Month: July 2016

How to audit vSphere Standalone VMRC or HTML5 VMRC connections–virtuallyghetto

How to audit vSphere Standalone VMRC or HTML5…

An interesting question that came in last week from one of our TAMs was how to identify and audit Virtual Machine Remote Console (VMRC) logins from vSphere? The TAM was specifically interested in being able to correlate that a particular user had logged into the VMRC of a VM during a specific period of time. Luckily, this is easily retrievable through vCenter Servers’s Event sub-system that stores information about everything that happens in your vSphere environment. The Events can be accessed using either the vSphere Web Client shown below or programmatically using the vSphere API which the UI is built on top of.

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Microsoft Convenience Update and VMware VMXNet3 Incompatibilities KB Article Updated

Microsoft Convenience Update and VMware VMXNet3…

Earlier I shared the incompatibilities with VMXNet3 – bit.ly/1sQhHVi Looks like Microsoft KB was updated yesterday with a work around for the same

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How to find Dell PERC FD332 or H330 Firmware Versions in ESXi 6

How to find Dell PERC FD332 or H330 Firmware…

Today’s adventure seemed an easy task but ended up taking much too long to find the right answer. The task… ‘Is there a way to find the firmware version of a Dell Perc FD332 or H330 controller using command line in ESXi 6?’ The answer: ‘zcat /var/log/boot.gz |grep -i firm’ Things that didn’t work […]

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Bring Windows Media Redirection to VMware Horizon Client for Linux

Bring Windows Media Redirection to VMware…

Multimedia redirection (MMR) technology helps improve performance by utilizing the client endpoint to process media—instead of the server—so CPU utilization on the server can be reduced. It also can reduce the bandwidth and thus provide a smooth playback experience. For a long time, MMR can only be deployed to VMware Horizon Client for Windows, as […] The post Bring Windows Media Redirection to VMware Horizon Client for Linux appeared first on VMware End-User Computing Blog .

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Quick Tip – How to quickly find the VM Display Name of your vCenter Server?

Quick Tip – How to quickly find the VM Display…

It is a pretty common practice for customers to use their vCenter Server to manage the underlying ESXi host which is also running the vCenter Server VM, sometimes referred to as a self managed vSphere Cluster. For organizations that have a strict naming convention which includes the VM display name as well as the OS hostname (FQDN), it is generally not too difficult to identify the actual VM that is running your vCenter Server.

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Life in the Fast Lane – Previewing the 2016 VMworld Party

Life in the Fast Lane – Previewing the 2016…

Work hard, party hard. The VMworld Party is as much a part of the VMworld experience as the breakout sessions, Solutions Exchange, Hands-on Labs, and keynotes! It’s a great chance for attendees to get together and decompress over some food, drinks and fun.

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Virtual Machine Security & VMware Monitoring: Dark Art or Actual Science? — opvizor

Virtual Machine Security & VMware Monitoring:…

Virtual machine security and VMware monitoring should be all science, right? But it isn’t. According to professionals at Kaspersky Lab, assuring the security and health of a virtual network is still very much a black art. One of the primary issues is that businesses and their IT departments most commonly try to use the same security measures and monitoring techniques they used for their old, physical machines and networks on their new, virtualized ones.

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Western Digital Boosts VMware vSphere Performance — TechWeekEurope

Western Digital Boosts VMware vSphere Performance

WD develops FlashSoft software and virtualisation system to speed up vSphere environments

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Restarting VMs after a Datacenter Down Event

Restarting VMs after a Datacenter Down Event

One of my customers recently had a catastrophic thermal event in one of their datacenters and so had to shut down all of their infrastructure at that site. After the cooling issue was resolved, we were asked to help them to get their infrastructure back online. Fortunately, we have included several small details as best practices in our vSphere designs, and one of those really paid off for us. We always create a VM to Host affinity rule that keeps one Domain Controller, the vCenter server, its PSC and its Database (if external) on a known host in the management cluster.

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Remove and Re-Create Management Network interface using ESXi Command line – The Virtualist

Remove and Re-Create Management Network…

This how-to article explains how to remove and re-create Management network VMkernel interface using ESXi CLI.

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We want to hear from you!

We want to hear from you!

We want to improve the way we communicate and share information about the VMware Certification program. Please use this poll to tell us what source works for you. The post We want to hear from you! appeared first on VMware Education and Certification Blog .

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My time @VMware (A Love Story) — vTimD

My time @VMware (A Love Story)

So, I’m sure I’ve made it very apparent over the past couple months that I made a transition in jobs. I left Dell Services and became a Sr. Pre-Sales SE in the NSBU @VMware. I knew since I started working with VMware products that I would eventually like to work at the “mothership”. I had always heard nothing but great things about the company. After my first couple months in, I can tell you insider information. It’s even better than anyone ever said.

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