ever asked yourself that question?
A customer of mine a small number of VM’s on one host that were continuously crashing. He would power them up and within less than 5 minutes – they would get powered off.
In this case – the host had a swap partition configured not with the default setting but rather as a separate shared datastore.

Should You Patch the vCenter Server Virtual Appliance?
With vCenter 5 came the release of the the vCenter Server Virtual Appliance. This move was applauded by many due to the fact that VMware made the first step in the direction of removing their dependency on Microsoft’s Windows OS and finally making the move to a Linux based platform.
If you would ask me (and this is my personal opinion – not based on concrete info) the days of a Windows based vCenter server are numbered, if not in the next version – then the one after that – there will only be a Linux Virtual appliance. It makes complete sense.

Automating vSphere With VMware vCenter Orchestrator
I had some time this past week to read Automating vSphere: With VMware vCenter Orchestrator byCody Bunch.
I stand by my views that vCenter Orchestrator is one of those uncovered gems that
unfortunately not enough VMware professionals know how to use and do not make enough use of the product and the vast number of options and functionality available with the product (I must confess, I am just guilty as everyone else here).

vCenter Operations Management Suite Resources
Recently I was tasked to get myself up to speed with vCenter Operations Manager and Configuration Manager as part of the vCenter Management Suite for a client delivery we’re doing at Xtravirt. So due to this I have been collecting all the resources I could to help me do this and thought I may as well do a blog posting on it for anyone also looking to implement the suite soon or who are just interested in learning about it. I will be constantly updating this and plan to do two separate postings on the tips and tricks I learnt after deployment for each of the products and my opinions of each.

vMotion Performance on VROOM! Videos
The VMware Performance Team just released the latest in a series of performance talks, dubbedVROOM! Videos, that highlight various vSphere performance capabilities.
This one is on the topic of vMotion performance — a critical aspect of meeting SLAs in a production datacenter. Todd and Sreekanth were kind enough to include me in this episode, taking the opportunity to highlight the crushing advantage vMotion has over Microsoft Hyper-V Live Migration.

Identifying and fixing VMs Affected By SvMotion / VDS Issue
Duncan Epping recently described an issue with virtual machines (VMs) which have moved via Storage vMotion (SvMotion) and are connected to a vNetwork Distributed Switch (VDS), if you are using a configuration where VMs are connected to a VDS and could potentially move via SvMotion then please make sure you read his article here.

Fling: vBenchmark 1.0.1 just released
An update to the recently released fling vBenchmark was just posted. This update includes some fixes and a feature request which was heard often… Here is what’s new/fixed with 1.0.1:

Cluster Sizes – vSphere 5 style!?
At the end of 2010 I wrote an article about cluster sizes… ever since it has been a popular article and I figured that it was time to update it. vSphere 5 changed the game when it comes to sizing/scaling of your clusters and I this is an excellent opportunity to emphasize that. The key take-away of my 2010 article was the following:

Limiting stress on storage caused by HA restarts by lowering restart concurrency?
I had a question last week, and it had me going for a while. The question was if “das.perHostConcurrentFailoversLimit” could be used to lower the hit on storage during a boot storm. By default this advanced option is set to 32. Meaning that a max of 32 VMs will be restarted by HA on a single host. The question was if lowering this value to for instance 16 would help reducing the stress on storage when multiple hosts would fail, or for instance in a blade environment when a chassis would fail.

Scripts release for Storage vMotion / HA problem
Last week when the Storage vMotion / HA problem went public I asked both William Lam and Alan Renouf if they could write a script to detect the problem. I want to thank both of them for their quick response and turnaround, they cranked the script out in literally hours. The scripts were validated multiple times in a VDS environment and worked flawless. Note that these scripts can detect the problem in an environment using a regular Distributed vSwitch and a Nexus 1000v, the script can only mitigate the problem though in a Distributed vSwitch environment. Here are the links to the scripts:
Perl: Identifying & Fixing Virtual Machines Affected By SvMotion / VDS Issue (William Lam)
PowerCLI - Identifying and fixing VMs Affected By SvMotion / VDS Issue (Alan Renouf)

VMWARE KB ARTICLES
New Articles Published for Week Ending 4/14/12
Datacenter
Using Kaspersky Security for Virtualization 1.1 to secure virtual machines (2017747)
My VMware
My VMware Product Licensing or Account support resources (2016686)
My VMware General Inquiry support resources (2016701)
Registering serial keys for complimentary support fails (2017166)
My VMware Mobile App FAQs (2017186)
My VMware Mobile App Overview (2017192)
Viewing license keys in the My VMware Mobile App (2017194)
Viewing user permissions in the My VMware Mobile App (2017196)
Determining the Super User and Procurement Contact in the My VMware Mobile App (2017197)
Top 10 things to know about My VMware (2017468)
Support Only product entries in My VMware (2017651)
Registering with Partner Central (2017710)
Filing a Technology Alliance Partner (TAP) Support Request (2017712)
Searching for a user in My VMware (2017897)
VMware Data Recovery
Synchronizing time between the VDR appliance and the host (2017638)
The vSphere Client Plugin for VDR is unable to connect to the VDR appliance (2017470)
VMware ESX
Registering a virtual machine through the VI Client fails with the error: Invalid datastore path 'sanfs://vmfs_uuid:46e04d7a-649bf336-5f2d-001a4bbf00e2/DHCP/DHCP.vmx' (2013832)
Virtual machine using the client device CD-ROM stops responding from the VI Client after a network interruption (2017037)
Cannot run Sysprep on a Windows virtual machine that was upgraded to a later version (1025796)
Configuring HA on an ESX host fails with the error: Cannot synchronize host : Cannot complete login due to an incorrect user name or password (2017460)
Unable to delete the virtual machine snapshot due to locked files (2017072)
VMware ESXi
Tomcat process consumes all available memory in vCenter Server 5.0.x (2013890)
VMware ESXi 5.0 Patch Release (2015460)
VMware ESXi 5.0 Patch ESXi500-201204401-BG: Updates tools-light (2015461)
VMware ESXi 5.0 Patch Image Profile ESXi-5.0.0-20120404001-standard (2015650)
VMware ESXi 5.0 Patch Image Profile ESXi-5.0.0-20120404001-no-tools (2015655)
Understanding storage device detection in ESXi (2015793)
VMware vSphere 5 Memory Management and Monitoring diagram (2017642)
Scripted Installation of ESXi causes a LUN to be overwritten when using local SAS disks (2017399)
VMware Service Manager
Deleting the queued emails from the Service Manager database (2017534)
Best practices for implementing a Development to Test to Production environment with VMware Service Manager. (2017676)
SLA for Incidents only is not removed when IPK status is changed to non Incidents (2017364)
Time spent on tasks/approvals is not calculated correctly in Service Manager (2017648)
VMware vCenter Configuration Manager
Windows and UNIX machine data collections in vCM do not filter results correctly (2017139)
VMware vCenter Infrastructure Navigator
vCenter Infrastructure Navigator virtual appliance is not visible in the license window of the vSphere Client (2016577)
VMware vCenter Lab Manager
Unpublishing a template in vCenter Lab Manager fails with the error: Requested file path_to_vmx_file is not writable (1022302)
VMware vCenter Operations Manager (Standalone)
Licensing vCenter Operations Manager 5.0 (2017464)
VMware vCenter Orchestrator
Cannot log in to the vCenter Orchestrator Weboperator Web view as a non-administrative user (1021396)
Cannot start vCO services on a Windows Server after a reboot (2016188)
The vCO Operators group with Edit permission is unable to import workflows (2016190)
How to restore the read permissions to the Microsoft Windows Users group after installation or upgrade to vCenter Orchestrator 4.2.1 (2017578)
Issues with vCenter Orchestrator permissions (2016770)
VMware vCenter Server
When deploying a Windows 2008 R2 template, the guest operating system customization does not complete (2014140)
Performance data from the inventory is not saved to the vCenter Server database if the database was manually created (2017145)
VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager
Unable to configure and connect to vSphere Replication Management Server database in SRM (2016260)
VMware vCloud Connector
Copying the vAPP or virtual machine using vCloud Connector fails at 1% (2017661)
VMware vCloud Director
After upgrading vShield Endpoint to 5.0.1 you cannot ping an internal IP Address in a NAT configuration (2017854)
VMware Workstation
Installing VMware Tools in a Windows virtual machine fails while installing the VMXnet driver (2015970)
Menu options are not available in the full screen mode toolbar of a virtual machine in Workstation (2016714)

