Top Gun Tech Thursdays

VMware Top Gun Tech Thursday schedule is now live!  Be sure to check out these great topics to expand your field of expertise across the Software Defined Datacenter, End User Computing and Hybrid Cloud platforms. See a Demo (and learn how to do it yourself), get our most frequently asked questions (and the answers!), and ask an SE any questions you have on the product! 2014DECXTREDU

Sign up at http://www.vmware.com/go/TopGunTechThursday

 Check out these great sessions:

• Dec 4 : Horizon Safe Passage Program
• Dec 11 : VMware Virtual SAN (VSAN)

VMware IT Outcomes public site available!

With VMware, IT organizations can achieve critical results, or outcomes, with unique capabilities that help IT respond to business requests quickly and cost-effectively, without compromising security, control or choice. These are the high-value IT outcomes your organization can achieve:

- Data center virtualization and standardization
- Streamlined and automated data center operations
- Security controls native to infrastructure
- High availability and resilient infrastructure
- Application and infrastructure delivery automation
http://itoutcomes.vmware.com/ 2014DECXTR

What's going on in the Industry?

• CRN's Kevin McLaughlin discusses how VMware got its SDN product to market first, in comparison to Cisco, and shared some examples of how VMware is trying to capitalize on that head start. McLaughlin reports, "VMware and Cisco were close partners for a long time, but in a relatively short time, they've devolved into the Hatfields and McCoys of the data center. And according to partners on both sides, this skirmish is quickly morphing into a full-blown philosophical dispute."
• Gabe Knuth of BrianMadden.com discusses VMware's announcement that the company will build Linux support into Horizon View along with the associated conversations around this news. Knuth muses, "There's a market even though it's a niche of a niche."
• Datacenter Dynamics' Peter Judge discusses several announcements coming out of VMworld Europe 2014 in his article, "VMworld – cracking open the data center." Judge reports, "VMware has its annual get-together in August in San Francisco, but a few weeks later the stories get extended and embellished at the European edition of VMworld in Barcelona. This year was no exception with a quiverful of slogans, and a barrage of announcements, all of which added up to an assertion that VMware would like to take charge of pretty much everything from the hardware in your data centers upwards." 2014DECNWS

Tech Preview: vCloud Air Object Storage

VMware made some significant announcements today around vCloud Air (previously vCloud Hybrid Service) at VMworld San Francisco 2014. One of the announcements was on a new storage service – vCloud Air Object Storage.

VMware vCloud Air today has two block storage tiers, Standard and SSD-Accelerated, which look to a virtual machine like a block volume. Object Storage acts as low-speed, long-term storage for buckets of unstructured data and isn't associated with any specific virtual machine...more 2014DECHBD

Tips for a successful Virtual SAN (VSAN) Proof Of Concept (POC)

Pretty soon I’ll be heading out on the road to talk at various VMUGs about our first 6 months with VSAN, VMware’s Virtual SAN product. Regular readers will need no introduction to VSAN, and as was mentioned at VMworld this Continue reading → 2014DECSDC

Slow backup of VM on VSAN Datastore

Someone at out internal field conference asked me a question around why doing a full back up of a virtual machine on a VSAN datastore is slower then when doing the same exercise for that virtual machine on a traditional storage array. Note that the test that was conducted here was done with a single... [more] 2014DECSDC

The Impact of ITaaS on Request Fulfillment

By John Worthington Automation and standardization benefits IT…and the business Advances in technology are rapidly enabling new levels of standardization, cost control, pre-authorization and automation far beyond traditional IT environments. This makes it possible to deliver IT-as-a-Service (ITaaS), with IT focusing on the outcomes the business needs and functioning much like a business itself more » 2014DECSDC

Behind the Scenes with a Hybrid Application: the VMworld 2014 Mobile App

By: Mathew Lodge How do you build an application that can handle 2,000 requests/second in less than 6 weeks that has to integrate on-premises systems, native mobile and SaaS services? It has to pass a strict security audit, be managed as a single ... more » 2014DECHBD

Get Started with VMware vCloud Air: Development and Testing

Last month, we provided an overview of five different ways your business can get started with hybrid cloud. For our first installment in this blog series, we look at the first use case: adopting hybrid cloud for development and testing. Businesses today need to increase productivity, enhance quality and launch applications faster than ever. ... more » 2014DECHBD

