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Presentations:
1- Stephane Robinson (Health Canada) – The Evolution of virtualization at Health Canada

2- Teradici – Desktop virtualization with PC-over-IP - PC-over-IP
technology allows enterprise PCs and workstations to be centrally
managed in a data center while providing high resolution, full frame
rate 3D graphics and HD media, with full USB peripheral
interoperability, locally over a LAN or remotely over a high-latency
WAN. PC-over-IP is an innovative display protocol technology that
enables the practical consolidation of all IT resources into a data
center, eliminates the need for desktop workstations, PCs and thin
clients, and delivers an uncompromised user experience to each desk,
anywhere, without incurring the security risks associated with
transmitting data across a network or having data reside in remote PCs.

3- Cisco – Networking Best Practices in a virtual environment (3.5 and vSphere 4)

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Posted by Gabriel Maciel

"The configuration described in this article is very generic, outlining how you can boot the ESX Server 3i version 3.5 Update 4 Installable image using PXE. The description provided outlines how you can boot from the network by PXE booting ESX Server 3i version 3.5 Update 4 Installable. This installation is completely stateless (it does not rely on the presence of a local disk). Therefore, the installation and post-install configuration are not persistent across reboot. If you want to automate the sever configuration at boot time, use the VMware Infrastructure Toolkit (VMware Infrastructure SDK). See the following page for links to VMware documentation related to SDKs: http://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/sdk_pubs.html."

More information here and here.

Posted by Gabriel Maciel

Overview

The official, high quality icons and diagrams from VMware. Make your VMware diagrams and presentation the best with these graphics. From the official branding team!

Intended Audience

VMware Certified Professionals (VCP) and VMware Architects (VCDX) to develop high quality diagrams using branded collateral.

Outline

The attached PowerPoint has the following graphics included

• 3D icons
• Flat icons
• Virtualized Server
• Build your own
• Traditional vs Virtual Architecture
• Consolidation
• VDC-OS
• VMware Infrastructure 3
• VMware Fault Tolerance
• VMware vNetwork Distributed Switch
• VMware vCenter Server
• VMware ESXi
• VMware Server
• VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager
• VMware vCenter Lab Manager
• VMware vCenter Lifecycle Manager
• VMware vCenter Stage Manager
• VMware vCenter AppSpeed
• ThinApp Elements
• VMware ThinApp
• VMware ACE
• VMware View
• VMware vCenter Converter
• VMware Studio
• VMware vCloud

You can download the artwork here, more information here.

Posted by Gabriel Maciel

"The Veeam Monitor Free Edition is an easy-to-use VMware monitoring solution designed to meet the day-to-day needs of VMware administrators who need real-time performance monitoring and alerting. Built from the ground up specifically for the virtual world, Veeam Monitor provides a bird’s-eye view of key performance metrics across your virtual ESXi infrastructure.

With Veeam Monitor, you can view real-time resource usage data for any virtual infrastructure object or collection of objects, as well as known infrastructure events, all on a single screen. This allows you to finally see your virtual infrastructure as a unified entity, not just a collection of isolated hosts and guests."

You can download your free copy here.

Posted by Gabriel Maciel

If you liked FastSCP, you will love this:

December 22 Veeam will introduce a new tool for VMware Administrators

Register here to get your free holiday gift from Veeam!

Posted by Gabriel Maciel

This issue occurs because the machine account password changes automatically every 30 days when a computer is joined to a Windows domain. When the computer's snapshot is reverted to a point in the past, the password in the virtual machine does not match the version on the domain. When the passwords do not match the domain cannot authenticate the machine's system account credentials nor any user logins from that machine.

To ensure domain logins are successful:

1. Remove the virtual machine from the Windows domain.

2. Restart the virtual machine.

3. Join the virtual machine back to the Windows domain.

4. Restart the virtual machine.

Note: To prevent this issue from happening, disable machine account password updates. For more information, see How to disable automatic machine account password changes.

You can find the full KB article here.

Posted by Gabriel Maciel

Here you have the 3 must read articles from VMwarewolf about VMware Infrastructure troubleshooting:

1. Common Network issues in VMware Infrastructure


2. Common System Management issues in VMware Infrastructure


3. Common Licensing issues in VMware Infrastructure

"Resolution Paths are collections of modular steps that can be used to solve tech support issues.  Being modular, they can be re-used in other paths. A good example is using the ping command to test network connectivity.  This step is used in all kinds of troubleshooting procedures. Put a number of these steps together, and you have a method...Down the left side in yellow are common problems we get calls on. To the right of each problem are the steps you would take to resolve the problem. I have included hyperlinks to help get you to the answers fast."

"VMware Update Manager (VUM) is a component of VMware Infrastructure that automates patches and upgrades of ESX hosts as well as Windows and Linux virtual machines. A new white paper, VMware Update Manager Performance and Best Practices, is now available.

In this paper we discuss VUM 1.0 host deployment, latency, resource consumption, guest OS tuning, high-latency networks, and the impact of on-access virus scanning. We also provide performance tips to help customers tune the system for better performance."

Posted by Gabriel Maciel