vSphereClient の利用ポート

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 04:36:14 GMT

これで ssh さえつながればポートフォワーディングで vSphere Client を繋げれる。

ESXiのSNMP有効化

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 04:33:38 GMT

/etc/vmware/snmp.xml を編集してサービスを再起動すればOK

<config><snmpSettings><enable>true</enable><communities>public</communities><targets></targets></snmpSettings></config>

んでもってサービス再起動

# /sbin/services.sh restart

注意：いろいろサービスが再起動するからシステム事再起動したほうがいいとおも。

ただ、SNMPで取れる値はあまり実用的でないので、

以前書いた方法で監視したほうがいい。

VMware acquires Cetas Software for Cloud and Big Data Analytics

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 21:00:09 GMT

At the beginning of the year, I posted that we are in the midst of a data renaissance -- where a rapid proliferation of new uses of data is driving new technologies to manage data. The traditional relational database had once been the main vehicle for serving the needs of online applications with optimized variants used to store longer-term data for business intelligence and analytics. No longer however, does one size fit all when it comes to data and database technologies.

The unprecedented volume of information being collected and analyzed is driving new Big Data technologies. Extreme performance requirements and changing hardware architectures necessitate new Fast Data solutions, like in-memory databases. Applications that interact with data in a variety of formats and require frequent changes to their data model have given birth to NoSQL and other solutions for managing this Fluid Data. Finally, the move to cloud computing is accompanied by a need to deploy and virtualize data technologies for Cloud Delivery. As VMware works to transform IT for the Cloud, we’ll increasingly look to address the challenges and opportunities associated with Big Data, Fast Data and Fluid Data.

There is a growing opportunity to augment application’s capabilities with analytics. In this context, I am excited to announce VMware’s acquisition of Cetas Software, an early stage Cloud Data Analytics company. The Cetas team has been driving the democratization of analytics and business intelligence by dramatically lowering the barriers to entry for all companies, from small businesses to large enterprises. The Cetas analytics service provides next generation Big Data analytics and predictive intelligence systems that can operate at a scale of hundreds of terabytes and billions of events for online companies and enterprises. The key use cases served by Cetas are Online App Analytics, IT & Operational Analytics and Enterprise Hadoop Analytics. VMware will continue to invest in the Cetas technology and invite interested users to sign up for the service here.

Stay tuned for more news about how we will be integrating Cetas into VMware’s cloud application platform and services. For more information about Cetas, visit www.cetas.net, the Cetas blog, and follow on Twitter at @CetasAnalytics.

vsphere clint cant connect vcenter server

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 08:19:50 GMT

please see the attached problem and gimi solution

vsphere clint cant connect vcenter server

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 08:17:45 GMT

Please See the attached error of vcemter server cant connect throw vsphere clint

Utilizzare vCops con vSphere Essentials, Essentials Plus o Standard

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 00:00:40 GMT

Il deployment della vApp di vCenter Operations Manager 5.0, richiede la presenza di un cluster con DRS oppure un host fuori dal cluster e gestito via vCenter, dato che la VAPP è anche un Resource Pool.

Visto che non è possibile creare i Resource Pool in un Cluster solo con vSphere HA questo escluderebbe l’uso di vCops per le edizioni Essentials Plus o Standard di vSphere, rendendolo un prodotto utilizzabile solo con le edizioni Essentials, Enterprise ed Enterprise Plus

Paradossalmente per l’edizione vSphere Essentials questo limite non si applica perché le vApp possono essere create anche sul singolo host (se agganciate ad un vCenter), mentre come anticipato i kit Essentials Plus e Standard includono le funzionalità di vMotion e vSphere HA ma non DRS.

Questo articolo fornisce un workaround per l’uso di vCenter Operations Manager per gli ambienti che dispongono solo di un cluster con vSphere HA.

Per procedere è raccomandato avere almeno 3 host per evitare di interrompere, anche se temporaneamente, la copertura della protezione di HA. Come procedere:

rimuovere uno degli host dal cluster;
eseguire il deploy della vApp di vCenter Operations Manager, specificando l’uso di IP statici (l’uso di IP statici è un requisito per questo workaround);
ricollocare l’host con la vApp all’interno del cluster, operazione che mostrerà il warning relativo alla distruzione della vApp (ma non delle VM);
proseguire ignorando l’errore

Lo spostamento dell’host ESXi nel cluster, con la conseguente distruzione della vApp, ha portato ad avere nell'inventario del cluster 2 VM, la “UI virtual machine” e la “Analytics virtual machine”. L’assenza “dell’involucro” offerto dalla vApp non impatta sul funzionamento di vCops, anche se alcune attenzioni sono richieste: ad esempio sull’ordine di accensione e spegnimento delle VM, compito prima gestito dalla vApp.

