Top 10 Mobile News Headlines of 2016 — So Far
The first half of 2016 has been a doozy, giving us mobility enthusiasts some of the biggest mobile news headlines and innovations EVER. Here are the top 10 mobile news headlines of 2016 so far. 1. The digital workspace hit the scene in a big way. With the February launch of VMware Workspace ONE—and its […]
How to audit vSphere Standalone VMRC or HTML5 VMRC connections–virtuallyghetto
An interesting question that came in last week from one of our TAMs was how to identify and audit Virtual Machine Remote Console (VMRC) logins from vSphere? The TAM was specifically interested in being able to correlate that a particular user had logged into the VMRC of a VM during a specific period of time. Luckily, this is easily retrievable through vCenter Servers’s Event sub-system that stores information about everything that happens in your vSphere environment. The Events can be accessed using either the vSphere Web Client shown below or programmatically using the vSphere API which the UI is built on top of.
Microsoft Convenience Update and VMware VMXNet3 Incompatibilities KB Article Updated
Earlier I shared the incompatibilities with VMXNet3 – bit.ly/1sQhHVi Looks like Microsoft KB was updated yesterday with a work around for the same
How to find Dell PERC FD332 or H330 Firmware Versions in ESXi 6
Today’s adventure seemed an easy task but ended up taking much too long to find the right answer. The task… ‘Is there a way to find the firmware version of a Dell Perc FD332 or H330 controller using command line in ESXi 6?’ The answer: ‘zcat /var/log/boot.gz |grep -i firm’ Things that didn’t work […]
Bring Windows Media Redirection to VMware Horizon Client for Linux
Multimedia redirection (MMR) technology helps improve performance by utilizing the client endpoint to process media—instead of the server—so CPU utilization on the server can be reduced. It also can reduce the bandwidth and thus provide a smooth playback experience. For a long time, MMR can only be deployed to VMware Horizon Client for Windows, as […] The post Bring Windows Media Redirection to VMware Horizon Client for Linux appeared first on VMware End-User Computing Blog .
Quick Tip – How to quickly find the VM Display Name of your vCenter Server?
It is a pretty common practice for customers to use their vCenter Server to manage the underlying ESXi host which is also running the vCenter Server VM, sometimes referred to as a self managed vSphere Cluster. For organizations that have a strict naming convention which includes the VM display name as well as the OS hostname (FQDN), it is generally not too difficult to identify the actual VM that is running your vCenter Server.
Life in the Fast Lane – Previewing the 2016 VMworld Party
Work hard, party hard. The VMworld Party is as much a part of the VMworld experience as the breakout sessions, Solutions Exchange, Hands-on Labs, and keynotes! It’s a great chance for attendees to get together and decompress over some food, drinks and fun.
Virtual Machine Security & VMware Monitoring: Dark Art or Actual Science? — opvizor
Virtual machine security and VMware monitoring should be all science, right? But it isn’t. According to professionals at Kaspersky Lab, assuring the security and health of a virtual network is still very much a black art. One of the primary issues is that businesses and their IT departments most commonly try to use the same security measures and monitoring techniques they used for their old, physical machines and networks on their new, virtualized ones.
Western Digital Boosts VMware vSphere Performance — TechWeekEurope
WD develops FlashSoft software and virtualisation system to speed up vSphere environments
Restarting VMs after a Datacenter Down Event
One of my customers recently had a catastrophic thermal event in one of their datacenters and so had to shut down all of their infrastructure at that site. After the cooling issue was resolved, we were asked to help them to get their infrastructure back online. Fortunately, we have included several small details as best practices in our vSphere designs, and one of those really paid off for us. We always create a VM to Host affinity rule that keeps one Domain Controller, the vCenter server, its PSC and its Database (if external) on a known host in the management cluster.
Remove and Re-Create Management Network interface using ESXi Command line – The Virtualist
This how-to article explains how to remove and re-create Management network VMkernel interface using ESXi CLI.
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We want to improve the way we communicate and share information about the VMware Certification program. Please use this poll to tell us what source works for you. The post We want to hear from you! appeared first on VMware Education and Certification Blog .
My time @VMware (A Love Story) — vTimD
So, I’m sure I’ve made it very apparent over the past couple months that I made a transition in jobs. I left Dell Services and became a Sr. Pre-Sales SE in the NSBU @VMware. I knew since I started working with VMware products that I would eventually like to work at the “mothership”. I had always heard nothing but great things about the company. After my first couple months in, I can tell you insider information. It’s even better than anyone ever said.
Michael Ryom: ESXi IOStats – vmkmgmt_keyval
Just wanted to do a short post about vmkmgmt_keyval, as I think most admins only uses this tool for getting HBA driver/firmware versions, but you get so much more than just that. There is different forms of statistics in there, per target, per lun and block size.
Tag-based Veeam Backups–RNelson0
As I teased in Using vCenter tags with PowerCLI, I want to explore how to use tags in a practical application. To refresh our memory, we looked at creating an Ownership category with individual tags in it, and limited VMs to having just one of the tags. We created a little script that defines our schema, in case we need to re-create it. We are going to work on a new category today for our backups. Specifically, Veeam backups, based on SDDC6282-SPO, Using vSphere tags for advanced policy-driven data protection as presented at VMworld 2015.
New Training Videos on vRealize, NSX, and vSphere
VMware Learning Zone subscribers get a year of unlimited access to our cloud-based video training library taught by top VMware experts, including all our new releases, like these from the past month:
Fix for installing macOS Sierra as a VM
I love our dev teams. These folks work tirelessly to make sure that the crazy complexity that is Fusion and Workstation are able to support both the latest and greatest as well as the ancient and obsolete.
Disable Num Lock notification in VMware Workstation–wojcieh
As a Consultant I travel a lot and I have pleasure to work with fantastic VMware Clients. Unfortunately for myself access to Clients infrastructure is granted via VPN (many times different software) and I am forced to use virtual machine to work. This is quite understandable and make sense for security point of view, but for myself being locked by VPN without Internet access isn’t great. Today post Disable Num Lock notification in VMware Workstation will show you how to fix this issue.
Renew ESXi SSL certificates in vSphere Web Client
In my earlier post vCenter Server 6.* – Replacing SSL certificates with Enterprise VMCA I showed you how to use VMware Certificate Authority in Enterprise mode using subordinate Certificate Authority. Once the vCenter Server SSL certificates are replaced the next step is to Renew ESXi SSL certificates in vSphere Web Client in our environment.
Replacing default certificates in vSphere 6 – Part 3
This is the third blog post in the Replacing default certificates in vSphere 6 series.
