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drug addiction rehab and its award-winning features.

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

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communities-emailer@vmware.com — Wed, 16 May 2012 02:22:56 GMT

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communities-emailer@vmware.com — Wed, 16 May 2012 00:41:31 GMT

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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

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.

http://www.virtualmachines.net

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:

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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.