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.

Tuesday, December 9. 2014

VCP5-DCV Delta Exam Returns

After VMware has introduced the Recertification Policy, many who hold VCP5-DCV certification asked about options for recertifying at your current level, specifically if you were not looking to expand to other solution tracks or advance to the VCAP level. VMware has heard you and they are pleased to announce a streamlined exam that offers a quicker route to recertification for current VCP5-DCV holders.

The exam is offered to current VCP5-DCVs who took the VCP510 exam and need to renew their VCP5-DCV credential prior to March 10, 2015. The exam offers some key advantages:

Based only on new material between the vSphere 5.0/5.1 and vSphere 5.5 exams
You save hours of prep time
Available online
You can take it from any location
Far less expensive
You save money

If you hold a VCP5-DCV certification, this is the quickest route to recertification. The exam will be offered until March 10, 2015.

Download the exam blueprint and request authorization. Also see VCP5-DCV Delta Exam Returns

VMware App Volumes Deployment Guide

This deployment guide presents a high-level overview of VMware App Volumes. It describes App Volumes capabilities, architecture, and implementation requirements and addresses frequently asked high-level questions about deploying an App Volumes solution.App Volumes is a real-time application delivery and lifecycle management tool.

Enterprises can use App Volumes to build real-time application delivery systems that ensure that applications are centrally managed. Applications are delivered to desktops through virtual disks. There is no need to modify desktops or applications themselves, and the App Volumes solution can be scaled out easily and cost-effectively, without compromising end-user experience.

App Volumes complements the VMware End-User Computing portfolio by integrating with existing VMware Workspace Portal, application, and desktop solutions.

Friday, December 5. 2014

NSX for vSphere Log Insight Content Pack

The NSX for vSphere Log Insight Content Pack provides powerful operational reporting and alerting visibility for all sources of log data within NSX.

Each major NSX functions (logical switching, routing, distributed firewalls, VXLAN gateways, and edge services) are represented within this content pack via custom dashboards, filters, and alerts.

This graphically rich, content pack is essential for analyzing and identifying NSX configuration, performance, security and trend related problems. The twelve NSX dashboards are easily selectable with intuitive mouse clicks.

NSX log data is quickly sorted based upon user defined time intervals, and within seconds the data is presented graphically via bar graphs, pie charts and raw data collection widgets.

Wednesday, December 3. 2014

VMware Horizon FLEX - Solution Brief

VMware Horizon FLEX is a policy-based, containerized desktop solution that allows IT administrators to create, secure, and manage local desktops to meet the needs of workers with their own computers, road warriors, and Mac users in the enterprise. End users work within a restricted virtual machine on their endpoints and can be either connected or disconnected from the enterprise network.

Horizon FLEX is a combination of existing VMware products, with additional beneficial features. Horizon FLEX is composed of VMware Fusion® Pro, VMware Player Pro, VMware Mirage for Horizon FLEX, and the new Horizon FLEX Policy Server. The Horizon FLEX Client is composed of Fusion Pro and Player Pro.

VMware Horizon FLEX - Solution Brief

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