Per la fase di spegnimento è necessario procedere con lo spegnimento della “UI virtual machine” aspettare 10 minuti e procedere con lo spegnimento della “Analytics virtual machine” eseguendo l’operazione inversa per la fase di accensione.

Per maggiori informazioni consultare la KB 2013695

Do you know how much storage you are wasting?

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 21:02:14 GMT

Last year, we ran a Wastefinder contest and on average customers were wasting over 50% of their storage. Our Systems Engineering team also reports similar numbers when they are engaged in POC´s with our customers. Read the full blog at http://bit.ly/wasted-storage-wasted-money.

Recent Migration from ESX 3.5 to vSphere ESXi 5

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 20:20:55 GMT

Finally, after skipping over vSphere 4, we have begun migration to vSphere 5 from our rickety and aging ESX 3.5 system. We built new HP blade servers, no upgrading here since it is not supported going from 3.5 to 5. I don't believe it is very clean to do upgrading anyway with ESX hosts since new builds literally take less time than upgrading.

The experience was a pleasure regarding the ease of bringing in ESX 3.5 hosts to migrating guests to ESXi 5 hosts and doing automatic vmware tools updates via the Check and upgrade tools before each power-on setting in the virtual machines.

Once the VMs started on the ESXi 5 host the tools automatically upgraded and it ran pretty smooth without touching a guest (including RHEL 4 VMs)! How great is that! You will find that the move to vSphere 5 can be as simple or as complex as you want it to be. Simple is good. We brought over a sampling of 60 VMs to a new ESXi 5 cluster to be managed so we could get our feet wet on full ESXi 5 immersion. We only upgraded tools and left the vitual hardware alone. Then we brought over several ESX 3.5 hosts and assembled them in their own cluster to be managed under vCenter 5. Yes, the 3.5 tools are sufficient for this migration if you are going to run a 3.5 cluster under vCenter 5. No need to upgrade tools on those guests that were brought over with and managed by 3.5 hosts.

Next, moves of the entire 3.5 infrastructure to vCenter 5 in their respective clusters will be done. We will bring all the 3.5 clusters under vCenter 5 first before beginning more moves to ESXi 5 hosts so that all VMs can be managed under one vCenter server. This will make the options for storage vmotions and cold migrations to new ESXi 5 infrastructure seamless.

Happy Migrations to ESXi 5! Can't wait to use more of the new features!

PS: Once you are on VMFS 5 across the board, the speed increase on storage vmotions is blinding compared to the old system. Fifty GB server move in almost the same time it used to take for a vmotion thanks to the new FS3DM data mover algorithm.

Cheers,

Andy

Federal Agencies - Now is the time to consider Platform as a Service

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 15:46:10 GMT

The Cost of IT within the Federal Government

In FY 2012, the Federal Government will spend approximately $80 billion on Information Technology. And while $80 billion is a lot of money, I ponder what the true cost of IT is within the Federal Government? It's been estimated that roughly 70% of the Federal IT budget is used for operations and maintenance alone! Think about the all the costs we could avoid if manual processes were automated, integrated, and streamlined through the use of new technologies and applications; If only less money was required to "keep the lights on." How many IT projects and application development efforts will fail or significantly under-deliver? And what happens to an agency's ability to carry out its mission when key technologies fail? What is the cost, both in dollars and confidence, when the government doesn't meet the needs of its people? I'd venture to say the total cost of Federal IT is in the hundreds of billions of dollars.

The government has begun to address IT spending through many efforts including the Federal IT dashboard (www.itdashboard.gov), IT program/project career paths, and the Federal Shared First and Cloud First Initiatives. Speaking of Cloud, let's address how Platform as a Services (PaaS) can significantly lower the cost of developing and maintaining applications while increasing the productivity of application developers within the Federal Government.

What is PaaS

What exactly is PaaS? According to Gartner's 2011 Cloud Computing Hype Cycle analysis, PaaS is one of the mostly highly hyped terms in the market. Definitions vary and are evolving. For the purpose of this article, I propose the following definition of PaaS:

PaaS provides a complete application runtime platform (application stack) that resides in the Cloud (public or private). Your web servers, application servers, data stores, messaging, logging, etc. already exist in the Cloud. You then deploy and run your application in the Cloud.
PaaS provides application deployment and startup facilities which automatically "wire" your application to needed services: database connections, message queues, application containers, etc.
PaaS offers built-in scalability, high availability, and fault tolerance without needing to recode or reconfigure your application.
PaaS may contain application development and support tools such as an IDE, a configuration management system, performance monitoring, and testing and debugging facilities.

In essence, PaaS is about lowering costs and achieveing greater agility. Your developers can focus on coding the applications necessary to meet the needs of your agency's mission without spending precious time and resources trying to implement and maintain the application infrastructure. Believe me, from personal experience, I've seen Federal IT projects spend hundreds of hours trying to install and configure web, application, middleware, and database servers. I've seen even more hours spent trying to cobble together all the interfaces between applications and servers/services. I've lived through procuring too much hardware and software based upon worst-case scenarios, and I've been in the proverbial hot seat when we didn't procure enough hardware and software to meet actual demand.

The Value of PaaS

What value does PaaS offer above and beyond traditional development environments and platforms? I believe it offers several advantages including:

Significantly lower capital expenditures: Attempting to secure funding for IT projects in this budget climate is extremely difficult. The overall FY 2013 Federal IT budget will decrease .7% from the FY 2012, and FY 2012 was a lean year for IT! Migrating to a PaaS environment provides you with a "pay-as-you-go" model. No more up front license purchases for the maximum number of app servers, databases, etc. based upon your estimated peak usage. Instead, you pay for only what you use; you pay for average usage. This may be by transactions, users, sessions, CPU, etc. Regardless of the method, you're not procuring excess hardware or software to support your applications.
Lower operational cost: In addition to the "pay-as-you-go" model, Cloud environments are based upon shared pools of resources and various levels of multi-tenancy, which typically leads to lower operational costs when compared to procuring hardware, software, and infrastructure dedicated to only one, or a few, applications.
Greater development productivity: Most Cloud platforms support modern, productive application development frameworks such as Java Spring, Rails, Grails, and .Net. Developers can focus on the business domain without spending significant time on the infrastructure. In addition, PaaS automates the deploy, run, and scale life-cycle of your applications.
Inherent support for new technologies: While it's not necessary to use PaaS for mobile, big data, and social and context sensitive computing, most PaaS platforms include inherent support for these technologies.

