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Modernizing your Virtualization Platform – Free Trend Brief

Modernizing your Virtualization Platform – Free…

As the mobile-cloud era unfolds, IT organizations must keep pace with accelerating business expectations. But with more and more users to serve, endpoints to manage, and data to protect, in some cases those expectations are outpacing IT’s ability to stay in step. So, how do you close the gap when basic virtualization platforms can’t support […] The post Modernizing your Virtualization Platform – Free Trend Brief appeared first on VMware Education and Certification Blog .

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5 Top Mobile News Headlines from CES 2017

5 Top Mobile News Headlines from CES 2017

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 new smartphones with AR and virtual reality (VR) support with Google Tango and Google Daydream. And standalone “merged reality” headset concept by Intel, Project Alloy, scans surroundings to bring […]

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Creating VICredentialStore Items without Typing Your Password into the Command Line

Creating VICredentialStore Items without Typing…

I use PowerCLI a lot. Like, when VMware said to stop using the C# client, I just started using PowerCLI instead of learning the Flash based web client. As such, I log into many vCenter servers many times each day, and creating a VICredentialStore item for each vCenter that I use is one trick that saves me a lot of typing and therefore time. The New-VICredentialStoreItem cmdlet is super easy to use, which creates these credential store items. Once you have an item created, those credentials…Read More

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VMware Sales Academy: Europe

VMware Sales Academy: Europe

Get an inside look at life at VMware in Cork, Ireland from members of the 2015-2016 VMware Sales Academy class. Browse our latest opportunities within the VMware Sales Academy in Europe: http://bit.ly/2ifYJ61 Search all new grad opportunities at VMware: http://bit.ly/2j8l2dU Search all internship opportunities at VMware: http://bit.ly/2hVepiX Dare to explore life at VMware: https://www.facebook.com/vmwareuniversitytalent/ https://twitter.com/VMwareU http://instagram.com/vmwareu

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How to Update VCSA 6 w/ External PSC to Update 2a – Let’s v4Real

How to Update VCSA 6 w/ External PSC to Update…

I’ve really come to appreciate more and more the VCSA. One of the times that I really appreciate it, is when it’s time to apply patches/updates to it. This post is just a simple….and I do mean simple…look at how to update your external PSC and then your VCSA when there’s a new update from…Read More

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Getting Started with vSphere’s Datacenter Command-Line Interface

Getting Started with vSphere’s Datacenter…

Datacenter Command-Line Interface (DCLI) is one of vSphere’s newest CLIs. DCLI works exclusively with the vSphere Automation API (REST API for vSphere) to provide both an interactive and scriptable mode to monitor and manage all features made available to the REST based API.

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YouTube Playlist: VMware Validated Designs

YouTube Playlist: VMware Validated Designs

all-in-one VMware overview youtube playlist on VVD

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HOL-1706-SDC-6 – Guide to SDDC: VMware Validated Designs

HOL-1706-SDC-6 – Guide to SDDC: VMware…

In this Interactive Simulation, the user will focus on the fundamental architecture elements in the VMware Validated Designs (VVDs) for Software-Defined Data Center v2 that enable a prescriptive, expert-driven approach to deploy and operate a Software-Defined Data Center with confidence. VVD architectures are production-ready solutions that target a wide range of deployment scenarios and use-cases.

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Printing #migrate2vcsa Stickers and Apparel – Emad Younis Blog

Printing #migrate2vcsa Stickers and Apparel

Happy New Year! 2016 was a big year for the vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA). We now have officially supported Migration Tools in vSphere 6.0 U2m and vSphere 6.5. With the release of vSphere 6.5, the VCSA has surpassed its Windows counterpart in terms of features and performance. Then there was the hot swag that debuted […]

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Planning Highly Available, Mission Critical SQL Server Deployments with VMware vSphere

Planning Highly Available, Mission Critical SQL…

The VMware Experts Database program (MS SQL Server and Oracle editions) invites the specially selected industry Experts to contribute to the breath of VMware industry knowledge by presenting sessions at VMware events to and developing white papers. Often these papers are commissioned by VMware (sometimes jointly with other partners) and in this case partial funding The post Planning Highly Available, Mission Critical SQL Server Deployments with VMware vSphere appeared first on VMware vSphere…Read More

