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The Ultimate Guide to What’s New in VMware End-User Computing -VMware EUC Blog

The Ultimate Guide to What’s New in VMware…

In case you’re still shaking sand out of your shoes, welcome back to work. Here is what you missed in summer’s biggest end-user computing (EUC) news from VMware. What Changed in VMware Horizon and VMware Workspace ONE SysTrack Desktop Assessment Service: Free quantitative analysis to accelerate Windows 10 migrations VMware Horizon FLEX 1.9: Enhanced policies […] The post The Ultimate Guide to What’s New in VMware End-User Computing appeared first on VMware End-User Computing Blog .

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Learn to Troubleshoot and Configure Syslogs for NSX -VMware Education and Certification Blog

Learn to Troubleshoot and Configure Syslogs for…

We recently added eight new NSX videos to the VMware Learning Zone: The final chapter in our popular seven-part VMware NSX Architecture and Troubleshooting series All seven parts of a new series called VMware NSX Logs: Part #1: Overview of NSX Architecture and Logs Part #2: NSX-Specific Syslog Areas Part #3: Demo: NSX Manager Part […] The post Learn to Troubleshoot and Configure Syslogs for NSX appeared first on VMware Education and Certification Blog .

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vSphere Replication Traffic Isolation -Virtual Blocks

vSphere Replication Traffic Isolation

If you are using or looking at using vSphere Replication you may have concerns about managing and/or isolating your replication traffic. This post will walk through the available options and provide instructions for how to take advantage of them. Note that this configuration requires vSphere Replication version 6.0 or later. To understand how to The post vSphere Replication Traffic Isolation appeared first on Virtual Blocks.

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VMware Validated Design for SDDC 3.0 Released -VMGuru

VMware Validated Design for SDDC 3.0 Released

The VMware Validated Designs (VVD) is a set of documentation that is maintained by VMware to provide a holistic and standardised datacenter designs that span across compute, storage, networking and management platforms. It’s basically a blueprint on how to implement and operate a SDDC-based private cloud. Each VVD documentation set contains a Solution Overview , a Reference Architecture , a Design Guide and a set of Operational Guides and tools that includes best practices on how to plan,…Read More

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Windows Server 2016 Support

Windows Server 2016 Support

This week, Microsoft announced the general availability of Windows Server 2016. VMware has been testing technical preview releases and is preparing to support Windows Server 2016 on VMware vSphere. Once final validation is complete, VMware will publish support for Windows Server 2016. Please be sure to check the VMware Compatibility Guide for details. Additionally, VMware will The post Windows Server 2016 Support appeared first on VMware vSphere Blog .

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VCSA Migration Tool gets official release -vMustard.com

VCSA Migration Tool gets official release

The migration path from Windows vCenter Server to the vCenter Appliance has just got a whole lot more official, after the VCSA migration tool gets it’s official release. Formerly only available as a Fling, the newly GA’d Windows vCenter Server to vCenter Server Appliance Migration Toolprovides an officially supported upgrade and migration path… The post VCSA Migration Tool gets official release appeared first on vMustard.com.

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How to check the size of your Config + Stats, Events, Alarms & Tasks (SEAT) data in the VCDB? -virtuallyGhetto

How to check the size of your Config + Stats,…

I think many of you know that I am not a fan of anyone poking around in the vCenter Server Database (VCDB) and having to manually craft SQL queries to retrieve information about their vSphere environment. This is especially true when you can easily and painlessly retrieve all of this information by simply using the vSphere API. Having said that, there […]

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SCP (secure copy) to a vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) -opvizor

SCP (secure copy) to a vCenter Server Appliance…

I recently found a very helpful guideline from Mark Ukotic in his blog. For some this may be a rare situation but from time to time I find that I’m needing to copy files to and from a vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA). I had one of these situations recently Read more… The post SCP (secure copy) to a vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) appeared first on opvizor.

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Dude, take a lab! Test drive the latest VMware tech via Hands-on Labs at VMworld 2016 Europe. Register:

Dude, take a lab! VMware Hands-on Labs ready to…

The VMware Hands-On Labs demonstrate the real value of VMware solutions in real time. VMworld attendees gain special access to the latest VMware technologies without requiring the purchase of equipment, software or licenses.

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Resizing the Replicated VM Disk – Caution!!!!! -Virtualization the Future

Resizing the Replicated VM Disk – Caution!!!!!