The Challenges of PaaS

So why hasn't your agency moved onto a PaaS platform already? Well, PaaS introduces some new (and old) risks:

There are few standards at this time and many proprietary solutions. Which vendor(s) do you choose? One way to mitigate this risk is to use a vendor which supports open standards and open source, is a proven leader in Cloud computing, and offers a cogent vision and strategy for the future of Cloud.
Security concerns: Agencies are faced with immense security and governance concerns: FISMA, C&As, STIGs, HIPPA, PII, etc. How will you provide security, governance, and oversight once your application is running in the Cloud? There are several ways to address these concerns including private PaaS (a PaaS you run on premise within your agency), using certified and accredited public PaaS providers, and selecting applications with a FISMA low risk level (overall or in certain system categories such as confidentiality).
Service Level Agreements: Will you have guaranteed performance and uptime for your application? Does the PaaS provider offer a DR/COOP to meet your requirements? What happens with your agency's data when you leave the PaaS provider? Who assumes the risk and responsibility for outages? How do you prevent finger pointing, "It's the application….no it's the platform," which happens today with agency internal organizations or between federal employees and contractors. A private PaaS will allow your agency to have control over the service levels. Much like any outsourced or externally managed service, a clear and comprehensive SLA between you and a public PaaS provider will also reduce risks and issues.
PaaS is still a new and emerging platform: While some "sectors" have embraced PaaS (think high tech companies, startups, and small business) it's challenging for agencies to find qualified systems integrators, consultants, and federal employees versed in the PaaS ecosystem. On the surface, it's easier to remain status-quo. This may work for the short-term but will have dire consequences for the long-term when you can no longer "competitively" meet your agency's mission and needs.
Funding: While PaaS offers significantly lower capital expenditures and operational costs over traditional application platforms, there is still a cost. However, the White House has made Cloud computing a priority. OMB expects agencies to shift as much as $20 billion of the total IT budget towards Cloud technology, including PaaS. To acquire necessary funding, start with low risk pilots and proof-of-concepts which will allow you develop a complete business case for PaaS.

Your Next Steps

If you agree it's time your agency looks at PaaS for application development and maintenance then I'd love to hear from you and discuss further (mstockwell@vmware.com). I'll be posting additional blogs on various PaaS topics including government success stories, improving application development within Federal Government, PaaS use cases within the Federal Government, selecting candidate applications for PaaS, and deep dives into the features and capabilities of PaaS.

Manual install vCloudAgent on ESXi 5.0

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 09:51:37 GMT

1. Start Maintainance Mode to migrate all VMs to other .

2. Turn on SSH

3 : Log in as root :

~ # esxcli software vib install --depot /tmp/vcloudagent-1.5.0-453916.zip
Installation Result
   Message: Operation finished successfully.
   Reboot Required: false
   VIBs Installed: VMware_bootbank_vcloud-agent_1.5.0-453916
   VIBs Removed:
   VIBs Skipped:

4. Remove from Cluster and re-add ESXi to Cluster .

5. Reboot & exit maintainance mode .

6. Repeat on other ESXi .

Cloud IaaS: Converged Infrastructure or Reference Architecture?

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 18:44:59 GMT

This last fortnight there’s been a cacophony of hyperbole and at times marketing fluff from vendors and analysts with regards to Reference Architectures and Converged Infrastructures. As IBM launched PureSystems, NetApp & Cisco decided it was also a good time to reiterate their strong partnership with FlexPod. In the midst of this, EMC decided to release their new and rather salaciously titled VSPEX. From the remnants and ashes of all these new product names and fancy launch conferences, the resultant war blogs and Twitterati battles ensued. As I poignantly watched on from the trenches in an almost Siegfried Sassoon moment, it was quickly becoming evident that there was now an even more ambiguous understanding of what distinguishes a Converged Infrastructure from a Reference Architecture, what it’s relation was with the Private Cloud and more importantly whether you, the end user should even care.

There’s a huge and justified commotion in the industry over Private Cloud because with lower costs, reduced complexity and greater data center agility, the advantages are compelling for any business looking to streamline and optimize its IT. In the pursuit of attaining such benefits and ensuring a successful Private Cloud deployment, one of the most critical components that need to be considered is that of the infrastructure and its underlying resource pools. With resource pools being the foundation of rapid elasticity and instantaneous provisioning, a Private Cloud’s success ultimately depends on the stability, reliability, scalability and performance of its infrastructure. With existent datacenters commonly accommodating legacy servers that require a refresh or new multiprocessor servers that are entrenched between an old and insufficient network infrastructure, one of the main challenges of a Private Cloud deployment is how to upgrade it without introducing risk. With this challenge and the industry’s pressing need for an economically viable answer, the solution was quickly conceived and baptized as “Converged Infrastructure”. Sadly like all great ideas and concepts, competition and marketing fluff quickly tainted the lucidity of such an obvious solution by introducing other terms such as “Reference Architectures” and “Single Stack Solutions”. Even more confusing was the launch of vendor products that used such terms synonymously, together or as separate distinct entities. So what exactly differentiates these terms and which is the best solution to meet the infrastructure challenge of a Private Cloud deployment?

Reference Architectures for all intents and purposes are essentially just whitepaper-based solutions that are derived from previously successful configurations. Using various vendor solutions and leveraging their mutual partnerships & alliances, Reference Architectures are typically integrated and validated platforms built from server, network and storage components with an overlying hypervisor. NetApp’s FlexPod and EMC’s VSPEX fall into this category and both invariably point to their flexibility as a major benefit as they enable end users to mix and match as long as there remains a resemblance to the reference. With open APIs to various management tools, Reference Architectures are cleverly marketed as a quick, easy to deploy and risk free infrastructure solution for Private Clouds. Indeed Reference Architectures are a great solution for a low budget SMB that is looking to introduce itself to the world of Cloud. As for a company that is either in or bordering on the Enterprise space and looking to seriously deploy their workloads onto a Private Cloud, it's important to remember that sometimes things that are great on paper can still end up being a horrible mess in reality – anyone who's watched Lynch's Dune can pay testament to that.

