Eric Sloof

The VMware Network Virtualization Fundamentals eLearning course will provide you with a fundamental overview of VMware’s network virtualization products, components and features. It will match business, management, security and operations challenges with their respective VMware solutions. There are three modules in this course.

• Establish the Requirements for Network Virtualization
• Compare and Contrast Virtual and Physical Networking Solutions
• Describe Advanced VMware Network Virtualization Solutions

 Register here: VMware Network Virtualization Fundamentals

VMware has released a new exam, the VCAP-DTA certification validates your advanced proficiency with deploying, administering, and troubleshooting large-scale, production ready, virtual desktop infrastructures that enable workforce mobility. It also demonstrates your ability to: 

This self paced free eLearning course illustrates why organizations need to consider virtualizing Exchange 2013 on VMware vSphere. This course focuses on Exchange design prerequisites and considerations, when virtualizing Exchange 2013.

It also describes design, sizing, and implementation guidelines and best practices, that should be followed as part of a structured design and implementation methodology.

The course consists of three modules:

• Introduction to Virtualizing Microsoft Exchange 2013 provides an overview of the challenges that organizations typically face when deploying Microsoft Exchange 2013 on physical hardware, and how these challenges can be addressed by virtualizing Exchange on VMware vSphere. This module also describes the benefits that organizations can realize by virtualizing Exchange 2013 on the vSphere platform.
• Designing the Virtualized Exchange Environment evaluates the prerequisites for designing an Exchange 2013 solution when deployed in a virtualized environment. This module also covers the design considerations and guidelines for designing and sizing Exchange 2013 on vSphere.
• Implementing the Virtualized Exchange Solution covers various implementation options that should be considered when virtualizing Exchange 2013 on the vSphere platform. This module also discusses several implementation considerations that should be factored into an Exchange 2013 design. Finally, this module discusses how to monitor and test the performance of Exchange 2013 on VMware vSphere.

Virtualizing Microsoft Exchange 2013 on VMware vSphere [V5.X] Fundamentals

The third volume of the VMware Technical Journal, which includes papers by VMware employees, interns and collaborators in academia has been released. The breadth of papers presented reflects VMware’s focus on simplifying the delivery and consumption of applications, and the many problems and challenges associated with achieving this.

• Analysis of the Linux Pseudo-Random Number Generators
• Toward Guest OS Writable Virtual Machine Introspection
• A Benchmark for User-Perceived Display Quality on Remote Desktops
• Virtualizing Latency-Sensitive Applications: Where Does the Overhead Come From?
• Analyzing PAPI Performance on Virtual Machines
• Hierarchical Memory Resource Groups in the eSX Server
• Improving Software Robustness Using Pseudorandom Test Generation
• Toward an elastic elephant enabling hadoop for the Cloud
• vSDF: A Unified Service Discovery Framework

VMWARE TECHNICAL JOURNAL - VOL. 2, NO. 2 – DECEMBER 2013

VMware vCloud Automation Center helps companies improve service delivery times by automating provisioning and management if IT services across multi-vendor deployment technologies, tools and processes.

In this video we will look at some of the business drivers that are increasingly causing IT departments to deploy on-demand, cloud infrastructure and some of the challenges that companies face with their deployments.

Next we will look at VMware's Cloud Automation solution and what makes VMware solution unique. Finally, we will explore how companies have been able to leverage vCloud Automation Center in their cloud infrastructures and review how you can learn more through additional videos.

Senior staff engineer Melina McLarty discusses Virtual SAN functionality which virtualizes local physical storage resources of ESXi hosts and turns them into storage pools that can be carved up and assigned to virtual machines and applications according to their quality of service requirements.

This technical note describes how to install, upgrade, and uninstall vCenter Server and related components by using the Windows command‐line interface. The command‐line installation requires you to log on to the local machine.

The command‐line installation process includes downloading the vCenter Server installer, gathering the required data, and using the command parameters and samples in this technical note to install the products according to your specifications.

This application verifies the correct installation and operation of the View Horizon Real-Time Audio-Video functionality. It provides a player that displays the “virtual webcam” feed, and also loops back the audio if required.

This allows for testing without a third party app (which often requires user accounts such as Skype, WebEx, etc.).

The application can also perform load testing by forcing the video and audio stream to continuously run again, without a third party app dropping the call after a period of time.

Features:

• Displays webcam images at 1:1 resolution
• Automatically starts streaming images when launched (and audio will be looped back if selected)
• Ability to loop the audio-in back to audio-out
• No need to create user accounts to see RTAV
• Supports the VMware Virtual Webcam and Physical Webcams

Download the Real-Time Audio-Video Test Application

IT organizations have gained significant benefits as a direct result of server virtualization. Server consolidation reduced physical complexity, increased operational efficiency, and the ability to dynamically re-purpose underlying resources to quickly and optimally meet the needs of increasingly dynamic business applications are just a handful of the gains that have already been realized.

Now, VMware’s Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) architecture is extending virtualization technologies across the entire physical data center infrastructure. VMware NSX, the network virtualization platform is a key product in the SDDC architecture. With NSX, virtualization now delivers for networking what it has already delivered for compute and storage.

In much the same way that server virtualization programmatically creates, snapshots, deletes and restores software-based virtual machines (VMs), NSX network virtualization programmatically creates, snapshots, deletes, and restores software-based virtual networks. The result is a completely transformative approach to networking that not only enables data center managers to achieve orders of magnitude better agility and economics, but also allows for a vastly simplified operational model for the underlying physical network.


With the ability to be deployed on any IP network, including both existing traditional networking models and next generation fabric architectures from any vendor, NSX is a completely non-disruptive solution. In fact, with NSX, the physical network infrastructure you already have is all you need to deploy a software defined data center. 

Download the VMware NSX Network Virtualization Design Guide. This document is targeted toward virtualization and network architects interested in deploying VMware network virtualization solutions.