VCDX #181 Marc Huppert

Month: January 2017

5 Weird & Wonderful Things We’ve Learned from…

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5 Weird & Wonderful Things We’ve Learned from CES 2017 – VMware News and Updates

5 Weird & Wonderful Things We’ve Learned from…

From the latest AirWatch Newsletter: Augmented reality (AR) is huge. “Voice is the next computer interface.” Android devices now include cars and bikes. Wearables aren’t just health trackers. VR comes in your shoe size. 1. Augmented reality (AR) is huge. Enterprise smart glasses vendors ODG and Vuzix showcased sleek, powerful new products aimed at consumers and light enterprise users. ASUS revealed…Read More

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VMware AirWatch 9.0 Adds New Admin Capabilities…

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VMware AirWatch 9.0 Adds New Admin Capabilities for macOS Management

VMware AirWatch 9.0 Adds New Admin Capabilities…

AirWatch 9.0, now generally available, includes new features and functionality for macOS. AirWatch already supported macOS Sierra on the day of availability, adding new restrictions and more features to support the Device Enrollment Program (DEP). And, a highly requested feature is also included in the release: pre-staged admin accounts for macOS laptops enrolled through the […]

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OpBot v2 – next generation user interface for…

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OpBot v2 – next generation user interface for VMware vSphere and PowerCLI Core

OpBot v2 – next generation user interface for…

More than a month ago we released the first version of OpBot, the virtual assistant for VMware vSphere. That incredibly helpful ChatOps Bot allows

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vSphere 6.0: Understanding Virtual Machine…

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vSphere 6.0: Understanding Virtual Machine Files (Part-8) – My Virtual Journey

vSphere 6.0: Understanding Virtual Machine…

When a virtual machine is created, a set of files for that specific virtual machine are created. Virtual machine files are stored in either the virtual machines

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Configure NTP Client Using vSphere Web Client -…

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Configure NTP Client Using vSphere Web Client – My Virtual Journey

Configure NTP Client Using vSphere Web Client -…

NTP is a Network Time Protocol which is used to sync time of hosts with NTP server. NTP is also used to set correct time so that you cannot have issues with the

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How to Configure ESXi Dump Collector on vCenter…

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How to Configure ESXi Dump Collector on vCenter Server Appliance

How to Configure ESXi Dump Collector on vCenter…

While delivering one of my recent classes on Advance VMware vSphere, I came across a lab based question wherein one of the participant was really interested to see the live demo doing the configuration and see the working of ESXi dump collector service.

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Solving an “Invalid OVF manifest entry” error

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Solving an “Invalid OVF manifest entry” error

Solving an “Invalid OVF manifest entry” error

vSphere (as do some other hypervisors) make use of a handy format known as Open Virtualization Format, or OVF for short. It is an open standard that is used for packaging up virtual machines, namel…Read More

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VSAN Permanent Disk Failure Detection – Health…

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VSAN Permanent Disk Failure Detection – Health Status vs Hardware Status – VIRTUALIZATION IS LIFE!

VSAN Permanent Disk Failure Detection – Health…

A month or so ago I had one of our VSAN Management Clusters Health Status flag that there was a failed disk in one of the hosts disk groups. VSAN worked quickly and very efficiently to start an evacuation of the data on the impacted host by triggering a resync operation. Once the data was resynced I checked to see

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Top 10 things you must read about vSphere 6.5

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Top 10 things you must read about vSphere 6.5

Top 10 things you must read about vSphere 6.5

There have been so many documents, white papers, videos and blog posts about the vSphere 6.5 release that it’s hard to keep up with them all. Fortunately you don’t have to as I have over 300 links gathered in my vSphere 6.5 Link-O-Rama and it is still growing.

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TestDrive Accelerates Windows 10 and AirWatch…

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TestDrive Accelerates Windows 10 and AirWatch Solutions

TestDrive Accelerates Windows 10 and AirWatch…

Moving to Windows 10 is a struggle for customers even though they understand the urgency driven by the Windows 7 end of life coming next July. Some of these customers are in the planning stages while others are still researching what to do and developing a plan. Partners, especially those in trusted advisor roles, are in a pivotal position to clear roadblocks with TestDrive and facilitate Windows 10 migration processes.

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NSX and Micro-segmentation

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NSX and Micro-segmentation

NSX and Micro-segmentation

In this video I will go over the basic concept of micro segmentation within the datacenter. micro segmentation is a key feature of NSX and a common use case for customers as it allows distinct isolation between servers and their east / west traffic. This is not easily accomplished with traditional hardware firewalls, using NSX creating segmentation rules is simplified and manageable.

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VMware Telco NFV Solutions – Lessons Learned…

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VMware Telco NFV Solutions – Lessons Learned From IT for NFV – Light Reading

VMware Telco NFV Solutions – Lessons Learned…

Shekar Ayyar, EVP & Corporate Strategy/General Manager of Telco for VMware, discusses VMware’s Telco NFV solutions and the parallel lessons to be learned from IT virtualization and the journey towards network virtualization.

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VMware KB Digest – New KB articles published…

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VMware KB Digest – New KB articles published for week ending 01/03/17

VMware KB Digest – New KB articles published…

In our effort to provide our viewers with up to the minute information on VMware related news and topics, we’re posting the following list of new KB Entries for this week, direct from VMware Support. http://ift.tt/1hbS3R4 VMware Horizon Cannot reconnect to allocated View Desktop when using USB redirection (2148409) Date Published: 12/28/2016 VMware Horizon Air […]

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