Tuesday, August 6. 2013
VMware Knowledge Base Video - Choosing a network adapter for your virtual machine
New Book - Virtualizing Microsoft Business Critical Applications on VMware vSphere
This unique guidebook bridges the gap between the Microsoft and VMware worlds, bringing together the deep knowledge, cutting-edge best practices, and practical techniques you need to succeed.Leading experts Matt Liebowitz and Alex Fontana present end-to-end coverage of virtualizing Windows Server 2012 AD domain controllers and failover clusters, Exchange Server 2013, SQL Server 2012, and SharePoint Server 2013. They offer indispensable advice on sizing, architecture, performance, availability, monitoring, and metrics.
Throughout, the authors share valuable tips, tricks, and insights from their own experiences. For each Microsoft application, they provide "proof of concept" sample configurations and clearly explain how new features impact virtualization. You’ll also find authoritative, up-to-date guidance on licensing and other issues related to ensuring full support from both Microsoft and VMware.
Coverage includes:
- Evaluating the benefits, risks, and challenges of virtualizing Microsoft business critical applications
- Identifying strategies for success associated with people, processes, and technology
- Reviewing VMware vSphere features most important to virtualizing business-critical applications
- Taking advantage of new virtualization-aware features built in to Windows Server 2012 domain controllers
- Designing and configuring vSphere High Availability (vSphere HA) clusters to run Windows enterprise applications
- Reflecting Exchange Server 2013’s new architecture to maximize its performance in virtualized environments
- Leveraging new SQL Server 2012 features to simplify the delivery of high availability on virtual servers
- Reducing SQL Server 2012 licensing costs through virtualization
- Planning, designing, and deploying virtualized SharePoint Server 2013 environments
Monday, August 5. 2013
VMworld 2012: Session VSP1252 - What's New with vSphere Automation
VMworld 2012: Session VSP1729 - Understanding Virtualized Memory Performance Management
Saturday, August 3. 2013
VMware Horizon View 5.2 Virtual Desktop Cost vs. Citrix XenDesktop 5.6
Companies looking for advantages of virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) must look carefully at cost. Principled Technologies, compared Microsoft Windows 7 virtual!desktops hosted on VMware Horizon View 5.2 and Citrix XenDesktop 5.6.Hosted on the same physical hardware resources and using similar image rendering settings, they conducted scale testing with the Login VSI medium workload.
They found that VMware Horizon View 5.2 supported 174 Microsoft Windows 7 virtual desktop sessions at a cost per user of $483 Citrix XenDesktop 5.6 supported 175 sessions at a cost of $820 per user.
These findings mean that VMware Horizon View 5.2 delivered comparable density at a 41.1 percent lower cost per user,making it an excellent choice for a company that wants to deliver a high]quality experience to users at an excellent price.
Friday, August 2. 2013
New Book - VMware vSphere 5.1 Cookbook
Amidst all the recent competition from Citrix and Microsoft, VMware’s vSphere product line is still the most feature rich and futuristic product in the virtualization industry. Knowing how to install and configure vSphere components is important to give yourself a head start towards virtualization using VMware.If you want to quickly grasp the installation and configuration procedures, especially by using the new vSphere 5.1 web client, this book is for you. VMware vSphere 5.1 Cookbook will take you through all the steps required to accomplish a task with minimal reading required. Most of the tasks are accompanied with relevant screenshots with an intention to provide a visual guidance as well.
The book has many useful recipes that will help you progress through the installation of VMware ESXi 5.1 and vCenter Server 5.1. You will learn to use Auto Deploy and Image Profiles to deploy stateless/stateful ESXi servers, configure failover protection for virtual machines using vSphere HA, configure automated load balancing using vSphere DRS and DPM.
Finally, the book guides you through upgrading or patching ESXi servers using VMware Update Manager and also deploying and configuring vSphere Management Assistant (VMA) to be able to run scripts to manage the ESXi servers.
What you will learn from this book:
- Install and configure ESXi 5.1 and vCenter 5.1
- Manage the deployment of ESXi servers using Auto Deploy and Image Profiles
- Configure FC, iSCSI and NFS storage access to ESXi servers and manage the storage devices presented to the ESXi servers
- Configure vSphere Networking using vSphere Standard and vSphere Distributed Switches
- Learn to create and manage virtual machines
- Configure HA, DRS, DPM and EVC on an ESXi cluster
- Install VMware Update Manager (VUM) to upgrade and patch ESXi servers
- Configure vSphere Management Assistant(VMA) to run commands/scripts without the need to authenticate every attempt
A fast-paced, task-oriented Cookbook covering recipes on the installation and configuration of vSphere 5.1 components. The recipes are accompanied with relevant screenshots with an intention to provide a visual guidance as well. The book concentrates more on the actual task rather than the theory around it, making it easier to understand what is really needed to achieve the task.
This book is a guide for anyone who wants to learn how to install and configure VMware vSphere components. This is an excellent handbook for support professionals or for anyone intending to give themselves a head start in learning how to install and configure vSphere 5.1 components. It is also a good task-oriented reference material for consultants who design and deploy vSphere environments.
VMware vSphere 5.1 Cookbook
VMware vSphere 5.1 Cookbook
Free e-learning course - VMware vCloud Connector Fundamentals
This free e-learning course covers the main features and components of vCloud Connector and includes information on installing and configuring vCloud Connector. The course consists of three modules:
- Introduction to vCloud Connector describes the basic and advanced features of vCloud Connector, common use cases of vCloud Connector, and the basics of VMware vCloud Hybrid Service.
- Preparing for a vCloud Connector Deployment covers the vCloud Connector architecture and the prerequisite tasks for deploying vCloud Connector.
- Deploying vCloud Connector explains how to deploy the vCloud Connector components and verify the deployment.
After completing the course, you should be able to:
- Describe use cases for vCloud Connector.
- Describe the features of vCloud Connector Core edition.
- Describe the features of vCloud Connector Advanced edition.
- Describe VMware vCloud Hybrid Service.
- Describe the vCloud Connector architecture.
- Plan your vCloud Connector installation.
- Prepare for your vCloud Connector installation.
- Install and configure a vCloud Connector server.
- Install and configure vCloud Connector nodes.
- Install the vCloud Connector user interface.
- Verify that vCloud Connector is deployed properly.
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