Entries from Eric Sloof

Wednesday, September 12. 2012

VMworld TV - Achter de schermen (Dutch)

Kudos to @viktoriousss and @svenh

VMware vCloud Networking Poster Available for Download

Vyenkatesh (Venky) Deshpande: During VMworld 2012 (US) we released a brand new networking poster. This poster is a reference to all things related to vSphere Standard Switch (VSS), vSphere Distributed Switch (VDS), and Virtual Extensible Local Area Network (VXLAN) technology. It provides you information on the different components, terminologies and parameters of VSS, VDS, and VXLAN. It also explains the advanced features of VDS and discusses some best practices.

http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2012/09/vmware-vcloud-networking-poster.html

VMworld TV - Wrapping up VMworld 2012 - San Francisco

2012 VMware Hands-on Labs - Content Catalog Available Online

This is a link to the online home of the VMware Hands-on Labs - Content Catalog. This site contains current copies of the lab manuals used at VMworld US, VMworld Europe and Partner Exchange. Please make yourself at home, peruse the catalog and select the lab manual that you would like to view. Here is a list with some labs that can be found on the website:

HOL-INF-01 - Essential IT Management with VMware vCenter Protect

Gain hands-on experience with VMware vCenter Protect, VMware's unified IT management platform for Microsoft-based machines. You will complete essential IT management functions in a modern infrastructure. With these hands-on exercises, you will learn how vCenter Protect can be used by your organization to improve patch management capabilities, resolve antivirus issues, simplify IT administration tasks, and manage both physical and virtual machines - all through a unified user interface. Other key technologies highlighted in this lab include vCenter Protect's Patch Management, Threat Management, Power Management, and Asset Inventory capabilities.

HOL-INF-02 - Explore vSphere 5.1 Distributed Switch (vDS) New Features

This lab explores the new features of the vSphere Distributed Switch (vDS). In this lab you will use the new import\export features to repair a misconfigured vDS, save an optimized vDS configuration and finally use the optimized vDS configuration to build a new vCenter. You will also learn about how the new rollback and recovery features can be used to solve many common network issues quickly and easily. Finally, you will explore the utility and value of the new health check feature.

HOL-INF-03 - Automate Your vSphere 5.1 Deployment with Auto Deploy

Learn how to use VMware Auto Deploy to scale and manage ESXi deployments or upgrades. With these hands-on exercises, you will learn how Auto Deploy can be used by your organization to manage vSphere upgrades in an automated fashion and improve internal standards and compliance.

HOL-INF-04 - Deliver Optimal Performance with VMware vSphere 5.1

This lab will give you the information needed to detect and resolve common performance problems critical for performance tuning and maximizing your virtual environments. You will learn that by using easy-to-use management tools like VMware vCenter Server and vCenter Operations Manager, you can find and resolve most performance issues.

HOL-INF-05 - Implement Disaster Recovery for the Cloud with VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM)

In this lab you will leverage various VMware technologies to implement disaster recovery protection for a vCloud Director managed infrastructure. You will implement an automated DR plan and then initiate a live failover of private cloud infrastructure to a recovery site. Upon completion of the failover, you will verify the recovery of both the vApp workloads and cloud management services. The use of automated dependency mapping will be reviewed to ensure all application components are protected.

http://hol-cme.cloudfoundry.com/index.html

Tuesday, September 11. 2012

Eric Sloof interviews Frank Denneman and Duncan Epping

Free self-paced training - vSphere What's New [V5.1]

The VMware vSphere - What's New [V5.1] course is designed for SEs (VMware/Partner) and customers who want to learn about the new features and components available in VMware vSphere 5.1. This training course explores new features in VMware vCenter Server 5.1 and VMware ESXi 5.1. By the end of the course, you should gain an understanding and should be able to implement the following new functions and features of VMware vSphere 5.1:

Compute and Storage

Support for hardware version 9, the latest CPU performance counters and virtual shared graphics acceleration designed for enhanced performance.
For better space efficiency vSphere supports storage space reclamation for VDI.

Network

Support for VXLAN
Enhanced vSphere Distributed Switch that supports:
Network health check
Backup and restore
Rollback and recovery
Link Aggregation Control Protocol support
Single-root I/O virtualization (SR-IOV)

Availability

VMware vSphere vMotion® without the need for shared storage configurations.
VMware vSphere Data Protection for simple and cost effective backup and recovery,
vSphere Replication enables efficient array-agnostic replication of virtual machine data over the LAN or WAN.