Schuberg Philis Deploys VMware NSX

Summary • Application Roll Out Reduced from Weeks to Minutes • VMware NSX Enables Better Agility, Flexibility and Security Recently.  We had the opportunity to speak with the team at Schuberg Philisabout about their successful, production deployment of VMware NSX. As background, Schuberg Philis is an innovative business technology company and an important player in the... more » 2014DECSDC

New Microsoft Licensing Announcement makes it easier for VDI

Microsoft is providing a per-user licensing model to Microsoft volume-licensing users starting December 1. In the words of one of our EUC Specialists - “Effectively this means that customers can now purchase a single license for a user that covers their access to a VDI session. This contrasts the previous model (VDA, CSL, etc) where the licensing for a user that wanted to use VDI was complicated. You had to know what devices they would be connecting from, whether that device was covered under SA or not and dig deep into the customers agreement with Microsoft to determine if they were covered. Now a customer just purchases a USL for each user that is going to use VDI and that covers them from any device. It will definitely be simpler and should end up being simpler as well.” Read More here.. DEC2014ECP

Smart devices Open Up #Boundless Opportunities for Delta Airlines

Airline stocks have been going higher and higher recently with the decline of oil prices. That is not the only reason to take notice of airlines. Airline crew members are the most mobile workers in the world. And when Delta wanted to extend its mobile Windows systems and apps to cover its exceptionally mobile workforce, they worked with AirWatch to make it happen.

Learn more on boundless.vmware.com and watch the video after the jump... 2014DECECP

When Every Second Counts, Count on VMware

by Geoffrey Murase, Solutions Marketing, End-User Computing I recently visited Tualatin Valley Fire and Rescue (TVFR) near Portland, Oregon to film a video case study documenting the innovative ways they’re using VMware desktop virtualization technology. They had initially used desktop virtualization to simplify management of desktops in their office but they quickly found other use [more] 2014DECECP

I have seen the light! Why I now believe that non-persistent / shared images are doable for VDI

For the past five years or so, I've said again and again that I don't like non-persistent / shared / locked down images for VDI. In fact that was a core tenant of our 2012 book, The VDI Delusion. Why I didn't like persistent in the past If you go way… more
2014NOVECPTEK

Partner Registration for PEX 2015 is Now Open!

Learn current go-to market selling strategies that will enable partners to accelerate their businesses, to insights that effectively identify customer needs and acquire new customers by exploring best practices and understanding the training roadmap.  Reminder to register before December 9th to take advantage of Early Bird pricing and save $300 on their conference pass.  Get registered today 2014NOVXTR

Top Gun Tech Thursdays!

VMware Top Gun Tech Thursday schedule is now live!  Be sure to check out these great topics to expand your field of expertise across the Software Defined Datacenter, End User Computing and Hybrid Cloud platforms. See a Demo (and learn how to do it yourself), get our most frequently asked questions (and the answers!), and ask an SE any questions you have on the product! 2014NOVXTREDU

Sign up at http://www.vmware.com/go/TopGunTechThursday

 Check out these great sessions:

• Nov 3 : VMworld highlights
• Nov 13 : NSX Microsegmentation
• Nov 20 : Horizon POC Tips & Tricks
• Dec 4 : Horizon Safe Passage Program
• Dec 11 : VMware Virtual SAN (VSAN)

Save 25% on any VCP exam before January 1, 2015!

If you’re a current VMware Certified Professional (VCP), you can save 25% off any VCP exam taken before January 1, 2015. This is a great opportunity to save money and get recertified before the March 10, 2015 deadline. (For the recertification policy details visit vmwarerecertification.com.) To claim your 25% exam discount, just enter discount code VCPRECERT25 when you check out on the PearsonVue site. But act fast. This discount is only good on exams taken before January 1, 2015. Read the complete terms and conditions here. 2014NOVXTREDU