The difficulty with Reference Architectures is that fundamentally they still have no hardened solution configuration parameters and ironically what they term an advantage i.e. flexibility, is actually their main flaw as their piece by piece approach of using solutions from many different vendors merely masquerades the same old problems. Due to being whitepaper solutions, integration of specific components is only documented as a high level overview with component ‘a’ being detailed as compatible with component ‘c’. With regards to the specifics and how these components integrate in detail, these are simply not available or realized until the Reference Architecture is cobbled together by the end user, who ultimately assumes all of the risk and financial obligation to ensure it not only works correctly but is also performing at optimum levels. This haphazard trial and error approach is counterproductive to the accelerated, pre-integrated, pretested and optimized model that is required by the infrastructure of a Private Cloud.

Furthermore Reference Architectures are based on static deployments of sizing and architecture that typically has little relation to the end users actual environment or needs, posing a problem whenever reconfiguration or resizing is required. With end users being left to resize and consequently reconfigure & reintegrate their solution, they also have to constantly find a way to integrate their existing toolsets with the open APIs. This subsequently eliminates a lot of the benefits associated with “quick time to value” as many deployment projects get caught up in the quagmire of such triviality. Added to this, once you’ve begun resizing or customizing your architecture, you’ve actually made changes that are a deviation from the proposed standard and hence no longer recognizable to the original reference. This leads to the other complication with Reference Architectures, namely support issues.

With more than 90% of support calls being related to logical configuration issues, they are more often than not an occurrence of bugs or incompatibility issues. When the vendor has no responsibility or knowledge of that logical build based on the fact that they meet your “requirements” to be flexible, the situation doesn’t bode any better than when you have a traditional infrastructure deployment. Vendor finger pointing is one the most frustrating experiences you inevitably have to face when deploying an IT infrastructure in the traditional way. Being on a 4am conference call during a Priority 1 with the different organizational silos and the numerous vendors that make up the infrastructure is a painful experience I’ve personally had to face. It’s not a pretty sight when you’re impatiently waiting for a resolution while the networking company blames the firmware on the Storage and the Storage vendor blames the bugs with the servers while all the time you are sitting their watching your CEO’s face turn into a tomato while the vein in his neck throbs incessantly. When you log a support call for your reference architecture who is actually responsible? Is it the company you bought it from or one of the many manufacturers that you used to assemble your self-built masterpiece? Furthermore which of those manufacturers or vendors will take full responsibility when you’ve ended up building, implementing and customizing the architecture yourself? Even at the point of deployment, the Reference Architecture carries elements of ambiguity for the end user ranging from which software and firmware releases to run to who is responsible for the regression testing of the logical build. For instance what if you decide to proactively update to one of your components’ latest firmware releases and then find out it’s not compatible with another of your components? Who owns the risk? Also for example if you buy a “flexible” Reference Architecture from vendor X, how will vendor X be able to distinguish what it is you’ve actually deployed and how it’s configured without having to spend an aeon on the phone doing a fact finding session, all while your key applications are down? Reference Architectures are great for a test environment or simple cheap and cheerful solution but using them as a platform to take key applications to the Cloud reeks of more 4am conference calls and exploding tomatoes.

Single Stack Infrastructures on the other hand while also sometimes marketed as a Converged Infrastructure or a “flexible” Reference Architecture (or sometimes both!) are another completely distinct offering in the market. These solutions are typically marketed as “All-in-one” solutions, and come in a various number of guises. Products such as Oracle’s Exadata and Exalogic, Dell’s vStart, HP’s CloudSystem Matrix and IBM’s PureSystems are all examples of the Single Stack solution where the vendors have tightly defined software stacks above the virtualization layer. Such solutions will also combine a bundled infrastructure and service offerings making them potential “Clouds in a Box”. While on the outset these seem ideal and quick to deploy and manage, there are actually a number of challenges with the Single Stack solution. The first challenge is that the Single Stack will always provide you their own inherent components regardless of whether they are inferior to other products in the market. So for example, instead of having network switches from the well established Cisco or Brocade, if you opt with the HP solution you’re looking at HP’s ProCurve, 3Com, H3C and TippingPoint. Worse still is if you go with the Oracle stack you’re condemned to have OracleVM as opposed to the market leading and technically superior VMware. Another challenge is that you’re also tied down to that one vendor and are now a victim of vendor lock-in. Instead of just having infrastructure that will fit your existing software toolset and service management, you will inevitably have to rip and replace these with the Single Stack’s product set. Additionally these complex and non-integrated software and hardware stacks require significant time to deploy and integrate, reducing a considerable amount of the value that comes from an accelerated deployment.

A true converged infrastructure is one that is not only pretested and preconfigured but also and more importantly pre-integrated; in other words it ships out as a single SKU and product to the customer. While it may use different components from different vendors, they are still components that are from market leaders and are well established in the Enterprise space. Furthermore while it may not have the “flexibility” of a Reference Architecture, it’s the rigidity and adherence to predefined standards that make the Converged Infrastructure the ideal fit for serious contenders who are looking for a robust, scalable, simply supported and accelerated Private Cloud infrastructure. The only solution that is on the market that fits that category is VCE's Vblock. By being built, tested, pre-integrated and configured before being sent to the end user as a single product, the Converged Infrastructure for the Amsterdam datacenter will be exactly the same as the deployment in Bangalore, Shanghai, Dubai, New York and London. In this instance the shipped Converged Infrastructure merely requires the end user to plug in and supply network connectivity.

With such a model, support issues are quickly resolved and vendor finger-pointing is eliminated. For example the support call is with one vendor (the Converged Infrastructure manufacturer) and they alone are the owner of the ticket because the Converged Infrastructure is their product. Moreover once a product model of a converged infrastructure has been shipped out, problems that may potentially be faced by a customer in Madrid can easily be replicated and tested on a like for like lab with the same product in London, rapidly resolving performance issues or trouble tickets.

Deploying a preconfigured, pretested and pre-integrated standardized model can also quickly eliminate issues with firmware updates and patching. With traditional deployments, keeping patches and firmwares up to date with multiple vendors, components and devices can be an operational role by itself. You would first have to assess the criticality of each patch and relevance to each platform as well as validate firmware compatibility with other components. Additionally you’d also need to validate the patches by creating ‘mirrored’ Production Test Labs and then also have to figure out what your rollback mechanism is if there are any issues. By having a pre-integrated Converged Infrastructure all of this laborious and tedious complication is removed. All patches and firmwares can be pretested and validated on standardized platforms in labs that are exactly the same as the standardized platforms that reside in your datacenter. Instead of a multitude of updates from a multitude of vendors each year, a converged infrastructure offers the opportunity to have a single matrix that upgrades the infrastructure as a whole and risk free.

