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Although the VMware Learning Platform (VLP) has been optimized for world class performance, sometimes users could experience slowness due to latency in their network. Students can use VLP’s built in Speedtest tool, and Tenant Administrators can enable Console connection monitoring to narrow down the issue. The speed test can be accessed from below location (use applicable tenant name): http://learningplatform.vmware.com/tenant_name/speed-test/ The speed test will assist in evaluating any potential performance issues you are experiencing which could be related to network bottlenecks. The test is run three consecutive times, connecting to a different server each time. Latency (delay) is tested first, followed by speed (bandwidth). Recommended Scores : Latency - A good latency score would be less than 300 ms; the lower the better. Speed - A good speed score would be greater than 1.5Mb/s; the higher the better. If you are experiencing any issues, please do the below in an effort to alleviate: Clear your browser cache and cookies. Pause / avoid using high bandwidth consuming applications like Video streaming, web conferencing, downloads, system updates, etc. If you are on a wireless network and there are potential issues due to range, try switching to a LAN (wired) network. Disconnect from any VPN network (if applicable).

VMware Learning Platform now has a drag and drop feature. The feature allows an end-user, someone taking Lab, to drag text from the lab’s instructional manual and drop it into a field in the lab console. To use the Drag/Drop feature: Select some text in the manual. The Grab icon appears. Drop the text into the appropriate lab console. Consider, the following example from HOL Lab: HOL-2085-01-EMT - VMware Learning Platform - Interactive Quick Demo on page no. 16, the manual instructs the end user to “LOG INTO USER INTERFACE”.  Using Drag/Drop you can simply drag your username (user@vlp.com) from the manual and drop it into the username field on the lab console and likewise, drag your password (VMware1!)and drop it into the password field. See the Drag and Drop feature in action :

HI, an error occured while taking snapshot "failed to lock failed" also from VSphere Client disk space VM settings is on 0 MB. when VM is running, I can't do any modification (extend or shrink ressource, clone, snapshot ...). Could you help me please? Thank you.

Within vCloud Director, am able to "insert CD/DVD from Catalog.." (mount an ISO), power on the virtual machine and install the respective operating system. Can this be done within the VLP user interface?  Thanks for reading, John

I'm completely new at ESXI vmware, so please bear with me. Since from what i read the goal is virtualize servers. I decided i'm gonna try to virtualize my 3 servers into 1 for efficiency purpose. These are my servers in a nutshell : 1. Diskless ccboot server (Winserver 2019), basically ISCI server to allow my 50 clients to PXE boot locally :    - CPU doesn't need much cpu, even 1 will do,    - Memory 64 gb for caching,    - Intel Dual 10G nic    - m.2 drive for image    - U.2 Drive for gamedisk    - 3 3'5 drives for secondary gamedisk    - 3 writebacks ssd disks 2. Emby server (Winserver 2019), i run a bunch of other programs as well,    - need at least 6 cores    - 32 gb of memory    - LSI SAS3008 to JBOD rack    - NIC for CCTV and connecting to switch 3. Mikrotik server,    - doesn't need much cpu or memory,    - at least 6 NICs After some research, this is what i'm gonna use : 1. Motherboard : Supermicro X11-SCA-F 2. CPU : Xeon 2178G / i9-9900 (depending on 32GB memory availabilty , whichever one is cheaper / available )    6 cores for Emby server VM, 1 core for diskless server VM and 1 core for mikrotik VM 3. Memory : ECC Samsung 32GB x4 / Non ECC Samsung 32GB x4, depends on CPU    32 gb for Emby server VM, 4 gb for mikrotik VM and the rest for diskless server VM 4. PCIE x8 : Intel Dual 10G NIC for Diskless server VM 5. PCIE x8 : LSI SAS3008 for Emby server VM 6. PCIE x4 : Intel Quad NIC for mikrotik VM 7. PCIE x1 : Intel Dual NIC for mikrotik VM 8. U.2 slot: U.2 drive for diskless server VM 9. M.2 slot: m.2 drive for diskless server VM 10.8 Sata : 1 sata for esxi(?) the rest for diskless server VM. So from hardware side, with physical machine assumption, everything should work, My questions  : 1. Is there any potential issues with ESXI virtualization with this sort of build? I'm especially concerned about assigning PCIE cards and drives... e.g U.2 drive for diskless vm, SAS card for emby server VM 2. Is there any known issue virtualizing a PXE server? 3. My pxe server has 4 different drive speed category,(m.2, U.2, ssd and 3'5 drive) it's build that way to organize important and less important content. Will this also work properly in virtualization as if in physical server?

