Eric Sloof

The Reviewer’s Guide for View in VMware Horizon 7: Installation and Configuration is one of a series of
guides to help you evaluate the View component of Horizon 7.


This guide provides exercises to guide you through the basic installation and initial configuration process. 

This demo shows how NSX reacts to better protect resources when threats are detected, by dynamically applying security policies owned by the security team, which could be VM isolation (quarantine), traffic redirection to and IDS/IPS, to a NGFW, etc

The API commands in the vCenter Server Appliance let you perform various administrative tasks in the vCenter Server Appliance. The API commands are provided by appliance management service in the vCenter Server Appliance. You can edit time synchronization settings, monitor processes and services, set up the SNMP settings, and so on.

This video give an overview of what's new in vRealize Code Stream 2.2

This video demonstrates the new Restart Priorities and Orchestrated Restart features of vSphere HA in vSphere 6.5

With the rise in popularity of hybrid cloud computing, where VM-sensitive data leaves the traditional IT environment and traverses over the public networks, IT administrators and architects need a simple and secure way to protect critical VM data that traverses across clouds and over long distances.


The Encrypted vMotion feature available in VMware vSphere 6.5 addresses this challenge by introducing a software approach that provides end-to-end encryption for vMotion network traffic. The feature encrypts all the vMotion data inside the vmkernel by using the most widely used AES-GCM encryption standards, and thereby provides data confidentiality, integrity, and authenticity even if vMotion traffic traverses untrusted network links. Experiments conducted in the VMware performance labs using industry-standard workloads show the following:

• vSphere 6.5 Encrypted vMotion performs nearly the same as regular, unencrypted vMotion.
• The CPU cost of encrypting vMotion traffic is very moderate, thanks to the performance optimizations added to the vSphere 6.5 vMotion code path.
• vSphere 6.5 Encrypted vMotion provides the proven reliabili

This paper describes vSphere 6.5 Encrypted vMotion technology and architecture, how to configure Encrypted vMotion from the vSphere Client, performance implications of encrypting vMotion traffic using real-life workload scenarios, and best practices for deployment.

Overview of VMware vRealize Automation's integrated container management services introduced in version 7.2. Seamlessly build, provision and manage docker container resources (hosts), containers and hybrid applications using vRA's built-in container management capabilities.

vSphere with Operations Management leverages vRealize Operations to better optimize a vSphere environment’s resources and workloads. This video focuses on vR Ops’ new DRS dashboard. This dashboard is available out of the box and can be used to monitor and manage clusters’ DRS configuration and workloads. The video will walk through a high-level overview on DRS followed by going through an example of a host in a cluster being under abnormally high load and how to resolve the issue without ever leaving the vR Ops portal. More Information

This video demonstrates the benefits of the VMware NSX + SRM Disaster Recovery solution. A step-by-step walkthrough with demo is provided highlighting the powerful capabilities of the solution. Want to follow along in a Hands On Lab? VMware NSX Multi-Site DR with SRM

Datacenter Command-Line Interface (DCLI) is one of vSphere’s newest CLIs. DCLI works exclusively with the vSphere Automation API (REST API for vSphere) to provide both an interactive and scriptable mode to monitor and manage all features made available to the REST based API.

With the vSphere 6.5 release, DCLI has picked up a ton of new functionalities! DCLI can now interact with the vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA), perform VM tasks, receive environmental vSphere information, managing vSphere Tags, and work with the Content Library.

This is definitely a great tool to have in the toolbox for anyone accessing a vSphere environment. Here’s a demonstration video showing DCLI’s interactive mode in action!

The video details connecting to a VCSA, entering DCLI’s interactive mode, displaying some general environmental information as well as pointing out some of the benefits when using interactive mode, and lastly it creates a VM and shows all the important information about that new VM. More information about Getting started with DCLI can be found on a post that's on the vSphere Blog.