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Enhanced query monitoring now available in Blue Medora Microsoft SQL Management Pack

Enhanced query monitoring now available in Blue…

By: Lora Johnson To help extend monitoring within your Microsoft SQL Server workloads, Blue Medora recently released an updated management pack for Microsoft SQL Server, featuring new monitoring capabilities for queries and extending its out-of-the-box dashboards to ensure you can optimize performance within your Microsoft SQL Server environment and across the IT stack. What’s New The post Enhanced query monitoring now available in Blue Medora Microsoft SQL Management Pack appeared first on…Read More

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Get step-by-step guidance for installing, configuring & managing VMware products & solutions

Get step-by-step guidance for installing,…

The VMware Feature Walkthrough site provides step-by-step guidance for installing, configuring & managing VMware products & solutions.

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Tired of waiting? Deploy OpenStack in 15 minutes or less with VMware Integrated OpenStack (VIO)!

Tired of waiting? Deploy OpenStack in 15…

If you’re ready to try VIO, take it for a spin with the Hands on Labs that illustrates a step-by-step walkthrough of how to deploy OpenStack in Compact Management Mode in under fifteen minutes.

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Spotlight on the Move-VM Cmdlet including PowerCLI 6.5 Enhancements

Spotlight on the Move-VM Cmdlet including…

VMware PowerCLI 6.5’s release introduced a lot of new cmdlets and improvements to existing cmdlets. One of my favorite improved cmdlets has to be Move-VM. Move-VM was already a very versatile cmdlet before this new release. It could be used to move a VM between hosts, datastores, resource pools, clusters, to new folders, to a […] The post Spotlight on the Move-VM Cmdlet including PowerCLI 6.5 Enhancements appeared first on VMware PowerCLI Blog .

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Why Nested ESXi Is an Essential Part of Your Home Lab

Why Nested ESXi Is an Essential Part of Your…

There’s always a ton of discussion around home labs among IT professionals on Twitter, and many are very, very impressive! I have to admit, I do tend to have a case of home lab envy at times. Wha…Read More

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VMware vSphere 6.5 AutoDeploy Rules

VMware vSphere 6.5 AutoDeploy Rules

We have started to work with VMware vSphere 6.5 AutoDeploy recently, just before the End of the year. We have played in a lab with the Image Builder GUI and we have created new customized image with drivers which were needed for the hardware we’re using in our lab. What is Image profile? Image Profile […] Read the full post VMware vSphere 6.5 AutoDeploy Rules at ESX Virtualization .

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Extending an ESXi diagnostic core dump partition on a vSAN 6.5 node

Extending an ESXi diagnostic core dump…

This is something very interesting which gained support with the release of vSAN 6.5. It will be of interest to those customers who boot their ESXi hosts from USB/SD devices, and also have vSAN configured. One long-standing restriction with this configuration was the inability to boot from USB/SD when the amount of memory in the […] The post Extending an ESXi diagnostic core dump partition on a vSAN 6.5 node appeared first on CormacHogan.com .

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Your Problem’s Solved: Enable Secure Native Mobile App SSO on Any Device

Your Problem’s Solved: Enable Secure Native…

The advent of mobile phones put enormous amounts of computing power in the hands—quite literally—of end users. “Anyness” (any app, any device, anywhere) is now expectation, but it needs to happen in a secure way. Several recent technological advances have made this possible, including mobile device management (MDM, aka freedom from being domain joined). And […] The post Your Problem’s Solved: Enable Secure Native Mobile App SSO on Any Device appeared first on VMware End-User Computing Blog .

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2017 Predictions: Initiating the Future of Education IT -VMware Radius

2017 Predictions: Initiating the Future of…

Tim Merrigan, vice president for state, local, and education at VMware, shares his 2017 predictions for education.

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Upgrading or Migrating vCenter Server 5.5 on Windows to version 6.5

Upgrading or Migrating vCenter Server 5.5 on…

This video covers upgrading or migrating vCenter server 5.5 on Windows to version 6.5 The post Upgrading or Migrating vCenter Server 5.5 on Windows to version 6.5 appeared first on Tech Communications Video Blog .

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