EUC Datacenter Design Series — EVO:RAIL VDI Scalability Reference

By TJ Vatsa with Fred Schimscheimer and Todd Dayton End User Computing (EUC) has come of age and is continuing to mature by leaps and bounds. Customers are no longer considering virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) as a tactical project but are looking at EUC holistically as an enterprise solution that accelerates EUC transformation. You can refer...more  2014NOVECPTEK

vRealize Operations and vRealize Orchestrator Extensibility Presentations from VMworld 2014

There were a variety of presentations in VMworld around solution extensibility of vRealize Operations and vRealize Orchestrator. The following presentations give great detail around extensibility and have many examples of both VMware and Partner integrations. Operational Management Challenges for Converged Infrastructure from Virtualization and Cloud Management Solutions Cloud Management with vRealize Operations from Virtualization and more » 2014NOVHBDTEK

Introducing the vCloud Air Information Hot Spot!

We at VMware aim to provide you with the information you need, when you need it, to help guide you on your journey to the hybrid cloud. To that end, today we are introducing a new Facebook application where you can access key vCloud Air resources whenever and wherever you need them... more »

Real-Time Application Delivery and Lifecycle Management with VMware App Volumes

VMware Tectonic shifts are taking place globally that require businesses to quickly adapt to change and shift cost to activities that increase productivity. Traditional approaches to application delivery and lifecycle management, designed for the distributed computing era will not scale for modern enterprises... more » 2014NOVECPTEK

Disaster Recovery for Virtualized Business Critical Applications

Planned Migration: One of the relatively newer use cases for SRM is planned migration. With this use case, customers can migrate their business critical workloads to the recovery or cloud provider sites in a planned manner. This could be in planning for an upcoming threat such as a hurricane or other disaster or an datacenter migration... more » 2014NOVSDCTEK

Direct Connect: Now Available at a vCloud Air Location Near You

By popular demand, we are excited to announce the worldwide rollout of the VMware vCloud® Air™ Direct Connect™ service introduced last year to all existing VMware vCloud® Air™ locations. By providing a dedicated and secure connection with a streamlined deployment process, VMware is enabling customers around the world to seamlessly integrate vCloud Air into their... more » 2014NOVHBDTEK

The Evolution of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

The definition of SDLC is changing. SDLC often stands for the software development life cycle, a methodology to develop and implement software, currently in use by many IT organizations. IT organizations have realized, however, that this narrow focus on software is insufficient in today's IT service delivery... more » 2014NOVSDCTEK

What is coming for vSphere and VSAN? VMworld reveals…

The session is all about vSphere futures, what is coming soon? VSAN details announced to the press at VMworld EMEA...more 2014NOVSDCTEK

VMware Acquires Continuent

We announced the acquisition of Continuent. I think this will be a great addition to the VMware portfolio. I think I sense Database as a Service coming soon... I have worked in the Application Developments world for quite some time early in my career, and this type of technology is truly intriguing. For example, the Tungsten Replicator's core replication supports Oracle Replication – Replicate data from Oracle to MySQL, from MySQL to Oracle, and from Oracle to Oracle. “Think Oracle GoldenGate without the price tag!” I am truly excited to welcome Continuent to the VMware family! Here's more details on the solution. 2014NOVNWS

EMC Announced Enterprise Hybrid Cloud Solution

EMC Corporation announced immediate availability of its Enterprise Hybrid Cloud Solutions (EHC) – which brings together EHC and the Federation Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC), backed by a set of services that result in deployments of 30 days or less. EMC’s first and preferred approach to helping customers achieve a Hybrid Cloud for business agility is to lead with the Federation SDDC solution with VMware's vCloud Air. This represents a significant opportunity for you to sell our full product portfolio via the EMC EHC Federation SDDC edition.

Key Takeaways from EMC’s announcement:

• New EMC Enterprise Hybrid Cloud Solutions unite private and public cloud, enable IT-as-a-service
• New services can help get solution up and running in 30 days or less
• EMC Enterprise Hybrid Cloud 2.5, Federation Software-Defined Data Center Edition with VMware available immediately
• The Federation SDDC solution is an “Engineered” solutions with 1000+ man hours vs. the others which will be reference architectures
• EMC announces the acquisition of Cloudscaling, Maginatics and Spanning to accelerate OpenStack-powered hybrid clouds, extend data protection to the cloud and assure availability and data protection for “born in the cloud” applications
• Public cloud interoperability with vCloud Air, Amazon Web Services  (AWS) and other EMC-powered cloud service providers 2014NOVNWS

