Entries from Eric Sloof

Project Photon from VMware is an open source container runtime platform that works great on a developer's laptop running HashiCorp Vagrant and VMware Fusion. In this video, see how easy it is to start up a Photon instance and execute apps on two different container engines.

Project Lightwave is an open source identity and access management suite from VMware that will offer standards-based authorization and authentication services. It's an enterprise-grade security, governance, and compliance platform for next gen apps. This video demonstrates how Lightwave can be used to create a multi-master domain with Project Photon container runtimes in order to centrally authenticate client SSH logins.

vBeers The Hague
Donderdag 21 mei 2015 van 17:00 tot 23:00 (CEST)
Den Haag, Nederland

Join Jeremy van Doorn (VMware), Danny Claproth (Trend Micro) and Viktor van den Berg (PQR/viktorious.nl) at Restaurant Milú in The Hague at May 21st.

The VMware vSphere 6 Bootcamp is an intensive combination of VMware's best-selling vSphere courses. This course is a hands-on training course delivered in two parts across five days of extended hours.

Part one focuses on installing, configuring, and managing vSphere 6, which includes VMware ESXi 6.0 and VMware vCenter Server 6.0.

• Describe the software-defined data center
• Deploy an ESXi host and create virtual machines
• Describe the vCenter Server architecture
• Deploy a vCenter Server instance or VMware vCenter Server™ Appliance™ 
• Use vCenter Server to manage an ESXi host 
• Configure and manage vSphere infrastructure with VMware vSphere® Client™ and VMware vSphere® Web Client
• Configure virtual networks with vSphere standard switches 
• Use vCenter Server to manage various types of host storage  
• Manage virtual machines, templates, clones, and snapshots
• Create a vApp
• Describe and use the content library
• Migrate virtual machines with VMware vSphere® vMotion®
• Use VMware vSphere® Storage vMotion® to migrate virtual machine storage
• Monitor resource usage and manage resource pools
• Manage VMware vSphere® High Availability and VMware vSphere® Fault Tolerance 
• Use VMware vSphere® Distributed Resource Scheduler™ clusters to improve host scalability
• Use vSphere distributed switches to improve network scalability
• Use VMware vSphere™ Update Manager™ to apply patches
• Perform basic troubleshooting of ESXi hosts, virtual machines, and vCenter Server operations

Part two builds advanced skills for configuring and maintaining a highly available and scalable virtual infrastructure.

• Configure and manage ESXi networking and storage for a large and sophisticated enterprise
• Manage changes to the vSphere environment
  Optimize the performance of all vSphere components
• Harden the vSphere environment against security threats
• Troubleshoot operational faults and identify their root causes
• Use VMware vSphere® ESXi™ Shell and VMware vSphere® Management Assistant to manage vSphere
• Use VMware vSphere® Auto Deploy™ to provision ESXi hosts

VMware vSphere: Bootcamp [V6]

Hands-on Labs are the fastest and easiest way to test-drive the full technical capabilities of VMware products. These evaluations are free, up and running on your browser in minutes, and require no installation.

Experience VMware Virtual SAN for the first time.  Learn how to deploy, configure, and manage VMware's latest hypervisor-converged storage solution.  

Lab Modules:

1. Virtual SAN Setup and Enable
2. Virtual SAN with vMotion, Storage vMotion and HA Interoperability 
3. Virtual SAN Storage Level Agility
4. Useful CLI Commands
5. Virtual SAN Monitoring
6. Virtual SAN Troubleshooting   

HOL-SDC-1408 - What's New with Virtual SAN

Hands-on Labs are the fastest and easiest way to test-drive the full technical capabilities of VMware products. These evaluations are free, up and running on your browser in minutes, and require no installation.

The scenario in the VMware NSX Introduction lab depicts a company ABC who wants to host a web application in the data center. The users/customers of this ABC company access the application remotely.

The web application is a three-tier app with each tier in a different Layer 2 network. The following are some of the key services required for the application

• Load balancer service to provide better application user experience
• Firewall service that protects the three tiers of the application. Web, App and DB servers are protected from each other and from external world through Firewall rules.
• Routing service to provide access across the tiers and to the physical network
  
  

NSX Hosted Evaluation - VMware NSX Introduction

This document addresses the challenges associated with end-user computing workloads in a virtualized environment and suggests design considerations for managing them.

It focuses on performance, capacity, and operational considerations of the storage subsystem because storage is the foundation of any virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) implementation.

Where possible, it offers multiple solutions to common design choices faced by IT architects tasked with designing and implementing a VMware Horizon storage strategy. 

This white paper describes how VMware Mirage can extend and complement PC-life-cycle-management (PCLM) tools, such as Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) 2007 or 2012.

Mirage is not a replacement for SCCM, which you can use for managing PCs from inception to retirement. Rather, Mirage extends and complements certain SCCM functions.

You can use either Mirage or SCCM for building and deploying PC images and applications, migrating Windows operating systems (OSes), and migrating users to different hardware.

For example, you can use Mirage to build, deploy, and back up PC images, and use SCCM to manage inventory and client settings and to protect endpoints from viruses and malware. Mirage provides disaster recovery for endpoints, but SCCM does not. 

VMware Certified Professional 6 – Cloud Management and Automation: Validate your skills and experience deploying and configuring vRealize Automation into a vSphere virtualized data center, using vRealize Automation and related technologies to deploy and manage services across a multi-vendor, multi-cloud infrastructure.

VMware Certified Professional 6 – Desktop and Mobility: Validate your ability to deploy and configure Horizon with View into a vSphere virtualized data center, and to use View and related technologies to deploy and manage virtual desktops and applications through a single platform.

VMware Certified Professional 6 – Network Virtualization: Validate your ability to install, configure, and administer a vSphere data center virtualized with VMware NSX, demonstrating creation and administration of a virtual network including Layer 2 switching and both static and dynamic Layer 3 routing, virtual network devices, and edge services such as DHCP, DNS, and NAT.

In VMware vSphere 6.0, snapshots with VMware Virtual SAN have been completely redesigned. In this paper, VMware presents the performance of Virtual SAN snapshots for two different applications, namely a source tree compilation workload to roughly mimic “test and development” scenarios, and an online transaction-based database application.

Overall, VMware has found that Virtual SAN snapshots in vSphere 6.0 perform reasonably with minimal performance degradation compared to base disk performance. We also address performance tunable configurations and sizing recommendations to optimize performance with Virtual SAN snapshots.