Eric Sloof - Entries from December 2014

Wednesday, December 24. 2014

New: VMware Certified Associate – Network Virtualization (VCA-NV)

With the VMware Certified Associate - Network Virtualization (VCA-NV) certification, you’ll have greater credibility when discussing network virtualization, the business challenges that VMware NSX and vSphere is designed to address, and how virtualizing the data center networking environment with VMware NSX and vSphere addresses those challenges.

You'll also be able to define network virtualization and provide use case scenarios of how VMware NSX and vSphere network virtualization can provide cost and operational benefits. The VCA-NV exam covers the following objectives:

Explain Data Center Virtualization Concepts and How They Solve Typical Business Challenges
Identify, Explain and Differentiate vSphere Technologies
Correlate VMware Data Center Virtualization Solutions with Specific Business Challenges

Download the Program Overview and the Exam Blueprint.

New: VMware Certified Professional 6 – Cloud (VCP6-Cloud)

Earning VMware Certified Professional 6 – Cloud (VCP6-Cloud) certification validates that you have the skills and experience needed to effectively install, configure, and administer a cloud environment using VMware vCloud Automation Center and its related components.

VCP6-Cloud status shows that you not only have a solid foundation in managing successful vSphere environments, but that you also understand cloud infrastructure concepts including public/private/hybrid clouds, multi-tenancy, and cloud security.

Tuesday, December 23. 2014

Horizon Remote Assistance Tool

Remote Assistance provides the capability for the administrator or IT helpdesk to remotely view and/or control an end-user’s desktop in the Horizon View environment. This is also called session shadowing.

Download the Horizon Toolbox(was View Auditing Portal)

Friday, December 19. 2014

Management Pack for NSX for vSphere 2.0

The VMware vRealize Operations Management pack for NSX-vSphere is a must have for network operations and virtual infrastructure operations team who are planning on scaling their virtual networking functions out across 100's of vSphere hosts.

This management pack discovers, analyzes and represents the broad number of virtual networking services available within NSX-vSphere graphically.

Administrators can view this data for quickly identifying configuration, health and/or capacity problems within their virtual NSX networks, and see the impact of these problems with vSphere hosts and virtual machines.

Friday, December 12. 2014

Free e-learning course - VMware App Volumes Fundamentals

This eLearning course on VMware App Volumes will provide you a fundamental understanding of App Volumes and how it can be used for real-time application delivery with life cycle management.

The course will start with an overview of App Volumes, its components, features, and benefits. Next, you will take a look at the hardware and software prerequisites and the network and security considerations for installing App Volumes.

Finally, you will see how to provision App Volumes and the process for installing and configuring App Volumes. You will also gain an understanding of how App Volumes helps create and manage AppStacks.

At the end of this course, you will be able to:

Explain how the VMware App Volumes product works.
Explain the features and benefits of App Volumes.
Identify the interface elements of App Volumes.
Install and configure App Volumes.

Wednesday, December 10. 2014

VMware vCenter Server 5.5 Availability Guide

With the release of VMware vCenter Server 5.5, there are many considerations to review prior to installing or upgrading. This paper will discuss the requirements of defining high availability for VMware vCenter Server on Microsoft Windows and VMware vCenter Server Appliance, with recommendations and best practices for providing acceptable levels of protection.

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