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Italian VMUG – April 3rd, 2013 – Milan
This is one for our Italian readers. If you are a VMware user and reside in Italy, we are having a great Italian VMUG event in Milan on April 3rd, next month. I will be presenting on VMware’s Software...
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Which Guest OSes Are Supported In vSphere?
A common question that I see asked on the VMTN community forums is the ability to programmatically identify which guest OSes (Operating Systems) are supported in vSphere using the vSphere APIs. This...
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Which Guest OSes Are Supported In vCloud Director?
Similar to my previous blog post for vSphere, you can now programmatically retrieve the list of supported guest OSes for vCloud Director 5.1 if you are looking to build your own custom provisioning...
View ArticleNew Beta Program offering: VMware Hosted Beta
Many of you probably have participated in one of the many beta programs VMware has offered in the last couple of years. I personally have participated in various beta programs when I was a customer /...
View ArticlevSphere future: storage reservation survey
The resource management team is interested in your opinion about a feature in development; storage reservations. The current version of Storage I/O Control provides tools to prioritize and provide...
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Configure Virtual Machine Disk Shares & IOP Limits Using vCO Workflow
Last week I received a question from a customer asking about configuring shares for a Virtual Machine’s virtual disk (VMDK) as well as setting the IOP limits for a virtual disk. An old script that I...
View ArticlevSphere 5.1 Hardening Guide Release Candidate now available
I have posted the following in the vSphere Security blog. It is being cross-posted here to get maximum visibility and as an FYI vSphere 5.1 Hardening Guide Release Candidate now available I would like...
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New Whitepaper published–vCloud Disaster Infrastructure Resiliency Case Study
A new whitepaper has just been published on the VMware website, this paper was written by Aidan Dalgleish, Consulting Architect who’s personal blog can be viewed here and Alan Renouf, Sr Technical...
View ArticleVMware VXLAN Deployment Guide available for Download
Recently I posted the Network Virtualization Design Guide that provides details on the different components of VMware’s VXLAN based network virtualization solution. The guide also discusses the packet...
View ArticleVMware Upgrade & Update Operations Survey
If you have a few minutes to spare, can you please fill out this short survey for VMware Upgrade and Update Operations. We are interested in how you currently manage the lifecycle (upgrades &...
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The vCloud Suite Digest (March, 2013) with Pang Chen and Mike Laverick
With thanks to many sources including: Michael Haines, Jesse Schachter, Zach Shepherd, Vegard Sagbakken, Trevor Gerdes, Michael Haines Hello and welcome to the third vCloud Suite Digest, a compilation...
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How To Restart The Custom Attributes To Tags Migration Process
One of the coolest feature in my opinion is Tagging in the new vSphere Web Client. Unlike Custom Attributes which was limited to an ESXi host and Virtual Machine object, the new Tagging capability...
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vSphere 5.1 – Feature enhancements – Networking MIB support – Part 1
In this post, I want to discuss one of the important enhancements in vSphere 5.1. It is obviously related to networking and has to do with providing monitoring support to virtual switch parameters...
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vCenter Certificate Automation Tool – Now Available
With the release of vCenter 5.1 adding additional certificates into the environment to make communication between components more secure, the process of updating these certificates with customers’ own...
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vCloud Networking and Security 5.1 App Firewall – Part 1
VMware vCloud Networking and Security App Firewall is a hypervisor-based firewall that protects applications in the virtual datacenter. Using App Firewall, organizations gain visibility and control...
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Minimum vSphere Privileges To Query VIBs On An ESXi Host
This was a recent question that was asked internally about the minimum privileges required to query VIBs on an ESXi host. The request was for a custom script that was developed for compliance check and...
View ArticleVirtual Machine I/O – Fairness versus Performance
Many of you will have read various articles related to queue depths, especially in the area of LUN/device queue depths, and how these can be tuned to provide different performance for your I/O. However...
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vCloud Networking and Security 5.1 App Firewall – Part 2
In the previous blog, we looked at how to install vCloud Networking and Security App Firewall. In this blog, let’s take a look at how to configure firewall policies to protect applications in the...
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vSphere Data Protection and vCenter Server Folders
I came across a few discussions lately around using folders with vSphere Data Protection (VDP). If you have used VDP, I imagine you know that it is possible to select “container” objects such as a...
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VMware Mobile Knowledge Portal – App update
Version 2.0 of the popular VMware Mobile Knowledge Portal (VMKP) is now live! The VMKP is a free app which is designed to provide a simple way for VMware customers to view technical collateral around...
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