On the recovery site, rename the folder in which the virtual machine is replicated to. This prevents the replicated data from removing w…Read More

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Reserve Your Seat Now for Education Breakout Sessions at VMworld EMEA -VMware Education and Certification Blog

Reserve Your Seat Now for Education Breakout…

VMworld 2016 Europe kicks off in less than one month! If you are registered to attend, the VMworld 2016 Europe Schedule Builder is your pass for getting a seat at the hottest sessions, labs, demos and discussions. It’s very easy to get started: Go to Content Catalog and browse for sessions of interest When you spot a […] The post Reserve Your Seat Now for Education Breakout Sessions at VMworld EMEA appeared first on VMware Education and Certification Blog .

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VMware Offers Free Windows 10 Assessment and Migration Tool at Microsoft Ignite -VMware Radius

VMware Offers Free Windows 10 Assessment and…

At Microsoft Igite, VMware announces VMware SysTrack Desktop Assessment Service for Windows 10, a free, cloud-hosted service by Lakeside Software.

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PowerCLI Core Coming to a Fling Near You! -VMware PowerCLI Blog

PowerCLI Core Coming to a Fling Near You!

One of my favorite announcements at VMworld happened to be about PowerCLI, of course! The big announcement was about its future availability on multiple platforms, including Linux and Mac OS X. This functionality has been one of the biggest requests the PowerCLI team has received over the years and it is extremely exciting that it’s […] The post PowerCLI Core Coming to a Fling Near You! appeared first on VMware PowerCLI Blog.

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Virtualization: Make an informed decision: Distributed vs Simple Architecture

Virtualization: Make an informed decision:…

During my discussions with multiple customers in last few months, it seemed we discussed only about one major point. It was to decide between installation type of Distributed vs Simple Architecture. More often than not I have seen customers choosing a deployment model not based on careful considerations but based on what the general belief is. This blog The post Virtualization: Make an informed decision: Distributed vs Simple Architecture appeared first on VMware Cloud Management .

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How to make a host win the HA Master Election -Yellow-Bricks.com

How to make a host win the HA Master Election

On the community forums someone asked if it was possible to influence the HA/FDM master election. (For those who don’t know, FDM is the engineering name for vSphere HA.) Let me state first that I wouldn’t recommend doing this, but there actually is a way to make it very likely a certain host becomes the HA […] ” How to make a host win the HA Master Election ” originally appeared on Yellow-Bricks.com . Follow me on twitter – @DuncanYB.

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“Quick Tip – VMware vSphere VM fail upon reboot” via mycloudrevolution.com

Quick Tip – VMware vSphere VM fail upon reboot

Wie auch sehr ausführlich in dem VMware KB “Windows 8 and Windows 2012 Server or later virtual machines fail upon reboot (2092807)” kann es bei Windows 2012

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VMware KB Digest – New KB articles published for week ending 09/24/16

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 7 Applications and RDS Hosts Are Not Visible After an Upgrade from Horizon 6.2.3 to Horizon 7.x […]]> 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 7 Applications and RDS Hosts Are Not Visible After an Upgrade from Horizon 6.2.3 to Horizon 7.x (2146862) Date Published: 9/22/2016 Setting the RDS Host…Read More

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Preparing for a vCenter Server Migration using the vSphere 6.0 Update 2m Migration Tool – Part 1

Preparing for a vCenter Server Migration using…

Recently VMware released vSphere 6.0 Update 2m, an officially supported Migration Tool. The Migration tool will automatically deploy a new vCenter Server Appliance 6.0 Update 2 and migrate configuration, inventory, and alarm data by default from a Windows vCenter Server 5.5. If your vSphere environment is leveraging a virtual distributed switch (VDS), it is The post Preparing for a vCenter Server Migration using the vSphere 6.0 Update 2m Migration Tool – Part 1 appeared first on VMware…Read More

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“How to enable Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) in vSwitch” via provirtualzone.com

How to enable Link Layer Discovery Protocol…

This week we install new ESXi hosts from a remote location. Since we did not had access physically to the Switches/ESXi hosts and we need to double check if the cabling was correct, and also witch interface were connected to witch switch port. When you have your vCenter and all VMware Infrastructure installed, this is

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“Docker Volume Driver for vSphere using policies on VSAN (short video)” via CormacHogan.com

Docker Volume Driver for vSphere using policies…

This is a short demo (< 5 minutes) which highlights how one can use storage policies to manage the creation of a docker volume when that volume is being deployed on Virtual SAN.

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