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Barcelona: Wednesday, Oct 16, 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
VCM5008 - vCenter Operations and the Quest for the Missing Metrics
This session will teach you how to customize vCenter Operations to provide you the information you really need for your business. We do this by giving you some real life examples from the field where we use Custom Dashboards, Super Metrics, Adapters and Alerts in order to give you the best possible view into the well-being of your environment. You’ll also see a live demo of third party integration and you'll learn how to monitor the performance of your enterprise to diagnose and prevent problems.
At the annual VMworld conference, VMware has introduced their vision for the software-defined datacenter (SDDC) in the future. The SDDC is the architecture for the cloud by VMware in which all pillars of the datacenter, including compute, storage, networks and associated services, are virtualized. In this white paper, they look at one aspect of the SDDC of VMware, the storage pillar. We specifically discuss how a new product called Virtual SAN (VSAN) fits into this vision.
VSAN is a new storage solution from VMware that is fully integrated with vSphere. It automatically aggregates
server disks in a cluster to create shared storage that can be rapidly provisioned from VMware vCenter during
VM creation. It is an object-based storage system and a platform for VM Storage Policies designed to simplify
virtual machine storage placement decisions for vSphere administrators.
It is fully integrated with core vSphere
features such as VMware vSphere High Availability (vSphere HA), VMware vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler (vSphere DRS) and VMware vSphere vMotion. Its goal is to provide both high availability and scale-out storage
functionality.
It can also be considered in the context of quality of service (QoS) because VM Storage Policies can
be created that define the level of performance and availability required on a per–virtual machine basis.
The vSphere design consideration is a platform for industry experts to share their learned lessons to the broader audience. In this book, over a 100 tweet-sized design considerations are listed grouped in various categories, such as Host design, cluster design, network & security.
Each author is listed with his or her twitter handle so you can easily add them to your twitter stream to receive more useful tips about managing your virtual infrastructure. The book was published and distributed for free at VMworld by PernixData.
You can still get a free copy of the vSphere Design Pocket e-book at Pernixdata.
InfraDog has officially released the addition of VMware support for both iOS and Android mobile devices.
Now you can manage your virtual IT infrastructure anywhere, securely on mobile without compromising firewalls or access through VPN.
InfraDog’s advanced technology also provides the world’s fastest communications gateway available for VMware access on mobile.
Besides common VMware host and guest operational tasks, InfraDog VMware support includes key features to dynamically scale # of CPUs and size memory usage on live VM guests.
Plus using vMotion, migrate VMs from one ESXi host to another.
Key Features of VMware Support
Quick and easy deployment – Discover ESXi or vCenter from the Management Point console, without agents.
Fast access anywhere – Baseline access times less than 1 second from mobile to your VMware environment anywhere in the world.
VMware Management
vCenter or standalone ESXi host
Host level: CPU, Memory utilization, Shut Down, Reboot, and Maintenance Mode
VM Guest level: CPU, Memory, Disk utilization, Power Off/On, Suspend/Resume, Reset, and Shut Down
VM Guest live console
VM Guest modify # of CPU and Size of Memory usage
VM Guest migration (vMotion)
Simple VM Host association to VM guest OS instance by single touch.
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