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VMware Cloud on AWS – A Closer Look -VMware vSphere Blog

VMware Cloud on AWS – A Closer Look

Today, VMware and Amazon Web Services (AWS) are announcing a strategic partnership providing the ability to run a full VMware Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) as a cloud service on AWS. This service will include all the enterprise tools you’re familiar with including vSphere, ESXi, VSAN and NSX. This article provides a technical preview of The post VMware Cloud on AWS – A Closer Look appeared first on VMware vSphere Blog .

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Adding floppy for PVSCSI drivers when creating a VM in Web Client -brain floss

Adding floppy for PVSCSI drivers when creating…

Someone asked in a private slack channel if it was “just him” or can you really not add a floppy image when creating a VM using the Web Client. This is relevant any time you want to build a VM using the PVSCSI drivers so they’ll always be available, even if VMware Tools is uninstalled. The answer—at least with v6.0U2—is “no.” In this scenario, the vmimages folder won’t expand; it offers the “arrowhead” showing there is content to be discovered within, but when you select it, you get no…Read More

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3 New Free Courses + 1 New On Demand Course

3 New Free Courses + 1 New On Demand Course

The VMware Education Services team has released four new self-paced training courses in the last month covering Horizon 7, vCloud Air, and VMware User Environment Manager. For more information about these or any of our other courses, or assistance developing a learning plan for yourself or your team, please contact the Education Specialist for your […] The post 3 New Free Courses + 1 New On Demand Course appeared first on VMware Education and Certification Blog .

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VMware TestDrive: Anytime, Anywhere EUC Demos -VMware Blogs

VMware TestDrive: Anytime, Anywhere EUC Demos

With more mobile users demanding anytime, anywhere access, it’s not surprising that 77% of organizations are upgrading infrastructure to support a mobile business model. As a solution provider, it can be tempting to help guide customers on their End User Computing journey by enrolling them in a VMware Digital Workspace solution pilot straight away. However, […] The post VMware TestDrive: Anytime, Anywhere EUC Demos appeared first on Power of Partnership .

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vSphere Daily Health Check and Configuration Dump -billho.website

vSphere Daily Environment Checking

vSphere is a renowned hypervisor platform and definitely this need not to be explained. VMware started some times ago (about 2 years) in building management stacks over the vSphere targeting to mak…

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Michael Dell tells IT leaders all they need to know about the new Dell Technologies -Computerworld

Michael Dell tells IT leaders all they need to…

Ahead of next week’s Dell EMC World conference, CEO Michael Dell spoke with IDG Chief Content Officer John Gallant about what Dell and EMC customers can expect from the newly created Dell Technologies.

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Advanced Security Services with Neutron, NSX and Palo Alto Next Generation Firewall -VMware OpenStack Blog

Advanced Security Services with Neutron, NSX…

Building on the concepts and implementation that I have been working on for the past few weeks around service chaining in Neutron, this post will now focus on how to onboard the Palo Alto Next Generation Firewall platform onto OpenStack.

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Reconfiguring Joined vCSA Instances from Embedded to External Deployment Types (vSphere 6.0 U2)

Reconfiguring Joined vCSA Instances from…

This video will show you how to reconfigure an environment with three joined vCenter Server appliances across two vCenter Single Sign-Om sites.

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Free e-learning course – VMware User Environment Manager Fundamentals [V9] -ntpro.nl

Free e-learning course – VMware User…

This course provides an overview to UEM, its components, features, and benefits. The course also explains the UEM installation and configuration process and the features available in the UEM Management Console.

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vSphere VCSA 6.0 Sizing -davidring.ie

vSphere VCSA 6.0 Sizing

The following tables outline the latest sizing requirements for VCSA 6.0 (VMware VCSA Sizing KB), both Embedded and External.

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Sphere Integrated Containers – Technology Walkthrough -VMware vSphere Blog

Sphere Integrated Containers – Technology…

vSphere Integrated Containers (VIC) combines the agility and application portability of Docker Linux containers with the industry-leading virtual infrastructure platform, offering hardware isolation advantages along with improved manageability. VIC consists of several different components for managing, executing, and monitoring containers. This post delves deeper into key elements of VIC – for more information, please also see this introductory video:

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Do I Need Redundant Firewalls? -ipSpace.net

Do I Need Redundant Firewalls?

One of my readers sent me this question: I often see designs involving several more than 2 DCs spread over different locations. I was actua…Read More

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Enabling ‘Latency-Sensitivity’ option on VMs – Should I do it? -Brian Graf’s Virtualization Blog

Enabling ‘Latency-Sensitivity’ option on VMs –…

I have had a number of customers ask me about this setting in the past few weeks, including a sitdown with a customer at VMworld Las Vegas. I then saw another question about this on Twitter and decided I should finish my post about this setting so everyone can benefit. What is ‘Latency-Sensitivity’ and … Continue reading »

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How to install SMIS Provider for your LSI/Avago controller card on VMware ESXi -vladan.fr

How to install SMIS Provider for your LSI/Avago…

Sometimes you have VMware driver but not management software. How to install SMIS Provider for your LSI/Avago controller card on VMware ESXi.

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PernixPro is Dead, Long Live the Pros……. -Rimmergram

PernixPro is Dead, Long Live the Pros…….

Well, the news that we were expecting was delivered last night by Angelo Luciani, Community Manager at Nutanix, with a brief ‘interlude’ with ex-PernixData CEO, Poojan Kumar – the PernixPro program will expire in December 2016.

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A Guide for VMware Licensing

A Guide for VMware Licensing

VMware licensing can be very confusing especially for new or perspective customers. I am going to breakdown the core components and explain the features and functionality of each. This will help perspective or new users get started and experienced users get a better understanding of what components they need to start utilizing some of the more advanced features that VMware offers. As you can see this displays four of the main components of VMware:…Read More

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EMC is now Dell EMC, part of Dell Technologies and other server storage Updates -StorageIOblog

EMC is now Dell EMC, part of Dell Technologies…

In case you missed it or did not hear, EMC is now Dell EMC and is future ready (one of their new tag lines). What this means is that EMC is no longer a publicly traded company instead now being privately held under the Dell Technologies umbrella. In case you did not know or had forgotten, one of the principal owners of Dell Technologies is Michael Dell aka the founder of Dell Computers which itself went private a few years ago. The Dell Server division which sells direct as well as via…Read More

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vCenter Server Migration Tool: vSphere 6.0 Update 2m -VMware vSphere Blog

vCenter Server Migration Tool: vSphere 6.0…

Migrating from one vCenter Server to another traditionally has been a daunting task. Deploying and configuring a completely new vCenter Server while maintaining your existing one and coming up with a migration plan can be challenging. There are many factors to consider, including but not limited to the size of your environment, number of solutions that use vCenter Server as an endpoint, and how your physical and virtual networks are configured.

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Help me, Help you – vSphere DRS Rules -Brian Graf’s Virtualization Blog

Help me, Help you – vSphere DRS Rules

I’ve now been in my Product Management role at VMware for 9 months and it has definitely had me going at 400 MPH every single day. It’s good though, I’m able to talk with customers, meet with you all at places like VMUGs and VMworld US (I won’t be in Barcelona this year while I’m … Continue reading »

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Hyper-convergence: The Choice Is Yours — Virtualization Review

Hyper-convergence: The Choice Is Yours –…

Vendors need to go beyond pre-packaged offerings, though.

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