Entries from Eric Sloof

VMware NSX for Horizon brings speed and simplicity to VDI networking. Within seconds, IT administrators can create policies that dynamically follow virtual desktops, without the need for time-consuming network provisioning.

Extending security policy from the data center to the device, this joint solution provides a highly extensible platform that integrates with industry-leading security solutions.

Get ready for an exciting and informative adventure to the cloud. The hero is under your command as you dodge obstacles such as cloud security thieves, become invincible with the security shield, use the monitoring tool to stop your enemies, grab the themed collectibles for special powers, and more! Seek out your cloud with the VMware vCloud Air Network.

Download the Cloud Seeker game from the Apple App Store and Google Play now: http://cloudseekergame.com

The VMware App Volumes Technical FAQ addresses technical questions from administrators and users of App Volumes.

Questions and answers are divided into the following topics:

• App Volumes Requirements and Maximums
• App Volumes Installation and Configuration
• App Volumes Storage
• App Volumes Management
• App Volumes with Remote Desktop Session Hosts
• Troubleshooting App Volumes

You can get your copy here. You can also sign-up VMware App Volumes Hands-On Lab.

This lab will provide you with an introduction to App Volumes.  You will find out the benefits of utilizing containers for application management and, and the simplicity of deploying applications based upon individual users, groups, departments, and company wide as well.

This lab is built for using App Volumes with Horizon 6 with View desktops and RDS hosts, and is also applicable to showing the benefits of App Volumes with Citrix environments.

This Fling is a stand-alone, cross-platform VNC implementation based on the remoting technology found in vSphere and VMware Workstation. It allows remote access to a desktop session running on another native system, or inside of a virtual machine.


The tools are offered as command-line utilities without any UI, but should be usable by anyone familiar with other command-line VNC programs. They are compatible with other standard VNC clients and servers, but using a VMware product on both sides of the connection will enable some VMware extensions for a better remoting experience.

Features:

• Optimized for low-bandwidth connections
• VMware console-style exclusive input on the client
• Enhancements when connecting to a VMware virtual machine or VMware VNC Server

This version of the ESXi Embedded Host Client is written purely in HTML and JavaScript, and is served directly from your ESXi host and should perform much better than any of the existing solutions.

Please note that the Host Client cannot be used to manage vCenter. Currently, the client is in its development phase, but VMware is releasing this Fling to elicit early feedback from their users to help guide the development and user experience that they are creating. As such, the client is not fully featured and only implements a hand full of the most important features. Some of these include:

• VM operations (Power on, off, reset, suspend, etc).
• Creating a new VM, from scratch or from OVF/OVA (limited OVA support)
• Configuring NTP on a host
• Displaying summaries, events, tasks and notifications/alerts
• Providing a console to VMs
• Configuring host networking
• Configuring host advanced settings
• Configuring host services

With VMware Integrated OpenStack, you can implement OpenStack services on your existing VMware vSphere implementation. You deploy VMware Integrated OpenStack through the Integrated OpenStack Manager vApp in vCenter.

The Integrated OpenStack Manager provides a workflow that guides you through and completes the VMware Integrated OpenStack deployment process. With Integrated OpenStack Manager, you can specify your management and compute clusters, configure networking, and add resources.

Post-deployment, you can use Integrated OpenStack Manager to add components or otherwise modify the configuration of your VMware Integrated OpenStack cloud infrastructure.

In these new videos you can see how to do:

• Log Analysis
• Heat Orchestration
• Capacity Management and Cost Analysis
• Maintenance and Administration
• Software Updates
• Monitoring and Troubleshooting
• Adding Projects and Users
• Managing Security Groups
• Adding Images
• Adding Storage
• Adding Networks
• Adding Instances
• OpenStack Deployment
• vApp Deployment

This guide shows how to perform day-to-day management of an NSX for vSphere ("NSX-v") deployment. This information can be used to help plan and carry out operational monitoring and management of your NSX-v implementation.

To monitor physical network operations, administrators have traditionally collected various types of data from the devices that provide network connectivity and services. Broadly the data can be categorized as:

• Statistics and events
• Flow level data
• Packet level data

Monitoring and troubleshooting tools use the above types of data and help administrators manage and operate networks. Collectively, these types of information are referred to as “network and performance monitoring and diagnostics” (NPMD) data. The diagram below summarizes the types of NPMD data and the tools that consume this information.



The tools used for monitoring physical networks can be used to monitor virtual networks as well. Using standard protocols, the NSX platform provides network monitoring data similar to that provided by physical devices, giving administrators a clear view of virtual network conditions.

In this document, you'll learn how an administrator can monitor and retrieve network statistics, network flow information, packet information, and NSX system events.

Traditional approaches to securing data centers have focused on strong perimeter defenses to keep threats on the outside of the network. This model is ineffective for handling today’s new and evolving threats.


What’s needed is a more modern, sophisticated approach to data center security. That solution is micro-segmentation. This Dummies Guide provides an easy to follow overview of micro-segmentation and how it can work for your business.

Download Micro-segmentation for Dummies

Network micro-segmentation makes a lot of sense from a security standpoint. But what about cost and feasibility?



This white paper explores how VMware NSX can automate micro-segmentation in a software-defined data center, all the way down to the VM level. Download the paper to understand how NSX puts zero trust security well within your reach.

VMware PowerCLI is one of the most successful command line tools for managing your VMware products. With the many existing cmdlets designed for the system administrator or vSphere Admin, PowerCLI is the easiest and most powerful tool for managing your environment.

PowerCLI Extensions gives PowerCLI users access to early access functionality by extending the core PowerCLI cmdlets to include new experimental features and gives PowerCLI customers the ability to provide early feedback.

Also read the following article by Brian Graf: VMware Instant Clone is now at your fingertips with the updated PowerCLI Extensions fling!