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How To Import An OVA Into vCloud Director?
For those of you who have tried to import an OVA directly into vCloud Director have probably noticed that this is not supported and only an OVF file can be uploaded. However, it is possible to upload...
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Using App Firewall with VXLAN Networks
VMware vCloud Networking and Security App Firewall is a hypervisor-based firewall that protects applications in the virtual datacenter from network-based attacks. In this blog, let’s look at how to...
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VXLAN Series – Multicast usage in VXLAN – Part 3
I covered some basics on Multicast in the last blog entry here. Let’s now take a look how multicast is utilized in VXLAN deployments. During the configuration of VXLAN, it is required to allocate a...
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How Smart Is Your Hadoop?
EMC World kicked off today in Las Vegas, and much of this week’s buzz is focused squarely on big data. Specifically, VMware’s CEO Pat Gelsiger is hot on how to build big data solutions into the...
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VXLAN Series – Multiple logical networks mapped to one Multicast group...
In this post I am going to address a common question about the security and performance impact when multiple logical Layer 2 networks are mapped to one multicast group address. As mentioned in earlier...
View ArticleDownload DMZ Design and Deployment Guide
I am happy to announce the availability of the VMware vCloud Networking and Security – DMZ Design and Deployment Guide. This paper highlights how securing a virtual DMZ environment using vCloud...
View ArticleVMware Storage Futures Video – Courtesy of VMUG Italia
I mentioned last month that I would be presenting at the Italian VMUG event in Milan. Well, the VMUG guys recorded the session, so if you are interesting in seeing me talking about some of the cool...
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Virtualization Security for the IT Guy–Courtesy of the New England VTUG
Here in Technical Marketing at VMware, we are fortunate to be able to regularly speak to members of the virtualization community at various events. One of those events is the newly formed VTUG. VTUG...
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VXLAN Series – How VTEP Learns and Creates Forwarding Table – Part 5
In this post I am going to describe how VTEPs learn about the virtual machines connected to the logical Layer 2 networks. The learning process is quite similar to a transparent bridge function. As...
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Proving Performance: Hadoop On vSphere – A Bare Metal Comparison
When architects think about putting big data and Apache Hadoop on virtualized commodity servers they usually see virtualization as a performance deterrent. Virtualization software is just...
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Skating your way to the SDDC
This week I was reminded of that great Wayne Gretzky quote, “I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been”. How is that relative to the Software Defined Data Center (SDDC)? Well,...
View ArticlevCloud Networking and Security 5.1 App Firewall Best Practices
This blog provides best practices for deploying vCloud Networking and Security 5.1 App Firewall. Thanks to Shubha Bheemarao, Ray Budavari and Rob Randell for helping me in compiling this. Installation...
View ArticleHands-On Labs 2013, Part 1
The New Guy I am privileged to be a new addition to the Hands-on Labs team within Technical Marketing at VMware. I have been here just under 3 months, but I have been using our products for almost as...
View ArticleWebcast: VMware vSphere Data Protection
VMware vSphere Data Protection has been out for quite a few months now, but there are still many who haven’t heard of it or perhaps they have heard of it and would like to find out more. If you are in...
View ArticlevSphere Data Protection (VDP) 5.1.11 and VDP Advanced 5.1.21 Released
Updates for vSphere Data Protection and vSphere Data Protection Advanced were released today. These updates fix a number of issues that exist in previous versions. For a complete list of resolved...
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The vCloud Suite Digest (June, 2013) with Pang Chen and Mike Laverick
With contributions from our esteemed colleagues: Tomas Fojta, Michael Haines, Ray Budavari, Scott Harrison, Francois Misiak, Adrian Roberts, Raghvender Arni, Les Major, Jesse Schachter, Jagan Raghu...
View ArticleCentralized Single Sign On environments – the Pro’s and Con’s
I have been discussing and presenting vCenter server topics almost daily over the last few months and one area that hasn’t been covered to its potential is the use of vCenter Single Sign in a...
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Do you use VMware Auto Deploy? Is there a good reason you don’t use VMware Auto Deploy? Here at VMware we value our customers feedback and want to help make sure our product lines and features are in...
View ArticlePreview – Extreme Performance Series: Monster Virtual Machines
This year at VMworld (both San Francisco and Barcelona) performance will be front and center. I’ve been working internally to create a “mini-track” of technically advanced performance breakouts with...
View ArticlePreview – VMworld 2013 Extreme Performance Series: vCenter of the Universe
Previous entry: Preview – Extreme Performance Series: Monster Virtual Machines Next in our Extreme Performance Series mini-track, I’d like to highlight the following vCenter performance breakout....
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