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Nominations for the 2016 Top vBlog voting…

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Nominations for the 2016 Top #vBlog voting categories are now open!

Nominations for the 2016 Top vBlog voting…

Just like prior years in addition to the traditional top 50 voting I’m opening it up to allow voting in specific categories as well to help distinguish certain types of blogs. To do this I have created a form to allow you to nominate your blog or website for one of the categories that I have defined if your blog fits one or more of the categories, if it does not then don’t nominate it as all blogs on the vLaunchpad will automatically be included in the general top blog voting.

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VMware Horizon 7.0: Instant Clones

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VMware Horizon 7.0: Instant Clones

VMware Horizon 7.0: Instant Clones

With the release of Horizon 7, VMware has introduced Instant Clones (previously code-named Project Fargo) into the wild. Instant Clones utilize the vmFork technology within vSphere to fork a virtual desktop from a running virtual machine. Below are highlights about … Continue reading →

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Top Ten things to consider when moving Business…

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Top Ten things to consider when moving Business Critical Applications (BCA) to the Cloud (Part 2 of 3)

Top Ten things to consider when moving Business…

In the first part we looked at public, private and Hybrid Cloud and their characteristics. In this part we will look at the common characteristics of business critical applications. We will also look at how some of these characteristics relate to the different types of Cloud infrastructure. Common Characteristics of Business Critical Applications (BCA): Business critical […] The post Top Ten things to consider when moving Business Critical Applications (BCA) to the Cloud (Part 2 of 3)…Read More

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Deprecated VMFS volume(s) found on the host….

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Deprecated VMFS volume(s) found on the host. Please consider upgrading volume(s) to the latest version

Deprecated VMFS volume(s) found on the host….

Today while working in my Lab I was seeing following warning message on my Esxi host: Deprecated VMFS volume(s) found on the host. Please consider upgrading volume(s) to the latest version This error occurred just after I added a new … Continue reading →

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Lookup service fails with the certificate error…

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Lookup service fails with the certificate error for external VMware solution like NSX Manager, VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager, VMware vSphere Replication or vSheild Manager

Lookup service fails with the certificate error…

Some solutions, such as VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager, VMware vSphere Replication, or vSheild Manager are always installed on a different machine than the associated vCenter Server system or Platform Services Controller that manages the certificates for the solution.

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NSX Everywhere: Virtual Networking for All…

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[VIDEO] NSX Everywhere: Virtual Networking for All Platforms

NSX Everywhere: Virtual Networking for All…

VMware NSX manages any virtualized networking environment with speed, agility, and security. In this video, hear from VMware CTSO Guido Appenzeller and see NSX in action in real time.

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Log Insight + Netflow = Awesome

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Log Insight + Netflow = Awesome (via Michael Ryom)

Log Insight + Netflow = Awesome

This is just another awesome use case for Log Insight. I have setup the vSphere Distributed switch to send netflow to a netflow proxy which then sends them as syslog messages to Log Insight. The reason for this is that Log Insight can’t ingest netflow messages natively.

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New: VMware User Environment Manager…

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New: VMware User Environment Manager Configuration Templates

New: VMware User Environment Manager…

VMware has announced that they are starting to provide UEM Templates on a VMware community site. UEM Templates are basically preconfigured settings for certain apps so you don’t have to figure out which registry keys and files/folders you need to capture.

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VMware CPU Co-Stop and SQL Server Performance

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VMware CPU Co-Stop and SQL Server Performance (via Convergence of Data and Infrastructure)

VMware CPU Co-Stop and SQL Server Performance

Not too many people know about the intricacies of virtualization CPU scheduling and its impact on the performance of the VMs, so application owners out there – listen up! I’ve written about Ready Time (VMware ESXi) / Wait Time Per Dispatch (Microsoft Hyper-V) in the past, but a different challenge arises with VMs that have large vCPU count footprints. It’s called CPU Co-Stop, and it can devastate your application’s performance in a VM.

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vCenter 6.0u1b to 6.0u2 Upgrade Error: VMware…

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vCenter 6.0u1b to 6.0u2 Upgrade Error: VMware Syslog Component

vCenter 6.0u1b to 6.0u2 Upgrade Error: VMware…

I wanted to upgrade my 6.0u1b Windows vCenters to 6.0u2 to start off the QA process, but unfortunately I hit a 1603 error. The TSE I worked with saw a few errors from VMware Syslog Collector and some internal PRs. The following is what he saw in my logs: [crayon-56fea372e991b958353812/] If you go… Read More »

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Remove Horizon View Desktops Pools and VMs…

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Remove Horizon View Desktops Pools and VMs stuck in delete state

Remove Horizon View Desktops Pools and VMs…

A while back i had to manually clean up some Horizon View (version 6.2) Desktop pools that were stuck in the delete state. Reasons for this was failed attempts to delete Horizon View VDIs even though their corresponding vCenter Server VMs were successfully deleted. Below is a print screen from the Horizon View UI showing the state of the Horizon View Desktop pools.

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Horizon Client 4.0.1 Now Available!

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Horizon Client 4.0.1 Now Available!

Horizon Client 4.0.1 Now Available!

What’s New in This Release (Check out the Release Notes Here) for Mac 4.0.1 enables TLSv1.0 by default. All other new 4.x features are below: Enabling TLSv1.0 ensures that by default Horizon Client can connect to VMware Horizon Air servers. You do not need to upgrade to Horizon Client 4.0.1 unless you use Horizon Client… More Horizon Client 4.0.1 Now Available!

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VCAP-DCV Deploy – Objective 1.1 Perform…

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#VCAP-DCV Deploy – Objective 1.1 Perform Advanced ESXi Host Configuration – Part 3

VCAP-DCV Deploy – Objective 1.1 Perform…

To finish off objective 1.1, we have three things to cover: Edit system swap / scratch configuration Configure ESXi to use a central syslog server Manage / edit the core dump configuration of an ESXi host

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Two Factor Authentication for vSphere – RSA…

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Two Factor Authentication for vSphere – RSA SecurID – Part 1

Two Factor Authentication for vSphere – RSA…

Introduction This is Part 1 of a 2 part blog series. In this post we’ll talk about setting up RSA SecurID Authentication Manager, some architectural assumptions and what you’ll need to take with you to Part 2. Two Factor Authentication Two factor authentication (2FA) has become ubiquitous nowadays. For those of you still in the […] The post Two Factor Authentication for vSphere – RSA SecurID – Part 1 appeared first on VMware vSphere Blog .

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vSphere 6.5 Web Client – Free Preview Released…

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vSphere 6.5 Web Client – Free Preview Released by VMware Labs

vSphere 6.5 Web Client – Free Preview Released…

VMware labs released a free vSphere 6.5 Web Client (or if you want vSphere HTML5 Web Client) is a free preview (Fling) of a vSphere client which is compatible HTML5 and Javascript. We’re supposing that we’ll find the finished product in vSphere 6.5, but we’re not sure about that. Some news about the future release of vSphere are known already but nothing is sure just yet. The vSphere Web client product shall be rapidly following the same (fast) development cycles as the ESXi Host client.

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