Subscribe to VMware Cloud Services status updates for VMware Learning Platform to receive email notifications about incidents such as scheduled maintenance or outages. Procedure : Open https://status.vmware-services.io/ in a browser. Click "Subscribe to update" and enter your email address. Click Subscribe. From the subscription page, select VMware Learning Platform and save the preferences. Check your email inbox and confirm your subscription.

To run/host a virtual classroom (at different Geo locations) we need : Virtual machines (subscription of Private / Public Cloud) Lab manuals (a content management software) Hire Development team for : creating virtual Class, Adding students to Class, Keeping track of students entitlements (database) and maintenance. Hosting the services on a web server (Clustered environment for High Availability) Keeping records of Previous classes and progress status of students Security patches Report Generation tool Or Just use VMware Learning Platform

Hello, I'm new to VMware and I'm having problems while trying to mount a shared drive from inside a guest VM. It turns out I need VMware tools enabled but for some reason it is not enabled. I did the installation using 'VMware-Workstation-Full-15.1.0-13591040.x86_64.bundle' and all the documentation I see on the Internet talks about mounting a CDROM which I don't have. There is a way to troubleshoot this issue? So far logs (/var/log/vmware/vmware-usbarb-*.log) are clean and the installation didn't have any errors. I can provide more details if necessary. Thanks in advance.

We have added a new feature that shows the health of lab console connections. Enabling this feature will help customers to determine the console connection strength of the lab they are connected to.  VLP will be able to determine the ping latency between the end user’s device and the hosted VM in the cloud that they are connecting to. The information can also help administrators to troubleshoot any lag or connectivity issues a user might experience in real time. Tenant admins can enable this feature in two steps:  Step 1:  Enable console connection monitoring for VLP.               From the VLP Admin UI, select Tenant Management -> Tenant and click on your tenant name. Click Interface on the Update tenants page and check the Console Connection Monitoring option.             Step 2:   Enable console connection monitoring for the cloud organization.                  From the VLP Admin UI, select Cloud Management-> Clouds and click on the cloud where your labs are deployed. On the Edit Cloud Org tab, check Console Connection Monitoring.                After this feature is enabled, the students/user console displays the connection strength, from which you can monitor the console latency:                    The tenant administrators, can see the console benchmarks for active entitlements (once they are saved after a "leave") and transcripts. In the list pages there is a new column that looks like this:                   Each session has the average, high, and low latency values as well as the reason for "leaving" the lab. When clicked or initiated from the item's "..." (three vertical dots) menu, a timeline view is shown that looks like this:                    

A new publication, called What's New, has been posted to the VLP doc center at VMware Learning Platform What's New. What's New in VMware Learning Platform let's you know when new features or other significant product changes are introduced.  We'll be updating this doc with new information frequently.  Watch for announcements in the VLP discussion section.

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When multiple vDCs have shared storage so that a vDC can see a template in a catalog that belongs to another vDC, as they can both see the same disk, we call it a 'share' It means that both vDCs can deploy that template without having to make a shadow copy Conversely, when a vDC has access to a template in a catalog belonging to another vDC but they don't share the storage - i.e. they have completely different disks - then we make a 'shadow' copy of the template before we deploy it - and then the deployment uses the local copy instead of copying from the master across the network (which can take hours). shared means a vDC has access to the template and doesn't need a shadow, while shadow means a vDC does not have access to the template and needs a local copy (a shadow) before it can do anything.

We have added new API's to: 1. Create/Edit/Add/remove labs from catalogs. 2. vApp Admin - Listing Cloud Vapps and prepops. 3. Cloud Shadow API calls - List orgVdcs/vAppTemplates for the specified cloudOrg. The return body will include orgVdcs, vAppTemplates and lastUpdated properties

Currently these would need to be separate tenants. We do have some items in our development backlog that would allow you to have one parent tenant and then subtenants underneath that. One of the use cases here was a University with all of the different Colleges, etc. It is in our development scope.

The only limitations for your vApps are what vCD can support when the vApp is deployed. Right now we don’t change networks or anything on deployment so the vApp would have to be deployed straight from the catalog with the correct settings. Most of our tenants set their vApps up to be identical and do allow outbound Internet from the VMs.