VMware vCenter Enhancements:

vSphere Web Client
vCenter Single Sign-On
VSA enhancements
Support for Additional Disk Drives
Increase Storage Capacity Online
vCenter running on the VSA Cluster

• Security: Inclusion VMware vShield Endpoint to eliminate the agent footprint from the virtual machines, offload intelligence to a security virtual appliance, and run scans with minimal impact.

• Automation: Two new methods for deploying new vSphere hosts to an environment make the Auto Deploy process more highly available than ever before.

http://mylearn.vmware.com/mgrReg/courses.cfm?ui=www_edu&a=det&id_course=149391

VMworld TV - Interview with VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger

The VMware vCloud Suite 5.1 is now Generally available

VMware has announced the general availability of the new VMware vCloud Suite 5.1, a complete, integrated cloud infrastructure solution that integrates VMware's leading virtualization, cloud infrastructure and management portfolio into a single SKU, simplifying the adoption of cloud era technologies.

"The VMware vCloud Suite 5.1 is the first and most comprehensive solution for delivering the software-defined datacenter," said Mike Clayville, vice president, product marketing, cloud infrastructure products, VMware. "By bringing together everything customers may need to build and manage agile, reliable cloud infrastructure, the VMware vCloud Suite simplifies and automates IT operations and delivers on the promise of cloud computing."

The VMware vCloud Suite 5.1 extends the benefits of virtualization to every domain in the datacenter -- compute, storage, networking, and the associated availability and security services. It includes industry leading virtualization, software-defined datacenter services, policy-based provisioning, disaster recovery, and application and operations management capabilities delivered by:

VMware vSphere 5.1 - With more than 100 enhancements and new features, VMware's virtualization platform is the proven foundation for the software-defined datacenter, delivering the highest service levels for all applications, including business-critical workloads and low-latency, I/O-sensitive applications.
VMware vCloud Director 5.1 - With scalability improvements that support "elastic" virtual datacenters spanning multiple VMware vSphere clusters and up to 30,000 VMs, VMware vCloud Director 5.1 allows customers to provision complete virtual datacenter services in minutes.
VMware vCloud Networking and Security 5.1 - Providing a full set of software-defined networking capabilities, the new VMware vCloud Networking and Security enables the dynamic creation of virtual networks and services that are completely decoupled and independent from the physical network hardware.
VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager 5.1 - To enhance the availability and rapid recovery of applications running in the software-defined datacenter, vCenter Site Recovery Manager 5.1 simplifies and automates disaster recovery planning, testing and execution.

VMware vSphere 5.1 is available for download now!!!

VMware vSphere 5.1 Release Notes

https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/info/slug/datacenter_cloud_infrastructure/vmware_vcloud_suite/5_1

http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-51/index.jsp - This documentation center provides information on how to use the vSphere products to create and configure virtual machines and manage your virtual infrastructure.

vSphere 5.1 Link-O-Rama

Monday, September 10. 2012

VMworld TV - A wrap-up of day three in the hangout space

Saturday, September 8. 2012

Command-Line Installation and Upgrade of vCenter Server 5.1

This technical note describes how to install, upgrade, and uninstall vCenter Server and related components by using the Windows command‐line interface. The command‐line installation requires you to log on to the local machine.

The command‐line installation process includes downloading the vCenter Server installer, gathering the required data, and using the command parameters and samples in this technical note to install the products according to your specifications.

vCenter Server 5.1 with vCenter Single Sign On

vSphere 5.1 introduces the vCenter Single Sign On service as part of the vCenter Server management infrastructure. This change affects vCenter Server installation, upgrading, and operation. As part of this change, vCenter Inventory Service is now installed separately from vCenter Server.

When you install or upgrade vCenter Server 5.1, you must install vCenter Single Sign On and install or upgrade vCenter Inventory Service, in that order, before you install or upgrade vCenter Server.

IMPORTANT VMware does not support command‐line installation and upgrade methods for vCenter Server. However, if the installation or upgrade succeeds, VMware supports the installed or upgraded product.

http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/vsp_51_vcserver_cmdline_install.pdf

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