Extending the Power of Mobility to Linux Users

By Victor Thu, Director of Product Marketing, End-User Computing, VMware Today at vForum China, VMware announced that it is beginning to work on a VDI solution for enterprise Linux desktops. Depending on which analyst report you read, most estimate that Linux desktops as an everyday go-to system for users is a small percentage of the [more] 2014NOVECPTEK

VMware Horizon 6 Reference Architecture

VMware has released a paper titled: "VMware Horizon 6 Reference Architecture". The paper which contains 53 pages describes a reference architecture for building a VMware Horizon 6 deployment supporting 2,000 till 10,00 users with an existing server and storage infrastructure....more>> 
2014OCTECPTEK

vRealize Air Site

Need to know how to provision and manage IT workloads and infrastructure services across hybrid environments?  Start here at the new vRealize Air Microsite fro more details on this exciting new platform and how to be part of the Beta!  http://vrealizeair.vmware.com/ 
2014OCTHBDNWS

vSphere Storage Policy Based Management Overview (part 1)

Welcome to the VMware vSphere Storage Policy Based Management (SPBM) two-part blog series where we will be exploring SPBM features, components, and the major role it plays in automating storage management operations in the Software Defined Data Center. Storage Policy Based Management (SPBM) is the foundation of the SDS Control Plane and enables vSphere administrators... more » 2014OCTHBDTEK

VMware Horizon 6 Supports Application Delivery by RDS Hosting

By Cindy Heyer, Technical Writer, Technical Marketing, End-User Computing at VMware To meet the demand for hosted applications, VMware Horizon 6 supports an app-remoting option based on Microsoft RDS. The Application-Delivery Options in VMware Horizon 6.0 white paper describes this new option, as well as additional application-delivery options available in Horizon 6. You can publish […] 

Original Article: http://blogs.vmware.com/euc/2014/09/vmware-horizon-6-supports-application-delivery-rds-hosting.html 2014OCTECPTEK

VSAN HA Traffic

Did you know that HA traffic is moved to the VSAN network if VSAN is enabled alongside HA on a cluster?  Click here to read the blog and find out more. http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2014/05/vmware-virtual-san-vsphere-ha-recommendations.html 2014OCTSDCTEK

vRealize Automation Improvements in NSX Security and Network Management

VMware vRealize Automation (vRA – formerly known as vCloud Automation Center) 6.1 enhances its integration with VMware NSX 6.1 to provide even more virtual networking and security capabilities. Thus enabling IT to deliver business services on-demand with the appropriate network connectivity, availability and security automatically configured. With these new capabilities of the 6.1 release, VMware... more »

2014OCTHBDTEK

Unified Workspace in VMware Horizon 6

► 3:23► 3:23
Rory Clements from VMware's EUC Business Unit demonstrates his Horizon 6 Unified Workspace ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SstavM0r9A
2014OCTECPTEK

New View Security Overview Now Available

By Gary Sloane, VMware End-User-Computing Consultant Do you remember the guy from Los Alamos who lost a laptop full of weapon plans? How about that database of veterans’ names and social security numbers accidentally left in an airport? Losses like these could all have been prevented by VDI solutions, such as VMware Horizon with View. […]

2014OCTECPTEK

EVO:RAIL vs VSAN Ready Node vs Component based

EVO:RAIL is awesome! That is typically what I hear from customers when pitching the EVO:RAIL play and showing the config and management demo. Customers are all over it I can tell you. They love the ease of deployment, management, procurement and support… Now, every now and then this geeky person pops up and say: but […]

Original Article: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/YellowBricks/~3/mWHB32lECIo/

2014OCTSDCTEK

Queue Depth info in the VSAN HCL!

I just noticed there has been an update to the VSAN HCL. When I now do a search for a disk controller (vmwa.re/vsanhcl) it immediately shows the queue depth of the controller. This will make life a lot easier, especially for those who prefer to build their own Virtual SAN node instead of using a Ready Node […] 
Original Article: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/YellowBricks/~3/qEBpbiwlCJg/
2014OCTSDCTEK