Eric Sloof

Kris Walsh, VMware Systems Engineer discusses VMware vCenter Operations Manager Dashboard and Capacity Planning specifically the settings and their meanings.

Manual Duron, Senior Systems Engineer, discusses and demonstrates VMware vCenter Log Insight and the challenges it solves, including changing business needs while focusing on maintaining service levels, efficient "root-cause analysis" for troubleshooting issues, and managing overwhelming amount of machine-generated log data.

Palo Alto Networks and VMware today announced a partnership backed by a new jointly-developed solution. The integrated solution will enable customers to use the VMware NSX network virtualization platform to automate provisioning and distribution of Palo Alto Networks next-generation network security in their software-defined data centers.

Security provisioning and change management is an operational challenge for today's dynamic cloud data center environments. Network security configuration and policy assignment can be slow, rigid and lag behind the pace and ease of application provisioning. At the same time, a next-generation security platform -- where security policies are tied to applications, users and data -- is a growing requirement for an effective cybersecurity strategy.

Recognizing these changing requirements, Palo Alto Networks and VMware have partnered to deliver an integrated solution that combines the Palo Alto Networks VM-Series virtualized next-generation security platform with the VMware NSX network virtualization platform. With this joint solution, customers will be able to unify next-generation network security across their physical and virtual environments with a single point of management.

The combined solution will enable customers to use the network services insertion capabilities of VMware NSX with Palo Alto Networks' next-generation security technologies to easily deploy, move, scale and protect applications in their software-defined data centers. Customers will realize more agility and efficiency through centralized policy management and implementation.

VMware vSphere 5.5 introduces many new features and enhancements to further extend the core capabilities of the vSphere platform. This E-Learning will discuss features and capabilities of the vSphere platform, including vSphere ESXi Hypervisor, VMware vSphere High Availability (vSphere HA), virtual machines, VMware vCenter Server, storage networking and vSphere Big Data Extensions.

Continuous delivery allows you to get new features and capabilities to market quickly and reliably. But what is this methodology, really, and what's required to get started? This new, introductory ebook will share: What continuous delivery is — and isn't Why continuous delivery is important to your business How to get started with the cultural technological changes required to practice continuous delivery

SanDisk FlashSoft software for VMware vSphere enables a solid-state device (SSD) to function as a cache for frequently accessed data ("hot data") in a server. FlashSoft software is installed as an ESXi kernel module within the vSphere operating system.

By caching the hot data on a high-speed SSD installed on the server, access times are reduced and applications spend less time waiting for data. FlashSoft is non-intrusive. FlashSoft works with any storage subsystem and requires no change to storage management, backup, or compliance polices.

FlashSoft is installed in the host OS and does not use agents in the guest OS for any guest OS can take advantage of acceleration. FlashSoft supports any guest OS. FlashSoft is installed in the host OS and does not use agents in the guest OS for any guest OS can take advantage of acceleration.

As the scope of virtualized infrastructure continues to grow beyond a traditional single physical site to geographically dispersed multi-site environments, the ability to vMotion transparently across large distances will be a critical requirement.

vMotion in vSphere 5.5 incorporates a number of performance enhancements that enable a seamless migration of even large virtual machines running enterprise workloads over a metro distance. In addition, vMotion in vSphere 5.5 offers support for EMC VPLEX Metro, which enables shared data access across metro distances.

A series of tests were conducted at VMware Performance labs, in cooperation with EMC, to characterize vMotion performance on a VMware vSphere 5.5 virtual infrastructure that was stretched across two geographically dispersed datacenters using EMC VPLEX Metro. 

This white paper describes the testing methodology, workloads used, and the performance results. In addition, it outlines the best practices to follow when using vMotion in a VPLEX Metro environment.