The other distinctive feature of a Converged Infrastructure is its accelerated deployment. By being shipped to the customer as a ready assembled, logically configured product and solution, typical deployments can range from only 30-45 days i.e. from procurement to production. In contrast other solutions such as Reference Architectures could take twice as long if not longer as the staging, racking and logical build is still required once delivered to the customer. It’s this speed of deployment which makes the Converged Infrastructure the ideal solution for Private Cloud deployments and an immediate reduction in your total cost of ownership, especially when the business or application owners demands an instant platform for their new projects.

The other benefit of having a company that continuously builds standardized and consistent infrastructures that are configured and deployed for key applications such as Oracle, SAP or Exchange is that you end up with an infrastructure that not only consolidates your footprint and accelerates your time to deployment but also optimizes and in most cases improves the performance of your key apps. I’ve recently seen a customer gain a 300% performance improvement with their Oracle databases once they decided to migrate them off their Enterprise Storage Arrays, SPAARC servers and SAN switches in favour of a Converged Infrastructure, i.e. the Vblock. Of course there were a number of questions, head scratching and pontifications as to what was seemingly inexplicable; “how could you provide such performance when we’ve spent months optimizing our infrastructure?” The answer is straightforward in that regardless of how good an engineering team you have, it is rare that they are solely focused on building a standardized infrastructure on a daily basis that is customized for a key application and is factoring all of the components comprehensively.

To elaborate, typically customers will have an in house engineering department where they’ll have a Storage team, a Server team, a Network team, an Apps team, a SAN team etc. All of these silos then need to share their expertise and somehow correlate them together prior to building the infrastructure. Compare this to VCE and the Converged Infrastructure approach, where instead there are dedicated engineering teams for each step of the building process whose expertise is centred and focused upon a single enabling platform, i.e. the Vblock. Firstly there’s the engineering team that does the physical build (including thermals, power efficiency, cooling, cabling, equipment layout for upgrade paths etc.). This is then passed on to another dedicated engineering team that takes that infrastructure and certifies the software releases as well as test the logical build configurations all the way through to the hypervisor. There’s then another engineering organization that’s sole purpose is to test applications that are commonly deployed on these Vblock infrastructures such as Oracle, SAP, Exchange, VDI etc. This enables the customer that orders for example an “Oracle Vblock” to have an infrastructure that was specifically adapted both logically and physically to not only meet the needs of their Oracle workloads but also optimize its performance. This is just a glimpse of the pre-sales aspect; post sales you have a dedicated team responsible for the product roadmap of the entire infrastructure ensuring that software or component updates are checked and advised to customers once they are deemed suitable for a production environment. The list of dedicated teams goes on but the common denominator is that they are all part of a seamless process that aims at delivering and supporting an infrastructure designed and purpose built for mission critical application optimization.

So whether you’re feeling Pure, Flexy or Spexy the key thing is to distinguish between Reference Architectures, Single Stack Solutions and the Vblock i.e. a Converged Infrastructure and align the right solution to the right business challenge. For fun and adventure I'd always purchase a kit car over a factory built car. I'd have great fun building it from all the components available to me and have it based on my Reference handbook. I could even customize my kit car with a 20 inch exhaust pipe, Dr. Dre hydraulics and fluffy dice because it's flexible just like a Reference Architecture. Alternatively because I love Audi so much I could buy an Audi car that has all of its components made by Audi. So that means ripping out the Alpine CD player for an Audi one, the BOSE speakers for Audi ones and even removing the Michelin tyres for some new Audi ones, regardless of whether they're any good or if they’re just OEM’d from a budget manufacturer - just like a Single Stack Solution. Ultimately if I'm serious about performance and reliability I'll just buy a manufactured Audi S8 that's pre-integrated and deployed from the factory with the best of breed components. Sure I can choose the colour, I can decide on the interior etc. but it's still built to a standard that's designed and engineered to perform. Much like a Converged Infrastructure, while I may choose to have a certain amount of CPU for my Server blades and a certain amount of IOPS and capacity for Storage, I still have a standardized model that's designed and engineered to perform and scale at optimum levels. For a Private or Hybrid Cloud infrastructure that successfully hosts and optimizes critical applications as well as de-risk their virtualization, the solution can only mean one thing - it's Converged.

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communities-emailer@vmware.com — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 13:57:03 GMT

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Офтопег

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 01:08:50 GMT

А ты сдал экзамен на VCP5?!

Scaling out AutoDeploy using a reverse caching proxy

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 08:53:39 GMT

VMware AutoDeploy is a great way to manage a stateless ESXi environment. For more information on Autodeploy read the VMware docs located here.

Whilst Autodeploy is a great idea as the number of hosts in your infrastructure increase your AutoDeploy server may become a bottleneck that prevents your hosts from powering on in a reasonable timeframe. As the VMware docs state:

“Simultaneously booting large numbers of hosts places a significant load on the Auto Deploy server. Because Auto Deploy is a web server at its core, you can use existing web server scaling technologies to help distribute the load. For example, one or more caching reverse proxies can be used with Auto Deploy to serve up the static files that make up the majority of an ESXi boot image. Configure the reverse proxy to cache static content and pass requests through to the Auto Deploy server.”

“After a massive power outage, VMware recommends that you bring up the hosts on a per-cluster basis. If you bring up multiple clusters simultaneously, the Auto Deploy server might experience CPU bottlenecks. All hosts come up after a potential delay. The bottleneck is less severe if you set up the reverse proxy.”

As I couldn't find any docs detailing how this could be achived I thought I would write something that may help others who need to scale out.

The basic permise is this:

Configure multiple tftpboot servers with custom tramp files pointing to different reverse caching proxies and then balance the requests to these hosts.

To do this I built multiple CentOS 6 hosts and configured each as tftp-server and Squid server and then configured round robin DNS to balance requests between these hosts.

TFTP-server

Install and configure a tftp server.

yum install tftp-server

#enable the tftp server

vi /etc/xinetd.d/tftp

# Edit the line disable = yes to

disable = no

#Restart xinetd

service xinetd restart

Copy the files from your current tftp server files to your tfp root usually /var/lib/tftpboot

undionly.kpxe.vmw-hardwired

tramp

Edit the tramp files as follows:

#!gpxe
set filename http://<proxy URL>:80/vmw/rbd/tramp

chain http://<proxy URL>:80/vmw/rbd/tramp

Squid

Install squid and then configure it as a reverse caching proxy as follows:

yum install squid

chkconfig squid on

Edit /etc/squid/squid.conf replacing the red text with the correct values for your infrastructure and only add the green section if you are using self-signed certs.

