Eric Sloof

This two-day course explains how to use and configure VMware vRealize Operations version 7.0 to work with VMware vSAN 6. This course explains the concepts and practical applications of vRealize Operations in reference to vSAN.

By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:

• List and describe the uses of vRealize Operations when applied to vSAN
• Use the product UI to navigate through built-in vSAN specific dashboards
• Review the built-in vSAN specific dashboards for key vSAN information
• Create your own vSAN specific dashboards
• Assess performance and optimize vSAN workloads 
• Perform vRealize Operation capacity optimization
• Assess policies related to vSAN
• Perform vSAN troubleshooting using vRealize Operations

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VMware has released a new version of the Horizon Toolbox. This new version supports auditing of:

• Sessions:  Shows historical concurrent session trend for the last 2 days, last week and last month. Shows current virtual desktop connections by desktop pools, and shows virtual application connections by RDS (Remote Desktop Service) Farms.
• Usage:  Shows accumulated use time of users for the last 2 days, last week and last month.  Shows all connections (user name, pool/farm name, machine name, connection time, disconnection time) for the past 2 days, last week, and last month.
• Snapshots:   Shows parent virtual machines of linked clone desktop pools and descendant snapshots in a tree view. The snapshots not in use by linked clone pools are marked in grey so that the View administrator can remove the snapshots, not in use.
• Clients:  Shows statistics for operating systems and versions of View clients in different types of view styles. Show View clients IP addresses.
• End users actions: show agent-side users' actions about USB storage, Client Drive Redirection, and Clipboard

It also has support for Console Access and a Power Policy:

• Console Access lists all VMs for desktop pools, and you can filter VMs by VM name or DNS name. Clicking the VM name, the vSphere console for that VM will pop out.

• Power Policy lists all desktop pools and their power policies. Power Policy can power on all VMs in a desktop pool with some schedule, like 8:00 AM on all work days. You can set up a power policy for each desktop pool.

This Configuration Maximums tool provides the recommended configuration limits for VMware products.

When you configure, deploy and operate your virtual and physical equipment, it is highly recommended you stay at or below the maximums supported by your product.

The limits presented in the tool are tested, recommended limits, and are fully supported by VMware.

This five-day, fast-paced course provides comprehensive training on how to install, configure, and manage a VMware NSX-T Data Center environment.

This course covers key NSX-T Data Center features and functionality offered in the NSX-T Data Center 2.4 release, including the overall infrastructure, logical segments, logical routers, networking and security services, micro-segmentation and firewalls, and so on.

I'm delivering this training course online from the 10th of June till the 14th of June 2019, I've you're interested you can register here. I'm looking forward to "meet" you!

The VMware vSAN 6.7 Specialist Exam 2019 (5V0-21.19) which leads to VMware Specialist – vSAN 2019 badge, is a 60-item exam, with a passing score of 300 using a scaled method.

Candidates are given an appointment time of 120 minutes, which includes five-minute seating time and adequate time to complete the exam for non-native English speakers. Actual exam time is 115 minutes.

vSAN 2019 badge validates that an earner can properly design a vSAN cluster including the selection of supported hardware, compute and storage capacities, and performance profile. 

VMware NSX is by design an easily manageable solution, but there are all kinds of factors around NSX which make the virtual networking stack a living organism. How do you keep that under control? We will walk you through a mountain of tips on how to use the information available within Network Insight to make sure your NSX environment stays operational and clean. Kudos to Martijn Smit.