Entries from Eric Sloof

EVO:RAIL combines VMware compute, network, storage, and management resources into a hyper-converged infrastructure appliance to create a simple, easy-to-manage, all-in-one solution for all your virtualized workloads, including tier-1 production and mission-critical applications. Offered by selected partners, EVO:RAIL is backed by a single point of contact for software and hardware support.

Learn how network virtualization, microsegmentation, and desktop security partner integration, can more effectively secure your VDI environment for greater end user computing security.

Building a multi-tier application (wordpress) using vRA 7's Converged Blueprint Designer. This walk-through demonstrates the use of vSphere, NSX, and App Authoring within CBP.

VMware vRealize Automation - Handbook The complete guide to vRealize Automation and how to build your own private cloud. The book helps customers to implement a private cloud solution based on VMware’s vRealize automation. After an introduction and discussion of basic cloud concepts, vRealize Automation will be introduced.

The book discusses the conceptual design as well as how to implement vRealize Automation. The book will give step-by-step instructions how to configure vRealize Automation. Furthermore, tips from real projects will be given. The book acts as a reference as well as cookbook for customers.

With the cloud becoming more and more important, many companies still try to find a strategy to implement their own private cloud. VMware helps companies with vRealize Automation - one of the most important products within VMware Software Defined Datacenter (SDDC) strategy.

This book is a complete guide to vRealize Automation and will cover all aspects when implementing a vRealize Automation solution – from design, to installation, configuration and extensibility. This book is designed to help the reader to gain all necessary vRealize skills and see use cases on real-life projects.

Zerto Virtual Replication 4.0 introduces an industry first with support for Microsoft Hyper-V, VMware vSphere which enables cross-hypervisor replication and recovery. With automatic conversion of the virtual machines (VMs) on the fly you no longer have to match the hypervisor between your datacenters.

This allows you to utilize the hypervisor of your choosing depending on your workload, cost, performance and availability and not be locked-in. Zerto Virtual Replication 4.0 enables you to future proof your IT strategy by not being tied into a specific hypervisor or storage vendor for BC/DR and workload mobility.

The same license can be used irrespective of the underlying hypervisor or storage technology, allowing you to utilize different hypervisors and not lose any investment made in your BC/DR solution. This game changing ability allows you to consider utilizing multiple hypervisors in ways that simple weren’t possible before.

This intense, hands-on, training course is a blend of the vSphere: Optimize & Scale and vSphere Troubleshooting classes; it brings the best of each of these advanced courses into a single unique offering that equips experienced VMware administrators with the knowledge to effectively optimize and troubleshoot vSphere at an expert level.

It also provides excellent preparation for vSphere certifications such as the VCP-DCV, VCAP-DCA and the VCIX-DCV. By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:

• Configure and manage vSphere networking and storage for a large and sophisticated enterprise.
• Manage changes to the vSphere environment.
• Optimize the performance of all vSphere components.
• Use VMware vSphere ESXi Shell and VMware vSphere Management Assistant to manage vSphere.
• Use VMware vSphere Auto Deploy to provision ESXi hosts.
• Harden the vSphere environment against security threats.
• Use the VMware vSphere Web Client, the command-line interface, and log files to diagnose and correct problems in vSphere.
• Troubleshoot networking, storage, vCenter Server, ESXi host, vSphere cluster, vMotion & virtual machine issues.

Watch this video to learn more about VMware's certification roadmap. One of the questions I receive most is: I have mulitple accounts, how do I have them merged? Send an email to certification@vmware.com asking for your accounts to be merged. List any possible email addresses you may have and indicate which account you would like to keep as your Master account. If you currently work for a Partner company, VMware highly recommend that you keep your Partner account as your Master so you will not lose your Partner privileges.

Services and Service Groups for Horizon View does not ship with NSX 6.2 today. Administrators must manually add the Horizon-related services (source, destination, protocol, port information) into NSX. This is a time consuming process and lends itself to errors.

This VMware Fling is an easy-to-use utility that inserts Horizon View services into NSX, and then combines them into Service Groups. This simplifies the creation of NSX Distributed Firewall Rules, that can be used to protect both Horizon infrastructure and hosted desktops and applications.

AirSembly has 3 core components: a marketplace storefront, billing & chargeback, and automation & provisioning – all supporting multi-tier cloud distribution.

Combined, these features enable you to quickly bring your cloud services to market through any type of distribution model.

Marketplace Storefront

Customize and brand your cloud product catalogue for any service, at any interval, private as well as public clouds, and also for individual sales channels and customers. Your customers can order cloud services on-demand with our self-serve portal on any device.

Billing & Chargeback

Automate billing and chargeback for each level in the distribution channel, for all types of cloud services. Multiple credit card and invoicing options are available, including automatic invoicing. Multi-language, multi-currency and multi-jurisdictional tax support are also included.

Automation & Provisioning

Integrate your cloud services into your existing business workflows and track and report your critical sales information at all levels in the sales channel. IaaS provisioning for VMware is fully automated for virtual machines, network and firewall. Other products can be manually provisioned.

One of the most distinguishing features of VMware Virtual SAN 6.1 is the availability of stretched cluster deployment. The stretched cluster allows the Virtual SAN customer to configure two geographically located sites, while synchronously replicating data between the two sites. This provides high availability and protection against a single site failure.


This white paper examines the performance aspects of a Virtual SAN stretched cluster deployment. Specifically, it examines the overhead of synchronously replicating data across two geographical sites by benchmarking against a regular, single site Virtual SAN cluster deployment. Failure scenarios of a single hard disk and entire site failure are considered. The Virtual SAN stretched cluster can handle both failure scenarios robustly.