#define ACLs

acl manager proto cache_object

acl localhost src 127.0.0.1/32 ::1

acl to_localhost dst 127.0.0.0/8 0.0.0.0/32 ::1

acl vSphere_sites dstdomain <proxy URL>

acl localnet src <ESX management network sued to PXE boot e.g. 10.0.0.0/24>

acl Safe_ports port 80

acl CONNECT method CONNECT

#Configure access to web server

http_access allow manager localhost

http_access deny manager

http_access deny !Safe_ports

http_access allow localnet

http_access allow localhost

http_access allow vSphere_sites

http_access deny all

#Configure forwarding and caching to Autodeploy server

http_port 80 accel defaultsite=<proxy URL>

cache_peer <Autodeploy URL> parent 6501 0 no-query originserver ssl sslflags=DONT_VERIFY_PEER name=MyAccel

#Define cache access

cache_peer_access myAccel allow vSphere_sites

cache_peer_access myAccel deny all

coredump_dir /var/spool/squid

DHCP

Finally you need to update your DHCP config to serve multiple tftp servers with option 66. I have read some articles suggesting that this can be done in some DHCP servers however this is against RFC2132 and will most likely not work.

I decided to use round robin DNS instead and so configured option 66 with a host name that has an A record in DNS for each tftp server. This then balances requests between the servers. This can be done by adding the following:

next-server <autodeploy roundrobin DNS address>;

It is worth mentioning that if you are serious about resilience you would be better using an intelligent load balancer that can handle requests to the tftp servers.

Finally test the setup. Boot a number of hosts and monitor the access log for Squid on your proxies. You will start to see that elements of the image are loaded directly from squids cache removing load from the Autodeploy host.

861b5a21de2ecf075f - NONE/- text/html

1334833786.434 334 172.21.1.103 TCP_MEM_HIT/200 367334 GET http://<proxy IP>/vmw/cache/52/5d959364a6cd2e4609e471bad4f246/scsi-lpf.07f8f2635938dc247dd71cf757947ad6 - NONE/- text/html

1334833786.486 10 172.21.1.103 TCP_MEM_HIT/200 30402 GET http://<proxy IP>/vmw/cache/a7/67d0a90aec4fe0345daed522ef47db/scsi-meg.6717a7a3865d8a3775691dcc5b434a03 - NONE/- text/html

Thats it! You now have an AutoDeploy infrastructure capable of booting many hosts quickly without overloading the AutoDeploy service.

vExpert 2012

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 00:20:57 GMT

Momento di autocelebrazione!

Anche se non ho ricevuto una mail ufficiale sembra che sia stato nominato vExpert per l'anno 2012. La prima persona a darmi la notizia è stato Andrea Mauro, VCDX con-fondatore e membro del board del VMUG IT, oltre che veterano vExpert.

La notizia è apparsa sul blog di VMware il 15 Aprile, anche se potrò crederci al 100% solo dopo aver ricevuto la mail da VMware; sinceramente spero proprio di non dover rettificare questo articolo.

Detto questo sono 9 gli italiani nella lista, tutte persone che ho la fortuna di conoscere e per le quali posso confermare la passione e la dedizione per quello che fanno oltre allo spessore tecnico, persone alle quali estendo le mie congratulazioni.

Andrea Mauro – vExpert 2010, 2011, 2012 – @Andrea_Mauro
Luca Dell’Oca – vExpert 2011, 2012 – @dellock6
Giuseppe Guglielmetti – vExpert 2011, 2012 – @gguglie
Fabio Rapposelli – vExpert 2011, 2012 – @fabiorapposelli
Piergiorgio Spagnolatti – vExpert 2011, 2012 – @drakpz
Massimo Re Ferrè – vExpert 2011, 2012 – @mreferre
Massimiliano Moschini – vExpert 2012 – @maxmoschini
Enrico Signoretti – vExpert 2012 – @esignoretti
Samuele Cerutti – vExpert 2012 – @samuelecerutti

Bene, momento di autocelebrazione terminato e soprattutto iniezione di motivazione per mantenere questo prestigioso titolo anche per il prossimo anno.

View Client (Windows版）のカスタマイズについて

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 19:17:12 GMT

最近数件お問い合わせいただいたので、いい機会だからまとめますね。

”カスタマイズについて”って書くとかなりカッコよく聞こえますが、内容としては引数によって起動オプションが設定できますということです。

現在の最新バージョン（View5）ベースで書きますが、基本的に4.6でもほぼ同じです。

参照するマニュアルはViewの管理者ガイドの19章以降です。

1.デスクトッププールを決め打ちで実行する

View Clientを実行するとき、デフォルトでは下の図のようなプール選択画面が表示されます。

これをスルーしたいという場合。

-desktopNameオプションを使用します。例えば、この選択画面をスキップして"My Desktop-Win7"に接続したい場合

wswc.exe　-desktopName "My Desktop-Win7"

と実行します。

２.コネクションサーバを決め打ちで実行する

View Clientを実行するとき、デフォルトでは下の図のようなコネクションサーバ選択画面が表示されます。

これは、インストール時にもし決め打ちでコネクションサーバのアドレスを入力していれば特に設定する必要がないのですが、複数のコネクションサーバに対してそれぞれショートカットを作っておきたいときは、-serverURLオプションを使用します。

例えば、コネクションサーバのURLが”view.test.local"の場合、

wswc.exe　-serverURL "view.test.local"

と実行します。

３．複数のオプションを組み合わせる

複数のオプションの組み合わせもOKです。

先程の２つのオプションを組み合わせて、

wswc.exe　-serverURL "view.test.local" -desktopName "My Desktop-Win7"

というのも可能です。この場合コネクションサーバの選択画面（自動実行）とデスクトッププールの選択画面（スルー）されるという動きができます。

利用可能なオプションはViewの管理者ガイドの19章以降に掲載されていますので、組み合わせてより便利なクライアントとして使ってみてはいかがでしょうか？

Booting Player from winPE disk

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 14:08:27 GMT

I am studying for the MS 70-680 and am trying to image the(now generalized) virtual machine Windows 7 installation. How can I get the machine to boot to the WinPE disk I have created so I can use imagex for imaging? It only boots directly to the OS--I'm sure there must be a F-key to quickly press...or...perhaps this is only possible in Workstation and I should upgrade? Thanks!

vFredag 20/04-2012 VMware vSphere Storage Appliance 1.5

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 11:10:01 GMT

Ønsker at udnytte de muligheder der ligger i shared storage, selv om du ikke har shared storage?

