What is VMware Platform Service Controller (PSC)? — via ESX Virtualization
Several folks asked me recently What is VMware Platform Service Controller. I’ve published few guides on VMware vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA), the migration of vCenter to VCSA or in-place migration of Windows based vCenter but I think that I have not published enough information about VMware Platform Service Controller (PSC). Hence this post.
Certification Insights: Multiple Accounts — via VMware Education & Certification Blog
Having multiple accounts within the VMware myLearn system could result in incomplete records of your exam, training, and certification history. For example, if you attended a training course on one account, but took your VCP exams on a different account, you may not receive proper credit for meeting certification requirements.
vROps is Easy – Creating Dashboards
In this video, VMware Technical Account Manager, Matt Bradford, explains how easy it is to create your own dashboards. Check out Matt’s blog post for additional details: http://www.vmspot.com/paradise-by-the-vrops-dashboard-light/
Big Data on All-Flash vSAN? Of Course! — via Virtual Blocks
Besides fueling some of the fastest growth and changes in the IT industry over the past few years, Big Data and software-defined storage (like vSAN) have another less obvious similarity. Users of both share a fundamental desire to minimize—or often eliminate—the dependency on costly and complex external storage. Hadoop and vSAN both rely on industry-standard servers as the underlying hardware platform.
vSAN Empowers CINgroup Business Growth — via Virtual Blocks
Meeting the demands of the digital transformation can seem overwhelming, but one company has recently figured out the secret to simple and natural data center modernization. Let’s take a look at how one industry-leading company managed to break out of the traditional infrastructure cycle and modernize their data center while reducing costs and saving resources!
Profiling Applications with VMware User Environment Manager, Part 1: Introduction to Application Profiler
Successful management of applications across physical, virtual, and cloud devices is becoming increasingly important. Whether your organization fits neatly in to one of those silos, or spans all three, the challenge is finding tools designed to work well for any one platform, and seamlessly across them all. VMware User Environment Manager is one of those tools. With a little savvy, you can provide a superior experience for your end users while simplifying profile management.
How to Establish a Session and Authenticate with the vSphere 6.5 RESTful API — via Wahl Network
I recently delivered a webinar that covered the basics of RESTful APIs which is available on demand here. It’s mostly focused on introducing folks to APIs – why they are important, what they do, and how to get started using them. It’s fairly demo heavy and marketing light, so I think you’ll enjoy it.
How to migrate existing applications to VMware NSX — via Network World
VMware’s NSX virtual network technology can help organizations achieve a greater level of network security, but how you approach deployment will vary depending on whether you are working with new applications (greenfield) or are moving applications from existing infrastructure to NSX (brownfield).
vSphere 6.5: Virtual Disk / VMDK Hot-extend beyond or equal to 2TB is NOW supported — via vLenzker
When vSphere 6.5 was announced I was quite impressed about the features. Gathering more and more hands-on experience so far I am more than happy with it.
OK, hyperconverged is the new black. But who’s winning at it? — via The Register
Well… not Microsoft, Cisco or HPE, according to a consultant
VMware Integrated OpenStack v3.x – Log Analysis
This video demonstrates how IT administrators can use VMware vRealize Log Insight to aggregate syslog messages from multiple OpenStack components and use them to analyze potential issues in the environment.
VMware Integrated OpenStack v3.x – Maintenance and Administration
This video demonstrates how IT administrators can perform routine OpenStack management operations, such as adding compute and storage capacity, from within the VMware vSphere Web Client.
VMware Integrated OpenStack v3.x – Importing Existing VMs
This video demonstrates how an IT administrator can import existing vSphere VMs into an OpenStack Cloud, creating new Nova instances allowing Day 2 Operations to be performed via the OpenStack APIs
VMware’s Partner Provided – End User Computing (EUC) TestDrive DEMO Environment! — via Welcome to The Virtually Connected!
For many of VMware’s partners, they don’t have a demo environment in which they can deploy VMware’s End User Computing solutions such as Horizon 7, App Volumes, User Environment Manager (UEM), etc. This is due to not having the spare server hardware or the funds to purchase hardware just for a demo environment. As a partner, they need to be able to demo the VMware EUC based solutions to their customers to show the value as it relates to the customer’s business needs.
Should you make the move to VDI? — via vdi.guru
The simplest approach to determine if you want to go to VDI is ifyou ensure VDI supports your company, and know your company will not complete supporting it. Basically, you have to decide if VDI might be the very best answer for the organization, and how it benefits of it.
New Fling released – IOInsight — via VMware VROOM! Blog
VMware IOInsight is a tool to help people understand a VM’s storage I/O behavior. By understanding their VM’s I/O characteristics, customers can make better decisions about storage capacity planning and performance tuning. IOInsight ships as a virtual appliance that can be deployed in any vSphere environment and includes an intuitive web-based UI that allows users to choose VMDKs to monitor and view results.
EUC Insights 2017 – EMEA Registration
The digital workspace is enabling business transformation by uniting end-users and IT to drive enhanced productivity, security and enablement. Join us at EUC Insights 2017 to discover more about the latest technology, trends and news from VMware around End-User Computing and driving the next generation digital workspace.
Prevent host failure with VMware DRS, HA and FT — via TechTarget
Distributed Resource Scheduler, High Availability and Fault Tolerance can all help prevent host failure — so what sets them apart from one another?
Four Unique Enterprise Customers Deploy vSAN — via VMware TAM Blog
At VMworld 2016, we had a great opportunity to showcase four customer use cases for VMware Virtual SAN™. The session “Four Unique Enterprise Customers Deployment of VMware Virtual SAN” was hosted by VMware SE Manager Peter Keilty (SDS East, Office of the CTO, Americas Field Storage and Availability). Peter was very familiar with all four use cases, as he was intimately involved in the design and implementation for all four customers. He was also a key contributor of presentation content.
NSX Revenue Planning calculator — via VMware vCAT Blog
The NSX revenue planning calculator is designed to show a service provider how to make additional revenue by up-selling component NSX derived services. Many service providers I speak to are asking VMware the age-old question, ‘How can I make money from your bundles?’ Equally we also hear that the bundles are expensive, my response to this is – are you realizing the value and selling the functionality of the bundles or just internally operationalizing it?