Så se med på fredag når vi kigger på vSphere Storage Applicance, der kan hjælpe dig med at lave lokalt storage om til shared storage.

Tilmeld dig her

Easy Snapshot Tool for VMware

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 06:33:08 GMT

Having the ability to take a snapshot of a virtual machine was probably one of the features that really impressed me when I first used VMware. How cool is it to be able to take a snapshot of a virtual machine very quickly, make whatever changes you want and still be able to easily revert back to the snapshot. That is a great feature when you have do patching or testing a new application on a virtual machine.

However, as the number of virtual machines grows, it becomes harder to manage the snapshots with the vCenter console for the following reasons:

Can only create ONE snapshot at a time
Can only delete snapshots on ONE virtual machine at a time
No centralised view of the existing snapshots
Lack of information such as Creation Date, Creator Name and Snapshot Age in a central location

The Easy Snapshot Tool is a GUI based tool which helps to remove the above limitations. Below is a screenshot of the tool:

To create the GUI, you just need Powershell and a text editor. That’s about it really. For the text editor, I used the Windows Powershell ISE (Integrated Scripting Environment) which is available when you install Windows Powershell 2.0.

How to run the script from a shortcut

Firstly, save the attached EasySnapshot.ps1 file to your computer in a folder called C:\Scripts.

Next create a shortcut and use the line below as the Target:

%SystemRoot%\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe -File "C:\Scripts\EasySnapshot.ps1"

Make sure you are running Powershell v2.0.

Put the shortcut on your desktop. Double-click on it…et voila!

Using the Easy Snapshot Tool

The first thing that you need to do is log on to a vCenter Server. Select one from the vCenter Server drop-down box. To populate the drop-down box, you need to modify the line below with your vCenter server names.

$VCNames = @('vcserver01',vcserver02','vcserver03')

Click on the Login button to connect to the vCenter Server.

Once connected, you have two options:

List/Delete snapshots
Create snapshots

To list the snapshots, click on the List Snapshots button. In order for the information to be displayed correctly, you’ll need to create the snapshots using the Easy Snapshot Tool instead of the vCenter console. Therefore, I’ll explain the procedure for creating snapshots first before talking more later on about listing and deleting the snapshots.

Create Snapshots

To create snapshots, click on the Create Snapshots button. The Snapshot Creation Form will appear with a list of virtual machines as shown below:

You can scroll down the list of virtual machines on the left and select the ones that you want to snapshot. Alternatively, you can use the Find function to filter down the list. Select the virtual machines that you want to snapshot from the shorter list.

Use * for wildcards, e.g. dmztest* or *apps*.

Once you have selected the virtual machines, you have to input the following information:

Snapshot Name – Select one from the drop-down box (Patching, Hardening, Application Installation, Testing, Other). Alternatively, you can type a name manually in the box.
Created By will automatically be picked up by the script.
Retention Date – Between 1 and 14 days. This value will be used to calculate the Deletion Date of the snapshots which will be displayed when you list the snapshots. This is why it is important that you use the Easy Snapshot Tool to create snapshots.
Change Number – Put the change request number or simply put BAU. It there is a change request number, it will be easier to obtain more details on the reasons why the snapshots were taken.

Once all the required details are entered, click on the Take Snapshot button. You will be prompted to check the vCenter console to view the progress of the task. You will also be asked whether you want to create more snapshots. Click Yes to create more snapshots and No to close the Snapshot Creation Form.

It may be necessary for you to change the process of taking snapshot of a virtual machine within your team by enforcing the creation of snapshots though the Easy Snapshot Tool. This will ensure that the right information is displayed when listing the snapshots.

List Snapshots

Firstly confirm that you are connected to a vCenter server. Then simply click on the List Snapshots button. The snapshot information will be displayed as below:

Below is a description of each of the columns:

VM Name – Name of the virtual machine which has a snapshot

Snapshot Name – Name given to the snapshot, e.g. Patching, Hardening, etc.

Created On – Creation date of the snapshot

Created By – User ID of the creator (This is automatically populated by the script)

Change No – This is useful when the snapshot was taken as part of a change request

Deletion Date – The deletion date is calculated based on the retention period specified on the Snapshot Creation Form. This is merely to flag when to delete the snapshot. The snapshots will NOT be deleted automatically.

Days Old – Age of the snapshot

You can sort each column by clicking on the column header. It will be sorted in ascending order only. Furthermore, when the snapshots are displayed, the ones that are older than 14 days will be highlighted in RED. This is to flag them for deletion. I personally think that snapshots should not be kept for longer than 14 days. Use an imaging solution like Acronis instead.

The Refresh button queries the vCenter Server again and reloads the list of snapshots. The Reset button will disconnect you from the current vCenter server to allow you to connect to another one.

Delete Snapshots

One of the limitations with the vCenter console is the inability to delete snapshots on more than ONE virtual machine at one time. That is, you cannot select multiple virtual machines and delete their snapshots. With the Easy Snapshot Tool, you CAN!

Simply list the snapshots as described in the previous section. Select the snapshots that you want to delete by checking the boxes and press the Delete button. Check the vCenter console Recent Tasks list to check the progress.

VKernel TV - No. 28 - Demystifying CPU Ready (%RDY) as a Performance Metric

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 21:02:22 GMT

In this podcast Quest Software Systems Consultant, Makis Koiliakoudis, speaks with VKernel Senior Systems Engineer, Jonathan Klick, to demystify CPU Ready (%RDY) as a performance metric. Listen or download at http://bit.ly/HQB1Zf.

vcenter services ststus

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 08:08:50 GMT

I am not abal to creat performance graph from past moth and past yeair , i check vcenter services status massage is below

Performance ststistics rollup from past week to past month is not occurring in the database
Performance ststistics rollup from past mont to past year is not occurring in the database

plz help me

vcenter services worning problem Posted

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 07:39:15 GMT

there are three worning in my vcenter server services status, 1Vcenter server, 2vcenter batabase, 3vcenter management webservices,

how to clear this worning........

thanks

vcenter services worning problem

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 07:38:15 GMT

there are three worning in my vcenter server services status, 1Vcenter server, 2vcenter batabase, 3vcenter management webservices,

how to clear this worning........

thanks

sql server req for creating the performanc graph ?

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 04:53:46 GMT

Roll of sql server for creating the performance graph of all vms and host for last 2 month graph ?

sql server req for creating the performanc graph ?

communities-emailer@vmware.com — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 04:52:44 GMT

Roll of sql server for creating the performance graph of all vms and host for last 2 month graph ?

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